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Well, use your words. Ask the smart speaker to play the Infinity Sports Network. A busy Monday in the sports world. Major League Baseball home run derby is going on as we speak. They've already had an embarrassing moment.

I'm going to tell you a matter of fact, you'll hear the embarrassing moment in a bit. Also, Team USA Basketball. They played Australia today, barely beat them.

98 to 92. Not too bad of a warm up, right? Kind of close to be playing Australia?

I think you'd wipe the floor with them. And so as we've we talked about everything that went on over the weekend, Argentina beating Colombia, Copa America, we talked about the riots that were taking place outside of Hard Rock Stadium as the fans just bum rush their way in with no tickets, some of them causing chaos and destruction. Talked about Kaitlyn Clark.

Thank you so much to our guest Scott Agnes from Fieldhouse Files for joining us. WNBA getting ready to go on break due to the Summer Olympics as well. WNBA will be gone for about a month. Kaitlyn Clark has one more game on Wednesday. They got the All-Star game this upcoming Saturday, and that will be all she wrote until the middle of August. We talked about Calvin Johnson.

Calvin Johnson being inducted into the Lions version of the Hall of Fame after a few years ago. They asked him for his 1.5 for their 1.5 million dollars back and his signing bonus. They said you were tired. Give us the money back.

Bunch of cheapskates. And then right before we went to break here, we talked some college football. SEC Media Day. Greg Sankey pretty much telling everybody today, don't ask me about Florida State. Do not ask me about Clemson. Yes, I know Texas and Oklahoma are now here, but don't ask me about no other teams because I'm trying to avoid a lawsuit.

855-212-4227. Some other things that we need to get into as the show continues on. Of course, at the end of this hour, we'll talk about quite a few things that took place this day in sports history. And then this is also very odd or interesting. You know, we got that whole statement last week about Kawhi Leonard, you know, getting the boot from Team USA Basketball.

And it seemed like it was a joint statement from USA Basketball saying, you know, we USA Basketball and the Clippers think this is a good idea for Kawhi. You can get ready for the season that that doesn't appear to be the case. And so we'll get into that.

But I got to get into this. The home run derby in Major League Baseball. Pete Alonso is trying to win his third title. The only man who's won the home run derby three times is Ken Griffey Jr.

It's it. Pete Alonso won in 2019. He won in 2021. He's competed in five straight of these things.

And the guy who wins, wins a million bucks. OK, good for them. Bobby Witt Jr. is out here. Marcelo Zuna. Good.

Gunnar Henderson. Now, but this is this is bad. This is terrible. Before the home run derby. They sang the national anthem.

They being Major League Baseball, they had the national anthem sang. And they had a woman that I've never heard of in my life. By the name of Ingrid.

Andres So Andres, forgive me for not knowing my bad. Doesn't matter. Not to me, at least I'll figure it out later. This woman sang the national anthem. I don't give a damn what she's saying. This has to be one of the worst anythings that I've ever heard in my life, let alone rendition of the national anthem. Now, this is taking place out in Globe Life Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Now, before and they had all the players on the field, their caps in their hands, hands on their hearts. They did a good job not zooming in on too many people because this is terrible.

Listen to this courtesy ESPN. That star spangled banner yet wave. O'er the land of the free.

And the home of the brave. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. That was. Awful. You ever heard of this woman? No, no, I have not. Oh, my God, that was.

That was disastrous, man. Now, a quick Google search of this woman. Let me to her Instagram, where she proudly says. And maybe this was changed after her train wreck of a performance. It says four time Grammy losing singer songwriter.

Recovering homeschooler. What she what she hurt, what she said, like. What what what the hell was that about? Do you blame more her or the person who said, let's hire her? Because, I mean, I've never heard a song she sung. I mean, look, to be nominated for a Grammy, you got to be pretty damn good, even if you have never won one. But I mean, honestly, that sounded like me singing.

That was awful. That was I said, I put online. I said, but that's trash in Spanish. Had to put I couldn't even write it in English.

I had to write it in Spanish. Basura. Some guy I've never I've also never heard of this guy. He's just some random guy.

Maybe. He tweets, he says, to be fair to Ingrid and dress. She can actually sing. She does have a very different sound, but she's much better than how she performed tonight. Doesn't matter. She sucked the night. Doesn't matter. She sucked.

You want to know something? God rest her soul. Whitney and I get it.

Everybody's not. Whitney Houston's only one of them. Whitney Houston ain't going out there sounding that bad on an off night. Come on, man. Beyonce is not going out there sounding that bad on an off night.

Come on. Like she sounded like someone who's not even a singer. She is getting ripped. To shreds.

And she has, as he said, she has been nominated for Grammys. If you go some of the headlines. Oh, my God. USA Today in Ingrid and dresses national anthem leaves impression.

How how dignified. Sports Illustrated fans baffled by Ingrid and dresses national anthem performance. The Daily Mail Grammy nominated country singer delivers the worst national anthem.

USA Today. MLB fans compared her bizarre national anthem to Fergie's. Oh, that was another bad one. You know, Hickey, Fergie was Fergie was trying intentionally to be different. Do you think this lady was trying like she I guess she I assume she is different. That lady just sounded bad, like she wanted to put her own spin, but it was awful.

Awful. I did not realize, I guess, that Fergie was trying to do her. I guess it makes sense. Looking back now that that's what she was going for.

I hope this serves as a lesson. Never moving forward. Maybe let's just stick to the script. You know, like if you want to go a little faster, OK, get a little bit of a beat to it. But trying to do your own spin on a national anthem that's been sung at this point probably millions of times.

Maybe let's not not do that one. Alec Alec Bohm. They did catch him. And I think they learned their lesson. They had zoom ins, but it wasn't the players. I give him credit.

They kept it together. Alec Bohm. He looked like he was going to pass out. He's going to pass out.

Lady was awful. Now, I don't know who that you know what this a quick Google search can do this. Who sings national anthem? All-star game. Here we go. They got it. They got to go with a brand name tomorrow. Right.

Somebody from Arlington. I don't know. I mean, the good news is whoever sings it, no matter their fame, it can't be any worse. Can't can't get worse. Cannot get any worse.

You know what? I can't even. OK. Oh, no, I can't even find who it's going to be. All-star. OK, here we go.

MLB announces ceremonial entertainment details. Let's go. Here we go. Home Run Derby.

Ingrid Andress. OK. D.J. Irie. He'd been D.J.

forever. OK. National Anthem tomorrow. Never heard of Cody Johnson. You heard of him? No, sir. Cody Johnson threw out a ceremonial first pitch at a Rangers game earlier this year.

He returned to Globe Life with his leather tour. OK, so probably a country musician I've never heard of. That was that was terrible. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.

That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Abraham is calling from Buffalo. You on the J.R. sport re-show.

Hey, J.R., I got a question for you. Sure. I'm just wondering if you're going to be watching the major league rugby playoffs starting this weekend. No.

Where can I find it? It's on SS2 this weekend and then SS1 next weekend and then national broadcast over the year. The championship game on August 4th. No.

If if it happens to be on in the background, then. Yeah, I'll watch it. But no, this is what is this? What championship for rugby is this? Rugby major league rugby, the American League, the American. So this is not even like the all blacks or anything like that. No, it's not national teams. No, no, no, no. You got to see you got to see me, but you're going to watch the sevens in the Olympics. The rugby sevens in Olympics.

If it's on, if it's if I flip by and there's nothing else going on, I'll leave it on. I'm not going to seek it out. Well, you got a team. You got a team in Buffalo. No, unfortunately not. I've been running for the Chicago team.

OK. All right. So did you play rugby? Like what happened? I did. I did for a couple of years. It was a lot of fun.

I wrestled through high school and then I picked up rugby in college and then played for the men's team. Yeah, no, I'm not I'm not going to be watching rugby. I'm good. Well, well, I mean, I got I got two eyes, Abraham.

I can only watch but so much. That's not at the top of the list. I'm sorry about that. My bad.

My bad. Thank you, Abraham. You have a good night.

You as well. Damn. I feel disappointed. I disappointed him.

I mean, to disappoint him more. I didn't even know we had a major league rugby league. I didn't either. I had no idea. I was asking him. He says he's a fan of the Chicago team. Like, OK, I don't I don't I wouldn't know if you got a choice. You watch and live golf. You watching rugby. Oh, wow. That's a hell of a choice. Here's another one.

I'm a pick some people off. Here's here's a better question. Did that did that Saturday football league end yet? You're going to light up the phones at Birmingham. I think they won, I think, but I'm not 100 percent sure. Birmingham won the championship. I think I think. Yes, I think it's over. When did they finish?

Mercifully. You know, like March Madness or something? I think the national title again, the final four. They decided that's our championship.

They were playing the same time as Kaitlin Clark. I missed it. I don't know. What's that?

What is it? XFL, right? No, no. Yes, right.

Yeah, they did. I got AFL. XFL. I think there's an A and an X maybe.

No one. The divisions. It's still the XFL, but the XFL combined with the AFL.

And so it's like the the NFC and the AFC, except for one is the AFL and the XFL. But it's the overall is the XFL, huh? Oh, is it better than me? Does that make sense? Yes. Yes. So, yeah, it makes sense.

You have. Oh, why does it say UFL? Oh, that makes sense. The United Football League. No, no, no. So confusing.

Oh, my God. The United, the AFL and the XFL. Twenty, twenty four XFL season. They were forty three games of which I saw maybe four in the background. Wow. High number. Yes.

You know, walking around outside and up, there's a bar up. There's a TV. Oh, that's that's football. Who is that? Oh, I don't know who they are.

Damn. Who won? Who won the championship? Come on now. It's not Birmingham.

I've been trying for a while. Who won a championship? Geez. I mean, you want to grow the sport? Can you find an XFL conference?

Not not conference championship. Oh, my goodness. May. May 15th. Oh, my God. I don't I don't know, man.

If it happened Labor Day, not Memorial Day. Right. Oh, sorry. Yes.

Jeez. XFL champions. Twenty four. Twenty four.

Oh, man, I can't even find the champions. You got to be kidding me. The Arlington. No, no, no, no. That was twenty twenty. OK, forget this. That's it.

You could do this in a break. You know what? XFL come back next year. You know who they need to have to the national anthem at the championship. Ingrid. Yeah, let's let's listen to this.

Look, if you missed it, you've got to feel the pain, too. If you just turn the radio on. This is the lady who just sung the national anthem on ESPN before the home run derby. Terrible.

Ingrid and dress awful. And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star spangled banner yet wave. For the. The J.R. sport brief show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break and when we come back on the other side, we're going to talk about Kawhi Leonard. Because Team USA basketball now seems ruthless on the men's side. It seems like the Clippers didn't want Kawhi to come back home.

They wanted him to play for Team USA. What? You'll hear from Lawrence Frank, the president of the Clippers, on the other side of the break.

Trust me, he will not sound worse than what you just heard. The J.R. sport we show the Infinity Sports Network. You are listening to the J.R. sport brief. The J.R. sport we show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network.

Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven is eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Still trying to recover from that awful. National anthem. Disastrous. Don't worry.

We'll play it again one more time before I get out of here, just so everybody can feel the pain that we've had to feel. Yeah, there's no pain here because this portion of the show is brought to you by ethos life. The easy way to get life insurance in 10 minutes. Up to two million dollars in coverage with no medical exam and just a few health questions. Get your free quote at check ethos dot com.

Not available in all states. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. I'm going to get to some of your calls and then I'm going to tell you about some of the funny business currently going on with Team USA Basketball. Yeah, they beat Australia earlier today.

Ninety eight to ninety two. But unrelated, Lawrence Frank, the president of the Los Angeles Clippers, he spoke to the media and he basically said Team USA made the call to get rid of Kawhi. He said, we, the Clippers. We're not in favor of that.

What? It was USA's call, and I was, quite frankly, very disappointed with the decision. I wanted to play. We wanted him to play. I was there the first two practices. He looked very good.

Participate was a full participant in everything that they did. I wasn't there for the third practice where ultimately that was the point where they they decided to go in a different direction. You know, I expressed to them I really wish that they would have given Kawhi more time. You know, we have the benefit of having been around Kawhi for five years to see his body and see where he's at. So, you know, he he looked good to me. I know all the sacrifices he made in order to make this commitment to the Olympics.

So it was very disappointing. What? Now, you might remember from last week, Team USA basketball, Tuesday Kawhi Leonard's like, hey, my knees are in a neutral state.

Looking forward to playing. And by Wednesday, Kawhi was gone. They put out a statement that basically seemed like the Clippers and Team USA made this decision.

And now that's not the case. Like, who's lying? Like, first of all, why would the Clippers for the life of me, why they would want a guy who can never stay healthy? To compete in Team USA basketball is beyond me.

And if you're Team USA basketball, I get it. Why the hell did you select him in the first place? I'm pretty sure the guy got up one day and his knee was cooked. It's been reported through the grapevine that, you know, he's dealing with swelling and inflammation in his knee, which will always be the case for a guy who's torn his ACL, has a torn meniscus and had a quad issue. Come on now.

How many times do I have to crash my car over a five year span before I start thinking that some of the issues with the car are related? Come on. Somebody's lying. 855-212-4227. Eric is calling up from Albuquerque. You're the JR Sport, re-show us up, Eric. Hey, how's it going, JR?

Very well. Hey, I was listening to you guys talk about the anthem. And the first thing that came to my mind was the NBA All-Star game, what Marvin Gaye did, the anthem. And it was really like a jazzy sort of thing. And I think it sounded really good.

Probably one of the top three anthems I've seen by a celebrity. So I was just calling to say, I don't think it has anything to do with someone doing it differently. It has to do with the instruments, the voice that's doing it. No, she was Eric. Look, we can we don't we're not talking about people who've done good. OK, Rachel, everybody who's done it good. Everybody unique. OK, you want to talk about Marvin Gaye? Marvin Gaye did not sound like Ray Charles. OK, Ray Charles did not go out and he did not sound like Whitney Houston. OK, so they all sounded different.

Let's throw it out the window. This lady sounded different and this lady sucked. Can we agree on that? Absolutely.

That that there's nothing else there. Well, thank you, Eric, for calling from Albuquerque. Like, yeah, every musician sound different. This lady sucked because she did sound different. And she was bad.

She did both. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Brad is calling from Buffalo. You're on the J.R. sport show. Brad, what's up?

J.R., how are you doing? I was better until I heard that that trash anthem. That was the worst thing I've heard in a long time. And I got in the car, turn it on. It was the first thing I heard.

And I just started laughing. But I honestly think I've heard better national anthem at the high school sports level in small schools. You have a question for you. They are what's worse? What's worse, that anthem or Kawhi Leonard's help and ability to play basketball? Oh, well, Kawhi ain't never playing ball again. That's dumb. How many get like that? You know what?

There is a legitimate conversation to be had. Did Kawhi Leonard play too many basketball games this year? Did he play too many games?

They started them off. He's playing in back to backs. Like if there really is a dude who needs to get load managed, Kawhi played 68 games last year. The last time he played that many games, 2017 with the Spurs, 74 games before he had his quadriceps injury. He can't play, man. He can't can't play best.

And they just gave him a three year contract extension for what? I agree. I feel bad for the man, honestly. Not as bad as that. Not as bad as that singer, though. Oh, wow.

What do you think is going through him on right? Did she embarrass herself or did she want to be in the news? At that level and for the MLB, I think it's embarrassing for her and embarrassing for the MLB. She had to have practiced.

They had to have heard her singing before that. Oh, yeah, they do. You're right. They do a rehearsal. You're right.

And they do set you still give her the go? I can't wait to see the players reactions when I get home. Oh, Alec Bohm was dying. He was he had his he had his head, you know, you kind of put your head in your shoulder and look down and just. Yeah. Yeah. That's what he was doing, man. It was. Oh, yeah.

Nobody wants to. She is a Grammy. She's a Grammy nominated singer. Now, am I going to go home and bump on music?

No, but it's it's amazing what engineering can make somebody sound like. Oh, so absolutely. Well, I appreciate you and thank you for the laugh.

Well, you could thank her, Brad. You take it easy. All right. All right.

Have a good one. My gosh. Sean is calling from Michigan. You're on the chair of sport brief show that that that was funny. Was that staged? So everybody in the United States can laugh at this girl or what's going on? That was absolutely terrible. Was she?

I don't know. Like, nobody wants to be that bad. That bad on stage. You know. Wow. Wow. I mean, I would be I would like be crawling back to my cape. Right now, going, oh, I'm not a singer.

I might go to work at McDonald's or something from now on. Well, wow. She is now more famous than she's ever been. Exactly. Exactly. And not not for good reasons. I'll tell you this.

Her Instagram four time Grammy losing singer songwriter. Let's see. Is there any messages here? Let's see. I couldn't. I literally could not stop laughing. I got tears rolling. I've never I haven't cried in a long time. I was crying.

I was crying tears of laughter so hard that I had to get a tissue. She has. Yeah.

No, no, no. No messages on her social media besides trying to sell her tour. She's from.

Well, I don't think she's going to make any money on that one. Yeah. Yeah. I hear you, Sean. Well, thank you for calling from Michigan. No, no problem. Take it easy. You too.

You too. Wow. Oh, my God. Hickey, should we we should play the train wreck after the break, right? Not not now. It's enough for now, right? Yeah.

I think after, you know, one more time to close out the show, I think would be a fitting end to today. Oh, my God. That was awful. Speaking of awful.

I got I got one of the screens here is a home run derby. The other one is an interview with Lane Kiffin. Why does he look he looks like he just heard the national anthem.

Why does this man always look miserable? Interesting. I got to look, man. I don't know. Maybe maybe Mrs. Nick Saban. Oh, well, he can. Well, he can quit, too, I guess, right now.

I did hear him drop a rat poison line today. So, you know. Yeah. Lane Kiffin.

Yeah. He's picking up the slack. Someone asked him, you know, with all the praise all this has gotten this off season and goes, that's rat poison. Oh, here we go. So Saban's legacy lives on. Yeah, we should have left that with Saban and kept it moving. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.

That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. We're going to take a break. We come back on the other side, talk more about this Kawhi stuff.

Somebody's lying. We'll share with you a few things that took place this day in sports history. And then we will hear again one of the worst national anthems that you will ever hear in your life. It's the J.R. sport we show on the Infinity Sports Network. You are listening to the J.R. sport brief. It is the J.R. sport we show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.

That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Well, yeah, we'll play this one now. I got to be careful. We'll play the awful rendition of the national anthem before we leave.

But we can't do that right now. You know what, Hickey? I think should we just, you know, yeah, Hickey, let's just go back in time to a few things that took place this day in sports history.

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. It is the J.R. sport we show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Time to take a look back at a few things that took place this day in sports history. What's today? Today is July 15th. It's been July 15th all day. Let's go back to July 15th.

Hickey, I know you remember this. What were you doing back in 1912? Oh, you know, probably having a nice time with the boys hanging, watching sports. You were watching sports?

I guess you're right. I was probably attending or I guess listening. You could listen back then.

Listening on the stoop while the kids are playing stickball. Well, July 15th, 1912, Jim Thorpe. He won the decathlon at the Stockholm Olympics in Sweden. Sweden's King Gustav said that Jim Thorpe is the world's greatest athlete. And if you had no idea, Jim Thorpe played everything. This man played football. He played baseball. He did everything. Google him.

We've talked about him on the show. Some of the world's greatest athletes. We're going to hit a major fast forward button. We're going to go from July 15th in 1912. We're going to go to July 15th, the year 2000, because Lennox Lewis, who used to punch people in the face. Well, he did more than punch Francois Bofa. He knocked them out.

Listen to this courtesy of Scott. Is at work in there at the moment. What he's doing is working. It's a big right hand and he's dumped Bota halfway out of the ring. Huge shot. Bota down and in a bad way.

With what? Under half a minute to go in round two. Walk towards me says Larry O'Connell, who stops the fight. He stopped it. Lewis wins again in round two and hands out his own version of capital punishment. The home banker has come up.

They make it sound so smooth. Hands out his own version of capital punishment. July 15th, 2018. Novak Djokovic, he won Wimbledon, something that he wishes he did yesterday. He beat Kevin Anderson 2018.

Listen to this. Game seven. Djokovic resets still out. 6-2. 6-2. 7-6. Novak Djokovic is back at the pinnacle of Wimbledon. At the peak of his powers. Yeah, it was it was nice yesterday to see Carlos Alcaraz beat him at Wimbledon.

Alcaraz time sit Djokovic now. Also, July 15th, 2018. What a day. What a day.

What a day. You had a Wimbledon final. You also had a World Cup final.

I remember this. France beat Croatia. Mbappe time.

Listen to this. Courtesy of FIFA TV. Antoine Griezmann. France have their league back.

A goal of its age, of its generation. Mbappe. Griezmann. Pogba. Pogba! For France and possibly now the world. Here's Mbappe.

Oh my word. The first teenage World Cup final goal since Pelé himself. It is France. It will be some can-can on the Champs-Elysees tonight.

France are the champions of the world. Hickey, when someone gets a big slam dunk in the future, I'm going to yell pumper, pumper, pumper. I like it. I also like can-can. Is that like celebration? When I think can-can, I think I think like, yeah, the dance, the dance. Remember the dance?

No. It's the it's a dance. It's the dances. The can-can, can-can dances, can-can. They put the ladies, they look like the Rockettes. And they just, is it a specific dance? The leg, the leg, the leg kick with the skirt, man.

Come on. I guess I have to look it up. You put the arms, you haven't seen the Rockettes at Radio City? When they put the arms on the shoulders of each person and kick the legs, that's called the can-can?

No, it's more of a fancy version of it with the skirts and stuff. Oh, OK. Interesting. Google it. You won't get fired for Googling it at work. You won't.

He said he said it on TV. So it's not that bad. Trust me, he's not that bad.

Anyway, let's go to July 15th, 2019. This is the first time this ever happened. A catcher hit three home runs and he didn't just hit three home runs. He hit three damn home runs from the leadoff spot.

Who is it? It's Travis Darno, formerly of the New York Mets. Take a listen to this courtesy of Fox Sports Tampa Bay. So Darno lifts one to right field and deep to the short porch and what a way to start for the Rays. A leadoff home run for Travis Darno and it's 1-0 Tampa Bay.

Going the other way deep again. This is Kering has got a chance and it's gone. I think he loves the leadoff thing. I think he hit it to the same guy. Here it comes. And Darno hits one high in the air. Deep right field.

Is it going to be enough? Judge going back and it is gone. A three run bomb from Travis Darno and the Rays are in front. Yeah the Rays beat the Yankees 5-4.

Good for him. Anyway, Hickey did we miss anything? I mean there's a lot of things that happen this day in sports but we hit the major ones right?

I think so yes. We don't have any audio from 1880 or nothing like that? We don't have Jim Thorpe's finish at the decathlon unfortunately.

Those got lost in the shuffle. We don't have an interview from him? No? No audio? Unfortunately no. Maybe they got audio in Stockholm. I don't know.

You would think and maybe they did. That would be nice to hear what Jim Thorpe sounds like. Deep voice, high voice. He can't probably have a high voice being the great athlete he is. Have you seen some of the athletes? The huge guys have the little voices?

Like the powerlifters? Mike Tyson. You tell that to Iron Mike. Listen, if you didn't know what Mike Tyson sounded like or if you didn't know what he looked like and you never saw him knock anybody out. If we just played his voice on the radio you would think that he's just stuck in a bedroom somewhere right? You wouldn't think that this is one of the most dangerous human beings that's ever been on planet Earth. You wouldn't think that just by hearing him. You're right. You probably assume you could stuff him in a locker.

No problem. And if Mike Tyson walked by you, you wouldn't associate his voice with his frame. You know what I'm saying? No, you're right about that. Home run derby.

We were both wrong, Hickey. Garcia is out. He missed the cut for the top four. He only had 18 home runs in that first round. The final four guys in a home run derby. You got Bobby Witt Jr., Jose Ramirez, Teasco Hernandez, and Alec Baum.

None of these dudes are like the super mashers that you would think. So, home run derby, if you ask him, he's taking a loss. We'll talk about it tomorrow, by the way.

Because why not? What the hell do we need to do? 855-212-4227. But I told you there is going to be one thing that we do before we leave. I'm sure we'll have more word on Kawhi Leonard and that exit Team USA basketball giving him the boot.

The Clippers said they wanted him to stay out there. And so now we got to figure out who was lying. We'll do that tomorrow. But one more time. Let's take a listen to one of the worst renditions of the national anthem I've ever heard in my life. This is Ingrid Andress singing the national anthem before tonight's home run derby. Listen to this.

And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free And the home of the brave Hickey, why does she sound like a tortured alley cat? I mean, I guess she was maybe going for that. You think something was wrong with her monitor in her ear? I hope so.

Like these are production things that could happen. You know, maybe she was off key because she heard something else in her ear. Maybe she was nervous. I don't know. That's pathetic. I feel bad for her a little bit. If it was not done intentionally.

Why would she do that intentionally? For what? Anyway, we'll be back tomorrow. 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. The JR Sport Show is done. Don't move here on the Infinity Sports Network. Bart Winkler's coming up next. You'll be safe. Be well, be cool, be smooth. Thank you to Ryan Hickey. This tastes better when it's caught, cooked, and eaten outside. The Meat Eater Outdoor Cookbook by Steven Ranella is available now.