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This show gets started every single weekday at 6pm. Eastern three Pacific Major League Baseball trade deadline has come and gone. The Dodgers keep on adding folks. They got Jack Flaherty from the Tigers.
Don't worry, Scoople didn't go anywhere. Crochet didn't go anywhere for the White Sox. White Sox are not going anywhere regardless. Padres get Tanner Scott. And damn it, the Yankees got a guy a couple days ago.
He's like Babe Ruth right now. His name is Jess Chisholm. We'll talk about that in a second.
Team USA gymnastics, they keep on winning. We got people fighting with radio guys. Well, verbally sparring on.
Well, it's Jeffrey Simmons from the Titans. We'll get into that as well. A busy, busy day. If you want to participate in the show, go ahead. The phone number is 855-212-4227.
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Thank you so much. As we talked about NFL training camp, Jared Bell from USA Today joined us earlier in the show. Great conversation. He had a private or at least a public conversation. He had an interview with Patrick Mahomes a couple of days ago. Patrick Mahomes did all that talking about the finances for quarterbacks in the NFL.
He said he's not worried about his deal. Jared Bell came through to talk to us about his chat with Patrick Mahomes as well as his training camp stops. Today, he was checking in with the Steelers.
Justin Fields is looking good sometimes and other times he's not. I think we know who the starting quarterback is going to be. That guy's name is Russell Wilson. Okay, speaking of another guy, I just told you minutes ago the New York Yankees acquired a guy at the trade deadline.
He is already paying dividends. His name is Jazz Chisholm. Right now, this minute, this second, the New York Yankees lead the Phillies 5 to 4. And Jazz Chisholm, well, he is wasting absolutely no time in just making Yankee fans happy. This is a trade that's paying off because Jazz Chisholm tonight is two for four with five RBIs. Well, with two home runs.
He is the gift that keeps on giving. Last night, he had two home runs for the New York Yankees. Tonight, two home runs for the New York Yankees. He has helped score and has produced all five of their runs.
And so, yeah, I guess the trade deadline works when it works. Yesterday, the Yankees beat the Phillies as well. And then at the same time, let me tell you this, if you want to hear somebody that's happy about his performance so far, it's Aaron Judge. He says that Jazz Chisholm has been amazing, as good as advertised.
Listen to this. This is before tonight. You know, it's kind of like what we thought. You know, the dynamic player that, you know, that first ball gets hit to him there and turns a sweet double play and then gets another chance to do it. And, you know, then even late in the game, he just stops a for sure double down the line. You know, just even getting a chance to knock down that ball is huge. And then, you know, we see what he does offensively.
It's impressive, man. It's fun to watch. He's electric. He's excited to be here. He's having fun.
So he's definitely making a big impact so far. Oh, yeah. I wonder what the hell he's going to say tonight, because last night Jazz Chisholm said, Yeah, I'm having the time of my life.
These are winners here. I mean, it's super exciting. I mean, who doesn't want to come over and help playoff contending team win?
You know, these guys have been welcoming me with open arms and I can't do much more except go out there and play my best. Oh, man. That's what the hell he's doing. I mean, if he keeps it, well, he can't keep this up for the Yankees, right? It's impossible. He can't keep doing this for the Yankees. But I'll tell you this. If he does this and at least plays halfway decent, the Yankee fans are going to be happy.
At least picky. They're going to get Brian Cashman to break for a little while, maybe for a few minutes, maybe until this hot streak cools down. Oh, boy. And he's back on the hot seat. They want to fire Brian Cashman can't wake up and go to the bathroom. People want to fire him. Like bad decision, everything he does, everything, him and boom. It's like, let's fire management. It'll just solve everybody's problems.
Nobody has a solution, but just find everybody anyway. The Yankees also get Mark Leiter, the son of Al. It's funny to say this. How many more letters do this is like the third letter.
Hickey, what is the deal? Is it genetic that they could just all throw a baseball? I guess so. Right.
I mean, when one can do it, I guess it just all flows throughout the rest of the family. Al Leiter could go out there and I say this facetiously, I feel like Al Leiter could throw like 400 innings if you needed him to. Nowadays, we can't get a guy to go out there and throw 150 in a year.
What made Al Leiter so different than everybody else? Not throwing 100 miles an hour. Ah, there you go. Touche. Maybe these guys need to.
Now, here's a chicken or egg situation. If the pitchers actually pitched slower or at least had a little bit more control, if they were more control versus power, do you think the batters would just annihilate them? Good question. If we took Greg Maddux and put him in the game today, would he be getting torched because he didn't go out and throw 103?
I don't think so. Yeah. Because he knows where he's putting the ball and he'll put it in spots where the batter, I mean, he may not get a lot of strikeouts, but he's going to make sure if the ball is put in play, it's going to be hit where he wants it hit. I wish we had more pitching and less throwing.
That's just me, man. I wish we had more pitching and less throwing out of everybody. And this is why even the numbers offensively for a lot of guys are skewed.
Because what? The pitching is so great that now the hitting is suffering. Baseball is weird. I hate to sound like the guy. It's not what it used to be, Hickey. It's not. It's not. It's not.
It's not. And I give him credit for changing and adjusting some of the rules to try to, you know, put more action. There's still to me a lack of traditional action.
It's like the rule changes haven't forced it. OK, yeah, we might have more stolen bases, but guys aren't going base to base. It's not. There's not these rallies where the guy hits a single, the next guy hits a double. It's not the revolving door. You get what I'm saying? It's not that. No, you're right. The art of baseball, the art of pitching, the art of hitting, even in turn, the art of fielding has all drastically taken a step down because now it's strikeout a home run.
And there's really no in between. So everything else kind of falls to the wayside when you're unfortunately not practicing, you know, the muscle memory, if you will, of traditional baseball plays. Man, I'm sick of looking at quote unquote good hitters. These are some of your best guys. Look at that guy's batting 230.
I'm like, this would have got a guy sat down on the bench. Two thirty. I get out of here. Anyway, let's see what a lot of these teams do as we get down towards the stretch run with the Padres, big buyers, the Dodgers, buyers, the Yankees, buyers. And of course, the Marlins and the White Sox. Losers is no other way to put it. My apologies.
Speaking of losers, let's talk about someone who's an opposite of a loser. Let's show some love to Team USA's gymnastics team, the women specifically. They won the team final earlier today. They beat out Italy. They beat out Brazil.
And what does that mean? This means Simone Biles is the most decorated Olympic gymnast representing Team USA ever. She picked up her eighth medal today and she's not done. She's not.
You know what? Let's listen to Simone Biles. She was asked by the media about all the metal she's racking up. And she's like, listen, I don't even think about the medals. I just go out and I compete. Now you have 38 World and Olympic medals, which is more than any of the men's team combined. And so I wonder, what does that mean to you and what about the legacy that you're leaving on the sport?
Honestly, I would have had to Google that, so I'm not really sure. I don't keep count. I don't keep stats. I just go out here and do what I'm supposed to and I'm doing what I love and enjoying it. So that's really all that matters to me. Yes, it's amazing now that I hear it, but I don't think I'll truly understand the depth of it until I walk away from the sport. So you never know, because I mean, we still have a couple more competitions here, so I'm trying to focus on that.
And so we'll just have to see. That's what a winner sounds like. It's Simone Biles, a winner, the woman who was criticized three years ago for dropping out in Tokyo, Japan.
People criticizing a woman who's flipping upside down and you got people who can't even get off the couch without hurting. Come on now. Congratulations to Simone Biles, her teammates, Jordan Charles, Suni Lee. They went out there, they won gold. They won silver last time. A little bit of a revenge tour. And she's not done.
She could walk away with more gold. Congratulations to Simone Biles and Team USA gymnastics. It's not the only big news from earlier today. Unfortunately, the Tennessee Titans, they were in the news for some bad reasons, negative reasons.
And you can go ahead and thank Jeffrey Simmons. Yeah, the hulking defensive lineman, six foot four, three hundred and five pounds, multiple time Pro Bowler. He started a fight, reportedly at practice today. And then, well, the local radio station one or four or five, the zone was at practice.
One of the midday hosts, Buck Riesing, was on hand. And he was conducting an interview or trying to conduct an interview with Roger McCreary, cornerback. And then Justin Simmons, excuse me, I'm mixing up my Simmons in the NFL. Jeffrey Simmons walked on by and interrupted the interview. And he basically called him, let's just say, a cat, amongst other things. And he said he was talking crap about him on the Internet. Now, look, if you're a radio host, you say things right like I say things.
Well, Jeffrey Simmons heard some of the things we don't know what specifically in Jeffrey Simmons declined to sit down and talk about it. Let's listen to this interaction as a six foot four, three hundred and five pound football player approached the radio host. Do you want to sit down? We can talk whenever you want to talk. Jeff, we'll deal with that later.
Roger McCreary sitting down with us here on one or four or five. Jeff, I mean, we're on the air right now. I'm right here, Jeff.
We can talk any time you want to. Unbelievable. We got to make that happen. Well, we'll deal with that later on. Roger McCreary sitting down with us here on one or four or five. Jeff, if you want to sit down and talk about this, we can talk about this. I'm talking to you right here. Jeff, we tried to talk to you last week. I'm being rude to Roger. We'll deal with you later.
As far as I know, there was no conversation that was had later because I think we would have heard about it. And it's kind of crazy that Jeffrey Simmons, it was only a couple of days ago the general manager was bigging him up as a captain and a team leader. And everybody's entitled to have their moments.
Everybody is. But that's that's that's that's doing too much, right? Like, if you're going to go confront a man, it's kind of weak to go throw an insult, a verbal insult at the guy, a verbal, calling him a name.
And then just screaming and shouting and refusing to do anything else. It's like, well, I don't know these children's story. Is it the hickey? Is it the big bad? No, the big bad wolf does stuff, right? He huffs and he puffs and he blows the house down.
Right. Isn't it isn't there some is a cry wolf? Is it the boy who cried wolf? Is that what it is? The boy who cried wolf. He did all that talking, but did nothing.
Am I mixing things? No, no. You're spot on.
And then eventually when the wolf does come and he cries, no one listens to him saying he's faking in. Well, the rest is history. Oh, you know that story, but you didn't see Space Jam. Come on. Come on. I'm a man of little knowledge. I don't say that. Don't ever say that.
You're very, very smart individual. Don't say that. Terrible. Just not culture will say. Well, that's fine.
You know, there are worse things to not see than Space Jam. OK, let's just put it that way. Anyway. Jeffrey Simmons did a whole lot of chatting. They say nothing like he was a blowhard. That's what he is. I called him a baby earlier on in the show. If you're going to sit in and complain in front of a radio host and you're going to call him a quote unquote punk. And that's not the P word that he used. Then then do something about it. I'm not advocating for him to beat the living the hell out of at a Riesling. But I'm saying I sit down and talk, talk to him on the side, do something.
It takes a big individual. I'm being sarcastic to just run around throwing around curses and name calling somebody and not doing anything about it. It seems rather useful. Useless to me. You couldn't find better use of your time.
Utilize that energy on a football field. Come on. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.
That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. A matter of fact, I told you this. Everybody is so damn sensitive about social media. People waste so much time arguing and fighting and reading. What is somebody saying about me?
Oh, this is what the stranger said about me. This guy's making millions of dollars. Why are you so concerned with what the radio guy is doing?
There's a lesson here for everybody. Sometimes just put down your damn phone. My thought process is if you're not using the phone to make money, then what are you doing?
Yeah, you can be entertained, but there comes a point where it's just like do something productive, learn something or just get off of social media. People just saying garbage all day. Chauncey Billups. Head coach for the Portland Trailblazers had to learn this firsthand. We're in New Orleans. We're down like 18 at the half.
I had a kid. He had a nasty dunk. We coming out for the third quarter.
This motherfucker done posted his dunk on his joint. Stop it. At halftime. Yo, at halftime, bro, we down 18.
You got to optimize those numbers. What you do, though? Man, you know I grinded his a** up, man.
I get wind of it. I said, Hey, yo, bro, get the a** back there and take that a** down off your joint, man. What the a** is wrong with you, man? My bad, coach. My bad, coach.
He run to the back. We getting bummed, bro. We down 18. He posted joint at halftime. I said, man, what is going on? I wish I could be shocked.
I wish I could be surprised. The Portland Trailblazers are losing a game at halftime by almost 20 points. They had a player who put his highlight dunk on social media during the game while they're losing the last time I checked. And I'm certain of this.
Like there's rules against NBA players utilizing their phones a certain period before the game and after a game. Like. Come on.
What are we doing? Hickey, I'll tell you this. Last year. James Wiseman, after he got jettisoned from the Warriors and went to the Pistons. Hickey, I was at I was at the Hawks game. I was out there for pregame shoot around and I decided to take a video of James Wiseman. Hickey, he was just warming up. But I'm like, OK, is a seven foot eight guy out here practicing and he's a person of note.
And so I took a I took a video of him and I put it on Instagram. Here's James Wiseman warming up. OK. Hickey, you want you want to know who viewed that? James Wiseman, you want to know when he viewed it?
Five minutes after. Yes. Holy cow. Come on, man. What are we doing?
Probably got the alert right away. Come on. They're saying, yeah, what are we doing? Like, do your job, man. And I granted it's not like he messaged me and said, hey, J.R., why did you put up a video of me missing five free throws? He didn't say anything. And he did it. He was just practicing. You're not aren't you supposed to worry about the game?
I don't know. Maybe going on Instagram helps them to relax. Stop worrying about what other people are doing and saying about you. Put your phone down, man. Jeffrey Simmons, six foot four, three hundred and five pounds, latest victim of social media. Like a lot of people put the phone down. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Pick your phone up if you're calling me as the J.R. sport reshow, the Infinity Sports Network.
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It's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. A busy day. An NFL player and Jeffrey Simmons mad at a radio guy. Some some listeners love it. They want to see some of us radio hosts get beat up and cursed out. Why not? Good entertainment.
As long as it doesn't get physical. Right. Simone Biles. Team USA.
They win gold in the team final. Simone Biles now has eight medals more than anybody. Any gymnast in USA history.
Men, male or female. Good for her. Jazz Chisholm has hit four home runs in the past. Twenty four hours for the Yankees. What a trade acquisition that was before we even got here.
Jack Flaherty is now a member of the Dodgers because the Dodgers always need pitching. Always. What a day. Team USA is going to take on South Sudan tomorrow. Hopefully no beatdown.
Now they'll win. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Mac is calling from Buffalo. You're on the J.R. Sportbree show. What's up Mac? Hey J.R. how you doing? It's been a long time. I'm so happy that you switched.
I was a little worried in the beginning but I'm happy that your time has switched so now I can talk to you. But what's up? I know you have other people on the line. You still there? Yes.
You're not saying anything because you know I go on like a rubber band. Yeah. Let me start off. I got two issues. Baseball and basketball are very similar.
Not very similar. My issue with baseball. I used to travel a lot which you don't know. I traveled to the University of Scranton as an admissions counselor. One of the twenty eight top twenty five. At the Canisius. That's not a matter.
Catholic and Jesuit. So what that meant is that first of all I was able as I think I was about twenty two. I could go to New York City and go to Yankees games and all those other things and I became a fan. Next fan is Derek Jeter.
And as a matter of fact I dated a man who would get mistaken for Derek Jeter every time he went out in New York. You must. Oh my God. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
Oh my goodness. I need to take a breath and I didn't say anything. When I was talking to Mac on the phone before it was the same thing. OK.
Hold on. Mac. Mac. Mac.
Yeah. I'm just saying like you said Mac you said hello to me. Hello. No no no I'm saying you said hello to me and you said it's been a long time. You didn't even allow me a breath to say hello. How are you. You didn't even let me get that. I'm going to work on a dialogue.
Some nights are busier than others and I know other people want to get in. You know Wednesdays I never talk to you. So no way. Yeah. Well anyway you look like you. Anyway you. Well we got to get to the point. You look like Mariah Carey and some guy you would date and look like Derek Jeter.
OK I get it. My point is baseball has completely lost its focus. You know when it used to be there when Derek Jeter was playing Cal risk and XYZ. Now you couldn't pay me to go to a baseball game. I used to be when I moved back to Buffalo I could think about driving in New York City. But now I don't even know any of these people.
You know I used to go to Toronto and all those other places. Now it's lost its focus. You got to be on the fence.
OK. I'd rather go to a vison's game. The other issue is basketball. Now basketball my only issue with particularly with LeBron James and why people would call him a baby. It's horrible basketball and I hate it when other players do this. Family will save up all their money and take their kid to go see a star. They get there and the person's not playing. So you put aside your month's salary. That's the only thing that gets to me about basketball.
I hope LeBron did and I just want to air that out. That's my only complaint. I think things are good.
Well thank you so much. Let me say one more thing. This is an exciting time of the year. Especially with I'm an Olympics junkie all the way back to now you're coming into 1976.
I think I was a baby baby. But it's a great time of the year. I don't keep track of these trades. There's just too much going on with the trades. Allow me to respond. You let me keep track of it.
You keep track of the trades for me and I'll pay attention. So I'll hang up and let you respond. You have a good night.
Send me a DM another time, okay? Take care, babe. Bye. Thank you. Oh my goodness. Another time?
Hickey, I don't know what she's talking about. Send me another DM, okay? Whoa!
JR's DMs are open, ladies. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Now I know why you two seem so comfortable. No, bro. I don't know what she's talking about. I don't know. Maybe she DM'd me three years ago and I responded and said thanks. But no.
Send me another DM. Whoa. What type of stuff is that, man?
Oh, man. Hickey, what did she say to me? I don't even know after that last comment. There's a lot there, to be honest with you. I was trying to keep up, but that was a left lane NASCAR race conversation. Holy cow. She said, what did she say?
First of all, baseball. She doesn't like it, right? Okay. Get in line, Mack.
Get in line. And what was the next point she made as people spending money to go to NBA games? When they don't play.
Load management. Right. And she singled out LeBron.
Are we still there, though? I mean, can we give LeBron a break? The guy is 40 years old. He's going to be 40 in a couple. Can we give him a break at least? Played what, 76 games? I think it was this past year.
Yeah, 76, 72, something like that. Yeah. LeBron shouldn't be the, you know, the target right now. Let's not do that. And I got to be honest. I think we've seen enough of this. If you're buying an NBA ticket, it's buyer beware.
I'm sorry. It's if you look at the same time. Who's buying a Clippers ticket? To see Kawhi.
In confidence that they're going to see Kawhi. Like, come on. It's buyer. Am I wrong on that, Hickey?
Right? Are we past this already? Like, if you're buying an NBA ticket and saving up all your money to take your kid, isn't it buyer beware?
Am I being a jerk now? No, at this point, the awareness is out there. When the Spurs first started doing it. Okay, fine.
Easy to add. The wool pulled over your eyes because they were the only ones doing it. Caught on a little bit, but still is new enough where it's like, can you really expect it in a big game, especially? We've seen it too much now where, like you said, you almost unfortunately, depending on the team and the player, have to expect them not to play in the game.
Yeah, the days are over. That's like buying tickets to see the Dallas Cowboys and, you know, Dak doesn't play because he sprained his knee the game. But like that's that's a part of it. Like, and I get it, it's injuries versus rest.
But you buy a ticket, you better be prepared that whoever you buy a ticket for, they may not be available. And you want to know what's changed? Nothing.
Okay. The NBA can't force these guys to go out and pay. And if anything, everybody's making more money.
Now we got television deals now and streaming deals can't even say television because it's all types of things streaming and whatnot. They're making almost two billion dollars per entity a year. So it's not like the money's going down. Not like the money is disappearing. And so somebody is watching the games. There's a big value in sports. So just.
I don't want to say get over it. Buyer beware. It's like paying money to go see a movie. I mean, when the movie is done, you spent your I don't know how much a ticket costs. 16 bucks. You don't get your money back because the movie sucked.
That's just what it is. You know, I'm buying this. I'm spending the money for it.
And after I spend it, it's done. I think we should think about that in all entertainment. It's like buying a ticket to see Lauryn Hill. And if Lauryn Hill shows up three hours late, I don't know. Don't complain about it after she's been doing this for 20 years. Get over it.
Marco Belletti, what do you think, man? I'm just wondering if the load management was part of the DMS. That's what my mind was going to. I was just curious.
Load management. I don't know. I mean, it seemed like that was what the whole conversation was. So I was just curious. I wouldn't know where to find her online. Apparently in your DMS. Which ones? I don't Marco. See, you know what? See, I don't know which DMS and I don't know what you got going on. I'm not getting involved in that.
That's got nothing to do with me. If I go to if I go and just search Mac. Let's see who comes up. Mac Hollins pops up. I know Maggie plays wide receiver. I don't.
Come on now. The Barefoot Man. Yet he is the barefoot man. He's the only Mac I know. And I don't DM him. I don't. You know, what do we do? I mean, I don't know. You guys knew each other pretty good. What about email?
Maybe like direct message on email? Mac Hollins. Y'all are talking about her on a wide receiver. Her? No. No disrespect to Mac Hollins when I talk about Mac Hollins.
Wrong Mac here. No, no, no. She must have messaged me and I must have said thank you for listening. That's what I do. That's my go to. Thank you for listening.
I appreciate you. That's it. She made it seem like DM me again sometime. That was just widely disrespect.
How does she know I'm not married? Like, what is she doing here? Come on. Come on now. Ruin people's lives over things like this.
I don't need these. There's drama in my life. Anyway, Mark, are you going to answer my question? I don't remember what the question was.
It's about load management. Well, see, again, I'm not getting involved in that kind of conversation. That's.
You know what? I thought you were my friend. I don't like you, Marco. It's OK. You told me I can't live on your island. And I told you about a month ago.
The next time I see you walk by, if I don't talk to you, you know why? I think that the list is getting longer and longer. Keep keep that in the reasons, Marco Ballet. You're on the list. You made it. Yeah. Add into the list. That's what you do. You know what?
I might as well go all in. What the hell? Yeah.
Why not? OK. Keep keep that in mind. All right. I remember this. I remember you. I'm shaking my finger. You can't see it. I'm shaking my finger. Yeah, I am. It's the J.R. sport re-show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. So good.
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They want to be me or be better than me. They will be. Pray for them that they'll be better. Pray for it.
If I'm the example, pray for. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven is eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. We've had a busy day, a busy show.
Jeffrey Simmons online or reading stuff online, yelling at radio hosts. Team USA, the Olympians, gymnastics. They set it off on the women's side. Simone Biles now has more medals than any gymnast from the USA ever. Trade deadline. Of course, the Dodgers, Yankees, Padres all going for it. What else is new?
Jazz jism. Paying off for the Yankees already. Four home runs in 24 hours.
What a world. Got Olympics and training camps, South Sudan versus USA basketball tomorrow afternoon. Can't wait for that one. I don't think the USA is going to take them lightly.
They said they won't. Let's get to the phone lines before we roll out and roll into a few things that took place this day in sports history. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Drew is calling from New Orleans. You're on the J.R. sport show. Go ahead, Drew. Let's say J.R., I appreciate you taking my call.
I'm about to say something I never thought I'd say. J.R., I think you're wrong. I think that if the NBA is going to charge me triple the price to see the Lakers than they would to see the Hawks or see the Bulls, then I think that LeBron should play. If not, make it the same price to watch every single game. If it's thirty two dollars to see the Nets, then it should be thirty two dollars to see the Lakers. I appreciate you taking my call.
Thank you, Drew, for calling from New Orleans. I appreciate your opinion. It's not a matter of being right or wrong. That's your opinion. My opinion says if you buy a ticket.
And then you should know that there's a chance that whoever the hell you buy a ticket to see, you may not get what you expect. That's just common sense. That's not an opinion. I didn't make an opinion about whether or not a guy should play or should not. I think they should.
If they're capable of playing, they should go out there and they should. But we don't live in a world of what somebody should do. We live in a world of reality. I know I live in a world of reality.
And I know. That if I or you or whoever else, Bobby, Jimmy, Tom, Dick, Harry. Whoever if they buy a ticket, if you buy a ticket to any game. And X, Y, Z play or X, Y, Z star doesn't play. And that's your fault.
Not the leagues. We've been through this before. I mean, if you haven't learned by now, then then then you you should have your money wasted. That sounds too harsh, but you get my point.
Like we ain't new to this. I understand. If you are, I don't know, a casual fan. And you're not a sports fan. It's just like, oh, I know my kid wants the tickets and you just buy it, then that that sucks.
That sucks. I understand that. But if you are a legitimate sports fan.
And you're still going off of. Oh, no. Well, this is this nation, this. No, no. You know better. You know what? It does suck for the people who are casual fans and they're not totally invested. But if you know what the hell is going on and you still want to pitch a fit after you buy a ticket, why, you should know better.
All right. You want to know what else I buy and I don't get what I want. I don't get the money back and it sucks. You want to know what I hate.
Hickey, is this similar? I hate going to a restaurant. And eating food that I don't like or wasn't up to par, I'm not going to say, oh, this food is so bad, I'm going to send it back to the kitchen. But if it doesn't meet the standard of what I expected, you know what?
You know what I've learned? Don't go back. OK, it's not worth me pitching a fit. You know, if the food is not good, I'm not just going to, you know, send it back. They're going to send me back something else. That's not good. What are we going to do? Go back and forth?
It don't work that. Hickey, is that a decent equivalent on my way off? No, I think it's very fair. And I also like to see that the Oprah hate train still continues to roll. Oh, boy.
That wasn't directly about Oprah's recommendation. I'm just saying. Don't generally. Yes.
I think you're spot on. Don't take record. Don't listen. Take some. Here's some J.R. wisdom. Don't take food recommendations from Oprah. But anyway, go ahead, Hickey.
No, that was it. I was saying I'm saying it's a fair comparison. It's fair. If you spend you know, it's like anything else. If you spend money, you expect a desired result, but you have to understand that you may not always get it. It's like buying clothes. OK, you may buy clothes and sometimes you can take it back. Sometimes you can't. OK. Most cases, sometimes you can.
Most cases. You buy a product. If it doesn't work out, you're screwed. You know better. Don't buy it next time.
Nothing different than entertainment. OK. If I go pay money to see Mariah Carey and she ain't hitting our high notes because she's too old now, I'm not going to pay to see Mariah in the future.
She can't hit the notes no more. I'm not saying she can. I'm just hypothetical. Buy a car. You get a car. I don't like the way this car runs. You just can't take it back unless you're just super wealthy. You know better. Don't buy that car next time.
Anyway. Hopefully you learn from your past mistakes. And speaking of the past. It's the time of the show for us to revisit the past and a few things that have taken 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 brief show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Let's go back in time, because today is July 30th.
The year is twenty twenty four. But let's go back to nineteen seventy six, because the Olympics were taking place this day in Montreal. Shout out to all my folks in Montreal and specifically Bruce Jenner.
He set a world record in the Olympic decathlon. He sat down with Johnny Carson and talked about his success. Let's take a listen to the Johnny Carson show. I don't think I would go through it again. Right. That one time my life, I felt like that's what I wanted to do. But as far as if it's worth it.
Yes. Even when I went to the Olympic Games the day before the games, I said, if I get dead last in this meet, I feel like my career is worth it. Because I learned a lot about myself. It was a tremendous opportunity for me. It was a lot of fun. I totally loved it.
I loved the training. I loved the competition, everything that obviously winning is icing on the cake. And I had the potential to win.
And there was no reason why I couldn't win. That was Bruce Jenner. July 30th, twenty twenty four.
Let's go back in time to 2001. Lance Armstrong. He became the first American to win three straight Tour de France titles. We ain't got no audio for Lance Armstrong because he's a cheater. He's a bully. He was a jerk.
God bless him for his cancer research and the money that he raised. He's one of the meanest, nastiest guys that we've had in sports. Hickey, can you imagine being threatened when you show up to work? No, no, no, no, no. Come on, that guy.
You better do this, otherwise I'm going to ruin your life. Who does that? What was he a guy on a bicycle or was he a dictator?
Both in his head. Oh, my God. What a guy. Anyway, those are a few.
Well, yeah, those are a couple of things that took place this day in sports history. You don't hear too much from Lance anymore, right? He did his documentary and things, and that was pretty much it. You have you heard from him recently?
I forgot about the documentary, but no. Since then, he has been quiet, which thankfully, I mean, hopefully it's some self-awareness of no one wants to hear from him. So he's not going to say anything.
Yeah. One of the biggest liars and cheaters in sports history. Even A-Rod looks at him and goes, man, what a guy. A-Rod never threatened nobody. Well, he just A-Rod just lied.
He just stood in front of Katie Couric and just said, no, you never use drugs. No, steroids. No.
You never bought anything illegal from anybody. No. A-Rod is great. Shout outs to A-Rod, whatever he's doing, trying to buy the Timberwolves. Hickey, we haven't heard about that in a while, have we? That's true.
Yeah, that's true. A-Rod just strolling around on the beach. Blonde model. Not a care in the world. Good for him.
Anyway. Hey, shout outs to everybody who's listening to the show today. We appreciate you. We'll be back tomorrow. 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. I want to go ahead and thank our guest, Jared Bell from USA Today, for joining us. We talk trade deadline, Olympics tomorrow.
Let's hope that Team USA beat South Sudan without making it close. You missed a minute of the show. Hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. We'll be back tomorrow. You can find me online. I'm everywhere at JR Sport Reef.
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