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It is! The JR Sport Brief Show here on the Infinity Sports Network. Happy Thursday to you. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you to everybody tuned in all over North America, wherever you live, whatever you're doing. Thank you for tuning in. I hope you're safe. I hope you're well.

I hope you are cool. Everybody listening on the free Odyssey app. People listening live on their local Infinity Sports Network affiliate. All my people on Sirius XM Channel 158. And everybody who has a smart speaker. They ask their speaker to play the Infinity Sports Network because there are no buttons on a smart speaker.

Unless you're turning it on or off or hitting the volume, you've got to talk to the machine. Like Hal. Or the Terminator. Or Robocop. Or Rosie. Yeah, from the Jetsons.

I'm just going through all the robots that I remember talking growing up. Anyway, I'm going to talk to you for the next hour. The show gets started at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific, every weekday. I'm being joined by super producer and host Ryan Hickey.

He's in New York City. And we're not here for a long time. We're here for a good time. We're only here for one more hour. Sorry. And I think both of us will be out tomorrow because it's summertime vacation here. I'm not a robot.

I got to take a day off here and there. You're not a robot, are you? No, sir. Not a robot. We are not robots. We are not.

Anyway, we talked about quite a few things today. Congratulations to the Falcons for looking like a competent football team. Not only do they add Matthew Judon yesterday, but today they also add Justin Simmons. Good for them. Round of applause to the Atlanta Falcons looking like a competent football team.

I think the Falcons will go ahead and and win the NFC South. A matter of fact, their head coach earlier today, Raheem Morris. He said, I'm so excited to have somebody like Matthew Judon on my team because the man gets it.

He's a dog. Any time you can add a dog really to your group and have him be able to come and be a part of that. That is exciting. I think we have excitement for that. I think he has excitement for that. I think a couple of our players that actually know him personally have excitement for that. His reputation precedes himself. Having that type of a recall from that type of a player and what he does and what he can bring to the table is always fun, particularly when you talk about adding to that group.

You know, losing Trice was critical for us the week before, knowing he's out for the season, but being able to add him to Zoe and AK and Damone Harris and JSW and all those guys that have been out there working for us provides a quality player, dog mentality, potential game changer to your outfit. He's got that dog. I'm trying to remember who said that. I think I know who said that.

Got that dog in him. Who said that? Oh, man. Kim Mulkey said it, right? Oh, I don't know. Kim Mulkey?

I'm thinking like Chris Carter, Randy Moss. I feel like it's been around for a while. Yeah. Well, yeah. Yeah. People have been saying that forever. But I think Kim Mulkey at one point was like, hey, you got to have that dog.

Can't wait for college women's basketball to start up. Oh, my God. Kim Mulkey, I don't know what she she is yelling at somebody right now. This minute, isn't she? The server at a restaurant somewhere in vacation, yelling at the server at the restaurant. Son, I got to tell you again and get my plate running laps. You better relax. Let's start calling her.

What is it? Karen. Karen Mulkey. Yelling at people at a restaurant, they're going to change. Karen Mulkey. Just eviscerating some kid for bringing out the potatoes are cold, son. I don't know.

Wow. Hickey, we got a. When is Kim Mulkey, Tom?

Let's say December to March. That'll be her time to shine, right? Oh, yeah.

And she probably is good for one preseason quote where you're like, oh, what the hell is she talking about? I need to find out who makes her clothes. That's what I need. I need a sequined suit. Floral arrangement. They dress up and make a shiny because she's going to curse you out.

I don't know. Maybe they're trying to soften her image anyway for Kim Mulkey comes cursing me out. By the way, I love everybody in Baton Rouge. Leave me alone. Got enough issues in South Carolina anyway. Shout outs to the Falcons. They did good today.

Congratulations to them. Let's think about the bad. It's bad in Buffalo.

Sorry. Matt Milano. One of the best coverage linebackers in the game. The man broke his leg last year. Now he got a broken arm. He tore his bicep. OK, on Tuesday on a tackling drill, not on a human, but one of them big foam dummies that you tackle. And maybe he hit his arm on a human. But the Buffalo Bills, they've lost a lot of people.

Boy, you're high white. Lose the fun digs on offense, man. They got it. And then I noticed some of these guys have been hurt over the past few years.

They got to pick up some slack. Their head coach of the Buffalo Bills, Sean McDermott, said, Oh, yeah, it sucks that this guy's hurt. You know, obviously, this period in time right now has been tough for him, for all of us, but in particular for him and his family. And he knows all the work that he put in. No one knows the work that Matt put in to get himself back to where he was before this recent injury. So, you know, that's probably one of the harder things to swallow, pills to swallow right now is we just saw him work his butt off. He stayed.

He stayed in Buffalo all summer to get back off of off of the leg injury. And now and now this happens. So, you know, it's unfortunate set of circumstances. But again, I know he's going to handle it well.

Oh, man. Buffalo Bills fans. Y'all got a new stadium coming in a few years, right? That's that's positive.

But I guess who cares about that? Good luck to the Buffalo Bills. I wouldn't be shocked if they don't win the AFC East. I think it's going to be either the Jets or maybe the Dolphins. I know the Patriots ain't going to. By the way, the Patriots are winning a football game in a preseason matchup, a battle of backups. New England leads Philadelphia 10 to three. This might be the only game that New England wins all year long. Between now and January, this might be the only victory. Who knows?

I mean, I'd even win this game. The one that nobody cares about anyway. Matt Milano, you won't see him this year.

If you do, it won't be until December. We also talked about this. The Ohio State University, their head coach, Ryan Day, he decided to name their full time starting quarterback. His name, Will Howard from Kansas State.

Listen to this. We're excited about Will being a starter. Will has really taken a command of the offense, I believe. You feel him in the huddle. You feel his experience. He did a really good job as we talked about it, changing his body in the offseason.

So he's become a threat both with his legs and with his arm. The more he understands what he's doing out there and what he does, he's really executing very well. I think the guys are excited, you know, when he gets in the huddle. Not to say that they're not excited when the other quarterbacks are in there, but they do feel Will.

And, you know, I know he's excited about leaving the team. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just beat Michigan, okay? Beat them. If you don't beat Michigan, people will be kicking you in the ass. And then go to the college football playoff. And then go from there. People care that you beat Michigan.

Make sure you do that, okay? A lot of other things we talked about. Hickey, what else did we get into? Jordan Chiles? She still hopes to get her bronze medal back, okay. We talked about the Australian, what's her name, Rae Gunn, the terrible breakdancer? Yes, and to her credit, to give her a compliment, A-plus nickname. Rae Gunn?

Rachel Gunn, Rae Gunn, that's great. Was that really that difficult to come up with? Fine, fair, but it's cool.

It's cool. Let's see, if you were a breakdancer, Hickey, what would your nickname be? Slick Hick. I was gonna say Slick Rick. That one is taken already. Slick Hick?

You like that? Slick Hick, okay. That's okay.

Alright, okay. I mean, that might be the best thing I got going right now for breakdancing, the name. You'd have to wear overalls, okay? Dungarees, we used to call them.

Dungarees, wow. You'd have to wear dungarees if you were Slick Hick. Do you know who Hillbilly Jim is? I don't know anything about anybody when it comes to breakdancing. All these names are going right over my head. Hillbilly Jim was not a breakdancer.

Oh. Hillbilly Jim was a professional wrestler, okay? I don't know anything about wrestling either, clearly. Yeah, he's from the 70s and 80s. I wouldn't expect you to.

Just use your phone. Google what Hillbilly Jim looked like. Just Google him. He wore overalls. He had a big old floppy hat, big head.

He looked like what you think Paul Bunyan would look like. You see Hillbilly Jim? Oh, yeah.

I was picturing the coach from the Waterboy. Oh, no. The one you couldn't understand what he was saying? Yeah.

Okay, yeah. Wow, he's pretty bad. He's jacked, actually.

Holy cow. Hillbilly Jim is doing some damage. Yeah, Hillbilly. Are you watching him beat people up?

No, I'm just looking at pictures right now, but I just could imagine. Hillbilly Jim was like that dude like 6'6", 6'8". I don't know what Hillbilly. Oh, he's still alive. Damn, God bless him. Good for him, yeah.

There's so many of these pro wrestlers. Oh, my God. I was going to say, it's sad that you kind of assume. You say 70s. Oh, yeah. There's no way he's around. No, there was a guy this week. He passed away. His name is Kevin Sullivan. He gone. But Hillbilly Jim, damn, 6'7", 320. Wow.

Did he play football at all? Now, that's a hell of a wrestler name. Could you imagine? What's your name, Hillbilly Jim? That's a guy. I wouldn't want to mess with that guy just off of his name.

Wow. Anyway, you know, Hickey, you know who else is 6'7"? Who's that? He don't weigh 320. He's 6'7". He's listed at 270, 280.

His name is Aaron Judge. Could you see him in a WWE ring? Could you? Absolutely. Oh, yeah.

Body slam, suplex, beating up the Rock. Here, the court is in session. Here comes the judge. Oh, wow.

Look at you. You gave Aaron Judge a whole wrestling identity already. Okay.

He can dress up, you know, wear the wig that they used to wear to bring the gavel. Oh, no. This is just easily written right now. Wrestling is more realistic now. There's no more corniness like it's violent now.

Okay. I didn't know that they changed tunes. There's no like Hillbilly Jim could exist in the 70s and 80s.

You can't have no Hillbilly Jim today. Impossible. At one point in time, there was a wrestling garbage man. There was a wrestling hockey player.

What is making up? Just getting every profession is putting wrestling in front of it. They did. There's a wrestling accountant. There was IRS. It was.

Here comes the tax man. Oh, thank you. His name was. No, come on. Now you're taking me back. You take me back. Listen, the call is this. There's a lot of listeners who know what the hell I'm talking about, too.

There was a wrestling accountant. I'm not joking. Hey, listen, listen, people. This is this is our last day.

It is both our last day of the week. His name was IRS. Isn't his full name was Erwin R. Schuster.

No, that's funny. I'm still trying to catch my breath. He came out picky. He came out with his outfit.

You can go on if you Google IRS briefcase. Yes, he did. He he he didn't wear full suit. He came out in slacks, wrestling boots. He had a white button up shirt with the sleeves cut off. And he he had on red suspenders and he came he came out. He had glasses. He had no music, I don't think, when he came out and he had a briefcase. That is I'm looking at it now. That is hilarious. Erwin R. Schuster. And he literally he would come out and he would threaten the fans and he would threaten them.

You do your taxes. He would. And his part is his partner, which is equally as black. Do you got to know this guy, the million dollar man said, DiBiase, you heard of him, right? No, no. Maybe the million dollar man.

That sounds more familiar than Ted DiBiase. Yeah. Million dollar man would come out and he would challenge the people in the crowd. His this whole thing was that he was the richest wrestler.

Right. He's the richest guy. He would try to bribe the other wrestlers not to fight him. Like instead of getting in a fight, he'd be like, here, just take the money. And one of the most famous things he ever did, he took a kid out of the stands and he told the kid, if you can dribble this ball like, you know, 10 times, I'll give you one hundred dollars.

Right. The kid was dribbling the hell out of the ball. And on the last dribble, he kicked it out the way and he laughed at the kid.

Oh, my God. This was this was this was real. And he laughed at the kid. He was million dollar man was famous for his laugh. He laughed.

He laughed at everybody because he was richer than everybody. And so, of course, naturally, his tag team partner was IRS. OK. Hickey, listen. Yeah. There was a garbage. There was a Hickey, Hickey.

There was a wrestling pimp. OK. Wow. There was there was they thought everything in the 70s, huh? No, this was in. This was only like 20 years ago. Excuse me.

There's a wrestling pimp, Hickey. He would come out with women. He didn't call him, by the way, it's a different area. He did not call them women.

OK. He called them a gardening tool. Oh, geez.

He came out with like five women. And before he would fight, he would say, you got a choice. He says, you could fight me.

And I could whoop your behind or you could have your choice of like, you know, one of the garden tools. This was real. Like, how does how does how this ever was allowed on television? I have no idea, but it was there was a wrestling pimp on TV. How do you how do we get here?

What are we doing? I have no idea. There is so much even like 15 years ago that you watch or hear like how that person, how that show didn't get canceled is beyond me. Remember, Ellen DeGeneres was a big deal on TV years ago. Yes.

No, listen, you every you see things in commercials now, you know. OK, all right. Whatever.

Can't wait to see what they'll think of next. But Hickey. But anyway, you said you were proud of the breakdancer for what now? Oh, holy cow. That's sweet. We strayed far away for her for her nickname.

I like Reagan. That's a good one. And I said Slick Hank would be mine. I didn't hear your nickname.

So wait for that one. Nickname. My my my breakdancer nickname would be Mr. Nasty. Oh, OK. Yeah. Mr. Nasty. Yep. That's it. All right. I like it.

Smooth to the point. Yeah. Yep, it is.

I don't I don't breakdance, so nobody ever has to worry about it anyway. It is the J.R. sport 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. I told you Hillbilly Jim was a giant man. He's still a giant man. Six seven. We come back. I will finally tell you about a six foot seven man who made Major League Baseball history last night. He's a big deal.

His name is Aaron Judge. You're locked in. It's the J.R. sport brief show.

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Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Oh, man, I love love Mobb Deep. I love them. RIP to Prodigy and Havoc. Amazing. Anyway.

I'm going to pick up the phones. And then I'm going to tell you about Aaron Judge. Because around 24 hours ago, he did something amazing. Fastest guy to hit 300 home runs in Major League Baseball history. And I told you, Hillbilly Jim was a giant man. Hillbilly Jim was a giant, right?

Aaron Judge would beat Hillbilly Jim up. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Russell is here from Idaho. You're on the J.R. sport brief show. What's up, Russell? Hey, J.R. Hello. How are you? Good. How are you doing?

I'm amazing. What's on your mind? Hey, my wife has been listening to your broadcast here tonight for the first time.

And man, she's like, where is she from? I go, I'm not exactly certain. So hold on. Let me put her on the line here. Oh, wow.

OK. Talk to your wife. Great. Hi. I'm sorry.

He's put me on the phone here. But where are you from? Oh, I'm originally from New York and I've been I knew it. I knew it. Yes.

I've been living in Atlanta for quite some time now. Well, hold on. Your husband, he has a name. What's your name? My name is Susan. Oh, Susan. OK, well, nice. Russell and Susan.

What a beautiful couple. How are you, Susan? You good?

I'm good. I always enjoy hearing you. Well, thank you.

I listen to his radio show that he's off doing occasionally. But I think out of what you say. Well, thank you.

Thank you so much. Is there anything I said in particular that caught your attention? Well, you your voice just reminds me of this actress that I used to like. Oh, it's actress. Yeah, she was from New York. And so she had that same accent, Rosie. But I can't remember her last name.

O'Donnell. No, no, no, not her. More a Latany kind of gal. Well, I'm from I'm from the Bronx, so I'm very Latin, I guess. Yeah. She was Puerto Rican, I think.

And I love Puerto Rican. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How about that? Y'all got it all figured out.

Rosie Perez. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

She's she's from the same place I'm from. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, Puerto Rican from the Bronx. That's right. Yeah. Well, thank you.

Appreciate your welcome. And Russell, do you do you have anything to add as well as Russell? Just was he having dinner? What's he doing? You want to say anything?

I'm just listening here. And, you know, you're bringing up the old time wrestlers and everything. Yeah. Pat Patterson was one of the ones that I always kind of looked up at because that was my dad's name. Oh, Pat.

Your dad's name Pat? Yeah. And he went up against Hulk Hogan one time. And my dad took it to that. And that was just I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

I was pretty young and probably only about seven or eight years old. Wow. I was just like, yeah, that was some good old wrestling down in Oakland, California. Yeah. Yeah. Pat Patterson. I think he's he was Canadian, I believe.

But I think he spent a lot of time out in San Francisco. Well, thank you, Russell. Appreciate you. And not a problem, but you continue having a great show.

OK, you as well. Hey, Russell, Susan, y'all. Y'all call me anytime. I feel like I'm missing out on y'all. What are y'all eating for dinner? I feel like I'm missing out. Well, I'm having leftovers from my Mexican dinner I had last night.

My wife, she's making a salad. Oh, y'all are living a life. Well, y'all enjoy. Y'all enjoy. Enjoy the rest of the evening.

Me, I'm just eating water. OK, water for dinner. OK, thank you. So right. Take care. I'll try. Thank you, Russell, for calling from out. Bye, Susan.

Bye. Thank you. I love it. It's a family affair. I love it. I am still trying to recover.

Yes. She called. She said I sound like Rosie Perez. I thought this was she was going to say Rosie O'Donnell.

I'm staying in the studio. I went down on a knee. I was dying. Listen, she got me for a second. She said, you sound like an actress.

I had to go. Excuse me, Rosie. Is Rosie O'Donnell. Is she from New York? I don't know where Rosie. I don't know. Where is Rosie O'Donnell? She fell off the face of the earth, right? She was in a curb episode. Like, I don't know. Two seasons ago, maybe her curb. You know, your enthusiasm.

Yeah. You know, the cool kids call it curb short. You don't you don't watch curb.

No, I don't. I don't watch really anything but sports. News. Well, she was there like two, two seasons ago. Otherwise, haven't seen her.

She disappears. Where's Roseanne at? I don't know.

She got canceled, didn't she? Well, do I want. Yeah, I think. Yeah, I think we know the answer. Do I do I want to do I want to go.

Not on a work computer, that's for sure. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Afi is calling from Canada. You're on the JR Sportbreeze show. What's up, Afi? Hey, JR. Well, I'm back again. Thank you. What's up? I'm amazing. Good.

Good, man. I just want to ask you your opinion on what's his name? Austin Matthews as the new captain for Toronto.

The Maple Leafs? Yeah. What?

What? Well, so why isn't John? Man, you think I'm sitting around watching the Maple Leafs?

I'd be lying to you if I gave you an opinion. Why is John Tavares not the captain no more? He's too old. Oh, sorry.

Fifty seven. Sorry. You're talking to you. You got a wife, too.

Who's that? I'm just doing delivery. So that's why. Oh, deliveries. Yeah. Everybody's. I thought you had a wife, too.

Now you're not going to get a tip because you're talking to me. Did you finish your delivery? Oh, boy.

Here we go. Picky, I thought this man was I thought we were going to have another wife. And he's just like, no, I'm just delivering food to a lady. That's what a second we've had, huh? Man, what?

Everyone ever wants a piece of J.R. tonight, I guess. Yeah. Even. Well, I should have told him put me on with the. Well, no, that would have got the guy fired, right?

You can't do that. Did you imagine somebody? Delivery. Here you are on national radio.

Say whatever you want, but not really. Here's your here's your pizza. By the way, he had talked to this guy. Who is that? He's he's a radio host.

Talk to him. Like who does that? You got you. You don't have a job.

It'd be the worst review ever. Can I just have a shout out to all the delivery people out. We got a lot of them. People are door dashing and Uber Eats and Domino's and Papa John's, all that stuff. If you can if it can be delivered, somebody is doing it right now.

I hope you get all the money. And if they don't tip you, take the money. Demand a tip. Ask for it. Ask for a tip. It works. I think.

I don't know. Anyway, to Aaron Judge, the man last night. He decided to hit his 300th home run. They walked Juan Soto in front of him intentionally because Juan Soto has been hot. The man hit three home runs in a game that he hit his fourth home run. And so Grady Sizemore, the manager of the White Sox, I guess you pick your poison.

And he's just like, I pick I pick Judge, which is stupid. Aaron Judge launched it. Three hundred home runs and nine hundred and fifty five games.

One hundred and thirty two less games. Then Ralph Kiner. Aaron Judge is a freak. If he wasn't 32 years old, I'd say that this man is going to have the all time record.

But I guess he'd need to do drugs and become Barry Bonds to get it anyway. Aaron Judge, a beast. He could have a triple crown.

Maybe if Bobby Wood Jr. falls off the map. The guy's batting three thirty three with forty three home runs and one hundred and ten RBI. He's a freak numbers, especially when half the damn league sucks. Aaron Judge. He says he is glad that the three hundredth home run came with a victory.

This is what he told Amazon Sports. Like I said earlier, you know, I was hoping it came in a win. You know, we were kind of down early in the game. Not really getting much going early on, except that Soto Homer.

But no, it was great. You know, just throughout the whole game, guys were having great at bats, having great rallies there to kind of pass the baton to the next guy. Yeah, the next guy. Aaron Boone used to play baseball. Great old Boone family. He's seen a lot of great baseball. Aaron Boone says watching this guy play is like makes no sense. Listen. What Aaron's doing is, you know, it's select few in the history of the game that you start talking about these kind of seasons he's having. So just a great player, great leader.

And I think everyone's obviously really pumped in there that you got it. Got that done. You had a choice. You take in old Tony or judge. You need to win the World Series for a year. You take an old Tony or judge. Oh, I'll take a tiny just because he can pitch as well next year. OK. All right.

You have the same type. I mean, one day he's going to suck as a pitcher. One day he's going to suck. He might suck next year.

I mean, this is what the second elbow injury he's had. Like he may be cooked. I don't know. E.R.A. of five. Five E.R.A.

in 22 starts. Five E.R.A. Watch. Wow. All right. Hey, I hope not. I enjoyed watching him pitch and hit at a high level at the same time.

But, you know, getting older again, stress on the arm. Yeah, I'm not. You're off. I'm not basing that on anything. I'm just saying stuff.

But you feel you got a gut feeling. I just think one day he's going to suck. And this is like you paying seven hundred million dollars for this guy who's going to suck at least one day. The Yankees, they can throw Aaron Judge at first base or make him a D.H. and problem solved. You know, he can last.

The power will be the last thing to go. Guys are freak six foot seven, smashing home runs. This guy's a beast. Anyway, it's the J.R. sport we show here on the Infinity Sports Network. We are going to take a break.

We come back on the other side. Of course, I'm going to share with you a few things that that took place this day in sports history. And then we talked about this last night.

How bad American soccer is. They might have a savior. It appears that they have hired a new manager. We'll get into that. We'll wrap things up. You're listening to the J.R. sport brief. It's the J.R. sport we show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. What a day. What a show.

Damn. We went through we have literally talked about everything from Aaron Judge, the Falcons and their acquisitions. Judon and then also bringing in Justin Simmons. We talked about Matt Milano, the NBA schedule release.

Will Howard at Ohio State. The WNBA is back today. We talked about Aaron Judge talked to a girl throwing out the first pitch at a Mets game. Disaster. Not the pitch. But why would you have her at a baseball game on Camp Day with kids? Terrible. We talked about Odell Beckham Jr. arguing with fans on social media because he's hurt. You ain't got nothing better to do.

And how about this? We got some news early this morning. I guess Team USA. Maybe maybe we got a chance to do something to win something worth a damn.

When the World Cup hits the United States of America in two years because the U.S. men's national team. They have added a new coach, Mauricio Pochettino. Take a listen. CBS Sports HQ. They like it.

It's a good deal. Well, we are continuing to follow breaking news on the pitch where the U.S. men's national team has reportedly found their guy. And that guy is Mauricio Pochettino. The Americans have been looking for a new manager since firing Greg Berhalter, who, of course, led the team in that disastrous Copa America appearance earlier this summer. Potch reportedly was the top target in the hunt for U.S. soccer sporting director Matt Crocker, who worked with Potch back in Southampton a few years back.

So here's what you need to know about Potch. Of course, he's seen success at the club level in Europe, winning a Ligue 1 title with PSG and, of course, taking Tottenham to a Champions League final back in 2019. He joins the U.S. after guiding a struggling Chelsea squad to a sixth place finish in the pram last season. And, of course, a spot in European competition. Crocker did say that they would spare no expense when it came to bringing in the right guy, saying, quote, it is a priority. Good. U.S. men's team has sucked.

I don't care who they bring. I know Jurgen Klopp. I know him. I've actually seen him coach out in Germany.

I saw him at a BVB a bunch of years ago, but he wants to be on vacation. So good. 855-212-4227. Let's get to the phones and then let's get to a few things that have taken place this day in sports history. Mike is calling from South Carolina. You're on the JR Sport Brief Show. Go ahead, Mike. Hey, how you doing, guys? Thanks for taking my call.

Sure. I just had a quick one of your guys' opinion about Mike Trout. Oh, boy. With all the injuries that has piled up last year, everything that's going on this year, it seems he's pretty accident prone. Do you think, you know, he's finally going to be done with the MLB? What do you mean done with baseball?

What do you mean? I mean, just simply just hang him up. The man is going to make about 38 million dollars for the next six, seven years. You just leaving that money alone? You just going to quit? I know, but I mean, I mean, he's not he's always. No, no, no, no. I understand that. But this is a very simple question.

He is scheduled to make about 38 million dollars per year for the next six to seven years. Would you just quit at the end of this year? You might as well just quit now. Would you? I wouldn't. But I mean, if I'm a major league GM right now, I don't know.

I would take a chance to, you know, even with. No, no, no, no, no, no. Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, he is under contract.

That's it. Like the Angels are stuck with him. He is stuck with the Angels unless he quits. There is no reason for him to quit. I'll say it again, because he's making more than 30 million dollars every year through 2030. The Angels cannot move him. And if I were him, I would not move. OK, I mean, if he is hurt and they have to get a medical exemption and whatever, he has to collect the money or they want to settle. That's a different thing. But Mike Trout, unless he's the most upstanding individual and he's just like, I've made enough money.

I'm going to give this back. And maybe he is. I don't know too many people who would do that. If I were him, I would just show up and try to work and try to play and collect my checks, whether I'm on the field or whether I'm in a rehab room. It's really that simple.

I don't know too many people who say, no, I don't I don't want 37, 40 million dollars. No, I'm just going to quit. I don't think so, Mike. All right, guys, thank you for my thank you for taking my call, guys.

No problem. Piece of cake. Mike Trout ain't quitting. He's going to quit and say, I don't want the money. Give me the money. Give me the 40 mil. I would take the 40 mil for one year.

I'd disappear off the face of the earth. Come on now. Come on. Nobody want the G and the GM's don't want them.

Well, you're damn right. They don't want them. The Angels probably don't want them. He probably he wants the Angels. He wants that money. What a career.

And who knows? Maybe maybe he bounces back and he can play the rest of his contract out. It just doesn't look good. You heard about Christine Yelich, more back issues, back surgery and.

Mike Trout, not too much better in position. Anyway, it's time to go back in time. Today is August 15th.

The year is 2024. But let's take a listen 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 JR Sport Brief Show. I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass. It is the JR Sport Brief Show here on the Infinity Sports Network. It is August 15th. Let's go back to August 15th, 1999, because a guy named Tiger Woods, he was 23 years old at the time. He won his first PGA championship and this was his second major. Let's take a listen to the final call, courtesy of the PGA Tour.

The legend grows. The best season of the quarter century on the PGA Tour. Tiger Woods seven win of the season.

Thank you. That was that Mike Torrico. That it was young Mike Torrico from 25 years ago. Good for him. Congratulations, Mike Torrico.

Hey, also, August 15th, 2004. This wasn't good for America. This was bad for America. American basketball. They got their asses whooped.

Larry Brown hated this team. This was the loser team that went to Athens. Puerto Rico beat them in Athens 92 to 73. This was the largest margin of victory where the Americans got their asses whooped.

Carlos Arroyo, remember him, the point guard. He spoke to Bleacher Report and he talked about beating Team USA. We scrimmage USA that summer before the Olympics about three to four times. And the one thing that Larry Brown was the coach for that team. So they asked us to play, you know, man to man throughout the whole scrimmages that we had.

So our coaching staff was like, we're gonna play zone the whole game. So we had an advantage as far as preparation when it came down to playing USA. But it was an amazing moment for Puerto Rico basketball, for the history of basketball in our island.

To this day, they celebrate that day like it's a birthday. It was a team effort. Everybody obviously did their part for us to be able to accomplish what we did. And we're in the history books, man. I'm truly honored and blessed to be a part of that moment.

Yeah, well, America came back and kept winning. Thank you, Redeemed team. Thank you, Kobe Bryant. Also, August 15th, 2012, Felix Hernandez, King Felix, he threw a perfect game.

Listen to this. The 2-2. He got it. 34 years. 119 games.

It's finally happened. A perfect game by a Seattle Manor. It was done by the King, Felix Hernandez. The 23rd perfect game in major league history.

Third this year, Matt King of the Giants. Phillip Bumber did it here in Seattle against the Mariners. And now Felix Hernandez. He puts his name in the record books with a perfecto. Yeah, he had 12 strikeouts and he beat Tampa Bay one to nothing. Shout outs to King Felix.

They always wear that hat sideways. Also, August 15th, 2014. Remember this young lady? Monet Davis was 13 years old. She threw a complete game shutout at the Little League World Series.

She's the first young lady to do this. This is from ESPN. Monet Davis will be on the mound today.

The Nashville team was here last year. And she picks up her first strikeout of the game. There's a curve ball right there.

3-2. Fastball. Money gone. Fastball. 2 pitch.

Grows very fast. Another strike and it goes on the hill on their feet. It's over. A complete game for Monet Davis.

Man, remember? She played baseball and basketball. And now she's in college.

It's amazing. Last year she worked with the Dodgers as a video intern. Oh, she's on a fast track, right? And this year, she's in like a master's program at Columbia University in New York.

I think she's doing this while also attending Hampton University. She's a big deal. Hickey, we're gonna have to work for her one day, right?

One day soon, too. Yeah, I gotta be nice to her. I'm gonna be begging her for a job any day now. And shoutouts to Monet Davis. Hickey, why didn't Monet Davis throw out the first pitch? Come on, now she's in New York. That's a great call. Bring her in, Mets. Be listening.

What a dumbass world we live in. We got Hawk Toa girl throwing out her first pitch at a New York Mets game. And you got Monet Davis, who is a superstar.

And that's a real superstar. Trying to do things for herself, the community. She says she wants to work in the front office. What does Hawk Toa girl want to do? I think we know what she wants to do. Must be famous. Yeah, forget her. Monet Davis. All right, listen, folks.

The JR Sportbreeze show here on the Infinity Sports Network. The show is done. I'm not gonna be here tomorrow. Hickey, you gonna be here tomorrow?

No, sir. We're not gonna be here tomorrow. We'll be back. We'll be here Monday? Monday.

Yeah, but you should still listen anyway, okay? Lionel Willingham is gonna be here. He's great. He's awesome. Now, that guy, whoo, that guy, he is the man.

Let me just put it that way. I was gonna say he's the future. He is the today. Y'all better tune in tomorrow because I said so. Hickey, where can they follow you?

Ryan underscore Hickey in the number three on Twitter. And I'm at JR Sportbreeze. Y'all have a great weekend. We'll be back with you on Monday.

The JR Sportbreeze show here on the Infinity Sports Network is done. Y'all be safe. Be well. Be smooth. Be cool. Don't move. Bart Wiggler coming up next. Bye.