JR SportBrief Hour 3

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It's not fast food, but it's so good. It is the JR Sport Brief Show here on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Our super producer and host Ryan Hickey is coming to you live from New York City. And thank you for listening on the free Odyssey app, on your local affiliate, on the Infinity Sports Network Channel 158 on Sirius XM.

If you've got a smart speaker, ask it to play the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to be hanging out for the next two hours. This is a four-hour show.

We get started every single weekday at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. And what a day we've had. We talked about the Falcons. They're actually making some good moves. Atlanta Falcons have added Justin Simmons, former All-Pro safety from the Denver Broncos. Yesterday they add Matthew Judon.

The Falcons should win the NFC South. We talked about the Buffalo Bills. Things aren't going good for them. Matt Milano is hurt. This man blew out his bicep.

Broke his leg last year. If you haven't learned, football is tough. This is going to be a tough season for the Bills.

It's still a winning record, but they ain't going to be where they were. We talked about Will Howard being named the official starting quarterback for the Ohio State University. The NBA schedule is out. We took a look at some of the big games and matchups that you don't want to miss.

Christmas slate is good. Always good, right? The Spurs are going to take on the New York Knicks. The victim went binyama in Madison Square Garden.

That's going to be a lot of fun. We talked about, well, I don't want to keep saying her name. We talked about the lady that threw out the first pitch for the Mets, her name, the Hawk Tua girl. The New York Mets are despicable. The Olympic breakdancer who wants privacy, the one from Australia who stunk.

Jordan Chiles is hoping that she can, I guess, still get her bronze medal back. And then how about this? In about 20 minutes, we're going to have a conversation with Jesse Rogers from ESPN. He's a writer and reporter for all things Major League Baseball.

And today he wrote an article that was I had to just I had to go, what? What is this? Hickey? Hickey told me about it. What?

This is serious. It's about Major League Baseball. Ultimately, I guess, forcing its starters to pitch the six innings. And yeah, of course, there's some parameters around that you can't force anybody to just say you got to pitch six innings.

Don't work that way. But baseball is strong. I guess correct a few of the issues that it's had over the past few seasons. We'll talk to Jesse about what he's learned and what baseball might look like. We know baseball has made a lot of adjustments over the past few years.

The bases, the base paths. Stupid ghost runner. And now they may kind of try to just change pitching as we know it today. And so we'll have that chat with Jesse Rogers in about 20 minutes. And I literally just saw this in the break. And I can't I can't believe it. Hickey, I'm not a big movie guy. I know you're not a big movie guy.

But they and when I say they Hollywood. They're making a movie about John Madden, Hickey. All right. This is supposed to be encapsulating the creation of the Madden video game franchise. Do you want to know who is going to play John Madden?

Oh, yeah. Who? Nicolas Cage.

Well, who? Nick Nicolas Cage. He's playing John. He's playing John Madden. Nicolas Cage will portray John Madden, the legendary American football coach and sports commentator in Madden. A biographical drama from director David O. Russell. Is he going to get plastic surgery and put on a fat suit? Yeah, exactly.

Going to Zion Williamson diet for a few months. He he has to write. Look, the man who's going to direct and write the film said Nicolas Cage, one of our greatest and most original actors, will portray the best of the American spirit of originality, fun and determination in which anything is possible as beloved national legend John Madden.

OK, the film will reportedly tell the origin story of the Madden franchise. Oh, my goodness. You know, Nicolas Cage would be perfect to portray in that movie. Al Davis.

He could be out, Dave. Listen, I could see Bill. But I just said, OK, I could see Nicolas Cage being, yes, Al Davis. Right.

Put on some makeup. He could be Al Davis. I could see him portraying Bill Belichick. John Madden.

John Madden. What? I don't know. And I get it.

Technology is crazy. I don't know. John Madden. He's been gone almost three years now.

He passed away at 85 years old. This is just curious. I don't know. This is going to be heavy makeup on this one.

Right. Heavy makeup. Well, the face is not the problem as much as it is the hair and the body.

Well, I mean, you can throw you can throw white hair on. And I don't know what age are they going to. You know, I guess what age is he going to play him?

I don't know. But he's oh, he was always a big fella. Come on now. Right. And Nicolas Cage is not. He's not a big fellow. He's not.

Yes. Star face off in Con Air, where he always played a small fellow. And now he is even when he put on muscles, you know, but. They couldn't find anybody else to. Play John Madden. Come on, man.

Whatever. Anyway, good luck to Nicolas Cage. Getting ready to play John Madden, I guess. Hickey, next thing you know, they're going to they're going to ask they're going to ask Sam Jackson to play Bill Belichick in a movie.

Like, hey, we need somebody to portray Bill Belichick. Hey, Sam Jackson, it's going to be you. It's me. What are we doing here? I don't know. Can I ask you a really uneducated question very quickly?

Please go for it. Sam Jackson, short for Samuel L. Jackson. Yes, it is. Did he. Is that just you?

You know, you tie with them or is that. Did he change the name? Oh, no. You people call him Sam Jackson.

I've never heard of that. OK, it's the same person. Yeah. If he was in front of me, I call him Mr. Jackson.

OK. Oh, I promise. I don't need Samuel L. Jackson. That man can curse, OK? Among other things that man can curse.

I do not need that man cursing me. And he's how old do you think he is, Hickey? However, however old you think Sam Jackson is, he's older. Sixty five. No. Seventy five years old. No way.

Wow. Sam Jackson is seventy five years old. Seventy five. I don't even know how old is. What's the other black guy everybody likes? He's from Mount Vernon. Morgan Freeman.

No, not Morgan. Morgan Freeman got to be like 90 something. He got to be in his 80s, right?

I was going to guess the 70s, but maybe Morgan Freeman is 87 years old. Oh, geez. No, I'm talking about Alonzo from Training Day. People are yelling at me now. I know exactly who he is. Oh, my God.

Ricochet. Oh, my God. How am I not knowing? Oh, man, this is embarrassing. Yeah, come on, Jerry.

You're embarrassing yourself here. He's from Mount Vernon. He grew up right up the block from me. Oh, my God.

Yeah, he's your neighbor. He's going to be in the new Gladiator movie. Oh, come on. Come on. You know it. Denzel.

There it is. Denzel. Denzel Washington is 69 years old.

That sounds all right. I mean, he's 69. Samuel Jackson is 75. What a world. What a world. Well, anyway, I'm sick of all the movies anyway. I'm done. I don't want to go to the movies.

I don't want to see anything. I don't want to pay to go to the movies. Me going to the movies right now is just asking to take a nap. Why am I going to pay for a nap? That's like a sixteen dollar nap. And if I got to take somebody with me, this is now a thirty to thirty five dollar nap.

I don't want this. Plus popcorn, drinks, candy. Forget all of that crap. Hundred bucks down the drain to go see a movie. And then if the movie sucks, you don't get that money back. You don't get that money back. You just disappointed. Just like you go to a sporting event and your team stinks.

No, it's not. Use credentials. I wish I could use.

I wish I could use credentials to go to a movie, but it don't work that way. Vicki, I did. Have you ever fallen asleep in the movies?

I have actually. Yes. Yeah. Pirates of the Caribbean. The first one? No, like the fifth one. They were Johnny Depp was well into that role.

I think he even himself was like, all right, this is enough, man. They make the movies like five hours long. Can't blame anybody. I think I was I think I was on a date a million years ago and I went to go see Transformers. It's like a Friday night. I'm like, I don't like going to the movies in the first place, let alone on a Friday night. There's too many people.

I don't want to be I don't want to see people. OK. And I got I was like, why are you sleeping? Like because it's it's like eleven o'clock at night. Why am I sitting in this dark room?

It's time for me to sleep. That's why you fell asleep at the movies on a date. Yeah.

Transformers. I remember because I don't I couldn't talk about the movie after because it was spotty. I didn't remember everything. There's no way you want a second date, right? I think this is somebody that I was already dating for for like years or something.

Oh, OK. No big deal. I was just like a first date. You can't have a second date. How did it go? My date fell asleep. Is going to the movies a good date anyway? It's like one of the worst things that you could do.

You're right. Like you go on a date unless you you got to eat dinner right now. You got to have dinner and a movie. Like that's too much. That's too much money. Right. Too much money at the movie. You can't talk. So you just kind of sit in there.

It's a waste of time. You want to make out the movie. You know what you want. People do that. I mean, not anymore. Probably. This is more like high school. I feel like high school, at least where I grew up, like the movies were popular. Like, oh, you want to go on a date?

Let's go to the movie. So this is dark. Right. And people can use the imagination after that. That's it.

That's it. But on the surface, it is a you're right. It's a terrible idea for a date. Dinner and a movie. You have to see the movie first.

Right. And then you got to go to dinner afterwards. And it's probably going to be late just so you could sit down and talk about the movie. So you have another basis of something to talk about outside of what do you like to do? And do you like this? And do you like that?

What a waste of time. Interesting. I actually would have thought to be the other way around, but yours sounds better. You go to the you eat and then go to the movie. I always assume that you're going to go dinner and a movie. You go in that order.

Right. You go eat and then you do the movie. No, it does make sense, but it makes more sense to see the movie and then talk about it after. Unless you got to, you know, you drive your date home or I don't know what people do.

Do you do you do you do dinner, a movie, and then you grab a drink afterwards? Is that too much? It's too much, right? It depends. This is like six, seven hours now at this point. It is a big commitment, depending on the movie, too. You see three hours. Children's movie. They're like 90 minutes. Eighty seven minutes. You're done. What do you want to go on the first day? Let's go see Despicable Me for. Why not?

That's the thing with the little eyeballs, a little yellow guys. That's it. Yeah, why not? I know I'll be out in 87 minutes. And I'm sure you'll be out on a phone call for a second day, too. Yeah, I guess so.

Yeah, man, this sucks. Where is he taking you? Despicable me. OK. Hey, he's a fun guy.

I thought people like when you women like the laugh and how it goes is this. I don't know if that's a comedy. Despicable Me. Is it? I don't know. People are calling us now at this point. Oh, my God. Will we get advice on where to take people out on a date? I don't know.

Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Anyway, I will. I think this is going to be an Amazon movie that Nicolas Cage is going to be in with with John Madden. So, yeah, you go ahead and you watch it and you enjoy it when it comes out, I guess, in another three years or two years or whatever. And everybody tell us how it went. I can't remember the last Nicolas Cage movie I saw.

I've seen a lot of last I saw he was running around trying to find scrolls and and things. I just I don't know. Anyway, we're going to get ready to take a break. We come back on the other side of the break. We're not going to talk about a movie. We're going to discuss reality and the reality that Major League Baseball is actually trying to improve the sport. We're going to be joined by Jesse Rogers. He's an ESPN reporter and writer, covers all things baseball. And earlier today, he dropped the kind of a bombshell. He said that Major League Baseball is actually looking to enforce that their starting pitchers pitch six innings minimum.

How the hell do you do that? If a guy stinks, are you leaving them in there? If the guy is is bad, like how do you make a pitcher? Pitch six innings. We'll get into that with Jesse Rogers on the other side of the break as Major League Baseball.

Now, that would be bigger, I believe, than any of the moves that they tried to make last year. We'll get into that on the other side. The future of baseball. Jesse Rogers joining us. You're locked in.

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Visit nor.com to get quick and easy recipe ideas for your home cooked weeknight dinners. It's not fast food, but it's so good. You are listening to the J.R. sport brief. It's the J.R. sport show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We got people listening and tuned in coast to coast. And right now we're being joined by someone who wrote an article today that made me go. Major League Baseball is considering doing what? Baseball is trying to be progressive over the past couple of seasons to make the game more enticing, more exciting, to have more action. And so right now we are being joined by Jesse Rogers covers all things baseball for ESPN dot com.

And he wrote an article today that made me just go, this is a reality. We'll talk about it. Hey, Jesse, how are you, man? Thank you for the time. I'm doing well. Good to be with you.

I appreciate it. You wrote this article today and in summation, pretty much Major League Baseball after implementing multiple changes last year, the size of the bases and relievers, what they can do and can't do. They're considering implementing a rule where a starter has to go six innings unless he's injured or what have you. What are what are some of these other future considerations that they're thinking about as it relates to this potential six innings for a starter? Yeah, I mean, they're just kicking it around because they're on to what is next after last year's rule changes.

Not that they have to make another set of rule changes, but they're thinking about the future of this game. And all the pitching injuries, for example, how many times bullpen's are used now in games. Remember back in the day, seven innings was normal for a start. It's all the way down to five and two point five innings per start. Now, it's like an inning lower than it used to be, basically, in the old days. And and then they're also thinking of ways to try to bring offense back in the game a little bit more.

Although it's been pretty good, the second half in general, it's been down. So they're kicking around ideas. We know about the double hook DH rule, which is if you pull your pitcher early or whenever you pull them, potentially you lose your DH. That's sort of an incentive to leave your starting pitcher in there.

That that'd be one thing they're kicking around. The size of a pitching staff is another thing they're kicking around. The less pitchers you have in a staff, the longer your starter might go, that kind of thing. The other thing is what I wrote about today, which has not been talked about a lot, is potentially asking starters or forcing starters to go a minimum of six innings.

However, there are exceptions to that rule. Obviously, if you get rocked, meaning maybe four or five or more runs, you can be pulled before six innings. If you throw one hundred and one hundred and ten pitches, you know, pick the number. You can be pulled before six innings. If you get hurt, you can be pulled.

The real idea behind it is to avoid openers, for one. Everybody has to train five starting pitchers to be real starting pitchers and also to take that analytical moment out of the game. When a manager pulls a starter that's going well at eighty four pitches and he's about to face the other the opposing lineup for a third time.

You know, that moment where you all hate that now the net. That's what it's really about. And in doing so, they hope to change the training habits of pitchers. And that's why if they ever implemented this, they would give teams three years of notice. They'd give pitchers three years of notice. So all the way down in the minors now, you are training guys to last six innings to maybe pull back on velocity and work on your command. All these things that we used to see in pitchers instead of just max velocity, max velocity. So there's a lot behind it than just forcing starters to go six, which I think if, you know, a lot of people took it as that.

No, there's a there's some layers to it and a lot of it makes sense. I don't know if it could happen in practice. Jesse Rogers is joining us from from ESPN.

I've been yelling about this for years. You know, we don't have the the outliers of the world who just go out there and get it. They're not allowed to. And the pitchers aren't trained to. Is there a thought in your mind that there's even more of a trickle down effect, not just from the majors down to the minors, but down to the youth level as well, where young men are going to train differently? The answer is yes, that would be the league's hope. Now, I didn't include a lot of pitchers in the story because then we were going to go into the weeds.

And what I mean by that is it's all about money. Like if it's if pitchers down in high school and college are taught that innings will get you paid more than strikeouts, they will train to last a long time. And that's why I even wrote the article, maybe even incentives for pitchers and or teams that reach a certain innings mark for for starting pitchers could make sense if you're starting staff reaches nine hundred innings in a season.

Maybe you get an extra draft pick. You know, there's ways to address this. And the same thing with pitchers themselves. Incentivize it.

One hundred and eighty. You know, I don't think it doesn't have to be this direct, but pretend like one hundred eighty innings pitch gets you a million dollar bonus or two hundred innings gets you ten million dollar bonus. All of a sudden you will start seeing pitchers trained differently.

So whether it's incentivize or force them to do it differently, they do hope there'd be a trickle down effect. But but it has to it has to incorporate the money aspect of it, because right now, velocity and strikeouts get you paid a lot more than than command and innings pitched. Jesse Rogers is joining us here. Covers all things baseball for ESPN.

This is the Infinity Sports Network. You think about the changing landscape. You said this could potentially be three years out. Could it be a little bit longer than that?

Yeah, I mean, here's the point. If they ever decide to do it at that point, it would be at least two to three years out. So I don't think there any I don't think they're close.

And to be honest, I wrote the article because it's something they're kicking around and hasn't been talked about publicly much. But I don't think they're close to to deciding that the the word I'll use, panacea, meaning the thing that will solve several problems. But let's pretend like this offseason, they say that's our answer. Then they will at least give twenty five, twenty six and maybe even twenty seven. They will give pitchers and teams three years to get ready. And that means training habits can change. And then you maybe in two years you instituted in the minor leagues. Right. And then in three years you instituted in the major leagues. So it's really a long term project. And the bigger picture thing is they are trying to address injuries, scoring and starting pitcher sort of prestige all at once.

And there's other ways. Like I said, a smaller pitching staff might do it as well, though any of these things you could take the other side and say, well, that might increase injuries. An 11 man pitching staff, you might increase injuries. Again, it's the pitchers would have to pull back some. It's hard.

And I wrote this in the article, one of the guys, one of the executives said to me, you know, the genie's out of the bottle. You can't ask a guy who's trained to throw one hundred to now pull back and throw ninety three. Maybe you can. I mean, in the old days, guys, even though Verlander holds something back for late in the game. So maybe maybe you can convince guys to hold something back and and pull off the hundred, maybe in their sixth inning when they're almost done.

So there's a lot of layers to it. But I think it's an interesting discussion because, like you said, I want to see Roger Clemens versus Al Leiter or whatever. You know, I want to see great. I don't want to see openers. I don't want to see many bullpen games, if any. You know, but I'm older. Maybe young young fans don't care as much. But I think if you pay a good ticket to go to a game, good price to go to a game, you want to see a real starting pitcher in there and not three relievers. You know, yeah, the days are gone. You know, give me give me Randy Johnson.

Throw him out there, you know, versus Kurt Schill. I mean, we don't we don't have any of that. Any how much? Not much. Jesse Rogers is joining us. Are there any other potential adjustments or changes? I think all things considered, almost a year and a half following the big changes from last year, the clock, the bases, extra innings and what have you. Are there any other ideas that are getting kicked around by baseball to improve the game? Yeah, well, certainly that double hook DH rule.

But I don't think that's going to happen. One of the executives mentioned maybe a five batter minimum for relievers. So we don't have the parade of relievers. And, you know, maybe you will leave your starter in longer because you don't trust your first reliever to get five batters out.

Right. And it will put a premium on good relievers that can pitch, you know, maybe multiple innings and things like that. So five batter minimum is a potential.

I don't think that's going to happen. I think they're there. This would be the one big thing trying to address pitching injuries along with pitch starting pitcher prestige. I think they're really happy with the big changes from last year. But if they could find a solution to the things we're talking about, they'd absolutely go for it. But, you know, other than that, no, they're not thinking about, you know, I don't know, 10 defenders or something like that. They know they made some radical changes.

This would be the next thing on the list, though. Jesse Rogers joining us from ESPN. One thing that we have heard about intermittently over the past several seasons, and it has been tested out in the minor leagues, is robo-umps. At what point, I think this is inevitable, not necessarily to replace the umpires, but to certainly assist them.

At what point are we going to see this at the major league level? Yeah, it sounds like 2026, but that's there's a caveat. They're assuming they will perfect the system between now and then.

So let's just assume they do by next year. It's just something about the zone isn't exactly perfect. But long story short, there's some technical things about it. But I think if they go to the challenge system and you know what that is, right? You get three challenges per game.

If you win the challenge, you keep it. If they go to the challenge system, we're all assuming the most egregious calls will be challenged and somewhat easily overturned. If they go to a full robotic system, every pitch called by the computer, that's a little tricky because the zone would have to change. They haven't perfected the technology to judge every single borderline pitch the right way. Hitters would have to get used to a new zone, more of a rectangle zone than kind of an oval that it is now. But the challenge system, you're only going to see a few challenges per game. It's going to be those egregious calls and almost everybody in the game would rather do that than go to the full automatic balls and strikes.

So I think 2026, it will be there barring something that sort of derails it next year. So you feel it's going to be more so of a challenge system? I do.

I do. I mean, rarely do you get the players, the teams, the league office, the players union all on the same page. And when it comes to this topic, including umpires, they're all on the same page. They all would rather have it. Even players would rather have a challenge system because I think they understand the zone would change. And they have to get used to something new if it went to full automatic balls and strikes. So, yeah, I think everybody's on board with a challenge system. So, but why fight that if the league and the union could be on the same page about something?

You may as well go for it. Jesse, I know you know all about the league, but I know you are you are based in Chicago. How long are we going to watch the White Sox be bad? One year, two year, three year, four year, five years, six years, seven years, eight years.

How much more do you got to weigh to this? Yeah, I mean, probably four years. It's probably a four year plan. They do have some good pitching in the pipeline, but they don't have any hitting. So I mean, minimum four years, minimum four years. They're going to they're going to trade for some young young hitting when they trade Luis Robert, when they trade Derek Crochet.

And then you got to let those guys mature. So you're looking at a full on five year rebuild, maybe decent in four years. And that's if everything works, you know, but they do have some good pitching in the pipeline. You can always fast forward, you rebuild with good pitching, but they don't spend money.

And that's the other way to fast forward, rebuild, spend some money. So we're not even at the bottom yet when you consider they're still going to trade Crochet and Robert more than likely. When they do that, that's when they've hit rock bottom. Well, Jesse, we may not even know we're not at the rock bottom of this year. Are they going to set a modern record for losses?

Yeah, I think so. I don't understand. I can't see the avenue where they won't.

I just don't. They just don't have enough. You know, Derek Crochet has been is going to trend towards being shut down because of an innings limit. They already traded Fedde. They just don't have enough. I thought they'd get a little boost with the manager change and, you know, they had to play the Yankees, so they actually won a game there. And maybe that boost will come. But I think they will set the record.

It's hard to see them winning 14 games the rest of the year. It just is. Oh, my God. Well, Jesse, let's end on a positive note here.

Your article was a pleasure. It was a dream. What you wrote, because I don't think Major League Baseball I don't expect them to be that.

What's the word forward thinking? And it's a shame if you asked me that they've had to manipulate the game to try to get it back to its original kind of free flowing form. But I guess say things change over time in your heart of hearts. Do you believe that in, I don't know, three, four or five years, baseball will implement this sixth inning? Or is it just an idea that they'll just rip to shreds and say, oh, forget it? Yeah, I'm going to say they won't. I'm going to say they won't. I think they will think hard about it, but they won't. But I don't know what they're going to try to do something.

I don't know. You know, a smaller pitching staff, as I mentioned a couple of times that involves like the union. Because all of a sudden you have more hitters and less pitchers on a team. And then, you know, that that that gets that involves the union in a greater, greater sense.

So I don't know what the answer is. Maybe that double hook DH. But that has problems, too. You know, Bryce Harper coming back from injury is your DH. Then you pull your pitcher, you lose Bryce Harper. And, you know, fans pay a lot of money to see these players. So that's why maybe they will circle back to the sixth inning requirement, because I can't I don't see the light at the end of the tunnel to fix these issues without something dramatic like that. But I don't think they're anywhere close to doing it. I hope that they do it. I wish that they would automatically do it themselves as in the teams and the players. But we are so past that.

I would I would not mind baseball going back to what it was, you know, 30 and 40 years ago. But, you know, who the hell am I? I'm not they're not trying to sell the game to me. Hey, Jesse, thank you so much. Where can people follow you? Find your work. See the amazing article on ESPN. Fill us in. Yeah, ESPN dot com. You know, I based in Chicago, so I do a lot of Chicago oriented stuff, but also these big picture things. And you can follow me at Twitter at Jesse Rogers ESPN.

Hey, Jesse, thank you so much for the time. Don't let the White Sox kind of ruin you. OK. Still love baseball. Too late.

Too late. They've destroyed me this year. And the Cubs aren't much better.

Let's put a tough year in Chicago. Well, at least no managers are falling asleep in a dugout. So that's a plus. That's a win. You're right. That's a win. Thank you so much to Jesse Rogers for joining us.

Covers all things baseball based out of Chicago for ESPN. And I hope I hope baseball does it. I wish they wouldn't have to change or adjust the rule.

But if you have to just do it. Because this, hey, go out there and pitch four innings and then bring five other guys in. That's I hate that. Mano y mano, what you got? Well, this guy, after the second time in the lineup, he's liable.

No, just go after him. Nobody got no guts. I'm sick of this computerized baseball. They've always utilized stats and numbers, of course, but there's less of an emphasis. And maybe the pitchers, maybe they wouldn't get hurt.

Maybe everybody and their mother wouldn't. You don't need Tommy John surgery, maybe because they're not throwing 100 when they're, I don't know, 20 years old. Learn how to pitch, not just go out there and throw. The J.R. sport re-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. You know, speaking of injuries, when we come back, we're going to talk about an NFL player. This guy just signed to a new team.

And he is still not playing. And now he's on social media battling with everybody about it. We're going to talk about this dude on the other side. He's real famous.

I'll tell you who he is. You are listening to the J.R. sport brief, the J.R. sport re-show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Thank you again to Jesse Rogers for ESPN or from ESPN for joining us in the last break. He wrote an excellent article that I hope comes true as he discussed Major League Baseball looking into potentially, maybe having a sixth inning requirement with some exceptions for starting pitchers. Don't expect that next year or the year after that. This could be years off into the future.

But anything that just restores the game to more of what it used to be, I think would be valuable. And so thank you so much to Jesse Rogers for joining us. And go ahead and check out that article on ESPN. And one of the key factors of doing so happens to be injuries to pitchers. Maybe if these guys weren't going out there saying, hey, I'm going to pitch five innings, so I'm just going to throw one million miles per hour. Maybe they'd actually learn how to pitch. And in a second, I'm going to tell you about somebody else who I think at this point in his career.

There is no avoiding injury. I'm going to tell you who that is in a second. This portion of the show is sponsored by Hyundai's bold family of EVs that bring a new kind of energy to your journey.

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Well, here's a problem. Odell Beckham Jr., he hasn't been able to practice. Odell Beckham Jr. hasn't been able to participate here in training camp. And so naturally, of course, fans of the Miami Dolphins are starting to ask, well, what the hell is wrong with you and are you going to play? For whatever reason, I guess Odell has been bored. This man has been on social media going in on fans, telling them to mind their business and why get involved with fans on social media? Odell is like, if there's something for you to know, then you'll know. You know, people are doing all of this to get clicks. And any time my name is in somebody's mouth, they're making money.

And it's just like, why are you fighting online? For what? What does that do?

It does nothing. And I think having any type of concern about Odell Beckham Jr. and his health is a valid one. Because, I mean, dammit, the guy started his NFL career with hamstring issues.

He's going to be 32 years old in November. He's tore his ACLs twice. OK, at one time he tore it in the Super Bowl. He was having a good Super Bowl and he tore his ACL.

And the concerns are reasonable. Last year with the Ravens, he played in 14 games, pulled in 565 yards in addition to three touchdowns. Not too shabby, right? For a guy coming off of injury. And for a team that is more so known to run the football. Well, I mean, for the Miami Dolphins, he's not going to be the number one option. That's going to be Hill.

Waddell is going to be two. And let's be real, Odell would be three if he were actually healthy enough to step out onto the field. And so what the hell is going on with Odell? You've got to ask their head coach, Mike McDaniel. He's always pretty frank with the media, with the people, with the fans. He was asked if there was any concern that Odell is not running routes.

I wouldn't have a level of concern. I think that as the process goes, you have to put one foot in front of the other. And what you don't want and what I know Odell doesn't want is getting on the grass and then leaving it.

So just preparing people to be the version of themselves where they can play confident and convicted. Oh, man. Hickey, he just said a whole lot of nothing. He said nothing.

He said nothing in an eloquent way, somewhat ish, sort of. How many games do you think Odell is playing this year for the Dolphins? I would say I'll go nine. Nine? OK. Oh, OK. I was going to say he's not going to be playing that much.

So, you know, take a little toll off the body. I was going to say at this rate, I was going to give him 10 games. So in lockstep.

Yeah, we're in the same we're in the same range. He probably won't be ready to start the season so we can lop off a game or two. I think throughout the course of the year, you know, his hamstring will bother him. There'll be a game where he gets, I don't know. He's not a big guy. It may be a game where he gets knocked and hurt on shoulder ahead of something.

That's a game. And then, you know, he'll pop up and just try to be available by the time the Dolphins hit the stretch run. You know, I don't think you can expect a lot out of Odell just given his career history and given the injuries.

Also, given his age for what? I can't even say for what his career would or could have been like. This is what it is for Odell. Like this is what his career was and is and has been. I mean, if the guy was six, three, six, four, would he have the same career? Maybe not. He just can't stay on the field. I just wish. And he's a human being like everybody else.

He's always shown himself to be very, very passionate and he cares a lot. Do you need to get into it with the fans? Is that not a waste of energy? Like, what good is that doing for Odell?

Like, in all honesty, we probably wouldn't be talking about it now at this point if Odell didn't help bring more light to it. If you don't want the fans talking about it, if you want people to shut up, why are you going to put a flashlight on it? This is like, I don't know, sitting in a classroom and you got a big old zit on your forehead. And some stupid kid next to you is go, oh, you got a zit, you got a zit, you got a zit. And just three people in the classroom hear you and then you decide to scream real loud. Shut up about my zit.

The whole class turns around and is looking at you. Picky, you like that analogy? You like that one, right? That was very good.

I like that a lot. Why are you bringing attention to something that's so negative? I don't know.

I would think at 32 years old and for all Odell has been through, especially being in the public eye and always being the center of attention, I would have thought that he would have learned better. There are people on Twitter. Ignore them. A lot of these people, they would love to be in your position to do what you do, to be you. Why the hell are you giving them the time of day? I'd like to see Odell happy and successful out on the football field. Not angry, yelling at fans on Twitter. Come on, Odell, do better.

Get healthy and play football. The Dolphins can go to the playoffs and lose in some freezing climate, OK? It's the J.R. Sportbree show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. When we come back, I'm going to tell you about some guys they do not lose. Not when it comes to their bank accounts. I didn't forget about these guys. These teammates are going to be making money, hopefully together. It's the J.R. Sportbree show. Don't move.