Historic Aaron Judge Season Continues (Hour 4)

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If you've got SiriusXM, it's channel 158. And if you've got yourself a smart speaker, ask it to play the Infinity Sports Network. It's football time, folks. It's August 22nd. We got college football on Saturday. We got a break in the NFL preseason stuff, or action. And then the NFL season starts. Time flies when you're having fun. I hope you had a good summer. And speaking of fun, some people didn't have fun today. Kirk Ferentz, head football coach over for Iowa, suspended for one game, a recruiting violation.

Shame, shame, shame. Speaking of college football, hey, thank you so much to Brian Fisher from Fox Sports for joining us. You talked all things college football. Congratulations to A.J. Terrell, Atlanta Falcons second highest paid cornerback in NFL history, right behind Jair Alexander's four year, eighty four million dollar deal. He got four years, 81 mil.

Yeah, just take the money when you can get it right. Speaking of money, Aaron Judge is going to be making three hundred and sixty million dollars. Aaron Judge had another home run today.

What a shock, right? 48th home run of the season. He's on pace for 61. If he keeps up at this pace, he might break the American League record again. His own record of 62. Jahan Dotson has been traded from Washington.

Washington traded him to Philadelphia. What? I guess when you're going to suck, what does it matter if my neighbor is doing better than me?

Just go ahead. Keep the lawnmower. I'm doing bad over here.

You just keep mowing your grass, I guess. Justin Fields thinks he's done enough to be QB one. His head coach, Mike Tomlin, is just like, not so fast, bro. Drake May and Jacoby Brissett, what's the conversation about? Who's going to start there? Don't don't start Drake May.

Let Jacoby Brissett take the beating before you put him in. And then unfortunately, we had a manager fired in Major League Baseball today. All my friends in Seattle heard about it. Scott Service.

I remember when he played. That's when you know you've gotten to a point in life where now you are watching people's kids and the kids are not kids. They're like grown adults. And I mean, watching baseball every time I see Vladimir Guerrero Jr., I watched his dad's whole career. What am I looking at his son for? It's awful.

It's terrible. Anyway, I'll be hanging out with you for one more hour. If you want to call me up, knock yourself out. The number is eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.

As I sit here in the studio as well. I got NFL preseason action on Anthony Richardson is playing football. He threw a touchdown to A.D. Mitchell, their latest draft pick at wide receiver.

And then he threw a pick six. And so the great mystery of Anthony Richardson continues. Yes, it's preseason, not overly judging or whatever the case might be. Just you never know.

You don't. And so we got a lot to do. And I'm just here to hang out and obviously talk about sports for the next hour. So let's get to the phone lines. You know what? Let's let's kind of walk through and hear some of the action and news that came through the pipe today.

So we'll do that momentarily. But before we move on, Jason is here from Baltimore. You're on the J.R. sport show. Jason, what's on your mind? Thanks so much for having me. This is awesome.

I was sitting here laughing. You guys are talking about David Carr. And as a Ravens fan, I am pretty sure there's got to be some tape of him just getting whipsawed back in the day.

And and I don't remember anything in particular, but I know we played the Texans a bunch and he just got destroyed. So good news for them, I guess, is they've got a good QB. They got a good, good line. Like I'm bullish on on the Texans. I like I like everything they're doing down there and obviously love the Ravens.

But I mean, it's it's shut up or put up or shut up time. I was a big, big Flacco fan, but he got his butt kicked a few times in the playoffs and then he he broke through. I think that's the formula to be a winning QB nowadays. And so honestly, like if I'm a betting man, I almost might like the Texans on sort of a fire over the Ravens, probably with, you know, low return. So but I'm not a betting man, so I don't have to make that choice. You feel better this upcoming season about the Texans than your own Ravens? I wouldn't go that far.

I wouldn't go that far. I, I, I, I, I, I still think the Ravens are going to do really well. But it's it's hard. And team chemistry and all that stuff's got to click. And I mean, you got to turn on the sports talk radio around here after a bad game. And they want Harbaugh out for the last five, 10 years, you know, monkey and put up or shut up. You know, it's it's there's it granted it's knee jerk reaction, but I think the hardballs and all, you know, MVP coach. I love him. Everything's done. But you know how it is.

It's a business. And you go in for a few years and you got all the talent. I'm just saying. Yeah, he ain't going anywhere.

I think I hope not. I mean, you mentioned you were running through that QB list earlier. That Rolodex of, oh, my goodness, like makes me so thankful we've got Lamar here. But I mean, it's it's a tough business. That's all I'm saying. It is good luck to everybody out there.

But, yeah, David Carr, man, thank God you're in the studio and hopefully have a nice contract and not getting hit by Ray Lewis and Ed Reed. And hello to not anymore. Right. How do you not? Could you imagine?

And thank you, Jason, for calling from Baltimore. Damn it. Could you could you imagine?

Hello. No, I don't pick you. I'd be dead. If a loading out, I fell on me. I'd be dead. I'd be dead. I'd be dead if Ray Lewis fell on me. I'd be dead if Ed Reed fell on me. No, no, no. That is all muscle. Internal bleeding, but not death.

OK, I guess I'll sign up for that. You'll be OK. You'll be all right. Hello.

Do not say at his peak. Hello. Do not. Wait, what do you think? You wait three. If the 40 is somewhere in there. Oh, my God.

They want to know what it's like to get squished like as an ant. You find out that way. OK, what did you say? You said you said three forty three forty. Is that the right answer? He was listed at six four three forty six four. I thought he's actually a lot taller. Oh, my God.

Six four or three forty. It's a large man. I what you know, if they have him listed at three forty, you weigh more than that. Come on. Now, do you think they would tip the scales forward or back? I think you make them lighter, right?

I think for that position, you make him sound heavier than he is. To maybe you think for the hell on it. Scare the hell out of people. Right. Scare the center.

Scare the court. Oh, my God. This guy's like realistic. I would say like three thirty, maybe three twenty five. Oh, OK. But three forty. Oh, my God.

Three hundred forty pounds. Guys going to kill me. This is the reverse of Kevin Durant, the seven foot, the seven foot tall shooting guard who is like, I'm six ten. Right.

Exactly right. Don't call me seven feet. I think he admitted when he when he used to talk to women. I think he would tell him he was seven feet tall. I think I heard that.

I mean like that. There are plenty of guys that lie about their height in order to get women. I don't think Katie used to lie about how tall he is.

I think. How tall are you? I'm only six ten. Really? Really? I like seven footers, so I'm out of here.

Sorry. I'm seven feet tall. I'm seven feet. At that point, does it matter? I guess it doesn't matter. No, I feel like six four. It doesn't matter.

You six, ten or seven feet. There's a difference. No.

When talking to girls. No, no. Trying to block a shot on the court.

Get over. Definitely a difference. Did you see the clip where they said Brianna Stewart, her wingspan is is longer than a lot of the dudes in the NBA. Did you see that? No. Wow. Yeah. Prolific shot blocker for a reason. Brianna.

Brianna Stewart. Yeah. That's what she does.

Block shots does everything. I didn't know that. I just know she was in rebounds. I know that.

I don't know. I mean, I'm not going to the paint if she's in there. That's for sure. I thought you were going to say I'm not going to the NBA games. I got dark fast. I did. Listen, we have done we have talked about the WNBA a lot. OK. You went to a game. You went to one game this year. One game. Yes, sir.

I went to the I went to see Kaitlin Clark. So we we have done our part. OK. Are you going to go see the Liberty in the playoffs? I'm not sure. OK. Up in the air, we'll say. Well, we we have contributed and we have done our part. Good.

The Liberty go. You should go see a playoff game. I mean, eventually they might be the closest team in New York to winning a championship.

They might. I would say, yeah, definitely better than the Mets, better than the Yankees in the playoffs. Oh, don't show the Rangers, Rangers.

What else are we missing out on? Certainly the Brooklyn Nets. How many people will show up to their games? Five Nick fans. Hey, you know, instead of going to the garden, we'll just go over here to see the team play.

You know, whatever. Anyway, speaking of the Yankees again, I told you about Aaron Judge. This guy's crushing baseballs. He is a beast.

He is a monster. The New York Yankees beat the Guardians earlier today, six to nothing. And Aaron Judge decided to crank another one. I want you to take a listen to this call from the Yankees radio network.

This is Justin Shackle. The pitch swing and a fly ball deep down the right field line. Brennan's only going to watch.

It is gone. Onto the porch. Aaron Judge. He strikes again as he turns up the slug in the fourth. Home run number forty eight. One nothing Yankees.

Aaron Judge is he's literally a man playing amongst boys. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What?

You don't know what the hell I'm saying. Anyway, the man broke the American League record for home run two years ago at 62. He's on pace right now for 61.

But if he keeps going, he's going crank more than that. This is the seventh time hitting a home run in the past 10 games. This is a sixth time hitting a home run in his last seven games. I say to myself, I want to bet.

But then I go, if I bet on it, he's not going to do it anymore. This 13th time hitting a home run in twenty three games. I mean, even Giancarlo Stanton, who hits home runs when he's when he's healthy because he can't even run around the bases at this stage. He was on the network and he's like, yeah, I think Aaron Judge can hit more. I think he can break his own home run record. A whole nother level compared to twenty two. So, you know, it's going to be an interesting last five weeks or so. And I think you could do it again. I hope so.

I'd love to see it. Congratulations to Aaron Judge. That's some good news.

Let's alternate now to some bad news, because life is all about balance. Let's go to Iowa. Talked about the WNBA, Iowa, Kaitlin Clark.

There we go. Let's talk about the football team. Their head coach, Kirk Ferentz. This is the man who had to do all that.

I guess soul searching. He had about eight to nine players, 10 players, however many. They were saying a few years ago that he was running a program that was not, I don't know, warm, welcoming. Well, that was discriminatory to black players.

That's what they said. And so what's the drama this time in 2024? Well, the man who's been coaching there for the past 26 years. Recruiting violation. So what did he do? Did he take a recruit to get a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Did he buy somebody's mother a car? Like, what did he do? He reached out to Kate McNamara too soon.

Remember, J.J. McCarthy took his job, so he had to leave. Anyway, he apologized today. He said, I've been around a long ass time.

I'm almost 70. Everybody makes mistakes. And I made one. Listen to his apology.

That's our players. You know, we abide by the rules. And in this specific case, I did not do that. I made a mistake during the recruiting process. I want to apologize to our players, coaching staff, university leadership and our incredible fans.

Twenty six years as a head coach. This is the first potential level two violation that I've had. And it won't happen again. Oh, man. You know what? This this reminded me. Hickey, do you remember the strength coach on the team? Like the guys were getting sick.

He was working him too hard in offseason workouts. Remember that? He was fired, right? He.

Yeah, he got the boot. And you want to know the jackass that hired him? I remember this now. Urban Meyer hired him to coach the Jaguars. And there was like an uproar about his hiring and that Urban Meyer had to fire him. That was that was a crazy time. That was what, 20, I guess, 20, 20. So four years ago.

Oh, yeah. That was Urban Meyer's whole time. Of course, Urban Meyer. Yeah, he was there after that urban up in Jacksonville. Was it when he was hanging out with the girl who wasn't his wife at the bar? This all happened in the same year.

I think it's for I could be wrong. I think his very first hire was the Iowa strength coach right after this. You know, these complaints and he was fired. And then obviously players and others are like, what the hell are you doing?

Fired him almost immediately. Right. And then other, you know, he's kicking the kicker. And then the big one. Yeah. He's hanging out at a bar after a game with a woman that's not his wife.

Always in the span of nine or 10 months. Right. Well, he. Yeah.

And in 2020, in 2021, that's when Urban Meyer did all of this. Yeah. What a guy. What a guy.

This is it's one of my favorite stories ever. Ever like the guy got five. Well, not the guy took a loss. He lost the game on Thursday Night Football. He did not go back with his team.

He decided to stay at one of his own restaurants. He goes viral because a woman who is not his wife, probably half his wife age is on his lap. Like, what are we doing? Like, is he stupid? You don't have to say it. I'll say Urban Meyer is stupid. Like, you're dumb.

How you do? It's 20. It was 2021. Who cares what year it is?

Was three years ago. He's stupid. Who does that? He might as well. Why didn't he put why didn't he hire the young lady as his assistant coach? Did the old Bobby Patrino then just know that Bobby Patrino tried to hide it. He should just hire as an assistant coach here. You hold my head set for me, you know, just walk around with me on the sidelines the whole game. So the whole world can see like, what a dumb ass. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. And then he had that amazing press conference, which was equally as entertaining. I remember he stood around, he said, I'm just stupid. I'm just so I can call him stupid because he said it was stupid, stupid, stupid decision.

And he did. Speaking of stupid decisions, Mike Tomlin, that poor guy is going to have to make one. We heard from Mike Tomlin as well today. The media is asking Mike Tomlin about whether or not Russell Wilson or Justin Fields is going to be the starting quarterback. I think Mike Tomlin is sick of talking about it.

Listen to his response. Michael, will Russ start? And is there any more clarity going forward about whether he's in the pole position or starting? Nothing's changed in terms of the positioning of those guys. And yes, he will start.

Damn. He might if this keeps up, Mike Tomlin might be the next Belichick. Maybe he. Yeah, I mean, is he getting there? His answers are still even he doesn't talk a lot, but they're still, I guess, cheerier, if you will, because they're just so stern and matter of fact. But I mean, that was a nine second question and a three second answer.

So I think you're right that the worst this team plays, I think the shorter the answers will be. That's good, because one day he's going to lose it on somebody like he's good for losing it in a very stern. He doesn't go overboard. But he's good to lose it every now and then. Everybody loves Mike Tomlin, except for some of the fans in Pittsburgh who want to fight every time the team sucks.

You know why they suck? They don't have a quarterback. Ben Roethlisberger ain't going to play forever.

I wonder if he's going to continue on with that podcast. Ben Roethlisberger. Hickey, could you imagine? I can't wait for this.

If Ben Roethlisberger starts throwing Russell Wilson under the bus. Could you imagine? Oh, I can't imagine.

Oh, I can't imagine. And I can't wait. I hope it happens. That'll be fun. That'll be fun to listen to from one wash quarterback to another.

That'll be fun. Anyway, it's the chair. And you know what? Also, it's crazy. Ben Roethlisberger is going to go into the Hall of Fame. The fact that Russell Wilson may not. Yeah. That's that's a wild world.

These Russell Wilson has Sierra. I guess that's fine. It's the J.R. sport we show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven is eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. It's a hard knock life for a coach. You know what?

We're going to take a break when we come back. We're going to talk about one who got the boot. He got fired. He got removed. They took away his key card. They deactivated it. They said thanks for your services.

Goodbye. I'll tell you who it is on the other side of the break. You're locked in the J.R. sport we show the Infinity Sports Network. You are listening to the J.R. sport brief. It's the J.R. sport brief show 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 the hard knock life out here. NFL coaches, some of them already are stressed out. Mike Tomlin is sick of your questions about Justin Fields and and Russell Wilson. Gerard Mayo is welcoming in. He's being welcomed into a new world where being a patriot sucks. And then if you go to the Pacific Northwest, if you go up to Seattle, man, we got a we got a manager who just got.

The boot man is baseball. It's August. Everybody's still alive, right?

Well, not everybody. Come on now. We know Marlin's not alive. The athletics are not alive. White Sox are alive right now. Oh, no, they they've been dead, dead, dead. Is there anything worse? Let's see what they've been up to. I stopped tracking them.

What are you doing? Have they won a baseball? I know they beat the Yankees with whatever they look like since. See. Piece of trash, team.

Let's see what this looks like. They won the other day. So they beat the Giants after almost blowing it. So they won like two games in the past, like week and a half.

Oh, getting hot. Wow. Since August 6th, the White Sox have won a whopping four games. Since that losing streak, they won four games. Good for them. They won yesterday. Good for. Yeah, they beat the Giants yesterday. How about that? Good for them.

Oh, man. There's some there's some terrible games they got coming up to Detroit, Texas. Oh, every game for them is terrible. Wow. What are the indices against Detroit?

And they just you just burn in hell. That's what they need to do. Sorry. Anyway, let's talk about Seattle. This has been a team. I think they've lost what, eight out of their last nine games. What a disappointment.

They were looking for for bats. Trying to get things together. And they've just fallen apart. And so their manager.

I remember him as a player. Scott Service. He got the boot. Listen, I heard this on CBS Sports HQ. We have breaking news here on CBS Sports HQ or the Seattle Mariners are moving on from manager Scott Service as early as today. That has been confirmed by our MLB insider Jim Bowden, also adding that Dan Wilson is expected to take over as interim manager. Now, the Mariners led the American League West by as many as 10 games back in June.

But man, it's been a steep slide ever since then. The ends are idle today, but they'll begin their three game set with the Giants on Friday, trailing Houston by five games in the division. They're also seven and a half games out of that final wildcard spot in the A.L.

What the hell they think is going on? What is firing this guy in at the end of August going to do? Like, is it supposed to like launch a fire into the Mariners to just turn things around?

I think not. In Houston, the Astros, they started off the season like ass. They've been able to turn things around. It's more than likely enough that they're going to win the American League West. The Seattle has lost two of their last eight games. They're firing their manager now.

I don't know what that does. And then when you go ahead and. Donald, they're cooked.

Hickey, that doesn't that doesn't mix. Why are you firing a guy now? Like, for what? You think you think they're going to turn things around? You just let the I guess.

I don't know. You hope the light is spark, but I don't think it's going to do anything. That was my point I was just about to make was just you hope you get a jolt. We've seen teams in the past fire the manager going on a little bit of a run. I mean, there's five weeks left and you're only five games out.

So I mean, there's still plenty of time to make a run here. And, you know, whether it's getting the attention of some of the players in the locker room, different voice, maybe there's new life, new energy. If you were, let's say, planning on firing him anyway, but how this season has gone, you're getting frustrated that you don't think he's getting the most out of this talent.

Then I don't mind doing it now to try to create a spark to try to still save what is an open season. I don't know when you when you got some of your best guys that have either been a hurt or not produced. People are looking at Julio Rodriguez, disappointing year. It's just been it's been bad all the way around.

So I don't expect squat from them. Like, if you think the team is going to go on a run, then good for you. But I don't look at the Mariners and go, oh, man, they're just going to turn things around. It's too many teams. But I guess, hey, it's just the manager, the managers, the coaches. Everybody's a sacrificial lamb because you can't fire the players.

You just can't bump them and move them around. You can't get rid of their salaries. You can always get rid of the coach, make him a scapegoat. Say, hey, if we remove him, then we get a joke. There's some things are just not fair.

Unless you are. Man, what's his name? Monty Williams. We got like 60 plus million dollars coming his way to not coach the Pistons. I need to get into coaching.

I don't think it's too late. Like that is how how do they do it? Like I'd get how they how are they allowed to do this? Let me here's a better question.

Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe you maybe you got an answer for me. And I get it. Coaches have unions, too. Why do the coaches have guaranteed contracts? Anybody?

Hickey, Balletti and anybody? Why do coaches have guaranteed? I get it. They have unions. But I can understand a player demanding a guaranteed contract.

He's out there performing. I get it. If there are no players, there's nothing. But the coaches are more easily replaceable. Their unions are so damn strong.

They got guaranteed contracts. And I guess you can't walk it back now. It's over. But damn, can I give you a reason?

Go ahead. Your players don't listen to you as it is. And if you're on the last year of your contract, that's guaranteed.

You're already a lame duck. If you get hired on a four year deal and they know you can get fired at the end of three months and not get paid. Who's listening to you? And how do you command a room? And how do you actually really, truly say what's on your mind to a player? If you're worried that that word is going to get him to go to the owner and you'll be out of a job and a paycheck at the end of the week. They they make so much money now, too, though. Well, not if the contract's not guaranteed. They don't. I mean, if you can if you can sign a contract and know, hey, I'm going to make make 11 million a year.

I mean, a lower end coach is going to make I don't know, you're going to make four and five a year. Like, what's the it was a big deal. I get that.

I just I think if you you would take all the power away from them, not that they have much to begin with. And that's part of it. It's hard to command a room when you got grown ups.

Like we all think of coaches because we think of like when we were younger. It's a little different when your coach yells at you when you're 15, when you're 35 and you got three kids at home and a wife and you got enough issues. You don't want to hear the guy yelling at your face.

So there's already that difficulty there. If you don't have a guarantee, they're looking at you like a substitute teacher. Get the hell out of my face. Go away from me. I'm going to do whatever I feel like. Because worst case scenario, I get what?

Traded. I don't care. I don't want to hear it. I mean, they act like that already.

I know. That's what I'm saying to be worse. I don't I don't know if the players would care that much. Like if you if you got the juice to get a guy like LeBron James can basically say, I don't want this bum here. Right. But I think everybody could get him fired if he's on a non guaranteed contract.

The guy getting 12 minutes a night playing in the NBA can get him fired. I don't know. That guy's thinking about his own bread.

Well, his own paper. I just don't know. I think you think people are too are a lot nicer than they are. These guys are. OK.

Anybody is. If you feel like you've got an upper hand on somebody. I don't know. It just I just I don't know. Well, the owners are dumb.

Oh, yeah. Factor that into how the hell did we get? Well, some of them. Monty Williams did not. The poor guy's wife just died. The guy didn't want to coach. And they said, here's 60, 70 million dollars. He said, OK. And then they sucked. And then they fired him. Now you got to pay him 60 bucks to do nothing.

This is the greatest bereavement leave ever. OK. Like, damn. Not that I need somebody to pass away to get 60 mil and go on vacation, but I mean, damn.

But I get 60 to do nothing. You're right. But that hits right on. Again, the ownership.

Yeah. But think about it for a second. They're dumb enough to think and 60 million dollars. Oh, it doesn't matter. And it doesn't count towards our cap.

And I can write it off if I don't feel like. Now, think about if somebody comes into their office and can convince them that the guy that's in the other room is the problem. And they don't have to pay them if they fire him today. And they can replace him with who? Who's the other guy that sits on the bench? I don't know who the hell anybody is. You want him instead?

OK. I feel like we would open up a can of war. You'd be coaches. It would be like George Steinberg with the Yankees. You'd have four coaches a year at every team. It'd be a mess, a mess. We'd have more to talk about. Well, that's true. And that was the plus side.

Yeah, that's that's good. Mike, we were able to talk about a dumb ass owner, you know, given a guy 60 mil, 70 mil who didn't want to be there. I will go to a lot of places for 67 mil that I don't want to be.

Sign me up. I'll go coach the Pistons. I know they got a new coach. And he got the bigger staff.

What a world. And he got five. He got the boot.

Uh, coaching is good, man. You just you just make money to get, you know, disrespected and you get paid. Once you get to the top. Yeah. Then you get recycled around.

It's good stuff. It is. There's other jobs where you can get paid and be disrespected and recycled. I feel like those are CEOs now. Oh, this is disrespect.

No, not disrespect. Just recycled all over the place and still get money. Those are CEOs, right?

I could think of lower end jobs where people get disrespected and get paid. Yes. Yeah. Yes. Anyway. And anyway, it's the J.R. sport show here on the Infinity Sports Network.

Ryan Hickey, a wisely avoiding the conversation. Good. We're going to take a break when we come back. I can't believe it.

Time flies. We're having fun. This show's about to be done. I'm going to get to your calls and then I'm going to tell you about a few things that took place this day in sports history.

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Oh, boy. Well, we are getting ready here for this day in sports history. It's been a fun show so far.

One thing I'm very excited for is one of the dates in sports history that I don't think we will ever see again. OK. Are you sure? I feel pretty positive in saying that. All right.

You know what? Let's not waste any time. Let's go back. What's today? It's August 22nd.

The year is 2024. But let's go back in time to a few things that took place this day in sports history. I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass. Oh, man. Hearing that every day makes my day.

Y'all have no idea. One day I'm going to say that to a young man. If I was 50 years, if I was 50 years young, I wouldn't exist.

Anyway, this day, August 22nd, 1989. You heard of this guy. His name is Nolan Ryan. He became the first pitcher in Major League Baseball history to hit 5000 strikeouts.

I want you to take a listen to this courtesy of KSC. It was a 3-2 pitch and I'd fell behind him again and just throw him fastball low and away. And it was in a good spot.

And then he just missed. As the day approached, even after more than 20 years in the big leagues, how much antsiness, how much nervousness did you feel today? Oh, I was quite nervous today. And I think having a day off yesterday probably made it worse because I sat around, thought about it. And with the news conference yesterday and then all the phone calls.

So it just gave me a lot more time for the thing to build up. And so I'm I'm really relieved it's over with. He struck out another Hall of Famer, Ricky Henderson. By the way, his team lost.

The Rangers lost to nothing to Oakland. I don't even know. Did Ricky Henderson ever formally retire? I don't think so.

But you guys, Ricky Henderson today be like, I can still play anyway. August 22nd, the year 2004. It's it's the Olympics. Justin Gatlin before this year. Well, he was the last American to win 100 meter gold.

Listen to this courtesy of NBC. And on their way in the 100 meter final. And Sean Crawford and Justin Gatlin are there. Here comes Powell. Oh, McQuaid was there too. In the middle of the track. But it's going to be Justin Gatlin to win the gold medal. Yes, that's fast. He's fast guy.

And then some guy named Usain Bolt took over. Thank you. No allows for helping get us back on the map. Now just shut up and win.

We don't need all your talking before you go out there and do it. That was in Athens. Beautiful place. Anyway, let's keep it moving. Oh, this is a doozy. Hickey, is this the one you were talking about?

We'll never see ever again. This is the one you probably August 22nd in 2007. The Texas Rangers, they beat the living hell out of the Baltimore Orioles. Sorry, all my people in Baltimore. They smashed them 30 to three.

You heard me correctly in 2007. The Rangers beat the O's of 30 to three. Yeah, let's just listen to Ramon Vasquez, a three run home run to make it 30 to three.

This is on Masson. This is the Orioles network where they got their ass whooped. Whitefield and deep.

And it's gone. A three run home run for Vasquez. Texas has put 30 runs on the board. 30 runs.

His second three run home run in this game. That's cool. I like to see stuff like that. Like I like blow outs like that. I like when NFL teams score 70 point. Like I like ass whooping here. It's like a knockout.

Like knockouts in boxing. I love it. Anyway, August 22nd, 2018. Oh, this is funny because we just talked about how stupid Urban Meyer is, right? He called himself stupid.

I'm just repeating what he said. He's stupid, stupid, stupid. Urban Meyer. He was suspended three games. Remember one of his assistants allegedly hit his wife.

Domestic violence and everybody tried to hide it. Urban Meyer got suspended for trying to cover it up. What a leader that guy is. Are you surprised?

You shouldn't be. Listen to their president, Michael Drake. He's like Urban Meyer, not a leader. Three game suspension based on the independent investigation. I want to state clearly that we believe Urban Meyer did not and does not condone domestic abuse. However, he did fail to take sufficient management action regarding Zach Smith. Therefore, Urban Meyer is suspended through September 2nd, 2018.

And for the games on September 1st, 8th and 15th. Yeah, well, in the words of Urban Meyer, he's stupid. He's stupid.

Stupid. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. It's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Alan is here from Toronto. Alan, you're on the chair of Sportbreeze Show.

Go ahead. Yes, I still remember that game because I've been a Baltimore fan since 1970. So and that was the first game of a doubleheader. They lost the second game too. It was 97 in the second game. But that was the first game. And both teams, they were just playing out the string.

Texas was 54 and 70 and Baltimore was 58 and 65. And back in 1975, there was a movie called The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Well, this was also a massacre, too.

So it's you know, it was really something. The Blue Jays almost did the same thing on July 22nd, just two years ago. They had 28 runs against the Red Sox, 28 to 5. And Texas also, they beat the Orioles in 1996, April 19th, 26 to 7.

So that was their second massacre, too. So it's, you know, that was really something the way everything turned out. They got Texas got five runs in the fourth, nine runs in the sixth, ten runs in the eighth, and six in the ninth.

They were trailing three to nothing at the end in the fourth inning. So this is really something, the only thing you can expect is the unexpected. Yeah, absolutely.

It's amazing, isn't it, baseball? Yeah, yeah. You never know what you, yeah, I got a clue. You ready for this one?

It's going to knock your socks off, Alan. You ready? Yes, I sure am.

Tell me if you ever heard this one before. You ready? Are you sure?

Yep. I'm sitting down, too. I'm not standing up. OK, good, good, good. Life is like a box of chocolates. You finish, you finish. And like a bowl of cherries.

I forget what that one was. All right, Alan. Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get. There it is, Alan.

I got you. But now you know it. You never seen Forrest Gump? Oh, yes, I remember that.

No, you don't remember it that much. Hey, Alan, always a pleasure. I got to run. They're going to cut me off in a minute, OK? Sure, always a pleasure, too, Jared. Thank you very much for taking my call.

All the time. Call me tomorrow, OK? I like you.

Sure, yep. OK, thank you, Alan. Hickey, he's not calling tomorrow. Upset of the century, Alan. He knows everything about everything, except one of the most common clichés of all time.

He said the record's supposed to have been 54 of 78. Life is like a box of chocolates. He's got nothing.

My goodness. Alan, we're not laughing at you. We're laughing.

Me and Hickey don't know anything about movies, so there you have it. We don't know anything about anything. We don't. We're just here. Well, how the hell do we get it? Who do we bribe? The right people. You're damn right we did. That's how you get ahead in life.

You got to bribe somebody. It's the JR Sportbree show here with you on the JR Sportbree. What did I just say?

See, I don't even know what I'm saying anymore. Hickey, do us a favor. Is Joey Vato around?

Is he here? That's it. I'm done. Yeah, that's it. I'm done.

I don't even know what the hell I'm saying. The JR Sportbree show is finished. Hickey is finished. We'll be back with you tomorrow at 10 p.m. Eastern. Well, no, what am I? Hickey, I'm screwing up.

What am I doing? 6 p.m. When did Alan come back to finish the show? Alan, Alan, Alan cooked me. I'll be back tomorrow at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. Me like Joey Vato. I'm going by, y'all. Thank you, Hickey. That's it. I'm done.