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You could be in Columbus, Ohio. Yeah, we're going to talk about that game. A Big 10 matchup.
Welcome to the Big 10, Oregon. Hey, we got a lot to do. This show gets started every single weekday at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. You can listen on the free Odyssey app, your local Infinity Sports Network affiliate, Sirius XM Channel 158.
You got a smart speaker, ask the speaker to play the Infinity Sports Network. We got a lot to do. Hey, how about this? In about 20 minutes from now, we're going to be joined by Tim Healey from Newsday. Talk about these New York Mets, the first team to advance to the championship series.
Congratulations. They're waiting to see what happens between the Padres and the Dodgers. And we've already talked about a lot. The New York Jets demoting Nathaniel Hackett as offensive coordinator. We talked about the unfortunate hurricane down in Tampa. Tom Brady is like, here's a hundred thousand dollars.
Hurricane relief efforts. The man is making, what, like 35 million dollars a year? Hickey, why didn't he just donate his whole salary? He needs it to buy the Raiders or something? Well, I guess he's got to save up, right? That's why he's working in the first place.
All right. Well, he did get divorced. Well, his wife has more money than him, probably, right?
She does. So, I mean, unless they signed some paperwork, he may have won out on that one, ironically enough. I didn't know you can make that much money being pretty, right? A lot of money being pretty.
A lot of money. I got to be careful with my words here. You ready for this? I'm going to say this. Oh, it's going to be the last words of the year.
No, this won't be the last. I'm going to say this in a very diplomatic way. Don't worry, guys.
I'm not going to say anything bad. Hickey, there are a lot of pretty people on earth. There are pretty people everywhere. There are. All over the place.
So what did she do? Just hit the jackpot to be a half a billionaire for being pretty? Like, come on. I could find somebody pretty downstairs right now.
You definitely could. I would agree with that. I mean, maybe it's just the height. Maybe it's just who you know.
There's a lot of tall, pretty people walking around. What? How did she get half a billion dollars? I wish I had an answer for you. I have no idea. Right place, right time. That's it.
I guess, you know, the right people. Like, I was never going to be Tom Brady. No, I don't have the physical capabilities to be Tom Brady. I don't. Never.
It was never going to happen for me. But pretty people, they are all over the place. Tall, pretty people, short, pretty people, just all types of pretty people everywhere. This lady is pretty, makes more money than Tom Brady. What a world. What a world. Hickey, I'm just trying to understand, but just say whatever. Imagine being a sucker and putting your body on the line every week to make a few million dollars when you can just wake up, look pretty and get paid like triple that. Maybe that's why the relationship didn't work.
It's like, lady, do you see my Achilles? They need to cut it open tomorrow. He slept in weighted pajamas and didn't eat tomatoes. He could play till 45 inches.
I just woke up in the morning, had a smoothie and said, all right, let's do this. And he took pictures. It is 25.
Yeah, he is 25 mil. This guy's getting sat on by guys who weigh 300 pounds. My God, I didn't know Tom Brady wore weighted pajamas. Oh yeah.
That's part of the TB 12 method. Weighted pajamas, avocado ice cream. Oh my God.
The no tomatoes. I did. I've heard of heated, not heated. I've heard of weighted blankets. I know weighted blanket grew up. You live in the Northeast. You live somewhere where it's cold. Weighted blanket will do the trick when it's freezing outside.
Okay. Weighted pajamas, weighted pajamas. So you work out when you sleep. That's, you know, maybe that's a hack. Well, when you roll over your arm, your arm is doing more. Oh my God.
Doing a bicep curl. Is this part of the TB? What type of hustle ass mess is he still selling that TB 12 garbage? I do. I would assume so. Right.
Cause even though he retired, I'm assuming that, you know, the principles still stand TB 12. Let's go. TB 12.com. I'll buy you a shake Hickey. Oh great. Sure.
It tastes great. Not secure. I don't know if I can go. Geez. Oh boy.
Maybe, uh, I don't know. $35 million. He didn't pay go daddy. I don't like that. Did I get that security boost?
He forgot to pay go daddy for the month. Tom Brady, get it together. TB 12 is not a, doesn't do anything up. No, I have to go to TB 12 sports.com. Oh sports.
Look at Tom Brady getting free promotion here. You can buy a, you can buy electrolytes to put in your water. This special Tom Brady chocolate. $28 for TB 12 electrolytes. Oh my plant based protein.
It's 60 bucks. They got some stuff that I guess you put it in your, your water for sleep. I don't know what this is. This FDA regulated.
We get the approval there. This looks like something from star wars. TB 12 vibrating pliability spear. Wowza when you first started saying that.
Holy smokes. It's a pliability spear. Hickey. I go to the gym. Okay.
Frequently. I don't know what the hell this is. This looks like something that Darth Vader would throw at you to kill you.
What is this? And there's another medicine ball. I don't know. Yeah, I guess another one of vibrating pliability mini spear. Oh, he's got the regular spear and the mini now. Okay.
It lights up like, like a bomb. Uh, she's stainless steel shaker bottle. 30 bucks. Okay. We're the clothes. Okay. I need me a TB 12 hoodie. Yeah. Equipment and gear.
Hickey, by the way, I didn't send it to you. I did see an article. Remember that company Strauss? Yeah. Yeah. They were in like Sportico and the guy who runs the thing was talking about how much more visibility they're getting and how many more sales they have now that they're on the side of these stupid helmets. It's fun. I was talking to my friend yesterday about it and we were having the same conversation we had the other day. I don't get it. I mean, I guess something's working, but they're not doing if it wouldn't work, but Strauss, I mean, Hey, look, when the check clears, what are you going to say?
Major league baseball screwed us. No, you're right about that. Anyway.
Hey, good for them. And speaking of Tom Brady, this man is making $35 million to call football games. Nobody cares. Nobody cares to listen to him.
Nobody's tuning in. So I need to listen to Tom Brady and he gave $100,000 to hurricane relief efforts. Thank you so much, Tom Brady. But we also got news as the NFL is in London. Again, the Jacksonville Jaguars are in their second home. They're getting ready to take on the Chicago bears. And so the bears, their owner spoke, George McCaskey spoke to the media in London and there was a rumor, not even a rumor. Tom Brady said it a couple of weeks ago. He's like, Hey, listen, by the way, when I was a free agent and I was leaving Bill Belichick in the past, because they suck or I hated him before I went to Tampa, he said the bears were trying to bring him on. He said they did it in a very stealth way.
What that means. I don't know. They sent a pigeon with a note. I have no idea, but it was confirmed via George McCaskey. Listen to the bears owner. Listen, George, Tom Brady mentioned on the broadcast, I guess it was the bucks game that he was doing a couple of weeks ago. The bears were quietly one of the more aggressive teams and pursuing him during his free agency in 2020.
That's the first time we had ever heard of that. Can you take us through kind of what those conversations were like and trying to get Tom Brady to come to Chicago before he ultimately went to Tampa? Well, that seems like ancient history at this point, but, um, I do remember, uh, we were interested in pursuing him and uh, didn't work out for us, worked out there for him.
Oh, he's correct. It did not work out for the Chicago bears. If you remember, things worked out very well for Tom Brady. The man won a super bowl in his very first year with the bucks. People were saying that Tom Brady was washed up.
People said that he was done, that he was out there throwing ducks that he didn't have anymore. And boom, they won a world series or excuse me, it's too much baseball on. They won the super bowl, the super bowl world series championship.
Larry O'Brien, you know what the hell I mean? And so the Buccaneers won the championship and what the hell did the Chicago bears get as a consolation, not Tom Brady, but a guy who beat them. They got Nick Foles. They got Nick Foles from the Jaguars. And now if you don't remember, if you want some continuity yesterday during our top six list, when we took a look at some of the worst contracts ever handed out in NFL history, you might remember Nick Foles contract was on that list.
And what a shock, what a surprise. The Jacksonville Jaguars are the team that gave Nick Foles that contract. Four years, $88 million. And the Chicago Bears with Mitch Trubisky, that's who they had. They bring on Nick Foles. Nick Foles couldn't even take the job from Mitch Trubisky.
Basically hurt and busted up. Hickey, you know about Nick Foles. He was your guy.
My guy? Yeah, you didn't miss him with the Colts? No, I did not. That was a low point in the franchise.
So when he played for like those few games, it was one of those where I try to block out of my memory. Ouch, that stinks. Let me ask you, I'm going to ask you this. When Andrew Luck said I'm tired of peeing blood, I'm leaving. How did you feel? Shocked. It took me a truly a long time to process it and actually like understand it was really happening. I was in a state of shock for hours, but I didn't blame him.
Colts did nothing to protect him. He was getting knocked around like a pinata. And what is he doing? He's teaching school and coaching middle school kids or something now, right? Living a good life. He's living a good life. Got himself a degree. He's teaching kids. He's helping out the future.
And he's not getting beat around. If they actually protected him, there's no reason why the Indianapolis Colts wouldn't be in the same position as, let's say, the Green Bay Packers. And the Green Bay Packers have just hit the jackpot going from Brett Favre to Aaron Rogers, at least on a football field. And then moving on to Jordan Love. It seemed that even though there was a gap to think that you can go from Peyton Manning to Andrew Luck for the guy for the next, I don't know, 10, 15 years.
It stinks. And now you got Anthony Richardson. Can he even play?
Have you lost? Do you still believe in that guy? I do.
I do. I think he can play. Because he's barely played. So how can I judge him off of like five starts?
That's the point. He'll never play. He's never going to stay healthy.
And when he plays, he gives the ball over. I am holding out hope. Now it's maybe fool's gold, but hopefully he plays this week. He can learn how to, I mean, this is a broken record, learn how to slide. Maybe it'll never work. But I am an optimist by nature, usually, Jared, that leads to a lot of disappointment.
I will stick down that road for now and still believe at this moment he'll stay healthy going forward and play well. I was going to say, I was trying to think of who's in Indianapolis that could teach him to slide. And then I remembered, ain't no baseball team out there. There's nobody.
If they had a baseball team, maybe you can learn how to slide. He's doomed. And good luck to the Colts, though.
They got the Tennessee Titans. Can it be any worse than that? But at least not. Well, for them, it's good.
For you, it's good. We don't know the status of Mr. Mayonnaise. So I know he got that sprained shoulder. If Mason Rudolph is going to be out there starting, I think the Colts forget having a chance.
Let's also be honest. Would you rather see Flacco out there or Richardson? Richardson, for sure.
Oh, no. Joe brings nothing. I'm not saying yards. A lot of yards. Touchdown. Nothing in the sense of like, where is he going?
He's 40 years old, right? What are the Colts going to do for the future here? Okay. I would like if they are going to just be an average team or go nowhere this year, I at least rather have Richardson play. And if he sucks, you know what, at least I can get an answer.
Maybe you're right. But at least I'd rather know at the end of the year, Richardson can play or he can set up. Well, I don't know because Joe Flacco started 12 times this year.
That's a disaster. Joe Flacco is only 39 years old. My apologies to Joe. He's only 30.
Did not mean it. Is he turning 40 this year? Do we know? January.
Oh, so maybe the culture in the AFC title game. Maybe he'll turn 40 in the season, but wow. Wow. I don't know. I won't go that far.
I'll tell you this much. I don't think I'm going out on a limb. There's a good possibility and maybe not because Joe Flacco is one step away from being back on his couch. That's the reality. I wouldn't be surprised if he was a starter next year. He could play. I mean, yeah, yeah. I bet you the Browns would rather have him right now over to Sean Watson. That's for sure. Oh, man. You right about that. You're right about that. Stupid Browns are stuck with me.
You're right about that. Stupid Browns are stuck with that guy. Hey, good on Joe Flacco.
This man is 39 years old, about to be 40. Helped the Browns go to the postseason last year. Now they stuck with that Deshaun Watson guy. What a shame.
Cleveland Browns always doing something stupid. Anyway, it's the JR Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. 855-212-4227.
That's 855-212-4227. We're going to take a break. When we come back, we're going to have a chat with Tim Healy from Newsday. We're going to talk some baseball. We're going to talk some Mets.
We're going to talk some Yankees. We're going to get into the 49ers and the Seahawks. We're going to talk about the Oregon Ducks and the Ohio State University. We're going to talk about the Big 10. We're going to talk about the Washington Commanders taking on the Ravens, Jayden Daniels and Lamar Jackson.
We have so much more to do. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Don't move. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. It's October. October means fall. It means baseball and pumpkins. Well, damn it to me, it means just World Series. Forget the baseball. Go right to the World Series. There's a team in New York who's already taken a step to get there.
New York Mets advanced last night to the National League Championship Series by getting rid of the Phillies. People are loving Lindor Mendoza. Nobody complains about the manager.
Nobody is mentioning Stevie Cohen's name. The New York Mets are in a surprising spot to talk about the run that they've been on, where they can go. And the fan sentiment now surrounding the team joining us is the Mets beat writer for Newsday. It's Tim Healey. Tim, thank you for joining us.
Thank you very much for having me. Absolutely. You know, I looked at the New York Mets all throughout the course of the season before the season, and I figured that at best they would fall right at or around 500. Where they have gone, I think, has really exceeded expectations. What are your thoughts on what they've been able to do coming back from 10 below? And what do you think about this Mets season so far? It's been pretty unbelievable.
I was thinking along similar lines to you. I thought the Mets maybe were a team that would finish a couple games over 500, maybe had a shot at winning a wildcard spot. I absolutely did not expect them to do this, which was sneak into the playoffs and then basically rampage through the first couple of rounds and now end up in the NLCS, baseball's final four. So it's been really a ridiculous couple of weeks for the Mets, and they've earned it. Well, they've certainly been one of the hotter teams in baseball as the summer ran into July, into August, into September. Is it just the pitching that's been the turnaround? How did they get to this point?
Really, it's been a little bit of everything. The pitching, the starting pitching in particular has been bizarrely good. They have a bunch of guys who are not sexy brand name starting pitchers, but have been one of the best rotations in baseball over the course of the second half and now into the playoffs.
They've really held up in a way that I don't think even the Mets expected, but then the offense does it too. They have Francisco Andorra top of the lineup, Pete Alonso, one of the best sluggers in baseball, Brendan Nimmo, very good player. JD Martinez has had moments, Mark Vientos, their third baseman who started the season in the minors. He lost his job on the major league roster at the very end of spring training because the Mets signed JD Martinez. Quarter of the way through the year, Vientos comes up, grabs that third base job and emerged as, without exaggeration, perhaps their best hitter in the lineup. So it's of all of the many, many things that have gone right for the Mets over the last few months, Mark Vientos is right near the top of that list. And Tim Healy is joining us from Newsday.
I like how you say it's a mix and it certainly has been. It's mind boggling. The New York Mets have been able to do this without someone who is supposed to be their number one in Kodak Sanga. I was a little shocked that he went out as an opener last week as well.
How much more can we expect from him as this postseason rolls on? Well, he pitched two innings last time, so that means he's probably good for approximately three innings next time, which would be probably game one of the NLCS on Sunday. The Mets have not locked that in, but Kodak Sanga was scheduled to pitch the last game of the division series if the Mets needed it.
Turns out they didn't need it. They took care of the Phillies in four. So, you know, until the Mets say otherwise, I do have Sanga penciled in for game one. So three innings next time, four innings later in the NLCS, maybe five innings in the World Series if they get there, they're building him up as they go as if it's his own spring training. So it's another very weird thing for the Mets. You almost never see a starting pitcher do that in October.
Never. The guy pitched five innings in the regular season. Boom, helping out here in the postseason. It's wild stuff for the New York Mets. Tim Healy joining us covers the New York Mets on the beat for Newsday. You mentioned Francisco Lindor. I remember the years and Saturdays on WFAN telling Met fans to just chill out, relax.
Why are you beating down on this guy? And New York Mets fans are like, hey, we're going to suffer for 10 years with this man. Has he gotten past a grace period? Is he now going to be beloved? They're leaving him a null now, right? They have to leave him alone for now.
Yeah, he is probably going to finish second in MVP voting. So when you have that kind of season and sort of embrace that leader role the way he has this year, he's become if not a face or at least a face, perhaps the face of the team, certainly the tone setter and heart and soul of the team. Yeah, a lot of fans really like Francisco Lindor now. It's kind of funny how it works. When he was new to New York and really wasn't playing very well, to be honest, people ragged on him and they pointed to the contract, 341 million dollars and thought, what is going on with this guy?
And I was playing great. So people love him. So it's a lot of times in New York especially, it tends to be a pretty simple equation. And these days, Francisco Lindor is very much on the right side of that line. Well, somebody else, the New York Mets fans, they loved, I think.
And they didn't like his production, I think. And I know with some home runs that changed. Pete Alonso, this man stayed the entire year as a Met, was not traded, is looking for a big deal, is playing first base. We know he's good for 30 home runs and 100 RBIs, wherever he's at. What are your thoughts on maybe the contract he has played himself into? Will the Mets stick with him? Will he go elsewhere?
Does it depend on World Series? What do you think about his current situation? Well, his current situation is fascinating because he did have an underwhelming contract year in the regular season. It was 34 home runs, almost 90 RBIs, I believe. And that's a solid year, but it's not Pete Alonso's typical year. You would not admit it publicly, but I do think the pressure of playing his last month going into free agency weighed on him. In the postseason, though, he's been great. He saved their season with a series-winning home run in Milwaukee last week.
He had a couple home runs against the Phillies in the division series. So as far as what sort of contract he's looking at, I don't really know. It's kind of hard to predict these things.
But if he keeps playing well this month, he's going to keep making more money. Well, Tim, what are your thoughts as the New York Mets await the winner between the Dodgers and the Padres? Who are they best equipped to go up against and have success? They're best equipped to go up against the pod, excuse me, the Dodgers because the Dodgers are the worst team right now. They don't really have any starting pitching besides Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who did not pitch very well in the division series against the Padres. They have Shohei Ohtani, who's the best baseball player in the universe, and Mookie Betts, and an injured Freddie Freeman. So they can score some runs, the Dodgers. But honestly, if I'm the Mets, the Dodgers don't really scare me.
If I'm the Mets, the Padres do scare me because they have better starting pitching. They have a very deep lineup. They have Fernando Tatis Jr., who was injured when the teams matched up in August. They were very even that weekend in San Diego. But now Tatis is back.
He's very good. And their bullpen is completely nasty. So the Mets, if they had their druthers, I think they'd rather play the Dodgers. And Tim Healy joining us from Newsday. You know, one thing that you haven't heard a lot about a one person is the manager of the New York Mets.
Typically, the manager is the first person that the fans want to go after. I feel like Carlos Mendez has kind of just been under the radar in comparison. So it's a former managers in New York with the Mets and or the Yankees. What makes Carlos Mendez different where he's kind of been spared a little? I don't think he's been under the radar at all. I think he's been very highly regarded really from the moment he was hired by the Mets and all the way through his rookie season as Mets manager.
So he's had a great year. He seems to, you know, when he got hired, what a lot of people said about him was Mendoza knows the numbers, he knows the analytics, but he is not beholden to them. He is able to read the situation, trust his gut. And we've seen that a lot this year, particularly with his pitch, his decisions with pitchers, especially in the rotation, when to leave the guy in, when to leave and take a guy out. More times than not, those decisions have worked out for the minutes.
It's a big reason why they are where they are. Just the other day, he left in Sean Minaiah. It faced Bryce Harper in a spot where maybe Sean Minaiah should not have been facing Bryce Harper. And then it worked out for the Mets because right now everything works out for the Mets, apparently. So Carlos Mendoza has been great. I think he, right from the very beginning of spring training, helped set a better, more productive tone in the clubhouse and with the players.
Players seem to have responded to that. And, you know, it's been a great first year for not only Carlos Mendoza, but David Stearns as well in his first year. And his first year, we know who hired him.
We know the Mr. Uncle Stevie, Mr. Uncle Stevie, Uncle Stevie, bringing him in. He has been criticized pretty much from day one. People were worried about trading for Lindor, but then not giving him the extension. People were concerned about the contracts, giving out to Scherzer and Verlander and then having to trade them off and pay for it. There are a lot of fans who said that Steve Cohen wasn't, was lying to the fans, that he wasn't being honest about what he was doing. Did he kind of back into this result with the New York Mets now?
What's the deal? I don't, listen, nobody expected the Mets to do this year. That includes Steve Cohen.
That includes David Stearns. So did they back into it? Did they luck out a little bit?
Yeah, probably. But as far as Steve Cohen's several years of ownership, you know, it's been fine, really. They acquired Lindor. They gave him the contract.
Okay, fine. Maybe he overpaid. The Scherzer contract was a great deal. Verlander, less so.
A couple iffy years. What changed, what most changed things for the Steve Cohen Mets was when he was able to hire the guy he wanted to hire from the beginning, which was David Stearns. When David, when Cohen first bought the Mets four years ago this month, he tried to hire Stearns. The Brewers said, nope, can't talk to him. A year after that, he went back to the Brewers. They said, nope, can't talk to him.
So in the interim, Steve Cohen had a couple of other GMs who, for various reasons, did not work out. Oh boy. Okay. Don't send photos, people. Don't send photos from your phone.
Don't do it. And then he finally got his guy. David Stearns became a free agent. Steve Cohen paid him a boatload of money the way he does. And here they are one year later in the NLCS. So if you believe, if you ask Steve Cohen, there'll be more where this came from in the years to come.
810, final question for you. Do you feel the Mets can go all the way and win the first one since 86? You know, I did not expect them to get this far. So at this point, I'm having trouble betting against them in a short series. They keep proving people wrong.
They keep doing the unexpected. So why not? Sure, they can win it all.
Subway series it is. Yeah, that'd be fun. Sign me up.
Yeah, you wouldn't have to travel far. Hey Tim, where can people follow you and all your work with Newsday? Follow me on Twitter at Tim Behealy, H-E-A-L-E-Y, and check us out at Newsday.com slash Mets. We got a new story up about what became of the last out baseball from the Mets recent clinching game.
So it's a good one. You mean to tell me they didn't give it to Grimace? That would have been funny, but I don't want to give it away. Now that Grimace has been brought up, Tim, this is probably the most important question of it all.
Yes. Is Mr. Met jealous of Grimace? I saw him the other day. I feel like they put him in cobwebs.
Is he jealous? Listen, there are some Grimace and Mrs. Met rumors going on out there, so I think Mr. Met has to be careful. I think he has to be careful.
Grimace is getting a little big. Okay, be careful, Tim. We're both going to end up in the paper for the wrong reasons, okay? Hey, I appreciate you. You enjoy the rest of the run, okay? All right. Thank you. No doubt about it. That's Tim Healy covers the New York Mets for Newsday. Hickey, that's not the first time we've heard these rumors, right?
Grimace and Mrs. like Mrs. Met. Whoa. Okay.
All right. I've seen outside with some of the other, never mind. She's with Mr. Met.
I'll leave that alone. Mr. Met was there yesterday. I know he was. I saw him. He came out of wherever he was hiding.
They let him out of the room, I guess. He was, yeah, I saw him. They showed him on TV. I was like, oh, there he is. There he is. I know he's happy when Grimace isn't around. I know he is. He's stealing all of, Mr. Met has been doing this forever. And just to have this purple McDonald's french fry freak come out and just take all of the attention, that's not cool. Can't do that. Let Mr. Met have his glory. Let him have his glory.
Hey, good on Mr. Met. 8-5-5-2-1-2-42-27. That's 8-5-5-2-1-2-42-27. We're going to take a break. We're going to get us to some football. I do want to talk about Oregon and Ohio State. We're going to talk about the Thursday night football matchup taking place, getting ready to go down between the 49ers and Seahawks.
We got a lot to do. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. It's the JR Sport Brief show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Thank you so much to Tim Healy from Newsday for joining us in the last break to talk about this unlikely run that the New York Mets have been on. The first team to advance to a championship series so far here in the playoffs. The Detroit Tigers are trying to be the second. Right now the Tigers are tied up at home with the Guardians 2-2 in the bottom of the fifth.
Detroit leads this series 2-1. If they win this game, the Detroit Tigers advance to the American League Championship Series. They will await the winner between the New York Yankees and the Royals. And the Yankees, they have an opportunity to go ahead and get the Royals the hell up on out of here. So by the time we get to tonight, we very well might know who's going to play in the American League Championship Series.
We also have some Thursday night football going on at the top of the hour. We're going to spend some time talking about the 49ers and the Seattle Seahawks. We got two teams here competing in the NFC West. One is expected to compete for a championship. Not happening right now for the 49ers, especially with no Christian McCaffrey. And the other team, I gotta be honest, I feel like the Seahawks are just treading water.
They just exist. Ain't no Super Bowl run there in Seattle. 8-5-5, 2-1-2, 42-27.
That's 8-5-5, 2-1-2, 42-27. And then I also want to have a chat about a college football game this weekend that is not going to take place at the Cotton Ball. Yeah, there's another big game taking place between Oregon and Ohio State. We'll get into that. We got some callers on the line who've been very patient.
I'll get to you in a second. I need to let you know that this portion of the show is sponsored by the new 2025 Hyundai Tucson Hybrid that has class-leading advanced safety features like the available blind spot view monitor to make your ride more enjoyable. 8-5-5, 2-1-2, 42-27. That's 8-5-5, 2-1-2, 42-27. Dan, he's here from Milwaukee. You're on the JR Sport re-show. What's up, Dan? I'm from La Crosse, but anyway.
Close enough. Thank you, Dan. Yeah, I'm here. I'm paid to be here.
What's up? Okay, I guarantee the Mets are going to go to the World Series, and I'm a Brewer fan, and I can tell you this. This will probably be a short call, but I can tell you this. This is a Wisconsin fact.
We all know it. Any team that beats the Brewers in the playoffs goes to the World Series. This goes back to 81 when the Yankees beat the Brewers. They went all the way to the World Series. Yeah, I actually heard that stat when they lost to the New York Mets, and I just had to shake my head. What is it you think about Milwaukee?
Why is this happening to y'all? Well, the ninth inning, really. You have a 2-1 lead in the ninth.
I mean, historically. It might say something about we just have the bad draw every time. You get the Mets are just red hot, and it's like sports.
If you can get hot at the right time, good things happen. And maybe you guys are the stepping stone. We'll see. Good team, though. Hey, Dan, thank you, man. Yeah. All right. Take it easy. Appreciate you. Good luck with those Bucks. See what Chris Middleton with the busted ankles and Damian Lillard.
I guess Damian Lillard is in shape this year. Oh, hey, this guy on a scale of one to drunk. Where we at on the next call? A seven. Okay.
8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Yeah, let's talk to Peter Griffin from Rhode Island. Hey, Peter, you're on the JR Sport Reshow. Oh, man.
Yes. Well, how you doing, JR? Peter, it's Paul from Peter. Peter Paul. Okay, go ahead, Paul. Okay.
Get back to basics. Listen, I think that this is wonderful that I'm going with Gino Smith tonight. A very simple reason. He's dominating that division. All right. Because the rest of the divisions in the NFL is firing coaches at two and three.
I'm going with Gino. Very, very basic. But I also want to talk about baseball. Am I allowed to do that?
Are you allowed to go? I'm going with the Yankees and Padres. But I'm very proud of the Mets. Very proud. I'm sure you like Mr. Matt or Grimace. Which one?
I like Mr. Alonzo. Oh, wow. Okay. All right.
I'm sure he likes you too. Thank you, Paul. Thank you.
All right. Take it easy, Peter. Okay, Peter Griffin. You have it, ladies and gentlemen.
8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Hickey, when is Stewie calling us? Is Stewie calling us? He's the one who said, or is it Brian where the family got scared of the first pitch in the Mets season's over? Who was that?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That was Family Guy. Was it the Mets? Oh, it was the Mets.
I heard that joke for a long time from many so-called friends. What did they do? They were just like, hey, welcome to opening day. Here's the first pitch of the season and the season's over.
It was the Mets. I haven't watched Family Guy in a long time. I'm due. Those, man, I'm not easily offended, but some of those jokes, my God, I think they're the last thing to do. South Park still comes on, right? Oh yeah. They're still going. Wow. South Park has had to have been on TV now for like 30 years. Maybe close.
Well, foul-mouthed children. That's crazy. Well, thank you, Peter Griffin, for calling from Rhode Island. Appreciate you. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.
That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. You know, we're going to, we're going to get into some action in the Pacific Northwest. Well, at least the Seahawks are going to be in action in the 49ers. I do want to talk to you about this, this matchup this weekend. A lot of people are excited to see Texas in the Sooners.
Me, not so much. Don't care. Well, I do care, but not as much as I want to see this other game. And I'm talking about this matchup that's going to take place between the Ducks and the Ohio State University. We got two teams who are 5 and 0.
It's about time that they both face off against some real competition. We have the Ducks. This is their first go round in the Big 10. And they just been smacking teams around. They beat up on Idaho. They barely beat Ohio State or excuse me, Boise State.
I give them credit for that. Only got by with a field goal. They smashed Oregon State. They beat up on UCLA. They just beat Michigan State. Ohio State is going to be their biggest challenge.
And so Ryan Day is coming back and in hilarious fashion, he's bringing the former coach, Chip Kelly, who used to coach these Ducks. And so I want to know who's going to end up on top. I'm sick of these powder puff games. Two teams playing each other doesn't amount to a damn thing. I'm going with the Ohio State University. Welcome to the Big 10, Oregon. I'll tell you this much.
You think about the participants that are involved. Dan Lanning just from this week, he talked about his goals for his career. And I guess one of his goals now that he's in the Big 10 is to win it big.
Let's know what he told NBC. Number one goal is help my people reach and dream, you know, reach their dreams and goals and aspirations. I feel like I'm living my dream every day. So the number one goal in there is, you know, that to help the other people in the organization, the players that come play for me get to live their dream because I'm living mine. Number two, I want to win a national championship here at Oregon. Number three is Mike Bellotti is the winningest coach in Oregon football history.
He's won 116 games, right? I'm a long ways away, so I'm chasing that. Well, is Dylan Gabriel going to help you get there? He's going to have to go out there and light it up with Tess Johnson if they're going to beat Ohio State.
Dylan Gabriel says, oh, hell yeah, I'm ready to take on the Ohio State University. It's fun. You know, that's why you play the game. That's why we all, you know, want to be a part of teams that, you know, win and go do, you know, the to the last game of the season. But, you know, it's taking it one step at a time. You know, if there's anything I've realized through, you know, my five now six year plan is like you got to take it when we get a time, you know, and this is the next step.
And of course, the atmosphere, the, you know, college football in general, this is what you dream of. But, you know, you got a job to do. You got to execute. You got to play hard and find a way to win. So, of course, we live for it.
And I think you just have to go back to, you know, the basis basics of the process and preparing the right way. What the hell? That guy doesn't sound excited.
Hickey, somebody put something in his coffee? He's measured, right? Don't you want a guy that's not too high, not too low, just right in the middle for a game like this? No, I need my Ducks quarterback to say we're going to beat the living hell out of Ohio State.
That's what I need. We're going to beat the Bucks off them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What is a Buckeye? It's a nut, right?
I've seen it, right? It is a nut indeed. I think a poisonous one.
So, stay away. Is that why it's that's why they named the team after a nut? I guess you can't name it after like a edible nut, right?
What do you mean? Like a peanut? A cashew? Yeah, you can't beat the Ohio State cashews. Ohio State peanuts. You got to be a Buckeye? Well, at least there's some sort of teeth there with it being venomous or poisonous, I should say, not venomous.
At least the mascot walks. That band, oh, Hickey the band. I heard and saw the band practice before I did.
Amazing. Excuse me? Yeah, they're fine.
In comparison to what? In general, there's plenty of good bands out there. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Ohio State does, they got the best band in the country. They do the Michael Jackson, they do the Lean and everything. Self-proclaimed, but sure. Don't they call themselves the best damn band in the land? They are.
They are. I've seen it. I co-sign. I co-sign. We're going to talk more about Oregon and Ohio State on the other side. We're going to get into Thursday Night Football. We got more to do. The JR Sport Reshow here on the Infinity Sports Network.
