It is! The JR Sportbree Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia.
Thank you to everybody tuned in and locked in all over North America. Happy Wednesday to you! I hope you're getting over the hump. I'll help you my best. I'll help you the best way that I can.
I'm still working on my English. Anyway, I'll be here with you for the next two hours. This show gets started every single weekday at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. You can always listen on the free Odyssey app. You can tune in on your local Infinity Sports Network affiliate. If you've got Sirius XM, it's channel 158.
And if you've got a smart speaker, ask the speaker to play the Infinity Sports Network. I'm in Atlanta, super producer and host Ryan Hickey. Well, he's in New York. Hey, the New York Mets play in New York.
Hey, in a few minutes in Queens. We're going to have Game 3 of the National League Championship Series. The New York Mets are going to host the Dodgers and, uh, well, somebody, somebody has to go up 2-1, right? We'll keep you up to date on that game as it gets underway.
And first pitch is scheduled for about 8 to 10 minutes. We've had a busy show. We talked about some of the real Super Bowl contenders now that we're about a third of the way through the season. We talked about lazy athletes. Victor Wabenyama says he's a little surprised.
That a lot of these NBA stars, they don't work as hard as he thought that they did. Anthony Richardson working hard to get back out onto the field following another injury. Looks like Anthony Richardson, the Colts quarterback, is going to be in action on Sunday against the Dolphins. Devante Adams traded to the New York Jets and he is now magically healed.
All is well in the world for Devante Adams. Congratulations to Nick Chubb making it back to the Cleveland Browns on the practice field. Let's see when he steps back onto the real field for the Browns. If I were him, I would just collect my money and not play because it's the Browns. But he's a good man. We talked about Aaron Judge showing up last night.
Good for him. Talked a little Heisman talk between Travis Hunter. Ashton Gente. Ashton Gente trying to break Barry Sanders' 1988 record for rushing. Who averages 10 yards of rush a carry? Nobody. Not supposed to.
Gente does. And so we have so much more to do as the show continues on as well, because it is Wednesday. Every Wednesday I bring you a top six list. I've been doing this on YouTube since, I don't know, 2009. It's 2024, damn. Hickey, I need a cigarette after saying that, but I don't smoke. Trying to remember the last time I had a cigarette. Hickey, you ever had a cigarette? Say no. Never. Good.
It's been a few years. Cigarettes burn too fast for me, Hickey. You need a cigar. You like the slow burn. Yeah.
Well, what a life I lived. Hickey, the first thing I smoked in my life? Let me think. Hold on.
Where are we going here? Let's think about a cigar and a cigarette. I had a cigar before I ever smoked a cigarette, Hickey. I did. Right? That's good. Is it?
I don't know. I guess a cigar is not much better, but hey. My point is, Hickey, the first time I smoked a cigarette, I said, what are people smoking these things for? I said, I get it. I can't sit around and smoke a cigar every day all day. I mean, damn. I said this is I said a cigar is like 10 of these things.
What are people having one for? Just cigarette after cigarette after cigarette after cigarette. Just give me a cigar. Anyway, why am I talking about this? Because you said you aged yourself when thinking about when you started the top six list on YouTube and how long it's been.
I need a cigarette for how long? 16 years of the JR Sport Brief. We're going to 16 years.
What is all of this? Damn. Hickey, I may need to do a Sterling. I might need to retire and come back.
I might need to do that. How long a vacation are you going to take? How long was Sterling gone? Two months? Three months? He was gone in like May. He left in May? June, July, August. I don't think he did September. The season started and he was like, yeah, I'm out.
He's like, oh, the team is good. I'm back. I'm back.
I'm back. He's like, I get to call the World Series, get some checks. He's like, yeah, I'm back.
Let me cash that money. Good for him. Good for him. Anyway, speaking of media, he's great. John Sterling is great.
Great calls. People love him or they hate him. It's an A-bomb for A-Rod. It's a judge-ian blast. Oh, here comes the judge.
Burn, baby, burn. Hickey, I don't remember. Did he say something for Jeter? I don't know. What did he say? Captain... El Capitan. Oh, yeah, that captain stuff. Yuck.
Anyway, he's good or you don't like him. Either way, for tonight's top six list, we're going to take a look at the media. Except we're not focusing in on guys who call the games. We are going to take a look at some of the biggest media meltdowns that we have ever witnessed in the world of sports. Is there a coach who lost it? Is there a player who lost it? Is there a manager and an owner who lost it? This is inspired by Jerry Jones.
In a few seconds, minutes, you'll see whether or not Jerry Jones made the list. Everybody loves a good media meltdown. It's entertaining. It's fun. So let's not waste any time. Let's listen to people who lost their you-know-what when the cameras were rolling. Here we go.
Let's go. Six, five, four, three, two, one. It's time to get JR's latest top six list only on the JR Sport Brief. It is the JR Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm bringing you a new top six list inspired by Jerry Jones. Yesterday on the radio, I'm taking you through some of the other memorable media meltdowns that we have witnessed in the world of sports.
So many meltdowns. I'm sure we missed one. You can't cram it all into six, but these are six that stood out to us. And speaking of six, that is exactly where we will start. What number? Number six.
Thanks for the reminder. And number six. This man is going into the Basketball Hall of Fame. This man is an MVP award winner. This man has more triple doubles than anybody the league has seen. This man averaged a triple double.
Did it the first time since we've seen it since Oscar Robertson. It's Russell Westbrook. This man has gotten into it with fans in the arena.
In lounges in the arena, outside of the arena, because people poke him because he responds. They call him Westbrook. They blame him for things. And there was a point in time in 2017 where Russell Westbrook was just being kind of pinned in between his teammates in the playoffs in 2017. The Thunder Media was specifically maybe one guy in particular. They were asking questions about, hey, the team sucks when Russell doesn't play and Russell wasn't trying to throw his teammates under the bus like Aaron Rodgers. And so Russell Wilson excuse me, Russell Westbrook Westbrook had an issue with it. As a matter of fact, let's take a listen.
2017. And second time in three games, you guys really struggled when Russell went to the bench. You were out there for part of that. What goes on when he goes to the bench? Why is Houston so successful?
And do you sense that that they sort of get an energy boost just from him going out of the game? Hold on, Stephen. I don't want nobody to try to split us up. We all one team.
If I go to the bench, if Stephen's on the floor, if I'm off the floor, we in this together. Don't split us up. Don't try to split us up. Don't try to make us go against each other. Try to make against Russell and the rest of the guys, Russell against Houston.
I don't want to hear that. We in this together. We playing as a team. And that's all that matters.
That's it. Yeah, Russell. I'm not trying to split you up. But twice in three games, you guys have not played well at all when you've gone to the bench.
That's fine. And I'm just trying to figure out what's going on. Say Russell, you ain't played well at all. Say Russell and the team haven't played well. Don't say when Russell goes out, the team don't play well. It don't matter.
We in this together. That may be, Russell. But I asked Stephen a question. It's not between me and you. Next question. It's a legitimate question. Next question.
No, I think we're going to keep the microphone. I had a question for Steve. I had a question for Stephen and it wasn't answered. And I don't understand if Stephen wants to say he still hasn't said anything. He wants to say I don't want to answer that. Fine. But next question, please. Oh, man. And Russell Westbrook refused to answer any of that guy's questions for like the next three years.
Not really. This guy's on the Denver Nuggets. Who's asking him anything? He doesn't have to do it.
Just be on the receiving end of a pass from Jokic and make the layup. Russell Westbrook. Oh, wow. He's not afraid to speak his mind.
You better not call that man out of his name either. He'll tell you about it. I got him at number six here. Top six media meltdowns. He's number six. What's next?
Number five. This guy is known to say stupid things. Dumb things happened to him.
I swear. I think recently I think the guy got a cow hit him in the head. Hickey did a cow hit this guy in the head square between the eyes. He was hanging out at his ranch. Is he hanging out with what's that guy from the suspicious? He's hanging out with suspicious.
I guess so. Suspicious broken ankle with a wild boar. And now Gundy's in the concussion protocol based on a head belt from a cow. Maybe that's why Mike Gundy says dumb things.
Hanging out with cows. What a guy. Mike Gundy is the same man. Yeah, I'm talking about Mike.
Mike Gundy, Oklahoma State. This man just a couple of months ago said one of the dumbest things. He's like, oh, yeah, I drove drunk all the time. It's OK. Everything is it happens. I'm fine. What a dumbass.
But can you be surprised? Do you remember back in 2007, he bench quarterback Bobby Reed and people were asking him about it. And he was mad about the criticism that his players were receiving and and how you criticize the players.
He's like, no, I criticize me. And he wanted to remind everybody of his gender. Remember this from 2007.
It's Mike Gundy. That's why I don't read the newspaper, because it's garbage. And the editor that let it come out is garbage. Attacking an amateur athlete for doing everything right. And then you want to write articles about guys that don't do things right and downgrade them.
The ones that do make plays. Are you kidding me? Where are we at in society today? Come after me. I'm a man. I'm 40. I'm not I'm not a kid. Write something about me or our coaches.
We're writing about a kid that does everything right. That heart's broken. And then say that the coaches said he was scared. That ain't true. And then to say that we made that decision because Donovan was because he threatened to transfer. That's not true. So get your facts straight. And I hope someday you have a child and somebody downgrades them and belittles them.
And you have to look them in the eye and say, you know what? It's OK. They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not. Who's the kid here?
But damn, wow. He sounds like a super villain. I got my he's a nut. I don't know. Did he get hickey? Did he get hit by a cow that day, too? That is great.
I hope your tickets degrade. Man, I know. Right. Shoot underrated part of that whole viral clip. Oh, my God. He's just and he just says crazy things every now and then.
And he just still has a job. I give him another, I don't know, four months to say something stupid at the end of the year. Anyway, I got him a number five on the list. Top six media meltdowns. Hey, let's go to the next number.
Number four. It's the guy from yesterday. It's the billionaire owner of the Dallas Cowboys, Jerry Jones.
He inspired this list. How many owners run around telling media members that, you know, I'll get you fired. I'll get you removed. I'll get you removed from this spot.
I don't know of any. Not anybody crapping on anybody publicly, let alone for somebody to ask a legitimate question about. Hey, in the off season, the team wasn't good. Y'all didn't do anything.
So maybe that's why you're not good now. Like getting smacked around by the Lions. Forty seven to nine yesterday, one of five three. The fan, Jerry Jones, was having none of it. Do you think I'm interested in my phone call with you over radio and sitting here and throwing all the good out with the dishwater? You have got to be smoking something over there this morning. I'm not. And I really don't. And I don't even want our listeners to listen to me talk about this is not your job. Your job isn't to let me go over all the reasons that I did something and I'm sorry that I did it. That's not your job.
Well, my job is to ask you the job or I'll get another. I'll get somebody else to ask these questions, man. Jerry, we're just we're trying to figure out why the team is. I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding.
You're not going to figure out what the team is doing right or wrong. If you are or any five or ten like you, you need to come to this meeting. I'm going to today.
There are thirty two teams here. You're geniuses. You don't really think you're going to sit here with a microphone and tell me all of the things that I've done wrong and without going over the right. So let's let's just go ahead. I'm trying to answer your questions, man. You want some conversation this morning? You're good. Yeah, he needed he needed some coffee.
I don't know. And famille coffee laxative. I don't know what Jerry Jones needed, but he was angry. What he should have done is actually improve the Cowboys in the off season.
Maybe then the Cowboys wouldn't stink. The simple is that Jerry Jones, I'm sure we'll have a few more outbursts before the year is up. Top six media meltdowns.
Jerry Jones at number four. This next one is a classic. What number are we up to? Number three.
Oh, my goodness gracious. We got to go back to 1994. UMass beating Temple.
Fifty six to fifty five. Some guy named John Calipari was coaching UMass. And God rest his soul, a gentleman by the name of John Cheney was coaching Temple. But the language that you're about to hear, you might not think that John Cheney is a gentleman because he was upset after the game. Mike Williams at the game winner for UMass and John Cheney felt that John Calipari was just doing a little too much work to influence the officials. He feels that he was talking and chatting a little too much to the rest.
And he interrupted John Calipari's press conference to tell him that he was going to kill him. And you send your kids out there pushing and showing the guys did a hell of a job. You had the best officiating you could ever get here. And for you to ride them, I want to be a part of that. I just got my ass blasted for giving them hell down in West Virginia. And here you get a hell of a job right here today. Good job. Three class guys.
And you pick them out and single them out. You can't get that. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Whoa, whoa.
That scares me. Damn. They were buddies. They were friends. Damn. John Cheney, he passed away in 2021.
He was 89 years old. And we know Coach Calwell. No long at Kentucky. No short, long gone from UMass. Not at Memphis anymore. Now in Arkansas. Just following the money. Damn.
We don't get too much of that anymore now, do we? John Cheney versus Calipari. I got them at number three.
You want to talk about a media meltdown? The next number you had to pick a sound piece because this guy is the king. What number is number two? It's Bobby Knight. Speaking of someone who passed away, God rest his soul. A lot of fire, a lot of energy. Where do I even start?
How about this? One of his former players. Steve Alford used to play for Bobby Knight and then he became a coach. And then one day they were sitting down as he was coaching Iowa and Bobby Knight was still with the Hoosiers. They got into a beef. Well, it was an alleged beef. The media said that they were beefing, that they don't get along anymore. That Steve didn't like him. And so they were sitting down during a joint interview. Well, it was on ESPN. It was asked to Steve.
And Bobby Knight, he did the answering. There was a perception, Steve, when you went to Iowa that you two guys had drifted a little bit. How much was fact?
How much was fiction? Let me answer that. You know, that is an absolute crock of... You know, you... people in the news media, all of you... dwell on some negative piece of... like that. And I don't know how Steve feels about it, but it just... And you don't have to bleep one single... word of this because we went to a thing at the Big Ten and Steve and I didn't even see each other at a Big Ten thing and then it comes out of it that we don't talk to each other.
So all you media people can go... yourselves when it comes to something like that. I don't know whether Steve has anything to add to that or not. When you... Steve, when you went to... I want to ask you, why did you even bring some... thing like that up?
Wow, man. Bobby Knight, he was at Texas Tech at that time. He's still fiery. Hickey, why did we bleep? Bobby Knight said no bleeps.
Why did we bleep? Coach, please, I know. Rest in peace. Don't beat me up, right? Don't come back. Sorry we disobeyed your orders.
If you trip over a chair, you know what happened. Hey, he did it. He did it.
God rest his soul. It's the JR Sportbree show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. I mean, if Bobby Knight is only number two on a top six list of media meltdowns, what could possibly be number one? I'll share that with you on the other side of the break. It's the JR Sportbree show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network.
I'll give you number one. Who had the biggest media meltdown? That answer is coming on the other side. You're listening to the JR Sportbree.
It is the JR Sportbree show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Let me tell you something, I'm smart enough to know when to not cross the line. 99.9% of the time. Anyway, I'm sharing with you a top six list. It's what I do every single Wednesday.
Today is no different. Oh, here he is. That stupid purple freak. Hickey, how many grimaces at Shay?
I want to call it Shay. At Citi Field, how many are there? How many? At least 100. 40,000 people guaranteed at least 100 grimaces. Do they do like a flash mob at Citi Field? Oh, I think they should.
They definitely should. 100 grimaces should get off the train, the seven train for the next game. I like it. I like where your head's at.
Let's do it. 100 purple freaks. There's enough purple freaks on the subway already. So they just blend right in.
Normal day in New York City. Ironically, the seven line is purple, right? The color's purple? You know it. He needs to drive the train and conduct whatever the hell they call it. He took the train last week, so maybe he'll start driving it this week. Although, I will say, love grimace?
I don't know if I trust him driving the train. He can see he got them big ol' eyes. Small hands. Oh, he has hands?
I guess he does, right? He had a big ol' baseball mitt. That glove was huge on the wrong hand, too, by the way. It was backwards. Classic grimace. It's stupid. He doesn't even speak. Oh, my God.
His brain's probably the size of a peanut. Anyway, New York Mets, the Dodgers, nothing. On top of the second, nobody's done anything yet.
We'll keep you up to date as the game goes on. Like I said on the other side of the break, right now I'm actually sharing with you a top six list, some of the biggest media meltdowns that we have witnessed in sports. At number six, I gave you Russell Westbrook telling a reporter after the game, do not separate me and the team. It's like, yeah, I took a seat on the bench, but don't ask anybody why the team sucks when I don't play.
Why you trying to make us beef? And there's so many other instances of Russell Westbrook losing his you-know-what with the media. And number five, Mike Gundy telling everybody that he's a man.
Don't question the student athletes, because at that time they were just student athletes, not people making money, not up front at least. He says, I'm a man. If you're going to criticize a college athlete, don't do it. Criticize me. I'm a man.
I'm 40. At number four, media meltdowns. Jerry Jones from yesterday, a billionaire threatening to fire three individuals. He has a net worth of, I don't know. Hickey, what's Jerry Jones net worth?
Got to be, the Cowboys are worth 10 billion. What does he got to be, like 18, something like that, maybe? What is Tepper? He's what, 50? Oh, no, no. Tepper's like 17, 17, 18, 20?
Yeah, so Jerry's probably, I don't know, 13, 14? I mean. Oh, my God. Jerry Jones' net worth is like 15, 16 billion. Oh, wow.
Not bad. Jerry Jones has a net worth of $15 billion, more than the three guys that he threatened to fire. What is he doing? What a jerk. What a jerk.
I hope his next Egg McMuffin, I hope it's dry. Jerry Jones got him number four on the list. And number three, top six media meltdowns. We'll never forget John Chaney threatening to kill. John Calipari, not a joke, he threatened to kill that man. Called them all types of nasty words that I will not repeat here. And they were buddies.
Good for them. And number two, Bobby Knight, his entire career in front of a microphone was a media meltdown. His time coaching a lot of media meltdowns is Bobby Knight. So if I got Bobby Knight at number two on the list, what could have possibly happened? What could have possibly been said? What could be worse than anything Bobby Knight ever did? Well, it's time for this number.
Number one. Have you ever seen a member of the media get assaulted by a player? Have you ever seen a professional athlete put hands on the media?
Have you ever seen a member of the media goad an athlete so much that he was threatened on the spot on TV? Let me take you back. Not well, I want to say not that long ago, I guess it is. Let's go back to the year.
Nineteen ninety four. Are you familiar with Jim Everett? Former quarterback for the Rams and the Saints. He went to a couple of Pro Bowls. This man was traded from the Rams to the Saints. And there's a gentleman by the name of Jim Rome, who I'm sure you're very familiar with.
You can listen to him here on the Infinity Sports Network. He took an affinity to call in this man. Chris. Chris is in.
The female tennis player. Well, this Everett, Jim didn't appreciate it. And so after he was traded from the Rams to the Saints, he was booked on Jim Rome's ESPN TV show at the time. And let's just say just because Jim Everett was sitting there in front of his face. Jim Rome wasn't going to stop calling him. Chris, I want you to take a listen to this.
Let's go back to nineteen ninety four when things got a little too physical, a little too close. Jim, good to have you on the show. Good to be here, Jim. Thank you.
Check that. Chris Everett. Good to have you on the show. You know what? You know, you've been calling me that for about the last five years.
About two years, actually, Chris. Well, hey, you know, let me let me say one thing in that game. How many sacks I have that we came back and won. How many sacks did you have?
How many sacks? Let's see. But this was back in nineteen eighty nine. You may have even been Jim Everett back there. But somewhere along the way, Jim, you cease being Jim. You became Chris.
Well, let me tell you a little secret that, you know, we're sitting here right now. And if you guys want to take a station break, you can. But if you call me Chris Everett to my face one more time. I already did it twice. You better call one more time. We better take a station break.
Well, it's a five minute segment or five segment show. We got a long way to go. We do. We got a long way to go.
We do. I'll get a couple of segments out of here. Well, it's good to be here with you, though. Well, it's good to know you've been talking like this behind my back for a long time. But now I said it right here. Right. We got no problem. I think that you probably won't say it again.
I bet I do. OK, Chris. Yeah, well, that sound you heard at the end, if you've never seen the video or heard about it, he flipped over a table. And Jim Rohn fell to the floor, producer kind of jumped up and helped things stop from going any further.
And that was it. Jim Everett apparently left the building. Jim Rohn wasn't fired. It wasn't suspended. It was said that he went too far with it.
And even even to this day, I think the guys just don't like each other. He said. If any such thing happened today. Oh, my, would there be lawsuits all over the place?
This guy owes me and said it'd be money exchanged all over to actually get physical. I know John Cheney threatened to kill another guy, but they have. That was that was number one on my list. I'm trying to think, is there anything comparable? Hickey, would that be if, like LeBron James threw that guy that follows him around all the time?
Windhorst. Yeah, but LeBron's throwing him around their buddies. Yeah, that's his friend. Who's a guy that hates the media today? Like a player.
Yeah, it is. I got to be a player that hates the media figures a lot. Oh, my head. It'd be like if he doesn't play anymore. Imagine if that's like if Marshawn. No, like Westbrook. It'd be like if somebody called him.
Could you imagine if a media member called him Westbrook to his face? He would absolutely fight them. You think he would?
I think you would. Hands. You think he'd throw hands? I mean, he was ready to fight fans when they were calling him Westbrook.
Oh, man. I don't think he would do that. I think he has restraint. If he was out in the street. Yes.
In a professional setting. I think he might kind of shove them out the way, but I don't think he'd hurt. Yeah. If he if Russell Westbrook wanted to kill a human being with his bare hands, he could. He could. I don't think he'd do it. I don't think so. In that same setting where he's getting goatee, you don't think. If what if he was there with Jim Rome and Jim Rome was calling him Westbrook to his face.
Right. And then, you know, calling that one more time, you bet you won't. He goes, all right, Westbrook. I think I think he grabbed him by the neck and shake him up a little bit. Yeah, I think he would. I think he would be scared, too. If it was Victor when Benyama, he wouldn't even have to get up. Stretch those robo arms, stretch those go go gadget arms across the stage and choke them out.
You want to talk about some of the biggest media meltdowns ever. Number six, I gave you Russell Westbrook. And number five, I gave you Mike Gundy, Oklahoma State.
I'm a man. And number four, I gave you Jerry Jones. And number three, I gave you John Chaney threatening to kill Mike Calipari. And number two, I gave you Bobby Knight. And number one, Jim Everett. Almost throwing Jim Rome to the floor for calling him out his name, calling him Chris. Tennis player eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.
That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Is there an athlete? Is there a coach? Is there a manager?
Is there somebody out there? That you think. Has had just a media meltdown, someone who can't stand the media in the world of sports. It makes me think of like Marshawn Lynch. Did he ever have a meltdown or did he just want to get well, get paid, but not get fined? Was that a meltdown? He had a teammate, a guy named Richard Sherman.
He hated crab. Is that a meltdown? Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.
That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Any athlete that had a meltdown, any athlete, any owner, anybody that hated the media? I think Brett Favre hates the media right now for other reasons. Is the J.R. Sportbree show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network? You're listening to the J.R. Sportbree. Is the J.R. Sportbree 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. Just gave you a top six list. Took a look at some of the more combustible individuals and breakdowns that we have ever seen in sports with the media. Guys like Russell Westbrook had him number six on my list. Mike Gundy. He's a man.
He's 40. Come after him and not his athletes. Number five. Jerry Jones. Number four. John Cheney. Number three. Threatened to kill John Calipari. And number two, Bobby Knight.
Number one. Jim Everett. Getting ready to put the pause on Jim Rome. If you've missed a minute, a second, if you missed all the fancy audio and clips that we just played, grown men threatening to kill each other, injure each other, what have you.
All you got to do is just hit rewind on the Free Odyssey app and boom, it pops right on up. Unfortunately, right now, oh, maybe this is fortunate. Hickey, I look down and boom, there it is. New York Mets got two guys on base. That happened quick.
What happened? A walk and then an infield single. Oh, man. Wow.
Oh, well, that's right. Walker Bueller is on the mound, so he's bound to give up some runs here. The Los Angeles Dodgers currently lead the New York Mets at the bottom of the second. 2-0. The Dodgers lead the Mets. The New York Mets have two on and one out. I'm going to say Walker Bueller gives up three runs before he gets the boot, before he gets the hook. We'll keep you up to date on the game as the night continues on.
Well, as long as we're here, a little bit more than an hour from now. Hickey, did we miss out on any freakouts? Now that I think about it, we didn't include any women. There are no female freakouts?
Nothing this year? Does Cheryl Swoop count? No, right? Does she? She said it very calmly in her dislike. When she dissed Kaitlin Clark?
Right. Who, by the way, she's the first rookie since, what, 2009 to make the All-WNBA team, I believe. But she still sucks, according to some. Can people still say that now? You heard somebody say that she's bad? Not recently. Not recently. Uh-huh. I'm trying to think. Well, Serena Williams did yell at that umpire.
But that was an umpire. It wasn't the media. I don't, well, wait, wait, wait, wait. Last week was the woman Christy Brennan? Brenneman?
Her name is? She asked De'Janae Carrington if she intentionally tried to hurt Kaitlin, but that wasn't a freakout. That was just a lot of people upset. Maybe we haven't reached that point in women's sports yet. Right? No? We're getting there.
We're getting there, but also, you could argue, maybe they're more emotionally mature than men. Look at you. You trying to get some brownie points?
What are you doing? No, I'm just being real. Maybe there aren't enough prominent women's sports. Maybe that as well. Where the questions aren't being asked, or the prodding, right?
Isn't that really kind of the theme? You ask a question, you ask a question, you ask a question, people get very upset and explode. Well, there you have it. Russell Westbrook, the question wasn't asked to him, but the question was asked, right? Mike Gundy, you know, he wasn't asked, but he responded to something that he read. Jerry Jones, yesterday, he was asked questions. John Chaney, I mean, it was more so The Forum going after Calipari, but, yeah, okay. Bobby Knight was asked a question. He also wasn't directly, but he butted in, didn't let Steve Alford answer.
And then, yeah, Jim Rohn was certainly kind of pecking at Jim. You're right, you're right. Even this season in the WNBA, none of the women kind of hit back, right? No?
Am I missing? No, wait, wait, wait. Angel Reese, but it wasn't a freak out. No, I don't even know what prompted her to say it. She was just like, people come to see me too.
And it's like, oh, whoa, okay, all right. Okay. Maybe we haven't reached that point. I'm here for it, though. I mean, if if the women in the WNBA want more attention, they've certainly highlighted a lot of the negative attention that they've received. They certainly tell everybody about it, but they haven't taken it out on the the media. Not not yet.
I guess it's coming. One person that I don't think we'll ever see a freak out from is Kaitlyn Clark. Saves all her freak outs for the the basketball court.
Can't wait to see what she does. This upcoming season, New York Mets have the bases loaded already. Oh, my God. What is this, Hickey, Frankie Alvarez, is this bad with the bases loaded? He's awful. He's been in what some would call a slump for a while now.
Yeah, those numbers are not not encouraging. He's the Aaron Judge of the New York Mets. Damn. Minus the 50 home runs. Oh, yeah.
That that and the health. Well, this year, this year at least, New York Mets are going to win this game. They got this one. I agree. My confidence is not shaken, despite a to nothing deficit. Yeah.
You have this many opportunities. New York Mets got a bum on the mound or they're facing a bum in Walker Bueller. The injuries really took Walker Bueller out. This guy was at one point the best dude in their rotation a couple of seasons ago. And it just seems injuries decimate everybody in the Dodgers. I mean, even taking a look at at a great Clayton Kershaw every year, he doesn't know whether he wants to return or quit. Now we learn that Clayton Kershaw is going to try to pitch again.
At what point in time? You know, we talk about football players, but at what point in time do pitchers just go, I had enough is enough. Like how many more surgeries do you want on your if you're Justin Verlander, what are you trying to do? You ain't going to catch Nolan Ryan.
What are you doing? Not Max Scherzer. I don't think he's had a healthy season in five or six years. We just made it through a year complete.
And it's like they sign up for a beating. Clayton Kershaw at this point, just stay home and go to Dallas. Call it a day and go into the Hall of Fame in a few years. You won a championship. What else is there to do?
Just stay home. New York Mets two outs. Francisco and door at the plate. You see if they let Walker Bueller off the hook.
Speaking of Lindor. He was it? Who's the comedian that gets no respect? Don Rickles. Was it Don Rickles? No respect.
No, it was from Caddyshack. Oh, a Rodney Dangerfield. Yeah, no respect. No respect.
Francisco Lindor plays every game until his back gave out. Why did they show this guy love for Gold Glove? Ridiculous. The hate tour continues for him. Is it a hate tour? But who vote is it? Who votes on?
Is it the AP? It's the writers, right? I guess I should have no idea to be honest with you, but whoever votes for it, at least for the finalist. Forget even winning the award.
The finalists not having him as a top three finalist is egregious. Embarrassing, really. Frank, even more kind of ammunition for this dude to try to win a World Series. Maybe it'll work out in the New York Mets favor and we'll see what happens. Dodgers lead the Mets two to nothing in Queens Stadium full of purple freaks dressed as grimace.
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