49ers Hitting Their Stride? (Hour 4)

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He's at Monday Night Football right now in Pittsburgh as the Steelers. They're tied with the Giants, six to six. We'll keep you updated on that game. Meanwhile, in the Bronx, New York, game three of the World Series is going on right now. The Dodgers lead the Yankees two to nothing in the top of the third. You can thank Freddie Freeman for his two run home run in the first inning. The Dodgers not wasting any time.

None whatsoever. The Dodgers have a 2-0 series lead. The Yankees are cooked if they lose tonight. You go down 3-0, you're done. You're finished. It's over for you.

Talked about a lot. Football, baseball, basketball, everything in between. Not so much basketball tonight. NBA just started. You got plenty of time to get into the NBA.

Come on now. Giannis Atteracumpo says the Bucks have no identity. Steph Curry has an ankle sprain. LeBron James is about to be 40 in about two months.

Just normal NBA stuff. Hickey, I did enjoy LeBron telling Ruhi Hotchamore to pass the ball, mother bleep. I enjoyed that.

That was fun. You don't really hear him talk like that, though. He's not really a bully, at least to his own teammates on the court, which is like, I think it's good, number one. But also, like you said, it's kind of, it's funny slash jarring when you hear him actually talk like that. Like, oh, he's not getting around. Ruhi, you better pass that ball, man. That was funny.

And what do you say? Like, what do you, he was absolutely, he's like, yo, I made 10 shots in a row. He did everything except for demean him. Hey, you dumbass, I made 10 shots in a row. Like, why are you taking a contested two? Pass the ball twice so I could shoot again. Like, that's common sense.

If a guy is hot, just feed him the ball. And he called him a mother bleeper. I'm like, whoa.

Only thing worse, if he calls timeout himself, subs him out. Yeah, you're right. You're right.

That is hilarious. Oh, man, we have so many cameras and video of everything everywhere. You know, even like last night, who would even thought we talked about this earlier in the show with the Dallas Cowboys after that crazy loss. And they almost forget it. They didn't almost come back. It looked close, but come on now. Cowboys loss of the 49ers 30 to 24. We talked about how Trayvon digs came out of the locker room almost right after the game concluded and decided to just lay into a reporter because of modern technology and cell phones.

This is what we have access to. You know, nobody wrote about it and we heard about it the next day. We could basically piece together in real time that an NFL player walked off of the field, went to the locker room, looked at Twitter and then immediately yelled at the guy who tweeted, what was he doing on this play? Like, are you even a per act like a professional?

Like, can you act like it? Can you chill out? The Dodgers now lead the Yankees three to nothing.

Well, shallow pop to the right falls from Mookie Betts. Yeah, Yankees are losing three nothing. Let's listen to another loser. This guy's a sore loser. Trayvon digs is going after reporters like right after the game's end because he looked at his phone.

You don't know football. You can't do nothing that I do. You can't go out and do nothing. Just asking the question, Trayvon. I mean, I'm happy to have you answer the question. That's what you got from that whole play. That's what you got from that. We can talk about it more. What were you doing that? Whoa, man.

Hickey, I forget. Are these adults or some of these guys adults? Like, what are we doing?

Supposed to be right. Supposed to be adults and professionals. And instead you have them telling reporters to talk to these nuts. These nuts. Is that a person? Who's that? Great question. Love to know. I don't know who it is. Can I ask you a question about that?

Sure. Is that joke? Has it jumped the shark? I haven't heard that in a long time. I thought that was just not my not my style of a joke, but. I don't know what do we need to search the origin of that, too?

I actually did some digging yesterday because I was very curious about it. OK, tell us. Was it? I forgot. I think it's Snoop Dogg, right?

Dr. Dre. Maybe it was like 1992. That was the origin.

Get out of here. Are you serious? I thought it was like just like a decade ago. I thought it was like five years ago. I was told there was a decade ago, like on social media where it kind of circulated again. I thought it was like I guess that would be 30, 30, 40 years old.

Dr. Dre and Snoop. Yeah. Crazy. Yeah.

So it's been around for forever. Yeah. Once in a while, it's funny. You know, you get a good set up.

OK, you don't really see it coming. Ha ha ha. But in that situation, I talk to these nuts is just so pathetic. Here's the thing. A lot of these guys, they don't ever grow up. They don't have to like they play football all their life. They played a game.

And I get it. Ain't nothing soft about football and nothing kind and cuddly. You know, just because you play football doesn't mean that you have money or don't. But when you reach the professional level, that means you you probably been good your whole life. You've probably been told you're good your whole life.

You probably had to work your way out. You might know hard work, but I don't think they can understand criticism when things don't go their way. And they are so, so sensitive to respond to everything. And it's not just the professional athletes. It's just everybody has to respond. And this man, he's making millions.

Why do you even care? There are people on Facebook who are arguing with you. You got people arguing on Facebook for free with strangers. They don't know who the hell these people are. And then, man, you are multimillion and you have to exert yourself over a reporter. Come on, do that. He's just weak.

It's sad. Dallas Cowboys, a bunch of losers, them and the Jets. We talked about that earlier. By the way, congratulations to the team that beat him. The 49ers look like they are turning things around and heading into a bye week. It looks like Christian McCaffrey is back to practicing.

So the next time that we see the 49ers out on the field, it'll be in Tampa against the Buccaneers. And Christian McCaffrey should should be out there. I mean, even Deebo Samuel played yesterday, had 71 yards receiving. And we were hearing about how this man had pneumonia, had fluid in his lungs.

If that was me, I'd have been man, I would still been laid up somewhere. But Deebo Samuel, I'm an NFL. Well, he's an NFL player. I guess 49ers are turning things around. They have a record of four and four. I never doubted that unless they were seriously busted up. It wasn't a thought that they weren't going to be competitive. And I still think they're the best team in the NFC West.

I don't give a damn how bunched up they are. The Arizona Cardinals could barely win a game without making it a field gold fest at the end of it. A Seattle I'm never to trust them. And the Rams, come on.

What are they going to turn things around? They might as well just trade Cooper Cup with somebody else who is thrilled with what his team has done. It's Kyle Shanahan because Brock Purdy in that third quarter, he got busy, helped lead them on three scoring drives. Kyle Shanahan says, that's my guy.

Yeah, I do. I mean, I think it was a gut check for him. I mean, for all of us, you know, things in the first half, you know, we were close, but it didn't go great. Brock, there's a couple of plays I know he'd love to have back. And I thought he came out in the second half and there's a few plays that weren't there. And he did a hell of a job extending with his feet. The one in particular, we're trying to throw a screen to Debo and the DN peeled with it and which is means you have no play. And he just ran and turned it into a 16 yarder.

So he did some real big things there in the second half. They'll be fine. 49ers will be perfectly fine.

Pick you still got them winning the division, winning the division, going to the playoffs, going to the Super Bowl, winning the Super Bowl. Damn. Well, so much optimism still in there.

Very talented. They're starting to get healthy despite the injury. I'm a believer. Yeah, well, we ain't gonna see him.

No, no, we will not. We will not see that man for the rest of the year. Good to see Piersol. Every time he catches the ball, I just go, man, that guy got shot. And he's just out there balling. He's tough. Football players are tough.

Good for them. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. Greg is here from Michigan. You're on the JR Sport re-show. What's up, Greg?

Oh my God, JR. Mr. Positive. How, how dare that our sizzle say that, uh, the San Francisco, can you guys hear me? Yeah, we hear you. Yeah, yeah, you, we got you.

You didn't get abducted. I got, uh, I could not believe that our sizzle said that 49ers are going to win the Super Bowl. How dare you, our sizzle? Um, the lions are going to win. We just, I know, JR, you just don't think we need an elite pass rusher. That's all we need. We'll do whatever it takes. We'll get Fort Knox and we will find somebody to be a pass rusher. We're a more complete team than anybody out there. We will win.

Um, real quick, LeBron can do no wrong on the basketball court. Okay. All right. And, uh, but, uh, I got a little bit excited. Um, sorry about that.

It's okay. No, we like excitement here. Speaking of excitement, uh, the Pickens just got a nine yard touchdown from Russell Wilson. Oh my God. So now the score is a 12 to six, unless it'll be 13 to six, unless the kicker misses the, uh, extra point.

It's out. Got to love it. Got to love it. Um, I'm glad, uh, Russell's coming back, but, uh, okay. JR, love you. Everybody go for your dreams. Thanks for taking my call. My heart. Absolutely.

Greg, thank you so much for calling from Michigan. Picky, do you have a response to the man who says the lines are going to win? I do. And it's from a great poet named Lizzo truth hurts. Oh, I thought it was going to be signed.

I'm thinking of Lizzo lyrics about damn time. No, I just, why a man great till he got to be great. Yeah. Yeah. That was the line.

Yeah. That was disrespectful for men. I'm disrespectful of men. We're under attack. We are all the time. It's another day for us. Good reason.

Probably. By the way, I see Lizzo Lizzo. Oh, no, this is not sports.

I won't get in trouble. She's lost weight. She looks good. You seen her lose weight.

I have not. No. Lizzo, she's lost weight. Good for her. Good for her. Hopefully that also has led to a better attitude because I heard she's not great to her people.

She works with. That's what people said. People say it's not great. Speaking of people losing weight. Hey, I took a look and listen to Fat Joe in a commercial break. He did perform New York, you know, the New York. Yeah.

And I don't know how, how could you perform that? That's worse than the things that Kirk Cousins was saying. Well, I got a hundred guns, a hundred clips. I'm from New York. They let this man play this at the World Series.

Kids watching at home. Fat Joe said, I think he said a couple of years ago, he said, yeah, this is all fabricated, like it's fabrication. The NFL is banning gun celebrations to kind of maybe lower the temperature.

And here's MLB putting Fat Joe right in front of the biggest event, promoting gun violence. And I do, I do remember this by the way. And I didn't listen because I saw him as well. And I kind of just kind of rolled my eyes and we had him on, we had him on the show here. I don't know. Last winter time he was here. He, less than a year.

Yeah. He wasn't here when we were working together. Ice Cube, Ice Cube performed in Los Angeles. And so I guess the response was to have Fat Joe perform in the Bronx. And the audio sounded terrible and the song choice. We didn't, we don't need a song choice.

Okay. Fat Joe performed and now the Yankees are down 3-0 and the bases are loaded. I'm not blaming Fat Joe, but Fat Joe is, people are making fun of him online. Do you see what people are calling him? Ozempic. Ozempic Joe. Yeah. Well, he admitted he, he took it because of his diabetes.

It looks better. He does. I'm happy he's here. Fat Joe is a good dude. He is a very, very nice guy. He's one of the nicest people you'll ever meet in your whole life. Fat Joe is a, he's a darling of a human being. And so he's just being smashed around online. And I know he's probably, he's probably, whatever, whatever. He's laughing about it and he'll tell a story about, he's a great storyteller. Love Fat Joe.

Leave Fat Joe alone. Anyway, 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. Sometimes you just, you just got to laugh at yourself. I need you to thank O'Reilly Auto Parts for all of your car care needs.

Get guaranteed low prices and excellent customer service from the professional parts people at O'Reilly Auto Parts. Speaking of laughing at yourself, we have an NBA legend. He was being laughed at or his, his statue was being laughed at yesterday. His name is Dwayne Wade. The Miami Heat unveiled the statue of him outside of the Kaseya Center or formerly American Airlines Arena, whatever the hell they call it now. And people went to town on Dwayne Wade's statue.

Dwayne Wade had a response. I'll give you an update on what he said. Give you an update on Monday Night Football with these Steelers and these Giants. By the time we come back from break, the Dodgers may lead the Yankees seven to nothing. We're going to talk about it all.

I'll be back on the other side. The JR Sport Brief Show, the infinity sports network coast to coast. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. It is the JR Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. 855-212-4227.

It's 855-212-4227. Well, we did have a touchdown in Pittsburgh where the Steelers went over the New York Giants at 12 to six and then that, that touchdown was taken away. The Steelers currently lead nine to six after kicking on field goal. Because George Pickens, Hickey, what happened? He didn't get both feet in, but he did, but he didn't.

What happened? He got two feet down. The problem is he got his right foot down twice, caught the ball right foot down. As he's trying to bring his left foot down, it kind of grazed over the grass, but never actually hit the turf. So as he's falling down, his right foot comes off the grass, actually hits again in bounds before falling down out of bounds. But I guess the rule is, and I didn't know this, when they say two feet, they mean left and right. Two right feet does not equal two feet. Oh my goodness. So he basically double tapped on one foot and then it is like nah, bro. Correct. Because the left foot never touched.

I said no bueno. Well, how specific are the stupid rules? Who thinks of that? Not only do you get two feet and you got to make sure it's a left and a right foot. Who thinks you can get two of the same foot down twice without getting the other one down? But I guess I thought of that.

Yeah, that is more than interesting. Well, I don't think the Steelers need too much help in beating the New York Giants, but we're going to find out soon enough. Speaking of needing help, the Dodgers still have a three to nothing lead against the New York Yankees. It's the bottom of the third.

Yeah, I say three to nothing. The Yankees still haven't scored a run. Walker Bueller has already struck out. Nope. It looks like the fourth guy. Nope.

Nope. It's the fifth guy that he just struck out or Verdugo. He's wheeling.

He's dealing Yankees. Well, good for them. They just got out of a bases loaded jam. It could have gotten real ugly real soon.

If this, if they were down seven to nothing. And I'm sure Hickey, because we can't hear because we're on the radio. I'm sure the Boo-Birds are raining down.

All right. They got to be booing the Yankees, right? Yankee fans booing the fans.

You have to be. How the series first started. You got Fat Joe playing a bad content before the game. Now you're down three nothing immediately. There's not one happy soul and you should absolutely voice your displeasure. What'd you say about Fat Joe? Had a bad performance. Oh yeah, it was bad. You listened to it too in the break? I did. And I regret it. Oh my God.

That has to be major league baseballs. They have to, I mean, if they're going to have Ice Cube perform on one angle, oh, we got to get a New York guy to do the other side. So they said, let's get Fat Joe to do it. I've never heard a concert and like it happens rarely, but it still happens enough to where it's memorable. I've never heard one of those pregame concerts, like actually juice up the crowd. And maybe it's not supposed to, but that's at least in my mind where I think it should do is get the crowd like extra revved up for the game. I mean that crowd and rightfully so no Yankee fan was responding to what he was saying. No one was really singing. It was just kind of more silence of just like what is going on. It didn't seem like anyone actually kind of knew what was, what was happening. And I think that kind of sucked some energy out of the stadium. How many people showed up saying, I want to go see Fat Joe? Zero. And how many people are sitting there saying, oh man, thank God I got in early so I can see Fat Joe?

Nobody. It's like, let's start the game already. And I love Fat Joe, but I want to see the game. Come on now. And it wasn't one song either.

What would you have three or four? Oh, I don't know. Well, I heard it was the New York. I don't know. Like five minutes long. That's a long time.

Long time. Yeah. Well, so, you know, some people, we all got choices and decisions to make.

Speaking of a terrible decision and choice. Hickey, I know you saw Dwayne Wade statue. They could have done, they could have did like, they probably took an exact replica of his face, but it just doesn't translate like the, the facial expression of him yelling. It doesn't translate. It just, it just, this doesn't look good.

It doesn't look good. There's a meme from a movie and classic me, I do not know the movie, so maybe you can help me out here. You know the meme where it's like throwing the damn towel. It's like, oh, thank you. That's what like that, like the face of whoever that guy is, the actor there. That's what that statue reminds me of Dwayne Wade, like 70 years old screaming, throwing the damn towel. You see, here's the thing though.

It's been said that he was, he was on board with it, that he was a part of the creative process. But I think it's one thing to look at like the clay. Did he see it bronze or whatever color it is?

Did he see like the finalized? Cause when you look at it as the clay, it looks okay. But the statue is, what would you say? It's like a granite black, right? Yeah, that's fair. Yeah.

It just, it doesn't translate the same way as it did in that original clay. And so Dwayne Wade always, I don't know, maybe he doesn't want to tick off Pat Riley or whatever. I think Pat Riley even know that thing sucks. Dwayne Wade said he has laughed at a lot of the jokes about the statue. I appreciate all the comments that everyone has because I'm, I'm being on the joke guys. Like I laugh all the time.

Like I'm cool. I saw some memes that I was like, I mean, I got a little Laurence Fishburne, a little, a little jawline. I mean, my jawline is covered with this beard. Y'all can't see it.

I didn't have a beard at the time. So y'all can see my jawline a little more. Okay.

It says jawline. Okay. Here's a, here's a better question. Hey, Dwayne, do you care? The statue don't look like you were like, well, what's up? Sitting down with the Miami Heat and myself, what we wanted to do is we wanted to capture a moment that represented the organization, represented myself and represented the city. I felt like we captured that moment in artistic form and artistic way. If I wanted to look like me, I'll just stand outside the arena y'all and take photos.

You don't need to look like me. It's an artistic version of a moment that happened that we're trying to cement. Oh, Hickey, it's about the moment. How many people are going to remember that moment? Do people care?

Do people care? Is it one specific moment? He, I forgot. I think it was a playoff something.

He's like, this is my house. I remember it, but I couldn't tell you when it is, but you know, I'm not, I know about the Miami Heat and its history and it's, but I don't remember that. I remember that image. I don't remember specific. If you want to, you want to know what I remember about Dwayne Wade, the most impactful play of his career outside of the finals is when he dunked on Barajas. Do you remember that Hickey?

I do. And that actually would have been a six statue. That would have been so cool.

Legs up in the air. I remember Hickey. I remember where I was when he did that. Really?

Yes. That's how I got up off my couch and was just like, Whoa, like what that, that is not, there's some dunks that are just not nice. They're vicious. They're not, you just, it's, they are emasculating to see Dwayne Wade jump over a dude who has to be five, five, six, maybe about six or seven inches taller than him on a one hand and jam it on the guy so bad.

Barajas ended up on his back with his legs in the air. Hickey. That's embarrassing.

Yeah. You want to know what else is embarrassing? Where is, where's Brandon Knight Hickey? Where is he?

I'm in his business right now. DeAndre, what's it with DeAndre Jordan. Remember they put the coffin meme over that guy. They put a coffin on him. Did you see that? Did you see that?

No. They put a video graphic when he dunked on him where automatic with Brandon Knight hit the floor and DeAndre Jordan looked at him after catching that, that alley-oop. They put a, they put like a coffin drop down onto Brandon Knight and he was buried dead. That's one of the good things about the internet. That's funny.

The world is a vicious, vicious place. Good luck. You think about other athletes that are eventually going to get statues. You can't mess up a Patrick Mahone statue. You can't mess that up. Just give him hair, right?

Just headband and hair. Can't mess that up. LeBron James will get a statue outside of a, who gives him a statue first? Hickey, Cleveland, right? They have to give him first, right? The minute, the minute he retires, they got to put one, forget the, well, the arena is downtown. You gotta, you gotta give LeBron a statue the day he retires. Is that the only team that you think should give him a statue? Lakers will give him a statue. Does he deserve a statue for the Lakers? Deserve? Yeah, they'll give him one.

Deserve? He won a championship. When he's gone, he will have been there for, think about this. He might be, nah, how many consecutive years was he with the Cavs? The decision was what, 2009? 2000, yeah, 2009, 2010, right?

Was that first? And he came in and what, three, four, four? Three?

Three. So that's six years. When it's all said and done, he might spend more, he might have already spent more consecutive time with the Los Angeles Lakers than he did when he started with the Cavs.

And then let's think about this. You think LeBron is done this year? I don't think so. He could play another one maybe, right?

Maybe two, you know? I think he'll get it. I know he'll get a statue. I think you don't think he deserves it. He broke the scoring record there.

He won a championship. He'll get it. Yes, he does. I answered it. He does.

I don't think he does. Why? For you to get a statue, you have to be, I would say, one of the two, three, four greatest players in that franchise's history. That's the Lakers.

It's not fair. But I'm saying like a statue I think is the greatest honor you could ever receive. Getting your number retired is right up there, but if you have a statue built of you outside of the stadium, you are the king. The king. The king.

He was for Cleveland, no doubt about it. And I know the Lakers have a million statues. I was about to say, it's like a walk. It's just like statue, statue, statue, statue, statue.

You can just sit on them if you want. Who cares? I guess. And you know what? Maybe that's part of it. Maybe the statues lose value and maybe they're not as valuable as I'm trying to make them out to be because you have, what do they have, 20?

I don't know. Shaq Hearn has a statue. Come on now. They have a lot of statues.

Statues for announcers. Okay. Why not? Why not?

I get it. I know he's not getting one in Miami. Which is ironic considering that's the team you won the most titles with. Yeah, but he ain't getting one. You put one of Dwayne Wade out. There's no, there's, there's Alonzo more than have a statue out there. Great question.

I don't know. Wow. He maybe, is he the first? Alonzo?

I know, I know his number is retired out there. Right. Is Wade the first to have a statue?

No, it has to be Alonzo. I gotta look that up. I don't know. Wait, wow. Nope.

He don't have no statue, bro. No. Wow.

Wow. This is the first in, right? From Miami? Yeah, but you know what? Yeah. But you think about the championship that he won, the championships, the first one before, you know, and also, you know, Alonzo wasn't there his entire career. And neither was Dwayne Wade at the end, but it didn't make sense. He holds a, a more important role in their success than Alonzo Mourning did. And yeah.

Wow. I'm sure Alonzo Mourning, yeah, maybe he understands. He doesn't care. Number retired.

He's like, I'm good. Pat Riley's right-hand guy anyway. No, we'll see. Hey Marco, do you think LeBron deserves a statue when he hangs it up in Los Angeles? Deserves is a strong word. Does he get one? Yes.

Deserve is strong. Do you think he's done enough? Well, I mean, up until now, do you think if he decided to quit tomorrow, we'd all know he's getting a statue in Los Angeles. Yeah. Look, it's kind of because it, it adds more than just basketball. He won a title, which is a prerequisite.

So check the box there. Yeah. He spent a lot, decent amount of time there. Some of it, nah, it's more the idea that he was LeBron James with the Lakers. I think that brings a lot to what the Lakers want. In the history that he made, right. He, he broke Kareem's record in the Lakers Jersey.

He played with his son in the Lakers Jersey. Yeah, but that's only for him. It was the Lakers get the benefit off of it.

Yeah. But that's what I'm saying. But I think it's him bringing LeBron's star with the title. Cause I don't think the Bronnie stuff that was only for LeBron. I don't think anybody else cared. I mean, did anybody else get moved to tears?

Like none of us cared. It was for LeBron and they did that because of what he does for them. So I think the statue will be part of what he does for the Laker brand. He's the most, when he's done.

Oh, wow. This is going to be tricky. Let's say he, he, he's going to have the most accomplished career. I'm not going to say he's the best player. I'm gonna leave that with Michael Jordan. He could lay claim to being the most accomplished basketball player ever. He may be able to lay claim to that right now. I mean, period.

I like, you know what I'm saying? Like I don't think he has to do much more. 22 years and more points than anybody. And yeah, it's the longevity. It's the points.

It's the assists rebounds. Like he's, he's, I mean, he's at the top of every list. I hope he knows that doesn't make him the greatest basketball player ever. I hope he knows that. He doesn't. He does not know. You would never be able to convince him. You know what? And rightfully so, because if you sat down, Michael Jordan tried to convince me, he's not the best basketball player. He's going to look at you like you got 12 heads and LeBron's going to do the same thing.

So I'll give them credit in that regard. It depends. You know, it depends on how, is that Nestor Cortez? Am I looking at Marco Ballet?

Was that Nestor Cortez? That's his lane, JR. That's his lane. What is, is Aaron Boone, is Aaron Boone trying to lose on purpose? Shohei Ohtani has one arm. You know what, in this regard, in the fourth inning, that is your lane. The problem was he was in the 10th inning with a one run lead in LA in game one.

That's where it's not your lane. Oh my God. Don't get me started, JR. My blood pressure is starting to come down from Friday. Shohei Ohtani, this man's arm popped out of his socket and they put it back. And Nestor Cortez didn't pitch in almost 40 days.

Last time I heard anything about 40 days, it also included 40 nights. This man, this man, Hickey, tell Marco, this is not good. This is terrible. This is bad. This is bad for the Yankees. This is bad. No bueno, Marco. This is not good. Yeah, Ohtani, Ohtani is going to, did you see how easy Freddie Freeman hit that home run earlier?

Easy. Yes, he did. He's dead.

He's dead. He got one foot, one foot. And now Ohtani is going to, he's going to swing with just a flick of the wrist. And Nestor Cortez, they're going to, he's going to have to, they're going to have to trade him. His psyche is going to be so bruised.

Well, don't worry. Cause there's a good chance. Cause he was talking about his elbows still being messed up.

He's probably gonna need Tommy John for even pitching in this world series. So he's, he'll have a full year to think about it. Oh boy.

Hickey's laughing. I'm serious. That's what the guy said. Look, I'm not saying you're incorrect and I'm not saying that's not the fate of what's going on. That's exactly what it is. God hasn't pitched in five weeks because his elbow's so messed up and they said him coming back.

You're right. It can get worse. He can wind up with Tommy John, but if we get a ring, it's worth it.

All right. What happens if you lose? What happens if you give up the game winning grand slam? Oh, he did that already. He's about to, he's about to, he's about to, he's about to give up a bomb. I don't want to see him get hurt.

None of us do. Would it surprise you if in this world series, because they doubt this is the second time, I only threw two pitches the other night. This is the second time they're asking him to throw. Who knows how many pitches he throws in this game and he winds up where his elbow.

Yeah. And in a week we hear about Tommy John and Nestor's out next year. It's Shohei Ohtani can't hit worth a damn. Not right now. And they're serving him up, but I believe in Nestor. He got it. You're listening to the JR sport brief.

It is the JR sport brief show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. Nestor Cortez and the Yankees. They did get out of a little bit of a jam here. Oh, and now they want an Aaron judge comes up in the fourth flies out the left Stanton doing all the work hits a double to left and Stanton runs, which is deathly. Well, it's just scary watching that man run.

He could never stay healthy. He gets a double and then Mookie Betts has a nice diving catch to screw the Yankees in jazz chism. So the Dodgers who lead the world series two games to nothing have a three to nothing lead here in the bottom of the fourth, the Yankees itching for some offense.

And it is being highlighted over and over again, how bad Aaron judge has been in this post season. This portion of the show is brought to you by ethos life. The easy way to get life insurance in 10 minutes, up to $2 million in coverage with no medical exam. And just a few health questions.

Get your free quote at check ethos.com not available in all States. You just heard from Marco Belletti. Yep. Monday night football, typical Steelers game, nothing pretty. They combined for six field goals in the first half fourth game in NFL history to reach halftime with a nine nine score with all of the points coming via field goal. We did talk about that one touchdown catch by George Pickens that was overturned because he didn't have both feet down. He put one foot down twice, kind of did a hop.

And they said, no, it's not both feet left foot, right foot, right foot, left foot, both feet. And so George Pickens had his touchdown taken away Monday night football giants and Steelers tied at nine points out in Pittsburgh. It's the end of the show.

You know what we do at the end of the show. We talk about a few things or maybe one major thing that took place this day in sports history. Then I'm going to tell you about something that has only taken place for the 31st time in sports history. But let's go back in time first. Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore.

But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again. It's time for this day in sports history. You see, back in those days we had radio and you couldn't see anything.

And it was primitive and lousy and we liked it. On the JR Sport Brief Show. I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass. Today is October 28th. The year is 2024. We don't got to go back too far for this one. In 2016, Russell Westbrook, this man, recorded a 51 point triple double. The first 50 plus point triple double since Kareem did it in 1975. The Oklahoma City Thunder. They beat the Phoenix Suns in overtime, 113 to 110. Russell Westbrook, 51 points, 13 rebounds, 10 assists. Listen to what Russell Westbrook did as he got busy courtesy of the NBA.

Here we go again. Let's go down coast to coast to score. Westbrook fouled at the elbow and one. Drew Oladipo down to Westbrook. The cutter has promised to score.

I like this action coming up. Freeing Russ up a little bit. Off the screen from Adams. Russ gets to the rim and ties the game. Here we go. Westbrook attacking Westbrook.

Russ, the last player to score 50 points in a triple double was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1974. How does it feel to be in that company? It's a blessing, man. I'm just truly blessed to be able to play the game I love every night and leave it on the floor and I'm thankful to play the game with my teammates. Yeah, I like positive Russell Westbrook.

I like the positive version. Now he looks bad right now for Denver. Oh my goodness. It's only been two games. He is averaging four points, three rebounds and three and a half assists. I don't know if Russell is done.

He's just missing everything. He's 35 years old. He's going to be 36.

In two weeks, he's going to be 36 years old. Damn. Damn. Six points. Wow. Two of ten shooting.

Two points. O of eight shooting. Hickey, is he done?

He's been done. I like Russ a lot. Shooting was never his special team when he was at his best.

Never, never. Now he's shooting more than ever. He only played 20 minutes a game last year for the Clippers off the bench. 20 minutes a game last year. Westbrook averaged 11 points, five rebounds, five assists. Yeah, it's been a slow, steady decline for Russell. Oh my God. He might have to quit, Hickey.

You don't know what you got until it's gone. He was, he's probably the most criticized guy in the NBA over the past, what'd you say, 15 years outside of LeBron. Maybe, maybe put Harden in there. Harden's definitely up there for sure. Um, I feel like a lot of people take joy in criticizing Westbrook. Like people criticize LeBron, but I think there's like a different joy that people have like clowning Russ.

And Russell Westbrook has never been shy and fighting back. I guess that's why. That's, you know, maybe that's part of it. You're absolutely right.

You poked a bear. You know, you're going to get some, some results. So yeah, yeah. And not looking good for him. Not looking good for the Denver Nuggets as well.

If that's all you're going to get out of the guy. Denver Nuggets have lost a lot of depth since winning that championship. And I told you that there was a little bit of sports history being made today as well. Today is considered a sports Equinox.

What the hell is that? Well, this is only the 31st time in sports history, which is crazy to think about that all four major North American leads are in action. The NFL, the NBA, major league baseball, obviously with the world series and the NHL. This sounds difficult to only 31 times that they've all been in action. Like we've never had a world series game over like, Hickey, why does this seem so unusual? I think this would happen once a year.

I was about to say the same thing, especially now with football being played Thursday, Sunday, Monday, three days, your one world series game can't fall on one of those three days. That's shocking to me. Yeah, this is, this is weird. Hey, Hickey, speaking of weird, I told you these, these texts are out of control, man. I think, I don't know if I'm like, somebody's trying to kidnap me. I literally got a text four minutes ago while I'm here on the air. It says, what's wrong with your phone?

I tried calling you, but couldn't reach you. Did Jane give you my documents? Oh my goodness. These are getting more lifelike. That's actually kind of scary. This stuff is scary, man. I thought it was going to be some dinner delivery or something.

I'm like, what is this? Someone's going to get in trouble because of those two. Oh, people do get, you know, people are getting in trouble because. Oh, who's Jane?

Oh, what kind of documents you dropping off, huh? Treacherous stuff. It's a wild world we live in, man. Just be safe out here.

People be safe. As a Giancarlo Stanton was thrown out, trying to run home. You know, it's bad when Stanton has to run. He's going to be out for the rest of the year now. No, I'm joking.

I don't know. Tim May, thank you so much for joining us to talk the Ohio State University football. Thank you so much to Mike DeFable for joining to talk about the Steelers.

If you've missed a minute of the show, hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. We'll be here with you tomorrow to talk about Monday Night Football, the World Series. Hey, the Dodgers are leading three to nothing. It's the middle of the fifth. Don't move here on the Infinity Sports Network. Hey, we're done. Bart Winkler coming up next. Thank you so much, Ryan Hickey. The JR Sportbreeze show is done.