It is! The JR Sportbrief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Super producer and host Ryan Hickey is holding it down for us in New York City. Thank you for being here on this Thursday, December 12th, in the year 2024. This is where I'll be for the next four hours. This is when the show gets started. Every weekday at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. And boy oh boy, we have had a busy, busy day. Bill Belichick formally introduced as the next head coach of the North Carolina tie heels.
Yeah, he looks good in that powder blue. He spoke to Michael Jordan. He spoke to Lawrence Taylor. Julius Peppers was there. Oh, what a big deal this is for North Carolina. Football. When's the last time somebody says something about North Carolina football? We're going to get into Bill Belichick and hear his comments as to why he decided to go to North Carolina.
We'll do that in a few minutes. Also, Juan Soto, the $765 million man, he made his debut as a New York Met. He decided to tell the world why he decided to hook up with the New York Mets. He says it's about family. OK, I will explain.
You'll hear from Soto himself. It is Thursday. It is December. That means we got some Thursday night football as the 49ers host the Rams, both teams jockeying for position in the crowded NFC West.
Hey, how about this? Lee Pace is going to join us from UNC, a sideline reporter. He's going to tell us all there is to know about Bill Belichick. And speaking of coaches, we have some other coaches that have been hired in college football. Rich Rodriguez goes back to West Virginia. Dan Mullen leaves the television set with a television set studio for UNLV. Rahim Morris, it looks like Rahim Morris is going to stick with Kirk Cousins.
I don't I don't know if this is the best decision, but we'll talk about it. Speaking of coaches, oh, my goodness, Steve Kerr went scorched earth on the officials last night as the Golden State Warriors lost to the Houston Rockets. Steve Kerr was just like, man, I came to the depths of hell to lose to this referee.
This referee screwed me. We'll get into that. We got another coach, Kevin Stefanski. It looks like he'll be safe with the Browns.
I don't know about Deshaun Watson. There's just a lot to get into. We might have a change in the college football playoff format sooner than later. So we have a lot to discuss. If you want to be a part of the show, you can call up. We got a phone number.
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Hickey, how are you? The news basically broke yesterday while you were holding a showdown, man. Yeah. As you could imagine, I dominated the show. Very interesting.
It was actually funny. The news last week when I filled for you on Thursday first came out that he was interested how the interview and then less than a week later, when I'm filling it for you again, the news breaks that, boom, he's officially the coach. So you're off and all of a sudden Bill decides to make all this news. So you're the Belichick whisperers that there's that. Can I surmise that that or he just hates you so much that he figures, okay, you're off.
Now it's time to to really, you know, break some news here and make some magic. It appears that Belichick hates everything except for young women. So I think that's par for the course. He loves football. He loves young women.
So that's that's all good. I was going to say, make sure you include football. He loves football and young women. Well, that's I guess that's one of the reasons that Bill Belichick decided to join North Carolina after twenty nine seasons. Coaching between the Browns and the Patriots, the even more years as an assistant and winning another two Super Bowls defensive coordinator for the New York Giants after a 31 and 13 post-season record after, you know, six Super Bowl titles as a head coach, the guy's third all time and wins. And why in the hell would Bill Belichick want to coach in college? Well, Bill Belichick, as I told you, he spoke to the media, assembled in Chapel Hill today. And Bill Belichick says, are you serious?
This is what I always wanted to do. Always, always wanted to coach in football, coach in college football. And it just never really worked out. Had some good years in the NFL.
So that was OK. But this is really kind of a dream come true. I grew up in college football with my dad as the coach of Navy for 50 years. So as a kid, all I knew was college football.
And so it's great to come back home to Carolina. Oh, I love how Bill Belichick, he just casually says, oh, yeah, I was just I was just busy in the NFL. You know, just casually having success, you know, just just woke up and had some good things happen, had some bad things happen, but I was just I was just in the NFL. Didn't allow me the time or the opportunity to show up and move on to the college ranks, you know, just I was just busy in the NFL. Until he wasn't. And so he basically ran Tom Brady out of town. Tom Brady said, I ain't doing this anymore. Tom Brady kept on winning. And Belichick, well, to the shock of nobody, with no Tom Brady and a roster falling apart, the New England Patriots hit the skids. And then Robert Kraft said, alright, enough is enough.
It's time to move on. And things don't have to be bad. I don't think anybody would wake up and tell you that Bill Belichick all of a sudden is a bad coach, became a bad coach. None of that's true.
None of that's accurate. Things ran its course. It's like the Lion King taught me in 1993 or 94 whenever the hell it came out. It's called the circle of life. Things begin and things end. That is the circle of life. And in the NFL, forget the circle of life.
When your time is done, they just tell you pack your bags and they turn off your damn key card. Bill Belichick was relieved of his duties in a dignified fashion, given all the success the New England Patriots had under his watch. No team wanted Bill Belichick. What do you do with a 72 year old head coach who's used to power is one of the most successful coaches? Forget the NFL. Forget football. One of the most successful coaches in sports history.
What do you do with a guy that successful who is now out of a job? He couldn't secure one. Atlanta Falcons said no, thank you to Bill Belichick.
And why did team say no, thank you? Why? Because he ain't going to be around for another 20 years coaching, not in the NFL. You're not going to be around just running the whole ship. There comes a point in time where sometimes you are just too damn powerful. You're intimidating.
You don't fit in. And so Bill Belichick, he's in college. He's back where his dad used to coach in the fifties. Bill Belichick, he played on that a whole hell of a lot today. My dad was here.
I love this. You know, even Bill Belichick. He's like, hey, when I was a kid, I don't remember nothing like I was two damn years old. But he says, I knew it as a baby to say to beat Duke. You know, when you're little, you don't remember everything. Obviously, I was too young to remember a lot of things from Carolina.
But as as I grew up, you know, you hear the same story over and over and over again. And so one story I always heard was Billy's first words were beat Duke. Oh, Bill Belichick still has that trademark sense of humor. And we can all pretty much forget about his sense of humor because Bill Belichick is going to be back to coaching.
No more funnies and ha ha's and no more podcasts. I know he, by the way, heck yeah, I guess no more, no more Lombardi. Right. He's busy with Belichick. He's not coming on here with us no more.
He's like, screw these guys. Right. That's right.
Michael Lombardi now back in the college game his first hire. Yeah. He said he's the GM. Yeah. No more chats with Mike.
That's out the window. He's going to be chatting with Bill Belichick. No time for us. Freddie kitchens, who's the interim head coach. Now they got rid of Mac Brown.
What now? Two weeks ago, Bill Belichick said that he's going to keep Freddie kitchens around. Remember Freddie kitchens, by the way, he used to coach in the NFL for the Cleveland Browns. Now interim coach for UNC. And so Bill Belichick, he has a, well, who has the resume of Bill Belichick in college?
The answer is nobody. You're bringing in Lombardi. You got kitchens sticking around too. And this is just the start. I will not take the advice of Marty from Westchester, who called us last week and said that Bill Belichick should probably bring in Lawrence Taylor.
No bad idea. Lawrence Taylor should not be anywhere near a college campus. That's first of all. But Bill Belichick, he's going to round out this, I can't even say roster. He's going to round out his staff. We've seen the transformation of college sports and college athletics over the past few years. It might as well be the pros. We just talked about Belichick hiring a general manager.
And what world is this? We know about NIL and free agency and the transfer portal feels a whole hell of a lot like the pros to me. And Bill Belichick pretty much said as much when it comes down to the University of North Carolina, I'm a run this like the pros. Excited to be here. Excited to be in college football. Excited for the opportunity to build and develop young student athletes, young men, and prepare them for their life either in the NFL or professionally. But the lessons they learn will be the professional lessons. They'll be pros in all areas.
Okay, Bill. So what comes next? It's been reported for days that this was a three-year contract, $30 million. It's been reported on a larger scale that ultimately this is a five-year deal, $10 million per.
But that the first three years are guaranteed, which would basically mean, yes, this is a three-year $30 million contract. Bill Belichick is stepping to a team. He's leading a team that hasn't won an ACC championship since 1980. And it took Mac Brown from the 90s and then coming back more recently, he's had the most success at North Carolina.
Let's also be clear. When people think about North Carolina, when people think about Chapel Hill, when people think about the North Carolina Blue, man, they ain't think about no football. No disrespect. Sorry, Julius Peppers. On a lesser extent, apologies to Daniel Jones. Sorry, Daniel Jones. Piggy, did he go there or Duke?
Which one was it? Oh boy, this is even worse for Carolina. He went to Duke. Yeah, here we go. Oh man.
Yeah, I fixed it at the end, right? I was like, wait a minute, which school was he a loser for? I'm just saying. The fact of the matter is ain't nobody been looking for North Carolina football. That's it. Nobody. It's basketball. It's Michael Jordan.
It's James Worthy. It's my buddy from Queens, New York, Kenny the Jet Smith, who's going to be in a free throw contest with Stephen A. Smith left-handed what? Anyway, it's basketball. But Bill Belichick is going to make a lot of money for everybody on the program. Now people are going to be paying attention to North Carolina football. What a world we live in. I can't believe this.
And so what happens? This team is six and six this year. I don't even know what bowl game they're going to play and they'll be up over Fenway ball up in Connecticut. How much fun against Connecticut? I should say.
Oh, a lot of fun. Freddie Kitchen's going to be running the team. Bill Belichick will be lurking around somewhere. Can't wait for that, right?
Not really. And so what happens when Belichick takes over? We looking at another 500 team? We looking at a team that wins seven games, eight games? They get back to a bowl game next year, right?
They have to, right? At what point are they competing for an ACC championship? If Belichick is around for five years, does he procure? Does he bring in enough talent? Does he bring in enough recruits to compete for a national championship? Does he to compete for a national championship? I don't know.
Four or five years, maybe. Not in three, you could throw that out the window. But the way college football works, look at what Dion did with Colorado. Why can't Bill Belichick do the same thing? Bill Belichick, he was asked about success. What defines success at North Carolina under Belichick?
Belichick said this. Well, success is, you know, it's a day by day process. And the only thing we can really do anything about is, you know, today, tomorrow, you know, what's immediately in front of us.
So take advantage of every opportunity we have to build the team, improve the team, get better and keep stringing a lot of good days together and the results will come. On to Cincinnati. He's slowly getting back into, on to Cincinnati.
He's slowly but surely getting back into character. And if you're North Carolina, you couldn't have done better than this. I'm not I'm not being sarcastic, but you could not have done better than this. You got a football program. Why wouldn't you want Bill Belichick to be in charge unless you're an NFL team? And, you know, you're just like, hey, he's kind of old and crotchety, bringing in talent at the end with the New England Patriots.
He kind of sucked. But when you talk about coaching, is there a better guy to be coaching in college? I love this. I'm going to seek out and search North Carolina games. ESPN is going to love this.
They got all the ACC game. They will love this. I got a reason to watch North Carolina football just to look at Bill Belichick on the sidelines, just to see him curse out referees, just to see him glare at young players who will look back at him and go, I don't even remember when you won your first Super Bowl.
Like, I'm going to love all of this. He's going to attract talent. Come on.
You can do like Pat Riley did the LeBron a few years ago. Ten years ago. More than ten years ago. Damn, Hickey, why has LeBron been around a long time? Why is a few years ago to me now 15 years?
Well, that is the decision was 2010, right? Yeah, I was in high school. That's crazy. Wow.
He is old. You weren't you were in high school. They had already given me the boot out of college. Wow.
I gave myself the boot out of college. Yeah. You said I don't need you, right?
Yeah. I said, I don't need this college stuff. That's like I said, I told my professor, I'm not doing this work. I pay your bills. I'm your boss.
I did not say that. Oh, man. Hickey, that that message from that professor, I probably deleted it by now. Angry professors nationwide sending me nasty emails.
Your professor be better than that. Anyway, I'm waiting on Bill Belichick just to say, man, you see my rings. I got eight of them.
Eight. Find me another coach in college who has my resume. There's nobody, nobody who has his resume. And so is Bill Belichick utilizing this to continue to build his resume? Is Bill Belichick coaching at North Carolina to, you know, bolster his stock, remain relevant to show folks at the NFL, hey, screw y'all, y'all don't want me.
I'm going to I'm going to come back. You're going to be back on your hands and knees for Belichick. Hey, Bill Belichick. How are we so sure that you are not just going to leave? That was the final question, one of the questions at the press conference. And this was the most Bill Belichick answer possible. Bill, what do you say to people that fear that if you do succeed here, that you might leave for the NFL again in a year or two? Yeah, I didn't come here to leave. No.
Yeah. Bill Belichick is slowly rounding back into his original form. No more happy-go-lucky Belichick. No more hee-hees and ha-has, no more podcasts and maning casts and and betting shows. No, them days are over. I'm sure he'll squeeze out a few more. Maybe.
I don't know. But it's time for Coach Belichick. It's time for the hoodie. It's time for the homeless looking coach on the sidelines with the 24-year-old hot girlfriend. Yeah, it's time for Belichick.
By the way, they gave him they gifted him a couple of hoodies with no sleeves. Belichick time. I can't wait for this. I think Belichick is great for college football. I think Belichick is great for UNC.
I think this is going to work out fine. I wouldn't be surprised if they were out there competing and in a couple of seasons for a championship. If Belichick is really going to stick around for five years, I'm not so sure. I wouldn't be shocked if they were competing in a four playoff spot, especially with all this talk about expanding it.
I hope not. Congratulations to North Carolina because they're the winners here. They going to make some money and forget about the students.
Sorry. Forget about the basketball, the football, the cheerleading, the baseball, all these other programs that are great at UNC. This is about the money.
And if you're in North Carolina, you're going to be swimming in it. What a great move. Sorry to hear you. Sorry to Mac Brown. He's probably crying in his bed right now.
They gave him the boot for Belichick. But I mean, damn, it's a good move. I like it.
I love it all the way around. It's the JR Sportbreeze show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We have so much to do next hour. We're going to be joined by a sideline reporter who covers UNC. Lee Pace is going to come through and join us. We're going to get into some other coaching hires and people sticking around and maybe not sticking around. But on the other side of this break, we have to talk about someone else who had an introductory press conference.
This man, he could pay Bill Belichick for the next 70 years. It's Juan Soto. Juan Soto met the Met fans, the media in New York and explained why he said, screw the Yankees.
I'm now a Met. We'll do that and hear him or hear from him on the other side. It's the JR Sportbreeze show coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. You are listening to the JR Sportbreeze. Oh, my goodness. It's like the Mets anthem from last year. Oh, my God. Oh, man.
It's a it's a good song. I hope they don't play in next year, though. Oh, Hickey, is Juan Soto going to give? Is Iglesias even going to be back on the team next year? Probably not.
Probably not. I would agree. This song was great for last year as a catalyst. Great song. Time to retire. Oh, boy. Can't run it back.
Can't wait to see what the New York Mets do next year. We went from one. Oh, my gosh.
From to another. Bill Belichick is now the head coach of North Carolina, going to take over the Tar Heels. He did say, by the way, that he spoke to Michael Jordan.
What is Michael Jordan going to say? Yeah, this is great. Come on by. You know, just come make some money. It's a great place. How'd that conversation go?
I don't know. If you have any thoughts on Bill Belichick joining North Carolina, you can call me eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. I think it's an amazing deal. I think it's an amazing opportunity. The biggest winner here is North Carolina. I don't see a situation where Bill Belichick is just going to, you know, drive this into the ground. This is a this is a team. This is a program that has pretty much been irrelevant on the college football scene. And they're going to they're going to face.
Just the most eyeballs, they're going to be in front of more eyeballs than they've ever been in their 120 year ish history. Good move all the way around. Belichick, North Carolina. I see no problems. I love it.
I like it. I'm going to be rooting for Bill Belichick to have success. I am. There was no way in hell I was ever going to root for the guy with the New England Patriots. That was not going to happen. Couldn't stand him. I was waiting for him and Tom Brady to lose when the Philadelphia Eagles beat him and the Giants beat him. Those were some of my happiest football days. And I could care less about the Eagles, the Giants and the Patriots. I just wanted to see Belichick and Tom Brady lose. I will be rooting for Bill Belichick at North Carolina.
I love it for both sides. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. We played the clips for you from Bill Belichick's introductory press conference earlier today.
But now it's time to talk to you about another press conference that took today because Bill Belichick wasn't the only man introduced to the media. Juan Soto, who now has the richest contract in professional sports history. I don't care if you're in North America or Saudi Arabia, Australia, the UK, China, wherever. Is not a human being alive. That has ever contracted to make seven hundred and sixty five million dollars playing sports, potentially 800 million dollars for 15 years is what Juan Soto decided to take from the New York Mets to play baseball. He is 26 years old. He's going to be manning right field for the New York Mets. He left the Yankees.
It's like a first. A free agent said no to the New York Yankees. He played for the Yankees last year and he went to the Mets.
This is akin to someone saying goodbye to the Los Angeles Lakers and hello to the Clippers. The New York Mets owner, Steve Cohen, he got the big bucks. What is his net worth? Got to be approximately 20 billion dollars. How low?
How low? He can buy whatever he wants. Major League baseball owners are scared of this guy. If you're a baseball fan in Pittsburgh, be afraid of this man.
If you're a baseball fan and I don't know, I would say San Diego. Yeah, but maybe you'd be afraid of this guy in Minnesota. I'm afraid of this guy. He's going to outspend everybody. He just outspent the New York Yankees as the Dodgers and the Mets throwing money around.
So why did Juan Soto leave? Apparently, the Yankees offered 760 million dollars, but then we started to hear stories about how security wasn't all that nice to his family. How the New York Mets said, oh, you want a suite? We'll give you a suite for free. Oh, matter of fact, here's a signing bonus.
We'll give you, I don't know, 75 million dollars right out of the box. The New York Mets said, hey, whatever you want, you can have it. Juan Soto was asked why you decided to sign with the Mets and Juan Soto answered. The Mets is a great organization and what they have done in the past couple years showing all the ability to keep winning, to keep growing a team, to try to grow a dynasty is one of the most important things.
Definitely, what you were seeing from the other side was unbelievable and the buzz and everything in the field and the future that this team has, it has a lot to do with my decision. Yeah, I mean, Steve Cohen took over in the pandemic. He's he's saying, hey, give me Max Scherzer. He's old.
I don't care. Here's Max Scherzer. Hey, we were Verlander. He's old too. Let's just give him money. Oh yeah, those guys didn't work out.
I'm still going to give people money. Oh yeah, let's trade for Lindor. Oh, no contract extension.
I'll work it out. Contract extension. And this man has been throwing around some cash.
I think Juan Soto will eventually in the New York Mets, I would give them a World Series title at some point over the next, I don't know, five years. I mean, that was his initial intent. Didn't happen that way. Sorry, Steve Cohen. But they need more help. They need pitching.
How about that? This isn't basketball. Can't just sign the biggest name and expect this man to drag you to a championship. Juan Soto is nice, but he can't go out there and win it all.
But I think the way Steve Cohen spends money, I would expect at least for them to be competitive for a World Series. And that's what Juan Soto said the goal is. He says, I'm here, not for one, but for two and three and four, not five. No, no, that was LeBron. Here's Juan Soto.
It's going to be a tight end. You know, I know they've been in the World Series. I probably, they probably won it a couple of times, but they haven't done it in a long time. For me, I tried to win a World Series here and not only one time, if not a couple more times, it's going to be, it's going to be a special. That's what we're trying to do here and try to bring this team to the top again.
Yeah, let me help you out, Juan Soto. It's, it's before you were born. It was 1986. That, that's the last time they, they won a championship one. That's it?
Yeah, it didn't happen the past couple of times they went. I mean, one of the times and that wasn't, oh my God, was he alive for that? He doesn't remember it. Oh my God. He was just born for that. Yeah, he was, he was just born during the Subway World Series, right? He was just born for that. That was 24 years ago and he's now 26.
So yeah, two, three years old. Oh my God. He doesn't remember nothing. This man was in the World Series in 2019.
He just fell out the womb. He's like, I'm playing baseball. Here I am. I'm getting on base and I'm hitting doubles.
What do you want from me? And I told you that, well, Juan Soto can't do it all. He needs help. I mean, are they going to get some pitching in? Is Peter Lonzo coming back to play first base? Who's going to protect them in the lineup? Yeah, we, we can go through all of this. And Steve Cohen, Daddy Warbucks, I ain't calling no grown man, Uncle Steve.
I can go to hell with that. Steve Cohen, he says, man, we still got to plug some holes. Well, I mean, when you get a ball player of this caliber, right? I mean, I mean, you know, already our lineup has gotten a lot stronger and so that's a big deal. And so, you know, listen, I mean, it, you know, Juan is an extraordinary player, but we still got to build a roster, right?
Of 26 players. And so, you know, I mean, but I think this is a big step forward. Man, Hickey, what's the first thing Juan Soto, he got money already, right? This man turned down a $440 million contract, 15 years from the nationals. He basically doubled that contract.
They offered this a few years ago. If you're Juan Soto and you know, forget, we understand taxes exist. What's the first thing you do when you buying everybody a house?
What the hell do you do with that money? Might as well just buy a country at that point. I mean, Oh my God, have your own country, Soto land, whatever, whatever you want to call it. Soto land. It sounds like a place where celebrities can get in trouble.
I don't think so. Okay. Maybe that's where young baseball players can develop and just have a pipeline for that. There we go. That'd be nice.
Marco Balletti, what are you doing with $765 million? Let me put it this way. You would never hear from me ever again. Okay.
Nor would anyone else. Okay. Cause it wouldn't shock me if I bought an island and just hung out. I was thinking you were going to do space X, you know, I don't know. No, I ain't doing nothing. That's basically what it is. I'm going to, I'm going to hang out on an island with the people that I want. No offense. And everybody else I'm never going to speak to again.
Nice to know. I want to get, if I sent you a text like, Hey Marco, you doing okay. You wouldn't even answer me back.
Am I just hiding out? I wouldn't even get the courtesy of that. No, I think you would.
I don't think I tell you where I am, but I think you'd get a text back. Yeah. Oh, that's fine. That's good.
At least I get that much courtesy. Well, we know where Juan Soto is going to be Juan Soto is going to be in Queens. Juan Soto, the man who decided to leave the Bronx is going to be playing in Queens, New York for the New York Mets. And Juan Soto, he was asked, we heard from judge. He says, man, that's a grown man. He's been here. He's experienced this.
I'm going to let him make the decision. Hey, so Juan, have you talked to any of the Yankees? Have you heard from judge? Have you heard from your teammates? Did they say good luck? Goodbye. Come back. What happened? Juan? I haven't talked to any of those guys that they, uh, we, uh, we talked to them through playoff at the end of the playoffs. But after I made these processes, I haven't talked to any of those. Nope.
The subway series is going to be interesting. What do you say? Good luck. Nobody judges. Hey, it's good luck.
No. What's he going to say to him? Aaron judge is probably laying up on a beach with his wife thinking about his own terrible post-season performance, man. He ain't thinking about Soto no more.
He's gone. You break up with somebody and tell them good luck. Hey, you ever done that before you break up with somebody and wish them luck after? Uh, not, not to that extent.
No, I have not. Oh, to that extent, please do tell I'm interested, please. No, like, I mean, you got like middle school breakups where it's like, you still got to see the person, you know? Oh yeah.
Or do you don't tell them good luck, right? No, but I don't know what you tell you. I don't know. Okay. See you later. Thanks. Okay. Thanks for the memories.
Thanks for the memories. I don't, I don't. Oh, wow. Do you never broken up with anybody before me? Yeah. Yeah.
I've been, I don't think I've ever told anybody good luck. No. Tell me some other things.
Two, two words that you can't say on radio. Uh, no, not that that's awful. Oh my goodness. Oh, wow. Come on. Yeah. In a different, in a different way. Oh man.
Awful. But Marco, you've never, uh, ended a relationship and had to just, uh, you know, wish them luck on the way. No. I don't know if I said good luck.
I don't know what the hell I said, but I don't know if I said good luck. I feel like that would be wrong. Yeah. So there's, there's no reason for Juan Soto to, there's no reason for a Yankee to reach out to one.
So there's nothing that, what's, what is there to say? What's there to say if they were, if they really wanted to be about it, which is not the case because these are all professionals, they'll save it for the baseball field. Yeah. They got a group text. I know they do.
Nikki, somebody should tell Juan Soto and the old Yankees group tax. They should use the two words that you kind of insinuated that I should use. I don't disagree. Maybe, maybe try harder to keep them, but yeah. Otherwise than that. Yeah. Yeah.
Somebody should just randomly, Hey Juan, screw you. Yeah. That's it. And just leave it there. Don't even respond in the group text.
That's it. Now, come on. You guys know me. You know, if we had, we do have a group text. If we had that and somebody, you guys went off to make all that kind of, you know, I would say something like that. You know, I would just joke it around like, are these guys friends? Yeah.
At any point. Why hasn't he heard from any of them? I don't know.
I gotta be fair. That was really, really weird for me. They don't like him. He don't like the what's the deal.
What's the problem. They didn't like him that much. I get the idea of there's nothing to say. You got to go through the process and give him some space, but like you didn't text at any point from the world series to now is a little funky. Even after like he signed, no one sent the jokingly, you know, but yeah, like something. It's just, it's weird to me that since he signed to now, nobody reached out is, is weird. And him too, like guys, it wasn't you just, you know, it has to be nobody.
That's a little funky for me. He's a baseball mercenary. And that's fine. He doesn't owe anybody anything. But when you're talking about like your teammates, again, you didn't have any camaraderie with any of those guys that you didn't have.
You weren't on a joking level. And I'm not talking about a phone call. He's about, he's about his money. He's about his paper. Damn.
He's like Tony Montana, busting them guns at the end. It's like, I need my money and my family and screw everybody else. Damn. Like you didn't have a relationship with anybody to text.
Hey, Francis Francisco and door. He better watch out. Obviously. Cause in 15 years, he ain't gonna have a relationship with them either. You talk about me going on an island and say goodbye. Soto is going to be on the island saying goodbye. He obviously doesn't care at all. Don't get too close, man.
Hickey. We talked about a couple of, these are some, he's some cutthroat dudes who got these contracts today, right? Do you think go Tony got a text renders angel buddies this time last year?
I would think my trout message, like, uh, come on now. Again, there's a little bit of a language barrier there. So it's a little bit different, but yeah, like at some point, like, you don't, I mean, we're joking about the good luck, but like these guys are just, you know, you, you change jobs, right? There should be friends like you didn't have any friends. Like this is a job. This is not, I'm not talking about loyalty and like, Oh, how dare you?
It's a job. You worked with someone, you became friends with them. They went and got another job. You didn't say goodbye. This is the first try to keep them even. Well back to old time. Oh, Tony played with a bunch of minor leaguers.
Okay. Minor leaguers and guys who were in rehab. So he never saw these guys anyway. That's Tratter nobody.
Let's be fair. He probably got a text or two. Don doesn't even like his own job. He doesn't even know who Rendon is.
He never saw him. Yeah. I don't know. Well, we'll see. Look, the man will bat two 80. He'll be on base a 40 plus percent of the time he'll hit 37 home runs.
He'll drive in a hundred runs and, and the Mets will go to the playoffs and be eliminated. And what's the big deal, right? Come on.
No, Hickey. Is that not the most likely scenario? You said two minutes ago that they're going to win a world series in five years. I know I'm talking about this upcoming, this upcoming year.
That's it only this year. Um, they'll go to the playoffs and the Dodgers will smoke them. Let's see the pitching shapes out. Well, yeah. Who are they going to get? We don't know. The other Japanese guys, Sasaki, maybe.
No, come on. And that home run total is a little high. Sasaki's going to the other Dodgers or the Padres or apparently Cincinnati. Cause he doesn't want to be in a big market, but I don't see him going to Chicago. The White Sox are making him a presentation. If he's going to Chicago, I think it was the Cubs. I think they got a much better chance. White Sox are going in there.
I think the Cubs have a much better chance of the White Sox. Don't show Sasaki. Don't tell Sasaki who Joe burrow is.
Okay. Joe burrow got robbed. Don't go to Cincinnati. Let's stay out of there.
Don't show Jerry Reinsorf either. Who leaves, who leaves Japan to go to Cincinnati? I'm just saying his agent was pretty clear about, he might like a small market to be able to avoid. Well, you know, Seattle, right?
I guess, but that's kind of big. Go hang out with Terry Francona in Cincinnati. I'm giving you a decent team.
That's a good spot for you. Seattle. He stays in the West. It's cold.
It's rainy. Uh, he rolled. He's what?
They just shelled out for Sacramento, Sacramento, Sacramento, Sacramento is this man, the minor league ballpark too. Yeah. Uh huh. Maybe I'd stay in Japan for all of that. Okay.
I stay in Japan. That's true. He wanted to go to the bigs, not AAA. That's sad. Hey, congratulations.
One subtle. He could buy all these damn places. We talked about good for him.
The $765 million upwards of 800. It's the Jr sport. We show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network.
Everybody has so many decisions to make so many. I'm going to tell you about another big decision in the NFL. On the other side of the break, we're going to get into the 49ers and the Rams.
They're going to be kicking off in about an hour and 15 minutes. It's Thursday night football. You're listening to the Jr sport brief.
It is the Jr sport. We show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network, man. We have talked a lot about some new faces and new places. Bill Belichick in North Carolina, Juan Soto still in New York city, but with the New York Mets, there's a face who still hasn't made his debut in the new place yet. Michael Pennix Jr still has not made his debut as a starter for the Atlanta Falcons. And so Rahim Morris actually talked about this. Falcons are now below 500.
They're six and seven. Kirk Cousins has thrown eight interceptions in the last four games. We have fielded calls and talked about this for the past two weeks about Kirk Cousins still having his gig.
Falcons got the Raiders up next. And so Rahim Morris, he actually spoke to the media and he explained why he will not bench Kirk Cousins. Kirk came here and he got us to a point that we are in a playoff contention and you got to believe and you got to have the resolve to be able to stick and stay steady handed by the guy that you believe in.
And I don't want to be like some organizations who make harsh decisions or critical decisions on your critical decision makers when they fail you or they make their mistakes. I just feel like it's our job and my job to back him at the highest level of certainty to get him to get out there and play better. What? Huh? Hickey, I know you want you want to send Kirk Cousins to Mars. I know you do. I don't I agree with Rahim.
The words I don't agree with, but I agree. Let Kirk Cousins play. I just at what point are you entering the definition of insanity phase where you're banging your head against the wall expecting something different and nothing different is going to happen.
What point is that? One more game. Oh, you said that last week I did the first half against the Vikings to not go well. One more week still. Yeah, but it's one thing to take on the Vikings who are amazing. It's another thing to take on the Raiders and get the ass whooped.
OK, you can't lose to the Raiders. This is what I believe. It's not even what I believe.
This is what I know. If you pull the plug. It's tough to go back. You can't. You can't. There is no guarantee. And this is it's not worth testing.
It's not. You have a better chance and better odds of riding. Riding Kirk Cousins here the rest of the season, hoping that you get into the postseason, then you do have just thrown out Pentax Junior like they're not done yet.
They're not cooked. You got to give this guy a chance. You got to give him an opportunity. And I'm talking about Kirk Cousins.
I'm sorry Michael Pentax Junior is not your time yet. We'll talk more about this. A matter of fact, how about this? We got a real football game that's going to take place in about an hour from now. The Los Angeles Rams and the San Francisco 49ers. Those are two teams. They're not worried about their quarterback. They're just trying to get to the postseason. We'll talk about that on the other side. More Kirk Cousins, more Belichick and more Soto and everything on the JR support reshow. Don't move.
