It is! The JR Sport Brief Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Thank you to everybody tuned in all over North America.
I appreciate you for being here. The show gets started every weekday at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you to our super producer and host Ryan Hickey.
He is in New York City. Thank you to Greg for helping in New York, holding it down on the boards. And more importantly, thank you to you. Yes, you the listeners for tuning in because if you ain't listening, there is no show. We'll be hanging out with you for one more hour. Man, we've had a full show already.
I gave you a top six list. We talked about the most miserable and pained fan bases in sports right now. We learned that. I don't think this is big shocking news. Matthew Stafford, he's gonna be back. He'll be back in the NFL. We don't know if he's going to be back with the Rams.
That much we know. Mike McCarthy looks like he's going to take a year off. Looks like the Saints are interested in hiring Kellen Moore.
He's kind of busy right now. Running the offense for the Philadelphia Eagles. We talked about the crazed eagle fans. Oh my God.
Unfortunately, an 18 year old Eagles fan fell off of a pole during the celebration. Terrible. I don't know if he's terrible. Awful.
It's terrible. Bill Belichick had a bright idea to rename the Vince Lombardi trophy, the Tom Brady trophy. Please don't do that. Adam Silver has an idea to shorten NBA games. He wants to turn 12 minute quarters into 10. Everybody, do we got to change things that ain't broken? Like fix the end of the games. Okay. Why do we need the referee standing around for 25 minutes figuring out one call? Like do something about that. Don't shorten the gifts.
Anyway, we'll get into all of that. Hey, we didn't even mention that Anthony Davis is out a minimum a week. This guy is strained and abdominal muscle. Now he's cooked.
He's cooked. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. Hey, thank you to everybody listening all over North America. The free Odyssey app, your local radio affiliate that carries the infinity sports network. Sirius XM375, a smart speaker.
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And thank you to our guests as well. Will Mansell joined us. He's a Miami Heat host, covers the team for WPLG TV down in Miami.
He actually said that there's some, some fans in Miami who are on Jimmy Butler's side when it comes to this stupid request where he can find joy playing basketball somewhere besides Miami. Good luck. Let's see where he goes.
Let's see where D'Aaron Fox goes. So we got a lot to get into. We've just, we've talked about a lot. Hickey, did I miss anything?
That's what we did, right? No, you nailed it so far. It's been busy, but you hit it all.
It is. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. Gave you a top six list, miserable fan bases, fan bases that are really feeling pain. If you missed the explanations and the audio, check out last hour. Hit rewind on the Odyssey app.
Hit rewind on YouTube. At number six, I gave you the Bills. And at number five, I gave you the Kings. And at number four, I gave you the Jets. And at number three, I gave you the Browns. And at number two, I gave you the Chicago White Sox.
And at number one, I gave you the Athletics. It's not a fan base more miserable than fans of the Athletics. They stripped them from Oakland. They're going to send them to Vegas. They're going to make them spend the night, if we want to call it that, they want to make them forget the couch. Hickey, they're going to sleep on the floor in Sacramento.
That's what they're doing with these Athletics. To spend the night and sleep on the couch is too luxurious for what they're going to experience. Yeah, it's going to be miserable for everybody involved.
And then you see the Heat 2 that they're talking about in the summer and they have all these day games because it's going to be too hot. That is going to be a long three years, a very long three years. You think the stadium will be ready in three? No. With how they're talking about it and how this whole process has been, do you have any faith that they'll get it done by the time they're supposed to open? Or is that 2028?
I stopped thinking about it. The fans got zipped in Oakland, man. They did. Can we steal a team that nobody wants and send them out there? Let's send the Marlins to Oakland. Can we do that?
Sure. Is there another team less desired by their own fan base? Am I missing something? Well, the Rays need a new stadium right now after this got unfortunately ripped apart. That was a dump anyway. Yeah, they don't need no baseball in Tampa. No. Hickey, they got the Yankees. Okay. They have the Yankees. They don't need no raise. Don't need them.
I'm just saying, am I telling a lie? How about hockey ball? We put hockey out there.
Take the Utah Hockey Club. I feel that so they can't call them the Yeti because what are the US Patent and Trademark Office said they might be confused with those fancy cups. I did not today. Really? Yeah.
That sucks. That was a good name. The Yeti?
Oh, you don't like it? The Utah Yeti? What is the alternative? The Utah Sasquatch? Like, what else can you call it? The Sasquatches? The Sasquatch.
Sasquatch Eye? It doesn't roll off the tongue now, does it? I don't know. What the hell? Well, they got to pick another name now.
What are you going to do? I'm trying to pull up the three that they like. I think they narrowed it down to three. The Mammoth? No. The Wasatch? The what? The Utah Wasatch? W-A-S-A-T-C-H? I guess that's a cleaner name for Sasquatch. I don't know what the hell that is.
I guess it's apparently, according to The Athletic, it is a very popular choice among fans. Yeah, okay, whatever. Okay.
Maybe I need to get out to Salt Lake City more often. It's quite possible. The Yeti. They should try again.
Hickey? America is just denied. Even the Patent and Trademark Office is out here doing wild stuff. 8-5-5-2-1-2-42-27. That's 8-5-5-2-1-2-42-27. We got Mike that's calling from Nova Scotia. You're on the JR Sportbreeze show. What's up, Mike? Oh, hey.
I know lots of Mics from Nova Scotia, but I'm actually Mark from Nova Scotia, but that's okay. I don't take that, man. I don't take that personally. And thanks for taking my call, JR. So I'll be completely honest. I'm pinch hitting tonight.
I was not going to call. I enjoyed your list and I was sitting back and I hear Alan from Toronto. Even while you're doing the list, I said the Leafs better be on that list. And then in the middle of his three and a half minutes statistical analysis of the recent years of the Troy Pistons, I called and then I hear him throw the Leafs in and I think it's wild and I will be succinct.
I did my research because if I'm going to challenge Alan from Toronto, I got to do my research. So the original six teams, and I knew that knew this in 1967 in the NHL, there were two Canadian teams, Montreal Canadians and Toronto Maple Leafs. Now, since the last time the Montreal Canadians won the last Canadian team, by the way, or sorry, since last time the Leafs won in 1967, the Leafs have clearly won zero. Montreal has won 10 Stanley cups. And I'll tell you, as a Canadian, we love, love, love the misery of Leafs fans.
If we're bad people, sometimes not all that polite, but Leafs fans are miserable every day of their life. And that's about it. I'll stay on. Thank you, Mark.
I appreciate that. And that's more of a candidate. That's a Canada beef. That ain't got nothing to do with it. It's a Canada thing, but it's like akin to like making fun of the Red Sox for all those fans, all those years.
And like the fans, it really is. Well, at least the Maple Leafs are good enough to go to the playoffs and be eliminated. That counts for, so that's not as bad as nothing. Oh my God.
But it's not as miserable as some teams, you know, Mike. Yeah. Well, you know, I think it maybe should have been on the list, but anyway, I just wanted to let everyone know that a lot of people do know Leafs, Leafs nation. Definitely know the Canada beef. Hey, thank you, Mark. Appreciate it. Thanks. No doubt. Yeah, that's Canada beef, man.
North America as a whole doesn't care about that Canada beef. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. And we got Jeff. He is calling from Corpus Christi in Texas. Jeff, you're on the JR sport reef show. Yes, sir. Yeah. You live on the radio.
Go ahead. Dallas Cowboys have to be one of the most miserable fan bases right now. I mean, we're not going to be doing anything until Jerry Jones is in the ground.
And I thought Steven Jones would be better, but he's showing to just follow in daddy's footsteps. I mean, come on, Brian Schottenheimer. Seriously. I agree with you. I thought about putting them on the top six list. And the reason why I didn't put them on the list is because everybody is so used to being dysfunctioned. I think there might be apathy or disillusioning.
No, it's just miserable. I mean, we've got, you have to admit, by all means, the Dallas Cowboys have a stellar team by the books. Dak Prescott should not have gotten that contract in no way, shape or form.
It should have been approved a year. And then he gets, he rips his hamstring off his leg. Come on now. He might be, he might be a top 15 quarterback, but he sure as hell not in the top five and should not have got that contract. You're making more money than any QB in the game. They were going 12.
They were going 12 and five. And so, you know, they stopped paying for talent. So miserable. Yes. Well, and whose fault is that?
Jerry Jones. There you go. Well, you should be used to it, Jeff. Hey, miserable franchise.
Yeah. But you know, every now and then we just got to accept that some teams are just miserable. The owner's miserable. The fan base.
I think the fan base, some of your, your cowboy fans, just a little delusional. Delusional. That's it. Yeah.
Better word. Thank you, Jeff. Thank you.
No problem. I thought about putting the Cowboys on the list and I'm like, come on. You talk about the Cowboys seem like every other day is Jerry does something crazy. Same old, same old at this point. Yeah. Nuts.
8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Kevin is calling from Alabama. You're on the JR sport re-show. What's up, Kevin. Hey man. How are you doing tonight? Excellent.
Good. Hey, I think the most miserable fan base is the Los Angeles angels of Anaheim. I am a Dodger fan living in Alabama now, but I grew up out there still in contact with everybody.
They are miserable. They're the Dodgers, little brother they're wasting away good talent. And Mike trout, they wasted away Albert Pujols, wasted away Rendon.
Lots of good talent. Can't keep up with big brother Dodgers. Everyone's upset out there. And they're not even from Los Angeles. They're in Anaheim.
Yeah. You know, I thought about putting the angels on the list, but then I said, are they more miserable than a white Sox? Do you think they are Kevin? They haven't won a world series since 02.
They haven't done anything. Well, Kevin, I didn't ask you that. What you, you, you got a Kevin, are you married? Are you married?
Kevin? I am. You are. Does your wife, your wife can't stand you.
You can't answer a question to save your life. Oh, she loves me. She's a Dodger fan. So she has to love me. You're going to answer my question. We're not married.
You ready? Who do you think is worse off today in 20, 25, the white Sox are the angels. I still have to say the angels they're paying Mike trout, big money, and they're never going to do anything with them. They're trying to keep up with big brother and they can't, and they're miserable out there. Okay. Little, little bias on your part, Kevin. I am. I will admit it. Yeah. Yeah.
So we're not going to go by what you say. Hey, thank you. I'm glad your wife loves you. I don't like you. Okay. Kevin. I appreciate you though. You got it. Thank you. Kevin for calling from Alabama. It was fun stuff.
8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Jerry is calling from Buffalo. You're on the JR sport reshow. Jerry. What's up?
Hey guys, how you doing guys? There's a couple of them. I caught, I caught on late, but I picked up the gist of the conversation and I just wanted to tell you how wrong you are for putting the bills fans on the list.
Mafia tortured, maybe miserable, maybe during the drought, but man, this town is full of diehard fans, blue collar fans. We believe the red, white and blue with the bills go build as a legit salutation in this town. Yeah. I'm familiar with Western New York.
I've been up that way a few times. I'm pretty fond. I think I'm familiar. Yeah.
So I don't know, man. I don't think we're miserable. Yeah. Heartbroken at times. Sure.
But what's the, what's, what's the difference? Are you happy? Happy.
I'm happy with the bills. Yeah. Oh, okay.
All right. Well, that's pretty miserable. Oh yeah, I know. Well, I do.
I know. I know what else all hard to go back and get your ass whooped every year by the chiefs is miserable to me. It sounds like misery to me. I wouldn't call it an ass whooping, but.
Well, what do you, what do you call it? A beat in that? I mean, you're splitting his, did you win? The loss of the loss was the losses. Okay.
No, no, no. A winning the loss is not, it's not the same. When you get beat by the same team for consecutive years, that's not just the losses alone. I mean, we can dress it up and put lipstick on a pig and I'm not saying that this is a blowout and you lose them by 50 points every game.
But these are, this is painful. Did you hear Josh Allen? I know you did.
Does he not sell? I want you to listen. I want you to listen again to Josh Allen after he lost. You want to tell me that this guy was not miserable. You want to tell me that the expression on his face sitting on that bench at the end of the game was not cloaked in misery. You want to tell me that the fans don't feel this and maybe you're just used to being miserable. This is Josh Allen after the loss on Sunday. It's not fun.
But to beat the champs, you gotta, to beat the champs, you gotta beat the champs and we didn't do it tonight. Yeah. Fans in Buffalo are diehards. Yeah, they are.
And they're fun. And they both, they love the team. They believe, we played the fan. He's just like, man, we're used to this.
You can be, you can have apathy. This week has been miserable. And then there'll be some more optimism. There's the bright side. You still got Josh Allen.
He might win the MVP just based off of this week, the past several years miserable. Now, are they the Kings and the jets and the Browns and the White Sox and the A's? No, but I had to acknowledge their pain from this week. I had to 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.
That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. I'm going to get some more of your calls on the other side of the break. And then also, and speaking of miserable, well, this guy's injury history is miserable. He's hurt again. Finally thought he was going to be healthy. He is hurt again. I'm going to tell you about Anthony Davis.
And speaking of miserable, he has a miserable ass teammate on his squad too. Talk about the son of LeBron James. It's the JR sport reshow on the infinity sports network. You're listening to the JR sport brief. Yeah. One of my favorite artists of all time, Nas. Shout out to Queens, Queens bridge, New York, 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.
That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Now is that people want to dig into history. Hickey, how far back do we have to go for the New York Mets to be on this list of miserable fan bases? Uh, 30 years, my entire lifetime. I'm miserable.
It's been a whole lot of misery. Oh man. But not anymore. You got Juan Soto, uh, and Peter Lonzo.
I still believe Peter Lonzo will come back. I agree. You did. Did you close the book on it a few weeks ago?
Was it you? Um, I may have resigned myself. See, that's also, I'm an optimist.
I set myself up to be disappointed a lot more. Okay. Um, but yeah, I think he wants to come back. I think he will be back. Uh, yeah, I know Marco was here telling me how much he's gone. I'm like, bro, this is all negotiating. They're gonna, they're gonna bring him back.
They got no market otherwise. Yeah. They're trying to beat him down to bring him back. It said like, he's going to go to Toronto and stand on that concrete field. Like, let's be real.
It's true. Protect the knees, Pete. Come back to Queens. He can't play defense as it is.
That's true on that turf. Forget it. That ball's coming in a lot faster. He can't move. Send him back to Queens. Hit home runs. Strike out. Come on, man. It's just what it is.
And speaking of knees and pain, last night as we were on the air, I feel like I jinxed him. Even though I don't care about that stuff. I will walk under a ladder. Hickey, something about the black cat. What about the cat? You don't look at it or something, right? Oh, I thought it was just anytime it appears and you see it, it's like bad luck. Man, used to have a black cat in my house. You know who cares? Not me. You just look superstitions in the face and spat in the eye.
What do I do? Open an umbrella inside? Walk under a ladder? Step on a crack?
All of that. I'm still here. Lucky number 13. Yeah, I wear number 13.
I think I got something in my house with a 13 on it in my name. I think I do. I think I do. You're funny. I don't care about that stuff. I do not care. Something bad is going to happen to me.
It's just going to happen. Anyway, this is how, is this why Anthony Davis keeps getting hurt? You know how bad things happen to him? See, the issue here is maybe you are immune to the bad luck, but now anytime you talk about somebody else, the bad luck goes from you to them.
Maybe that's the problem. Ah, okay. I need to say positive things about Anthony Davis. Keep my name out of your mouth, please. Oh, hickey, not you. Nothing will ever happen to you.
There you go. I hope so. I don't want to jinx you.
I was afraid to say anything. I hope so, too. Anthony Davis, last night playing against the Sixers. They got, they, the Lakers, they got smashed 118 to 104. I think that might even be wrong.
I think my score might've been worse. Bottom line is Anthony Davis had the exit with an abdominal strain. He's now going to be out at minimum a week this year.
God bless him. He has played in 42 out of 45 games. Last year, he played in a career high 76 games, a couple of years with the Pelicans. He played 75 times and it's the same old, same old when it comes down to Anthony Davis.
It is just, it's sad. So good luck to him and his recovery. At least it's not a knee, his ankle, his foot.
He didn't fall, you know, and break anything. Good, good luck to Anthony Davis. And also, by the way, good luck to LeBron's son, Bronny. During the ass flipping, the Lakers are so hurt. They threw Bronny James out there in the first quarter. He ultimately ended up playing 15 minutes. He had zero points. He was 0 for 5, 0 for 3 from downtown. He had three rebounds and assists and he had like 31 points in a G League game, like a couple of nights before.
But welcome back to reality. Even J.J. Redick was like, yeah, put him out there. And he wasn't good. Just felt like on a back to back, just him giving us energy, I think was the goal.
Maybe put him in a tough spot flying up yesterday and nationally televised game in Philly, all that stuff. It's, he didn't play well, but he's been playing great, you know, in the stay ready games and he's been playing great in the G. So I have confidence in him, but obviously didn't provide that at a high level. Oh yeah. Okay.
Yeah. We, we know that because he, he's not an NBA player. He's not. LeBron James isn't even thinking about his own son. He's like, yeah, when Anthony Davis ain't playing, we suck. I mean, when our best player goes out, it's always, you know, challenging, you know, especially in the game, like if he's out from the beginning, then we have a game plan set.
We know what to expect. We know what our line is going to be, but when he goes down or any one of our guys go down throughout the course of the game, it's just tough. I didn't even realize it to the second quarter when he didn't come back in his regular minutes. And I looked over the bench, he wasn't over there. So I found it at halftime, but level concern.
I think it'd be fine. Man. That's a good sign. LeBron James is used to playing basketball with Anthony Davis so much so that now he can look over on the side of the bench and expect to see him there.
That's good. I don't know how he's going to age. This man is now on the other side of 30. So good luck to Anthony Davis, but at least he's not Joel Embiid. Hickey, did you see the stat Joel Embiid there's been about 800 games that he could have played in and he's at like 400 and 400, 400 played 400 missed.
Did you see that? I did 446 games to be exact, played 400 missed a momentous occasion last night. He's making like what, a million bucks per game that he's played by the time he's done. Crazy. He's a great hustler, man. He hustled everybody. Good for him. Good for him.
8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Jimmy Butler wishes he was that guy. Wayne is here from Albuquerque. You're on the JR sport re-show Wayne.
What's up? Hey, the Minnesota Lakers, AKA Los Angeles Lakers. And speaking of team name changes, I think, but did you all know if you guys heard the rumor about the reds going to bring back the logo for the redskins? I think too many times we're so focused on these names that quote unquote seem racist when they're not. And I think those are miserable fan bases because they're, they have the, some people have the tattoos of the Redskins on them and or the Indians on there. And there's that saying there's too many chiefs, not enough Indians. And that saying is probably not more prominent than it is now, but the chief's always winning and being prominent in the news and in the sports media. I, I think we need to focus on the traditions and the names associated with those teams at that time and not about what the logo quote unquote may or may not represent.
I think we really need to focus on the history that that team has and the association with that team. And I think as far as the name changes, it happens that the, hold on, hold on, Wayne. I'm trying to get all in. Well, yeah, take a breath. Thank you.
Thank you. How the hell long have you been thinking about that? That's kind of random and out of left field in relation to everything we've been discussing. Well, you brought up the whole jazz thing about the Utah jazz changing their name. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Wayne, Wayne, Wayne, Wayne, Wayne, no, no, no.
Are you, you, you, you listening to the station, you, you like sports, right? Right. We didn't say any, the Utah jazz, do you know there's a new hockey team in Utah?
Did you know that? Yeah, that's the thing that's where our guy's going with that was just the whole name. Yeah, no, but the jazz, no, no, no, the jazz will, the jazz are not changing their name. There's a hockey team in Utah called the Utah hockey club. They are trying, they they've been holding a contest like the better part of a year to have a new name. They applied to have their name changed to Yeti because who the hell wants to be the Utah hockey club? Nobody, but they can't use the name Yeti because it's too closely associated with the people who sell all the coolers. So the Utah jazz ain't changing their name.
A brand new hockey franchise is waiting on its real name. That's, that's what happened, Wayne. I get it. I get it. I get it.
It's still prompted for the whole question about name changes and people changing names. So are you, are you asking me my opinion or are you just saying that everybody needs to get over the Washington commander's formerly Redskins? Cause is that what you're saying to me? Both, both. Okay. So I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll say this. I will provide my opinion.
You ready for it? So I personally do not care, but I will say this. Everything is a business and I don't know if just because something used to be something in the past that it needs to go back to the way it was. And I get it.
We got a lot of people, especially in this world nowadays with the internet and social media, people don't take the time or have the courtesy to understand somebody else's opinion because opinions are like buttholes and uneducated idiots can provide opinions whether they're based in fact or not just online because of something that they read. And I'll tell you this, if there are enough people who weren't happy with the name of the commanders, then I don't care that they changed them. I'm cool with it.
And I also understand that there might be people associated with the former name, Redskins and the logo that were happy with it. You are never going to please 100% of the people. But if there's enough noise, you want to know what happens, Wayne, things change and people got to live with it.
And so the last drum I'm going to be personally is to go, well, we need to go back. I don't care. It doesn't matter to me. It's, but if you're trying to make everybody happy, you're going to make nobody happy. I think you just stick with what you have.
And now we don't know. You don't stick with what you if you stick with what you have, then it's never changed. If enough people make noise, you change.
It said, I get it. That's that's my thought process. Nobody's ever happy. It's always going to be everybody has an opinion.
It's why people do things like vote. We hope it works. Hey, thank you. I appreciate you taking my time. I appreciate you. No problem.
You got it. Like if they bring it on, like Chief Wahoo has gone from the guardians, they got rid of them. You say we can't have this goofy, you know, Native American here.
So, Lord, they got rid of them. It's just, people are sensitive. But then at the same time, there's certain things that people have to look at and go, hey, you know what? Maybe that was offensive. Maybe it wasn't right. Maybe just because it was done. Maybe it wasn't done in consideration.
And it's not a one size fits all to everything. No, I don't care. It's not like, you know, we're switching to Chicago Bulls and now we're going to call them the Chicago Cows. You know, this is not goofy stuff like this.
Historic historical significance, whether it was to honor a team or whether while honoring them, they were disparaging them. And you're always going to have people who feel offended and not offended. And if there's enough groundswell, things change.
That's how the world works, or at least how it should work. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. We're going to take a break. We come back. Speaking of the Utah Jazz, on this day in sports history, the Jazz, not the Utah Hockey Club, because they barely have existed. Something significant happened with the Jazz. I'll tell you what on the other side of the break. You're listening to the J.R.
Sport Brief. OK, a little outcast. OK. Shout out to my man, Blue. 855-212-4227.
That's 855-212-4227. What a show. Yeah, this is the last segment before they turn my microphone off. Hickey, I can't stay longer, right? I got to shut up and leave soon.
Is that it? You are contractually obligated to shut up in 11 minutes. Oh, my God. Damn. What a way to put it.
Now, who else could set it? What other job says, hey, in 11 minutes, you better shut up or you're getting fired. Right. Not many, not many places. What's a job that they don't want you to talk? They got to be a couple of them.
Right. What's a job where they do not want you to speak? Depending on the person, maybe therapy. They, you know, wait, wait, wait, wait. I thought therapy was a two way street. Some people just want to talk. Oh, oh, the therapist. It's their job to listen.
Right. But then for an hour and you listen. But I thought I thought the point was you talking and they tell you about what the hell you just said. Well, maybe in couples therapy, it's, you know, instead of taking sides, it's, hey, well, why are you taking her side?
Maybe you should listen to what I have to say and less talking, more listening. Have you ever done that before? No, I have not. Oh, my God.
Have you? Oh, my God. Oh, boy. Oh, man.
What a memory that was. Wish you had more time to dive into this. Hickey, I'll tell you. I'll tell you a story on the side. I just. Oh, man. I can't. Some stories I can't share on. Would you agree with that sentence?
Would you want the therapist to talk less or are you in the opposite camp? Talk more. Damn. I don't remember what the hell I did.
You make the phrase. What? What?
Like you're in trouble. I got to remember what I did wrong. No, I'm just trying to remember the whole experience. It triggered my memory to go, wait a minute. And I'm like, yeah, I did. Yeah, I did.
I did a couple of counts and I did. Oh, Hickey, why are you triggering me? I didn't know. I'm sorry. I was trying to think on the fly of jobs where they tell you to stop talking.
I can't really think of any. You may have to do the talking for the next 10 minutes. My brain is fried. I did not mean to take you to a dark place. It's all right. It's all right.
I'm fine. I'm still here thinking of a job where they don't want you to talk. Librarian. Ah, there you go. It wasn't quiet.
Yeah, shut up. Libraries still exist. People go.
I think they're still open. I don't know if people go. Last time I went to a library, it was just like a shelter. Nobody was reading books. It was just, it was a warm place to stay, man.
It's like a place to go. Yeah. Nobody's reading books.
I mean, it's a shame. Hickey, I need to start a campaign to bring back encyclopedias and books. Let's go back. The problem is that they're all in the Kindle. No physical books, physical books. Well, you could roll something up and hit a child with it, you know, like that. Yeah. Now we're talking. Yeah. Book. Like in school, this sounds crazy.
I sound nuts. Well, this is a legitimate question. Do kids in school, do they use books or are they on iPads? They're on computers and iPads, right? That's a great question. I guess so.
It's probably cheaper in the long run, like one $500 computer. I understand that kids don't know cursive. They can't write.
Do they know how to write their names? Maybe electronically. We need to break all computers. You know how they use a good old fashioned book burning. We need to break computers, break tablets. Like this is stupid. This is real.
Hickey. I know you don't, you're not a movie person, not a vibe, but did you see that movie with the robot, the garbage clean and ass robot, the Disney movie? Wally. Yes. Did you see that movie? Yeah, you saw it, right? I did not. I know the premise of it.
I have not seen Wally Hickey. That is the realest movie. We all use technology.
And then the next thing, you know, we all become fat, dumb and stupid. That's the end of the movie. Wow. Yeah.
Cold world, you know, speaking of the premise 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Uh, Oh, who is this? Oh, it's Paul from Rhode Island. You're on the JR sport free show. What's up, Paul. Oh, great.
He's not here. Terrific. That was great. Now we can talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history. 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. Yeah, today is January 29th. The year is 2025. We had a call or reference to Utah jazz in the last break. He's like, well, the Utah jazz are changing their name. I said, no, man, that's the salt Lake city hockey club or whatever the hell they are.
They need a name. But on this day in sports history, January 29th, the year 2000. Wow. 25 years ago, Carl Malone, he became the third player to score 30,000 career points. His team lost jazz loss to the Timberwolves 96 to 94, but calm alone went into some exclusive company. Listen to this courtesy of the NBA. Carl Malone becomes only the third player in NBA history to score over 30,000 points longevity. It's dirt ability.
It's greatness. All those things. Man, nobody likes Carl Malone, man.
We found out about some of them things with his kids and how some of his kids got here and, Oh my God. Yeah. Anyway, he joined Kareem and Wilt at that time. Now LeBron James, 41,000 points and counting. He ain't done Kareem 38,387 points. Carl Malone, 36,928. When he did it, it was Kareem and Wilt.
And that was it. Everybody's scoring points now. And Carl Malone, he's probably in hiding.
Yeah, he should be. Dickie, why doesn't Carl Malone give, uh, what's the guy's name? Brett far some advice. Do less, say less.
Disappear. I swear that, um, Brett Favre was given advice to, I don't know who it was. It's like on a, on TMZ or something. Why is Brett Favre giving people advice?
Who's listening to that advice? What from Brett Favre? Yeah. Is he still suing people? Is he done? I, I mean, I'm hoping he's done. I'm sure his wallet can't take much more suing.
Oh my God. He's just suing everybody. Did he pay that money back yet? I don't think so. I don't know. I don't know.
I don't think so. Well, anyway, that was something that took place this day in sports history. Yeah.
Today's January 29th, January 29th, the year is 2025. Yeah. We don't see too much of car Malone and that's a good thing. And Brett Favre should, uh, follow suit. Anyway, we've had a fun show.
Yeah. Will Mansell join us to talk about the Miami heat NBA trade deadline a little more than a week away. Can't get here fast enough. Talked about Pete cow, potentially reuniting with Russell Wilson in Vegas. Mike McCarthy's still doesn't have a job. Well, there's only one job available. It's the saints.
It looks like that job might go to Kellen Moore whenever the Eagle season ends. Well, we know when it will end, they may end as champs or they may end as losers. I gave you a top six list, miserable fan bases in the world of sports here. There's more than six, but I have to really take a deep dive into teams that as of today are really feeling pain. The athletics that don't belong to anybody. They were number one here on the list.
If you missed that list, you can go ahead and hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. We talked about Bill Belichick. This man suggested horribly that they should change the name of the Vince Lombardi trophy to the Tom Brady trophy. Somebody check Bill Belichick's brain. We're going to get to this and we're going to get to this tomorrow.
Adam silver. He wants to shorten NBA games by bringing quarters down from 12 minutes to 10. I got better ideas to make the game go fast. It has nothing to do with the amount of time half these damn NBA players don't even want to play. You're trying to give them less time out there.
That's just a, a bad, bad idea. And so we have so much to get into tomorrow. Hickey. Who's joining us. Who's joining us tomorrow. Meryl Hodge, former NFL player. Very excited for it.
Oh, that's cool. We got Meryl Hodge coming through. We'll talk about the ridiculous comments by silver. I'm sure Jimmy Butler will try to use his credit card tomorrow and that won't work. And we'll see what else happens in the world of sports. Other Dodgers. Are there any more superstars for them to add? Might as well sign Pete Alonzo bench, a bat off the bench, you know, Pete Alonzo pinch hitter, pinch hitter, 26th man on the roster. Yeah.
Yankees are like, man, we can't compete with them. Maybe we'll get into that tomorrow as well. Listen, you can find me online everywhere at JR sport brief. Hickey.
Where can they find you? Ryan underscore Hickey and the number three on Twitter. And thank you so much, Greg, holding it down on the boards. Greg, we appreciate you, man.
Yeah. Good to be with you. Thanks Jr.
Ain't no doubt. We'll be back tomorrow. 6 PM Eastern three Pacific.
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