Is Baseball The Toughest Sport To Play? (Hour 4)

It is the JR Sport Brief Show here on the Infinity Sports Network. I am JR.

If you haven't figured that out, yeah, I'd be JR. It's the JR Sport Brief Show. I'll be hanging out with you for one more hour. This show gets started every weekday at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. I'm in Atlanta, Georgia, hanging out on Peachtree Street. Thank you to super producer and host Ryan Hickey.

Ryan Hickey is in New York City. Thank you for tuning in wherever you might be on this Friday, January 31st. You made it through the first month of 2025. Tomorrow is February 1st.

Look at me, I know the calendar. Anyway, we talked about a lot. Well, we're waiting on the Super Bowl. We talked about these college football All-Star games, East West Tron Bowl. Tomorrow in the middle of the day, we got another game. Got the Reese's Senior Bowl. And I got to enjoy the football. We got one more game.

Man, Hickey, what the... Hickey, turn the music off. I'm sad. I'm sad.

I'm sad. When the Super Bowl is done, what are we doing? We got to talk about basketball? Basketball. We'll have March Madness. We'll have pitchers and catchers.

Oh my God. Baseball is here. Wait a minute. NBA playoffs. Wait a minute. Draft. Pitchers and catchers are going to report in like what, two weeks? The Mets sent their bus down to Florida today.

Oh my God. So yeah, it is coming before you know it. Hickey, let me tell you something. You know, here in Atlanta, we had two, it snowed twice, right? Then we had two, it snowed twice. We had an ice storm. Do you want to know, yesterday it was like 70 degrees? Really? The next, for the next week, this is the temperature, the highs, right?

62, 61, 63, 68, 70, 71, 70. Where was that two weeks ago? It was freezing my ass off there. Yeah.

Now it was terrible. Let's go outside in the sweatshirt. You good. Wow.

You are good. That is nice. Yep. Still cold in New York, huh? It was like in the 40s today. So honestly it felt like, it felt like 65 at one point. It was nice, but so cold.

Yeah. At least the snow in the South is gone, right? I mean, no snow. Could you imagine, and we already had this in Dallas years ago. Could you imagine if it snowed like on Super Bowl day in Louisiana, wouldn't that be something?

You talk about just a traffic nightmare. They would, they would play the Super Bowl. What do you think they played on Tuesday? Right? Tuesday, four o'clock, and the ratings would be not good. You think?

Well, people have to work, so I'm assuming like, you know. Hickey, if they ever had to delay the Super Bowl, you want to know something? I would take that day off.

Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. If, if, if it snowed in Louisiana on Sunday and they said, man, we got to move the Super Bowl to Tuesday, Hickey, I'd automatically call and I'd be like, listen, I want to watch the game.

I will be back tomorrow. Like I'm going to sit on the air and watch the Super Bowl. I'm not doing that.

Yeah. For our show, we would get screwed because basically the entire Super Bowl during our show, everyone would be watching it or listening to it. Yeah, that's fair. We could play.

Well, that's not true because, wait a minute. I'm not going to ask, I'm not going to ask this question. Yeah, people would listen. Wait, wait, would we be here? Would we be? No, we would be here.

We would be here. Okay. All right. Well, someone would be here. Okay. It sounds like not you. Somebody, I don't know. Somebody will be here. All right. Well, hopefully we never have to find out. Okay.

I hope not. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. Ronnie is here from Texas. You're on the JR Sport Bree show. What's up, Ronnie?

Well, actually I started when I was called in. I was in Mississippi heading west and now I'm in Texas but I'm actually from Louisiana but I wanted to tell you a story about a moth that I once knew and this moth was, it was a troubled moth and he was so troubled he went to go see a doctor and he walked into the podiatrist's office and he said, Doc, he said, I got to tell you, I got trouble. He said, I go to work every day and my boss, he's on my back all day, eight hours a day and that's not enough for him. He wants more from me and he said, I go home at night, Doc, and it's worse. My wife, I don't even think I love her anymore and the podiatrist said, man, you got trouble. He said, that's not even the end of it.

I got kids and my son, I'm just not so sure about him. You know, he's begun getting tattoos and he's losing, he's lost his way. I can't provide any leadership or guidance to the poor kid and he says, my daughter, she's no better. I really believe that she's going to be the first in her moth class to conceive and the podiatrist says, man, moth, you got, you got trouble. He said, yeah, Doc, he said, I really need help. The podiatrist says, you need help but you know, I'm a podiatrist.

What you need is a psychiatrist. Why would you come see me? And the moth said, well, cause your light was on. Okay. I got it. It took us a while to get there, Ronnie. The moth, I get it.

Moths, they fly out of the light, all these stupid bugs. I'm channeling Norm McDonald here. Oh, Norm, is he still do comedy? Is he funny?

Well, maybe in his death he is, but now he's no longer with us. Oh, Norm, wait, what? Yeah. Norm died a while back. Oh my God.

I didn't know that. He was a young man. He was a young man.

Yeah. The young man was ashamed, but great comic. Great, great comic. When he told on the air, it was funny. One of the funniest jokes ever. Look it up.

The moth joke. Ah, okay. I'm going to look him up. I didn't know he was gone.

Thank you, Ronnie, for filling me in. I didn't know that. Yeah. And actually I'm from New Orleans, so it did snow here and it did snow for the Super Bowl.

We'd have all kinds of issues. Yeah. If it snowed on Super Bowl Sunday, when would they play the game, Tuesday or Wednesday? Well, probably in March. How long did it take for the snow to melt? Oh my God. It was a rant and hung around for about a week, literally.

Get out of here. No, it was that cold. It got up to 60 degrees. We still had snow in the ground.

They don't take that long. Okay. Would I lie to you? It was deep at my house and the shadows.

They still had snow weekly. Okay. It makes sense. I'm telling you, I'm just telling you. I believe you. What I'm going to think you lying for. Okay. Thank you, Ronnie.

I'll send you pictures. All right. Bye. Okay.

Bye bye. He's going to send you pictures. I don't want his pictures. I was just going to ask, who's he sending them to? I don't want, he don't have my number. How are you going to, he's going to text me.

He going to send it to me on Twitter or X. I don't want his pictures. Oh man. Thank you. Did you like his moth joke? I will say when I heard it, um, I did laugh at the end, but I would agree.

I took about three minutes too long to get there. Did you know Norm McDonald is gone? I didn't know that.

I did because usually around the anniversary you see a lot of stuff on Twitter about him. It was only four years ago. Wow. Damn.

Damn. I didn't know Norm was gone. What happened?

Do you know what happened? I'm a Google it, but no idea. Oh, leukemia. Oh my God. He did not publicly disclose it. That's why I didn't know. I get it. You got to keep things to yourself.

You don't want everything. Damn. I didn't know Norm McDonald died.

Ah, anyway, eight five five two one two 42 27. Jason is here from Arizona on the JRSportbree show. What's up, Jason? Hey, what's happening, Rob? So, uh, I told this joke to your screener, but I think he's a little young for it. So, uh, I hope you, hope you hit it.

But, uh, what's the difference between the people of Dubai and the people of Abu Dhabi? Uh, I don't know if I want to hear this joke. Oh my I don't know if I want to hear this joke.

Oh my God. Is this a safe joke? I think so.

Yes, I think so. All right. Okay. Uh, Jason, what's the answer?

The difference between the people of Dubai and the people of Abu Dhabi is the people in Dubai do not like the Flintstones and the people in Abu Dhabi do. Uh, Oh my God. I'm so sad. I thought I know. No, no, sorry. Sorry, Jason.

I love, I love, I love the Flintstones. I have been to Dubai. I personally haven't been to Abu Dhabi. Uh, I don't get it. Hickey, do you get it? No idea.

Abu Dhabi do, you know, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It wasn't. I don't even think I can go any further. It was, it was, it was yabba dabba do. Yeah. It's a, it's like onomatopoeia. Just it's a sound. No, that's a shame. I can't even go anywhere.

That is a bad, bad Johnson. Hickey, do we have a, do we got a boo sound? Does a boo sound exist somewhere? Oh no.

The part that's making me the most sad is I cracked up when I heard that. No, you don't even deserve, you deserve a full on, you deserve like a Philadelphia booing. That's what you deserve. That was terrible, Jason.

But thank you. You got anything else that you want to share? Uh, I hate, uh, Brad Johnson or, uh, uh, Ben Johnson's just used horrible human being. I, I don't, wait, what did you say? You mumbled Ben Johnson is a terrible human being.

What did he do to you? Yeah. Yeah.

He took all the gifts that, uh, that, uh, that, uh, MC DC gave him all those opportunities and get a turnaround, take a job in the same, in the same division. Are you kidding me? No, it's not. It's a job in the NFL. This is a buddy. It's a buddy that he brought in and thank you, Jason, for calling from Arizona. You were you, I'm sure he's happy for him. Like what did, what did Ben Johnson do?

That was so bad. Like the man, the man worked and helped. He helped Dan Campbell, right?

They helped each other. This man took Jared Goff and turned him into a decent quarterback. Now he can't go out there and make the plays for him when the games actually matter.

Why would he be mad? I'm sure Dan Campbell is happy for him. And now they can compete against each other. And now he got a pay raise and now he's a peer. Like that's, that's what you want.

You want people to have success. What is he supposed to do? Just be his offensive coordinator in perpetuity? The guy's been offered jobs for the past couple of seasons and has said no and stuck around and wanted to win a title. He saw an opportunity that would be a good one for himself and he took it. Give him a break. I don't know why people are so mad. I think we discussed this last week.

There are people online that are calling him a turn code and the reason why we lost is because he wasn't invested. What are we doing? Stop it. 855-212-4227. Anthony is here from Wichita. You're on the JR sport re-show. What's up, Anthony? My man, JR. Man, it's been a while since I've reached out to you. How you been doing? I'm excellent. What's going on? Oh, well, you know, I'm a very disgruntled Dallas Cowboys fan.

Okay. So for years, the Dallas Cowboys has been known as America's team. What is their new name now? If they're not America's team, they are losers. I don't know. They would be known as the American nightmare because they can't seem to finish the story. Hey, that was the best thing I could come up with.

I mean, it's Friday, right? Okay. He won a championship. Did he finish the story?

He won a championship. Well, Jerry Jones is trying to finish the story. If you call it trying to drive the team into oblivion, then you're going to finish that story. I mean, I don't know if Jerry Jones will see the end of his story. It might be done sooner than later.

Well, what's the betting prop? But no, I really want to say I really do enjoy listening to your show. You bring joy to millions of America. And I don't know if you've caught any of my podcast shit because I'm doing the video thing now. So I hope you had a chance to check them out because I want you to know I'm trying to follow in your footsteps and I hope I get to where you are. So do what you're doing. All right. Thank you, Anthony. Do better. I appreciate you for calling from Wichita. Okay. Thank you so much. Damn.

Hickey, he gave up over and under on Jerry Joe. I'm not doing that, bro. Now that's bad.

That's bad karma. I am not doing that, man. That's smart.

I like the jokes we have. Yes. Smart. Stay away from that one.

Man, I'm not doing that. What is he? Eighty two now. Eighty three. Eighty three.

I have to look it up. Exactly. But somewhere in that range. If I search Jerry Jones age. OK, he's 82. He just turned 82 on October 13th, so he got a ways to go. And if I search images under Jerry Jones age, I wonder what comes up. Just old pictures up there. He is young from like the 90s. Yeah. What a guy.

Hickey, they shouldn't do black and white photos for a guy in his 80s. That's not good. Anyway, eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. John is here from Knoxville. You're on the general sport show. What's up, John? Hey, Jay.

I love the show. As always, I got a joke. I'm going to try and blaze through it quick.

It's about Bruce of the Rooster, the horniest rooster. Hold on. Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Hickey, is this OK? Is this OK? It is OK, but I hope you're comfortable because it is a very long joke. A long joke. Oh, my. Do you think you could shorten it? Do you think?

I hope I mean, I hope I think there's some fat to trim there, but. OK. Hey, John, talk fast. Go ahead. And long story short, Bruce of the Rooster, the horniest rooster was advertised in a farmer's almanac paper. And this one farmer, his hens were not laying any eggs. So he goes, if I don't get this rooster at the auction, we're going to go bust, honey.

We don't have enough money if we don't get the eggs. So he drives to the auction and he bids and he wins, wins the rooster. He's so excited. So he throws him in the back of the truck in a pen and he gets almost home. And the pen is going nuts. He looks back and the rooster is just going crazy because he smells the females, the hens, he thinks. But he gets there, he opens the pen. Well, old horny rooster, Brewster, he jumps out and he starts going to town on Bessie, the cow and the Daisy, the cow as well.

And the dog, a female dog, anything female. He was going after it. So that farmer goes in to eat dinner and he's like, I'm so excited.

We're going to be all set. So he can't get any sleep because he hears the hens squealing all night long. So then he gets up in the morning and he sees all his hens are like basically wiped out. So he looks up on the knoll and he goes, man, where, where is Brewster? And he goes up there, he sees the vultures circle. So he goes, Oh my God, he did himself to death. So he goes up there and he looks and little rooster is Brewster is laid out with his beak is hanging out, his little tongue hanging out. And he's at his point, he's looking at him and he goes, man, he's still, he's still ready to go though. So he looked over at the farmer and he opens his one eye and they're coming down.

They're coming down. Boo. I did not stop listening. I gotta be honest, Sean. I gotta Google. I gotta Google that. Thank you, John.

Oh brother, this guy stinks. That was funny. Thank you. Who the hell was that? That was funny. That's from SpongeBob. Who said that? The octopus?

One of the fish and I go to the Krusty Krab. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was at a comedy show, right? Yeah, exactly.

It played out again. Oh brother, this guy stinks. Yeah. Yeah, that guy sucked.

Yeah, that was a terrible. Did you understand? Did you actually listen to that?

I had to make sure that it was good to go. I did. Oh, I sort of got it. Yeah.

Like, you know that the vultures are next. No, bro. I, yeah, I tuned out like one, I can't even say one, one fourth of the way. I tuned out like 20%. My goodness. That was terrible. Delivery was a poor expedite. No, the other opposite expedited. Oh yeah. Elongated.

Yeah, it was long. Oh, I need a beer. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227.

I'll get some more of your calls. This Friday, Hickey reminded me that the buses for baseball are going down to Florida. They're going to Arizona. People are starting to get ready for spring training.

I cannot believe it's here. Peter Lonzo still doesn't have a job. And the Dodgers, well, I don't know who else they added to the team. Godzilla, King Kong. They just, they got a lot of money.

And the Yankees, let's just say they can't, they can't mess with the Dodgers right now. What a world we live in. It's the JR sport reshow on the infinity sports network.

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That's 855-212-42-27. I'm going to get some more of your Friday funny jokes in a minute because the temperatures, I don't want to say the country is thawing out, but it was cold as hell all over the damn place. We're getting ready for spring training.

I know that sounds crazy. Pitchers and catchers in two weeks are going to start reporting. Damn, what an off season. What are they off? Well, the bum teams.

Hickey, what would you say? The majority of them stop October, right? No. End of October, middle of, no, middle of October. Middle of October. And November, December, January. Spring training is long.

Don't you think, Hickey, I get it. If you're a pitcher, you got to get warmed up. The other guys got to get in shape. Like that's a month. That's a long time, man. I mean, yes. Yeah. Yeah.

No, I don't disagree. I mean, it's a long time. It is. They kind of ease into it. Although nowadays athletes are always in shape, basically 24-7, 365.

So you really don't need as much time as you used to. It's a long season. You know what? You really, really got to love baseball.

So, I mean, if you're getting paid money to do it, let's be clear. Hickey, I don't know if I would want to be outside. Forget the game time. These guys are outside every day for like five hours. Hickey, they're at the ballpark. And I get it. There's real jobs.

It's not a real job. If you got a seven o'clock game, these guys are there at like one and two o'clock in the afternoon. They don't get out until, let's just say 11 at night. And then they got to turn around and do it again. Hickey, I don't want to stand out in the sun and sweat from, you know, I get it.

It gets hot, but it's cold at the beginning, depending on where you're at, depending on if you're outside. That's just, baseball season is long as hell, Hickey. Damn. All right, Anthony Rendon. I'm not making his money. You sound like him. Geez.

What did he say? This game sucks. Oh, baseball is not a priority. It's a job. That's right. That's what he said. Yeah.

Basically pay me and leave me alone. I don't want to play. Oh, my ankle hurts. How many games does he play this season?

55. That'd be my guess. Well, they're going to talk to him in spring training too, right? He hates it. I think he hates everybody. I think so. Yeah, he seems very miserable. Yeah.

Making all that money too. Can't stand the game. Anyway. But would you play, Hickey, that's a lot. All day, every day, for months, February until October? It's a job job. Yeah, but think about it. Okay. You have, depending on, you know, how good your team is, you got football season off. So you can go, you know, watch some games, act, you know, act debaucherous if you want. I'm too lazy for that stuff. Okay. Well, you can hang out. I think about, okay, you are getting, if you live here in the Northeast, right?

Let's say you're a Mets player, Yankees player, Red Sox player. You're getting paid to go live and train in Florida for six weeks. What a waste of time. Okay.

What a waste of time. You're in the warmth, in the sunshine. You escaped the cold. I'm not on a beach. I'm on dirt and grass. Yeah, but I mean, come on, these games, I mean, you're practicing in the morning. These exhibition games, they play three innings anyway, then you're off, you know, playing golf in the afternoon. They stand around and do nothing. For the first training camps, like, or spring training is about six weeks, right? I would say for the first three or four weeks, you're not doing anything.

A little fielding drill hair, some BP in the backfield. You play one inning. I mean, yes, but you're getting paid for it. Yeah. Yeah. You're in the sunshine. You play probably some golf, you know, depending on some, maybe get away from your family. Right. And it's paid vacation. Always a good thing.

Getting away from your family. It was good. The season is definitely a long, I think I could do it if I was, you know, had any skill. Okay. Not me. I'd be out in that sun hickey going, man, I smell hot dogs. Like, why, why am I standing here?

They're eating, they're drinking, they're having a beer. I'm standing out making money, but I'm standing here sweating my ass off, just standing around, hoping to catch a ball. Would you rather sweat your ass off all summer or live and practice in Green Bay and freeze your ass off and then get hit by 250 pound men running hickey at insane speeds? I'd rather play football.

No, I'm too lazy for, I don't want to do training camp. Like that's too much. Like why you got me out? You got me outside in the sun, busting my ass.

No. Full pads on, hitting people. This is why the basketball players are spoiled, bro. They're inside. They got air conditioning. All they got to do is run back and forth.

It's cardio. It's crazy. But no.

Yeah. They don't play. They don't play. They don't play. Play when they want to. They got 82 games. They don't play. Back to back.

You can skip one. Yeah. They work in the winter time. They got the whole summer off. These basketball players are done from March, right? No, March, April.

Bench scrubs get paid like $15 million a year. Yeah. Yeah. March, April. They don't got to come back to work until October.

Yeah. All summer, obviously. That's like summer. That's like back in like the school days when you have like the summer vacation.

They got it. They got a better vacation. Labor day. They start in spring and they go back in the fall, bro.

Let's think about that. Basketball is done in the spring and they go back to work in the fall. And then they work it inside. It's getting cold and they get flown all over the country. They stay at four season hotels like, bro. I mean, I'd rather do that than be a baseball player or a football player. I'd agree with that. I think I would say like in terms of lifestyle, basketball is definitely number one.

Yeah, man. Look at what Zion is doing with his life. Eating and getting paid for it.

Yeah, eating, getting paid. Joel Embiid not playing, getting paid, winning MVPs. He's going to go into the Hall of Fame, right? Has to.

For rights. I mean, is Joel Embiid going to go into the... If Joel Embiid finished today, Hall of Fame, no, right?

Or yes? The reason why I'm going to say yes is because the Basketball Hall of Fame puts everybody in. Like literally, if you play the sport, you're in the Hall of Fame. But this is like the Football Hall of Fame, let's say, in terms of actually having real standards.

I mean, I don't know how you could say yes. He's been great when he's been on the court, but he's barely been on the court. If anybody, if anybody should get booed at the Hall of Fame, at their induction, it should be Joel Embiid. Five Sixers fans. He should get, you know, he won't get booed because the Hall of Fame guys will all be in there rolling their eyes. They're a little too dignified to... Gary Payton will look down at the floor and mutter under his breath, this bleepity bleep is in the Hall of Fame. But he should get booed. He should get booed. Hickey, you know what? This is what I think he should hear. You ever, you know the Simpsons?

Of course you know the Simpsons. I love when they boo him. Do we got that clip?

Yeah, that's what Joel Embiid should hear because he's going to get into the Hall of Fame and that's going to be such a shame. This guy never played. 855-212-4227, Paul is here from Arizona. You're on the JR Sport re-show. What's up, Paul? JR, it's not like you work for a living, man. You talk on the radio. What the heck?

You're bagging on baseball play? I'm saying they do more work. I'm saying they do more. I do a lot of work. They do a lot of work, man.

They do physical tax and work all year long. I'm not comparing it, but damn. Come on, man.

If you had to work for a living, if you had to work for a living, you'd starve. You know it. Are you there?

Yeah, I'm here. I don't know if that was a joke or what that was about. No, that wasn't my joke. Hey, why does Patrick Mahomes wear number 15? Why does Patrick Mahomes wear number 15? I don't know. Go ahead.

Because if you touch him, that's how many yards you're penalized. Okay. All right.

Okay. I give you credit for that. That's creative. Did you come up with that or did somebody say that? Yeah, I was on a meme.

Oh, okay. That was good. That was a good stolen joke. I got a suggestion for your rooster guy when a guy goes to do a three-minute joke. You need a gong, like the gong show.

No, it's not the Apollo. I wish we could yank people off the stage. That'd be good too. I couldn't even follow it, man. I'd rather go to Sunday school. You know what I mean? Well, I mean, there's some... Nevermind.

I'm not going to say anything about Sunday school. Hey, Paul, thank you for calling from Arizona. Okay. All right. Thank you, man. All right.

Thank you so much. Hickey, I'll say this. This is a bad... Hickey, this is a terrible thing to say, but I'm going to say it. You ready for this, Hickey?

Oh, I'm very ready. The girls at Sunday school, when I went, they were hot, man. Those girls were hot, Hickey.

They were hot. You love Jesus now all of a sudden, huh? Yeah, them girls were... Hickey? Man, I love God. Yeah, Hickey, when I was in Sunday school as a kid, I'm like, man... And I only got to see them girls once a week. I'm like, man, I'm going, okay?

Can I ask a dumb question? Because I went to Catholic school, so I never did the whole Sunday school thing. Aren't they just the same people in your class, like in your normal school? Well, I mean, not everybody, the same school... The school might be close by to the church, but it doesn't mean that you go to the same school, you know? Oh, okay.

Okay. Like zone schooling. What do you call it? Something like that, you know? Okay, so let's just say your parents, when it came to Sunday, they didn't have to say, all right, Jay, let's go. Let's drag out of the house, go to Sunday school. You're leading the way, huh?

No, I didn't. I was looking for them girls. Don't worry, I'm already going. Don't have to remind me. I'm already there.

I'll be there 15 minutes early, pick up my seat. I was looking. I was looking, that's right. Oh yeah.

And shout outs to Sunday school. I miss it. Can't do that. Can you do, you can do that as an adult, right? No, you can't. It's not good, right? No, you definitely can.

There's no age requirement or limit. No, but I'm saying people, people are there. People go to church to, I guess, is that a good place to find a partner?

Right? I don't know. Oh, like a pickup place. Oh, um. Yeah. Is it inappropriate?

Should I try? I don't know. The bar scene's getting a little dry for you. Same old, same old. Yeah.

You go to a bar on Friday, Sunday, go to church. Yeah. Why not? I like that. You know what?

I, I like that idea. You should try it out. Picky. There are picky. Let me tell you something. Oh, this is bad. This is all bad stuff. Why am I saying these things on the radio? Oh my God.

This is all one joke. This is just part of the Friday funny Icky. There was a stripper on a Sunday morning at like 2 AM. Icky, you know what she told me she had to leave to go to do at 2 AM on a Sunday. Don't tell me she, no, she said she had to, she was doing all the things that a stripper would do.

And then she told me, she says, I got to get up in the morning and go to church. I'll see you later. Wow. I said, okay. All right. Yeah. You know what? Okay.

That's church and state. Yeah. Balance.

Right. It's just a job. Just a job. That's the job that's has to be a first and maybe only time you hear that. There's a lot of people that do that.

Icky a lot. I mean, a lot of people, Icky, I've been out on a Saturday night and have said, oh, yeah, it's been a long time. I said, let me go to church. It's been a minute.

But I wasn't taking my clothes off. You know, That's, that's true. Yeah.

Interesting. Listen, he don't go to church. Nobody goes to be judged. How about that? You go to absolve sins and that's a good place to go.

Ask for forgiveness. There you go. 855-212-4227. This, Icky, this is why they were booing Ned Flanders. Okay.

That's why they were booing Ned Flanders. Yep. 855-212-4227. We're going to get to more of your calls as we wrap things up. And we're going to hear from the miserable Yankees owner. We're going to talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history.

And then we're going to go before I go up in flames. You're listening to the JR sport brief. It's the JR sport brief show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. I'm going to get to your calls.

We're going to talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history. As we talked about baseball getting ready for spring training, we all know that the Dodgers have just spent a ridiculous amount of money. They have a payroll right now of $370 million. In order to go past the tax threshold, it's at like 301, 305.

And there's like four different levels. The Dodgers have blown clear by it. They got to pass the tax threshold.

They've blown clear by it. They got a payroll of 370 mil. The Phillies got a payroll of 308 million. The Yankees are at 303. And the Mets are at 294. Miami has a payroll of $67 million.

Okay. Look, everybody can pay what they want to pay when it comes to salary and baseball. But you tell me how fair this is. And so now that the Yankees are getting a taste of their own medicine, just buying everybody, not spending all willy nilly. Their owner, Hal Steinbrenner, he was on the Yes Network.

And he was like, man, the Dodgers? Well, yeah, they kicking our ass. It's difficult for most of us owners to be able to do the kind of things that they're doing. Now we'll see if it pays off. They still have to have a season relatively injury free for it to work out for them. And it's a long season, as you know. And once you get to the postseason, anything can happen.

We've seen that time and time again. So we'll see who's there at the end and if they're the ones. Yeah, we know George Steinbrenner is no longer here. Okay. And I don't know, maybe if he was here, maybe he would he be trying to outspend him?

I don't know. Different era, different time history. A matter of fact, it's time to take a look at 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. It is the JR Sport Brief Show here on the Infinity Sports Network. Today is Friday, January 31st, 2025. But on January 31st, 1988, the former Redskins, they won the Super Bowl. They beat the Broncos. They smashed them 42 to 10.

Take a listen to this courtesy of ABC. Yeah, Doug Williams walked away with that MVP first black QB to do so. January 31st, 1999, another Super Bowl. This time, the Broncos beat the Falcons 34 to 19. John Elway, he got busy. One passing touchdown, one rushing touchdown, 336 yards passing. Listen to this NBC. 16 years of your last game.

You might as well get one that way, too. Elway, the most valuable player. Grabbed first by Neil Smith, then by Shannon Sharp, and then by Mike Shanahan. John Elway could be the most valuable player for a lot of years, can't he? I think that's what John Elway's doing. He can't stop giggling. And I know that feeling.

I've been there, I've seen that, and all you do is walk around and giggle. Listen, that man won two championships at the end of his career and exited stage left. What a good deal for him.

Anyway, those are a few things that took place this day in sports history. Let's get in more of your calls before we roll out. 855-212-4227. Brad is here from Iowa. You're on the JR Sportbreeze show. What's up, Brad? Hey, how you guys doing?

Thanks for all you and hickey do. I've got a joke for you. Two women are enjoying a nice lunch and they're chatting. And the first woman says, I'm having a tummy tuck. And the second woman says, that's great. I'm having my butthole bleached. And the first woman says, I'm not sure what your husband will look like as a blonde. Oh my goodness. Okay. I like that.

That's a nice way to call the husband a butthole. Am I following Brad? Yes, you are. And I'm kind of surprised. Hickey shut me down, but since I've been on hold listing. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Hickey, where the hell was he going with that one? Do we know? I don't know.

But the first time he told the joke, yeah, it was not as clean as that. So I don't. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, Brad.

Thank you for calling from Iowa. Okay. Thank you. We got a... Brad, we got a license we have to uphold. You got values. Okay. Family friendly show, Brad.

That's right, Brad. Come on, man. 855-212-4227. John is calling from Baltimore. What's up, John?

Hey, hi. Before I get to my joke, Doug Williams with the Redskins win, there was something really funny after that. A sports writer asked him how long he had been a black quarterback. That really happened. Yeah, I think I vaguely remember that.

I've spoken to Doug Williams. I vaguely remember that. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, I heard this joke almost 50 years ago, and it's still the best one I've ever heard.

Okay. A Scotsman is tired, so he sits down by the side of a road with his back against a tree, and he goes to sleep, a very deep sleep. A few minutes later, a little bit later, a body little vast comes by, blonde hair, blue ribbons in her hair, so forth, and she looks and she sees him, and she sees he's in a deep sleep and says, hey, this is my chance to see, to answer the age old question. What does the Scotsman wear under his kilt? So she tipped those over, lifts the kilt, and discovers, to her surprise, that a Scotsman wears nothing.

How can I let him know that somebody has found out, she says, as he scratches her head? Oh, she takes one of her little blue ribbons and ties a bow and replaces the kilt and goes on her way. A little while later, the Scotsman wakes up and he yawns and he stretches, and he realizes something is different.

He hops up, runs around the tree, lifts his kilt, looks, flanks, thinks, well, Laddie, I don't know whether you've been or what you've been doing, but I'm certainly glad you won first prize. Okay, I don't get, I don't get it, John. I was trying to pay attention.

I don't get it. Except for the blue ribbon. On his stuff. Yeah, and he sees the blue ribbon.

Right. I don't know where you've been, what you've been doing, but I'm certainly glad you won first prize. What do you get for first prize?

A blue ribbon, right? I'm scratching, I'm scratching my head like the woman. I'm scratching my head like the lady.

I'm like, what am I doing here? That's the funniest thing this evening. I knew, I knew, I knew, I knew it was going to be a kilt joke.

When you said Scotsman, I knew exactly where it was going. But John, I appreciate you for calling from Baltimore, man. I got to shut up in a second. Okay.

Okay. Thank you, John. At least he's laughing.

He's laughing. Hickey, we ended on a happy note. Everyone's happy going into the weekend as it should be.

As it should be. Listen, Hickey, when are you on the air? Sunday night, 10 PM Eastern, 7 Pacific right here on the Infinity Sports Network. And make sure you, Hickey, tell them where to follow you too. On Twitter, Ryan underscore Hickey and the number three.

Yeah. We'll be back together Monday at 6 PM Eastern, 3 Pacific. You can find me online at JR Sport Brief. Of course, it's Super Bowl week. We got a lot of interviews coming up and just a lot of people talking about, guess what?

The Super Bowl. You can find me online at JR Sport Brief. Thank you so much for tuning in. We appreciate you and all of your calls.

Even the bad jokes too. Okay. Be safe. Be well. Be cool. Be smooth. The JR Sport Brief Show on the Infinity Sports Network is done. Don't move. Bart Winkler coming up next. Have a wonderful weekend folks.