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I'll be hanging out with you for the next three hours. This show gets started every weekday, 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. We've already had a busy show. We talked about some of the changes that the NFL will implement this year, like moving the touchback line to encourage more kickoff returns. The NFL has now looked at overtime and they're saying everybody gets a shot to score in overtime. It doesn't matter if it's the regular season or the postseason.
That's pretty nice. And then, of course, this is what I'm thrilled about. The NFL is now going to utilize Sony Hawkeye technology to help determine and measure first downs. No more guys in their underwear with the chains wobbling out onto the field to determine if there's a first down. Thank God. And then the NFL, they said, we're not going to worry about the tush push, even though half the league, half the league owners have said we want to get rid of it.
Screw those owners. Keep the tush push. Anyway, we got so much more to get into.
Hey, how about this? We're going to be joined next hour by Garrett Padel. Covers all things NFL for CBS Sports. We'll get his thoughts as the NFL owners meetings continue on down in Florida. Right before the break, we heard from one of the teams, the New York Giants, their owner, well, not their owner, their head coach spoke. Brian Debo, he explained that, yeah, we got Russell Wilson. Yeah, we got Jamis Winston, but we still might add a another quarterback. Maybe I'm not pressed.
I'm not feeling forced to do so. The New York Giants had a three and 14 record last year. They should feel every inch of pressure to add a franchise quarterback to actually build for the team and actually save their own behinds. Brian Debo, the head coach and Joe Shane, their general manager. Well, I said the New York Giants is like dumb and dumber in the NFC East.
You could say that the New York Giants are dumb and the Dallas Cowboys are dumber. I'll explain in a second. If you missed last hour of the show, you can hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. Thank you to people listening live on their local Infinity Sports Network affiliate. If you got Sirius XM, it's channel 375. And if you got a smart speaker, ask the speaker to play the Infinity Sports Network. It's really that simple. You can find me online at JR Sport Brief.
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That's 888-710-4ISN. How could an NFL team be done and another NFL team be dumber? It's real simple. The dumber team could be the Dallas Cowboys.
And that's not going to be difficult when you have an owner. I don't want to call the guy dumb. This man is leading an NFL franchise that's worth north of $10 billion. I'm not going to call Jerry Jones dumb.
It's not necessary when it comes to making actual football decisions related to his roster. He's dumb. He's made dumb decisions. OK, he's not a dumb businessman. Some people are just stupid because they don't know how to get out of their own way. We all know somebody like that.
The smartest person in the room. The Dallas Cowboys at this point in time, they're almost 30 years away from their last championship. We got to go back to I don't know when Jimmy Johnson still had his fingerprints on the team and Switzer had to come over and come through and take his roster and win. We have to almost go back to the beginning of Jerry's time with the Dallas Cowboys when they last reached the ultimate success.
And now Jerry Jones, all ages of all years of 82, he'll be 83 in October. The man had the temerity last year to actually say there is no better person qualified to run this team than him. Like he actually said that.
What the hell is this guy's problem? Has he not seen the lack of success? He's also delusional. He has said that we've been in the same place as a team like the the Kansas City Chiefs. What world is Jerry Jones living in?
Just a world of delusion, it said. And so if the Dallas Cowboys just suffered another season riddled with injuries, a year where Dak goes down again, even though Dak now has a 60 million dollar contract. They got a new head coach and Brian Schottenheimer, he comes in, son of Marty.
And they're supposed to fix things how? They ain't had nobody worth a damn. And then you got to figure out how you're going to pay Michael Parsons. Yeah, Michael Parsons, a four time Pro Bowler. The guy who was also hurt last year feels like he gets hurt every year.
He still had 12 sacks in 13 games when he's actually healthy. Michael Parsons isn't just someone who is one of the top podcasters when it comes to athletes. He's one of the premier pass rushers in the entire NFL. And when you think about some of the contracts that have been handed out just over the past several months. Max Crosby from the Raiders for about a week was the highest paid non quarterback in the NFL.
Thirty five and a half million dollars per year. You think about Miles Garrett. This man became the highest paid non quarterback in the entire league, making 40 million dollars a year. And then we had a wide receiver in Jamar Chase come by and make a half more million dollars than him. And so Michael Parsons, who's been looking for a contract now, at least for the better part of a year, who's also entering into the final year of his contract, the Dallas Cowboys do what they always do.
They wait until the final minute to get a deal done. This isn't this isn't great strategy when it comes to sports, because somebody else is going to jump in front of you and make the price go up, which you've already seen here with Crosby, what we've seen here with Miles Garrett, we've also seen here in Jamar Chase. Dallas Cowboys like paying more money than they need to. Like why in a reasonable world, outside of playing for the Dallas Cowboys, would Dak Prescott command the highest paid salary in the NFL at the quarterback position? Why is Dak making 60 mil a year? Patrick Mahomes is making less. Josh Allen is making less. Lamar Jackson is making less. Lamar Jackson is making less. Every single human being in the NFL is making less money per year on an average basis than Dak Prescott.
Why? Because the Dallas Cowboys are stupid. And so now they're going to pay Michael Parsons more money than they needed to. Or Michael Parsons is smart because he knows the Cowboys are stupid. Might as well take advantage of them.
Might as well. And so Jerry Jones, always good for a laugh or a comedy or a tragedy. Jerry Jones spoke to the media today and he let everybody know that he is actually working on a deal with Michael Parsons. And he says he's kind of doing it directly. Listen to this. Well, I know that I've spent five, six hours with him myself and had a lot of discussions.
Most of the issues are in agreement and I've discussed it all. But we obviously don't have an agreement relative to a new contract. A new contract.
Michael's under contract. And so we'll see how that goes. It's not uncommon for me to visit directly with players. Oh, it's not uncommon for me to just kind of work this out directly with players.
Oh my goodness. It's not uncommon. I mean, most players have agents. This isn't Lamar Jackson who operated without an agent.
It was him and his mom. And people were beating the living hell out of him verbally for negotiating his contract a couple of years ago. And he ended up with a good deal, $52 million a year. People said, oh, he's stupid for not utilizing an agent. Man, he's about to cash in again on a new contract, according to the Ravens, as we discussed yesterday. And so why Jerry Jones is chatting with him is not unusual.
Let's think about this. The agents work for the players. The players don't work for the agents. And I also believe that the agents, they only collect, I don't think they're allowed to make more than 3%, definitely not more than 4% of a player's contract. And so you have to be a super agent in order to actually have this be lucrative.
You know, you get what I'm saying? You got to have multiple clients, if you really want to make some money, plus you add in the fees that are involved in a lot of these agents. In order to recruit these players as youths, they have to, you know, advance money, it's expensive to be an agent.
That's why there's a handful who really handle business. Michael Parsons agent is one of them. His name is David Miller-Getter. He's from Athletes First. It's an agency and he handles the sports division.
He got the job coming out of Nebraska. Jamal Charles, the running back was a good friend of his. And so he met Jamal Charles agent at the time. He liked David Miller-Getter and he offered him a position to be an agent and nothing that he ever considered. And damn it, last year, David Miller-Getter was the first agent in NFL history, you know, the salaries have gone up, to negotiate more than $1 billion in a calendar year, giving deals for guys like Jalen Ramsey, Deshaun Watson, yeah, that guy's making a lot of money to do nothing, Buddha Baker. And then we just talked about it, Michael Parsons, who's going to get a massive deal all on his own. And so maybe there's good reason for Jerry Jones not to want to talk to David Miller-Getter because the price is likely going to go up. But also at the same time, there's nothing wrong with the talent talking to the people who write the checks. But ultimately you want the agent to help out.
You want the agent, you want the manager to provide guidance because they have a better idea of what's been handed out in the landscape in front of them. And so Jerry Jones, it was rather odd of him today, not to say that he has spoken with Micah directly. That's cool. But then he made a joke. I don't know if this is an April Fool's joke.
I don't think so. I don't think Jerry Jones knows what day it is. But anyway, Jerry Jones says he doesn't even know who his agent is. The agent is not a factor here or something to worry about.
And I don't know his name. And so my point is that I'm not trying to demean you in any way, but this isn't about an agent. The agent doesn't have one thing to do with what we're doing when we get on the football field against the team. Micah does.
To the degree I'm involved, I do. The people that have something to do with what we do going forward relative to our fans in football are me and the player, not the agent. No, that's that's not cool, man.
That's not cool. Like he's a part of the process. He has an agent. And whether or not he's a part of the process right now, he's representing Michael Parsons. Like that's a nasty thing to say about a guy. You're basically undercutting him. And I hope David Malagueta will make him pay. And I hope he does, because Jerry Jones is an idiot.
And you know what? Michael Parsons is not an idiot. I don't particularly care for his podcast.
I've never listened to it. I got no interest based on some of the things I've heard Michael Parsons say. Michael Parsons went on social media. And he pretty much had a response to this news of Jerry Jones not having to deal with his agent, but having to directly deal with Michael Parsons.
Michael Parsons went on X. And he responded to this by pretty much saying, David Malagueta is the best. And I will not be doing any deal without him involved.
Like anyone with good sense, I hired experts for a reason. There is no one I trust more when it comes to negotiating contracts than David. There will be no back doors in this contract negotiation. And Jalen Ramsey co-signs as David Malagueta is his agent as well. And I know David Malagueta is now licking his chops. He has the leverage now. David Malagueta can call the shots.
And we've had this discussion. If you're Michael Parsons, just based on the Dallas Cowboys and how they run and how they operate, there's a chance that this could bleed into training camp. That Michael Parsons could miss time unless he gets the deal that he wants. If I'm Michael Parsons, if I'm David Malagueta, I'm making sure that the price, that it goes up. Just because Jerry Jones put his foot in his mouth.
And so now I'm going to make him eat his words. Because Jerry Jones is going to be asked about this if Michael Parsons doesn't show up. Well, you said you were talking about Michael Parsons, but what happened?
Well, you were saying the agent is not a factor. So what happened? Jerry Jones is a doof for this one. A doof, a goof, a doofus. He's a fill in the blank, fill in the blank with whatever you want. He just digs himself a hole. He's the owner.
What are you going to do? You can't make the guy shut up. You know, his sons can't rein him in. One of these sons can't rein him in. One of these old billionaire guys gets to talk and they just get to talking and stupid things come out. I personally hope, and I got no skin in the game, I'm not getting a percentage, but I personally hope that David Malagueta makes him pay. Because what Jerry Jones said was absolutely stupid.
And this isn't stupid as much as it's funny. Jerry Jones saying that I don't need to talk to the agent. I don't even know who he is.
And no, I'm not trying to undercut him, but I don't know who he is. Jerry Jones made it very clear. Me and Micah are going to do this deal. And one of the reasons we have such a close relationship that Micah Parsons is one of only three people, three who have Jerry's cell phone number.
Listen to this. And have you spoken with this agent about this? Micah is one of three individuals that has my Super Bowl number. He asked, I mean, has my cell phone number. He asked for it about a month ago and said, I want to be able to talk to you at any time. And I said, Micah, you're one of the few, but we'll talk anytime.
Call me. Oh, my God. Hickey, he didn't know what the difference is between a Super Bowl number and a cell phone number. After what we just heard, that is not surprising. Classic, you know, Super Bowl cell phone slip up there, you know, because he's always talking about two only as one.
Yeah, Super Bowl cell phone, same thing to Jerry Jones. Oh, my goodness. Hickey, this isn't going to work out for him. You know, I don't care.
I didn't care. I'm rooting for Micah Parsons. I'm rooting for him to get a deal. I hope that he takes Jerry Jones for everything that he can out of him. And I hope he makes him wait. What do you think about these comments today? I don't I don't think he helped himself in negotiating. Oh, not at all. I'm with you a million percent.
He only gave Micah even more leverage than he already has, which he was on par to become the highest paid non QB anyway. Always be right in that realm. Now I think there's no question about that he's going to get there. I don't see how this doesn't end in a I mean, I feel like we taught this of what, two months ago. Does this not scream hold out?
Oh, it screams with this. If I'm David Malagueta and I'm Micah Parsons, Hickey, the minute that we heard that, I'll be they're on the phone with each other and they're rubbing their hands together. They're going like this man just he rolled out.
He rolled out a trap and stepped into it himself. He's there's for the taking. I take him for whatever they want.
It's like, OK, we'll show you. Oh, it's between the player and you. Oh, you don't even know who I am. Well, you're going to know who I am now.
If I'm Micah Parsons, I'm forget. Oh, he's going to be a part of the negotiations. I'm calling Jerry and I'm saying, hey, you got to talk to him now. That's it. Like me and you have spoken.
You've made it very clear what you want out of me. He's going to be the one to finalize it. Just it never ceases to amaze me. That that someone who owns something that's worth 10 billion dollars can just just make these ridiculous mistakes, but I can't be shocked because Jerry Jones, he's doing it every single year and somehow some way he finds a way to one up himself. I don't know who the guy's agent is. I talk to him directly. He has nothing to do with what we do because he doesn't play on a football field.
And I'm the one who writes the checks and he's the one who plays. And so I'm not worried about an agent like, come on, man. Dallas Cowboys are screwed. Like there's not even a conversation about Dallas Cowboys competing in the NFC East. There's not a conversation about what they do in the draft. There's no conversation about competing for a Super Bowl. There's no conversation about the health of Dak Prescott. The conversation is literally about the crazy old dude who runs the team.
That's it. And if you're a Dallas Cowboys fan, that has to suck for you. I think we've gotten away from the era of, hey, who you're a fan of?
Well, I like the Lakers, the Yankees and the Dallas Cowboys. I think we're moving away from that era because there are 30 year olds who have never seen the Dallas Cowboys win a thing. And for the guy who runs the team soon to be 83 later on this year, man, he was, he was in his early 50s the last time they won. Now he's 83. He got, he got, there's a good chance he doesn't see another championship.
Let's just go ahead and put it that way. If he's lucky and this will never happen, not on his own free will, if he's lucky, somebody will convince him, dad, hey, let go of the team. Let somebody else do it. You still own it, but let somebody else do it. Yeah.
You thought the New York giants were dumb, what they were doing with Daniel Jones, the Dallas Cowboys are just dumber. Period. 888-710-4ISN.
That's 888-710-4ISN. We're going to take a break. And when we come back, yeah, Michael Parsons, I don't think he's going anywhere. Where is he going?
Nowhere. He's just going to make Jerry pay him. We're going to talk about an individual in the NBA. He's already been paid and he might be moving along despite his bad behavior.
The phone lines are open if you want to give me a holler. When we come back, I'm going to tell you about this NBA player who might be on the move. You're locked into the JR Sport Brief Show, the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. It is the JR Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network.
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The win? It was the 11th in the last 14 games for the Clippers, who are now just a half game from escaping the playing tournament. Yeah, I got to get used to this stupid playing. I'm like, man, you one through eight, you in. Now we got seven to ten, got to play some garbage games at the end of the year so the NBA could make more money. What a shock.
Nothing too crazy. Just extra basketball. I mean, the Atlanta Hawks put up a post the other day. They're like, hey, we made the playing tournament.
I'm just like, okay, this is something to be proud of. All right, then. Well, extra basketball at minimum, two games for everybody. Speaking of basketball, you know, we talked about Jerry Jones. Dallas Cowboys are stupid.
At least they're dumb. He makes dumb decisions. I have no idea what the Memphis Grizzlies or what they're doing. They got rid of head coach Taylor Jenkins. They hired the lead assistant who they just put in charge at the beginning of the year. At the beginning of the year, the Memphis Grizzlies, they kind of pulled the Dallas Cowboys. They basically pulled and fired all of Taylor Jenkins staff.
And kind of undermined him and in no surprise that they fired him, but to do it like two weeks before the playoffs starts is kind of crazy. And so amongst all of this, it's been reported that John Moran did not like the new offense. Well, John Moran has only played in 44 games this year, only averaging 22 points and seven assists. He's never been a marksman from three, but 29% from downtown is not going to cut it for a guy who makes his living going to the basket, even though he's slight.
I don't know, John Moran got to be what, 6'1", 6'2", 100 and nothing pounds. And he plays violent. He's aggressive on his way to the basket. That's why he's always hurt. Like last year when he busted up his shoulder or the year before that, where he busted up his shoulder.
And speaking of busting up his shoulder, the guy also, I guess he had a busted up brain. He had incidents where he was suspended for waving guns on the internet, taking a gun to a strip club. At one point, the NBA suspended him for 25 games after he was suspended for eight games and apologized. No gun incidents, but he's just been hurt, not available. I guess what a shock that Taylor Jenkins gets fired and he is immediately back on the court.
What a surprise, right? John Moran, by the way, is also in the midst of a maximum contract, five years, $194 million. If he didn't have these gun incidents, he'd be making $233 million.
I would think somehow some way that he is not going broke either way. And apparently he's utilizing his influence inside the organization, even though over the past couple of seasons, why in the heck would you trust John Moran? Having guns in the strip club, waving around guns on Instagram, whether they were real or fake, he was investigated. People in his group were allegedly waving guns at members of the Indiana Pacers in the back of an arena that was unfounded.
He wasn't punished for that. There was the time that he punched the kid at his house at a pickup basketball game. And when I say kid, yeah, he was a kid. He was like a teenager. There was the time he got into an altercation at the mall. Hickey, now that I rattle all these things out or off, does John Moran play basketball or is he just a menace to society?
Which one is it? I don't know. Sounds like the latter.
Sounds like the latter. Damn. Nothing crazy over the past, I don't know, year outside of being hurt. And so today we got some news and we got some word. Sam Amick, he was on FanDuel TV and he basically said John Moran, he could potentially be moved over the summer.
What? Zach Kleiman, the Grizzlies GM, this was probably three weeks ago. My buddy and colleague from the ringer Howard Beck had said on a podcast that he heard that that we should all look out for John and maybe be on the move. I thought it was fascinating that Zach, it wasn't even a hard report. It wasn't headlines and breaking news, just something somebody said on a podcast that made the rounds. And next thing you know, Zach is publicly commenting on it and saying that other teams can keep dreaming and we're not going to move job.
But it's in the same, again, a little bit of the same vibe of the Fox situation, which is like, all right, keep your eyes on it and see where it goes. Yeah, the Aaron Fox, the guy shows up to work. You never hear a peep from the guy playing out in Sacramento.
You never hear a peep from the guy. I just went through a whole entire list of nonsense from John Moran. And this is the guy now who's going to dictate where he goes and what he wants to do. He maybe wants out from the Memphis Grizzlies like, come on.
Like we went through this with with Jimmy Butler, who's at the end of his career, but still got a conversation about a contract extension that has been proven to be hurt, doesn't play. And so what is John Moran going to follow the Jimmy Butler handbook? At least Jimmy Butler has been a pain in the ass on the basketball court. He's selling coffee off the court. He's not waving around guns on Instagram like this would set. You thought Jimmy Butler said a bad precedent. John Moran is getting a bus through that door if he demands out. And this is the guy that Nike kind of hope would pick up the mantle once LeBron James leaves. Well, let's be real. Who's buying Lebron's anyway? They are hoping that John Moran was the future of Nike. It doesn't look like he's the future of anything.
And also, speaking of John Moran, someone who is a draft contemporary, Zion Williamson. Hickey, did you did you realize Zion is out for the season? I did not. Yeah, this is back. This is back. Oh, yeah. Back. This is back now. You know, carrying too much weight, carrying the weight of the franchise on his back.
Yeah. But I thought he got lighter. So shouldn't that weight on his back be less? He has a bone bruise in his back. Oh, so I guess maybe not enough padding is the problem. He's too skinny now, I guess. I don't know. Oh, his boys could help him out.
Both boys would give him some more cushion and that it would maybe less bone bruises on the back. They had a pelican say that Zion's rehab will consist of rest and treatment. There you go.
You have plenty of rest between now and October, I guess. Huh? How much money? How much money they're going to collect from him? Not enough for Zion to care, huh? I guess not. Clearly not.
Bruh. Is it too late? I think about this.
Is it too late for me to get a deal? I could sit on the bench. Like, why can't I be the Amir Khan of a basketball team? I'll carry the boombox, Hickey. You know, some people in the Hawks go talk to him, make a deal happen.
You know what? That'll bring some juice to the playing tournament. Oh my God. Hickey, I don't miss out is JR. Hickey, the Hawks run guys on. I'm like, who the hell is that guy?
Like, I'm at the game. I'm going, who the heck is that guy? No idea. Hickey, I went to a game and I saw a Trey Young and I had to go, who are the other four white guys on the team with Trey Young running up and down on the court? I had no idea who these guys were. Did they sneak into the locker room? They just fans that got a Jersey? I don't know. Maybe they had a promotion I missed out on. I'm like, who are these guys? Like we traded away our best player. I don't know what they're doing.
I see Landry Fields walking around all the time. I see him, he walks around and, you know, Kyle Korver, they walk around and I see, I'm just like, I'm not even, what am I going to ask? I'm not going to get an answer. You know, I don't know what they're doing. Maybe my next question needs to be, can I play? And at that point, Landry Fields will look at me and he'll look down at me and go, play what? Like, what do you want to do? I don't know.
It's not good, Hickey. These guys get a lot of money to do nothing. Whenever the CBA expires in another, I don't know, three, five years or what have you, I really do think there's going to be hell to play for the players because this is just ridiculous. The amount of money, and it's not everybody, but when you get in strong arm like this, the Jimmy Butlers and John Moran hasn't asked out, there's going to come a point of reckoning.
Ben Simmons and Jimmy Butler, people are going to remember this, man. So do you go like with the NFL structure is basically you play, you get paid by game checks? Oh, I don't think that's going to be tough to go back from, you know, guaranteed deals and things like that. I don't think so. It's tough that, I mean, they are going to, they're going to, it may, I don't know, guaranteed money is the only way that might be it.
I don't know. Maybe you have to reach a point of seniority to get the deals. Maybe they structure the contracts in such a way. Hey, you get this rookie contract, but we will not unlock it.
And the second part isn't guaranteed, unless you play this amount. Like there have to be triggers for these guys to show up and make this money because the cash is going up and up and up. And so what happens when we have an NBA player and maybe not Victor, when Ben, yeah, I think that guy would, would go all the way through to playing a game. I don't think he's sitting out just because, but what happens when we have an NBA player making $100 million a year and he's making $100 million a year for five years, he's making half a billion dollars on five years and he doesn't play like the NFL already looks at, you know, what the Haslam's did with Deshaun Watson.
They look at them like idiots. What happens when the NBA just goes further than that and guys don't show up to work like push eventually is going to come to shove. And so for John Moran, maybe potentially thinking about asking out, just, just mark that down for the owners to pitch a fit and rightfully so in a few years. It's just not good all across the board, but we'll see what happens in the summertime 888-710-4ISN.
That's 888-710-4ISN. You're locked into the JR sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. You know what? They said that John Moran might follow, you know, the, the Sacramento Kings playbook when it comes to De'Aaron Fox. When we come back, we're going to talk about a baseball team playing in Sacramento.
And then we'll talk about an NFL team a little further south in the Bay Area that they're trying to make someone highly paid as well. That's Brock Purdy. You're listening to the JR sport brief. It is the JR sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. 888-710-4ISN.
That's 888-710-4ISN. Right before we went to break, we talked about John Moran. Yeah. Last time we talked about him in any type of an extensive way, he was being suspended for being an idiot, waving around guns on Instagram, waving around guns at a strip club.
It was just all bad all the way through. And now apparently after Taylor Jenkins has been fired, John Moran may want out from Memphis. These are not his words, has been reported. Could be a rumor, could be true, but would you be, would you be surprised? Would he be shocked if an NBA player asked out despite being in the midst of a gigantic contract?
The answer is no, not at all. And so we'll find out soon enough what the deal is with John Moran because the Memphis Grizzlies must be really ain't going nowhere. Not a competitive basketball team.
It just, they just exist. Like a lot of ball teams and they're pretty much in the hands of John Moran and what he wants to do. So it's been reported he may pull a De'Aaron Fox. Y'all are crazy. I don't know what y'all are doing. I wouldn't mind leaving.
We'll see what happens with John Moran. Everybody in Sacramento, that's also another NBA team going anywhere. But good on Sacramento because they now have because they now have the athletics.
Despite the fact the athletics have left Oakland, their long term destination is Las Vegas. They are pretty much not really acknowledging the fact that they're in Sacramento besides a patch on their sleeve. Like they're staying on your couch, but they're not, they're not saying thank you. You know, they're staying on your couch, but they didn't, they didn't make up the blanket that they gave. They just left the blanket on the floor and left. This is basically how the, the athletics, I don't even know what to call them, but this is how the athletics are treating Sacramento. They're like, we're going to stay here for a little while, but we're really not going to acknowledge you.
Yeah, you are right. The couchsurfer without even being gracious enough to say thanks, clean up after themselves. And not saying good morning, Hickey. Imagine somebody stays on your couch and you wake up to come out into your own house and there they are on the couch and you walk by and they don't even say good morning. They don't clean up. Don't say thank you.
They don't do anything. Not even having the team name or the location of the team name, just the athletics. Yeah. No acknowledgement of Sacramento.
Like share. And maybe this is an omen for them because yesterday the athletics had their first home game in their new home of Sacramento, dare I say, and they lost to the Chicago Cubs. The score was 18 to three, but I guess everybody in Sacramento, some people in Sac town there, they're still happy about this. At least the news, the local news, ABC 10 in Sacramento, they made this seem like this was a, a joyous occasion.
Listen to this. For fans that I spoke with, this was a special moment to see major league baseball in the Sacramento region. And even though the A's are only expected to be here for a few years and for the fans, this was just an emotional night. And as this chapter signals a mix of anticipation and hope. The excitement was undeniable.
More than 14,000 fans packed Sutter health park to witness history as the A's take the field for the first home game in West Sacramento against the Chicago Cubs. The historic day and a good for Sacramento. Hickey, do you feel the excitement? Everybody sounds so excited, right? Yeah. So excited, right? Very, you can feel it coming through the radio.
It's like, Oh, well, it's such an intimate environment. A mind, a monolique park to watch the games. Apparently the radio feed went out a couple of times. So if you were listening on the radio, you couldn't hear the announcers.
They had the patch in the TV broadcast onto the radio because it kept breaking. And then when it came down to, you know, have the media availability at the end of the game with the manager, they created and built a shed, a very small shed to have the post game. And so they're expected to be here for the next, I don't know, two or three years. Wow.
Okay. Let's see what investment the athletics put into Sacramento. It doesn't look good right now.
Good luck to the fans. I wonder how long before they stop showing up. 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4ISN. Lee is here from Cincinnati. You're on the JR Sport Brief Show.
Hey JR, I just got a major question for you because your knowledge of everything is pretty darn good. So let me ask you this. The torpedo bats, what do you think about them? Do you think they're legal? Do you think they'll stick around? And how do you think they're going to affect baseball?
Okay, I'll answer that, Lee. Thank you for calling from Cincinnati. Are they legal? Do I think they're legal? Major League Baseball, they implement the rules. They say that the bat is legal. Like when it comes to having a bat in Major League Baseball, the bat has to be a certain length. It has to be a certain circumference and it has to be continuously made out of wood. Like you can't go up there swinging a redesigned fork at the baseball, you know, in the batting. Hickey, what are they called?
The batter's box. You can't go up there swinging a fork and, or Hickey, can you? Would that be legal? That's a continuous piece of wood, right?
Yeah, I guess technically you are right. There's no length minimum. Like it doesn't have to be at least 21 inches or 30 inches. I guess you could go with a fork if you want to. Well, I guess when they say continuous, I mean a cylinder shape, maybe that, right?
That would discount me swinging a fork up there. So like the M jacket at the end would say no good? Yeah, like the Mariners logo. What is that? A triad? Yeah.
If I swung a triad end up there, I'd have three chances of hitting a baseball, but that's not continuous. That's, I don't know what the hell it is. It's not a bat anymore. It's a fork.
You can't do that at that point in time. You know what? We're going to take a break. And when we come back, let's talk more about this torpedo bat situation because obviously it's legal. It's not just the New York Yankees who are using it. We got a lot of teams that have used it. We got plenty of players who have used it, who are using it. And then we have teams and other players who are ordering their own torpedo bats. Is it legal? The answer is yes. You know what? Matter of fact, we'll also hear from the guy who invented the torpedo bat. Is it good, bad? We'll get into that on the other side. It's the J.R. support b-show Coast to Coast on the Infinity Sports Network.
