HOUR 1 | Utah Jazz Rumors | Reggie Jackson Recalls Struggles Playing In Birmingham | Rebuild Or T…
hey this is JJ and Alex as you wrap up your day it’s time to get your fix of the teams you live for and the sports you love this is JJ and Alex presented by G2G bars on 975 the KSL Sports Zone [Music] [Music] all right everybody welcome on in it’s a Friday edition of JJ and Alex 975b KSL Sport Zone a rare day off for jeremi Jensen you know what that means we get to get we get to get slide we slide Sly into the seat your boy is in the building Stevenson Sylvester rolling in on Friday and uh what’s the number one rule on Fridays you know this you’ve done enough of these Friday everybody we have to have fun that’s it okay number one why is that only on Friday no no no we do listen we get loose all week right but Friday when it gets really weird then we go go hockey yeah when it gets really weird on Fridays and management calls you in you go well you know this is what we do on Fridays right and then they go oh sorry sorry you didn’t get thato all right we got tons going on Sly you’re doing like the full I mean you haven’t gone full Kyrie with the beard you look like you look like me right now like where you go it’s getting a little like it’s getting aggressive a little rough my way I like it my wife just took a picture and put it in the family group track she’s like Gray’s coming in thick oh no I’m just like bro can I why would you do that can I live yes the answer is yes and wait till like my kids I had my daughter the other day go because one of my my three-year-old was saying something and one of my sons goes you know dad used to be a baby too she goes but he was bald right and I was like oh man yes the answer is oh you’re a hairy baby what are you talking about oh yeah yeah when the hair starts going we were just talking about this I’m gonna go full land in Donovan one day and just I’m gonna shave the back of my neck and then you’ll know then you’ll know I’ve gone full nuclear option on the hair the nuclear option by the way for a normal human being is to just shave it off right right right I mean you could get hazed by your kids I could get down sleeping on the couch let’s get them I could get held down by all my kids and then at some point you know get it all shaved off and then maybe that’s their intervention they go hey you know what we’ve all been talking I know that we you thought that we came here so we could so we could have a sandwich together or like they’ be like but we need to have a hair a hair intervention this is getting out of control yes absolutely you know that’s what my mom did when she didn’t want to braid my hair anymore cuz I had braids when I was younger that’s a lot of work it’s a lot of work oh it is for her but she didn’t want to do it so what happened she cut the back of my braids and said oh whoops yeah oh right I I didn’t mean to I I guess we got to cut it all off now and so there we go I went went back to you know what’s you know what’s good is my boys do the thing where summer hits because I can’t suggest why don’t you just buzz it if I suggest buzzing it then I’m like a bad person but then when it’s the end of the school year and they’re like oh my friends are doing it we’re all going to get buzzed I’m like oh what shoot okay I guess you did got to do what you got to do with your friends cuz otherwise the rest of the time teenager hair right now Sly is stupid like it is just I don’t know I don’t want to do the full I only visualize teenage hair as the Dy like people who D like multiple dyed col no there’s that but there’s also like I don’t know I don’t have much room to talk I mean I grew up I was 15 16 years old in Seattle area you know so like I went full grunge I could eat my hair in high school it was stupid I was it was want to know what that down the middle I have my license still I have my driver’s license when I was 16 and I show my kids and they’re like we don’t know who you are and I’m like what Garage Band were you a part I know that was it and so now they mess their hair up they work on it to make it look like they crawled out of a dumpster the Emil that’s as much as I can come up with no it’s not even Emil it’s just like it’s just as like oh it’s it’s it’s uh oh it’s just I it’s disheveled but it’s aggressively disheveled and it’s like like uh yeah it looks so you don’t want to have the conception that I’m I could possibly be happy I’m just it’s like I know and then I’m like then they put a hat on it it’s coming out of the back down it’s coming out of the the the base of the Hat remember when remember when uh Happy Gore hired his a homeless guy to be his caddy those are my kids and it just happens to be they play golf so they look like that so they have like a yeah one day they will no that’s just me washing his draws in the in the pond oh didn’t we just celebrate uh yeah they’re GNA have Happy Gilmore too I don’t know how you can do it without chubs without his grandma who else is dead from that cast Bob Barker no longer with us well they’re gonna have Drew Carrey step into no they will not yeah they said they did well that’s a talk to pay St to honor to Homage to to Bob Barker although I will say Drew Carrey uh phenomenal ComEd not a great game show host right I haven’t watched it it’s not I like Drew Cary no as a comedian amazing that’s what I’m saying Haven seen they’re shorting his skills on uh the game I’ll watch on Pluto the old Bob Barker Price is Right because why not no this speaking of a guy who’s got perfect hair geez oh right can’t be can’t oh ladies bobker yeah can’t beat it all right uh we got a Friday to get going we got some things to kick off and so our show is brought to you by G2G bars all natural ingredients i s and no preservatives make the G2G bar perfect for everybody who needs a quick tasty and nutritious boost and um my goodness let’s get the show kicked off officially there today is a show of rumors keep the Unsolved Mysteries conspiracy music oh just in the last 12 minutes about 10 seconds so we’ll be a moment here once we get going yes I love it let’s get going with the cut that’s how we’re going to kick the show off as always it’s time for the biggest story of the day this is what made the cut with JJ and Alex on 975 the KSL Sports Zone wow Jeremy’s got to fill in for JJ who’s out anytime stuff breaks Jeremy fixes it what do we have Utah Jazz no Walker Kessler rumored rumored to be Jake Fisher of Yahoo sports to scene he could be on the trading block see I will say this this happens every year and by the way rumors of people being traded when there are multiple guys by the way three or four months ago who are the people that are on the list of jazzmin who would not have been touched six months ago was definitely Lowry margin and Walker Kessler those were the two guys and it’s his rival team who’s the rival team of the Jazz oh I was going to say uh the Rockets no don’t you dare do that Denver the problem the problem is the problem is is when we’re guessing like this there is no there’s none there’s no rival Lakers right obviously on the used to be well no the Lakers I was going to say the jazz jazz fans will go obviously our biggest Rivals the Lakers Lakers all who right the Lakers are everybody’s biggest R yes okay uh so you don’t have an answer it’s just the the rumor is to a jazz Rival Well that’s fun because then we can guess well when he have the Bulls offering 25 options for in the NBA is okay how many has it gone up to with Zack LaVine 15 to be what was is that what they said NBC Chicago saying so NBC Chicago saying that they’re Sly that that Zack LaVine that there were 15 different trade attempts or at least like deals put together for Zack LaVine at some point nobody’s gonna take Zack LaVine because there are 15 attempts of trading him right or do teams wait till the very very end and just get it at the most cheap fire sale that they can uh rumors are crazy right now by the way and so many of them have to do with the jazz is that just because they have so many assets too is that just because they’re they’ve got a a uh shoot from the hip uh you know CEO and Danny a yeah I I think I think it’s a combination of all of that right the Jazz of course have been uh very public about them being active right so they are literally in every discussion and imagine the backlash if there was a discussion that they’re not a part of right uh that’s exactly right too what are you doing what do you mean you’re not in that and then right say we end up with nothing they can’t say like oh we didn’t try right but like in the Zack LaVine scenario I I think it could go a multitude of ways I think there’s just going to be a deal that comes across I don’t think it’s going to be at the last moment and they’re just like this makes sense this works Zach you good with this the Jazz don’t get better with Zack LaVine right I agree with that but he is but they’re also not attempting to get better is also what we’ve heard he’s a he’s an Allstar that that he’s a good Ball but here’s the thing this is team sports right it’s not the individ it’s not the individual I love how you said that with you started you couldn’t you couldn’t get through without laughing because you’re like it’s the NBA too they’re like oh this is a team sport but for I mean look at the champion look at the Boston Celtics right now of course they are not winning with Jason Tatum alone they are not winning with J Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown those two only yeah they can’t do got more you had to have drew holiday you had to have Derek White had to have shorty who could shoot have or or Chris STS when he was healthy right you got to have the full you got the full rer did somebody else could have done with them they did too U I think all of those guys they had major experience with all of those guys Al Horford all those guys and I think it was just a complete team that was experienced that would roll through the season and through the playoffs and they were they were dominant I think they were the most dominant team this year compared to other years and other Champions I don’t think they can hold up but this was their year it’s all about time and place and uh complete roster Bulls are actively tra in in active trade talks which I don’t know what that means like uh everybody you’re an active trade talk 365 and if you’re not you’re dumb right well I mean are you a real team you’re probably the Rockets are only team that’s not in like trade talks 365 so the Bulls are in active trade talks with the Jazz and Sixers surrounding Zack LaVine is there a version of the Jazz going forward that has a Zack LaVine and by the way Zack LaVine and uh and and Larry would have been on the same on the on the uh on the Bulls at the same time right well now he was brand new in the league before he went to the Sixers I mean before he went to the Cavs so do they want to play together I mean Alex Caruso just got dealt right and Josh giddy sorry I start I started chuckling before I even Josh giddy goes to the Bulls you start gidon and I start getting laughing my butt off about the fact that that Alex peruso ends up at the at the Thunder and Josh giddy is at the Bulls and the Bulls I mean I guess they they got to get rid of some salary that’s that’s why you make a move like that it’s not like Josh giddy’s playing well right now but Zack LaVine and Larry Markin and on the Jazz does that get you excited about it but the reality is is that most of these rumors also center around low Markin and possibly getting traded to another team for a multitude of picks I just saw I just saw who around the league has this pies you’re going to have to give up for L mark four to five first rounders they said I mean if Rudy Gober got all of that Donovan got that you got at least so they four first round pi and other assets four four to five first rounders and possibly another good player a star- level player now I don’t know what Star level means because that’s not the word Superstar is not used and when you say star- level player Zack LaVine a guy who’s a quote unquote Star level player I mean on the Bulls he’s their only star they have at this point right so I don’t know what this looks like when you hear stuff like this during and there’s multiple you go to KSL sports.com right now and you can actually uh see Chandler Holt did a full write up on this of all the different uh sources that are tweeting out different options now there is a possibility does this get you excited you ready for this because this was also tweeted out and it was a Poss Jazz starting five for next year okay Kean George Taylor Hendricks Zack LaVine Lowry marinan Walker Kessler that’s a pretty good that’s a pretty good little starting lineup do you look at that and go man what a playoff team could be a playoff team I’m not saying wow no because I’m just like because again Zack LaVine and Larry marinin have both been Allstars does that mean that they are All-Star caliber guys right now where is your strength and I think a lot the crazy thing was is Jeremy just played the Sounder as we came in because now there are rumors with Walker Kessler now R trade rumors don’t mean anything because every one of these guys could be on Walker Kestler could be out the trade block lry Mark could be out the trade block it doesn’t matter I don’t know what you’re getting in return and now What’s the storyline that’s being floated just in the last few days that you might need to start stomaching the idea that the Jazz are going to be bad for the next couple of years for at the very least that they would get worse next year by the way the Jazz finished last year 31 and 51 okay so 20 games below 500 and they have the 10th pick in the draft that’s not you go 20 games under 500 and then you end up at the 10th pick in the draft it’s not a phenomenal off season for you now you have a lot of picks that you can deal with great we’ve seen a lot of guys sitting around and standing around and and whether or not there’s going to be some moves made don’t know but the other thing is is there might not be very many good options if Zack LaVine is the is the name that’s out there that does not get me excited I just rattled off the best possible starting five considering the rumors that are floating around and what did you do like Yay like the oh I was like oh you’re done which where are the other guys you’re going to name off here is there somebody else going ask again what I’m saying is it’s hard not to compare yourself to the rest of the West too who are everybody’s hustling everybody’s kind of in this in this uh in this moment where free agency this year is going to be and they’ve got and they’re one or two pieces away the Jazz are not one or two pieces away it’s like when you’re playing Monopoly at the beginning of the game I did this the other night with my kids and I got a kid who at the very beginning is like you look like a cheater no no like my wife is like I’ll be the banker and I’m like okay no but like when you’re playing and then one of your kids just totally pulls the rip cord on everything and goes all right I’m going to give you every one of my properties just like give me a couple million dollars man like just give me some money this that’s that’s what I feel like’s going on I’ll go to jail do right when you have Lowry and and Walker who are in trade rumors and those guys weren’t even looked at as being touchable six or eight months ago M at some point Walker’s name started to be a little bit more tradable but then we’d said yeah but you don’t touch you don’t touch Larry marinin that’s your guy that’s your that’s your quote unquote Superstar even though you know he’s not a top 15 guy in the league and I don’t know what you call a superstar anymore either just an Allstar no that’s not good enough anymore right so when those guys names are getting floated out there something else is going on right behind the scenes and I think that you allow people to at least think that these are names that are out there because before they weren’t possibilities it’s all orchestrated right like Danny’s like hey somebody put this little article out here I just want to get some interest to let people know that it’s possible right if you want that’s exactly how work there guys right we talked about it there’s no possible way L’s getting traded Here Comes this article oh shoot Atlanta Hawks L’s available let’s talk Danny pick up the phone what’s up because if people didn’t know would they even try and what did Atlanta say over this past week what did their General major say this week oh we’re no we’re keeping the number one overall pick man it’s like you will do anything yeah if somebody comes up and shows up you’re not being smart by the way if you say I’m not willing to deal that for because no one can come to an agreement on who the slam dunk number one overall pick is in this draft this year so for the Hawks to go oh yeah we’re keeping it it’s like you will until you’re not anymore because you just gave up uh you know you just got a couple a couple pieces of uh of you know another pieces to the puzzle for you to be able to to give up that number one overall pick and a Year by the way that the number one overall pick is not even you know it’s nowhere near a a big Vic type territory so Zack LaVine by the way 19 and a half points five and a half rebounds four assists uh last year on here is splits 45 from the field 35 from three and 85 from uh the uh from the free throw strip those are all decent numbers 19 and a half points I think Ben Anderson came on our show yesterday right jar and said yeah that’s not I mean 19 and a half points is like not phenomenal at all and by the way the biggest part of all this is that the guy is not the guy is not he’s he’s been he’s been pretty inconsistent on the health side of things so I don’t know what that looks like you got to get rid of one of them you can’t keep Lonzo ball and Zack LaVine you have nobody playing the Bulls are all watch hold our non-alcoholic beverage we will there got to be something in the water in Chicago dare grows no they’re got something’s yeah look you can’t you you can win six titles but the the payoff is a future right isn’t that the isn’t that what they say they’re like be careful what you wish for like it’s the monkey paw it’s the monkey paw wish right where they go you oh you wanted six titles right you’re going to be the worst team on the planet Earth for the 40 Years After I’m sorry that’s part of the what you’re going to have to deal with Jerry krow rubbed the lamp I know he did I know he did just think about it’s that one Jazz security guard that brought him all that bad luck after all those years oh I don’t know see we laugh about it because we’re absolutely nervous as hell right nervous laughter we’re like ah this is hilarious the Jazz and the options that the Jazz have going forward it seems like a lot it seems like a multitude of them if are you do you be okay with a Lowry marinin Zack LaVine onew punch it wouldn’t be awful but you would not you still wouldn’t be the the uh you know a team in the west to be reckoned with yeah I don’t I don’t know CU I’m just like how do those styles of play finish together at least with with Dallas you got guys who are ball dominant they can create on their own they can spread the floor somebody can take over at one point I don’t see Zack LaVine and lari doing that they need somebody to set them up so they can get in a rhythm I don’t know about them getting in a rhythm on their own I’m trying to think of like what was the best year [Music] that Larry Markin and Zack LaVine had was JJ reck on that bull Team I feel like there’s a I’m trying to think of I’m trying to think of like the okay the 20 let’s go 2019 and that means that that was the co year then too 2020 bulls and I want to see the stats because I want to see what those numbers were together by the way they were 25 games under they finished 11th in the East that year okay so the actual stats from that year first first of all bad start because uh bad start because Jim Bo’s your head coach so that’s not a good it’s not a good time to be to be a bulls fan Zack LaVine that year went for 25 and a half that game okay that year or that year Lowry was 15 uh a game that year I don’t hat listen a better Lowry marinan a falling off a little bit because now Zack LaVine like 29 right almost will he be 30 coming up this year don’t you dare disrespect 30y olds don’t how dare you talk about oh he’s all 29 he’s basically a running back in the NFL like give him a cane give him a cane just pull a Wich out already geez so Zack LaVine at his Peak and Lowry Markin right now who is arguably at his Peak will take that combo don’t get mixed up Lowry right now and Zack LaVine right now are both at the top of their game all right Lowry is Zack LaVine is not so I don’t know if that’s what the future looks like but we’ll uh yeah I like his G I mean he’s a 19 and a half he’s 19 and a half points on a bad Bulls team okay what does that mean on a on a on a on a on a jazz team next year if he’s there and if Low’s there and what about the possibility of Walker and Lowry both being floated out there is possibly as as being possibly traded crazy all right let’s take a break we’ll come back when we do we’ve got some hockey to talk today hockey we got some hockey we’re hockey fans now all right and it’s uh it’s going full-blown we are still in the we are still in the in the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs thank heavens hockey yeah see I told you I was a fan so we’re gonna come back we’ve got hockey to talk about a little bit later we’re also going to chat about we’ve got Barry Bonds talking about how he would do against satchel pagee and by the way the rickwood field conversations at in Birmingham yesterday honoring the Negro League era and basically a week where you lose Willie Mays you have a a ball game being played at rickwood field and you had Reggie Jackson absolutely laying waste to uh you know people’s idea of oh Mr October what a fun loving guy he brought he racked focus on the absolute horrors of of some of the times that he had to play right in the 1960s in Alabama so we’ll come back we’ll chat about that more to go right around the corner we’ve got tons going on on Friday stay here 975 KL Sports your home for the best coverage of the Jazz Utes and cougars is right here on the Zone this is JJ and Alex presented by G2G bars on 975 the KSL Sports Zone [Music] all right welcome back 975 ekl support Zone Alex cury Jeremiah Jensen off today much needed day off love to me can we find a mashup of uh some Biggie Smalls and uh yesterday it was a mashup of huy newi huie Lewis in the news and Metallica right so eely Brothers It’s all about it I’m trying to think too no Sly you’re a little bit younger than I am I don’t know you were trashing some 30 a second ago I think actually you’re sh I think you’re actually a little I think you’re I’m actually a lot older than you that’s why I was trying to like be like 30 huh unfort oh it’s a trigger word you I might I might have I might have a decade on you I don’t know a decade no I’m old bro uh no no you’re no you’re right because I’m trying to think of you during your Heyday at Utah I wasn’t that far removed from college so I was like yeah yeah we’re probably probably maybe four or five years older bro uh no speaking of the gray hairs that your wife was making fun of you about you have like one in your beard okay bro look this look what’s going on here all right oh I thought it was just like that no no no no this is me I’m gonna go full Ryan Day on you guys one of these days please I’m gonna get a Sharpie out and I’m I want to see the next just for commercial up here I’m going to I’m going to bathe in a Sharpie like my whole face just like please get my get my beard in this in this Sharpie marker while we’re at it might as well do the hair oh God and and just because I can’t look worse than Ryan spot I hope you miss a spot that’s that’s what I’m looking for I’m we’re in the sideb birst you know I can’t look worse than Ryan Day you’ve seen the same Ryan I remember being at the Rose Bowl the first go the the Ohio State Rose Bowl in 22 21 22 whatever that was and I remember we’re sitting and I remember thinking oh really in person it’s actually worse do you remember like I’m sitting he’s at the he’s at the podium you got Kyle Whittingham who’s embraced yes like a little bit of scruff he like looks like he’s out of an episode of Sons of Anarchy right and then you’ve got with the he if he was given the choice he would have ridden the motorcycle into the press conference Whit what oh for sure and then you got Ryan Day who’s 15 years younger than than wit and so he should just lean into the fact that he has maybe a few fewer gray hairs and doesn’t matter he busted the Sharpie out got the Just For Men St they’re all they’re all now here’s the thing your hair isn’t actually black he’s like no no I need I need the jet black Just For Men in my beard right now he’s like looking like Giuliani remember a billy May that’s what he wants that’s remember when juliani was at that press conference and he’s sweating the hair dye that’s Ryan did Rudy what are you doing what are you do oh my goodness I’m just saying you haven’t gotten to that point yet Sly okay right now you could get away with it I can’t get away with going full jet black uh beard I’m just going to cut it off I’ve experimented the bald look I’ve exper you see Michael wilbon here on the TV I’ve experimented with that look but see look but see look at wilbon’s hair on TV right now like he they have to put so much foundation on his head so it’s not shiny in those TV studios see that’s the other direction you have to go right well that’s we can stay on how is it how is it you got the matte hair did you get the matte hair they’re like oh no this is worked on there’s a gal there’s a gal hitting there with the powder uh all right so phenomenal moment in baseball and this was planned well before uh Willie May had actually passed away to honor the Negro Leagues Major League Baseball said we’re going to go to Rick Woodfield in Birmingham and I actually watched a video this week of all the players they did a list of all the players who’ve played at rickwood field in Birmingham and it was basically the entire Hall of Fame like it seemed like the names that they listed off including all you know Babe Ruth like all the way up to Reggie Jackson and and and and because in my mind Reggie Jackson you’re kind of going ah re because Reggie Jackson is still like looks really sharp looks like he maybe got done playing 10 years ago and he was one of these guys whose Major League career Bann well before I was born and in like while I was still alive like it was one of these guys that had a 20-some year career right baseball players did that right and that’s just his major league career Reggie Jackson played in The Negro Leagues in the 60s and when Major League Baseball sat down and fox was was on set there uh I want you to hear and this is and this is if you didn’t hear it on social media you’ve got to listen to it now Reggie Jackson was asked by Alex Rodriguez about his time playing at rickwood field and I think that I think everybody thought there was going to be a little bit more of a joyous answer a mix you know kind of the the good and the bad because it was a it was a strange time to be a a black baseball player in America because this is post Reggie Jackson and yet it was like fullon guys I mean in hour life in the in the lifetime of so many people this is not that long ago here’s what Reggie Jackson said his time playing in Birmingham was like in the South coming back here is not easy the racism that I played here when I played here the the difficulty of going through different places where we traveled fortunately I had a manager and I had players on the team that helped me get through it but I wouldn’t wish it on anybody people said to me today I spoke and they said you think you’re a better person you think you you you won when you played here and conquered I said you know I would never want it to do it want to do it again I walked into restaurants and they would point at me and said can’t eat here I would go to a hotel and they say that can’t stay here we went to Charlie Finley’s Country Club for a welcome home dinner and they pointed me out with the nword he can’t come in here Finley marched the whole team out finally they let me in there he said we’re going to go to the diner and eat hamburgers or go where we’re wanted fortunately I had a manager and Johnny mcnamer that if I couldn’t eat in a place nobody would eat we’d get food to travel if I couldn’t stay in a hotel they drive to the next hotel and find a place where I could stay Mr October it was tremendously powerful because I think that they when they asked them the question maybe I think people were anticipating the same type of thing it was like but you conquered this and it was just like oh it was hell yeah I mean even today and it’s so hard when you even look at like these high school players that are creating highlight tapes for college you know you’re just looking at the past you’re looking at Michael Jordan you’re looking at Larry Bird you’re looking at Magic Johnson Kareem all you’re seeing is the highlight you’re seeing the good stuff but if you actually talk to those guys that’s not even the stuff that sticks with them and in this case Reggie Jackson right he’s just like you guys are talking about this what this is what I remember about that time of the places that I couldn’t go in the places that I couldn’t eat the places that I couldn’t sleep the places I couldn’t walk that’s what my memory of being down here I love the game you know amazing MLB amazing Negro League player but the things that stuck with me from that time was that and you know what I loved about his statement um I’ve listen to it a couple times was he was talking about the people that was there for him it wasn’t necessarily all the black people wasn’t necessarily certain white people it was a lot of different people made it out right so it’s you can’t characterize everybody in or can’t put people all into this one category of being nasty people but there were people on his side from his Managers from his teammates that helped get through those who had to be willing by the way to actually be serious about oh we’re fine we’re going to go eat somewhere else yeah yeah we’ll go stay not a lot of people are would be willing to I can stay here but I’m not going to because you can’t we’re together and in fact we’re walking the whole team out yes and this is you know a lot of businesses too would stand on it and they’d go fine right yeah because there’s no such thing as Yelp there was no social media so they would just be like fine no one’s G who’s gonna who’s going to take business away from us maybe we don’t get that was the battle that was that was being waged every day by the way Birmingham Alabama you think about you think about a place where this is the 60s right and so we’re in we’re we’re smack dab in the middle of the uh of of race riots of civil rights movement that you know sometimes feels like we’re still in the middle of now right and and these guys were just trying to have a freaking career baseball aside they’re trying to have a they’re trying to like they’re trying to have a family trying to have a life right and by the way all of these baseball players were absolute Heroes and then and even to the people who would kick him out of restaurants which was crazy CU they be because they separated the idea of what a phenomenal baseball player but man don’t come in here what a weird freaking time and these are the kind of things that that I play for my kids so that they understand right that you help that you hope that they go all right this can’t ever be repeated again right but how many times we have to have these conversations and have to have this like Focus as a as a and sports are very good sports are so good for us to be able to go hey this is a this this is a luxury this is a l sports are a luxury yes and if you want to have that luxury you’ve got to figure out how to act as a society for us to be able to have nice things as we say right like because you can’t have those things when we can’t get it together as Society I mean I I I I love it and I love what sports brings to life right I I don’t know what the word I’m trying to look forward to say here is but I think Sports has been a great Catalyst a bridge um springboard to things that need to happen bringing people together right you know I I hear this statement and this is what I truly believe it was like look we’re all here on this Earth let’s live together that’s why like war and all this other all this other crap just bothers me because I just don’t get it I’m just like we’re all trying to be here let’s be here and I think Sports has done a tremendous job at you know putting things in the Forefront like we want this we want Muhammad Ali right we want Jackie Robinson we we we want LeBron James we want uh Magic and Larry Bird matchups right how do we do that we don’t treat each other different let’s let’s all be here we’re all Level Playing Field let’s make this happen and so um I love you know of course history and one thing that a lot of people would like to take away is what has happened in the past and I don’t agree with that I think one you’ve said it to me before we got to learn from that right that has happened and we can’t repeat it and so I think that’s what you know a lot of these things um have done and and and what we can all take from that I thought it was cool that so many guys showed up uh and said we got to be here one because of what Willie May stood for and that was the stadium that he played in and and uh you know to have his passing this week at 93 years old I was telling uh JJ this the other day the kids at my son’s baseball practice the coach had him catch balls over their shoulders in practice the other day and they’re like why are we doing this and they’re like well there’s this guy named Willie Mays and if there’s one piece of video that people see of wily ma it’s that it’s that basket catch over the shoulder and if you can teach your kids one thing about it it’s not just about that but it’s about all the things that uh Willie Mays had to go through Jackie Robinson had to go through and obviously when you have a a a you know a time like this where Major League Baseball shows up to uh rickwood B in in Birmingham rickwood field in Birmingham that’s a it’s a big deal you know it’s not the Field of Dreams field you know it’s like hey fun Kevin CER right uh this is this is a a legitimate piece of baseball history all right let’s take a break we’ll come back we got more to go we have our uh would you rather on a Friday edition of the program oh my goodness I’m seeing a bunch of hockey highlights now because guess what my hockey yeah my entire dream could you make that sound a little bit more like I know it’s all we’re going to have like a legitimate one of our one of these one of these days where we have our guest NHL guys on from ESPN and TSN when we do like we’ve had you’re gonna play that and then they’re gonna go hey I can’t do this show anymore I can’t do your I can’t do your show anymore with the guy who is like now hockey that’s a sport right come on all right we’ll come back we’ve got more to go on a Friday stay right here 975 KL Sports Zone H pathetical to get your brain churning as JJ and Alex asked would you rather ah so does the I will just tell you right now so sly’s getting into this too because I’m trying to figure this out because we have a no soliciting sign on our yard we’re just again you’ve you’ve transitioned into full old man Steven Sylvester oh yeah oh yeah the guy comes to my come comes to my to my uh door and I say before you even start I don’t want whatever you’re selling goodbye you know I’m that guy and then you said I’ve got to get one of those no soliciting signs I go oh I have them they still show up because the sales guys the sales Bros I want anything you’re selling the sales Bros will convince themselves because they were in a sales meeting this week with another sales bro where they go oh that’s the beauty of you’re not solic you’re not selling anything Craig you’re providing an opportunity sounds like wolf of W Street you’re providing an opportunity it’s like what no yeah yeah yeah tell yourself whatever you want you are I just need to be like my wife just don’t answer the door I know just don’t even answer the door I can’t I always like somebody’s rang my doorbell I got to answer and I I get caught with the door open going right uhuh yeah right and when they do we’re actually helping out Bill and Mara and Johnny from your I hate when they throw the Neighbors when they throw the neighbors she said you’d be a great candidate for I always want to go I always want to walk over there and be like did you really say your name and they’ be like no I’m not doing it at all cuz they’re not yes they just got their name guy so I I I told them this guy came to my house doing his whole sales page he was going to power wash my driveway for like $1,400 and I’m trying to understand like where’s the bit cuz I have a power washer I’ll do it for thousand it’s not a problem 600 over here I got it that guy trying to rip you off man I’m I swe and I’m just looking I’m like what so what are you doing that I can’t do myself You’ become you’ve become you’ve become a homeowner when you get mad about the things that people are pitching that’s me for sure how much you going to charge I don’t think so I’ll wrestle you right here I’m gonna punch you out all right if we do arm wrestling contest I get it for free you do my stuff right now for free jeez all right uh would you rather the Friday edition nominate your us Sports volunteer that you know with the Hercules hero of the week uh we’re just rolling right along with these and these the nominations keep coming in they’re awesome submit your nomination KSL sports.com contest you listen every Thursday JJ and I read those winners off and we celebrate the people in their communities who are those us Sports volunteers that are making an impact in the lives of the kids uh that we love so much in our neighborhoods and in our uh in our lives so there you go that’s the Hercules hereo of the week brought to you by Hercules Credit Union and beehive me uh would you rather the J the Jazz tank again next year and try to win the Cooper flag sweep Stakes uh or make some other offseason moves and just slowly improve slowly slowly slowly improve but next year they’re not going to be doing the uh they’re not doing the tanking which one would you rather have slow improvements or or is tanking a slow Improvement technically J I’m trying to think of what so that’s what I’m saying you T You full on tank and you know they’re not going to be any good at all but they have the shot at a generational type Talent with Cooper flag or they do all the things that they can to just be in the conversation even a little bit on the even if it’s just on the outside of the playoffs conversation um I think there’s a lot of different things that go in here right because I feel like when the Jazz tank they actually do better like when it’s clear that we’re trying to psychology they have to do that on themselves and they need you guys to lose all the games can’t do it we got to have eight people sit down in order for us to tank like Jordan you can’t play L you can’t play Johnny juing shows up and goes for 30 and then start winning games we’re trying to lose you idiots no um here’s my thing if basketball was like football where you got the worst record and you can get the number one overall pick I would say Okay KOA flag sweep Stakes are more real but this Lottery man Lottery is hard man it’s I I would not bet any type of thing on trying to get number one overall pick because I just remember how excited you know um some of these NBA guys get when they actually get that number one over like the New Orleans Pelicans when they were in the Zion sweep stes right and so like if if that number one number two overall pick was more substantially like I know I’m going to do that if I lose all these games I would say oh that’s that’s a viable option but here the slow and steady I’m not even great on that but I would take that more than uh the Cooper flab sweep sticks of the number one overall pick I love Cooper flag I think he’s going be great but I wouldn’t Bank on that I would just try to will in deal right now we got however many first round picks we have right now and assets I’d try to improve right now that way I’m on a tank because I told you I’ve already I’ve already gone full hockey for next season yeah come on no I like this just is not even this is not an organization that I think does that because it’s like you you kind of waste athletes years no well on top of that good years potentially think about it like leave that stuff for Washington for these organizations that I they just don’t they they aren’t good they’ve never been good they won’t be good right I don’t like tanking yeah that’s just that’s terrible no uh I I still am all in on on trusting Danny a for now hey but you’re on the hot seat Danny let’s go unless you get 38 first round picks for Lowry then I’m out I’m not doing this all right we’re going to take a break we’ll come back we got more around the corner uh Jay Stevens our hockey Insider for K sports.com uh he’s the Utah Puck report host and uh he knows everything hockey related and we’re gonna ask him about game six tonight please tell me that this is going to go to game to uh to seven games and it’s going to go back to Florida please that’s all I want just the idea of coming from behind from a three nothing deficit we’ll see what Edmond can can do tonight we’ll come back we’ll chat with Jay Stevens next right here 975 the KSL Sports Zone
JJ & Alex have Stevenson Sylvester filling in and today they discuss the latest trade rumors surrounding the Utah Jazz with possibilities of Lauri Markkanen and Walker Kessler being named.
The MLB played a game at historic Rickwood Field to honor the Negro League players, and Reggie Jackson shared what it was like to play in Alabama during the late 1960s.
