The Rush: Kyrie Irving drops 60, Aaron Judge drops the ball on Covid vaccine – Yahoo Sports

Kyrie Irving scores a career and Nets franchise high 60 points in win over Magic, NYC vaccine mandate will keep unvaccinated Yankees and Mets from playing in home games, Aaron Judge punts when asked if hes vaccinated against Covid-19, and March Madness is underway with Texas Southern and Indiana advancing out of the First Four! Plus, The Rush economics team gets hypothetical, exploring the potential monetary impact of a scenario in which an unvaccinated player were to only be compensated for away games in accordance with local vaccine mandates.

- Edwards, the handoff. Quick trigger, Irving, 60. 60, Kyrie Irving.

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JARED QUAY: We're going to talk Kyrie in a minute. But first, March madness is officially on and popping. The first four kicked off last night with Texas Southern and Indiana advancing to the main stage on Thursday for a round of 64. Now, the madness ain't exclusive to college basketball.

Yep, that's Colin Kaepernick throwing deep balls to Tyler Lockett. And I got to say Kaps On looks good. Now, is Kap going to be able to throw that ball with Aaron Donald coming straight for him? I don't know, but he deserves a chance to find out. What I do know is there's a lot of NFL teams who can use a starting quarterback with Super Bowl experience right about now.

Right about now I'm sensing the Yankees and Mets fans are freaking the [BLEEP] out. You know the New York City vaccine mandate that prevents unvaccinated Kyrie Irving from playing in Nets home games?

- Yeah, what about it?

JARED QUAY: You know because Kyrie won't get the jab to protect himself and teammates, he's got to save his career high 60-point performance for road games.

- Off the window.

JARED QUAY: Well, that mandate applies to the Yankees and Mets, too. So with that in mind on Tuesday, a reporter asked Yankees superstar Aaron Judge if he's vaccinated. This is his response.

AARON JUDGE: I'm so focused on just getting through the first game of spring training. So I think we'll, we'll cross that bridge whenever, you know, the time comes. But right now, so many things could change. So I'm not really too worried about that right now.

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JARED QUAY: Oh, OK, I guess Aaron's not too worried about only doing half his job this season.

- OK, well, I'm worried.

JARED QUAY: I still have a tough time grasping this. So you're telling me the same group of people who take all kinds of supplements that aren't FDA approved, who put metal pins under their skin to hold their bones together, who have ligaments from dead bodies insert into their bodies, who relieve pain with opioid pills and injections, you're saying some of these guys still won't take the COVID vaccine.

- It just don't make no damn sense.

JARED QUAY: No, it's sure don't. But if teams really cared about the safety of their employees, the'd put some money on the line. You only pay half of that schedule, you only get half of that paycheck.

- Come on.

JARED QUAY: For example, Aaron Judge is going to make $17 million this year.

- That's a lot of money.

JARED QUAY: If you cut his paycheck in half it turns to $8.5 million. Take half of that away to pay the tax man, and get down to $4.25 million, not even enough money to buy a fixer upper in Brooklyn. I'd change my mind real quick. Let's be honest, all right. If they tried to cut my percentage like 10%. We'll, give you 10% less. All right give, me three jabs. I want three of them. I want the booster on the same day as the second shot. Just give it to me.

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