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David Kaplan talks Cubs & Bears, Matt Rudy previews the Open Championship & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Power #2 Miller and Condon welcome back.
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See Iowa Sports Radio Network Matt Rudy Golf Die just formally
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covered golf major events for over 3 decades.
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He'll join us to help us with the Open Championship that gets
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underway in about 11 hours. Off to Chicago we go.
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Well, actually not to Chicago. We go to Lake Winnebago.
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What's up? What are you doing, Cap?
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Are you fishing? You're at you're in the middle
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of Lake Winnebago. I'm looking at it on Wikipedia
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media. Average depth 15 1/2 feet deep.
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You can find walleye, you can find muskie, bluegill, bass.
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Got a little bit of everything. What are you doing?
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Floating on my pontoon boat, I take the week of the All Star
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break off. The only broadcast thing I do is
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for you and that is it. I'm on my pontoon with a bunch
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of buddies and we're good. One of my friends is here.
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He's the lead guitarist on American Idol.
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I got a whole bunch of other guys here, girl, that works for
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us, and we're just having a good old time.
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This is our one week where we totally disconnect and then
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rock'n'roll. We had the All Star game on last
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night. I mean, I'll never get away from
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sports, right? The weather, Karen, we get rain
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this afternoon, but right now, dude, if it this isn't heaven is
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there, it can't be much better. Yeah, you can't be summer on the
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lake, no doubt about it. Cap event.
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I'm envious of you. Well, let's talk about baseball.
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Let's talk about the Cubs as they make their way back to
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Wrigley Field for the red, the red hot Red Sox come to town on
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Friday. God, what do you make about Kyle
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Tucker's answer to the Chicago Sun times when he was asked if
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he could see himself resigning so well.
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Yeah, why not? Is that encouraging?
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Is that is that player speak, he's going to have plenty of
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opportunities. And then to dovetail on that
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question, does the emergence of PCA in any way make it unlikely
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or less likely the Tucker that that big payday is coming from
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the Cubs? So how about those two kind of
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combined? I don't think they're even
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related. You've got PCA for five more
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years, right? So I don't believe that PCA's
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emergence has anything to do with the Kyle Tucker situation.
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I've told you guys consistently, I believe Kyle Tuckers resigning
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with the Cubs. I also don't do not believe he's
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getting anywhere close to the 600 million that all these Jim
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Boden and whoever is all speculate.
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I don't believe it. I may be proven wrong, and if I
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am, I'll be the first guy to admit I was wrong.
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But if you go back last year, Juan Soto was leaving.
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The pontoon got him. Your best player.
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We don't have that here. The Saint Louis Cardinals are
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not giving Kyle Tucker $600 million as a middle finger to
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the Chicago Cubs. Same with the White Sox.
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Jerry Reins or is not green lighting 600 million.
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That's you look at the teams that would truly spend that
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amount of money. Who is it?
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The Dodgers You're going to, You're telling me they're going
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to add another $600 million deal?
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I don't believe that. You're telling me that with a
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work stoppage coming up, things are very, very leery of adding
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major payroll because they don't know what the rules are going to
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be. OK, So factor all that in.
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I'll bet you Kyle Tucker gets in the Force.
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Yeah, not crazy. Could there be, could there be
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options that Kyle Tucker gets, let's call it 10 years at
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42,000,000 a year and another option year that vests if he
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does extraordinary things, wins the MVP in year 10 and he gets
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another 55,000,000 so that the agent could sell?
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Hey, we're over 500. Yeah, that could happen.
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But the guaranteed portion, I will bet you, is not north of
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$500 million. Maybe I'll be wrong, But I do
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think the Cubs are resigning it. I do.
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I believe that I will get it done.
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And he's a really good player. He's a really good guy.
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He's loved in that room and I don't think it has anything to
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do with the emergence of PCA, who I do think the Cubs are
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going to try and get a long term deal.
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You're never going to get him to sign a 10 year deal.
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So he's a free agent at 33. But I do think you can
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absolutely get a deal done with PCA where you buy out the first
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two years of free agency. He's 23, so if you do a
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seven-year deal, you buy out two years of free agency.
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The rest of his rookie contract slash arbitration years, let's
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call it he gets A150175. They tried to steal him in April
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at 75,000,000 and not even all guaranteed and they couldn't get
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it done because he was smart his age.
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He goes, we're not taking that. And then he exploded into an All
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Star starter. So you're going to have to pay
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him. If you're going to get him on a
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10 year deal, it's going to have to be a Bobby Witt deal at close
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to 300 million. And I don't think the Cubs are
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doing that. Cap, you like to play shot or no
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shot, so let's play that with third baseman on the trade
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market. I got a list of five here for
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you. Let's start with the, I believe
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probably the longest shot because of the team he plays
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for, Nolan Arenado. That's a no shot.
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First of all, he's starting to slow down physically good
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player. Still a good.
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Player, but I do not believe there's any shots, so I'll say
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no shot. Arenado.
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Plus, the Cardinals don't want to help the Cubs.
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Yeah, absolutely. And I think that's a main reason
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for it, too. Let's stay in the division with
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Co Brian Hayes. I'll say no shot because I don't
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think he's much of an upgrade and why would I want to put a
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guy there who's not an upgrade over what I think I have in Matt
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Shaw eventually? The very affordable Ryan McMahon
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from the Rockies. I guess that's a shot, but he
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still has another year at least left at 17,000,000.
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So I'm not sure that I want to see the Cubs commit those types
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of dollars. One thing Jed's done, I mean, a
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tremendous job at is he's got very clean books.
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You look at what he's got locked up beyond the 26th season when
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the lockout may happen or the strike he's got, Dansby, name me
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another massive contract he has on his books today.
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He doesn't. So yeah, I do not think there's
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an appetite for Ryan McMahon, but he's a better player than
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what we've got there today. So I'll say potential shot, but
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probably no shot. All right, let's finish up big
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game hunting here. Let's go to Suarez and the
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Diamondbacks with his 28 home runs.
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Absolute shot. I think the Diamondbacks, you
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might be able to tell me what hit what.
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Where are they in the wild card race right now?
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Because they're not going to win the division.
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Four and a. Half, yeah, I think it's 4 1/2.
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OK, so. But a bunch of teams to
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leapfrog. A bunch, but right now we are
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at, let's see, today is what, the 16th?
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16th Yep. You got two weeks from tomorrow
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is the deadline. Now, if you tell me the
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Diamondbacks go 7 and one, the next 8, they're probably not
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selling. You tell me the Diamondbacks go
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3 and 4, four and three, and they're still 4 1/2, five and a
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half back. They are absolutely selling.
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And I think that I could absolutely mark the tape.
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Maybe we can play it again. I could see Jed making a pretty
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substantial deal. Give me a reliever, give me
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Merrill Kelly, who can start Game 2 for me behind him and not
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a, and give me Suarez and I'll give you Owen, Casey, Kevin, Al
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Contra. I think the only player in his
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system that he doesn't want to move unless the deal is just too
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good to pass up is Jackson Wiggins.
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Who's up pitcher? Yeah, interesting.
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They're 5 1/2 out. By 5 1/2 out for the
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Diamondbacks final one. OK, Jose Ramirez, is there any
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shot he signed a a very cut down deal to stay in Cleveland?
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He's got a full no trade any shot at all for Ramirez.
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No, because he wouldn't have taken that deal if they were
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going to trade him. He loves it there.
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He took a hometown deal, which a lot of people think, why would
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you do that? Because.
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Not every guy is shallow where it's got to be.
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I got to have the the best and highest offer.
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Well, I remember, remember Dale Brown, the coach at LSU, Brown
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walked into a player's house and the player said, well, and this
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was before you could pay. Nili got $250,000 from this
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school. I don't really want to go there,
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but I got to take the money and Dale literally put another
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dollar out and said, OK, there's 250,000 and $1.00.
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You want to come with us now? He's like, how shallow are you?
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Go where you feel like you're being treated fairly and it's
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the right situation. And he ended up getting the kid
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and did I, do I think he cheated?
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Maybe, I don't know. Went on a lot when I was
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coaching. I had to deal with that.
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But my point is, like, are you all about the last dollar?
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Like if you're a Cub and you play there and you like it there
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and your wife likes it there and it's a great summer city and
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you're beloved, then explain to me if the Cubs offer you, let's
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call it 450 million for 10 years and someone offers you
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475,000,000 for 10 years. Well, after the 25, you got to
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pay your agent, you got to pay your taxes, you got to pay your
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union dues. What are we really left with it?
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You're going to blow up your life over $11 million really
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when you're getting 400 and some from the other team.
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That's my point. I think if you're happy and
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you're being treated fairly, look at the Cubs, offer him 160
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and someone's at 4:20, he's gone.
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But if it's close, I think he's coming back.
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Kappa, you said the word beloved.
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I'll use that when it comes to Ryan Sandberg, because that's
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what he is. The Cubs fans, he put out an
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update on his health. It was really he didn't a lot to
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it other than the fact he hasn't been able to get back to
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Wrigley. He's been watching every game,
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those type of things. Do you have any update on on how
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they how his battle is going Cap?
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I do not, other than somebody close to him said to me, look,
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that chemo is just as people who deal with it, either themselves
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or in their family. It's brutal.
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And he's had, you know, a battle and it's the second go round for
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him going through his cancer battle.
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So I just asked everyone to pray for him because he's the best
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guy in the world. Let's talk about other positions
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other than third base. I mean, we know that they you
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want back of the bullpen, you want a #2 starter.
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Those are all absolute must I think for a team that's very
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much in contention. How about a couple of names,
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Cap? Are you hearing anything other
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than the, you know, the names that trend throughout there?
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Are they close to anybody or kicking the tires do you think?
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Seth Lugo But the Royals have to admit that they're not going to
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win the World Series. And so, you know, the one thing
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that's kind of the untold story is there are owners going.
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We got to bankroll as much cash as we can before this impending
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labor stoppage. Well, if you're a Royals fan,
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you're like a team's hanging in there.
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Let's buy tickets tonight. They just traded Seth Lugo.
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They just traded who They're not trading Bobby with, but they
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traded Estevez. They're closer.
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They traded this guy. They traded.
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Why are you buying tickets? Because they're waving the white
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flag. They're.
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Going to throw basement Garcia, who's really good by the way, I
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don't know what. His Michael Garcia is a very
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good player, a very good player. So, you know, look, I advise
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people because I'll have friends of mine who will text me or
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listeners that'll tweet at me. Well, can't we go get that guy?
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Well, he makes no money. So like Edward Cabrera, who the
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Cubs like a lot, they tried to get him over the winner from the
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Marlins. Edward Cabrera makes, I want to
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say 4 or $5 million to offsets a fortune in Major League
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Baseball. That's nothing.
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And he's got control through 28 maybe.
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So you control him, he can't leave you.
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He makes very little money and he's a really good pitcher.
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Why would the Marlins trade him unless you just paid them a
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King's ransom? So look at the contract spot
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track.com, look at the contract, look at the amount of service
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time and then go, OK, I get it. I completely, completely yet if
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that guy's not available unless I grossly overpaid so I go back
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to a manual Class A Would I love to see the Cubs get a manual
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Class A? 100% Go look at the ridiculously
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team friendly deal that he signed.
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He's locked up multiple years at like no money in baseball terms.
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Well if you're the Cleveland Guardians, why are you trading
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that guy? Unless someone says I'm going to
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pay you 120 cents on the dollar for what he's worth.
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And then if you want to make multiple trades, you're like,
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hang on a second, I'm giving you who Well, we want we want Cassie
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or Kel and Casey, we want Jackson Wiggins and we want that
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guy. Well, that's way more than he's
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worth and you're not getting them.
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So that's where you got to look. Look for the one year deals or
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look for the bad contracts on a veteran that the Cubs are
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willing to assume a. Huge.
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Chunk of the money and then see where it goes.
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Last one for me. Captain deals with the Bears and
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Ryan pulls a contract extension through 2029.
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Now his contract lines up with the coach he just hired in Ben
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Johnson. Who are they bidding against?
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Were they scared he was going to leave?
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Say that again. Were were they scared he was
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going to leave? Why the contract extension for
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polls? Because if polls is not
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extended, he had two years left and let's assume that they don't
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have a huge year this year show progress, but it's still
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everyone's been well, he's in the final year of his deal.
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Are you extending him now? So then you're going to have to
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extend him or fire him. So this way, OK, that's your
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hand picked coach, that's your hand picked quarterback.
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There you go. And if at the end of this five
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year term you haven't gotten to where you want to go to, they're
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all gone. They're cleaning them all out.
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So this puts him and the coach on the same exact timeline.
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I really, really like what they did.
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I was asked to ask you about Harry Tenowitz.
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I hope I'm saying his name properly.
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Apparently a well known sports media personality from Chicago.
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I think at your station, ESPN 1000.
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Just your thoughts, Cap. Yeah, Harry Chinowitz was a
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friend. He's a really good guy.
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I mean, I really, really liked Harry.
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Harry had some health issues. He had a liver transplant a
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couple of years ago. He had a widely chronicled
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battle with substance abuse and cleaned his life up.
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But his health just never got back to where it needed to be.
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And unfortunately, he died yesterday at the age of 64.
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I remember Harry calling me. Not this past season, the season
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before. Hey brother, can you do me a
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favor? I know you're friends with Tom
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IS oh, my daughter is in school up there.
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I really want to take her to a game at Michigan State.
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And it's sold out. And I called is and said, hey,
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man, I need a favor. I never ask you for this.
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I need 2 really good seats. My guy's not in great health.
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He wants to take his daughter. And he set him up like right
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behind the bench. And Harry wrote me this
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beautiful note about what it meant and thanks so much.
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And I saw him, I want to say three or four months ago, I ran
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into him. He didn't look great, but I
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didn't think death was, you know, impending.
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He was a very talented guy. He was a stand up comic.
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He was in some movies early in his life.
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Like remember the movie Class with Jacqueline Bassett way back
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in the day. It's an old school movie,
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hilarious. And Harry was in it and he was
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just a good, good guy. And then we worked together at
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87.7, the game that I'll fated sports radio station in Chicago.
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And he lost that shutdown. It did not bring him back to
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ESPN 1000 where he tried to get back to and it had a DUI and got
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in some trouble. And unfortunately he's now gone
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at the age of 64. Good guy, wonderful father,
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loved his kids and I'll always smile when I think of him.
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Great story about his Oh Cap Good stuff.
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Hey Capra, go jump in the lake. I'm going to right now.
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See you buddy. Thanks for doing this Cap.
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All kid aside, appreciate the relationship pal.
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You got it. Love you guys.
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Yup, see you buddy. Have fun.
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David Kaplan, ESPN 1000 as he talks sports with Trent and I
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each and every Wednesday. Good stuff.
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Have you heard of Tenowitz? Harry Tenowitz?
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I have he was with Sean, told me the story.
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It was Sean that asked me to ask about him.
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I can't remember they but Yurkwich, Yurko.
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Yurko. Yep, and and Harry and somebody
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else were quite a popular team in Chicago sports talk radio.
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again from Cappy. Who do you think they're going
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to get to play third? Is it and is it a bigger deal
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than just the third bit? I mean, if it's Colorado, I mean
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Colorado if it's Arizona, right? I know that they've got their
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eye on a couple of pictures. Boys.
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Next two weeks can be fascinating when it comes to the
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trade deadline. It's.
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Probably going to be like Urias from the Orioles.
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It's something like that. It's going to be a low leverage
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thing like him. Just play Matt Shaw, right?
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He's a good glove man. He is.
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He's struggling to hit the ball. We think there's something there
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saw when he first came back. He's struggling as of late.
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But they do need, I guess they want somebody that they just
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because Palencia hasn't been there done that.
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He's great, been great during the regular season.
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I, I think the bullpen is fine. Keller's fallen on some hard
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times as of late, but he's had a terrific and and maybe the All
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Star break will help him immensely.
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Maybe it's just a veteran arm, maybe you know a guy that's he's
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not even a back end guy, it's just another one to kind of
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throw in the mix. Are you have have we heard the
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end of the Nico Horner trade stuff?
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Remember during the offseason he was he's a phenomenal player.
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Now he's not. There's no power.
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He's got one home run. He's a Gold Glover, makes
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phenomenal plays at second base. Dansby's Dansby, Michael Bush
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has been terrific. Both catchers.
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Maya's coming back. Chad Kelly, Where did that come
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from? Reese McGuire in in the interim.
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Well, Maya's coming back and the outfield is HAP, PCA and Tucker.
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Not bad. And oh, by the way, Saya
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Suzuki's got 27 bombs and leads the league at RBI.
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This team can win it all they if they get another arm.
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Rank the rank the NL for me. Dodgers and Phillies.
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I agree. Is there another?
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Yeah. The Cubs third, then the
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Brewers. Where are the Mets?
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I don't like the. Mets, you haven't mentioned the
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Giants or the Padres. And I won't.
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OK. Not my top five.
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So you think the Cubs 3 I had three or four, 3 or 4?
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Would you put the Brewers in front of them?
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It's going to be hell of a race. You know what worries me about
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the Phillies? Well, I don't care if they win
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nothing. You got big concerns over there
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at Philadelphia. I got a big ticket on
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Philadelphia, but it's their bullpen.
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Yes. Absolutely their lack of bullpen
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because they got a bunch of pieces too.
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The Cubs can win the World Series.
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Yes, the Cubs can win the World Series.
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Who in the American League? Can win a World Series.
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Can win the World Series? Can the Yankees?
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Not as they're currently constructed.
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I agree. Can the Blue Jays?
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Yes. You really?
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Think so? I think so.
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They have a they have so much top end talent too.
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Can the Astros? Yeah.
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Can the Tigers? What don't you like about the
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Tigers? I.
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Don't know. I mean, the answer is yes.
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If I'm throwing those teams in there, I you have to include the
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Tigers, no, who I might include even before the Yankees.
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Not the Red Sox. No, I like them though.
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You get up a + 650 to win that division.
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They're three back and they're going to spend.
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I believe that they're going to spend come trade deadline.
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So your answer must be the Mariners.
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It is the Mariners, but you know, I got an affinity with
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that whole pitching staff. Maybe it's a blind spot for me.
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Well, at least Casteel seems like he's back.
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Maybe. You know, I really like and he
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pitched in the All Star game last night was Brian Woo.
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Yes, he's a hell of a pitcher. Kirby's Kirby Gilbert's OK.
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If Castillo pitches like we think he can and has in the
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past, maybe, maybe they can. We'll take a time out.
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And of course, Gal Raleigh leading everything that helps.
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Those. Those come up about 10 minutes
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before the top of the hour. Matt Rudy, long time golf
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writer. He joins the program as he
22:54
always does to re preview or to recap the majors or this year.
22:58
Matt Rudy, we're going to impose on you again.
23:00
It is a Ryder Cup year, as you know, so you haven't seen or
23:03
heard the Last of Us just yet. So thanks for doing this.
23:06
Matt, how are you? I want to do Big 10.
23:08
I want to do Big 10 football preview too.
23:10
Well, we can. And you know what's parties on
23:12
the Hawkeye schedule? I think it's the final home game
23:15
of the year for Iowa, I believe, so we'll do that, too.
23:19
So, Royal Toonbrush, what do you know?
23:21
Have you seen it in person? And what lies ahead?
23:26
You know, the Port Rush is interesting in that Rory
23:30
McIlroy, Rory Mcilroy's got the course record there 61 and shot
23:35
it when he was 16 years old, which is really an interesting
23:37
piece of trivia. I don't think the course plays
23:42
the same way now as it did when he was 16, but you can't.
23:46
I mean, it's such an interesting mixture of good feelings because
23:49
it's a home game for him. Plus, you know, the all the
23:53
higher level expectations that come from playing in front of an
23:56
adoring crowd. You know, we talked about this
23:59
after the masters and, you know, before the other majors this
24:02
year. But the Rory promises that the
24:05
let down is over and he's back to concentrating again.
24:08
And this is going to be an interesting test that from, from
24:11
what I'm hearing from from Ireland, there are some pockets
24:16
of the golf course that are very score able, you know, driver
24:20
drivable par fours, you know, places where you can be
24:23
aggressive. And then there's pockets where
24:24
if you're a foot in the wrong spot, you could be out of
24:28
bounds. There's one over OB is 3 feet
24:30
from the green. So I think there's, there's
24:34
there's potholes everywhere. But we've talked about this for
24:38
20 years now. I think this is my favorite one
24:41
to watch because they do such a good job letting the golf course
24:45
get out of the way and let the players do what they're, you
24:47
know, let it be decided by who's playing great.
24:50
So I mean, that's what I'm looking forward to, that the
24:52
weather isn't crazy to the point that it severely disadvantages
24:57
one side of the jar or the other, and that the the players
24:59
decide what happens, not the golf course.
25:01
Speaking of Rory, the last time a port rush did not go very well
25:04
if it kind of overwhelmed to something that he mentioned.
25:07
Listening to Rory this week, though, is jerk Rory done.
25:11
Did he Get that out of the system now and he's back to
25:13
normal. Nice Rory.
25:16
Yeah, he he seemed like a different guy, even with that
25:18
short haircut. Did we got his medication
25:21
balanced that I, I, I think there's, there's a hangover.
25:26
I, I think the way I would equate it, if you look at the
25:30
way those NFL players respond when they win a Super Bowl, for
25:33
example, I think if you went and talked to those players a week
25:36
after the season, a week after the Super Bowl, all of the
25:40
celebrating everything that you did to, to achieve this
25:43
incredible difficult goal. Probably the last thing you want
25:47
to do, you know, 7 or 10 days after that is go go to a
25:50
walkthrough or you know, go to a practice.
25:52
So I think Rory's dealing with answering the questions leading
25:56
up to it and then answering the questions after it.
25:59
And I think it's, it changed the equilibrium of what a weekend
26:04
and week out experience was for him on tour.
26:08
And I think getting away from it a little bit was good for him.
26:11
I think being in Europe for a couple weeks has been good for
26:14
him and he played pretty well last week.
26:17
He finished second at the Scottish Open.
26:19
So it's always hard to tell me. As you said, this is the I think
26:22
he made a quad on the 1st. Hole the last.
26:25
Time the championship was here, but he's probably hoping to
26:28
maybe just make a par on the 1st hole and stay in.
26:31
Stay in at least until you know Friday morning.
26:34
Is this, of course, when we watch the the British Open that
26:37
the pot bunkers just kill her? I mean, some guys haven't, you
26:41
know, go to right handers trying to play left-hander.
26:43
You're going back toward the tee with your next shot.
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Is this a golf course that pot bunkers will come into play?
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Do you know Matt? No, I mean, I think there's a
26:52
little bit of that that's not a it's not an overwhelming
26:56
feature. I highly recommend Michael Kim
26:59
is a great follow on X and he's been doing a day in and day out
27:04
review. And this this is the first time
27:06
he's seen the golf course. And so the information that he's
27:09
sharing on his X account, his X feed comes from not only APGA
27:13
tour perspective, but the perspective of someone who's
27:15
never seen the golf course before.
27:17
And, and I think the the best thing you can hear from a player
27:21
leading into the week is how fair it plays.
27:24
And if you hit, you know, players are saying, hey, if you
27:26
hit good shots, you can make a good score.
27:28
If you hit a bad shot, you can get punished.
27:30
And I think that's the prevailing thing that's going to
27:33
happen here. I think everyone is rooting for
27:35
there to be kind of standard Open Championship weather where
27:37
you wear, you're wearing a kind of 1/4 zip and it might rain a
27:42
little bit here and there, but hopefully avoid the some of the
27:45
monsoon weather like we saw when Brian Harmon won a couple years.
27:48
Ago What's the Twitter account again?
27:51
Michael Kim is the is the KIMKIM?
27:55
Yeah, OK, great. And he's a, he's an interesting
27:57
follow. He does everything from take
27:59
pictures of what the food's like in the players locker room to,
28:02
you know, talk about his practice round and it's really
28:04
interesting. Michael Kim to #1 Scotty
28:08
Scheffler Scotty chasing the career slam.
28:11
That's going to be a storyline this week, the horse of the
28:13
betting favorite coming in last week at the Scottish Tita Green.
28:16
He was the number one ranked player, 67th and putting though,
28:19
and that is normally the issue when it comes to Scotty
28:22
Scheffler. Slower greens, different type.
28:24
Does he have it this? Can he putt well enough this
28:27
week to win this golf tournament?
28:29
Well, I think he can. The the the issue, if you want
28:33
to call it that, is of the four majors, this is the one that his
28:37
record is the the flimsiest in. It's not to say his record is
28:40
bad. It's just not as good as it is
28:43
in the in the other majors. But but you would think that
28:47
this kind of tournament where there's different lives,
28:51
different kinds of shots are encouraged in a different
28:53
trajectory, You know, you can curve the ball different ways.
28:55
All of that fits right into the way he likes to play.
28:59
And I don't think he's particularly bothered by bad
29:02
weather. He's played in a lot of wind and
29:04
a lot of bad weather in Texas. And, and if you look at the map
29:08
of where he's won golf tournaments, they're all
29:10
different kinds of golf courses, all different parts of the
29:12
country. You know, he's not really the
29:14
sort of the traditional PGA Tour player that just wants to hit
29:18
high and far. He does have that variability
29:21
and that workability in his game.
29:23
So I absolutely, I do think he can do it.
29:27
He gave a fascinating interview the other day at his press
29:29
conference. I don't know that he talked
29:32
himself out of it, but he we talked a lot about how winning
29:36
these things ultimately wasn't super satisfying for him and
29:40
that, you know, it's a couple of minutes of excitement.
29:42
Then you kind of pick, you know, where to go eat dinner.
29:45
That was an interesting and very philosophical take from a guy
29:49
that's got a strong family life and strong faith life.
29:53
There's other things from off the golf course, but I think
29:58
when we used to have this conversation about Tiger a lot,
30:01
which is if he's just on the planet, when it comes to putting
30:04
with Tiger was driving, If Tiger's just on the planet, he's
30:07
so much better than everybody else from the rest of the parts
30:10
of the game. And that's a good way to
30:11
describe Scotty. If he's just on the planet with
30:14
putting, all that other stuff is so good and it's been so dialed
30:17
in for the last three or four months.
30:19
I mean, there's a reason why he's such a giant favor.
30:22
I think he's plus 550I mean, that's when you can, when you
30:26
can go get, you know, somebody like Jon ROM for 18 to 1.
30:29
I mean, that's, that's pretty that that gives an indication of
30:33
how strongly people feel about the favorite.
30:35
I'll go back to because there's just news today on Wyndham
30:37
Clark. You may have seen, I'm sure you
30:39
did, the fact that he's now barred from Oakmont, who hosts
30:42
the the Open again in 2033. Maybe it's 10 years, whatever.
30:49
I mean, I don't recall a golfer, you know, Rockstar sure, being
30:53
banned from a well for throwing stuff out the window, but I
30:58
mean, we, we, we saw the reports, etcetera.
31:00
I don't recall a golfer being barred from a from a
31:03
championship venue before, do you?
31:06
It's such a, such a Country Club thing too, right?
31:08
It's, it's almost like he changed his shoes in the, in the
31:10
parking lot or something instead of going inside.
31:13
I, I, I don't know what that does.
31:16
I mean, it's it's certainly symbolic And I I do think that
31:20
if it came down to it, he didn't do any of those things and he
31:23
qualified for the US Open. I really don't think that the
31:26
club is going to be able to tell the USGA.
31:29
Yeah, well, that guy can't play because he didn't, you know, he
31:31
didn't make it right and fix the, you know, fix the locker or
31:34
whatever. I think it's much more of a
31:36
symbolic thing for the members to, you know, kind of feel
31:40
better about, you know, sticking up for their place.
31:43
But it really does. It puts a highlight on some
31:46
pretty terrible, you know, it's it's just not very good
31:50
sportsmanship. Brooks kept guy at the live
31:52
event a couple weeks ago get a bad tee shot and slammed his
31:54
driver down and hooked his driver at A at a sign that was
31:58
right next to a bunch of people in the gallery.
32:00
It's the same kind of thing. It just shows that you're you
32:03
know, you don't feel like you operate in the world where
32:06
everybody else is living. And I think that's the part that
32:09
is the most bothersome. That's somebody's locker, you
32:11
know, that's that's somebody else's property.
32:13
And I mean, I've got kids at home.
32:16
I know what tantrums look like. I mean, that's a tantrum.
32:18
Yeah, indeed. Give us a name or two maybe away
32:23
from, you know, the the big names out there that that you're
32:26
going to watch this week and maybe have a bet on.
32:29
It's so interesting because it's it's hard to peg.
32:33
And we talked, you know, we talked about players like Victor
32:36
Hovland, for example. It's so hard to peg, you know
32:39
where he is. But I mean, I think one of the
32:42
interesting people that we don't talk a lot about and you look at
32:46
their collective record in the in the Open Championship for the
32:49
last 10 years, Jordan Spieth has got the second or third best
32:52
record going back ten years in the Open Championship.
32:55
Here's a guy who just had a kid literally this week.
32:58
He hasn't really been at the front of anybody's mind.
33:02
He's obviously he's done this before.
33:03
He knows how to do it. And this is a venue where you
33:07
can be a little bit, you know, you can take some creative
33:10
approaches to how you play holes.
33:12
So if you're telling me I can have Jordan Speed at 60 to 1 and
33:17
I can have someone like Matt Fitzpatrick who's 40 to 1, I
33:20
mean, to me those are two guys that with major championship
33:23
pedigree at fairly long odds that have that, you know, I
33:28
think have the brain to be able to play a golf course like this.
33:33
Deep down the cut list is, is we seemingly get this every single
33:37
year, right? And the British Open, a guy,
33:39
even me, that's a more than a casual fan, I've never heard of
33:42
this guy. We get that every year.
33:43
Are there any EUR that we should be keeping an eye on?
33:46
Any guys that the casual golf fan is probably not even going
33:49
to know if they show up on the leaderboard on Thursday?
33:52
Well, I does it have to be a European?
33:55
I mean that I wish I wish Chris Goddard hadn't won last week.
34:00
I was, I was thinking about how to talk to you guys about, you
34:02
know, you know what to you know, how to preview this and some,
34:05
you know, a deep track, so to speak, because he was in
34:08
position to get a spot on this by being top three, not
34:11
otherwise exempt. And he goes and he wins the
34:13
tournament. So I would love to be able to
34:16
say I called it before I talk to you, but I'll call that after
34:20
the fact. But the the the Hoygard twins
34:22
are are terrific players and, and I think those are those are
34:27
two guys that have been in major championships since they were 18
34:31
and 19 years old. And I think there's a learning
34:33
curve that we saw with Zander Shotsley where you just have to
34:36
do this a few times. I think Ludwig Oberg's going
34:39
through the same kind of thing. You have to do this a few times
34:41
and have a few near misses and have a couple car crashes before
34:44
you can, you can really, you know, put your, put your imprint
34:49
on it. But Nikolai Hogard at 100 to 1,
34:51
I think that's a, he's a Danish player.
34:53
He's just a fantastic player. He's a long hitter.
34:56
He's got a really stylish game. That's, I mean, I think that's a
34:59
fun guy to to watch for too. Well, 101 are probably decent
35:03
priced top ten, decent priced top 20 as well.
35:05
Good stuff. So Matt, are you going to do
35:07
help Trent out for Monday? I won't talk to you until the
35:11
Ryder Cup, so we'll talk then. And you being a Michigan State,
35:14
Brad, will certainly do something prior to that week
35:18
because the football season comes to an end.
35:20
So I'll thank you now for doing what you do for us always.
35:22
We'll talk to you in September. Matt.
35:24
Rudy, thank you, buddy. I'll be ready.
35:26
See you guys. Yeah, good to talk to you.
35:27
Matt Rudy, long time golf writer at Golf Digest, now a ghost
35:31
writer, but still writing on golf and doing so just with
35:34
somebody else's name on it, gets credit for all the work that
35:38
Matt Rudy does actually writing the book.
35:40
How many bets have you got when it comes to do you?
35:42
Do you have a handful? Yeah, probably.
35:45
Do you have Victor Hovlin on your list?
35:46
I. Don't that is 1 I I saw when we
35:49
did our TV show you he was on there taking a flyer, right.
35:52
And I don't love him this week. The form just isn't quite there
35:56
that I'm looking for and kind of the way that I I put together
36:00
all told, including, you know, top 10's and top 20s.
36:02
I'll probably have, I don't know, 15 bets on it.
36:04
Bobby McIntyre, you know me out. Of every week.
36:07
You know me well, I love my Bobby Mac and he's definitely
36:11
going to be a part of the card. I'll have a little bit on Lowry.
36:15
He won it last time it was there, right?
36:17
Yeah, so. So that's always a piece of it,
36:19
and his didn't. Draw a sober breath for two
36:22
weeks. My kind of guy absolutely
36:24
planned on doing that here in just a few days.
36:26
Yes, set your alarm. It'll be set as long as I don't
36:31
turn it off when I get up to. Take a leak, you land Monday.
36:34
At what time? I think we get there at like
36:35
1:20 Pacific Time. Something like that is when
36:39
we'll be landing. We'll get to Circa by 2:00.
36:42
Oh my. And away throw.
36:44
Your bags in the room and write down to the world's largest
36:46
sports. Book absolutely well got to hit
36:49
the cramps table. On your way down to the world's
36:51
largest, you got to walk right by.
36:52
Lucas is already working on content, is he?
36:55
And Lucas has already figured out what's he going to do for
36:57
the first time, so he's going to be taking videos for it.
36:59
A lot of social media, making sure you're following along on
37:02
and on Instagram, on the KXNO web page there in the IVA Sports
37:05
Radio network, follow along their Facebook, Twitter of
37:08
course, and we will have plenty of content from Vegas.
37:11
Speaking of plenty of content in Vegas, I was struck and maybe
37:14
maybe you've noticed this before, but I never did walking
37:18
through the casino. How many social, what they call
37:21
them creators have set up their phone and it's and it's pointed
37:26
at the slot machine and it's just they sit there and they
37:30
just spin, spin, spin. And I guess they're way needing
37:32
to hit. Yeah, absolutely.
37:33
Because if they hit the jackpot, more people are going to.
37:36
I mean, there had to be a half dozen of them.
37:38
We're out of time for this break.
37:39
Trends, plays of the day, our next.
37:41
Miller and Condon, Iowa Sports Radio Network.
37:45
Miller and Condon, welcome back. Final couple of minutes here
37:48
again, top of the hour. The drive.
37:49
The drive is no longer. Trent did it again.
37:51
Damn it. Yeah, it'll happen.
37:54
They're coming off the bench, is what Sean Roberts and Lucas
37:56
Strainer doing. What are you betting?
37:57
Who are your golfers? Five to win, will throw like 1/2
38:01
unit on each of them. ROM, Bobby Mack, Robert
38:04
McIntyre, Oberg, Lowry. Justin Rose is 75 to one.
38:08
That's just crazy to me and especially as well as he played
38:10
last week. I'll have a Xander in there,
38:13
probably a top 10. Here's one for you.
38:16
Top debutant, 12 to one. Andrew Novak.
38:19
I like this. 1 So it's his first British Open or first major?
38:23
For this is his first British. Yes, first British, first
38:25
British. How about Justin Rose, first
38:28
round leader, 70 to 1. Oh, I like the number.
38:32
Well, this time tomorrow you'll know.
38:34
Yes, I will. Good stuff.
38:36
Go back to the bank account probably.
38:38
Yeah, probably. So that will do it for us.
38:41
Coming up next off the bench with Sean Roberts, Lucas Strain,
38:44
Trenton I Miller and Condon with you every Monday through Friday,
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