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David Kaplan talks Cubs & The Bears Draft, Mark Woodley on his trip to Wrexham & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Our number 2 welcome back Miller and Condon.
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  Iowa Sports Radio Network Trent Condon, Ken Miller Momentarily
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  our buddy David Kaplan's and cheering Stone of Iowa sponsors
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  Cappy's weekly appearance. Mark Woodley will join us at the
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  bottom of the hour. Trent will make some plays.
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  Circus sports sponsor those. Hello, Capper.
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  How are you buddy? I'm good, Sparky, how are you?
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  Doing well. Well, you got some pub this week
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  with the news that you broke that the Cubs management is
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  aware of what it's going to take and apparently they are willing
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  to write that check. I hope that they back that up
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  with an actual contract. What do you think the chances
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  are, Cap? Obviously Tucker's going to have
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  a whole bunch of teams that are after his services.
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  But the Cubs apparently realized with the price of poker and are
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  willing to play. And that's what you heard and
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  that's what you reported. Yeah, and you know, it's funny
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  how people yesterday, Oh my God, are they close to the extent?
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  No, they're not. I said a few people listened to
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  the podcast that they have wrapped their brain around.
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  That's the guy we need to extend and break the bank for and go
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  maybe out of our comfort zone. 1/2 he's newly married January
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  of 2024. They before they commit
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  basically the rest of his career because it's going to be a long
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  term deal. They want to know how does his
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  wife like Chicago in the summer? How does the organization treat
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  families, which is amazing among the best in the game.
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  And people have asked her what does that mean treat the family.
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  It's not like I go to work and then I leave and I go home and
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  my life is my life. But let's just pick Kyle Tucker.
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  He's playing and they're on the road at Pittsburgh, and he's
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  fast asleep. And they got a game the next
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  day. And his child at home with his
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  wife is sick. I don't mean deathly sick.
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  I mean got the flu. She's like, oh, God, what do I
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  do? My child is 130.
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  The Cubs have established Theo and Jed started this one.
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  Theo came like there's a hotline.
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  She calls, Hey, I'm having an issue.
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  OK, Mrs. Tucker, we'll call you back in, you know, 5 minutes.
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  Boom, team doctor calls or somebody on call.
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  Here's what we need you to do. We'll meet you here.
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  We'll do this. We'll do that.
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  Or she says, hey, I want to be able to go do this, We'll take
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  care of it. Boom, your reservation is set.
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  Here's your car. So whatever it is, they make
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  sure that the player can focus on his job, being a great
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  baseball player and anything the family could need is taken care
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  of. So, you know, that's the way
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  they do business now in professional sports, especially
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  for the superstars. And that's how the Cubs treat
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  all their players. So he has to experience all of
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  that. All I reported was they've
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  wrapped their brain around it's going to cost us a lot of money
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  and we better have a plan how we're getting this done.
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  Well, it feels like they got a superstar in Emanaga, but he
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  leaves last night with what they call leg cramps.
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  Of course he's OK, No concern at all.
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  None from Craig counsel after the game and then I watched the
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  show to Imanaga translator interview for probably 20
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  minutes and he said I've had this before, I'm fine.
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  That's good because I think that's what they said about
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  Steel when he came out of the game and obviously got worse as
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  the week went on. But leg cramps a whole lot
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  different than an arm, right? So that that's certainly good
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  news, Cap. This team continues to hit the
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  baseball out of ballparks. They continue to swipe bases.
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  I just can't get over the fact that it's Bruhan and the double
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  clutch against the Phillies, that it's Bertie, that it's
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  Workman who's now a White Sox, and it could have been Bregman.
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  It seems like it's it's an Achilles heel, the E5 waiting to
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  happen at third base. I don't know what's out there
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  Cap, but how don't don't they have to address that amongst
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  other concerns? And I don't know if that's Matt
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  Shaw figuring that out down here getting another chance.
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  That's who it is. OK, but that's it, right?
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  That's it. Matt Shaw will be back here and
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  he's looked like he's changed his swing a bit.
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  He still has the big leg kick. I don't know if that will stay
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  or not but from what I've watched, and I'm no swing doctor
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  but it looked like when he was here he took the front foot so
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  his left foot and turned it like almost grotesquely in and now it
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  looks like he's more a little more parallel at the plate.
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  Saw him hit a Homer the other day.
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  I saw a line drive single yesterday.
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  Looks like he's swinging the bat better.
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  He definitely is. And Tommy Birch, of course you
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  know Tommy's name. I saw another name that was.
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  Tommy Birch fan, I love that guy.
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  Yeah, so we love him as well. Jonathan Long getting some reps
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  over at third base. Have you talked to anybody in
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  the organization? He's a first baseman by trade.
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  Is this just, hey, let's see it in case it doesn't happen for
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  Shaw, This is a backup plan here.
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  I've just seen a little bit of Jonathan Long.
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  Seems like a stretch. He could be an everyday third
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  baseman even for 1/2 season at the Major League level.
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  Yeah, I mean, I would be disingenuous to your audience if
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  I told you I knew anything about him.
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  I do not. I have no clue.
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  And I wouldn't know him if he came up and punched me in the
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  face. Might be seeing him before too
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  long though. And if you're not seeing him,
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  you'll be seeing Chris Flexen because I guess he's on his way,
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  Cap and he. Has to be activated by tomorrow.
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  Or he could opt out and ask to be a free agent.
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  So. So what's the course?
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  What would the corresponding move be?
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  Would it be a birdie? Would it be a Bruhan?
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  Those two make sense because you got to end with the 40 man,
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  right? And I don't think he is.
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  What do you think? What's the corresponding move
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  when flexing comes up? And I don't know if that means
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  he's going to start against Skeens on Thursday or are
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  they'll save him for the weekend.
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  But some's going to. Be on Thursday.
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  OK. And he's been good.
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  He's been good. He's been excellent, so that's
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  why I feel like a game like tonight is a very important
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  game. I know it's one of 162, but if
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  you lose tonight, I mean, could you beat schemes, Sure.
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  All great pitchers lose games. It's a tough task, especially in
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  his building. He's really, really good.
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  So I would think corresponding move, maybe Tom Cosgrove who
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  threw 2 innings yesterday, I could see him going down so.
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  Pitcher for. Pitcher, Pitcher for pitcher.
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  And then I don't think they're ready to recall Matt Shaw just
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  yet, but I do think sooner rather than later he'll be back
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  at third base. Yet something up on the recap on
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  YouTube about the Cubs being the best team in baseball, and it's
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  not that big of a stretch it it really isn't for some of the
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  things we've seen from the Dodgers, they're inconsistency.
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  American League as a whole looks wide open.
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  If this is not Homer radio here, Cappy, the Cubs, you can make a
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  very compelling argument. This is the best team in all of
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  baseball. Yeah, that was my partner Ryan
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  Mcguffey, who came up with that storyline and it, you know, got
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  his lunch hour show inflamed that you had the Sox fans,
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  really, they're not the best team.
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  You had other teams, fans who watch.
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  They're not the best team in baseball.
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  But what I would tell you is, you know, the Dodgers just put
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  Tyler Glass now on the injured list with the shoulder.
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  Shoulders are, you know, if you told me he tweaked A groin or
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  something, he's out of a couple weeks, You're like, all right,
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  we'll be OK. We'll just miss two or three or
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  four starts shoulders after he's already had an elbow issue that
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  required surgery. I mean, that is concerning.
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  Blake Snell started throwing when they were here last week.
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  He's on the injured list and he said no arm doesn't feel right.
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  They had to shut him down in a throwing session.
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  That's not good. They haven't used Clayton
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  Kershaw and he's on the 60 day injured list.
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  He's eligible to come off kind of late in May.
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  So you're 3 weeks at least away from seeing him.
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  And how many pitches does he have left in his arm?
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  For all the money that they spent, they're definitely short
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  of starting pitching. Like if I told you right now, I
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  gave you a ticket, here you go. Here's $100 bet.
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  You can bet any team to win the World Series.
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  The Dodgers would not be my choice.
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  It would not. Now will they go out and make
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  trade? Yeah.
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  But at some point you do run out of prospects to trade and you do
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  run out of budget opportunities to go out and spend more money.
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  And the other thing is we may have a work stoppage.
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  I think we will after 20, 20. Six, Yeah.
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  You can't have 22 guys on multi $1,000,000 long term deals.
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  At some point you're going to have to move guys off because
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  they're going to fight to get a salary cap in there.
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  Well, here's this one. Backs up how good the Cubs are.
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  I mean, Circa just put out their odds to for the team to win the
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  most games in the month of May. Cubs are by far and away the
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  favorite. They're 4 to one.
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  The second shortest Price Dodgers are 8 1/2 to one cap.
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  So that the Cubs are #1 in all of baseball.
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  Well, this is to win more games in the month of May, so the
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  month of May. Any American or national.
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  Anybody. All 30 teams.
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  Yes, the Cubs are 4 to 1, Dodgers plus 8:50, and then
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  everybody's double digits are beyond.
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  But the Cubs are an overwhelming favorite.
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  The Cubs. That is an amazing stat.
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  It is. Let me make sure I get this
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  right. The Cubs to win the most games
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  in the month of May are 4 to 1, the Dodgers are 8 to 1 and no
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  one else in baseball is less than double digits.
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  That's correct, I just DM Ed it to you so we followed each other
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  on the Twitter. So there it goes.
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  If you if you look at the Chicago Cubs schedule, and
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  again, they have to face Schemes tomorrow, I don't know if it's
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  the Pirate. Yeah, Paul Schemes is really
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  good, but their schedule lightens up in terms of the
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  team's records. Marlins.
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  White Sox. Marlins again.
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  That is a quite the 9 gamer there.
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  You're thinking 8 white. Sox for three.
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  The the 2 Marlins, 1 White Sox in there and then the reason at
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  the end of the month. Yeah, it's a possibility.
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  Is available in the state of Illinois, as you well know,
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  Cappy, so maybe that might. Be and I'll be actually in a car
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  tomorrow, winging my way down I-65 to a little town known as
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  Louisville, KY for the. Week are you going?
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  I'm going to the Derby for the first time ever.
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  Oh, Cappy, you have no idea what you're about to experience.
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  It's such an experience. It truly is.
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  Where are you sitting? Bucket list item for my brother
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  and I. He retired in December and his
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  wife live in Florida. They're flying in tomorrow.
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  My wife and I are driving down and it's going to just be epic.
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  3 days of fun and frivolity. We are sitting right at the
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  starting gate. Nice.
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  A wave to the top of the stretch.
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  That's good. And you played, played a
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  handsome price for that. Where are you staying?
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  Do you know? Yeah, we're staying in, actually
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  in Lexington because I called the associate athletic director
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  formerly now he's the AD at DePaul.
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  Dwayne TV was at Kentucky forever and so I called him.
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  He's my buddy. I said, let me ask you a
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  question, where should I stay? He said do not stay in
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  Louisville. It's a blank show down there.
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  He said stay in Lexington. It's about 4550 minutes and he
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  said stay there you will pay 1/4 of the price.
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  We literally booked this last August and we went online.
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  The Hampton Inn in Louisville was $1700 a night.
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  Crazy. And now we found a hotel, a nice
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  hotel in Lexington for $300.00 a night.
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  Hampton Inn is the closest, one of the closest I've stayed
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  there. I mean, you stay there until
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  that room until Wednesday's like $149 starting Thursday 1700, and
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  you have to buy, you have to book it Thursday, Friday and
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  Saturday. Who's your horse, Cap?
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  It's journalism, it's a monster, and long as it got the post
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  position that it got now look, it's the 20 horse field.
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  Could you get caught up in a bad, you know, pack of horses
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  and lose? Of course you could Sandman
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  journalism. There's sovereignty.
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  There's a handful. I'm actually going to interview
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  Eddie Olshek today who's party at the Derby working for NBC,
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  and I will have on my YouTube channel probably up by tomorrow,
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  an interview with Eddie and then stuff I get from another
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  handicapper who's a horse owner who I am going to be
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  interviewing later today. So we'll have our picks up and
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  people can share it with their family and friends.
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  It's all free at Recap REKAP on YouTube and it'll be up there
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  and help you with the day and it will also have a Kentucky Oaks
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  pick too. That's good.
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  Well, journalist, my fear about journalism is he's just facing 5
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  horse fields in California and San Anita.
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  But we'll see. He's talented.
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  He's a talented colt, no doubt. All right, we got to go.
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  We got to recap the draft with you, Cap, just to get your
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  thoughts on. I loved it.
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  I think the Bears killed it. Obviously, you know, will they
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  hit round picks, you know, from a pick or two between rounds
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  four and seven that always makes or breaks draft.
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  But boy, I think they got their first 2.
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  They headed out of the park with both of their first two picks.
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  Cap What's the kind of consensus in Chicago about the Bears
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  draft? Yeah, I like what they did.
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  You know, Ben Johnson wanted Colston Loveland and then when I
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  see Ian Rappaport say all the phone calls were about getting
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  up to get one player, Colston Loveland.
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  And when Chicago took him, the phones all stopped until a trade
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  at pick 25. I think he said that was the guy
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  that everybody targeted. And then college friend of mine
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  who still scouts in the league, he said he always rips the Bears
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  to me. He's never work for them.
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  He's not a Bears fan. He's from Minnesota.
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  Every year ago, yeah, nice pick that.
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  I wouldn't have done that. And he called me the other
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  night. He's like, wow, good luck.
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  Your boys got it right. That kids a stud and he really
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  likes Luther Burden and he likes the kids.
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  Tamar Turner from Texas A&M. So we'll see if Ozzy Trupello is
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  a factor on the offensive line at 68315.
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  That is a monstrous addition if he can play.
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  Love what they did. So this is a team playoff team
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  now as we finish up the draft is that were the expectation
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  baseline should be for Bears fans?
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  It absolutely should. It should be a 910 wins football
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  team. I mean, I understand it's
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  everything's new. They've got new coaches, new
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  systems, everything. There is enough talent there
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  that if they don't win 9 or 10 games, I think it's a big time
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  failure. And then Johnson agrees because
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  he said we didn't come here to rebuild, we came here to win
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  now. So let's hope it's right.
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  David Kaplan Kapur and Joy Louisville are Lexington and
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  Louisville. It's going to be a wonderful
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  weekend for you and your wife and your friends.
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  It's really is something. If you're a sports fan, you
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  should try and experience it at least once because.
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  It is amazing items man, life's too short.
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  Yep, enjoyed buddy, can't wait to hear about it.
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  Good luck with your bets and we'll be when's.
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  I'll check your recap channel, going to tomorrow you.
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  Think him this afternoon. We'll have something up by
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  probably late tonight or in the morning.
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  Good stuff, I'll retweet it out. And I just sent you the DMG the
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  Bill, yeah, we're that one's probably going to be a little
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  North Carolina, what are they thinking when they see this?
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  What's going through their? Heads, well, I mean, they're all
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  in. We've all seen, I think an
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  element or somebody, an acquaintance, a younger person
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  leads them astray. I think that's where we're
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  trending here. Now, what you hope is it's not
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  elder abuse, that there isn't other things going on, right?
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  And that lurks in the back of your mind, too.
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  And that thing's a lot more nefarious than just young
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  girlfriend. There's more going on to the
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  story. That's where you hope that this
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  is not. We will talk to Mark Woodley
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  has had multiple weekends for experience in this.
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  specifically Wrexham, we'll talk about that.
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  I want to learn more about it because they are a passionate
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  Mark Woodley will join us next. Miller and Condon are on the eye
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  with Sports Radio Network. Hi, Millory Condon, welcome
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  We'll get to those here about 10 minutes before the top of the
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  hour. Well, been following this story
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  on Twitter. Took a liking to it.
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  Rexum's my squad. Oh, yeah, man, I'm all in.
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  Wow, I didn't know we were going there.
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  Oh, I mean, you got a new team. I go all in, Rexum.
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  Now they're watching play soccer.
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  Well, if it if it works out. Yeah, but they keep moving up, I
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  guess. And now, Mark, good to talk to
• 20:18
  you. I appreciate you coming on.
• 20:20
  I really do. I mean, I've known you've seen
• 20:23
  you on Twitter a bunch, but then when you went viral when you
• 20:26
  were doing the weather report during the Blizzard, I mean, I.
• 20:31
  Don't know what you're talking about.
• 20:32
  Yeah, I never hear about that. Yeah, right.
• 20:34
  And I mean that just that was all over the place.
• 20:37
  That was really, really cool. But then you know, you, I, I see
• 20:41
  on the Twitter and I'm following you and you're showing up over
• 20:44
  across the pond. And this isn't the first time
• 20:47
  that you've been there. So tell us, how did you become
• 20:49
  of all teams, a Wrexham fan team based in, by my understanding in
• 20:54
  Wales that was formed in the 1860s.
• 20:57
  What's behind this? And it looks like it's an
• 20:59
  absolute blast. It is an absolute blast.
• 21:02
  I haven't been a fan since 1860, but yeah, the team's been around
• 21:06
  since then. But no, I so 27 years ago I was
• 21:09
  a a student at Central College Impella.
• 21:11
  We have a great international program and I spent six months
• 21:14
  in Wales. Best times of my life.
• 21:16
  Wales is a beautiful country. I love the people and I hadn't
• 21:20
  been back there for a while. And then, you know, I think a
• 21:24
  decent number of people know this and some of your listeners
• 21:26
  probably don't that Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mcaleny from
• 21:31
  it. It's Always Sunny in
• 21:32
  Philadelphia bought Rexham AFC in Rexham, Wales about five
• 21:37
  years ago and they produced the documentary Welcome to Wrexham
• 21:42
  and I was on board. I was hooked right away just
• 21:44
  because of, you know, my past and wailed when watching this
• 21:47
  documentary. Just everything took me back to
• 21:49
  1998 and what a beautiful time that was and like, I have to go
• 21:53
  I have to go, you know, watch this team.
• 21:56
  So the first game I went to myself and Jim Nelson, who was a
• 22:00
  great sports writer for the water, Like we're going to go.
• 22:04
  So we go to Wrexham to a game in February 2 years ago there in
• 22:08
  the National League. They're in the 5th tier, you
• 22:11
  know, just wallowing way down there in in the English Football
• 22:15
  League. And you know, we went over there
• 22:18
  and the town was buzzing. I mean, this town revolves
• 22:22
  around that soccer team against Rexam AFC.
• 22:25
  They won two to nothing that night.
• 22:27
  Both of us did stories on our visits over there.
• 22:29
  We just had an absolute blast. But again, it goes back to my
• 22:32
  days in Pella 27 years ago and then five years ago it led to
• 22:36
  this. How does a kid from Dyke New
• 22:39
  Hartford that goes to college at Pella?
• 22:41
  How do you become a soccer fan? I don't know.
• 22:45
  That is an amazing question. I don't know.
• 22:48
  I've just kind of always been intrigued by the sport.
• 22:50
  Never played it. I don't think I could play it.
• 22:53
  But something I don't know, something has always just kind
• 22:55
  of clicked with me on that. It's fascinating.
• 22:58
  It is. So what, what are the crowds
• 23:00
  like? Because we've seen horror
• 23:01
  stories right about some of the they take it pretty seriously as
• 23:05
  you well know what, what, what, what's in a a game day Like what
• 23:10
  for the home team or for the visiting team?
• 23:12
  Obviously I'm guessing two different experiences, but
• 23:15
  what's game day like? Yeah, 2 very different
• 23:19
  experiences home and away. Some people may not know this,
• 23:24
  but it's not like going to an NFL game or anything like that.
• 23:27
  The fans don't sit together. You can't just buy tickets, you
• 23:31
  know, with the Wrexham fans or you know, with the other team,
• 23:34
  the Blackpool fans who whatever is, they're playing Charlton
• 23:37
  Athletic the other day. You have to buy tickets in your
• 23:40
  section. If you don't buy them in your
• 23:43
  section and people find out, they will remove you from the
• 23:46
  stadium. That's that's a thing and it is
• 23:49
  because they've had problems. We have problems.
• 23:50
  We just ignore it. They have problems.
• 23:52
  They segregate all the fans and you know the whole town, it's
• 23:57
  just buzzing from the second you wake up in the morning, you
• 24:00
  know, you end up at the pubs in town, they're all packed all day
• 24:04
  long. It's a little bit more of, it
• 24:05
  feels like a college football experience than it does a Pro
• 24:08
  Football experience. You know, you've got tailgating.
• 24:11
  Everybody is everywhere around town.
• 24:13
  It's really neat. And then, you know, they got
• 24:16
  promoted, which I'm sure we'll get to in a second on on
• 24:19
  Saturday, and that was just next level.
• 24:22
  I've never seen anything like it.
• 24:24
  So I was also, it was a year later in 1999, I was in Naples,
• 24:29
  Italy, and it was the day that they clinched and moved up from
• 24:33
  them. I think up to it was Series B
• 24:35
  and now they're in the top level of the Napoli team.
• 24:38
  And it was indescribable. I mean, we've seen big moments,
• 24:41
  Mark, you've been around the block a few times.
• 24:43
  You've seen some big wins for Iowa and Iowa State and a lot of
• 24:45
  other places during your career. It is different the way that the
• 24:49
  city is just engulfed in a way. I guess it's is it like it's a
• 24:53
  championship? Like we think see the stories of
• 24:55
  like Philadelphia when they won the Super Bowl and kind of
• 24:58
  people pouring into the streets. Is that what it's like?
• 25:00
  They're just kind of a different kind of scale.
• 25:02
  Yeah, I, I was kind of expected to see, you know, overturned
• 25:06
  cars and fire that that that didn't quite happening downtown
• 25:11
  after the game. It was just packed.
• 25:13
  And this was history. What happened on Saturday?
• 25:16
  Because I talked about going there a couple years ago.
• 25:18
  They were in the 5th tier. They're moving up to the
• 25:20
  championship. They're starting to play with
• 25:22
  the big boys. This is the second tier.
• 25:24
  This is history. No, no team in senior men's
• 25:28
  football in the top five divisions in English Football
• 25:31
  League history. And we're talking about a long
• 25:33
  history. No team has ever gotten promoted
• 25:36
  in back-to-back to back seasons. And that is what happened on
• 25:40
  Saturday. They were in the 5th tier when I
• 25:43
  was there two years ago. They are going to be in the
• 25:45
  second tier after this next year.
• 25:47
  You know they're going to be playing against the big boys,
• 25:49
  some of the big boys in the Championship right now.
• 25:51
  Leicester City. Leicester City won the Premier
• 25:54
  League like 6 years ago. They're in the Championship now,
• 25:58
  yeah. So I mean, there are some big
• 26:00
  teams and they're also getting promoted along with Birmingham
• 26:03
  City. That's the team that Tom Brady
• 26:05
  owns. So I don't know how some of the
• 26:07
  other teams feel about American owners, but I can tell you that
• 26:10
  the people of Rexham, the people of Birmingham are pretty, are
• 26:12
  pretty excited about us right now, yeah.
• 26:14
  I think Ryan Reills a Canadian though, isn't he?
• 26:16
  I think he is fine. Canadian lad is what he and he
• 26:19
  bought him for 2 million and I saw this on on on X.
• 26:23
  Apparently the club is now valued three seasons later at
• 26:27
  100 million. The estimates are somewhere
• 26:31
  between 100 and 150 million for the value of this club.
• 26:34
  And you're right, two and a half million just four years ago.
• 26:38
  It's insane what they've done. And the best part about this,
• 26:42
  you know, seeing the team when seeing them promoted was great,
• 26:47
  but seeing what it means to the people of these communities, I
• 26:51
  mean, this team got stuck in the 5th division for 15 years.
• 26:55
  They didn't move up. They didn't get down, go down.
• 26:58
  They were in the National League, stuck in that 5th tier.
• 27:01
  The town was kind of economically depressed.
• 27:03
  They almost lost the team in the last 20 years due to a soulless
• 27:07
  owner who wanted to sell the stadium.
• 27:09
  And in fact, the town formed a trust and bought the team from
• 27:13
  this guy. The town saved the team from
• 27:15
  this guy. But the town doesn't have a lot
• 27:17
  of money, so they weren't putting money into players.
• 27:20
  They were just kind of languishing in that 5th tier
• 27:23
  until Rob and Ryan showed up four years ago.
• 27:25
  And they had to have a big town vote.
• 27:27
  You know, everybody who was part of the trust had to vote and 98%
• 27:32
  of the vote I believe, which said OK, yeah, let's sell these
• 27:35
  guys. And it is been amazing.
• 27:37
  I mean what it's done economically for the town, just
• 27:40
  there's money pouring into the town.
• 27:41
  You've seen what did the value of the team and all these people
• 27:45
  who've watched this team, you know, for 4050, sixty years of
• 27:50
  their lives. You know, there are a couple of
• 27:52
  guys I met at the Turf pub, which is the famous pub from the
• 27:55
  documentary named Alan Trev of their brothers.
• 27:58
  They're about 80 years old and just hearing them talk about the
• 28:01
  stories and just smiling when they think about little old
• 28:05
  Rexum in the championship. The Rexum is honestly, it's
• 28:08
  about the size of Cedar Falls, not Waterloo and Cedar Falls
• 28:10
  together, just Cedar Falls and they're in the second tier
• 28:14
  playing against some of these big boys.
• 28:16
  It's it's insane. The stadium only holds 13,000
• 28:19
  people. And it's banged out.
• 28:21
  Seeing you inside of there and yeah, that jumped off.
• 28:24
  So I mean, in American sports sense, if we had relegation, if
• 28:28
  we had promotion, would this be like the, I don't know, the
• 28:31
  Clinton Lumber Kings suddenly and being in AAA and being being
• 28:35
  a season away from maybe moving up to Major League Baseball, is,
• 28:38
  is that a fairway to kind of equate this?
• 28:40
  Right. Think about the New York Yankees
• 28:42
  having to play baseball in Clinton, you know, if they
• 28:44
  happen to move up to that first tier next year.
• 28:46
  Yeah, exactly. It's basically the exact same
• 28:49
  thing. Yeah.
• 28:50
  I mean, I love the idea of relegation.
• 28:52
  Obviously in our pro sports, you know, there's so much money
• 28:56
  involved and the owner is, you know, of the NFL are never going
• 28:59
  to go for something like this. It's something we're never going
• 29:01
  to experience. Now, I've heard like the USL in
• 29:04
  soccer, in the USL 2 are considering something like this,
• 29:07
  which I think it'd be great. It actually might help them
• 29:10
  compete with the MLS or maybe even merge with them some point.
• 29:12
  But other than that, I think it's something we're never going
• 29:15
  to see. So you've got two teams near the
• 29:17
  bottom playing against each other.
• 29:19
  Nobody really cares, but you know, you've got two teams near
• 29:22
  the bottom playing each other over there.
• 29:24
  That's a big deal because you know you don't want to go down.
• 29:28
  Have has the committee, I mean people you have met, I guess, I
• 29:32
  mean, they're in pretty good mood with what they did this
• 29:34
  past week, but do you have friends over there now that are
• 29:37
  following this team that you guys will commiserate back and
• 29:39
  forth on game days? We certainly do.
• 29:43
  And when, you know, when we first did the stories and when
• 29:46
  we went over the first time, we talked to some people, some
• 29:48
  people on the documentary, some people not.
• 29:51
  You know, we're all Facebook friends now.
• 29:53
  I mean, I went over there, a buddy of mine who is, you know,
• 29:57
  in the Army or formerly in the Army, went out on Friday night.
• 30:01
  We had a great time, maybe too great of a time before getting
• 30:05
  to Saturday. Had heard a little bit Saturday
• 30:07
  morning, but but honestly, it was a blessing in disguise
• 30:11
  because, you know, kind of went a little bit slower on Saturday
• 30:13
  and I remember everything like, you know, crystal clear and what
• 30:17
  what a day it was, you know, rushing the field afterwards and
• 30:21
  the way the game went. Here's the way the whole day
• 30:23
  went. So two things had to happen for
• 30:25
  them to be promoted on Saturday. A-Team called Wickham had to
• 30:29
  either draw or lose and they played earlier in the day, which
• 30:32
  helped out a lot. So we knew, and once Wickham
• 30:35
  lost 2 nothing in their game, the town, the buzz changed in
• 30:40
  that town, everybody knew. It was like, oh, OK, just take
• 30:42
  the win tonight. They score about 20 minutes in,
• 30:46
  score a second one a minute and a half later.
• 30:47
  So it was 2 nothing in half and everybody's feeling good.
• 30:50
  The buzz is up, but you know, it's still 2 nothing that can be
• 30:52
  overcome. And then with about 15 minutes
• 30:55
  left to go, they knocked in the 3rd and everybody knew it was
• 30:57
  over. And the last 15 minutes, that
• 30:59
  game was wild. Do they sell beer in the
• 31:02
  stadium? Got it right.
• 31:04
  Yes, but here's the thing. So soccer games in England,
• 31:10
  Wales and the United Kingdom you are not too You're not allowed
• 31:15
  to consume a beer from anywhere in the stadium where you can
• 31:18
  actually see the field. You.
• 31:20
  Buy a beer. It has to be, you know, under
• 31:22
  the stands. You have to finish it and come
• 31:24
  out. In fact, in fact, CC Day, you
• 31:28
  know who's on. It's always Philadelphia with
• 31:31
  Rob Mcaleny. He was at a game last year and
• 31:34
  it was kind of scandalous because he was up in the owner's
• 31:36
  box and he got spotted drinking a beer, which even in the
• 31:40
  owner's box you cannot do. In fact, somebody I know who was
• 31:43
  part of it, who works for the team, told me that inside the
• 31:46
  owner's box indoors, there is a line.
• 31:50
  And that line designates from where you're, you know, not able
• 31:54
  to see the field to where you are.
• 31:55
  You have to be standing behind that line in order to drink a
• 31:59
  beer. CC Day was spotted, and it was,
• 32:02
  it was kind of scandalous. Now, nothing came of it, But
• 32:04
  still at the same time, like, yeah, oh, Yanks come over here.
• 32:07
  Apparently they can break the rules, right?
• 32:09
  No, absolutely. And especially if you're
• 32:10
  Hollywood star like Charlie Day, one of the funniest guys of our
• 32:12
  generation. Charlie Day, I do too.
• 32:15
  One last thing for you. For me, are you going again, I
• 32:18
  mean next year or is it already in the plans that you got to
• 32:21
  make another a trip and and a second part to that, are tickets
• 32:24
  expensive? No, incredibly cheap.
• 32:27
  Now they're definitely going to go up in the second tier, but no
• 32:31
  tickets about $25. And yeah, I'm guessing and they
• 32:36
  won't jump that major way. We think next year somewhere
• 32:39
  4045. So they might double, which for
• 32:41
  them it's probably good price. And that that is one of the
• 32:45
  unfortunate things. You know, you've got these long
• 32:47
  time season ticket holders there that can afford these tickets
• 32:50
  and it's probably going to price some people out of it and it's
• 32:53
  kind of the price you pay for going up.
• 32:54
  But no, as far as going back next year, I wasn't going to
• 32:58
  until, you know, our good friend Mark Frey who just left his job.
• 33:03
  UHO, I was talking to him, he asked me like, you going next
• 33:06
  year? I'm like, no, I, I think I'm
• 33:08
  going to take a year off And Mark's like really, Cuz I really
• 33:11
  want to go. And I was like, all right, Mark,
• 33:16
  here's the deal. If you go, I will go next year.
• 33:19
  So we're planning a trip to go next year.
• 33:20
  Absolutely going back. That's awesome.
• 33:23
  Thanks for doing this for us. I've been, like I said, I was
• 33:25
  into it vicariously following you over the weekend.
• 33:28
  Just the experience that you had.
• 33:30
  Such a cool story and wanted to share it with our audience.
• 33:33
  Mark, thanks for jumping on brother.
• 33:35
  Appreciate it. Absolutely.
• 33:36
  We'll do it. Again, documentary then you
• 33:38
  really will be. Yes, yeah.
• 33:39
  You know what? Where can I find it?
• 33:42
  It is on Hulu and Disney Plus I believe.
• 33:44
  Good stuff. Got them both.
• 33:46
  We'll take your time out. Thanks, Mark.
• 33:47
  We'll talk down the road, buddy. Thanks, Ed.
• 33:49
  Yep. Good to talk to you.
• 33:50
  Mark Woodley, KWWL. That's pretty cool story.
• 33:53
  Yes, it is. The whole town coming together.
• 33:55
  What else do they have? There's no baseball.
• 33:58
  No. Play hockey over there.
• 34:00
  This is it. Do they play cricket?
• 34:01
  Maybe. Probably.
• 34:03
  But this got to be. Different level.
• 34:05
  Different level, Yes. It's gig football, just a
• 34:08
  different kind of football. And moving up the ladder that
• 34:10
  the way that they have, $2,000,000 is now worth over
• 34:13
  between somewhere between 100 and $150 million.
• 34:16
  The rich get richer. Good for them.
• 34:18
  Take a time out. 14145 a trench plays of the day or next.
• 34:22
  Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 34:31
  Miller and Condon, our final segment here on a Wednesday.
• 34:35
  Thanks to Mark Woodley, David Kaplan, John Bowen Camp for
• 34:38
  joining us early in the program. Tomorrow, Dick Geron, who's
• 34:41
  covered decades of Kentucky derbies, will give us his
• 34:45
  thoughts. Joe O'Donnell, the voice of the
• 34:47
  Minnesota Wild. Radio voice of the Minnesota
• 34:50
  Wild and Game 6 tomorrow night in Saint Paul at the Excel
• 34:55
  Energy Center, at least for the time being, about to change
• 34:57
  names, but he'll join us, as will Bill Seals from Rivals.
• 35:01
  Now on three so Iowa State. Gets I I don't think Rivals is
• 35:05
  going away though. No, but they're combining.
• 35:08
  They're merging, but Iowa State will get a on three.
• 35:16
  Or do the Bill Seals wear two half?
• 35:17
  Well, we'll ask him tomorrow. We'll find out tomorrow.
• 35:20
  Yeah. So.
• 35:20
  So that's true. Rivals is not going to go away.
• 35:23
  As of now. As of now, yes.
• 35:27
  Well, we'll see how it works out in the end.
• 35:28
  But there's a big story today. The guy Terry Shannon, who
• 35:32
  founded Rivals and then sold it to Yahoo, then he founded 24/7
• 35:37
  Sports and sold that, and then he found it on Three and
• 35:43
  reacquired Rivals. And they'll sell that.
• 35:45
  And he'll does he not the companies that he's selling to,
• 35:49
  do they not put non compete clauses in these?
• 35:51
  Agreements they do. I remember back when 24/7 was
• 35:55
  kind of launching. Or was was it Scout?
• 35:57
  Scout. Yes, it was Trent, you're right.
• 35:58
  Yep. That there was something there
• 36:01
  and it took longer to get off the ground than he wanted, but
• 36:03
  eventually. His non compete was over and he
• 36:05
  got to. And in today's environment, non
• 36:07
  competes I. Don't think there is anything
• 36:08
  such thing you put. Them in there, but they're not
• 36:10
  worth very much, right? Certainly in our state, yeah.
• 36:13
  And I think a lot of states are that way.
• 36:17
  Fascinating. All right, let's make some plays
• 36:19
  of the day. One quick note.
• 36:20
  Yes, Sam Anderson, longtime Urbandale.
• 36:23
  Football. Yeah.
• 36:23
  What's going? On now it's his retirement.
• 36:25
  Did he? Yes.
• 36:26
  So he was a long time. Yes, absolutely.
• 36:29
  It's always he done or is he going to coach one more year?
• 36:31
  35 years, the last 21 as head coach, he informed the team
• 36:35
  Tuesday. So see him as decided retire.
• 36:38
  So yeah, that was his final season last year.
• 36:40
  Who? Had man on the sidelines.
• 36:42
  Well, maybe they'll go to an alum.
• 36:44
  You know the kid coming in next, Mr. Lucas Strain.
• 36:46
  He's an Urbandale alum. Yeah.
• 36:48
  He's a baseball dude. He played football, too.
• 36:50
  Did he play football? Absolutely.
• 36:52
  Yeah, it looks like an athlete I'm.
• 36:53
  Sure, state champion baseball player was not that on the
• 36:56
  football field. No, no.
• 36:58
  They had a pretty good receiver at one point in that program
• 37:00
  too. I I.
• 37:01
  And they might have a pretty good middle linebacker playing
• 37:03
  dude with the guys this year, Jaden Hare.
• 37:05
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You've been telling me about him
• 37:07
  for a while, boy. First time myself.
• 37:08
  What about your other brother Brevin doll?
• 37:10
  Is he hurt 'cause they can't see much about it?
• 37:12
  Hamstring injury kept him out. Also his battling illness
• 37:15
  throughout the spring and he is chomping at the bit.
• 37:18
  I bet he did it out there. And then when you see a freshman
• 37:20
  also show up in McNeil and look pretty good, OK, it gets a
• 37:24
  little nervous, doesn't it? Yeah, Boy, oh boy.
• 37:26
  I am. It's a cut throat world.
• 37:28
  I was offense. I'm mildly excited about this.
• 37:32
  I am too. Yeah.
• 37:33
  I bet you should be associated all fans of the black goal.
• 37:36
  After the season concluded, we're talking about what the
• 37:39
  total should be. The schedule is tough.
• 37:41
  Yeah. Could it be a year that it's
• 37:43
  actually not going to be 7 1/2? Well, it came out in 7 1/2.
• 37:47
  However, there was no way in the world I was betting the over
• 37:51
  with the schedule. That they had.
• 37:52
  I thought they were. Let's cross your fingers.
• 37:54
  Hope they get to 6 I. Have to make a bet.
• 37:55
  Make a bet right now. I bet in the over.
• 37:58
  Yeah, just the way the offense I I agree with you.
• 38:00
  No, it might be 8 and 4, sure. I don't think this is still a 10
• 38:03
  and two team with the schedule that they have.
• 38:05
  I don't think so either, but I but I it's more optimistic than
• 38:08
  I think it was at the end of last year.
• 38:10
  That's how I see. It right there with you.
• 38:13
  What? Who are you playing today?
• 38:14
  What sports are you playing today?
• 38:16
  So I did something tough yesterday.
• 38:17
  I had a winning record, what, 4:00 and 3:00?
• 38:19
  Still lost money down .2 units because we had a couple of big
• 38:22
  favorites in baseball that came home.
• 38:24
  The sports books have finally caught up.
• 38:28
  They're not allowing those -1 eighties -1 nineties on the
• 38:30
  Braves against the Rockies anymore because today they are a
• 38:34
  -, 290 choice. So we're not going to be playing
• 38:36
  that one. Just Chris Sale though too.
• 38:38
  It is Chris Sale 1 baseball game.
• 38:40
  I am going to play the Yankees against the Orioles.
• 38:44
  Povich A lefty. They mash against lefty.
• 38:47
  Simple as that. Grass go on the other side.
• 38:49
  I'll lay the -1 O2 What in hockey lightning extend this
• 38:54
  series do they -110 on that front and I'm going back to the
• 38:58
  well again, those first quarter bets, Rockets first quarter,
• 39:02
  Lakers first quarter will play both of those for my final 2
• 39:06
  picks. All right, good stuff out of
• 39:07
  Trent Condon there. Those are his plays of the day,
• 39:10
  Circus sports sponsors. Well, coming up next is the
• 39:13
  drive with Heather and Lucas Miller and Condon, noon to two
• 39:16
  on the Iowa Sports Radio now. Well, one more thing.
• 39:20
  Go, jets, go.