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Cubs stink with David Kaplan, WNBA & Caitlin Clark with Scott Agness & 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 take you new till 2O clock off the
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bench at that time. Lucas, Sean, come in here.
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Take you until 5. Let's head to Chicago.
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David Kaplan joins us. Sponsored every single week by
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our friends at Centurion Stone of Iowa.
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Centurion Stone of Iowa sponsors Cappy.
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More about them coming up here capturing Ken.
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Thanks for coming on. How are you?
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How's your sanity cap? How are you?
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How are you handling this 10 game slide that the Cubs are
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currently in the midst of? I mean, my sanity is good.
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I just tell the truth every day and I'm sure it doesn't make
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people happy when I, you know, RIP on the team and the
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management management and the manager and marquee.
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Like there's so much to unpack. Like, you know, I said on the
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radio this morning, I watched two stupid fundamental plays
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yesterday early in the game and immediately knew their heads not
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in it. Now, maybe it's they're pressing
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too tightly. Maybe, but Pete core Armstrong
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comes up throwing on a base hit Connor Griffin trying to go 1st
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to 3rd and Pete has a really good arm.
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Connor Griffin is fast. He not only airmails the cut off
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man, he airmails third base. But now the guy that got the
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single is in scoring position because he goes in the second.
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Now it's second and third, nobody out.
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And I went, what are we doing here?
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I mean, we got to be smart about this.
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And of course those two runs end up scoring on a hit by Brian
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Reynolds. They get another hit and then
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they get a home run and it's 5 nothing and basically the game
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is over at that point. But in the second, Bregman hits
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a double off the wall, Ian Hap gets a double, and then fly ball
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the right field. And if you can't guarantee me
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that you're going to make it to 3rd, why are you tagging up at
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2nd and you get gunned down? I mean it wasn't like they
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challenged it and lost. He got thrown out.
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There was no challenge. You're out and now instead of
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man at second and one out and a base hit is going to make it 5,
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two and maybe give you a little life, you got 2 outs and nobody
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on inning over basically and the next guy made it out.
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Like those are just stupid, dumb, idiotic mental mistakes.
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Those are not physical. You could say the throw from PCA
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airmailing third, OK, that part of its physical, the decision to
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make the throw and to miss the cut off, man, that is a stupid
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mental error. A bad baseball play.
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Ian Hap. That's just a dumb play.
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Dumb. You don't do it.
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And does the manager do anything about it?
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No, those guys I'm sure will be in the line up tonight.
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AB does he say anything in the post game?
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Nope. Does he air him out the dugout?
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Nope. But yet I watch the mentor, Pat
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Murphy, his mentor who we played for, I watched him last night
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after your eBay acts like a complete clown when he got the
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last out and he said I'm going to talk to him about it.
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That is ridiculous. That's not how we play.
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You think Craig Council would ever do that?
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Nope, we can't be afraid. We got to be afraid to ruffle
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feathers around here. Are you kidding me?
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I mean, what is going on here, man?
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The inmates running the asylum. It's a Beyond the Pale and then
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on Marquee, and I love Boog, I'm a friend of his, but I also am
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going to tell the truth. Jim Deshea's, Taylor, Rick, love
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all those people. Whoever's making the decision
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that we would need to learn about Shota Imanaga's rice
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cooker that he bought on Amazon or the Nacho thing in Texas.
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As a fan, I don't give a flying RIP.
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I want to know why did the Brewers swing at the first pitch
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14 in the 1st 6 steam batters against the managa.
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Why don't you give me something on that?
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Because that's talking baseball. Or why when there's first and
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3rd and you're trying to stay in a game against Milwaukee and the
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guy on first tries to steal, Why is Carson Kelly throwing
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through? And only because Dansby was able
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to be a wizard to keep the ball in the dirt from getting into
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the outfield to give him another run.
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Why are you throwing through? How about give me something on
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that talk? Freaking baseball.
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Sorry to go off. On No, listen, you're preaching
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the choir. I feel the same way.
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I mean, I watched them at the Mets broadcast and Ron Darlings
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ripping Mendoza because he just left these guys.
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I loved it. Absolutely did.
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You're not going to hear that on Marquis.
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You know what the story on Marquis was yesterday?
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Dansby Swanson changed his socks.
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He's not wearing the high socks. He's he's not.
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He's got the pants coming right down to the shoe tops.
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That's what I got out of Marquis.
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It drives me crazy that no one is willing to be critical when
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critical and then when you need to be, when you've got a chance
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to do so, to go ahead and do it. And they don't, and it pisses me
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off. Yeah, and here's the other
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thing. I got to listen to Elise
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Maniker, who I'm sure is a lovely person.
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I've never met her. This is not a criticism of her
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abilities. It's decision.
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No, she's good. I'm with you.
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We got an update on Justin Steele.
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Good news on Justin Steele. The doctor today cleared him to
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start strengthening his arm. No plan yet that he's getting
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back up on a mountain. That's not good news.
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You need a starting pitcher like a starving man needs a sandwich.
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And you're telling me it's good news that a guy that's more than
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a year past his surgery, it's good news that you're going to
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let him strengthen his arm a little bit, but no plan yet to
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get him up on a mound? I don't need to hear that.
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Don't spin it for me. Tell me the freaking truth.
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Well, we got a report on Justin Steele.
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Maybe not as encouraging as we hoped, but maybe a step in the
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right direction. I don't need you to spoon feed
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me this nonsense. Outside of Carson Kelly and
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Bregman, everybody's been awful hitting the ball for the better
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part of two weeks. You bring up a Contra, and I get
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it, His strikeout rates huge. Is he going to turn into a great
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Major League player? Who knows.
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But you have somebody that was at least hot, you bring them up
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there to sit on the bench when you're struggling like this.
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That's the part Ken and I go back and forth about.
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Managers. He loves to kill managers.
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There's only so many times, I think you say try harder, but
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that aside, you have a guy that was hot that could swing the bat
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and your whole team's not swinging it.
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It just is baffling to me that this guy can't get at bats when
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they're struggling up and down the lineup.
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Yeah, I'm with you 100%. I said today, what is Kevin
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Alcantra here for the sample the fair on the team charter and
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give us food reviews. Why did you bring him up?
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For what possible reason? I have to have Ian Hap back in
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the lineup. I got to have sale and then I
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listen to the manager say, well, you never know when your best
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players are going to break out of it.
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So you just keep running them out there.
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That's that's garbage. That is a that is the mentality
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of a loser. No, how about doing something
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bold when PCA does what he does? How about something Super Bowl
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where you go, Pete, take the rest of the night off and when
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somebody goes, why did you pull Pete in the first inning?
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After the first inning, I'm not saying to go Bobby Cox and go
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out on the field, but at the end of the inning, you're done for
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the night. We're not going to miss cut off
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men anymore and you'll remember it.
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And I'm going to tell the media exactly why we don't do that
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stuff. And I drives me insane.
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That's not personally attacking somebody.
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Hey, Craig, first inning, you, the PCA didn't come out for the
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second. Is he OK?
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He's fine. That was a message that we are
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done missing cut off men and making fundamental mistakes,
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period. We work on this stuff at spring
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training. I'm not going to tolerate it.
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We've lost 10 ball games in a row and enough is enough.
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I'm putting my foot down. I would be leading the cheers
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from the top of the Sears Tower. How are they going to work
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themselves out of this cap knowing that Cabrera, I guess
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Boyd's making apparently going to start on Sunday in his rehab.
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Cabrera's gone for a couple of weeks.
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Tion's asked to to stem the tide tonight.
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I mean, and, and with the ineptitude in the batter's box,
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how's this thing going to come to an end?
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I wish I knew. I really, really mean that.
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I don't know how you get this thing back on track.
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I don't get it. I don't understand what they're
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doing. I don't mean you bring Ramirez
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up, OK, He got a couple of games.
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He had a hit in both games. And then we've got to play the
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veteran guys. I'd like a veteran to step up
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and I mean, say enough's enough. Ride me, get me up in a big hit
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in a big spot opportunity and I'm going to deliver.
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Guess what? Get find me a reliever that says
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I'll take that guy. Put me in there right now.
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I'm going to shut this thing down.
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Jordan Wicks, you got your first opportunity of the season.
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What a great chance to go. Wow, they got 6 shut out innings
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out of Jordan Wicks. Nope.
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First guy up. What did he walk him on 4
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pitches? I mean, are we kidding?
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God it drives me insane. 5 Nothing at the end of 1 and it
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got worse from there. And.
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Ball game over. Monday I was telling Ken
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yesterday I was watching Monday I got into the game late.
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It was like the 7th inning someone run game and just the
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non competitive at bats the the want.
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That's the part that you just left scratching your head is I
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get it, it's 162, it's a marathon of a season.
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But the non competitive at bats cap.
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I'm not a fan of the Cubs, but just watching them, that drove
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me crazy on Monday. How does that happen at the
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Major League level? I know you're going to get 600
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at bats. It's going to be some of those
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that just aren't. You're not completely there.
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That's the baffling part to me. When you're struggling like
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this, who is the leader? Who is the guy that you point to
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in that clubhouse? Well, I mean, you paid Alex
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Bregman to be a leader. You.
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Paid him last year. What's that?
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You should have paid them last year when the window was open.
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I think it's closed. I don't know.
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I mean, it's hard for me to say the windows closed when two
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weeks ago, go back and pull it up themlb.com power ranking,
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they were the number one team in baseball, number one and two
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weeks later the windows closed. I think it was closed.
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I think it was Fool's goal to begin cap.
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I do. I mean, it's hard for me to say
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it's fool's goal when you have 4/5 of your rotation on the
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injured list and you won two separate 10 game win streaks.
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You went 20 and three over a 23 game span.
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And now who are you starting? Colin Ray?
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Colin Ray was brought here, back here to be a spot starter and a
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long relief guy. I mean, it's just brutal right
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now to watch the Cubs. It's like a root canal.
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Yeah, I, I just, I mean, Milwaukee looks as though
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they're clearly the class of the division.
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I don't know if the Cardinals are sustainable.
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The Pirates are probably kind of like the the Cubs and the Reds.
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They're all going to kind of spin their wheels.
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Somebody's going to win 84 and 85 games.
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And look at the Brewers maybe back in.
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But I just thought last year they had a chance with all of
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the injuries and then they overcame steel last year.
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They had Kate Horton emerging last year.
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I just when you just it was if the the pitching staff, the
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starters starting pitching staff was held together by duct tape
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and I just don't think it was sustainable and it's and it's
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starting to show. I I hope it turns the corner.
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It's good for business here in the summertime when the Cubs are
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good, but man they are bad right now.
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There's is there on your show. Is there an outcry for council
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must go? Are they at that point?
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I wouldn't say that they're calling for Craig to be fired.
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There's some of that, but not like an overwhelming like, Oh my
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God, we got to fire this guy. But you know, at what point does
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some type of a change have to happen at some point?
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I mean, is it 15 games in a row? Is it 18 games in a row?
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I mean, you don't win tonight. Good luck tomorrow.
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The way this offense is hitting, you got Paul schemes.
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So and then you're going into you don't think they want to
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make a point. You play two of those.
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Games Saturday and Sunday on national TV, so good luck.
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South side of Town's been more fun, though not last night, even
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with Murakami hitting a home run to tie it and send it into extra
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innings. You know, I watched the last two
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games as you know, Cappy, I'm a Twins fan.
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Seeing the White Sox for now, would it be, I guess, 20 innings
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the last two days? Neither.
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These teams are very good, but the American League is so bad.
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Is there real hope for not just the White Sox, but the Twins and
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almost everybody else in this league that, hey, you can be a
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playoff team? That's how bad this league is.
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I would agree with that. Both those teams should have
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legitimate playoff aspirations. You know, somebody said to me
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today, well, if the Cubs could trade for Joe Ryan right now,
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would you do it? First of all, the price would be
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extreme. And if I dropped Joe Ryan, who
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was great last night until he gave up the Murakami Homer,
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maybe he shouldn't have been in there at that point.
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I don't know. OK Joe Ryan, every fifth day,
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great. Does that fix the Cubs offense?
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It does not. So I wouldn't make that trade
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right now if I was the Cubs. If I was the Twins, I wouldn't
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make the trade. You wouldn't.
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Either you're in, they legitimately could run Cleveland
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down and they could absolutely win a wild card.
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And then, you know, the Saint Louis Cardinals.
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I know that several years ago they won 83 games and won the
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World Series. You're telling me that could
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never happen again? I'll tell you.
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You're wrong. Did we maybe come into this
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year? I mean, Michael Bush had 34 home
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runs that was never going to be duplicated at least you mean
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not. He's a bad player.
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I like Michael Bush. I didn't think he was going to
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hit 34, say it drove in over 100 runs.
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Did we were maybe our expectations a little over the
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top with this team cap? I don't think so.
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Absolutely not. He won 92 games last year.
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They did. And why can't Michael Bush hit
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34 home runs again? Michael Bush could do that.
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I think he's a really good player.
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I. Like him?
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But Oh my God, to watch say as. Suzuki.
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Last year hit three O 2 I believe with men in scoring
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position. Guess what he's hitting right
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now? What is he 11?
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What? One O 4.
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Jesus. One O. 4 Biosteros needs to be
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on the next plane to Des Moines. I'm sorry, it's just not
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working. Maybe get down here, build your
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confidence up. He had a phenomenal April,
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looked like he was off to a terrific start.
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Now a lot of folks up opening up their app and trying to find
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National League rookie. Maybe that was just me, but it's
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just not happening for Biosteros cap.
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No, but I wouldn't say he looks overmatched.
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He's just, it is what it is. Everybody's in a slump.
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I don't know who you're replacing them with, but I would
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absolutely get Kevin Alcantra in the lineup tonight.
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I'm not sure Craig will. Let me give you a crazy stat.
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I tweeted this a little bit ago. The Chicago Cubs have not won a
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game and Sam Sionis, the owner of the Billy Goat Tavern and
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Grill, died May 15th. And since White Sox bride and
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PCA had the hat at it, note in in right center at at Guarantee
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Rate Park. That's a lot of curses, A lot
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of. Curses.
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Speaking of curses, the Chicago Bears stadium situation cap fill
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us in. What we got four days left here
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on the session for the legislature.
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I saw Front Office Sports had a big article about the quote UN
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quote tax break that is going to go the Bears way if all this
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passes. Just fill us in on the details
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here. We're trying to get this thing
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figured out and another one that kind of makes your head hurt.
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Yeah, I, I, I still can't believe they're going to end up
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in Hammond, IN. And again, this is not a shot at
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the people of Hammond IN. That place is a dump.
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I mean no build a stadium on a slag heap with oil refineries
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around it with toxic waste in the area.
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No, I'll believe it when I see it.
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And if they do, build their shame on both sides for not
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getting a deal done in the state and it will be the dumbest
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business decision I've seen the Bears make.
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That's why they haven't run to the Indiana deal.
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They haven't. They could.
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Three months ago they could have said, hey, that's a great deal.
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We're taking it, we're out, see you later.
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Why didn't they? Because they don't want to be
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there. Now I agree with you.
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Is there anything around the area cap?
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Is there a bunch of like bars, restaurants, hotels?
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Or is that just a no? It's just a deserted piece of
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land, essentially. I mean, there's a few things in
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the area, but it's just they have to come up with all the
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infrastructure. They got to come up with all
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the, you know, stuff you'd build around a state that is so many
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years away from being a reality. No.
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Arlington Heights, different story.
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Is there an outcry from people of Arlington Heights with these
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tax breaks and, and what it could mean to them financially
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or? No, they want this state.
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They want it. Oh, definitely.
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OK, but again, you've got Brandon Johnson, the least
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popular mayor in the history of the city and one of the least
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popular politicians in the history of the country.
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Brandon Johnson saying I'd rather they go to Hammond then
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come to Arlington Heights because we could still get
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people that want to stay in the city and get some of the tax
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benefits of people spending money in Chicago.
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I. This guy drives me insane, and
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I'm not talking about politically because I don't live
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in the city. Whether I would vote for him or
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not is irrelevant. I wouldn't.
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But I just don't understand how the governor here and the
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politicians here let the teachers union and this
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ridiculously bad mayor get involved to the point where
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we're getting to the 11th hour here.
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You better figure this thing out.
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All right. Is Mccaskey starting to lose
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faith in Kevin Warner? Have we already passed that?
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I see. I give Kevin a ton of credit, a
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ton of credit for the way the Bears run their business.
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Now, you know, you've got, if you look at what the Bears were
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when Dan Quinn's coming in the interview and he's flying in the
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middle seat in the back row of a Southwest plane.
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I mean, really, we're going to bring him in, in the middle seat
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in coach. C50 and Quinn.
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Yeah, we're 31 other teams, either their owner owns a plane
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or they have a net jet account and we're buying coach seats.
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What are we doing here? And they've moved past that.
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Now they have the charter account and they do things first
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class. And when Ben Johnson said I'll
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take the Bears job, but it's going to cost you 13 million a
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year. And I'm bringing Dennis Allen is
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my defense coordinator and that's another 5 million a year.
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And I want Dan Rauscher to be the offensive line coach and
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that's north of a million. And I want this guy and I want
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that guy. Guess what?
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Kevin got it done. So the way they do their
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business, I give a lot of credit to Kevin Warren, but he.
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It also brought here to build the stadium and what are we
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north of three years into it, it doesn't appear like we're much
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closer. So that he also has to have on
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his Ledger. OTAs for the bears coming up,
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what is maybe the biggest question that you have, the
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thing that you're looking to find out when OTAs get started?
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The biggest thing I want to see is how Caleb looks in terms of
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control of the offense. We just had Tyson Beijing here
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in our recap studio and you can find it on our social media, on
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Instagram. And he literally said to a
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question, what's the most impressive thing you've seen
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about Caleb over the last 12 months?
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I thought he was going to say, well, let's throw against the
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Rams or all the comebacks or, you know, the throat of John A
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Walker off his back foot or finding DJ or whatever it was.
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He said, oh, by far the last 30 days looked at him.
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He said, Oh yeah, that guy is in such great control of the
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building. He is challenging guys in the
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weight room. His leadership is off the chain,
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how good it is, he said. So yeah, the last month I've
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seen a different guy. I think that's super cool.
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We'll do a little women's WNBA next.
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Miller in Condon. Iowa Sports Radio Network,
22:30
right, 130. Miller in Condon, Welcome back
22:32
Iowa Sports Radio Network Trenton.
22:34
Ken with you until about 5 minutes or so before 2:00.
22:39
Turn things over at that time. Off the bench comes Sean and
22:43
Lucas. They will take you until 5:00.
22:46
Scott Agnes coming up momentarily.
22:48
He covers the fever, covers the WNBA at Fieldhouse Files at
22:54
Fieldhouse Files for Scott Agnew, Scott Agnes Rather and he
22:58
joins the program. Scott Trenton, Ken, thanks for
23:01
coming on. Appreciate it.
23:02
How are you? Doing well, all good, I hear in
23:06
Indy coming off the Indianapolis 500, where Caitlin Clark played
23:09
a small role while also attending her first time there
23:12
at the track. So for people that have it on
23:14
their bucket list and we'll get into the West in just a second,
23:17
but you're right with the calendar we just saw, it was an
23:20
unbelievable finish. I felt terrible for the dude
23:23
that got beat right at the wire. But what what's the city like
23:28
the week leading up to it? When does it start to really
23:30
take a hold? And obviously that 10s of
23:33
thousands of people, people that make their way to that event,
23:36
it's just got to be nuts. We don't have an official count,
23:40
but they put the number around 350,000.
23:45
So it is major. Think Super Bowl.
23:48
I think 4 * a Super Bowl. It's the largest single sporting
23:52
event in the world. So here, and I'm obviously I'll
23:55
admit my bias, I'm from central IN so I grew up going to the
23:58
race. I've covered it the last 15
24:00
years. It's the if you love the
24:02
Wimbledon, if you love the Master and all those with great
24:06
pageantry, Oh, believe me, you'll love all of this.
24:09
And then you mentioned the closest finish in race history,
24:12
the most passes for the lead in race history.
24:15
And this is 110th running. So the part that Caitlin I can
24:18
highlight that is the is arguably the best.
24:21
It's the pre race ceremonies where there's regular items year
24:26
after year that go on leading up to the spectacle.
24:29
And one of the other things that makes a different unique
24:31
whatever is there's fans, there's media, there's people
24:36
surrounding the cars like 5 minutes before they start their
24:40
engine. Like Can you imagine going to
24:42
the NBA Finals here coming up or whatever and you know, you know,
24:46
and shade Gill just Alexander's drinking a Gatorade and getting
24:50
ready for the game and you're just in the room like no, of
24:52
course not. And so these guys are going over
24:55
240 mph, there's almost 350,000 people there.
25:00
And it really gets started two weeks ahead of time.
25:02
So right around May 15th. Now it used to be a full month,
25:05
but they condensed it to to the last two weeks and you see flags
25:09
everywhere. It's a significant community
25:13
event here in town and across the state.
25:15
So, so one more on this. I I know that being to the
25:18
Kentucky Derby, you know, when you're if you're there Thursday,
25:22
you have to buy, you have to rent your room.
25:24
It's like a three night minimum, right?
25:25
Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Is that the same in Indianapolis
25:29
of the are they gouging you like that hotels that way?
25:33
I'm sure they are. Obviously I've never looked
25:35
here, but yeah, absolutely. There's definitely some
25:37
minimums. They're sold out and people are
25:39
staying all over too. And and get this, this will add
25:42
some context. The race green flag at 12:45
25:45
Eastern Time. Guys, I arrived at the media
25:48
outside parking lot at 5:45 AM. Sold or not sold out?
25:54
It was already filled. Media lot filled.
25:56
They were sending me to an alternative parking lot and it
26:00
wasn't even 6:00 AM, more than six hours before the race starts
26:03
because it is all day festivities.
26:06
Normally the race is blacked out in town.
26:07
The last two years, yeah, that's been a tradition that none of us
26:12
have really liked, although it's created different things.
26:15
So for example, how I grew up, as you go to the race and then
26:19
come home, grab a pizza and watch it then on TV as it airs,
26:23
re airs that you know, 7:00 in prime time.
26:26
But now that when it's entirely sold out, the grandstands, at
26:29
least you can fill the infield as much as you want.
26:32
It's 2 1/2 miles. As long as that's sold out, they
26:34
do agree to lift the local block out.
26:36
I hope that's the one annotated tradition that I hope is
26:40
discontinued. Definitely on my bucket list and
26:43
remember you have to my dad, my uncles, grandpa, they all went
26:46
out there and talked about just not just the race, but the party
26:50
that goes along with it. And it definitely sounds like a
26:53
fun time dive out there in Indy. Well, it's been an interesting
26:56
week for the Fever with this week off.
26:59
It's early in the season. Did it come at a good time?
27:01
Caitlin was dealing with the back injury, got slapped on the
27:05
wrist. The Fever did with the injury
27:06
report and her not showing up until later on. 90 minutes
27:09
before tip. Yes, absolutely.
27:11
Just overall this week off, good thing for the squad.
27:15
It was because it mostly because they did just had a condensed
27:19
schedule, five games, 10 days that included a one off bizarre
27:23
trip all the way out to Los Angeles and back, which anyone
27:27
that knows like you're you're trying to reset for a couple of
27:30
days. No, they had a game after one
27:32
day of travel. Like they arrived back at 7:00
27:34
AM that night and certain things like that and they played a
27:37
couple really good teams at the front end, couple of the bottom,
27:42
bottom more teams in the back end.
27:44
But yeah, for them to have five days between games at any time
27:48
is appreciated because it is so rare.
27:50
But I think it was an ideal time because they had gotten a couple
27:54
weeks of games under their belt. They had gotten most of their
27:59
players back and healthy after several players were limited in
28:03
training camp. And And so now you're starting
28:05
to see, I think the team take off.
28:07
They're seeing the offense they're wanting.
28:08
The defense has improved. Well, about a little more than
28:12
half the roster was returning from last season.
28:14
Still a lot of newcomers. And so there, it's going to take
28:18
time. And so I think this combination
28:20
of rest and two practice days and three practice days,
28:24
including today out in San Francisco, we'll set them up
28:27
nicely. Now to resume again tomorrow at
28:30
Golden State. Is Caitlin 100%, you know,
28:33
obviously the groin last year in the back this year, is she close
28:37
to 100% or is she fine? What would you say watching her?
28:41
We're able to go back to a rookie season.
28:43
What you saw of her last year and then so far this year, Is
28:45
she 100% do you think, Scott? Yeah.
28:48
So last year the trouble was it was so many different things
28:51
starting from the second day of training camp.
28:53
I remember her being a little bit limited with a leg issue,
28:56
and it was the ankle injury that I reported that kind of kept her
28:59
out the final couple of months, an injury that occurred while
29:02
trying to ramp up from that groin injury.
29:05
She said in December at USA Basketball training camp at held
29:09
a Duke that she was 100% physically, no limitations,
29:13
could do whatever. But what she's admitted here in
29:16
the last month or two, really starting with when they played
29:20
in that qualifying tournament is she's feeling nerves and
29:24
questioning herself and there's some mental challenges like
29:27
she's a player, admittedly doesn't get nervous before
29:29
games. She's a player that doesn't
29:31
listen to music before games. She doesn't need a pump up.
29:33
She's ready to go. All those different things that
29:35
most people, including myself love to do, she does not.
29:39
It's her sanctuary, but I think she's at the point after last
29:42
season where she is probably an over thinker and, and hyper
29:46
aware of every little thing that she might be feeling, even if
29:50
some of it's natural or, or whatever.
29:52
And so I think a lot of what the back becomes is her wondering if
29:56
it is something or is it not, or is it natural or is it just a
29:59
hard fall, all those different things.
30:02
So I think that from physically I think she'd tell you she's
30:05
100% but 100% back. No, not quite yet.
30:09
Aaliyah Boston's a little bit more to her game this season.
30:12
You see the rain, she's been able to shoot a little bit but
30:15
feels like more comfortable out there.
30:17
The passing I think has come a long ways from her.
30:19
When you talk about still more upside, is there still another
30:23
tier that Aaliyah Boston can get to?
30:25
Absolutely. Yeah, I think so.
30:27
And Caitlin, too. I mean, she's just 24.
30:29
We I think sometimes because she's been in an in, you know,
30:32
all of our TV's the last five years and is one of the best
30:35
players already in the league. People forget she was top five
30:38
in MVP voting her rookie year, which is incredible for any type
30:43
of player to do no matter the league.
30:45
And, and with, with Aaliyah Paulson in particular, I think
30:48
she's she prepared herself better than any season before
30:52
because she knew exactly what to expect With Stephanie White
30:55
coming into her second year with this coaching staff paired
30:58
alongside with Caitlin, she got incredible shape, I believe down
31:01
and unrivaled had a really good performance down there until she
31:05
was dealing with a minor knee injury that kept her out of the
31:08
championship in semifinals down there.
31:10
But I, I think her touch her, her ability to finish.
31:14
And then for her, the number one thing, believe it or not,
31:17
Stephanie White pre season, when asked about, you know, what do
31:19
you want to see from Boston? We know mostly what she can do
31:22
what she said if I wanted to take more 3.
31:25
And so I think what we're seeing her is just doing what the
31:28
coaches tell her. And so when the opportunity is
31:30
there, she's got to fire away. And, and there's been some ups
31:33
and downs, right? Last game she had a nasty air
31:35
ball, but she's also made it at A at a reasonable clip and the
31:39
data will tell tell them that making threes at a good clip is
31:43
better than, you know, those those mid range shots.
31:46
And so the other thing is they can play her as a hub.
31:49
Certainly want to play some pick and roll with Caitlin, which is
31:51
nearly unstoppable because it's pick your poison there.
31:54
Either you leave Boston cutting to the basket or Caitlin wide
31:57
open for a logo 3. So those are the challenges they
32:00
can establish. And then you got Sophie
32:02
Cunningham on a wing. Kelsey Mitchell's good for 20
32:05
points per game. And then you string that into
32:07
getting stops. And that's where this team's
32:09
most deadly. All doing her job doing that
32:12
getting stopped playing her defensive role.
32:14
So I want to ask you this, Scott, because you're there and
32:16
I hear a lot of the Caitlin defenders and I'm one of them,
32:19
but I'm not national. Obviously some of the national
32:22
media truly believes that that Indiana is doing all they can to
32:27
run Caitlin out of town and when she gets her opportunity she's
32:31
not she's going to leave the fever and sign somewhere else.
32:34
Is that is that I guess palpable from where you sit.
32:38
Can you feel that that there's a chance that Caitlin doesn't
32:42
remain a member of the Fever once he gets that opportunity?
32:45
Or is that just national media trying to, you know, get
32:48
involved when they shouldn't be putting their nose into that
32:51
business? I think that's among the wild
32:54
conspiracy theorists that have come out there, including some
32:58
that have said Caitlin was suspended for the last No, she
33:00
was not. She has a great relationship
33:02
with Stephanie White. Those around them think they are
33:05
twins and how they react and their sarcasm and their
33:07
sassiness and their and and how they command A room all these
33:10
different ways. No, one of the biggest issues I
33:14
felt on this beat more than anything is the wild theories
33:17
and things that just have no legs to them whatsoever.
33:21
But it really seems to grab conversation and then people
33:24
talk about it and then it becomes a nasty game of
33:27
telephone. But I do not feel that
33:28
whatsoever. The leak as a whole, fever good
33:33
start, four and two. But the WNBA for the better part
33:37
of, I don't know, well, basically the 25 years of
33:39
existence feels like there's maybe a couple of teams in this
33:42
top tier and then everybody else.
33:44
Is this league more open this year?
33:46
Are there a bigger swath of teams that can ultimately win a
33:49
championship? Is this as open as it's been
33:51
recently? Yeah, that's a good point
33:54
because I think that's that's an example of the way in which this
33:57
game, this league has evolved for the better because you're
34:00
exactly right. I mean, up until probably 3 or 4
34:03
years ago, it was a two or three team league, right?
34:06
Like you kind of knew what, what were the three teams that were
34:10
being contention and worse than that, you do the five that had
34:13
no change that were just going along.
34:15
And, and until Caitlin and Aaliyah Boston to got here, the
34:19
fever were very much in that they'd win five games, six
34:22
games. They were playing in front of
34:24
1000 fans or 1500 fans. Caitlin always loves to recall
34:27
the story of when she first got here.
34:30
Before she got here, there was 1 concession stand open, right?
34:34
Like, and there must be 40 of them now.
34:36
Like there just wasn't a demand. So I think the tide has risen at
34:41
all these different levels to the point where there is great
34:45
competitive balance here. I mean, there's really like one
34:48
or two teams you don't I think highly of right now,
34:51
Connecticut, but obviously they're transitioning to Houston
34:54
next season. But at at the top, I think,
34:57
yeah, it's really good. There's about four or five teams
34:59
you feel really good about and anybody.
35:03
We've also seen a lot of upsets here in the early going, so I
35:06
think that speaks to the the evolution of this league and
35:09
more players going in different players places as well.
35:13
So let's Fast forward to tomorrow night.
35:15
We'll get the rematch. It got a little testy at the end
35:18
of it and then subsequent to that continue to ratchet up on
35:22
on Tiffany's part. Tiffany Hayes.
35:25
So what do we expect tomorrow night?
35:28
Do do you expect more of this? Will it be a very a physical
35:32
game between those two? I mean, I think Caitlin thrives
35:35
on that. I don't think that Hayes was was
35:38
too happy about being the brunt of that and the reason seemingly
35:42
Caitlin went off. What do you expect tomorrow
35:44
night between the Valkyries and the Fever?
35:46
Is this going to be a a nasty game and something that
35:49
appointment TV? Yeah, I would expect more of the
35:53
same. These two are competitive groups
35:55
and I I saw for the most part it was just competitors out there
35:58
playing hard, wanting to get the best of one another.
36:00
Yeah, I got a little chippy, a little edgy and to some extent
36:03
you like that. It means they care if they want
36:05
to win the game. It's if there is a line crossed,
36:08
right. Like I think we saw at half time
36:10
Clark took exception to to whatever, I think it was an
36:14
elbow thrown away or something on a rebound.
36:16
I remember and she said don't do that, we don't need that or
36:18
don't do that outside of those. I mean that that is good.
36:22
It takes me back to the old days of the Fever, Detroit shock days
36:25
where they didn't really like each other.
36:27
They respected the hell out of each other and you knew every
36:29
game was going to be a physical battle.
36:32
Now, one of the biggest takeaways to me here, guys, over
36:36
the first couple of weeks has been the way in which the game
36:39
is officiated. And that's something better
36:42
trying to improve upon. I think that's making steady
36:44
progress. I do in that they're not,
36:48
they're allowing more freedom of movement, something they did not
36:51
in years past. And if you do that, the better
36:53
players are going to have better performances and certainly help
36:56
Caitlin because it allows her to drive to the basket and get
36:59
rewarded for that. She'd go to the free throw line
37:01
is perfect at the free throw line, which is remarkable, but
37:04
also not surprising. And and so it's a matter of
37:07
finding, striking the right balance between setting the tone
37:10
and enforcing the rules and calling it consistently while
37:14
also embracing some of the physicality in in these
37:17
competitive battles that make these players great pros.
37:21
Yeah, I watched Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin.
37:23
Caitlin was praising the officiation.
37:25
Sophie was. Yeah.
37:27
That was awesome. Scott.
37:28
Agnes at Fieldhouse Files. Scott, thanks for doing what you
37:31
do for Trent and I here and pop it on on occasion when we get
37:36
caught up in the WNBA Fun League to be covering.
37:39
Good stuff. Scott.
37:40
Agnes, thank you, man. I appreciate.
37:41
We'll talk to you down the road. You're welcome.
37:44
That sounds great. Thanks guys.
37:45
Thank you, Scott, Agnes, as we check in on the Fever and the
37:48
WNBA, you watching much of it. Not much.
37:52
I fever. Yeah, that's about it.
37:55
Me too, me too. Once things slow down, though,
37:58
once we get past the NBA and the NHL, the.
38:01
Winter sports have crowned their champs.
38:03
And the twins are staying. They're a playoff team.
38:07
A playoff. Team and that means that yes,
38:11
more TV time is being dedicated. They're not good.
38:14
They're not good. Neither are the White Sox.
38:16
No, Sean tries to. He's one of those fans of tries
38:19
to kid themselves. Like you can still be a fan of
38:21
your team and actually look at things realistically.
38:23
But it's not a Good Hope. It continues, at least for a few
38:26
more weeks. Oh absolutely, get some hope.
38:28
Get to July. Get to August into football
38:31
season there. You go.
38:31
That was the magic words. Football season transplays the
38:34
day they're next. Another winning day yesterday,
38:37
four and two. Let's see what his props are
38:39
this afternoon into this evening's games.
38:42
Miller and Condon, Iowa Sports Radio Network Hi, Miller and
38:45
Condon, welcome back. Final couple of minutes of our
38:47
program off the bench coming up from 2 until five.
38:51
Guessing the boys will have some fun with the college football TV
38:55
kick off time. You're so I am pissed off.
38:58
Yes, you know how much I love schedules.
39:01
I know you do this. Is my last year.
39:04
Couldn't they just released it at 10 AM like they have and?
39:06
It's just a Cyhawk game. I mean, I mean, the other ones
39:09
are OK, but yeah, what time? Cyhawk kick and I love.
39:12
You know how I told you about this game?
39:13
I hope you're right. I hope it's a night game.
39:16
I hope it's a night game. I hope this game is played every
39:18
single. Year you gonna come in and do a
39:20
segment Cyhawk week? Well, I don't know.
39:23
Maybe I do love the game team. I know you do.
39:26
I do feel about it. You're a big proponent.
39:28
I am 630 NBC. Let's go with it.
39:33
Let's go. With it, lock it in.
39:34
Lock it in. What are we going to lock in as
39:36
far as your picks, four and two? You said yesterday that was your
39:38
finishing total. Your props were good.
39:41
No basketball tonight, one NHL game.
39:45
Lot of day. Baseball today.
39:47
What are you going to bet? So we got 2 picks in individual
39:50
games. Of course the best price comes
39:52
at Circa. I'm going to take the Reds plus
39:56
one O 5 against the Mets. For the Mets, what a disaster.
40:01
And Abbott's on the mound. Who's OK for the Reds?
40:03
I like him. Yeah, I do too.
40:04
Yeah, he's good. Andrew Abbott.
40:05
Yep. And.
40:06
I'm taking the Canadians plus 128 now.
40:09
The big books out there plus 115 + 128 again.
40:15
Why you need to download the Circus?
40:17
Sports tie the series at 2 apiece.
40:19
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40:29
They do, but I did not jump aboard on that.
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40:35
That will be coming up this afternoon at 310.
40:38
Sabali, who is one of the big acquisitions for New York in the
40:42
WNBA. She has been inconsistent in her
40:45
first couple of games over 13 1/2 points.
40:47
I think she puts it together tonight, Aaron Judge over 1 1/2
40:51
total bases and we're going back to the well again with Jordan
40:53
Alvarez over 1 1/2 bases, so. And he had eight yesterday.
40:57
He had eight yesterday. Yes, probably will come down
41:00
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41:16
Recently, yeah, they have no doubt they've been.
41:18
They've been carrying well. Your gameplay hasn't been bad as
41:21
of late by game. Yeah, decent for me the.
41:25
Way you were going. Yeah, some days are better than
41:27
others, and that's OK. Sure it is.
41:29
This is fun. What about your twins?
41:32
They play their night game, aren't they?
41:34
There this. Evening, yes. 640 I know nothing
41:38
about your starting pitcher. Kind of Prelip he's he's like
41:41
their young arm. This is the guy that's been
41:43
talked about the last 2-3 years, OK, this has been their big.
41:45
Process waiting for him. Yeah, and he's been OK.
41:48
All right. Pretty good, we will take a
41:51
gander, see what you think of him.
41:53
I will. I'll talk before the hockey,
41:54
before the hockey game starts because that's where I'll be at
41:57
7:00. That's going to do it for us.
41:59
Appreciate you being with us. Coming up next off the bench,
42:02
Lucas and Sean take you until 5:00 where Miller and Compton,
42:05
Trent and I talk sports with you Monday through Friday new the
42:08
two on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.