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Remembering Cubs icon Ryne Sandberg · North Side Territory: A Chicago Cubs Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into Northside Territory, Foul Territory Networks Cubs podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Sahadev Sharma with my partner Patrick Mooney. We are your
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  Speaker 1: Cubs beat writers over at the Athletic Patrick. Last night
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  Speaker 1: in Milwaukee, sad night in Milwaukee for the Cubs, for
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  Speaker 1: Cubs fans. News broke during the game that Ryan Samberg
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  Speaker 1: had passed away at the age of sixty five, a
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  Speaker 1: year plus long battle with cancer that returned after what
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  Speaker 1: we thought, you know, was good news around this time
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  Speaker 1: last year, a little over a year ago.
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  Speaker 2: I think he he.
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  Speaker 1: Thought he had heard some good news, came back aggressively, sadly,
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  Speaker 1: and we learned of his passing last night.
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  Speaker 2: It was a.
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  Speaker 1: It was an odd scene, I guess, a rare scene
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  Speaker 1: in the clubhouse. You know, they'd lost a tough game
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  Speaker 1: that didn't seem to be on anyone's mind. It was
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  Speaker 1: just very quiet, no music, no talk, very little talking,
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  Speaker 1: I should say, very little chatter. Yeah, and all that
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  Speaker 1: was talked about was Ran Samberg and his legacy and appropriately.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, the game never stops, but there are
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  Speaker 3: moments when people slow down and I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you captured that scene really well. In your story on
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  Speaker 3: the athletic of just guys looking at their phones, kind
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  Speaker 3: of the hush tones within the room, kind of a
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  Speaker 3: somber atmosphere.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Craig Counsel didn't get a single question about the game
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  Speaker 3: other than like, when did you find out the news?
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  Speaker 3: He said, you know, I'll take questions if you want,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't think anyone was really in the headspace
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  Speaker 3: to like dig in on any of those game details,
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  Speaker 3: just because everyone understood how much Ryan Samberg meant in
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  Speaker 3: City Chicago, the Cubs franchise, and also it gives us
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  Speaker 3: a greater appreciation, appreciation or a different perspective on his
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  Speaker 3: presence there in spring training and his connection to this
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  Speaker 3: particular group.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that seemed to be brought up a lot in
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  Speaker 1: coming out during spring training, clearly not feeling his best,
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  Speaker 1: but I guess the word would be energized to be
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  Speaker 1: around the group, to be around baseball again. They kind
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  Speaker 1: of knew that he wasn't feeling great. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that was going to stop him. Even his most recent messages,
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  Speaker 1: he was lamenting the fact that he couldn't be out
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  Speaker 1: at the ballpark as much as he wanted to. This
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  Speaker 1: this season. He clearly loved being around the Cubs. Feel
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  Speaker 1: like that was I feel like that that's what stood out.
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  Speaker 1: John Greenberg wrote about this. You know, his his post
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  Speaker 1: playing career. You know, he managed, he tried media. I
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  Speaker 1: think his best role was, you know, ambassador for this team.
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  Speaker 1: He was a kind person. He brought a lot of
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  Speaker 1: joy to the group. I mean, his his numbers speak
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  Speaker 1: for themselves. You know, we will talk about what he
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  Speaker 1: was as a player, but I I thought that stood
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  Speaker 1: out to me because I remember, you know, he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't a great manager. He wasn't great at the
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  Speaker 1: media side, but he was so good at just like
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  Speaker 1: connecting people to the game. There was something about him
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  Speaker 1: and and the players enjoyed being around him, and he
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  Speaker 1: seemed to really like value those moments.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll get into more of kind of the legacy
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  Speaker 3: stuff and his wider impact in the next couple of segments.
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  Speaker 3: But I thought going down the room, I mean you
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  Speaker 3: had these, uh, some of these quotes in your story,
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  Speaker 3: and I thought it really summed it up well of
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  Speaker 3: Matthew boy being like I show up in spring training
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  Speaker 3: and Ryan Samberg greeting me as if I was a
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  Speaker 3: cub my entire life. Obviously it'd only signed a couple
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  Speaker 3: of months earlier. And then Ian happ telling a story
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  Speaker 3: how he's kind of going through it in one of
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  Speaker 3: those aprils, and you know, Rhino pulled him to the side,
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  Speaker 3: off to the side by the batting cage and said, my,
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  Speaker 3: my career numbers in April were terrible, and I always
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  Speaker 3: turned around, you'll you'll be fine.
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  Speaker 2: And I think you.
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  Speaker 3: Have really summed it up well of like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: for him to not only take the time, but to
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  Speaker 3: be paying attention that closely and to care that much,
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  Speaker 3: I give just a really cool moment for a young player,
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  Speaker 3: and I think it just just speaks to his ability to,
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  Speaker 3: like you say, connect people and connect generations. Craig Counsel
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  Speaker 3: sum that up very eloquently as well, of like when
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  Speaker 3: you do this job and you're you're able to make
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  Speaker 3: an impact, it brings people together. And I think the
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  Speaker 3: Cubs felt that in that moment of your counsel addressing
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  Speaker 3: the team after the game. Some people found out, you know,
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  Speaker 3: during the game, but there was definitely a different, you
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  Speaker 3: know energy in that room that visiting clubhouse at American
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  Speaker 3: Family Field.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Nico Horner obviously it plays the same position as
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Sandberg and had some conversations with him in the
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  Speaker 1: past few years. I appreciated Nico's comments about how, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they talk about the game. They talk about how things
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  Speaker 1: were different nowadays than than when Rhino played, but there
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  Speaker 1: was never I mean, Nico made a point of saying
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't like he was critiquing today's game, or like,
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  Speaker 1: go back in my day. This is how things were
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  Speaker 1: done and it was better. I I appreciate that because
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  Speaker 1: you hear that a lot from older players, right, you
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  Speaker 1: can hear like, well, this is how we did things,
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  Speaker 1: and why don't they do things like this nowadays? Why
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  Speaker 1: don't they They should go the other way with the ball.
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  Speaker 1: It's so easy, you know, That's how you beat the shift.
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  Speaker 2: Things like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's Rhino didn't act like he was better than today's game.
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  Speaker 1: He just was fascinated by the differences and appreciated what
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  Speaker 1: was going on as the game evolved. I think that
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  Speaker 1: says something about him as a person, just appreciating the
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  Speaker 1: way the game is played no matter what era, hard work,
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  Speaker 1: work ethic. These are the types of things you like
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  Speaker 1: talk to your kids about. Not you know like while
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  Speaker 1: everyone loves the flashy players, I love the flashy players.
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  Speaker 2: They're really fun to watch and kids love them as well.
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  Speaker 1: Like Rhino just went about it exactly the way that
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  Speaker 1: you teach your kids to play the game. Really really
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  Speaker 1: appreciated him being around these last few years and getting
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  Speaker 1: to know him a little bit better. Let's take a
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  Speaker 2: Patrick ten straight All Star appearances.
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  Speaker 1: I believe nine gold gloves for Ryan Samberg just you know,
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  Speaker 1: a ton of silver sluggers that MVP season in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty four that kind of put him on the map,
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  Speaker 1: put the Cubs really on the map. I didn't realize
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  Speaker 1: this until John Greenberg told us last night. It was
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  Speaker 1: in his story as well. They broke the two million
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  Speaker 1: attendance mark in nineteen eighty four. I mean, obviously the
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  Speaker 1: team was playing well that year, but Samberg was a
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  Speaker 1: big reason they've broken two million every year outside of
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  Speaker 1: COVID seasons and strike shortened seasons. Then, uh, that that
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  Speaker 1: kind of blows me away to think that Rhino was
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  Speaker 1: like the one that pushed that in an era of
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  Speaker 1: like Walter Payton, Michael Jordan was just starting. Rhino wasn't
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  Speaker 1: you know. I mean those guys were winning championships. They
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  Speaker 1: were like the Bears are this city when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to sports. Rhino wasn't overshadowed. He was still, you know,
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  Speaker 1: this huge figure in this city that loves sports.
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  Speaker 3: Wrigley Bob Jernier after doing the seventh inning stretch and
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  Speaker 3: he was wearing a Rhino strong hat or sorry, Rhino hat,
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  Speaker 3: Rhino throwback jersey. You until Jesse Rodgers and I, like
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  Speaker 3: you know, in eighty four of the picture changed and
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  Speaker 3: that was for Rhino individually has become this MVP superstar,
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  Speaker 3: but also like for the Wrigleyville neighborhood as a whole.
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  Speaker 3: They did they even call it Rigbyville back then.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but just like.
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  Speaker 3: You had Harry Carey narrating it, you have the WGN
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  Speaker 3: superstation lasting it out across the country.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Jed Hoyer and the Marquis booth during that Red Sox
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  Speaker 3: series summed up very nicely as well of you know,
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  Speaker 3: you look out from the broadcast booth and you you see,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just the machine that Wrigley Field is, and
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  Speaker 3: you see the skyline and just how picturesque everything is.
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  Speaker 3: And you know a lot of people built this franchise
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  Speaker 3: and make it go. But in terms of a singular
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  Speaker 3: figure who really like catapulted the Cubs to a different level,
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  Speaker 3: he certainly deserves the lion's share of credit there. I
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  Speaker 3: think Jed you know, framed it as in this this
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  Speaker 3: fervor this you know, national passion was you know, a
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  Speaker 3: direct reflection of Ryan Sandberg's not only production but also
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  Speaker 3: the way he went about it and as you alluded
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  Speaker 3: to side in that earlier segment, doing things the right way.
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  Speaker 3: That Hall of Fame speech like is one of those
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  Speaker 3: that you know, I think it was twenty years ago
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  Speaker 3: and it's still referenced, and I've had twenty years from
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  Speaker 3: now would alsovie reference not just in a baseball context,
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  Speaker 3: like it's just uh, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, real.
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  Speaker 3: Life lessons that you know resonate far ball on the
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  Speaker 3: baseball world.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, what the impact of him as a person.
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  Speaker 2: The you know that you're right.
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  Speaker 1: That speech is something that I don't think it I
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  Speaker 1: don't realize how much it resonated because it feels like,
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  Speaker 1: at least to me, it was like, Oh, we talk
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  Speaker 1: about it because he's a local guy. That's that's why
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  Speaker 1: we talk about it. I don't think I fully appreciated that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, no, this is like all of baseball will
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  Speaker 1: always be talking about that speech. It's one of the
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  Speaker 1: most unforgettable speeches that it's been given at Cooperstown. H
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  Speaker 1: Just some of his numbers kind of blow me away. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I fully realized that he was. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I watched the Cubs back then, I was a fan,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't think like he stole fifty four bases
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  Speaker 1: in eighty five, I don't. I mean, I don't remember
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  Speaker 1: eighty five.
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  Speaker 2: I was. I was four years old.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm just saying like, I didn't realize he had
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  Speaker 1: that in his game until I look back and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, he was.
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  Speaker 2: He was a speed stare back in his day.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they stole a lot of basses in the eighties,
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  Speaker 1: but still that's crazy. Nineteen triples in nineteen eighty four
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  Speaker 1: thirteen of them at Wrigley Council has brought Council brought
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  Speaker 1: this up last night when we were talking to him,
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  Speaker 1: but I've heard him talk about this before, like he's
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  Speaker 1: regularly amazed that someone hit thirteen triples at Wrigley Field,
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  Speaker 1: and he's right, there's no like weird bounces at Wrigley
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  Speaker 1: Like how do you, like, how do you do that?
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  Speaker 1: How do you hit thirteen triples? And then to kind
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  Speaker 1: of transform himself as a player in the late eighties
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  Speaker 1: early nineties and start being a power hitter.
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  Speaker 2: That was I think we had Barry Rosner on about
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  Speaker 2: a year.
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  Speaker 3: Ago, right, and for the statute ceremony.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and that he said that that if I'm
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  Speaker 1: remembering correctly, this may have either been a conversation I
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  Speaker 1: had with the Barrier or it was on the on
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, but he said that was like a very
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  Speaker 1: specific thing that a coach of his helped him kind
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  Speaker 1: of figure out, like how to tap into his power.
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  Speaker 2: He was he made specific changes. Just kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy to me that a player who was already on
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  Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame trajectory would would be willing to
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  Speaker 1: make those types of changes that make those types of
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  Speaker 1: changes and then it works and it takes him to
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  Speaker 1: this other level of playing that I mean, those power
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  Speaker 1: numbers in nineteen ninety just not that this is pre
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  Speaker 1: steroids era or is right, whatever you want to call it,
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  Speaker 1: a second basement hitting forty home runs, the type of
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  Speaker 1: power that you just don't see from in middle infielder
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  Speaker 1: in that era of base ball.
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  Speaker 2: H freakish stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It was, you know, and I remember thinking, uh, I
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  Speaker 1: remember thinking at that time, you know, I'm a nine
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  Speaker 1: year old kid, like this is the greatest second basement ever.
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  Speaker 2: Who Joe Morgan? Who is what?
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  Speaker 1: Like like I was thinking, you know, Joe Morgan, Roberto Alomar,
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  Speaker 1: those those are the names you probably think of as
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  Speaker 1: far as very like the past, you know, fifty ish
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  Speaker 1: years of baseball. But Ryan Samberg's right there, up right
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  Speaker 1: up there with them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think too, like I got a text
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  Speaker 3: message from you know, text shame with a couple of
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  Speaker 3: friends and you know this this guy's from the East Coast.
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  Speaker 3: But it was just like, you know, like this news
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  Speaker 3: hit him, Marty is you know, I had a Ryan
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  Speaker 3: Samberg glove from middle school on, like a guy who
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  Speaker 3: grew up you know, a thousand miles away from Ridleyfield.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it was just like just a little
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  Speaker 3: things like that I think kind of pop up here
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  Speaker 3: of just you know, Sandberg. Really it's just the one
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  Speaker 3: word too, like he's like those world famis musicians like Rhino,
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  Speaker 3: and it just I think it takes you back to
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  Speaker 3: another time and place.
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 3: John Greenberg had a great line his story too of
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  Speaker 3: just kind of you know, making kids feel special and
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  Speaker 3: making adults feel like kids, something along those lines. And
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  Speaker 3: I think that was definitely it. And you know, we
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  Speaker 3: can get into it in this next time and here
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  Speaker 3: of just how he was as a person and how
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  Speaker 3: he carried the weight of superstardom, you know, very gracefully.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. Yeah, let's let's do that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break and talk about some of
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  Speaker 1: our memories of Rhino as a person.
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  Speaker 1: I want to I want to quickly share something that
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  Speaker 1: I remember as a kid before I actually knew Sandberg
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  Speaker 1: as a person, So I like people may have heard
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  Speaker 1: this before, but I grew up a Mets fan, and
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  Speaker 1: that that only happened because I had a ton of
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  Speaker 1: Keith Hernandez cards. I used to collect cards, a ton.
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  Speaker 1: Keith Hernandez's a guy whose cards I had the most.
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  Speaker 1: Then nineteen ninety happened and Samberg seemingly hit a home
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  Speaker 1: run every day. You know, I lived in the North Suburbs.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't avoid it. I watched I'd come home watch
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  Speaker 1: WGN that. You know, obviously, back then we weren't we
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  Speaker 1: didn't have MLBtv, we weren't watching every team.
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  Speaker 2: My dad and I collect collected cards back then.
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  Speaker 1: That's really like when I started collecting baseball cards, really
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  Speaker 1: when I really got into baseball and we were really
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  Speaker 1: into it. And I remember my dad negotiating with someone
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  Speaker 1: buying like he wanted to buy a bunch of Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Samberg rookie cards and the guy. And the guy was like,
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  Speaker 1: come on, he has twenty something home runs. And I said,
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  Speaker 1: and I said, actually, I'm guessing he said, like twenty
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  Speaker 1: one home runs. I'm like, actually has twenty three. He
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  Speaker 1: had two last night. My dad flash this look at me,
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  Speaker 1: like what are you doing? I am trying to negotiate
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  Speaker 1: with this guy to get a cheaper deal on these cards.
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  Speaker 2: But I could I keep short, keep quiet, you know
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  Speaker 2: it all?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah I couldn't.
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  Speaker 1: But I couldn't short Rhino as homers like he was
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  Speaker 1: on like this epic pace that like, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: like for a kid like me, it felt like every
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  Speaker 1: day he was hitting a home run. Just really gave
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  Speaker 1: me some great memories to be able to meet him,
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  Speaker 1: to be on a panel with him in a pregame
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  Speaker 1: show during the World Series in twenty sixteen, To have
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  Speaker 1: conversations with him on the field over the years, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like we I think we're good at compartmentalizing the fans side.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Like that goes away. It went away pretty quickly when
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I started this job. But when I look back on that,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: think about that kid, and think about the opportunities I've had,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: it's pretty surreal to think about, Like, Wow, you know,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: this guy that made me fall in love with baseball,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: like became this guy that I just chatted with on
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: a semi regular basis at the ballpark.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of kind of wild to think about.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a kind of a third hand story.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: I haven't triple checked it, but the essence of it
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: I think summed up Ryan Sambery. I'm not trying to
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: like name drop myself here, but I had a family
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: friend who cross paths with Ryan Samberg, I want to say,
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: in in the Cooperstown area at some sort of event,
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: and he had said, oh, you know, do you know
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Patrick Mooney? And Ryan Samberg, who honestly did not know
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: me that well, said everyone in Chicago knows Patrick Mooney,
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: and it was just like this great like the way
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: it's told me. Just the way of him, like, you know,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: kind of the way he would make other people feel,
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: you know, just at ease, and how he was, you know,
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: very approachable. I think that's what kind of surprised me
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: just hearing last night how uh just physically what he
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: was going through in spring training, because Jesse Rogers and
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: I one morning, it was a boring morning, just standing
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: in the clubhouse and Rhino just walks up to us
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: and just starts talking. He's there's something about Matt Shaw,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: and you know, you know I told Matt this. You know,
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: this is when when I started with the stuff from
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: his career that he pulled out. It was always his struggles,
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like that's how he would
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: relate to people, and that's why I was really I
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: came away from that conversations like man, like he must
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: be doing well, Like he looked good and obviously, you
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: know it's a difficult situation, but just getting to know him,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: you know, at a distance, but not as someone who
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: you know, grew up in Chicago at that time or
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: who like covered him as a player. I was just
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: always impressed at these little stories you hear about how
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: he was just kind of a grandpa on the north Shore,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: like that was his his job and his passion in
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: a way of just kind of looking after them and
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: being Ryan Sandberg and just you know all these you know,
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: indications of how gracious he was and that he understood
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: like any small sort of gesture could go a long
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: way and make someone's stay. And I think that's you know,
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: a really good, good lesson, the kind of the takeaway
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: from from Ryan Samberg of just just how how he
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: carried himself. And you know it's not you're just our
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: memories here. I mean, you can just type his name
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: into social media on Twitter. It's a terrible place in general,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: but just everything's flooding in. Yeah, Barack Obama had a
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: great tweet, you know, as like as a White Sox fan,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: you know, everyone in Chicago loved Rhino, and I think
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: you know that'll be this clearly had been weighing on
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: the family. You know, there were these kind of hints
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: of you know, John Lester and Carrie Wood wearing the
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Rhino jerseys and his messages on social media. So I
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: do think in a way it will be nice to
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: hear some of that from you know, people who really,
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: you know, got to know him on a much deeper level.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, I agree with you.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I think John Greenberg said really well, he made adults
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: feel like kids like you. I have been getting texts
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: from friends who grew up loving Samberg and just relating
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: some memories.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I think someone put it best. Their dad was texting
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: them and just said, just remember you know how he
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: made you fall in love with the game all the
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: you know, I think both him and his brother played
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: baseball growing up, and they tap their twenty three on
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the side of their hat, of their Cubs hat when
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: when they were playing the game to kind of you know,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: remind themselves of their best or of their favorite player.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: So I hope, I hope Cubs fans are remembering their
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: favorite memory of Samberg right now. And you know the
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: joy that he brought fans and you know, like like
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I said, he's the reason. He's a big reason why
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: why I fell in love with the game.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: So many that's true for so many people in this
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: area that or Cubs fans in general.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Uh So, you.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Know, our thoughts go out to Cubs fans. Samberg family,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: the Cubs family, everyone around. He impacted a lot of
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: people sad time in in uh for for the Cubs world.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Thanks everyone for listening. This is Northside Territory. We'll be
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: back with another episode soon. Uh take care of everyone.
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  Speaker 4: You don't know I read it and does.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: No day d