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White Sox Win With Blessing From The Pope (2 Pretty Cool Things) · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: I need to tell you two things.
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  Speaker 2: Covey and Christine's. Two pretty cool things. Well, Christine, you
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  Speaker 2: know our current Pope is from Chicago. That was big news. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: When he started his, is it Popeness? When he started
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  Speaker 1: his reign?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, hours before the White Sox kicked off Game 1
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  Speaker 1: of the Wild Card Series yesterday against the Astros. No, actually,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, they won yesterday, but Game 1 was a
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  Speaker 1: couple of days ago. The team revealed that they had
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  Speaker 1: received a personal letter from Pope Leo saying, He thanked
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  Speaker 1: the team for paying tribute to him at a game
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  Speaker 1: back in August and gave his blessing for the wildcard series. Well,
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  Speaker 1: his prayers worked because the White Sox swept the Astros
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  Speaker 1: and won their first playoff series since 05 last night.
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  Speaker 3: Whoa.
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  Speaker 2: Can you believe it?
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  Speaker 1: So if you're wondering, if the Yankees beat Tampa Bay
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  Speaker 1: in their next series and White Sox beat Cleveland in
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  Speaker 1: their next series, then the Yanks will play the White
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  Speaker 1: Sox and the Pope. in the American League Championship Series.
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  Speaker 3: Can we get a letter, too?
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  Speaker 2: We need a letter.
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  Speaker 3: I know he's from Chicago, and that's his team.
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  Speaker 2: Right, right, right. Maybe we can get a notarize from somebody.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. We need help. That's pretty cool. All right,
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  Speaker 2: what's your cool thing, Christine?
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  Speaker 3: Well, for Pee Wee Herman fans, Paul Rubin's big auction
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  Speaker 3: is underway. This is with Julian's Auction. They are auctioning
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  Speaker 3: off 400 items, at least. I mean, I'm looking at
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  Speaker 3: the site, and it's incredible. Including Pee Wee's original suit,
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  Speaker 3: like one of the gray suits that he wore in
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  Speaker 3: the movies.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to go for a lot.
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  Speaker 3: They're saying it could fetch between $ 8, 000 and $ 10, 000. One
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  Speaker 3: of the red bikes, a replica actually of a red bike, $ 7, 000.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's going to go for more than that, right?
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  Speaker 2: No, it's got to go so much higher than that.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. A lot of stuff from the set, like the
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  Speaker 3: things that you love that kind of just makes you
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  Speaker 3: happy from the set, are up for auction. And Paul
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  Speaker 3: Rubens was a collector. He loved, you know, he had...
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  Speaker 3: stacks of books, of plays, and old Hollywood memorabilia. So
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  Speaker 3: the things that were in his home also up for auction.
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  Speaker 3: So again, this is Julian's auction, October 28th. It's Paul
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  Speaker 3: Rubin's Pee Wee Herman's big auction.
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  Speaker 2: All right. We're coming right back. More variety from the
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  Speaker 2: 80s through today.