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David Kaplan on the Cubs struggles & Bears preseason, Scott Reister talks "Shot in the Dark" & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Hour number two, Miller and Condon, welcome back, Iowa
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  Sports Radio Network, wherever you're listing in the state of
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  Iowa. Glad that you are.
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  We'll take you until 2 off the bench.
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  Coming up at 2O clock, Lucas Strain, 2 until 5.
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  Let's get to our guys. David Kaplan.
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  They're 15 minutes or so away from game three of the Reds Cubs
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  series at Wrigley Field. Cappy joins us as the Cubs try
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  to get one. My, Oh my.
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  What a difference a few weeks can make.
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  Cappy, what a difference in this team.
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  How you doing? I'm doing good, man.
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  Hoping they can find a way to win a baseball game today.
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  Right now they're mired in a little bit of difficulty.
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  They better get their head out of the you know what and get
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  moving. Yeah, council still staying
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  positive and what else can he do at this point?
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  But maybe there is one thing he could do.
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  Cap, where are you on Kyle Tucker?
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  If he's as injured as you know a boog or or cone make it sound,
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  what's he doing in the line up in the first place?
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  Yeah, if he's injured, he shouldn't be playing and then
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  you guys would know better than me because I haven't been to Des
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  Moines this year. Is Owen Casey ready to come up
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  right now and play right field? If you ask Tommy Birch and he
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  sees every game, he says yes. And that's how I rely on for
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  questions like this. I'm surprised.
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  And I kind of you and I speculate, you know, that the
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  Casey's Tucker insurance, if you will, if indeed he does sign
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  somewhere else next year. But Birchy says he's absolutely
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  ready. What are they waiting for?
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  OK, then put Kyle Tucker on the injured list.
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  Or, you know, give him two or three days off and bring Owen
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  Casey up and stick him in right field.
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  That's it. And if Kyle Tucker is healthy in
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  a week, put Owen Casey in left field until he and a half
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  decides it's time to hit. Make one of them.
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  The DHI don't care, but I'm tired of watching Kyle Tucker go
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  up and literally look like me at the plate.
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  We will get to see Kate. Over matched.
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  Yes, yeah. And they're not competitive at
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  bats. And that's the thing.
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  Certainly watching closer here after I got back the last couple
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  of nights, it just guys up there flailing, don't have a game
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  plan, don't look like they have a clue of what they're trying to
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  do, and it's got to be incredibly frustrating.
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  I want to go to Kate Horton, who we'll see here in a little bit.
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  He, since the start of July, has an ERA of one point, 29.
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  He's done that over 5 starts. He's given up no runs in four of
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  those 5 starts, but he's a young pitcher.
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  Do we know about an innings limit?
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  Is there going to have to be a shutdown?
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  Are they going to have to do a Mizaroski as he's sitting on the
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  15 day IL? What's going to happen with
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  Horton going forward and do we know a number for an innings
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  target? Jed Hoyer has said, and he said
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  it again yesterday, there is no target number.
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  We're just going to watch him closely.
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  Like he pitched really well the other day and he went 5 innings
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  and had a lot of run and they went, you're done.
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  So they're going to utilize him. If you told me it's September
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  the 24th and they got to win that game to clinch the division
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  or they've got to win that game to stay alive and it's Kate
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  Orton's turn. I don't think there's going to
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  be a it's 5 innings, you got to go, sorry.
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  But right now I think they're going to be very careful with
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  him, but they're going to use him.
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  Yep, I, I agree with you. In fact, I think he's probably
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  at this point if they make the playoffs and it's if at this
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  point, because, well, they're not playing well, he would be
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  the third guy I would think, right?
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  It would be Imanaga was terrific last night, then Matthew Boyd,
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  then Kate Orton. Right Cap.
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  No question about it. No question.
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  See, my whole problem with this thing is when you lost Justin
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  Steele, I thought you had to show more urgency.
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  And they didn't. Like they went after Adrian
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  Houser and were one of three teams to offer him a Major
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  League contract. It was the Seattle Mariners.
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  It was the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox.
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  And he was interested in the Cubs.
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  He played for counsel. He was in the organization last
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  August in the minors. And he said, you guarantee me a
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  rotation spot. And Jed said, right now I can't.
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  If one opens, you'll get it and we'll use you a lot.
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  And he said, yeah, Mariners told me the same thing, So I'm
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  signing with the White Sox. And so he had a really good run
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  with the White Sox, and then they traded him and got whatever
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  they got for him. The Cubs, like a week or 10 days
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  later, Imanaga goes down with an injury and it's gone seven
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  weeks. Had he signed, he would have
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  gone right into the rotation. But you know, if you're not
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  going to give it to him, I think you had to show more urgency
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  than they did. And the Mike Soroka acquisition
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  is a train wreck. The fan base is upset.
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  We saw the velocity going down. What's how do you come back from
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  that? I mean, how can you explain that
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  one where you see a guy that has struggled with injuries
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  throughout the course of his career, three straight starts
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  velocities down and that's basically all you do for the
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  rotation. How can the front office, how do
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  you sell that to the fan base? What they did, yeah or didn't
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  do, I don't think you can sell it to the fan base because if
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  you've lost me, you've lost everybody.
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  Because I'm as big a die hard as there is.
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  I'm not telling you that I'm the biggest.
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  I'll tell you I'm as big a Cub fan as anybody out there.
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  And when you go get what they got and not push any type of
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  chips in, that is, in my opinion, malpractice.
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  Now, I don't know if that was Jed's fault.
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  I don't know if he's moving at the direction of Tom Ricketts
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  and the family, But I find it hard to believe that the Chicago
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  Cubs wouldn't take on some type of a decent contract.
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  I'm not asking to take on Shohail Thani's money.
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  They didn't. Or Jacob degrom's money, They
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  didn't. He didn't get moved.
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  But you're telling me you couldn't have outbid the Tigers
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  for Charlie Morton? You couldn't outbid the Rangers
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  for Meryl Kelly, who, by the way, already have the best
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  pitching, and they said we're not sure we better get another
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  one. You couldn't outbid the Mariners
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  for Eugenio Suarez again. It's just it borders on
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  ridiculousness, what we watch. Did you have a problem with him
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  Inaga coming out as well as he was pitching when he did?
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  The Shays speculated when he came out for the 7th inning that
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  he was just going to face Delaware Cruz because they
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  wanted him to sit down to hit rather from the right side and
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  that he wouldn't been surprised if he, you know, gets pulled
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  after that. And that's exactly what
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  happened. Were you surprised him Inaga
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  came out when he did yesterday, Cap?
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  No, I was surprised they let him go back out.
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  All right, Belly De la Cruz, he was at he finished the day at 92
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  pitches. How many more pitches were we
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  going to let him go? And let's assume you let him go
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  to one O 5110 and he gets through the 7th and so it's
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  still A11 game. Well, guess what?
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  The Cubs never scored again, so it really didn't matter.
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  And how far you going to let him go?
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  I'm not letting him go 130, not here in August.
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  Told me it's late September and I'm trying to win the division
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  or make the playoffs. All right, we can have that
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  discussion today. No, I had no problem.
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  With it one more on baseball before we go to football.
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  The Milwaukee 5 game series captain.
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  I mean, I'm, I'm so excited about it.
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  I got it next week. It's two weeks away.
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  I'm wondering if it's going to mean anything at that point cop
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  the way this team's going. Milwaukee's playing is literally
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  insane. I've never seen anything like
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  it, but nor have Brewers fans. It's record setting.
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  They've never done this in the history of their franchise.
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  So it is literally amazing to me that that team's playing as well
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  as they are. And they let Willie Adamas walk,
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  they let Corbin Burns walk, and they didn't have Brandon
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  Woodruff for a long time. And now Miss Zorowski's on the
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  injured list. I don't know how long it could
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  keep up, but right now they are the best team in baseball and
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  it's not close. Absolutely wild.
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  So we've been joking this week about our algorithms when we get
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  on social media, get on Twitter, and it depends on you click on
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  one thing and all of a sudden, so I have one account that has
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  been all positive Caleb Williams stories.
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  The other account is all the negative Caleb Williams story.
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  So I'm good. You're going to be the
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  tiebreaker here for me. Kathy.
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  What should I be reading right now about Caleb Williams?
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  What should we believe? Because depending on where
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  you're shopping, you can find both stories on his start.
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  You can. Yesterday was his best day of
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  training camp and it was also the most physical practice.
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  The bears of Adsense. At least Lovey Smith and maybe
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  going back to Mike Ditka. That's a fact.
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  Yeah. They had I think 4 fights break
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  out. They're tackling guys to the
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  ground like Matt Eberfuss, Matt Nagy, John Fox, Mark Trussman.
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  They never did any of this. And I asked somebody if there
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  what if guy gets hurt? They said it's football that
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  happens. We're changing the culture and
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  that's why we're doing this. And go watch the Montez Sweat
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  interview. It's on the NFL Network.
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  You can pull it up on social. It's Stacey Dales and Brian
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  Baldinger with Montez Sweat. And he said we are having more
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  full padded, full contact practices in this training camp
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  that he had his entire career in seven years.
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  Yeah, I heard reporters a long time, reporters kept saying is
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  the most physical practice they've ever seen and not just
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  when they were covering the Bears, if they were covering
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  teams prior to them getting to Chicago.
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  I want to ask you about the running back from Rutgers.
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  How do you say his name and angle the seventh round?
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  Manung Guy. Manung guy, he's opening some
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  eyes there Cap that he could be RB2.
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  I mean, has he moved up? Is he the next man in behind
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  Swift, do you think? Is he that is he had that kind
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  of camp? I don't know, maybe that's what
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  he's having a really good camp. Maybe that's why Roshan Johnson
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  was so good in goal line yesterday.
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  He ran 2 touchdowns. He got into a fist fight.
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  He said that dude was playing with a real chip on his
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  shoulder. So maybe that's why maybe he
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  sees, you know, his football mortality, so to speak, flashed
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  in front of his eyes. But Mananga, I think I'll start
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  the season as running back three.
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  There's absolutely a chance that he could move up that list.
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  And that would be exciting. He's a guy, another one of those
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  guys from Rutgers seems to run a little harder and he's got a
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  little extra edge to his game. Now, we've had a week of this
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  now the Micah Parsons back and forth, him and Jerry, Jerry
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  Jones is apparently upset that he thought they had an
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  agreement. He's talking to a 25 year old
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  kid. I just I'm absolutely baffled.
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  But one of the teams always on this list is the Bears could
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  make a move. Any hope.
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  I mean, are we talking a 2% chance, 1/2 percent chance, any
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  chance at all that Micah Parsons could be a Bear?
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  I mean, I think they would definitely have interest in that
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  deal. Tell me what it would cost first
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  of all. Two first and a third.
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  Two first and a third. They would do that in a second,
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  yeah. What was Khalil Mackin about?
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  That. Yeah, about that, right.
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  Yeah. Now if someone told me it would
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  be Jaylen Johnson, two first and a third, I'm not sure I'm doing
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  that. But if you said two first and a
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  third round pick and a A4 done, they were talking about a 26
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  year old Hall of Fame bound pass rusher that you put him on your
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  defense, I believe you then become the favorite in the
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  division. What's going wrong?
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  Everything can't be going smooth.
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  They're hearing a lot of good stuff.
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  Cap, What's maybe the concern with Johnson, with his defense
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  or with his offense? What still concerns him?
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  Cap, what are you hearing? I think it's the sloppiness at
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  times from the offense where they don't get in and out of the
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  huddle quick enough. They don't know everything's
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  being filmed at practice and that way they can look at
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  everything every night and go. That guy was a yard off and he
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  jumps them. Sweat.
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  Sweat said yesterday that when you make a mistake, everything's
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  being filmed, he said. All of a sudden you sit down in
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  the meeting room with the whole team and he puts it on the big
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  screen, Ben Johnson, and he annihilates you.
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  He doesn't go Montez. You know, next time, maybe it'd
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  be better if you move over just, you know, half a yard.
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  That's not how it is. He absolutely crushes you in
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  front of the whole team, he said.
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  And that make sure the next time, uh oh, I better line up
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  properly. So I love the way the culture is
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  changing. It's been about freaking time.
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  Accountability boys about. To run things that way.
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  Accountability we overdo. Accountability.
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  We saw this younger guy over on the sidelines with the Lions.
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  I mean, he got goofball Campbell running things right and doing
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  his thing and doing his motivation and all that.
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  Did we know he was this type of red ass?
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  I mean, was this something that we knew about Bed Johnson?
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  Because I at least before we started to learn about him now
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  as the head coach, I just thought this was a nice easy
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  going guy. Did you know this kind of
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  background that that he his personality appears different
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  than maybe what we were sold when he was in Detroit?
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  Did I know? I don't know if I knew but then
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  I read Dan Skippers quotes the backup O Lyman who they use
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  sometimes the leak out in past past reception and he said you
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  better put a 5 yard boundary around Ben Johnson in game or in
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  practice because you do not want to be on the wrong side of that
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  dude. He is as intense and as
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  passionate about his craft as they come, and now we're seeing
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  that. And I'm sure he walked in here
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  and went OK, what the hell has been going on around here for
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  the past several years? Because it's over.
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  The party is over, nobody's bringing breakfast into meetings
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  anymore. This dude is laying the law down
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  and good for him. Yeah.
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  So kind of what's the when it comes to the division, it's
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  extremely tough. I still I'm not sold on the
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  Packers get a lot of pushback that that I'm crazy there.
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  I got the Packers finished and last.
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  How then you and I are on the same page.
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  Where do we what? What's realistic for the Bears
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  this year? Cap.
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  Ten and seven is realistic, Absolutely.
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  Could they go 9 and 8? Sure.
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  Could they go 8:00 and 9:00 with some injuries?
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  Sure. I don't think they're a 12 and
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  five team, but I do think they're going to have a much
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  improved team simply because they got the right coach.
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  What about the two drafts, their first two draft picks, Loveland
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  and Burden? I'm hearing Burden's finally
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  starting to open some eyes in a positive way.
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  What about Loveland and Burden? Your thoughts?
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  Loveland is looking outstanding at training camp.
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  I mean, outstanding. Burden took him a while to get
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  on the field because he had a soft tissue injury.
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  And then, you know, the first day he was out there, I think
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  Ben wanted to make a point. A young man.
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  Yeah. You're behind.
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  Since then, this dude has been really, really good.
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  Flashing has been like to say, that guy's been flashing here in
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  practice. He looks like a stud.
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  I have had an uncomfortable infatuation with him back in his
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  days in Missouri and very excited to see what can do if he
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  can put it all together there. Ken mentioned the division, so
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  the Vikings Monday Night Football Week 1 is going to be
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  the opponent. They come to Soldier Field.
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  Normally these two teams split, as I know very well watching
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  this series very closely throughout the years.
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  And now there'll be no Jordan Addison out there.
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  It'll be JJ McCarthy's first real start of the season.
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  Vegas has this as a coin flip, a slight favorite one way or the
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  other. Bears may be favored by a point.
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  I'll tell you it's Week 1. We're still talking about a
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  month ahead. I love the Bears in this spot.
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  To get off to a good start, you have peek ahead to week one
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  against the Vikings. I look at that Viking game and
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  you have no Jordan Addison. I know Justin Jefferson hasn't
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  practiced yet, but do you believe Justin Jefferson is not
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  going to find his way on the field?
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  By what I think. Like if you told me, oh God,
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  that guys out too. We'll throw a party in Chicago.
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  Not at his misfortune, at our good fortune, but losing Jordan
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  Addison's a big loss. And then I keep hearing about
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  the up and down camp of JJ McCarthy.
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  So is he going to be ready to roll on Monday Night Football?
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  That's probably the biggest question, how the Bears will
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  handle him and how he will handle the Bears.
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  Cap Great stuff, as always. Reds and Cubs coming up here
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  that should be getting under way.
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  And then off to Saint Louis for the weekend.
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  A series that takes on a whole life of its own as far as the
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  Cubs go. Fascinating stuff.
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  Love sports, incredible theatre. Cap our good stuff, buddy.
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  We'll talk to you next week. Thank you.
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  I'll see you next Wednesday. Yes, and what do you mean?
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  I mean, I'll talk to. You OK?
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  I thought you were coming. Ken was getting excited.
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  Absolutely talk to you when I was.
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  Thinking about driving up there just to get a milkshake at the
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  Drake Diner, but. It's on us if you do.
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  OK pal, good to talk to you. See you buddy.
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  Yes, Hard Knocks debuted last night.
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  Yes, I watched it. You did start to finish.
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  I didn't get there. I made it through the half.
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  It sucked. It's all Josh Allen.
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  That was the first part of. It it's awful.
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  Well, right off the bat trend, you mean, you know, you know how
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  they usually start the show. I'll never forget what I
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  believe. I should never forget.
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  I forgot. It's the sprinklers at Houston's
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  training camp. And all of a sudden you see the
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  silhouette coming of this great big behemoth of a dude.
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  scene one Josh Allen. Josh Allen's boring.
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  He's a good football. Player and a good guy.
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  Yeah, he's a. Good guy.
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  He's a good dude. Yeah, it was awful.
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  You're gonna sell. It was awful.
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  right? We're making our way through.
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  enjoy. I didn't enjoy it last night.
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  Will you watch Episode 2? I will, But they're on three and
• 19:36
  four. No, they're on thin ice.
• 19:38
  But. And I was.
• 19:39
  I was really. I was, I was upset last night.
• 19:42
  I was like I just wasted an hour of my time. 57 minutes, I'm
• 19:44
  sure. Of this stupid show.
• 19:47
  It was dumb. It was not compelling, it was
• 19:49
  not interesting. I was upset.
• 19:50
  So I never watched it live. I watched it this morning
• 19:52
  because I watched. I don't know what game I was
• 19:54
  watching last night. West Coast game.
• 19:55
  So I needed a pallet cleanser and I'm searching to do so.
• 19:59
  I'm looking and then I remember I had saw something.
• 20:02
  I had probably scrolled through my phone at some point of a new
• 20:06
  documentary on Netflix. About the SEC.
• 20:11
  What's it called? Any given Saturday, yeah, I
• 20:15
  believe is the title of it. It's about last season.
• 20:19
  Episode 1's a lot about LSU, but there are going to be other
• 20:21
  people involved. I didn't get through it all but
• 20:24
  this. Did you see any Nebraska
• 20:26
  receivers in the episode? That's for this year.
• 20:30
  This year, right this. It looks good.
• 20:33
  Is going to get you is it? I watched about 20 minutes of
• 20:36
  it. I wanted to watch more but I
• 20:37
  needed to get to bed. It was how many?
• 20:40
  Episodes are there. Don't know.
• 20:42
  You're asking me a question. I haven't got that deep.
• 20:44
  It was late. His voice, I heard his voice
• 20:47
  over at one point, yes. And I don't know if he's
• 20:50
  interviewed or anything like that.
• 20:51
  Again, this was it's called SEC football Any Given Saturday on
• 20:55
  Netflix. This is going to supplant Hard
• 20:59
  Knocks for us. I guarantee it, because you're
• 21:02
  going to watch the rest of Hard Knocks and you're going to be
• 21:03
  disappointed. Well, I was so far with the 20
• 21:05
  minutes that I saw this morning of it, it's all Josh Allen.
• 21:09
  This afternoon, get your work done a little bit early.
• 21:12
  Flip on Episode 1 of SEC Football Any Given Saturday
• 21:17
  because we love college. Foot we do, and there's very few
• 21:19
  baseball games tonight. I mean, everything is during the
• 21:21
  day today. And tomorrow there's not much
• 21:22
  either, so maybe we can get a couple episodes.
• 21:24
  Well. There's NFL football tomorrow
• 21:25
  night, but I will watch that show SC any given Saturday.
• 21:29
  Any given Saturday on Netflix. Scott Reister is going to join
• 21:32
  us next by with, by the way, Ray Cole, our friend, former
• 21:35
  television executive AVP over at ABC based in Des Moines, he ran
• 21:41
  WOI. Ray's going to come in studio
• 21:43
  with Trent and I tomorrow to help us out with the NFLESPN
• 21:47
  deal. Look forward to that.
• 21:48
  That's at one O clock tomorrow and other television related
• 21:52
  stuff with Ray. But love the yearly conversation
• 21:55
  with him and it's very timely with ESPN and the NFL getting
• 21:59
  together. That'll be one O clock tomorrow.
• 22:01
  Ray Cole in studio with us, Scott Reister.
• 22:04
  He's plays a big role promoting the Shot in the Dark golf
• 22:08
  tournament, the 38th annual August 15th.
• 22:11
  This year it's at Terrace Hills. All proceeds go to preventing
• 22:15
  blindness and Reister will tell us more about that if he.
• 22:19
  Of course, he is the sports director over at KCCI Channel 8
• 22:23
  here in Des Moines. 125, Miller and Condon talking sports with
• 22:27
  you. Thanks for being with us.
• 22:28
  It's the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 22:34
  I'm Hillary Conlon. Welcome back.
• 22:35
  Just past 130 on a Wednesday will take you until 215 minutes
• 22:40
  or so away from Trent's plays of the day.
• 22:43
  Circus sports sponsor, those guy by the name is Zach Cox, covers
• 22:47
  the Patriots for the Boston Herald.
• 22:50
  He just tweeted that Mike Vrabel, their head coach, is
• 22:53
  bleeding from the face after diving into a pile to prevent a
• 22:56
  fight. He's got that.
• 22:59
  Take the linebacker out of the coach.
• 23:01
  Whatever that expression he was, he was a tough SOB.
• 23:04
  Yes, he was. He was a good player too.
• 23:05
  What do you have like 8 touchdowns?
• 23:08
  But they were all receiving time.
• 23:09
  Do you remember? That many I.
• 23:10
  Think it was a bunch. A bunch of He'd be on the field
• 23:14
  and Brady would find him. A little trickeration from that
• 23:18
  Josh Mcblunder and company over there.
• 23:20
  Scott Reister is here. He's with the partners with a
• 23:25
  shot in the dark. He's the kind of the media
• 23:27
  behind this over the good folks at KCCI Channel 830.
• 23:32
  Eighth annual is coming up on the 15th of August this year.
• 23:35
  It's at Terrace Hills, right. So you've been involved in this
• 23:37
  for for quite a while now. Good to see you again.
• 23:40
  Great to have. Great to you guys.
• 23:42
  Have me on. Thank you.
• 23:43
  Yeah, it's been really fun. I am not a golfer.
• 23:46
  Do do try though in this event. Try and I fail yes yes,
• 23:50
  thankfully it's right up my alley.
• 23:51
  So if you're listening to this about night golf and you're
• 23:53
  interested, this is the event for you.
• 23:55
  Whether you're a serious player and you want to win like some of
• 23:57
  my friends like Will Rogers and Pete Jeffries, they show up to
• 23:59
  win baby or you're like me where it's like best ball.
• 24:02
  This is my chance to where people won't hate me well.
• 24:04
  You can. Nobody can see it because it's
• 24:06
  dark. That's the beauty of it, right?
• 24:08
  Yeah. It's so much fun.
• 24:09
  Yeah. You get out there and that's why
• 24:10
  I love it. You go out, you screw around,
• 24:12
  you can take it serious or not. And you golf at night, raise
• 24:15
  money. It's all good.
• 24:15
  Stuff. No, it is, yes.
• 24:16
  I asked Trent about this earlier in the when we've gone over the
• 24:20
  show list to start the show, and he said isn't, isn't, is it more
• 24:23
  fun to wait for dark because you guys will tee off?
• 24:26
  They'll still be a little bit of light, right?
• 24:28
  But once the sun goes down and it's pitch black outside, that's
• 24:30
  when it really gets fun. Right.
• 24:31
  It really does. And yeah, if you're listening,
• 24:33
  the event is coming up next Friday, August 15th at Terrace
• 24:37
  Hills and Altoona. It is a beautifully renovated
• 24:40
  golf course and we're moving it out there this year.
• 24:42
  Last year the event was great. We had 120 golfers.
• 24:45
  So it's a big party atmosphere. It's $85.
• 24:49
  You get your drink tickets, your dinner, your nine holes of golf,
• 24:52
  your glow balls, your glow sticks, all the stuff you need
• 24:55
  to have a great time for Prevent blindness Iowa.
• 24:57
  Great charity. So, and I just retweeted that
• 24:59
  out. Ask our rice for no cakes and no
• 25:00
  accounts have tweeted out also. So, yeah, as you're listening to
• 25:03
  this conversation, if you're interested, we'd love to have
• 25:05
  you out there. And as you mentioned, as it gets
• 25:07
  dark, that's when the fun begins.
• 25:08
  I like to, you know, hit my normal sucky shot and then
• 25:11
  everyone scream like it was a, you know, the best shot they've
• 25:13
  ever seen and just lie to people.
• 25:15
  So the other foursomes on the course think they're in trouble,
• 25:17
  but it is so fun wandering around in pitch black.
• 25:20
  You got your flashlight. Oh, pro tip, bring a flashlight
• 25:22
  if you're coming in some bug spray.
• 25:23
  And yeah, it's just awesome. It's so much fun.
• 25:26
  I played in it twice and the favorite part, and I'm not a
• 25:29
  very good golfer myself either, but when you hit when, when it's
• 25:33
  finally dark and it's usually what about the last three holes
• 25:35
  that it's really dark at that point.
• 25:38
  And if you hit one good shot, that's enough to just see that
• 25:41
  ball sailing through the air through the darkness.
• 25:44
  You can hear other people on the course.
• 25:46
  It is an event. I played in a lot of golf
• 25:48
  events. It's an event unlike anything
• 25:50
  that you do before so, and that's a fun one, Scott.
• 25:52
  And that's what I love what you guys do.
• 25:54
  It's for a great cause for for great people.
• 25:56
  But how many golf tournaments are out there?
• 25:58
  You get your forcing together. You go out there, you have a
• 26:00
  couple of beers, you have some fun and you you make a bed that
• 26:04
  your wife yells at you when you get home.
• 26:05
  This is different, right? This is completely different
• 26:08
  because it's a different way of golfing.
• 26:10
  You don't have to be a great golfer and it's something that
• 26:12
  not a lot of people have experienced.
• 26:13
  Yeah, if you're like me at the stage of life where it's hard to
• 26:16
  carve out that Friday night, well, this is for charity.
• 26:19
  I'm sorry. You know, I got to go to this
• 26:20
  for charity. What do you want me to do?
• 26:21
  So. And it's not just for guys.
• 26:23
  We have a lot of girls, couples, young people, old.
• 26:25
  I think you last for that reason.
• 26:27
  Yeah, guys, gals get to be a Friday night.
• 26:30
  Yeah, it's awesome. It's a Trent's point, you know,
• 26:31
  when you're out golfing, if you golf as rare as I do, just
• 26:34
  hitting one shot in your entire round makes you so excited,
• 26:37
  right? That one good drive.
• 26:38
  Amplify that by 100 when that ball you're hitting is now a
• 26:41
  shooting star against the black sky.
• 26:43
  It is just so cool. Everybody.
• 26:45
  Just the oh and ah factor is there.
• 26:47
  It's really fun. So when you do get to those last
• 26:50
  three holes, you know, obviously you've got to get from the green
• 26:52
  to the next T box. That's when the flashlight would
• 26:55
  come in handy, right? Because there are there.
• 26:57
  Are there any type of lighting out there to get you to the next
• 27:00
  hole? Yes, we have volunteers that
• 27:02
  mark the holes with Yeah. So along the holes there's a
• 27:05
  couple different poles that have some glow sticks dangling, and
• 27:08
  then you see they do mark the hole on the green with the glow
• 27:12
  sticks. So you kind of have an idea of
• 27:14
  where you're. Aiming.
• 27:14
  You're not going to end up just driving into the water.
• 27:17
  Well, I you'll still drive into the water if you're me right,
• 27:20
  But it's not because you don't know where you're aiming the
• 27:22
  ball. So it's but it's definitely a
• 27:24
  very neat. Vision.
• 27:24
  Yeah. I didn't mean driving with the
• 27:26
  Golf Club. I'm in the golf carts.
• 27:28
  Right, yes. And actually there's, I'm glad
• 27:29
  you brought this up. There's no golf.
• 27:31
  Carts. No carts, and if you have a
• 27:33
  pushcart, bring them. Terrace Hills doesn't have any,
• 27:35
  so bring your own pushcart because people want to, don't
• 27:37
  want to carry the bag. Or if you're like me, you don't
• 27:39
  even own any decent clubs, so you just bum a club off Jason
• 27:42
  Sudeiko who's in your foursome and just so don't even bring
• 27:45
  your clubs, just show. Show up like a schlub like me.
• 27:47
  Bring up bring A7 iron and just play the whole course that way
• 27:49
  that. Somebody else's clubs, other
• 27:50
  people's clubs, OPC. Yes.
• 27:52
  Hey Scott, can you tell us a little bit more about Prevent
• 27:55
  Blindness Iowa and what they what they strive to do across
• 27:58
  the great state of. Iowa.
• 27:59
  Oh yeah, I'd love to. I mean, last year over 20,000
• 28:02
  vision screenings completely free to kids across the state.
• 28:05
  It's a operation on a shoestring budget and it's events like
• 28:09
  this. And then there's a walk earlier
• 28:10
  in the summer and O'cakes knows a fabulous media partner for
• 28:12
  Prevent Blindness Iowa. So really this, these two events
• 28:15
  and some donations throughout the year are what funds the
• 28:18
  quality of life for all these vision screenings that are
• 28:20
  happening. These problems are caught in
• 28:22
  kids early. They don't even know they have
• 28:23
  them because that's just how they've lived their lives.
• 28:25
  Get glasses on these kids. It changes their lives as they
• 28:28
  realize, oh, behavior problems or learning problems because
• 28:30
  they're glasses, so and they also catch problems that could
• 28:33
  lead to blindness. So it's a crucial service not a
• 28:35
  lot of people think about, but the need is there and what
• 28:38
  better way to help it out? Then have some fun.
• 28:41
  Down the registration, go out and have a great time next
• 28:43
  Friday night. Absolutely.
• 28:45
  All right, we'll get back to that in a second.
• 28:46
  We are on the cusp of a football on Friday night with football,
• 28:51
  right? So I'm guessing vacations.
• 28:53
  Jeff's had his, Shannon's had hers, you've had yours.
• 28:56
  What are the plans at KCCI for Friday nights this year?
• 28:59
  It is going to be so much fun. We're rebranding Friday night
• 29:02
  high. We've had football Friday night
• 29:03
  forever, but this year we're going Friday night hype.
• 29:06
  So I sadly the biggest loss is my polo shirt would no longer
• 29:09
  apply. I got to get a new polo.
• 29:11
  But yeah, it's going to encompass our basketball
• 29:13
  coverages also. And we are just going all out
• 29:15
  Friday nights from about 10:15 to 10:30, cramming in the top,
• 29:18
  you know, 11 or so 12 games even on to the highlights.
• 29:21
  We've got our live shots at 4-5 and six going to our game of the
• 29:24
  week. We also have our wild card pole,
• 29:26
  which is so much fun. And what we do with that is on
• 29:29
  Mondays during high school football season, I'll pick 3
• 29:32
  games that we might not normally get to, whether it's.
• 29:34
  Like so small schools. Smaller schools maybe from like
• 29:37
  3A on down that might not get that coverage.
• 29:39
  And it's a fan vote on Facebook. It's awesome.
• 29:41
  So the communities, those communities all jump in.
• 29:44
  And then Wednesday we announce the winner, which vote had the
• 29:47
  most, and then we send out a crew and spotlight them as well.
• 29:50
  So it's an added element that we do, and it's really a lot of fun
• 29:53
  because it's just about getting these communities on TV that we
• 29:55
  don't always get to. Speaking of high school sports,
• 29:58
  you guys just wrapped up a couple weeks ago with state
• 30:00
  softball with a ton of local teams, teams in Fort Dodge, not
• 30:05
  hop, skip and a jump. Plus you had 3A and 4A baseball
• 30:08
  in Sioux City. So do you guys work with like
• 30:11
  your CBS partners? How does that work for you guys?
• 30:13
  Because we know how Staffs are trimmed.
• 30:15
  We know here and you guys know it's not like the old days.
• 30:19
  How are you able to do 2 major events that are really important
• 30:22
  to the communities and do it in Sioux City and Fort Dodge while
• 30:25
  you're based in Des? Moines And don't forget about
• 30:26
  the 1A and 2A bracket of state baseball in Carroll.
• 30:29
  We had three. It was insane.
• 30:31
  It was, it was actually a lot of fun.
• 30:32
  And yeah, definitely you coordinate and there's no longer
• 30:35
  CBS affiliate in Sioux City. That CBS station actually closed
• 30:38
  down a couple years ago. So that's one less asset we have
• 30:40
  to coordinate things with. But we have other people we work
• 30:43
  with. I know the CBS affiliate KGAN in
• 30:45
  Cedar Rapids, they're going to different tournaments throughout
• 30:47
  also. And then we can use, you know,
• 30:49
  look at the streams and run some highlights.
• 30:51
  So it definitely is a matter of picking and choosing and trying
• 30:54
  to be live on the news when those moments happened.
• 30:57
  If you can kind of play the chess board, right, it works
• 30:59
  out. It can't be everywhere, but we
• 31:01
  were able to be live five and Joaquin Northwest softball was
• 31:03
  hosting the trophy. That was so much fun to be able
• 31:05
  to do that. And then Shannon was out there
• 31:07
  when the Pleasantville baseball team, an incredible story.
• 31:10
  Shout out Pleasantville if you're listening.
• 31:11
  Just one loss all season. First championship for that high
• 31:14
  school on the boys side in any boys program.
• 31:17
  And so, yeah, we were live in Carroll and then we were able to
• 31:19
  be out there in Fort Dodge and then we didn't have a 4A or a
• 31:25
  three a winner right at Sioux City this year.
• 31:26
  So that kind of took care of that as well on the final.
• 31:28
  Day it was easy on my partner right and.
• 31:30
  He got back from Vegas and thought I was going to have to
• 31:32
  hop in the car to Sioux City, and that was not the case,
• 31:35
  right? And.
• 31:36
  As we grumble though, the reason that we're doing this dance is
• 31:38
  because a couple years ago when the IHSAA established Dead Week,
• 31:41
  or when I should say both they and the Girls Union, they moved
• 31:44
  that state baseball tournament back a week, if I'm not
• 31:47
  mistaken. So although it's chaotic week,
• 31:49
  it's fun and then it creates that week off for everybody.
• 31:52
  So I'll take some chaos followed by a vacation any day.
• 31:54
  Yeah, good stuff. All right, in our final couple
• 31:56
  of minutes here with you, let's go over the Shot in the Dark
• 31:59
  2025 year #38 for this. How do folks, if they want to
• 32:03
  register, and they should, you had, what, 125 last year?
• 32:06
  You've limited it. This year it's 100 golfers.
• 32:09
  Is that right? I don't.
• 32:10
  Believe so? Is that what it says?
• 32:11
  Limited to 100 participants right in the printed material.
• 32:14
  I have in front of me. Forget what Ken said.
• 32:16
  We'll squeeze you in. Come on in.
• 32:18
  No, honestly, that might have to do with Terrace Hill because I
• 32:21
  mean, that golf course is amazing, but I haven't seen the
• 32:23
  layout of it this year. I do I don't know there is room.
• 32:25
  We're not at 100 yet, but sign up fast.
• 32:27
  It is next Friday. And if we do have that cut off,
• 32:30
  I would feel bad because it is super fun.
• 32:32
  If you're not on Twitter or Facebook, literally Google
• 32:35
  prevent blindness Iowa. You'll see it if you are on
• 32:37
  Facebook or Twitter. I've shared it Ken and Trink all
• 32:40
  KX and no personalities have shared it.
• 32:42
  And yeah, come on out night golf next Friday as long as you can
• 32:45
  get there by like 637. The dinner starts around 6:00
• 32:48
  and then the golfing starts around 7:30.
• 32:50
  We might have a putt putt contest also.
• 32:51
  Nice. And you go over the rules at
• 32:53
  7:50. Rules Schmools.
• 32:55
  Yeah, they say not to use your glow.
• 32:57
  Use your You're supposed to use your glow ball the whole time.
• 32:59
  But you know, you can maybe wait because if you lose a lot of
• 33:02
  balls like me, they're expensive.
• 33:03
  And here's this other little nugget that's added to the rule.
• 33:06
  No private coolers allowed on the course.
• 33:09
  How about that? Buy your drinks there.
• 33:10
  Yeah, right, right. Support the golf course.
• 33:13
  So is there going to be like a cart on the course?
• 33:15
  I don't think so. You get that, You load it up
• 33:18
  beforehand, you go to the cart, you go inside, you buy your
• 33:22
  beer. Buy your can beer, put it in the
• 33:23
  bag. There you go.
• 33:24
  The clubhouse is amazing. I don't know if you've been
• 33:27
  there selling. There's going to be the party
• 33:28
  and the awards after and nice prizes.
• 33:31
  Yeah, so it is gorgeous. Come out it.
• 33:33
  It'll be a great time. Good stuff.
• 33:35
  Shot in the dark 2025. Best of luck to you.
• 33:39
  Wait. Well done by the way, doing this
• 33:41
  for as long as you have. It's fun.
• 33:42
  It's kind. Of the media face of it, indeed
• 33:44
  it is. Miller and Condon will be back.
• 33:46
  Trent's plays of the day, circus parts, circus sports sponsor.
• 33:50
  Those Scott Reister who's been with us from KCCI, Friday night
• 33:54
  hype. I like it.
• 33:55
  That's coming up here before we know it, Miller and Condon on
• 33:58
  the Iowa Sports Radio Network. I'm Millary Condon.
• 34:04
  Welcome back. Our thanks to Scott Reister for
• 34:06
  stopping by A Shot in the Dark 38th annual Coming up Terrace
• 34:10
  Hills a week from Friday mentioned Mike Vrabel jumping
• 34:15
  into a brawl and getting cut. I thought he had eight
• 34:19
  receptions, all of which went for touchdowns.
• 34:21
  I was in. I was mistaken.
• 34:23
  He caught 12 passes in the NFL. So I Googled, all of which went
• 34:27
  for touchdowns. Yes, after you said that I'm
• 34:29
  like 8. No way.
• 34:31
  Yeah, I was right. No short change to four.
• 34:34
  Isn't that crazy? That is unthinkable. 12
• 34:37
  touchdowns, all of them by the pass.
• 34:39
  Well he did catch one also on defence.
• 34:40
  Return to a pick for a pick 6. But what a what a just crazy,
• 34:47
  crazy stat. It is.
• 34:49
  I just can't understand how, hey, when he comes onto the
• 34:52
  field, how about right, we maybe cover the linebacker that comes
• 34:57
  trotting out there. Couldn't figure it out.
• 34:59
  The Reds and the Cubs in Wrigley, they feel they are
• 35:02
  playing in the top of the third inning.
• 35:04
  There is no score. Kate Horton is no hitter.
• 35:08
  Watch Trent. He's through 2 and 1/3.
• 35:09
  He has yet to give up a hit. The Cubs only have one hit.
• 35:12
  Say Suzuki has found a way to make the bat contact.
• 35:16
  The ball probably closed his eyes and got lucky there.
• 35:18
  Seemingly they have no clue this offense of the Cubs.
• 35:22
  All right, let's make some plays.
• 35:23
  Most of the games or a lot of the games, How many?
• 35:26
  Like 4 tonight? I want to say 5 tonight.
• 35:28
  Maybe not many eyes there. WNBA tonight.
• 35:31
  Be one game in the West tonight. It is a game I'll be playing.
• 35:34
  I'm going to grab the Valkyries and the 5 1/2 as they host the
• 35:38
  Aces who are starting to play better and the Valkyries are
• 35:40
  starting to look more like an expansion.
• 35:42
  Are they? I'm going to grab the points and
• 35:44
  I only got 1 baseball play since everything's already underway.
• 35:47
  Well, I've made a bad mistake, right?
• 35:49
  I've taken Atlanta over Milwaukee.
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  Never bet against a streak. We're going to go back the other
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  way. Gibby Quintana plus money was a
• 35:56
  + 119 against Spencer Strider tonight.
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  And the Bravos break up the Brew Crew.
• 36:03
  They are red hot. And then tomorrow we can bet on
• 36:07
  some football that sounds good. And what, there's three games
• 36:13
  tomorrow night? Is that what it is?
• 36:15
  In baseball, too. No, I mean in the NFL.
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  Three, I think three. Yes, 3.
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  Preseason games. All right, Benny just texted me.
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  Give me credit. He was the one that came up with
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  the stat. Thank you, Benny.
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  He's our he's. Our Ben I I can do the same
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  thing. I condition.
• 36:28
  I could also Google and I did. Betty slowed down over there.
• 36:32
  Well, I can't, Betty, so just send them to me.
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  I got one look ahead play though.
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  To which day to? The NFL tomorrow night.
• 36:40
  OK. So you got Bengals and Eagles?
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  Yeah, Raiders and Seahawks. Yeah.
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  Colts at Ravens. Ravens never lose in pre season.
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  They're a huge underdog. They're a nearly touchdown
• 36:53
  underdog. At Circa, you can get the Ravens
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  money line at plus 235. Who's starting a quarterback for
• 36:59
  the Colts? Are they playing both of their
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  guys? Maybe, but what?
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  Isn't Richardson banged up? I got to research.
• 37:04
  It more, but no, he can't be because I saw the report he had
• 37:07
  a really good practice like maybe yesterday or the day
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  before. Daniel Jones going to play.
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  They're even high on Riley Leonard of all people, honestly.
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  Still. I get it.
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  Ravens in the preseason. With you.
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  At better than two to one, I'm going to throw that one in there
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  at minimum. Because what was their streak of
• 37:26
  covering games? It's like it was in the 20s.
• 37:28
  Oh, absolutely, yeah, they were. Pre season games we're talking
• 37:31
  about. So.
• 37:32
  Richardson is starting the game tomorrow.
• 37:34
  Thank you, Lucas Strain. Put that one just in your back
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  pocket because the Ravens, historically, and John Harbaugh
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  has a left. No, he likes putting those ones
• 37:43
  in the window. Do you have many Ravens futures?
• 37:46
  Couple, yeah. I do too.
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  I think I can't. I can't stop the Ravens.
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  You know I'm. With you I can't stop the
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  chargers. I got a pocket full of those as
• 37:53
  well. Good luck with those.
• 37:54
  And the Bengals. I got a couple of but yeah, good
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  luck with your chargers. That will do it for us.
• 38:00
  Lucas Drain is next. He just text me.
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  Daniel Jones is also playing, so maybe that's the reason for the
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  elevated number. Thanks for being with us.
• 38:07
  Thanks to all of our guests. Look forward to tomorrow
• 38:10
  already. Ray Cole in studio on ESPN and
• 38:12
  the NFL merger. Look forward to Ray coming in.
• 38:15
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