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The Cubs Cannot Keep Settling For Good Enough · Monday Morning Cubs Show

• 0:05
  SPEAKER_00: Good morning, good afternoon, and evening, Chicago Cubs fans, and welcome back to the Monday Morning Cubs Show.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: Today is Tuesday, October 27th.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: Tuesday, October 27th.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's your host, Carl.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a solo episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: This episode is taking every ounce of strength that I have to talk about baseball.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to give it to you guys.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not going to give you the business.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_00: That actually sounded a little homoerotic to kick the show off.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to get I'm going to give it to you guys.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_00: But to be fair, like I'm going to do everything I can to keep it together.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: And and I maybe I do want to jump off a tall ledge right now, but not really.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe what I'm just trying to say is like, I'm defeated.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am dead.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: If you hate me, you have me at the perfect moment.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: If I'm somebody you absolutely detest, come and get it because I'm as vulnerable and weak as possible.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: There's an over there's a plane overhead right now.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: If you hear an airplane right now, um he could drop a bomb on me, and I don't think that'd be a big deal in my head.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: That's how I feel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Milwaukee Brewer is about to sweep the World Series.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: I said the American League sucked many times throughout the season.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's on full display right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Milwaukee Brewers eat our lunch.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the Monday Morning Cub Show.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: It's a Tuesday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just a couple things here, guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ball or strike.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll get into some offseason.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I guess general philosophy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And general philosophy is the fan of you kind of going through what the what is this going to look like?
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: It's going to be different than most offseasons.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: I'll say that.
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  SPEAKER_00: This should be unique.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because lockout is coming.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: Lockout is coming.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a fact.
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  SPEAKER_00: And dare I say this World Series rigged to be not exciting, to be boring, to suck, to suck a fat one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did Manfred intentionally orchestrate a World Series that fucking blows?
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: That's a good question.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because as we go to the lockout, you know, uh Major League Baseball is going to want to say, you know, that it's not as valuable as you guys argue.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: That's what they're going to tell the players.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not as valuable.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_00: Look at the World Series.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ratings are down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Never mind it was Milwaukee and Tampa.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: Ratings are down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tampa, everybody likes Tampa.
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  SPEAKER_00: Underdog story.
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  SPEAKER_00: Milwaukee, do you see how high the ticket prices were?
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  SPEAKER_00: And even then, ratings were down.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's not the pie's not as big as the players want.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what Manfred's going to say.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because, you know, in some circles, not mine, in some circles, he's a dirty rotten cocksucker.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: In some circles, not mine, he's a dirty rotten Seaword.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_00: So this is the Monday Morning Cub show.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_00: You guys get a chance.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: You know, throw a review, buy a case of Thirsty McCarrow, throw a review on top of this bad boy.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_00: Go on to Spotify.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: Tell me what's going on.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: You know, don't be creepy.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_00: I don't need handwritten notes or whatever.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: But there's there's ways to reach me at talking points for the show, or not at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: This audio only, baby.
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  SPEAKER_00: This RSS feed.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: No graphics on this because all I'm making a lot of graphics in my free time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when I say free time, I mean professionally.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I say professionally, you know, you know, it's just like I'm making a lot of graphics.
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  SPEAKER_00: This baby's audio only.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: So you just you just saddle up, you know, light a fire, or drive to work, or take a take a dump.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: Go to lunch.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take a dump.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm here for you.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_00: I am here for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in the meantime, before we get into a loaded show, 10 baller strikes, uh, no mahoney today.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna keep it moving.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna keep it rolling.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rolling.
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  SPEAKER_00: That did you know?
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you know, Proud Mary, Tina Turner, Ike Turner version?
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you know that is my karaoke version or my care official karaoke song with my wife, with Mrs.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: Carl?
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  SPEAKER_00: We would we I'll rip that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will rip that microphone out of your fucking hands and do Proud Mary.
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  SPEAKER_00: You you will think they're paying me to do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's how good the karaoke is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rolling.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rolling.
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  SPEAKER_00: We I don't like singing on a podcast, so you don't like listening to it.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_00: That's why.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_00: I don't like doing it because you don't like listening to it.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: If you enjoyed it, I'd do it more often.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, we're gonna get to ball or strike.
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  SPEAKER_00: But first, obviously, hey, listen, you can fucking blow me if you don't like Thirst of a Carol.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_00: How's that?
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_00: Too aggressive?
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: Ooh, okay, too aggressive.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_00: I'm looking at the ad copy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going, I gotta bring some heat.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: I gotta bring some heat.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, do you like the Bears being five and two?
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_00: That's on Thirsty Vicarol.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: That's a Mexican-style soda with a signature spicy finish.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's all bites, no rattle.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've said it a thousand times.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna say it one thousand one times now.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_00: It is a game changer, it belongs in your refrigerator.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_00: It is gonna be if for the holidays, some of you guys have been drinking too much booze lately.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: You're looking for a way out.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_00: You're look you're looking for a way out on what is it, Tuesday night?
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you're gonna get an itch.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna say, I want to sit down.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, not tonight, not tonight.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then it's gonna be calling you, and you're gonna open the fridge.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, instead of opening the fridge and getting, what is it?
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: What are you drinking?
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_00: Bush light.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_00: I'll call you a loser.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_00: No one else has you fucking bum.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_00: Get rid of that shit.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_00: Get rid of that stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not good stuff until they start paying the ad reads.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's terrible.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you want to put a thirsty Vicero in there.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_00: You want a spicy watermelon, you want a mango morte, you want a Lamon Ladron, you want a 12 ounce, you want a 16 ounce.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I I can't make it clear enough, I can't make it more obvious enough, in the sense that it will change your life.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_00: You'll go, no shot.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_00: Carl is this whole time Carl's been right.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_00: All you have to do is go to Amazon and get yourself some.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_00: Now I'll go through this dog and pony show that enables me to do what?
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna talk a lot about the Cubs first, but I'm gonna ask you guys, go get yourself a Thirsty Vicarol.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_00: Throw it at the fridge, give it to your old lady.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_00: If your old lady doesn't like it, divorce her.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_00: If your old lady doesn't like Thirsty Vicarol, she's cheating on you.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_00: She's who she could be, and somebody listen to this, this is they've gone through it, so they know what I'm talking about.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_00: She could be fucking your brother.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_00: Think about that.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_00: Because everybody, you can say you call someone a motherfucker, which you know, be honest, I I like older women.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: You call someone a brotherfucker, that one stings.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
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  SPEAKER_00: So don't be a brotherfucker.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go to Thirsty Bit Carroll or go to Amazon and get yourself some Thirsty Big Carol.
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  SPEAKER_00: I like a 12 ounce, I do, and I've had a lot of water.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_00: I'll be honest, I've had a lot of watermelon.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, have I had too much baseball?
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_00: Have I had too much baseball?
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and these are the days you go Mahoney and I talked about this last week.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's a slog.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_00: Slog?
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  SPEAKER_00: Tough.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_00: You know, sometimes I don't.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_00: What do you want me to say?
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_00: Brewer's up 3-0 in the World Series right now.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we have no pitching.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: We have no pitching.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_00: We didn't we didn't fire Tommy Hodovy.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: We didn't fire people who are responsible for battle bleaks.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_00: No one gets held accountable in the Cubs organization.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_00: They just raise ticket prices 3%.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_00: We don't get 3% better, we get 3% more expensive on the north side of Chicago.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, and I blame Tom Ricketts for not being a guy who wants to win, or necessarily someone who's fine with losing.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_00: How's that?
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_00: Tom Ricketts is fine with losing, Crank Kenny's fine with losing, and that's because they're gutless coffee pussies.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_00: All right, that's a simple statement.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_00: You met those guys out, maybe you'd be enamored because they're rich and they're the guys that are in control of your freedom, uh or what you do with your free time, I should say.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_00: However, you know, if you measured them to the same standard you measure, who's your cousin that got kicked out of Providence?
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_00: You know, like who's your who's the guy in your family?
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: You're like, he needs to get his shit together.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_00: There's somebody in your life you hold to like just some standard.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you gotta tone it down a little bit.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_00: You know, stepdad, somebody you don't like.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_00: Just take that same standard, put it on Tommy and Crane.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_00: Tell me if those guys survived the afternoon in your head.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_00: No shot.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_00: No shot.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: Cause what?
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_00: Again, pussies, coffee, pussies, and quarter zips that don't care about you, that don't they don't care at all.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_00: Don't make the seats smaller, the tickets more expensive, the hot dogs, hot dogs will be less juicy.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_00: You know, in the meantime, no starting pitching, it'll bother you, they don't give a fuck.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_00: So start there.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_00: You know, what a privilege.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_00: What a privilege to be a cubs fan.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: So now here's what we can at least we can have a community.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_00: Can we bring together are there funny people listening to this?
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_00: Are there good Cubs fans, or is it just people looking for a way out, looking for an escape?
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_00: Look, I'm not telling you what parlay to bet.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_00: All right, go listen to some other jag off.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_00: This jag off here, I don't talk about parlays.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I don't know.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_00: What are you?
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_00: I'll be realistic.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_00: What are you looking for?
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_00: Are you looking for good?
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: We play good defense.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_00: Pete Crow Armstrong's a superstar.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_00: You know, Bregman, classy vet, Swannee, classy vet, Nico, classy vet, up and down the lineup.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_00: Just a bunch of guys easy to cheer for.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'll be surprised if Matt Shaw survives this offseason.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_00: That's a different topic.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: We'll get to that in baller strike.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: But we're just, I'm just putting some window dressing on today's episode and saying, you know, it's it's just good enough.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_00: And good enough is good enough for the Chicago Cubs, and that kills me because I'm not a good enough.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_00: Good enough's terrible.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: You walk around, you're listening to the show, you go.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: If you do stuff that's good enough, fuck you.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: You contribute to the good enough problem in America, I hate you.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_00: Or society, you're the worst.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_00: Good enough.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's great, it's good enough.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_00: Fine, good enough.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_00: Good enough.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_00: Calorie's good enough, dude.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_00: Bad boy's good enough.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I demand excellence.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_00: I get up in the morning, I want excellence.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: My feet hit the ground.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_00: I want to be the best, I want to improve.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_00: 1%, 3%, 6%.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: Fucking tell me good enough's fine.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_00: Good enough, fucking blow me.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'll be honest with you.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_00: I've lived a life.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not joking.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_00: I have lived this life where good enough to me makes me sick to my stomach.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, like, I you know, my baseball career would be damned, whatever.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_00: That was 20 years ago, 15 years ago.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_00: But I was a psychopath.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_00: I was legitimately a psychopath.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_00: It good enough's not good enough.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_00: I'll tell you when it's fucking good enough.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I have that drive, I have that psychotic gene to me that's not good enough.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_00: All right, fine.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: Do better.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_00: The amount of examples I can go to in my personal life, you know.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_00: Not good enough, Charlie.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_00: So what the fuck is this the Chicago Cubs?
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's all fine.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's all good enough.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_00: It's all you know.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_00: How can you complain?
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_00: It's a nice day at Wrigley Field.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_00: How can you I'll tell you I can complain.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_00: Uh what's the payroll of the Milwaukee Brewers?
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_00: Who's their manager?
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_00: What situation do we find ourselves in relative to them?
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and I'm gonna fucking complain.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: Then I don't care about the weather of Wrigley Field or how endearing and charming it is.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care about the Rolex clock tower, you know, although I do enjoy Gallagher Way.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_00: You know, if I start talking shit about Gallagher Way, that's when you know I've crossed a line in my head.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_00: That's the demarcation line.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_00: That's where I have to be honest with myself and say, um, maybe I'm being too harsh.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_00: Because Gallagher Way rocks.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's a great escape.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_00: Because you can go out.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: What can you do out there?
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_00: You can smoke SIGs in Gallagher.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_00: People say you can't.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_00: I'll guarantee you you can smoke SIGs in Gallagher Way.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: I'll absolutely guarantee you can smoke SIGs, you can smoke joints, you can just smoke shit in Gallagher Way.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_00: Get yourself a thirst of it, Carol.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um, all right.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_00: I want to eat lunch.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_00: I gotta get this show up in order to eat lunch.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_00: And a lot of people listening to this know how serious I take lunch.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_00: What's on deck today?
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_00: A ham sandwich.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: Thinly sliced, wrong.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_00: Shaved.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_00: Shaved.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_00: Onto a sw uh swirl, sourdough and wheat from a local bakery.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_00: I will throw some mayo on that.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_00: I got some sharp.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_00: I got some sharp white American.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_00: People don't like that.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_00: That's an East Coast thing.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: Don't give a fuck.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: I like a white American.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_00: I like a little sharp little mmm, little kick.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_00: Do they even make sharp American?
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: Did I just add that for pageantry's sake?
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: Possibly.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_00: You know, no potato chips.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_00: Not this week.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_00: No potato chips this week.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna do a little hummus on some pita.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_00: Not that you give a fuck, but I'm motivated by lunch.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna pair it with the thirst of a cara, which you can get on Amazon.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_00: So.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, other before I get to this too, I want to point something out that's actually badass for me.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_00: You know.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, it's off season, boys.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's off season.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_00: Brewers are up three-nothing.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_00: Like if I want to take a small detour to tell you that I spent$1,300 on a commercial leaf blower backpack, you know, that covers a 1,000 cubic feet per minute.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_00: I get that right.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: Big boy.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, industry leading.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_00: This is the type of thing you gotta pay big money for a guy to come over wearing one of these things.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_00: I got one for myself.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_00: Two acres?
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_00: You know?
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_00: If I had it, how many oak how many oak trees over 40 feet spill leaves out of my lawn?
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_00: If I said 40, that would be an understatement.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: I'm the king of the oak tree.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_00: Now there's a price that comes with being the king.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta clean up after yourself.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: So they dropped that thing off today, and two guys had to carry it off the truck.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_00: Big ass fucking box.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you love to see the side of that.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_00: So big personal day for me, big win for me.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_00: I had to get that off my chest.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're wondering, yeah, I'm gonna eat a ham sandwich, I'm gonna have a thirsty of a carol, I'm gonna upload the show and uh I'm gonna put a beating on this front lawn because we already have big coverage here.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I'll be what if I want to talk about the leaf blower I got today before I get to ball or strike, I'm gonna do it.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's my it's this is my podcast.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_00: This is mine and Mahoney's show.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_00: Should I feel compelled to get into commercial leaf blower specs?
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_00: Did I go diesel?
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_00: No, I didn't go diesel.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_00: I got the I got the 212, I don't even know what they're called.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_00: I got the the highest rated one I could get, the ego, the fucking electric one.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_00: People are gonna kill me for this, but it's quiet, it's very quiet, it's non-disruptive.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_00: My neighbor operates a small diesel one and it wakes up the neighborhood, and I gotta be blowing leaves at all hours of the day.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_00: And and to be quite honest with you, I just I in good faith, I prefer the quiet, I prefer the duration and price of diesels through the roof.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_00: You know, here's here's where I go supply and demand.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_00: Price of diesels through the roof.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not getting political, I'm just saying, you know, am I pussy for using electric?
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_00: But I got it, baby.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna be I'm gonna be sweeping and cleaning left and right.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_00: And if I want to talk about it, I'm gonna talk about it.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_00: So uh, okay, Baller Strike, let's just get into this.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_00: Baller Strike Petrow Armstrong.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_00: We have 10 of these babies.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm not pitch clocking them, but we're moving quick.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_00: The purpose of this, I'm gonna keep you guys sharp on some Cubs news.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you saw this, maybe you didn't see this.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: This is stuff that is talked about.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_00: You know, this is what sucks about offseason.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: We don't have too much hard line shit to get into.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_00: And another thing that sucks is the the lockout is coming.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: So there's a good chance.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_00: Uh quite honest with you, I'm swimming in the middle of the Pacific Ocean right now.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'm on a life raft, I'm surrounded by sharks, I have no food, I have no water, I have a flashlight.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_00: The fuck am I gonna do with a flashlight?
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_00: You know, nothing.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: Beat myself to death with it.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: But I have to survive these.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, dare I say murky waters?
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_00: There's still still waters run deep.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_00: These are still waters.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_00: I'll say that.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_00: The boat's not moving.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: And and hopefully one of these days, you know, I crash land and and and spring training is upon us.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_00: That's kind of where my head's at.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: So let's do the best we can.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_00: All right, first baller strike is Pete Cromstrong.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_00: I do like the fact he's at Bears Games.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_00: Now, Pete Cromstrong is he baller strike, he's obligated to attend that kid's graduation.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: Now, here's what I'll say Pete Cromstrong has to go to that high school graduation in McKinley Park.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: Baller strike.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_00: That's a strike.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you don't know what I'm talking about, a video from a Bears game kid goes, Pete, will you, you know, come to my high school graduation because this gets 100,000 likes.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: Got 200,000.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_00: From Thursday night to Saturday, 200,000.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_00: Pete has to go to the graduation.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: Problem.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: Graduation's in May.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_00: Problem.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: Kids from McKinley Park.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_00: Am I wrong?
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: Isn't McKinley Park next to Canaryville?
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_00: Isn't McKinley Park a feeder to Bridgeport?
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_00: Isn't if you go to McKinley, isn't Pete gonna get stabbed if he goes to McKinley Park?
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not going to McKinley Park.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't go to McKinley Park with my dad to get a beef, and my dad speaks that language.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, how you doing?
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not joking.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_00: McKinley that makes mean am I a pussy?
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: Fine, I'll go to McKinley Park and eat a fucking sausage.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_00: Alright?
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_00: Put a gun to my head.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: Fine.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: I'm taking the bus to McKinley Park.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_00: Are you happy?
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_00: You know, me reping midway isn't enough.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_00: I gotta sit here and go to St.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_00: Nicholas at Talentine.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_00: You know?
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_00: What do you want from me?
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_00: Fine, I'll do it.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_00: What is that?
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_00: Queen of the Universe?
• 16:26
  unknown: St.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_00: Mary Star by the Sea?
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: I'll name them if you want me to.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_00: St.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_00: Gabriel's another one.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, good parishes over in that area.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_00: What I'm saying is this, Pete Carl Armstrong, you are now obligated to go to a McKinley Park graduation in May.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_00: We'll be three out.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_00: About to be four out.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: Pete's gonna be in McKinley Park.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: And here's the problem whether the kid wants him there, it's gonna take it'll take one asshole from McKinley Park, you know, whose dad comes home every day from work and complains about the White Sox, season ticket prices, bobblehead giveaways.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_00: He listens to Beefloaf.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_00: He he listens to Theresi.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_00: So now he's put these things he knows, guys.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_00: He's a Ken WOF.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: I love all these guys, by the way.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_00: I love those guys so much.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm actually jealous.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_00: We don't have that in Cubs Twitter.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_00: We don't have a Beefloaf.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_00: We don't have a Ken WO.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_00: I don't have guys I just want to go to fucking war with.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_00: I have, what do I have?
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not even gonna call out what I have.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: I you know what I have.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_00: I have what's in front of me.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_00: We do the best we can.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: But those guys, 108 and Ken W and a lot of those, a lot of those psychos, they have, they have radicalized.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: Uh there's a high school kid at that McKinley Park graduation who will violently assault Pete Crow Armstrong because he thinks that's gonna get him an interview in the hot tub with again.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: I'll say it that fat fuck beefloaf.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_00: Someone clip this and send this a beef loaf, you mother D-La Sale blows.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_00: My point is Pete Crow Armstrong's obligated to go to this event, this world's this graduation.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's at a bad timing.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_00: And ergo, he's at risk of violence.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: Baller strike.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_00: John May, baller strike.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_00: John May, that's a strike.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: Pete has to go.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: Baller strike, John Maley turning down the Mets to remain at the cubs is the most important offseason development for Pete Crow Armstrong so far.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: Probably a strike.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: Now, here's what I know about John Mailey.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_00: A's a A, he is a region rat.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: He's a Northwest Indiana guy.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: He will bang your mom.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_00: He will bang your Aunt Linda.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_00: All right?
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: That's a fact.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_00: He didn't give a fuck if your dad's coming home.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't care if it's a solid marriage.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_00: If you're an older lady, you want it, John Maley's gonna give it to you.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: One, two, uh, John Maley's the type of guy you can find him like in the lawn section at a Bon Jovi concert at the Tweeter Center in Tindley Park.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: Do they still call it whatever the fuck they call it now?
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: The Live Nation music venue that plays in Tindley Park where they have the lawn.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_00: Like that's where John Mailey lurks.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: That's where he does most of his damage on the weekends.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: So is it he wants to go to the Mets and coach, or he's just like, he's probably just running through 45 to 55-year-old women who very much enjoy the Cubs World Series run.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_00: And now you're taking a guy like John Maley who loves that type of pussy, and you're gonna try and take it away from him?
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, that's and I'm listening some people don't like this type of talk.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: This is baseball talk.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: This is dugout talk.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_00: This is how John Maley, if I if he was sitting next to me, he'd be nodding his head right now.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: He'd be tell him, Carl, tell him that's right.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: That's how I like it.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: So the is it like the cubs are better than them?
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: Just think about geography.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_00: The type of guy John Maley is with that little what is that?
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: The facial hair on the bottom part, the reverse Hitler, where you grow the little bit on the bottom lip as opposed to the little bit on the top.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: What is that?
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: That's the that's something Maley does.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: He gets away with that.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: You can get away with that in this part of the country.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if that plays in Queens.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: I think you'd have a problem.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_00: That's a fact.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: So does it, but is it now?
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: I guess back to the ball or strike, is him turning it down to remain with the Cubs the most important offseason development.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um for Pete, yeah, probably, because that's where Pete gets a lot of his sauce, his swag.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_00: I and I like him, I know for a fact is not a technical drive line hitting coach.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_00: Now he can get to that level with you, pull the lever, hit the switch, you know, all this all that jargon about like, you know, your front shoulder, you start to leak, then you lose the tension.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: But he's much more of a philosophical guy of living the life of a big leaguer.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: What does it mean to be a big league hitter?
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: That's why I love John Maley.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: So, as far as like Pete Cromstrong last year took a step where he went from being like pretty good to being the best player in the world.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, if if if if Pete comes out and says it's important, then it's important to me.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: Who am I?
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_00: I've never taken a hitting lesson from John Maley.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_00: I just know I don't trust that guy around, you know, women in my life.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: I'll just say that.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: I know.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_00: My guy, he'll get into anything.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_00: Coomer, not so much.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, baller strike bringing back Carson Kelly is more important than giving Miguel and Owen Ayers additional playing time at 27.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'll be honest with you guys, that's a ball.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_00: I don't give a fuck about Carson Kelly.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_00: Carson Kelly is when I think of the Cubs right now, I think of Carson Kelly's face.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: Fine.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_00: What did we say earlier in the show?
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: He's good enough.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_00: Great.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: Leave.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_00: Don't care at all.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_00: Some say he's great at ADS.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: Fine.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: You know, he gets the most out of uh Matt Boyd.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: Great.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_00: I have no tape on Carson Kelly in which I care.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_00: You know, unless Ben Brown's gonna come out and say, I took steps forward last year because of Carson Kelly.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_00: You have my attention.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_00: But I mean, like Cade Horton isn't throwing him for another 10 months.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: Who cares?
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: Who cares?
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: I mean that guy's just what every time I someone goes Carson Kelly, I go double play.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: 6'4 3.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_00: 6'4 is as routine as 24.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: Hours in a day.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: 643.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_00: Baller strike.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: Matt Boyd has already thrown his last pitch as the Chicago Cub.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_00: That's probably for the best.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's a strike.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: For the best, that's a strike.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: Matt Boyd.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: See, go enjoy Baltimore.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: The perfect place to give you 22 years 40 million dollars.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: Sign with Baltimore.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_00: You know, out in May, back next year in June.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: Never to be seen or heard from again.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: He had a great run as a Cub.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_00: Probably the most forgettable, what, 300 innings?
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_00: Probably the most forgetful, forgettable 300 innings sub Fourier in my lifetime.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_00: The Cubs should ball or strike the Cubs should be embarrassed they had their best defensive team in baseball in 2026.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_00: Still wanna whether they had the best defensive team in history and baseball that I've ever seen.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_00: How about this?
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_00: The Cubs should be embarrassed they couldn't crack 90 wins.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_00: That's a fact.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_00: That's a strike.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: That's a strike.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: This would come back to when I'm we're getting in the offseason and we're gonna have to we're gonna wade through lockout talk.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'll do that, but I you better believe I will not forget the fact that we won 89 games this year, that that's plenty for Tom Ricketts and Crane County, that they went to the playoffs, and because of that, I hate those motherfuckers.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: Alright?
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_00: Like we'll do the lockout, we'll get to the opening day, we'll get excited.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'll buy the baseball cards.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'm having fun, I promise you.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_00: And I got a great baseball show coming next year.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_00: Cover Major League Baseball.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_00: I have a great thing I'm working on.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_00: I'm very excited.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_00: I have a good spirit in my mind about baseball, where we're headed after this lockout.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: I'll tell you this though, I don't like being a Cubs fan right now.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: I don't like Tom Rickens, I don't like Crane Kenny.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: I think I think if Craig Council died today tragically, in a tragic accident, I I could be apathetic for the the time the time it takes Carson Kelly to run out of double play ball.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_00: And then it's over.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_00: Then I'm on then I'm onto it replacing Craig Council.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_00: Now is that impassioned in me?
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_00: You know?
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_00: However, or deep, whatever that is, insensitive, not impassioned.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: Is that insensitive?
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_00: However, that's good.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: That's what Craig Council's earned from me.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_00: Like Joe Madden, I'll crow out to you.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: Get my tears, Joe Madden.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_00: Craig Council?
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: Who's the next guy up?
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: Who's the next guy up?
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_00: That guy's inspired nothing from me.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_00: No loyalty.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_00: I don't fuck him.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: You know, here's a little nugget.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_00: Someone in my circle was like, hey, Craig is looking to make some friends around Chicago.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_00: You want to play some golf with him?
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna get them together.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_00: He's they say this some time ago when Craig was coming to he's trying to meet some people, and this is him, and you know some people.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_00: Do you think you'd be able to you want to get together?
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_00: Do we're gonna do this thing?
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_00: I said, fucking tell that guy to blow me.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_00: I want nothing.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_00: I don't fuck him.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_00: I want not I don't care.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_00: I need this guy to manage base.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_00: The only thing I care about, can that guy manage baseball game?
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: I'm never gonna be that guy's friend.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_00: I don't give a shit about being that guy's friend.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not telling you guys that because well, maybe I'm telling you guys that because I want you to know.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I can't be bought or sold in this space here, guys.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_00: I cannot.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: My insights will not be bought or sold.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_00: Got over lunch, you know, Craig.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_00: How about you inspire some leadership?
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_00: We won 89 games this year.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and you sucked along the way.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe I should have gotten that lunch with them, you know.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_00: What did I get out of that?
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_00: Nothing.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_00: Nothing.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_00: I nothing.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_00: Follower strike, Tommy Hodave deserves to keep it.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_00: Who wrote these?
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_00: Tommy Hodave deserves to be nailed to a cross and executed.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Tommy Hottavey deserves to keep his job despite overseeing one of the words.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_00: Who fucking wrote that one?
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_00: Answer I did, by the way.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Tommy Hodave deserves to be forgotten about.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like the end of story.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_00: Just cut, gun.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_00: We don't need to talk about him.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_00: Just put that guy in a shoebox, you know, pull him out down the road.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_00: Remember him?
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_00: Done.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_00: No more hotovie.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_00: No more hoty talk.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_00: None.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh baller strike, Steven Kwan would be an upgrade over Ian Hep as it comes everyday left fielder.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: Uh uh ball.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_00: Like, like, what?
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_00: That's how I'm gonna do this because I feel like this is an important point here.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: We don't need more clubhouse leadership, guys.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_00: I need guys that can hit the ball out of the ballpark and get to second base on a ball in the gap.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_00: I need guys that make plays.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_00: I need guys that are uh dare I say awesome baseball players.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_00: How about that?
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_00: Can we get awesome baseball players?
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_00: Or do do do do do I have to like take a this is a smart move because Steven Kwan's contract shut up is my statement to that.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_00: Steven Kwan, I mean, I I would hit Steven Kwan six on a 16-inch team.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: What the fuck am I doing with him in the left field for the Cubs?
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_00: Steven Kwan.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_00: Go play for the Cardinals.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_00: Steven Kwan's a pussy.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_00: Now, some people don't like that talk.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just telling if I'm at I'm fed up.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_00: Can you get that sense?
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_00: You know?
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_00: I'm we Pete Crow Armstrong is gonna win the unanimous MVP award.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_00: We had no pitching this year, we have no pitching next year.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_00: We're going into a lockout season.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_00: This year was good enough for a lot of people who work for the Cubs.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_00: We didn't fire anybody, we didn't make any changes, we don't care to do anything differently, and it's just good enough.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_00: And it's just good enough.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_00: So sure, go see you know why Steven Kwan fits?
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_00: Because he's just good enough.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_00: Strike.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_00: Steven Kwan fits the mold because Crank Kenny's a Dutless cunt.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_00: Uh eight.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_00: The Cubs should that's right.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_00: I'm actually, you know what, Crane?
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not sorry.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_00: Blow me.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_00: Uh all right, baller strike.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_00: The Cubs should revisit a trade for Reed Detmers, even after the reported medical concerns derailed their deadline deal with the Angels.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_00: That's a ball.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, the one thing we do have is injured pitching.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_00: That's the one area with pitching we have covered in we're we have that lockdown.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: We are so good when it comes to having injured pitchers.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_00: So, like, do we need to go get more injured pitching?
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_00: It's like I think I have enough.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: I think my cup is filled with injured pitchers.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_00: If we were to get if we were to get pitchers, I would dare I make the bold suggestion that they be healthy.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_00: So start there, ball or strike.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_00: We need healthy pitching.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_00: That's a strike.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's like injured pitching.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know how much more I can take of that, be honest with you.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'm already at the point I might explode Milwaukee up three games in the World Series.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_00: All our guys, they're not even at home.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: They're not Dancy Swanson's not even at home relaxing.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_00: He's in, he's at an all-inclusive right now at some country I can't pronounce.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_00: I know it took two days to get there.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_00: I know he looks down on everyday people.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_00: All right?
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_00: I said it.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_00: That they're not, it's not like Dancy Swanson.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, you're now give Pete credit.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_00: Pete's at Soldier Field, Pete's Pete's ride or die.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_00: Pete's ride or die.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, John Maley, you get to stay, you know, if that means you know, John Maley is getting innocent with the honey bears at halftime, good for him.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_00: So but should we be getting Reed Demmer's?
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'll pitch.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'll pitch.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's the same thing.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_00: Because at least I'll go out, I'll lose.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_00: Like if Reed, you say Reed Demmer's pitch today, incomplete, didn't even show up.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's what we're working towards.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_00: If you're telling me, hey, medicals aren't clear.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_00: Do we want to trade Prospect Apple for this game?
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, but at the same time, we traded for Zavarijan.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_00: We traded Moises Biasteros for Zavarijan.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_00: They have all the good things I've said about Moises Biasteros over the last two, three years.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: And we gave him up for Zavarizan?
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_00: Sure, trade Reed Detmers.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: Give the Angels 5% of the Chicago Cubs.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_00: If we're just giving away, if we're just giving away the future for a little bit of nothing right now, sure.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_00: I'll take Reed Detmers right now.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_00: And then, you know what, Reed Detmers, you have first naming rights to my child, and you can, you know, like um, you know, like um, you get 10% of the cubs, you get 5% of the cubs.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_00: We give you 5% of the Cubs, uh, you get 6% of JP Grazianos.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, they're closed on Monday Zoe.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_00: So, like, they got a problem with that, and fucking take your shit back to Los Angeles, Reed.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_00: Is again, we don't need your shit here.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_00: Bust ass arm.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_00: Baller straight.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_00: The Cubs should be willing to trade Matt Shaw and James Trantos to Seattle for George Kirby.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_00: It's another good question.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_00: It's if he's healthy, that's sure.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, Matt Shaw won't survive the offseason, and that's because he did the turning point USA thing.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_00: And that's because he continues to come back and be like, well, you know, free speech and all this stuff.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_00: And I see, I've defended him on this, and I've defended him on this because it's like, well, he's naive and Charlie Kirk was his friend, and you want to support the organization, all this stuff.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_00: And now it's like, um, so you did that, you got a bunch of negative that was a bad thing that went that didn't go well for you.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I will stand by you the first time as the storm develops, and I will put the umbrella over your head and I'll let other people shit on you, and I'll say, Don't worry about it, Manshaw.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_00: You know, like you're trying to do the right thing.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_00: And I understand as a professional athlete that's new to this, you might be conflicted.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_00: You have personal beliefs and opinions, okay?
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, nobody gives a fuck about them.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_00: How about that though?
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_00: Can we agree on that?
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_00: Like you're allowed to have them.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'm allowed to tell you nobody gives a fuck.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_00: If I got up here and started telling you guys why I'm Catholic, can I go to church on Sunday?
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_00: I'm losing every single person listening to this except for the people that are Catholic and go to church on Sundays.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm not saying I'm not a religious guy.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_00: I don't have faith.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_00: I very much have faith, and that faith fucking helps me get through life.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_00: Does anybody care when I'm sitting around talking about baseball?
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_00: We're here to talk baseball.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_00: You're here to play it, Matt.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_00: You're here to play it.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_00: Now, here's the disconnect.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_00: You're taking your platform as a, you know, utility player at this point in your career.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_00: Now I've stand yet, but you're a utility player.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_00: And now you're riding that because there's nobody else with a platform in Major League Baseball that's going to put their name out there on it.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, right or wrong, if you're a right, then if he's on the left.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_00: And if you're on the left, he's on the right.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_00: If you're you're to take a polarizing, to agree on that, to take a polarizing stance publicly, uh, you know, like you did it last year, it did go well, you're doing it again.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_00: You've done you've put yourself back into the spotlight.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's very it's now it's it's very easy for me to understand.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't, because I think you're a good ball player.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_00: But if the Cubs are like, fuck this guy, this guy, this guy doesn't give us what we need from him, he just creates headaches and he's like, you know, it's like, is he really he's good, but like, is he good enough to create headaches?
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like, Peter Armstrong's good enough for headaches, doesn't cause you headaches.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_00: Tells a girl to suck his dick, whatever.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_00: You know, people laugh and giggle about that.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_00: Like, we're getting into the religious political standpoint.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, who's doing that?
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_00: Surely our best player, no, our second best player, no.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_00: Our owner, our manager, our GF, who's who's doing it?
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_00: That guy?
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_00: This guy's making 750 grand.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_00: He's hurt.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_00: The fuck's he doing?
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_00: That's my reaction to Matcha.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_00: Second year around.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_00: First year, you go, hey, I get it, your kid or your buddy got murdered.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and you gotta share share that belief.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_00: And as a I'm a Catholic, I'm it's just I'm asking as Catholic as Matcho, I'm saying I understand why you would the first the second time around and say, Did someone knock it in this guy's ear and say, hey, just so you know, you know, the Cubs also have a lot of fans where this actually really as much as you think you're doing something good, you are triggering a whole number of people that interact with the fucking thing you do professionally with no concept of you, they don't care what you have to say about that at all, in the least bit.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_00: In the least bit.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_00: I'll say that.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_00: I don't, Matt Shaw, as it as a practicing cat, don't care what you have to say, Matt.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_00: I don't the the idea of going to be a speaker.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_00: So there's my thoughts on that, long-winded.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and because of that, what he's done is like last year I would have said I think it's silly to get rid of this guy in the offseason because of this.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you should work with this guy.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_00: We should this guy's a good player, he's trying to do the right thing.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_00: So now we're in the second offseason.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_00: It like we're still talking about this.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um, sure.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_00: So, like, we need healthy starting pitching.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_00: If he's a chip for healthy starting pitching, um, you know, he's told the story for himself.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, I think it's that simple.
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_00: And that's probably uncomfortable for a lot of people listening to this.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_00: Some people don't want to listen to this.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_00: Some people are gonna say, I'm an asshole.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_00: I free speech.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_00: Uh free speech means he shouldn't go to jail.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_00: That's what free speech means.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_00: Free speech means that his his rights cannot be uh infringed upon.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna say, what are those rights?
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_00: Uh they're in a bill.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_00: It's called the Bill of Rights.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_00: And so, like those the rights, the innumerable rights, the inalienable rights of of being the enumerated inalienable rights of being an American citizen, uh cannot be infringed upon for stuff you say.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_00: All right, fine.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_00: Playing right field for the Chicago Cubs or third base is not an inalienable, enumerated right of match.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_00: Or whatever the fucking term is.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_00: You know?
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_00: Wait, we can't throw him in jail.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_00: You can't execute him for doing that.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying we should.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_00: I like Catholic.
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm a forgiving, loving guy.
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_00: What I'm trying to say is that this is a very simple thing to understand, and it's disappointing because I like the ball player, Matt Shaw.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_00: But here's the question something that I would never I would never trade a position player who can give you good quality at bats, lower strikeout rate, higher walk rate, you know, progress, plays all over the field.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_00: I like them.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_00: But buddy, you but you gotta be way better.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta be way better to be taking public platforms like that and then look around and find what other, I mean, is there any other peer in in I understand the the the providence in being a Catholic and saying that doesn't matter if no one else is doing, then that almost emboldens me to be the guy to do it because no one else is doing it.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_00: I'm coming back and going, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_00: This is not that's not the time or place, and that's not the way I would assess it.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_00: So um, you know, and again, people don't like what I gotta say about it.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there's there's plenty go, please.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_00: I promise you, you we're better off without it's okay.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_00: It's okay.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_00: It's okay.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just trying to get to the bottom of when we do trade Matt Shaw this offseason for uh for for less than what we should get for him, and then we throw in a guy that's like, all right, we'll package in James Translow's for George Kirby, that's an overpay by us by a million.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_00: But again, the whole point of this diatribe about Matt Shaw and the way he's carried himself in his second offseason is to uh you know establish the fact that while I disagree with with a decision to get rid of him because he's a great ball player, I would understand knowing how gutless Crane Kenny is and how much Tom Rickett sucks and how much Jed Hoyer is willing to take the easy way out.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_00: I would imagine that then that thus enables those guys to be like, fuck him.
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_00: And that's why I'm mad at Matt, because it's you're giving those guys that chance.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_00: And you're a great ball player, you know, and a good Catholic.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_00: So all right, last one, Baller strike.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_00: If the religious stuff makes you uncomfortable, what I've been on a mic for 15 years.
• 37:11
  SPEAKER_00: That might be the first, that might be the most I've ever talked about, faith.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_00: Uh okay, Baller Strike, Jed Hoyer needs to abandon his usual spending philosophy, do whatever it takes to sign Tarek Scoobel this winter.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a monkey's uncle.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a monkey's uncle if we sign Tarek Scuba.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_00: There's your baller strike on this.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_00: We Terek Scuble.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, sure.
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and am I this is good metric?
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_00: We'll see how jaded I am.
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_00: We'll see how much the jade impacts my capacity to be a reasonable, analytical, honest, you know, guy about what's going on with the shot cubs.
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_00: Right now, my outlook is this we're not spending money on Terek Scuba.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_00: We we won't spend money on a left fielder or right fielder.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, our budget to improve the roster going in next year, based even after we account for all the stuff we're losing, I'd be surprised if they had$40 million.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_00: And that's that that's a net like$85 million reduction in payroll, is my is my estimation.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_00: So if we were at$250 this year, I'd be surprised if we were at$175 next year.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_00: Now I I haven't I don't have all of the numbers in front of me.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just purely speculating against what I believe to be should be a gutless offseason.
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_00: And the reason it'll be a gutless offseason is because we have the lockout coming up and because all of the financing goes through game day operations.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_00: And if there's no tickets to be sold and no hot dogs to be sold and beers to be sold and games to be played, then the Rickets don't have the cash.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_00: And if they don't have the cash, they don't have the cash to pay the salaries.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_00: So, end of story, you know, and like the salary obligations, do they go away prorated?
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_00: You know, so we play 160 games.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_00: If they play 80 games, you pay half the salaries, right?
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_00: So, like it's not it's not nothing.
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_00: And when I say the the cash outlay is enough for the Cubs to go, we're not gonna spend money this offseason.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like you want to sit here and talk about Tarek Scuble, knock your socks off.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm sitting here going, Steven Kwanz are reach.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sitting here going, we're just trade?
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_00: Who are we trading for?
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_00: You know, who are we who are we trading for that's gonna improve the team?
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, we're gonna give away, we're gonna give away match off or George Kirby.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, perfect.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_00: Now we have a guy who's gonna pitch.
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_00: If if things go well and Kate Horton and Justin Seal and Ben Brown come back, cool.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_00: We just traded for a number four.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_00: We just traded for our four.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_00: We just traded match off or a four that that that we don't even like.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_00: That's how poorly all this has been managed and all the injuries, you know, infrastructure set up.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_00: That's how I feel.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_00: Jaded right now.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_00: And how much of this has to do with the Milwaukee Brewers being up three games, nothing in the World Series?
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_00: I would say that's a 95% of my angst right now.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm just staring down the barrel of an offseason show with no baseball, and the Milwaukee Brewers are the defending World Series champions, and it's three years removed from us giving Cred Council$40 million.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_00: Do I deserve that?
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_00: Do you?
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_00: What what wrongs have we done to deserve this?
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_00: What have we done to have this?
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_00: Or fine, I'll take a religious outlook.
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's a test.
• 40:17
  SPEAKER_00: We're being challenged.
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_00: We're being challenged, and there's good to come out of this, you know?
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_00: That's where my head's at.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_00: Is that crazy?
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 40:29
  SPEAKER_00: I know I'm gonna do the best I can, and this is this is step one of many steps, or I shouldn't say step step 25 in an offseason that will win win the first day of professional baseball.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_00: Whenever it is, July comes around next year, I'll be ready for it.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and here's a little here's a little spoiler.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_00: Did I bring this up last episode?
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, touching on it lightly again.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_00: No, it's not my commercial leaf blower.
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_00: The point I'm trying to make is I am uh gonna take advantage of this lockout.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_00: All right, I'm gonna take advantage of this lockout, and I'm gonna, I think I'm gonna go down to Arizona for the minor league spring training camps.
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_00: Here's the thought process on this.
• 41:09
  SPEAKER_00: An apartment in Arizona during spring training for March, if you get it furnished, say a one bed with internet and all that stuff, it's probably like 5,500.
• 41:18
  SPEAKER_00: You know, like you probably get it five grand, depending on how far away you are.
• 41:22
  SPEAKER_00: Just say five grand average.
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_00: So if there's no spring training, my hunch would be like with 10 days left in February, that same apartment that's five grand, and there's gonna be thousands of them because there's gonna be no people down to rent these apartments.
• 41:41
  SPEAKER_00: If there's no major league spring training, none of the employees, none of the players, none of the fan seasoned ticket holders.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_00: So now what's our inventory?
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_00: Our inventory is through the roof.
• 41:51
  SPEAKER_00: I gotta think.
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_00: I gotta think on like February 18th, I can snipe that$5,000 apartment.
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_00: I should be able to snipe that baby for like$2,900.
• 42:02
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's a guy going, fuck, I just need to make the mortgage payment this month.
• 42:05
  SPEAKER_00: Then I'm your guy, and I'm gonna find that.
• 42:07
  SPEAKER_00: Then I'm gonna go down there and I'm gonna have a blast.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_00: You know, just watch some irley baseball.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_00: What am I gonna do?
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_00: Hike cable back, you know.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_00: I work remote.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_00: I'll do I'll design my graphics wherever I live.
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_00: I'll guarantee that.
• 42:19
  SPEAKER_00: So that's just a personal thing.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna take advantage.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_00: This is what I'm saying.
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_00: Right now, I gotta get the negative shit off my chest because I know end of February, I'm packing up the car.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_00: Mrs.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_00: Carl Scotty, Papa the family, we're heading down to Arizona.
• 42:32
  SPEAKER_00: Now I'm gonna I'm gonna be in a good mood when I do that.
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_00: And in order for me to be in a good mood, we just gotta get this shit off our chest.
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_00: Which is, I'm very disappointed in the way the season ended.
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm and I'm beside myself for the fact that the rulers are just gonna steamroll through this world series, and we're gonna walk around and go, they're a good team.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_00: They were good, they were better than us.
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_00: We're not gonna say they were better than us and that bothers us, and we're we're gonna take steps so that it doesn't happen again, that we're out to beat these guys.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_00: That we're that no, it's just they're you gotta tip your cap.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm sick of tipping my cap.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_00: You want to tip your cap on a Friday afternoon because someone shoved it up your ass?
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_00: I get it.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_00: But don't take an entire year, go out and compete for an entire year, be significantly worse than a team in your division than go, well, sometimes you just gotta tip your cap.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_00: I'll tip my cap once.
• 43:18
  SPEAKER_00: I'll tip my cap a month once a month.
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_00: I'll tip my cap when it's necessary.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_00: I I didn't get up this morning, so I just fucking I gotta tip my cap.
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_00: The brewers did it better than me for a year, for a year, a whole year?
• 43:29
  SPEAKER_00: Huh.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_00: Have a fucking spine, Tom, Crane, Jed, Craig, all you pussies.
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_00: That's how I feel.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and Lizard King, what are we at?
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_00: 47, 51, if you had to put the counter away, a lot of F words.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, but it comes from an impassioned place.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_00: This same place I would encourage you guys, if you get anything out of the Monday Morning Cup show, just go to Amazon, get a little thirsty of a carrow, throw it in the fridge.
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and then obviously review the show, subscribe to the show, you know, tell the friends about a show or not, but we'll be back next early next week, Monday or Tuesday.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and there's an off day schedule, probably Thanksgiving week.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_00: Probably Thanksgiving week, I'm taking off.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm I'm I'm chapped.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_00: I'm chapped.
• 44:13
  SPEAKER_00: I'm chapped.
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_00: And you guys are gonna help me get through it.
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna help you guys get through it.
• 44:17
  SPEAKER_00: And then next thing you know, we're gonna be at Wrigley Field.
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna be six beers deep.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_00: Uh you know, racing you how fast we can eat hot dogs.
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_00: Right field bleachers.
• 44:28
  SPEAKER_00: That's happening, but we gotta get there one day at a time.
• 44:31
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, this is the Monday morning cubs show.
• 44:33
  SPEAKER_00: We'll be back next week.
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_00: Uh until next time, I love you guys.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_00: Go Cubs.