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Dan Bernstein Unfiltered
Chicago White Sox Salvage the Yankees Series / Chicago Bears Stadium Update
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Dan Bernstein
There's always another game everybody thinks they have figured out. Maybe it's a pennant race, maybe it's a playoff series where everybody suddenly becomes an expert. Well, if you're gonna have an opinion, you might as well have some action behind it. That's where my bookie comes in. You've got spreads, totals, player props, live betting and even the casino all in one account. Head to MyBookie AG, use the promo code DBU and get your first bet covered up to 500 bucks. If it doesn't hit, use that bet back, bonus token and run it back. Don't just watch the action, make it pay with my bookie. Today's episode is brought my bookie Dan Bernstein Unfiltered Unfiltered on 312 Sports DBU on 312 brought to you by Chicago Window Guys. Call 847-302-9171 and check out Russ Armstrong's five star reviews at Chicago Window Guys.com A very happy Friday and man this, this White Sox snapback. I want to make sure that it is that we put a pin in what the White Sox just did because as they're kind of hanging on to whatever they're doing this season tooth and nail, we don't know what's happening in the division. We don't know if the Tigers are going to bail out and the Twins are going to gird up or what the Guardians are going to do. God, that was if indeed the Sox hang on and make the playoffs this year and end up with a with a sluggers chance at advancing in the playoffs, which they have because they hit a lot of home runs. Put a pin in when the Sox are losing four nothing to the Yankees in the Davis Martin game three of the four game series. They've dropped the first two games. They have their best pitcher on the mound and it looks like they're getting pumped in game three and they end up coming back, taking advantage of some Yankee mistakes and winning that game. And then yesterday they come back and they win again. Another walk off. Now I'm not one to overrate regular season occurrences. I also think that regardless of the outcomes, they probably were going to, you know, they're, it's not like they were going to become sellers all of a sudden. But the difference between getting swept by the Yankees and or dropping three and splitting that series the way that they did that is getting off the deck. And when that becomes a character trait, when that becomes something a team believes it can keep doing, I can't measure it I can't go to fan graphs right now and give you some expected stat that tells you the likelihood of that happening again. But I like to think that I know something significant when I see it and feel it. I would love to look at what the larger win expectancy or success expectancy would have been for their season at that point. Down for nothing with Davis Martin on the mound in game three of the series and you were to tell somebody hey keep your head up. They're going to come back and win this game and then they're going to walk off the next game to heading into the deadline. That's a huge deal. That's a huge deal. It felt huge. The back to back home runs were emblematic of what the White Sox do. They slug and if they can just pick up the baseball and just get enough pitching, however they cobble this thing together that they're they're a fun, resilient team that is always going to give themselves a slugger's chance, I think.
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Maddie
And yeah and the the American League being wide open.
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Dan Bernstein
The American League is wide open and it's a huge deadline for them to surprise somebody. I am a little disappointed that the Cubs ended up with Andrew Wants instead of the White Sox ending up with Andrew Wants because I wanted wants to play for Gets and I wanted Getz to get what he wants and then you but you can't always get what you want. But it's possible that gets could have gotten once and that was that was now after the fact all I wanted out of this trade deadline. But I'm not getting that.
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Maddie
And we should mention too we reported this on well not reported but we read what John Heyman said earlier today about Casey Mize being scratched from his start for the Tigers tonight, meaning he'll make his next start after the trade deadline for what we would all assume is another team. So it starts there for Detroit with the so we're waiting any I'm I'm going to keep an eye on it to see where he's going to end up and land because that apparently that trade should come through anytime soon.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, we're going to keep a close eye on that and know at 312Sports if either if the Cubs or the Sox do something significant that merits some conversation, we'll pop on with something special for you whenever it happens. So we're keeping an eye not just on the Cubs but on on both teams as this all goes on because these are these are rare and exciting times to have both teams in a competitive position so that's pretty cool. This is not, by the way, and this is weird. Before we get to our Friday Feedback Friday and Top Tens, this is the special newsletter that comes out of Springfield by Rich Miller. J.B. pritzker told reporters this week yet again that the Bears are looking at two very different bills that each passed one chamber last spring. And quote, this is what Pritzker said, figuring out what it is that they need and I assume will let us know in short order. That's where we have presumed everything is the balls in the court of the Bears. They're going to work with their lobbyists, they're going to work with the people they've hired to help them construct legislation. They'll put the language together and then maybe once they count the votes, get a special session before the fall. And Pritzker has said this before, but a Bears insider once again denied this process is happening and said no conversations have been held with legislative negotiators this summer. What are the Bears doing? What are you doing? Like, actually, I don't mean that rhetorically. I'm asking, what are you doing? Why am I talking like William Shatner? But what are you doing? If this is true and the governor is presuming or he was told that you're going to be talking all this stuff over and then you're not. We know that nobody in Indiana has been told anything that deals, whatever has been sitting right there. And they're not doing anything. They're not doing the legal work. They're not. They haven't. There's no permits. There's nothing. Nothing there other than they've pointed at land and said, oh, here, maybe here. Oh, those, those big pieces of machinery. Oh, yes, soil samples. Have they been there for a year?
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Maddie
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, pretty much. They've been sitting there, but now they're not talking. They must not have the money. So this is something that I'm keeping an eye on here. What I don't know is if anything has changed regarding them having the money or not. And really that's the question in my mind right now is did the summer Springfield disaster, did the. Or the spring Springfield disaster, did that scare away potential lending partners, potential business partners, potential real estate partners in whatever new venture, Are they scrambling now because that ended up being exploded in their face like a, like a, A clown cigar?
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Maddie
Well, pal, if. If Kevin Warren is the face of your organization on the business side and you have a lot of money that you want to give up to them, do you want to give them your money?
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Dan Bernstein
That's what I'm saying.
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Maddie
That's the guy that you're dealing with.
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Dan Bernstein
That's what I'm wondering is what is has there been an effect if they're not moving on anything? Why? Yeah, why aren't you acting? Would you would I want to be in business with the Bears right now? No.
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Maddie
Kevin Warren?
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Dan Bernstein
Not at the moment. They haven't shown that they know what they're doing. So I'd be very, very careful about going in and especially if you're I want nothing to do with Indiana. Yeah, I'd still invest in Arlington Heights. Absolutely. I want nothing to do. If you were my money privately and somebody's coming to me, hey be a part of this big Bears thing. No thanks. On the Indiana venture on that one. There'd have to be some special protections in there and have to see a pretty good deal. Arlington Heights, that's a gold mine that you're going to be printing money there and they know it. So we'll find out. Or we're just going to be redoing the lease at Soldier Field, but it's something I'm keeping an eye on. One of the things I enjoy most about sports is that every week presents a different puzzle. Everyone has an opinion, everyone thinks they found an edge. Sometimes they're right. More often sports remind us they're unpredictable. And that's part of the fun. Whether it's a marquee football game, a heated divisional rivalry, baseball stretch run or a big fight card, my bookie gives you plenty of ways to get involved beyond just picking a winner. The prop board's loaded with player performances, game milestones, all kinds of in game opportunities that keep things interesting from the opening whistle to the final out. And it's all in one place, one account, one wallet. Bet the spread, jump into the live markets while the game's unfolding, or head over to the casino between games or at halftime. If you've been thinking about trying it, now's a great time. Go to MyBookie AG, use the promo code DBU and get your first bet covered up to 500 bucks. If it doesn't hit, use your bet back bonus token and run it back. Don't just watch the action, make it pay with my bookie. Don't let managing your money be scary. Don't let it be intimidating, because it's not. I think having intelligent control of your finances and your investments is really important and I believe Monarch can help you in doing so. Monarch is an app that functions like a financial advisor in your pocket and as you get older and more people are relying on you to do this right, Monarch helps you do it. Helps you hit savings goals or a net worth milestone. Helps you realize when a large percentage of your income is going somewhere unexpected. I love the fact that Monarch lets you compare your investments to the Benchmark S&P 500. Most apps are going to tell you what you've already spent. Monarch helps you set goals and map out big purchases and see if you're actually on track before it's too late to adjust so you can write your own money story with Monarch. Use the code dbu@monarch.com to get your first year of Monarch Core Half off at just $50. That's 50 50% off your first year at monarch.com with the code DBU. We had feedback out the wazoo this week and thank you for it. I again, I always say I I do really try to get back to everybody or at least to respond to the because I know how much work you put into some of these emails and I do appreciate it because we got a lot of good writers. You know, we also have in Friday Feedback Friday on Dan Bernstein Unfiltered we have pedants, not penance, pedants. And I love it. I love technicalities and little things that little corrections. You know, I get off on all that kind of stuff. So I'm going to start Friday Feedback Friday by presenting you with this from Kevin in Savannah.
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Maddie
Dan, this is Kevin from Savannah, Georgia. I was just listening to your section where you gave your awfully repeated advice
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Dan Bernstein
of if you hear a group of
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Maddie
people chanting usa then run the other
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Dan Bernstein
way as quickly as possible. I also remember you saying that, oh, if you hear people singing a patriotic song, also do the same thing.
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Maddie
Run away.
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Dan Bernstein
However, if they're singing shit show tunes, then gladfully join in. My question to you then is what
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Maddie
if they're singing something by George M. Cohan?
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Dan Bernstein
Say you're a grand old flag or perhaps I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy. Because I believe those works qualify as both patriotic songs and show tunes. I'll hang up and listen to you. Your answer? Yep, that's it, Kevin. That's it. That, that's you got me. And I will say show tunes on that one. I I think, I think those count as show tunes. If everybody wants to get together and a group of of shirtless, white, otherwise angry young men wants to sing I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy in you do not have to Run away.
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Maddie
Well done.
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Dan Bernstein
Scott in Rochelle says, Dan, I'M driving on a country road in northern Illinois. I'm listening to off the Ivy. I have pulled over to the side of the road because I need to respond right now. As someone who played Mr. Applegate my senior year in my high school's production of Damn Yankees, I am on your side. Damn Yankees is a better, much more appropriate reference to Andrew Wants and Chris gets than Leo gets in Lethal Weapon 2. And as a proud imbecile who listens to the podcast and the words of Mattabaticola, you better damn well believe that I know your Whatever Lola wants reference. Thank you for educating the other imbeciles about a great Broadway musical. You're doing the Lord's work, my good man. Yes, thank you for that and it is absolutely appreciated and and noted Pete and Westtown says Dan, buying produce first presents serious issues. Unless you want to spend your entire stay at the store relocating produce within your cart to prevent bruising and or crushing, Produce first demands this puzzle be played. Unless you place produce directly on the baby poop seat. Now, I know what you're thinking, Pete. I use the two tiered cart without a baby seat, produce on top, heavy on the bottom. And that's always enough cart for me. Yeah, I call that the sports car cart. It is, Dan, until you get to the discounted meat and stale in three hours bakery sections. In fact, going to produce first limits the amount of discounted meat and coffee cake you can acquire. What do you really want? The correct order of carting is determined by one variable alone. Durability. 1. Dry packaged goods, from heaviest to lightest in one section of the cart, usually the bow. 2. Packaged refrigerated goods in the stern. 3. Produce and delicate bakery items on top of those two piles. 4. Frozen last as God intended, wherever it fits at checkout. Place bread and produce at the back of the belt, but not on it. Load the belt in order of how you want it bagged. Once all else is loaded, slide the bread and produce onto the back end of the belt. Place the divider for your neighbor. Congratulations. You have shopped correctly. You have not damaged your $250 of groceries or contracted E. Coli. Also, damn, the DNR guy just shows up and shoots the deer in the head. Yeah Pete, as soon as I said it, I thought of that. They don't. They're not euthanizing a deer like it's somebody's pet dog. I Yes, I understood that as soon
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Maddie
as I said yeah, they're not putting the screen up on the side of the road so passerbyers are right. Yeah. Okay. So I'm glad you read Pete's email because I was going to mention it if you not had read it. I wasn't going to read the whole thing, but I was going to mention it because I wanted to tell Pete, while I appreciate his email and the strategy and the thoughtfulness in his grocery cart shopping, I don't shop big grocery shops like I, I shop for the day.
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Dan Bernstein
I do too. I, I would. I don't. I can't tell you the last time I spent $250 at. At any grocery store would have to be when we were buying stuff to have 30 people in the house.
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Maddie
Yeah. So I decide what I'm going to make either before I leave the house or while I'm at the grocery store, which is why I always start with produce. I just don't always know what's going to be there and what's going to look like. I want to cook with it.
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Dan Bernstein
I agree.
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Maddie
So that's why I start there. And it also makes sense in order of the store. Produce is right there at the front doors when you walk through. And then I walk down my aisles, which, whichever ones I need according to that meal I'm going to make.
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Dan Bernstein
So, yeah, I like shopping. Yeah, I do it every day.
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Maddie
Yeah, I just, I, I'd rather go to the store every day because I, I don't know. I don't know how people can buy. First of all, I don't, I don't freeze meat. It's just not my. I've never frozen meat. Then the, the deal with unfreezing it to cook it. I like to buy it that day, cook it that day. I could never, I could never see myself shopping on a, on a Monday to cook for a Thursday.
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Dan Bernstein
But I appreciate the time you put in.
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Maddie
Yes, absolutely. Really well written in. Very funny.
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Dan Bernstein
David says. Guys, I was finishing up listening to Tuesday's dbu. You mentioned Gary Sinise and his ever serious demeanor. I work at Cantini park in Wheaton and Gary and his band just a few weeks ago play their annual Support the Troops concert. It's not really my scene. I work there. I helped coordinate the meet and greet and I can confirm I have seen Gary Sinise smile. It may just have been for photos, but his face does seem to have the required muscles it takes to at least pretend he's not always serious. And he still has a ton of energy for age 71. Nice guy. Oh, that's great.
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Maddie
Well, he's. He smiles in force. Gump at the end when he's married, he's got his steel legs, his magic legs.
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Dan Bernstein
Castaway was on last night.
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Maddie
Oh, dude, that picture you sent me too is great.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. Yeah, well, Cast Away was on last night. And that is. I. I mean, I. I've called it out before for being, you know, a typical Z hack fest. It's worse than I thought. It did not age well. It really did not age well. So yesterday I'm fishing and I look across at the Columbia Yacht Club, and there is a dude up on the top of a mast and way, way up there. Like, should I show the picture?
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Maddie
I'll put it up.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. So I say, I started. I saw this guy and he's so far, like, up. Look at that. That's a dude up there. Like, like right up at the top there on. On the mask. That's a dude. So I, I just said it to Maddie with the caption in quote, lieutenant Dan.
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Maddie
Yep.
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Dan Bernstein
I think he made his peace with God that day.
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Maddie
It's funny. For such a hack job, you know all the words.
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Dan Bernstein
No, I thought I leave it on.
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Maddie
Oh, no, you say. You said castaway. Sorry.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, but Zemeckis is a hack. You know, he shows you something and then tells you he's showing you it's. He's a very skilled. Like, he's. He's a rich hack. I'll say that. That should, that should be his.
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Maddie
His.
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Dan Bernstein
His radio name. Rich.
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Maddie
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. Because that's what Zemecka's is. I. Nothing. You know. You know what you're getting into with some of those? And he did Back to the Future too, didn't he? So that's, That's. That's a great, great American.
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Maddie
Yeah. And I just saw a thing on Instagram. It was that movie Terminator. And there was a thing, third one that all those movies that were about the future are now all in the past. Yep.
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Dan Bernstein
Which is, hey, man, I remember thinking that in 1984, as the Cubs are winning the division, I'm like, this, this is what George Orwell wrote about. This is what we read in seventh grade. And here we are. Okay. I guess it was worth it.
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Maddie
More how good it was back then.
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Dan Bernstein
Did you. Right. Greg in Ukrainian village says last week in your top 10 Bears training camp memories, you regaled us with that story about Daniel getting electrocuted and Terry not being able to stop laughing. More importantly, was the first time I heard correctly the name of their afternoon show, the Heavy Fuel Crew. I started listening to the score in the summer of 95 when I got there. That's a good time to start listening. So I was home from college working construction and my radio is usually competing with a cacophony of saws and hammers and yelling. For 31 years, I thought they called themselves the Heavy Field Crew. As an on and off listener, there are bits and references I didn't get. I figured this was another one. I thought Heavy Field Crew. They're poking fun at themselves. A couple of portly groundskeepers struggling to wrangle the tarp during a rain delay. I've since learned Heavy Fuel Crew is a nod to the Dire Straits song. Well, it's certainly on brand for Diana Neal's musical taste. It's nowhere near as funny to me as the mental image I've been carrying around all these years.
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Maddie
Well, that's. That's a first in the scores. What, 30 some years of existence. I've never heard anyone. Nope. Refer to Heavy Fuel. Anything other than Heavy Fuel Crew.
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Dan Bernstein
So that's the first. That's a first for me too.
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Maddie
Nicely done, Stefan.
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Dan Bernstein
And wheeling says. Guys, I know the Savannah Bananas are hugely popular and raking in money, but I was there Saturday. That is the worst show on earth. It is an all out assault on the central nervous system. The music was so piercingly loud, you can't even pay attention to what's going on. It's in my brain. It's in my chest. My 8 year old son wanted to leave after 5 innings. I'm sure we're in the minority, but if you go to this, it will destroy your mind. There should be a warning with anyone with anxiety or neurodivergence. That broke me. All right, Interesting.
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Maddie
I've never heard that viewpoint either about the Savannah Bananas entertainment games.
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Dan Bernstein
But you have heard it here that if you, if you have anxiety issues or you're a dog maybe, or you're neurodivergent, I don't know. I'm trying to think like, are dogs allowed at games?
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Maddie
They're not. Okay. Unless you're a Chicago dog. Then you can go see any game.
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Dan Bernstein
Right. But some people bring their emotional support animals with them. If it is loud like that, that is, that's a fair warning.
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Maddie
You know, I'm glad that you, you read that email because I wanted to point out, and this was a week or so ago and I forgot to do it then. Wrigley Field has been named the first major League baseball park designated as a certified autism center.
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Dan Bernstein
What does that mean?
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Maddie
Means that they offer specialized staff, specialized training and quiet sensory rooms and free sensory checkout bags for people that need it.
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Dan Bernstein
That's awesome.
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Maddie
Yes, very awesome. I wanted to give them the credit when I read this a week or so ago. The first Major League Baseball ballpark designated as a Certified Autism Center. So on the heels of that email about how intrusive the bananas game was, congrats to the Cubs and their organization for that recognition.
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Dan Bernstein
Good for them. Yeah, like to do that on your own to decide you want to spend money on that. That's great. Really is. It helps. It helps ameliorate all the other horrible stuff that the other Ricketts family is bankrolled. Here's Nick who says I can't blame Matt Negy for being hired as head coach of the Bears franchise, has a long history of finding unremarkable men pleasant enough for the position. But oh heavens, is his acronym of PTSD a wonderful rubber stamp to a career marked by a tight fisted grip on Big Red's oversized wind pants. I mean coattails. Nagy's not alone in his acronym abuse in sports. Dan, you've done a superb job of highlighting the stupidity of coaches who forced them on their team, but these majestic men with the vocabulary of action Words of the 60s Batman series POW. Bam. Doink speak to the lowest common denominator with that hokey grade school shit. I consider coaches. Coaches miss me with this. This coach would have been a great CEO. Bullshit. Football's too strange a world for that sort of crossover. The most successful coaches by wins and trophies are avoid the mealy mouth form of communication and instruction that comes from guys like Nege and Floors and their acronyms. To wit, Parcells was a caustic asshole who knew how to needle his players before big games. Lombardi ground an entire carton of Camels into a coffee cup as he diagrammed a seal here and a seal here and talked about catching greatness. Walsh boiled the game down to painstaking specifics. That is so much that it practically ate him up inside. None of them championed that together everyone achieves more or what's important now. They spoke to the highest common denominator and expected others to reach their standard. Unfortunately, I'm afraid the acronym proselytizers are working at their highest level. A collection of ulcers, unremarkable leaders creating elementary reminders sophomorically. And they're best left to work with a single position group at the college level. But hey, good luck to both the Giants and 49ers. Well written Nick. As always. The Strangles Collaborative has come together to send this. My good sirs. Respectfully, I feel your interpretation of the Andy Reid press conference on Tuesday's DBU was a bit unfair. Reid was clearly out of his element speaking to the assembled media regarding a non football topic, the be Enemy family tragedy. Reed did his best to convey his feelings using the language of the common folk audience. However, as often happens, some things get lost in translation. So I took the liberty to paste Andy Reid's comments into Google Translate. I selected English NFL coachee Coach. I think you'll have a much better appreciation of Reed's empathy with a full translation to his native tongue. Reed stated quote, injuries happen. Your best abilities availability. It's next wife up. It's all about execution. We've got some things to clean up. We're moving on to next week. Now let's go eat a goddamn snack. Probably right. Thank you. Strangles and Jason from Niles, Michigan hey guys, I'm thinking about Andy Reid and his comments concerning Eric B. Enemy. I'd agree they seem understated. These things happen. Seems a little weird when they're referring to a son shooting his mother in the chest and arm. Unless one this isn't the first time he shot her. Every couple of years he gets a little riled up on Mountain Dew and fires a couple of rounds at the old Madre San and she always survives. Two, maybe they don bulletproof vests and play extreme laser tag with Real Pistols. This time, though, one slipped through. These things are going to happen.
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Maddie
I don't know.
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Dan Bernstein
These are the first couple thoughts that came to mind. I'm sure the real situation is quite dark and terrible, but so is my brain. Yes, Jason, and this is. This is a safe space for your brain to be dark and terrible, because I think we can include all these feelings. So, for example, I wanted to read this from Matt Dan, I agree with you that Andy Reid's comments were a little bizarre. However, attributing a lack of empathy to bizarre comments may not be the appropriate thought process. I can't judge Andy Reid's empathy level because everyone experiences trauma differently. I can only speak from what I went through. I lost a child to suicide and it broke me. I struggle with empathy every single day. I no longer feel empathy the way I used to. Instead, I have to think about empathy more than I actually feel it. The clinical detachment I experience is a protective mechanism, a way to avoid ever feeling that level of pain again. It doesn't make me a sociopath. It doesn't make me a bad person. Another one of my protective barriers is resignation. That is the acceptance that stuff happens. That's a way of bracing myself against the chaos of life, convincing myself that tragedy is inevitable so I don't get blindsided again. That resignation shields me, but it also distances me from the rawness of empathy. It's easier to tell myself this is just how life goes than to fully open up to the pain of someone else's loss. When something tragic happens to someone else, I have to process it differently. Now I approach it clinically and then intentionally work my way toward feeling the empathy. It's something I'm actively working on every day to overcome those protective barriers and allow myself to feel again. As you know, with mental health, it's an ongoing process. I've gotten a little better since losing my child, but it's still a process. Equating Andy Reid's response with him being unempathetic or a bad person may not be accurate. His comments may reflect a poor decision rather than a true lack of empathy. Thank you, Matt. I'm really glad you sent that in. I really am. And that is that will that informs my opinions. I can still have my thoughts on Andy Reid, have my thoughts on the way coaches process things. But that is I. I know it probably took a lot to sit down and decide to write that and I think it absolutely deserved to be read.
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Maddie
Yes. Thank you for sharing that very much.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, and I can. I can take the fun out of making fun of Andy Reid. This is from Spencer and a couple left here. Spencer said, As a middle aged white man with no physical or mental disabilities that grew up in Naperville, I feel compelled to offer expertise on a matter with which I have plenty of personal, personal experience. And that is entitlement in today's world. It's not like you need my trained eye to uncover the advantages of being on the winning side of the inequality war. We're in a country of embarrassed millionaires, embarrassing millionaires, and vile billionaires. Each population of the mind that AI will make the other two obsolete. But there's no better time to take stock of where things stand than while the three way intersection of toxic masculinity, late stage capitalism and corporate buzzwords that is the NFL and emerges from its torpor. And the exhausted sports opinion makers, no offense, I'm taken hand the content baton off to the league's most visible leaders. You know where I'm going with this. We have Mike Vrabel using his sexual support dog as a canine shield while legitimate questions about his character and professional impropriety remain completely unanswered. We have the 49ers defining what is news and when for the media controlling the reporting on a story where serious car accident may or may not have been the direct result of an NFL coach driving while FaceTiming a library front desk employee to help an NFL insider get out of a late return fee. I'm here to talk about what this takes from the forefront and the gladiators of Rome fighting in the Coliseum wouldn't be a more apt metaphor. That's right, George McCaskey. I'm not done with you yet. I won't characterize the absurdity of his role as rodeo clown at Wrigley Field as succinctly as that earlier DBU contributor. That was pretty perfection. But I want to take one last look at this stadium story. I'll assume the listener has the context of Maddie's slide deck on why the McCaskey should sell. I'll summarize since the hiring of Kevin Warren, if George can admit he doesn't know the football side of football or the business side of football, what is he doing running a football organization? The fraternity of owners is successful businessmen that purchased an NFL franchise after it was valuable. They were already in control of unimaginable wealth. This microscopically small population of individuals often build their wealth by taking sizable assets, then leveraging investments and development opportunities into enough capital to make the acquisition of a team a possibility. Note that the process of wealth accumulation involves deception, manipulation and bullying at the expense of public welfare. So this collection of bastards are ideally equipped to exploit public institutions by leveraging the emotion of local sports team and turning it into a luxury event space with 20,000 square feet flat surface in the middle, designed to optimize revenue by catering to the highest concentration of discretionary dollars. Conversely, the Bears have George. George is most likely a sweet man who seems to appreciate the love fans have for his team. After all, that love has allowed him and his family to live lives of comfort while experiencing the unique luxury of being able to afford their morals. Which is ironic. And the reason I lead with entitlement is this. George goes to these team meetings and he sees his peers in quotes and what they're able to do with the asset of an NFL franchise. George and his family just haven't done the work to keep up with this class, and that by itself isn't a bad thing. It might be a good thing, considering what that takes. But because the Bears are an NFL team, they're entitled to their own stadium and the Kevin Warren experience is evidence that their entitlement is the only justification for it. We are five years into this embarrassment and the McCaskeys still can't afford a shovel. They were 20 years too late to finally succumb to the social pressures of doing billionaire things with their billions of dollars of worth, and they find themselves admiring the great shadow cast by the legacy of their birthright and not understanding that they are completely lost within it. Who wrote that? Spencer. Spencer from where? Raleigh.
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Maddie
Well done, Spencer.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, Spencer from Raleigh. He's done some data stuff before. Back in the day on the score. He sent some some data things. I think he's an engineer. It's. It's really, really good. I want to close with this because it's a, it's a great story and it builds off last week's top 10. And it's from Dave Nothing came close to inspiring me as much as Last Friday's top 10 Bears training camp memories Some of the names you mentioned hit home, to say the least. Andy Heck lost his mind after I dropped a few packs of locker room gum on the ground once. Rick Meyer for being a complete dummy on the sidelines with John Shoup and finally Rambo.
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Maddie
Period.
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Dan Bernstein
Full stop. If you know, you know that made me smile. I was a ball boy from 97 to 2001. Some truly dreadful years capped off with an out of nowhere division title and a playoff game in 01. I'm part of a trio of family members. Two of my cousins also went through Tony Medlin's gauntlet of equipment stacking perfectionism and the list last week got me so excited I stopped what I was doing to sit and absorb it. And writing about one of my ball boy memories. 1997. I was 14. I was away from home for the first time and I felt like a fish out of water. We're at Hallis hall prepping for a preseason home game. Lunch was served and I was late. I was finishing up some task. Tony Medlin, notorious for tedious tasks, organizing unused hangers that were tangled in a box that looked like a giant knot of Christmas lights. There was leftover ham and some sides on a giant table in the corner of some unused media room. I know exactly which one you're talking about. I grabbed a plate of whatever was left with another ball boy. We started eating when in comes Dave Wanstead with another staffer. I'd been around him in practice, never off the field, so seeing him up close made me a bit straighter. I was in awe. 14 year old me thinking Coach Juan he's in the room with me and two other humans. How cool. So he surveys the food table. He doesn't seem to get anything. He's having a conversation the whole time without skipping a beat. There's Wannie appearing out of nowhere at my side. What does he do? Takes the ham directly off my plate with his hands and eats it. I'm 48. Oh, you're not eating it. That's good ham.
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Maddie
I'm still putting it on my plate. That's why I'm not eating it yet.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, it's dynamite ham, he says. I'm 14 and a ball boy. Lowest of the low. This is coach with a capital C. I don't say anything. He picks apart the pieces of ham he wants, tosses the rest back onto my plate, And then walks out with the staffer without even a word to either of us ball boys. We look at each other and immediately start laughing. It was equal parts incredible that the coach of the Bears was in my presence, but annoying as hell because he took my lunch. The year ended for me on a frozen September night, sitting inside the former Honey Bears locker room feeling as close to frozen as I've ever felt. I had to carry the headset cords for strength coach Steve Little. You read that right? Steve Little had a headset for some reason. Our job was to carry the cords and do our best to untangle the cords with the coaches stomping up and down the sidelines. But no, Steve Little stood in the same spot in the entire half and I froze. And I was told to leave the sidelines and thaw out at halftime. Guess who's in the locker room with me? Dave's family, Jan and the kids huddled in a corner watching a TV as the Bears were getting smoked. So Jan approaches me to ask if I was okay because I was so frozen, which was nice. I was delusional from the cold. I probably made a protective gesture with my hands to cover a non existent plate, thinking all ones that steal food from strangers Plates.
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Maddie
Yeah, I'm pretty cold and hung because your husband took my food.
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Dan Bernstein
It was a great full circle moment for the season. In any event, a fun story, an amazing experience being part of the organization, even in the smallest of ways. He said. I'm a teacher in Niles. I live in the south suburbs. So my 294 drive has been a little less hellscapey listening to the pods since launching last year. Thanks guys. Thank you.
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Maddie
Dave also mentioned one of the great members of our team, our job.
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Dan Bernstein
Are you adding him?
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Maddie
Yes, you're putting him on the team.
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Dan Bernstein
Our job. That really good work this week, folks. And that story reminds me of the Chris Ronge Don Cooper story at Sox.
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Maddie
Yeah, tell me.
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Dan Bernstein
I don't remember. They're at Sox Fest and it was after Sox Fest had closed for the day. So all the ballrooms are empty. Everybody's so. But Rangy had an interview scheduled with Coop. So they go into this empty ballroom. It hasn't been cleaned up yet. There's all the tables there. Rangy and Coop sit down. While he's talking, Don Cooper pulls over a styrofoam plate that's sitting there that has a cookie with a bite out of it and eats it. Okay. Random food left by strangers. And he's. He's vulturing it. Okay.
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Maddie
He's hungry.
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Dan Bernstein
I. I guess probably had a couple
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Maddie
pops and he needed something to fill his belly. I don't know why not a half eaten cookie.
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Dan Bernstein
Hey, man, it was good enough for Coop at the time, so.
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Maddie
Well, I've told you this before. At Cubs convention leading into the 2016 season, me and Rosner are hanging out and the open bar closed. And so we're going back into the kitchen area to see if we can find a beer because he had one. I needed one. And Theo walked out of the kitchen with a beer in his hand.
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Dan Bernstein
Of course he did.
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Maddie
And Barry goes, any more beers back there? And Theo goes, well, no, that's the last one.
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Dan Bernstein
He goes, he's stashing him.
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Maddie
Well, he goes, it's the last one. And he's like, why? And I'm like, oh, I needed a beer. And so he'd already taken a drink or two out of it and he handed it to me. He goes, ah, you can. You can just finish mine. So I took. I took Theo final beer into the 2016 championship season, and I still have the bottle.
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Dan Bernstein
I said, that's a. That's a train ride home with me. Solid bro move by Theo. Yeah, solid bro move. I would see I was on the other end of it when I was in. Was it Crane's box? We were, we were in the, like, the business side, Crane's box. And there's a sliding. There's a glass door between his box and Theo's box. And somebody like, I went back to the fridge to grab a drink and it was like it had been full of beer. And I looked and it was. The beer was gone. Like, what happened? And then somebody said, oh, yeah, Theo came in and took it all.
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Maddie
There you go.
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Dan Bernstein
So what, what do you mean, he's like, yeah, well, can, can you go in and get some of it back? Like, no, he just, he, they came over and, and that, that side, the, the baseball side took the beer from the business side.
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Maddie
Yep. Very nice gesture to offer up the final beer though.
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Dan Bernstein
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And yes, there's an unfinished sudoku on the back, but I made this list. And this is for the Sox and the cubs. Your top 10 trade deadline additions. And I, I took a little leeway with, with what trade deadline means. I also took into account the, the actual effect of the move. Did it help the team win something? Was it a, was it a big roll of the dice? And, and, and was there an effect? I did not include sell offs. I did not include those. So you can say, well, this, you know, Pete Crow, Armstrong, that's the best. But that's a sell off. That was not a win. Now trade. The other one I had to cross off as I was going through the trades for his rotation mates. Spoiler Alert was on July 29th of 1998 when the White Sox acquired John Garland from the Cubs in exchange for Matt Karchner. The relief pitcher they needed because that was not a win. Now move. It paid off later, but that didn't count. It had to be adding in the effort to win that year. If it paid off later, great. But I'm rewarding you're on this list because I'm rewarding you going for it. So with that, we will start number 10. July 31, 2008. The White Sox send Nick Massett and Danny Richard to the Cincinnati Reds for Ken Griffey Jr. Why did it matter? Well, not only did it make it the first time a.500 home run hitter and a.600 home run hitter had been teammates. Griffey over.600 at the time. Jim Tomi on the White Sox at.500. And those two both would matter in the blackout game. Jim Tomey with the massive moonshot to the concourse in center field. Ken Griffey Jr. With the catch and the throw home to nab the runner. That's number 10 in a game that mattered, Ken Griffey Jr. Mattered. Number nine. 1993. The White Sox again make a trade with Cincinnati. They traded Johnny Ruffin and Jeff Pierce on July 31 for Tim Belcher, who say he wasn't that good. Well, you know what? They won the division. And Tim Belcher pitched 71 innings with a 440 ERA. Those 71 innings after July 31, that's a big deal in a pitching rotation. Help them win the division. Even though he wasn't spectacular. You talk about somebody who helps you with a giant pile of outs. He certainly did that. So that's number nine. Number eight also. White Sox 2000. The White Sox division champions at the deadline, July 29th. They sent one Felix, one Figueroa, Jason Lockman and Brooke Fordyce off to Baltimore. I think. Sorry, I didn't write that down. For Charles Johnson and what was left of Harold Baines. Baines was awful, but Charles Johnson was far from awful. Charles Johnson in 44 games, a 152 OPS plus and two wins above replacement. Two WAR in 44 games in a year that they won the division before Kelly Wunsch and the boys got clowned by Lou Pinilla and the Mariners in 2000. So that's number eight.
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Maddie
Yeah, that was the. Baltimore.
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Dan Bernstein
It was Baltimore. Thank you. Number seven. The acquisition on August 10th by the Cubs of Gary Gayetti after he was released by St. Louis. And I know you talk about the Jim Edmonds testing your. Your loyalty thing. We don't want to pick up St. Louis's trash, but man, what a move that was. Gary Gayetti as on a flyer, thinking maybe he's got something left. 37 games, 1.8 WAR, a.154 OPS Plus, a slash line of 3. 323, 97. 594. That's what Gary Gayetti was after they picked him up after his release. In a year, the Cubs made the play, they won the play in in 98. Fun season. That was. That was full blown Sosa. That was Rod Shooter, Beck and all that. I remember covering those teams. Number six. And this was huge at the time. And I don't know that people remember it because of when it happened. The White Sox beat everybody to the punch before the deadline. 83 was a moribund year. They got off to a very slow start. And whether this was correlation or causation, time it up with when they traded their starting second baseman, Tony Bernizard to Seattle for Julio Cruz because they valued a little bit of defense, they thought they had enough punch at other positions. And when they put together their keystone combo of Scott Fletcher and Julio Cruz, that's when it really took off. Not to mention what Rudy Law was doing at the top of the order and Julio Cruz helping the speed game. That was punctuated by the run that clinched the division against Seattle when Harold Baines hit a medium distance sacrifice fly to center and it was Julio Cruz coming in from third. I'll never forget it. I remember where I was standing when Julio Cruz jumped in the air and landed on home plate with both feet to clinch that division in a 99 win year for the Sox. That's the number six acquisition.
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Maddie
It's funny, the 83 season. I just talked with actor, writer and author Jonathan Sketch.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay.
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Maddie
He'll be. He's my next guest on from the 50, which one day. Yeah, Jonathan Sketch is an actor that was in that thing you do with Tom Hanks. He played Jimmy, the lead singer.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, okay.
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Maddie
So that might be your most familiar work with him. He's done. He's done a bunch of stuff though. Had some lead roles, had some minor roles. Has an upcoming role with Tom hanks again in Greyhound 2, where Tom Hanks plays a captain of a naval ship. And so they have a sequel coming out. It came out a few years ago on Apple, I think during the pandemic.
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Dan Bernstein
Does he get to say, I am your captain now?
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Maddie
I hope so. Yeah. I hope he does. We talked about. Because he's a huge Baltimore Orioles fan. He went. He lived and grew up in Baltimore. So we Talked about the 79 season and the 83 season how? You know, 79 broke his heart as a 10 year old. And then 83 finally came through as they beat Philadelphia for the World Series.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, I remember watching Pittsburgh and Baltimore in 79. We were at outdoor education from Walden School. In fifth grade, we were at Outdoor Ed. Hi, I'm Outdoor Ed.
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Maddie
And our junior high does that in sixth grade. So my boys have done it the last two years.
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Dan Bernstein
Was it.
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Maddie
Was it outdoor education?
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, we did in fifth grade at camp. Camp Timber Lee is what it was called.
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Maddie
Oh, sure.
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Dan Bernstein
Camp Timberley in the Kettle Moraines. And I just remember getting freaked out in the. In the. In the lodge, the main, like, where we ate, because of all the. There was like, really heavy Jesus stuff.
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Maddie
Oh, yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
And I didn't know what to make of it, but it was all. It was like a lot of. A lot of Jesus stuff.
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Maddie
Okay, so this was a baseball story, though.
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Dan Bernstein
And I. And I, we sneaked out one night. Siegel and I sneaked out. Oh, because. Because the World Series was going on and we were trying to find a television. So we were just kind of wandering around like, there's God. And we found what we found. People watching it. We stood outside, like, slapping mosquitoes on it. We stood outside and peered through a window watching people watch the World Series. Okay, that's funny. I think we watched John Lowenstein do something. If I remember correctly, you know, Candelaria and Parker and all that stuff.
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Maddie
I think it was, we are family.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah.
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Maddie
Team, right?
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Dan Bernstein
79. Yes, it was. Okay, where was I? That. That was.
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Maddie
That was six.
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Dan Bernstein
Six. That was six. Number five. In 2004, when the White Sox were starting to get good and they were fighting for the division, they didn't win it. They finished second. But as they're fighting for the division, they traded Miguel Olivo, Jeremy Reed and Mike Morse to the Mariners for Freddie Garcia and Ben Davis. Now, Freddie Garcia became a mainstay of their World Series champion, but they didn't get him in a sell off. They happened to get him because they had been going for it the year before. The same goes for number four on this list. The White Sox trading Esteban Loiza, he of the Mexican pitching record and he of the long prison sentence. They traded him for Jose Contreras. Esteban Loise out of the Yankees, Jose Contreras, underwhelming, underperforming, got to the White Sox and was awesome and was the ace of a World Series staff the next season. But it was them going for it that got them. Contreras, that's number four. The rest of this list is all Cubs. Number three. June 13th of 1984.
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Maddie
Yes, sir.
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Dan Bernstein
The Cubs send Mel Hall, Joe Carter, Darrell Banks and Don Schultze to the Cleveland Indians at the time for Rick Sutcliffe, George Frazier and Ron Hassey. Anything involving Ron Hasse I love because I just love Ron Hassey. But Rick Sutcliffe proceeded to win the cy Young Award.
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Maddie
16 and 1, right?
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Dan Bernstein
Yep. 150 innings pitched, a 2.69 ERA, a strikeout to walk ratio of 155 to 39. 155 strikeouts in 150 innings and just magnificent lightning in a bottle. Rick Sutcliffe,
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Maddie
he was a 3.9 WAR
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Dan Bernstein
dan in that many games.
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Maddie
Yes, he was 16 and 1.269area 3.9
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Dan Bernstein
WAR in 150 innings and which now is. Is a good full season. Number two, trade deadline acquisition. June 23rd. Excuse me. July 23rd of 2003. The Cubs send Jose Hernandez, Bobby Hill and Matt Bruback, a minor leaguer to the Pittsburgh Pirates for a Ramis Ramirez and Kenny Lofton. And cash.
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Maddie
Not cash, Patel, just cash.
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Dan Bernstein
So you got Aramis Ramirez, Kenny Lofton and cash at the deadline in 2003. Cubs sluggers in their history, Aramas Ramirez, who now a lot of, a lot of us had Chris Bryant ahead of Aramis Ramirez on the list of all time Cubs third baseman. I, I don't know. I think Ramirez had. He made the playoffs three times. You start looking at some of those numbers. An argument can be made for Ramirez behind Ron Santo and Stan Hack being the third best third baseman in the history of the Chicago Cubs. But what Kenny Lofton did for that team and a team that could have and maybe should have won the World series, that's number two. And with that in mind, you know what number one is? That was 2016. The Cubs send Adam Warren, Gleyber Torres, Billy McKinney and Rashad Crawford to the Yankees for Araldis Chapman and game seven. Nonetheless, when they were asking him and when Joe Madden put a guy out there who had nothing left and he's trying to spin the ball up there in a way that he just, he couldn't because he didn't. He didn't have anything. He's still larger picture. 15 1/3 playoff innings pitched, 4 playoff saves, a 3.45 earn run average. They don't win the World Series without Araldis Chapman. And because they won the World Series in part because of him, that's your number one Chicago trade deadline edition. And there you have it. I put some time into that.
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Maddie
Yeah. That's good.
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Dan Bernstein
Good stuff. Yeah, it's fun. I, I love doing this stuff.
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Maddie
Yeah. I was hoping that I, I was hoping Sut was, was top three.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. Oh, come on. Yeah, it's gotta be.
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Maddie
Just making sure.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, of course. I'm not an idiot. This is the last day, the last day for you to enter your promo code on the app on the rewards page. For July.
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Maddie
For July. Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
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