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Dan Bernstein Unfiltered
Hammond site might not provide as much space as Chicago Bears thought
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Dan Bernstein
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Really interesting to find out what is going on and what is not going on over in Hammond with the supposed new focus and interest and moving forward with all guns blazing for for the Chicago Bears to build their new stadium in the swamp of human waste that is Hammond, Indiana. When we last left you in the adventures of Kevin Warren. When we last left you, the Bears Messiah had told the owners of the Bears follow me, follow me. You hire me, I will lead you to the land of milk and honey. I will lead you to the land of where all is green, with the money to be made by the Chicago Bears hotels and businesses and our domed stadium and everything that we want. And it may not have to be on the land that you bought specifically for those purposes that's ready for you to build there. No, no, no, no, no, no. We are going to do this in the swamp. Follow me, George. Follow me, bears, and stand with me. I have led you here. I have led you to this slag heap covered in treated human waste. Thank you. Now give me money. That's when we left you. Now they've announced, even though they didn't really change anything, the announcement did nothing to actually establish anything new other than the fact that they said, our board has voted all of the various little McCaskeys. The McCaskeys are here, and the McCaskeys are there. And the board, they have come together, they have found the door that enters the boardroom. They bump into it a few times, and their chairs are backward and they spray seltzer and they have big floppy shoes. But they sit down and then they vote. And they said, hammond it is. And you know who believed them? Stupid people, really. The dumbest possible people. Like the bear said, you're going to Hammond. Well, it must be true. Really? Really. See, here's what we're learning. And this is what Paris Shutz reported that just now, just now, this is after Roger Goodell was photographed out there standing next to the refinery. They're wearing their hard hats. I said they were. Well, look at this. Roger Goodell is here. He's approving these stadium sites. And. And then the bear said, well, there's the. There's the one site, and then there's our special secret site. We have another site going to build. Well, see, here's. Here's the problem. And now the. The actual news people are finally starting to catch up. Finally, finally answering. Answering some of the questions here that we've been asking, like what about the. The permitting and the fact that. That this is protected federal wetlands and protected from federal waterways and state waterways. So the report last night said the bears may maybe, may not have the space they thought they had at this supposed Hammond site because Paris Shuts checked out the permitting records and actually what the. The bears have done. We keep saying, show your work. If you're moving to Hammond, there's private businesses there. There's public land there. There's protected federal wetlands there. How. What. What are you doing? You don't have that land. That land isn't yours. Yet people have that, and you may not be able to build a stadium on it. But they hadn't really cared about that, and you hadn't cared about that either. They said they're going to ham, and that means they're going, okay, well, on this slag dump that has also protected natural national wetland, the Army Corps of Engineers has determined that the easements in there for this land, for the establishment of this. What they're calling reclaimed brownfield. Reclaimed brownfield. There's no redevelopment of the Wetlands until about 2052. Oh, 50. So if you want shovels in the ground, you might want to get on that. If you're going to. If you're going to be building that stadium in 2050, you got some work to do. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management, the IDEM, tells NBC 5 there has not been a permit application filed by the Bears for even to begin to find out what studies might have to be done to see if any of this land, the tiny little parcel on which they might be able to build, could even support a stadium. If they wanted to build a stadium, maybe. Maybe you'd have enough room on the Lost Marsh golf course. If, if. If the slag and the treated human waste underneath, if after a minimum, the experts that I've talked to that say the environmental studies themselves, the actual environmental studies, could take six months to a year to even find out if it's viable. They haven't done that yet. Because Kevin Warren doesn't care. Kevin Warren has got his mark here in the. In the McCaskey family. And because they are not capable of doing anything, they have to turn to a con man. I can save you. I'll build a stadium. I know you own the land in Arlington Heights, and that's where your families wanted to build the land forever. But no. Come with me. Smell it in the air. All that gift gas and all of this brownfield. That's where we're building. Well, you're going to apply for a permit. No, no, no. Don't talk about that. We will. We'll get around. You're not even faking it. They're not even faking it. If you're going to fake this, if you're going to pretend that this is where you're going, at least apply for the permit. It's like a hundred bucks. They're going to need so many different permit permits to build. Maybe it would have filed an application by now with the idem. They have no record of it whatsoever. None for whatever tiny little area that's the Thing you don't know. Even the land that you think, well, this is smaller than we thought. Kevin. Kevin, come here, George. Kevin. Kevin, what's a wetland? Oh, don't worry about a gorgeous. Worry about it. We just. We're gonna need a few years. Just give me more time. Give me more time. It'll be fine. We need a few more years. Kevin, you didn't say anything about wetland. What do you mean? We didn't apply for the permits. They didn't apply for the permits. Come on, man. Come on. You got like. If you're gonna. If you're gonna con the owners of the bears by telling them you're gonna do all this and do all this and do all this, our focus is here. Our focus is there. Our focus is here. And we say our focus is here. But we're talking because we're pretending that we're doing this, but we're really doing this because we just have to keep extending this. Man. I keep getting the feeling that by the time George McCaskey realizes he's the fish in this, by the time he realizes he's the mark, Kevin Warren will be long gone, on to the next thing. Just like the Big Ten. After he was gone, they had to do all this forensic accounting and go back and find out what was. What was sold and what wasn't. And he was already. Kevin Warren was there smiling and waving his Bible and there in his orange tie and talking about the. The. How all the state was going to do this and the city was going to do this, and he was going to lead the bears to this. But that's why everybody at the big time was like, wait, what? He sold the TV rights to the. We. We already agreed that he can't do. He did what? This is what happens without supervision. And by the time George is the new Big Ten. By the time George goes, hold. Hold on. What? Who was doing what? I hired who to do what. By the time they ask the correct questions that they should have asked before, should have figured out on their own, he'll be on to the next thing. It'll be Kevin Warren Boutique consulting firm, Warren and Associates. Or it'll be as an offshoot of Kevin Warren Ministries, he'll be on to the next thing. At that point, by the time George wakes up one day and goes, wait a second here. I think I was promised something I'm not getting. I think I was. That we were under the impression that this was all going to work out just great. Brownfield Congratulations to Lost Marsh Golf Course. I Played Lost Marsh Golf Course. There's a lot of my golf balls out there. I will be contributing that. That's, that's my contribution to this. Obviously the bears are going to build this beautiful, glorious, generational massive mixed use entertainment district on, on top of just the golf course. Now she can't really build anything else around. So I've contributed multiple golf balls into the swamp. I'm going to have a presence there. And they might be the golf balls on which my son drew dicks. Because he did. I said, jason, get me some golf balls. He gets me some golf balls and he drew dicks on all of them. Thanks for that, kid. Much, much appreciated. He's like, hey, dad, I got golf balls. And he took a different color Sharpies. Purple, red, blue. Every one of them had a dick on it. So those are in the swamp out there, the ones that I have sprayed in all directions. Blissfully spending an afternoon only celebrating my good shots and forgetting the bad ones. Because I've solved golf in that regard. I, I've solved it. I've made it. I don't remember the bad shots, I don't keep score. And I'm. And I just, I'm happy about good shots. And I like being generally, I like being outside and looking at birds and wildlife. Although around there, there it's mostly being around farts. But you know, that's what you get when you want to play golf in a swamp. Here's the difference. You build a golf course on a brownfield. The keyword on, on. When you build a golf course, you're moving around a lot of dirt on top of all this stuff, on top of the slag heap, on top of the treated human waste. You can move that dirt around and then you put grass on top of the dirt and you're done. Golf course stadium that holds 80,000 people. That's not just moving around dirt on the top, that's digging. That's going way, way down underneath that is foundational. That is down into the water table is what that is. And you start talking about where they're going to park. Oh, gee, can they park underground? I don't know. Can we dig here? Does this support it? We were digging up all of this treated human waste and all of the industrial waste. Sure, that's fine. No big deal. Well, maybe we should apply for permits. No, we don't have to apply for permits. Don't worry. People are going to fall for this. So we're not even going to apply for the permits. Don't worry about it. So you say, what is this brownfield that they're talking about? As they as Lost Marsh Golf course was hailed as brownfield reclamation. The 330 acres in 2003 on top of a slag dump. Well, the USEPA defines brownfield as a property where expansion, redevelopment or reuse may be complicated by the presence of potential or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant. And it is previously developed land that's been abandoned which may carry pollution or risk of pollution. And the definition varies. It's decided by policymakers and land developers. The main difference in definitions of whether a piece of land is considered a brownfield or not depends on the presence or absence of pollution. And it requires further development before reuse. So for a golf course, all they have to do is kind of okay, we're okay to build on top of it. Yeah. So they do and they plant the grass, they move things around, they put the sand traps in, and there you go, got a golf course, simple stadium, very different. Examples of post industrial brownfield sites include abandoned factories, ash ponds, landfills, dry cleaning establishments and gas stations. Typical contaminants include hydrocarbon spillages, solvents, pesticides, asbestos and heavy metals like lead. Many contaminated post industrial brownfield sites sit unused because the cleaning costs may be more than the land is worth after redevelopment. Previously unknown underground wastes can increase the cost for study and cleanup. And this is just from Wikipedia. Depending on the contaminants and damage present, adaptive reuse and disposal of a brownfield can require advanced and specialized appraisal analysis techniques. Ah, see, but those, those special analyses, those also need permits and the bears haven't applied for any of those. Not near Lost Marsh, not near Wolf Lake, not near Lake George, not near all of these wetlands and waterways that carry state and federal environmental protections. But if you're looking at 2050 as your start date. Oh okay, but man, this is, we keep watching this slowly unfold, the Kevin Warren production here. And that's what this is where he said, we're going here, we're going here, this is done. We have talked to them and they said this all, all this land that is occupied by other businesses, other industries, people are there and they say, well, we'll just build a stadium there. See that that's not how it works unless you're really stupid. And there are a lot of really, really, really stupid people that really think the bears are, are of their word when it comes to what they're doing. And I just would urge George McCaskey really strongly before you realize, before you understand where you're being led and who's doing the leading. George, ask questions. George, Have Kevin Warren come in and sit down and start answering some questions, because I don't know how long he has been allowed to operate unfettered and unchecked and unsupervised. But the. The Bears are in some. There's some. Some stuff here. And again, if you're Illinois and you're looking at this, the reason why, you're gonna. You may not be too concerned, and you may be thinking, all right, let's just. Let's extend that lease at Soldier Field. I don't think if, if in fact, Caleb Williams wants to sign that long extension and be the Chicago Bears quarterback for. For an era, he's going to play all of his real home games, not including overseas stuff. That guy is never going to leave Soldier Field. The Bears may never leave Soldier Field at this rate. What are they doing? What are they actually doing? Not what are they saying. I know what they're saying. We're going here, and our board is voting here. But how many times I'm going back. How many years focus is here. We're focused entirely on here. We are moving forward with this plan. Nothing changed when they said that nothing, absolutely nothing changed. That's why Cam Buckner called him out and say, okay, well, what's, what's, what's different here? All the Illinois has asked is, what do you want? Come to the table. We're meeting you halfway on this. Come figure it out. But because the Bears don't have the money, they got to play all these games. And maybe, maybe Kevin Warren told George, hey, George, you gotta give me some leeway here. You gotta let me say, don't look behind the curtain here. And you gotta let me bluff, and you gotta let me play poker. You gotta let me pretend, because then everybody will believe me, everybody will. Will think they're gonna fall for every ruse, for every dodge, for every gambit. They're gonna fall for it. And then we're gonna get everything we want, because I'm gonna play them all. I'm gonna play them like an instrument. How's that going? Based on the responses that we're getting from everybody who's basically telling them, get your together, stop screwing around, and let's. Let's really talk about. And show up. That's the other thing. Show up, Kevin. Show up, George. You want to talk about some stuff? Talk about some stuff. You want to put a meeting on the schedule? Schedule's wide open. Come on in, let's talk. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Did you apply for permits to build on all this land? You say where you're going to build? Oh. Oh, you didn't. Oh, okay. See, that's what we thought. We thought you didn't. Thought you didn't. Because you need those things, you know, you need to do the environmental studies. You need to find out if this brown field with everything under it is viable for a stadium. And even if it were, even if you find out, yeah, it's tight that we. This is the only land we have, is on the golf course. So we can't go over here, we can't go over there. There's going to be no hotels, there's going to be no retail. Maybe, you know, not the condos that we thought of, the parkland that we thought. We can't really do that. And. But can it hold a stadium? Can you dig down underneath into all this protected area and then have the. The foundation that's needed for this and we don't know. Are you going to find out? Maybe. Don't you need a permit to start all that stuff? Yeah. Have you applied for it? No. Okay. Then the lawsuits, they haven't even accounted for the fact that even if they had applied for permits, even if they say, well, now we're applying, or ours got lost in the mail, we tried to apply. We believe it. We're going there. We're going. We're headed for Hammond. We're headed there. As soon as we get those darn permits, we'll get our environmental studies, and then we'll fight all the lawsuits, and then we'll build there when we're allowed to in 2050. Really? Really? This is where this, this bit is what we're buying. And just now they're finding out wet. Oh, wetlands. And George should call Kevin in if you're like, what are you doing, man? Kevin, where. Where, where does this end? Oh, just wait. This is. And what Kevin will tell him is, oh, this is just part of it. This is. I'm. I'm just beginning. This is. I'm changing the plan, and now we're going to a different plan. This is all part of what I've been thinking the entire time. And when, when do you think? When do you look at him and think, I think you're full of shit. When do you do that, George? When do you say, hey, Kevin, it's been three and a half years. We've had the land for five years. Why are we falling further and further and further behind? And this is almost, by the time all is said and done, going to be double the cost of what we thought this all was. And we're paying taxes on all of this land that we own. Where's this going? And when is it going there, George? Ask these questions. Get answers to these questions. Actually pin him down. That's all I'm going to say. Find out. Because the rest of us are just going to sit and laugh because watching bumbling upper class twits being led around, being such an easy mark. We asked the question yesterday about, like, what are the McCaskeys? Do you. I know you own the Bears, but you're not football people, you're not business people, you're certainly not political people. What do you do? And when you're that easy a mark, when you, when you can't do anything on your own, you can't negotiate deals, you can't work the political backrooms, and you haven't built your business to be able to afford to do what you want to do. This is why somebody can come in and say, I gotcha. Just hire me. Hire me. I'll get you. I got you there. Thank God Kevin is here to save us. Okay, how's that going for you? Maybe apply for a permit next time. Maybe at least that'll allow you to pretend that you're making an effort to move to some of these places, that you've done the work, that you've done the due diligence. And it's, it's got me wondering now if maybe the NFL calling them in and asking for updates isn't Roger Goodell's way of telling George, hey, George, what is your guy Kevin doing? George Goodell might know this. He's got a television. He can, he can see this reporting. He knows a lot of this stuff. Roger can play the political game. He's got people telling him, yeah, they can't build over there. He knows. You think he was calling them in, like, yeah, George, maybe. Maybe you're being told some things that aren't true here. But you're making the league worry a bit about how this is all going because you're moving backwards, not forwards. But this is where we said, I'm sure there'll be another chapter. But that is just today's chapter of Kevin Warren leads the Bears into the swamp.
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Cody Delmendo
Is this story ever going to end?
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Dan Bernstein
I hope not. It's too much fun. It's so much fun to watch. Well, they're big, powerful people. They must know what they're doing. They have no concept of what they're doing. And they haven't. They've no longer.
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Cody Delmendo
The longest story in Chicago sports in some time.
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Dan Bernstein
And again, it goes back to one of the first major stories I covered when I moved to Chicago to become a reporter, and it was Planet park, one of the first big Bears stories of them. We're moving to Gary. We're moving. Here are the models, here are the mock ups. We're going to Planet park in Gary, Indiana. And it was then, it was one of the silliest, most transparently ridiculous, stupid things that was never going to happen. And what go. It just. It's. Time is a flat circle. Time is a flat circle. And it's incredible. Just after all this turnover, the number of people that were part of that, the number of people that lived through that, and we're seeing the same things again. And anytime, actually, news people ask these questions. What's been done? What's been done? What work has been done to prepare you for this move that you say you're going to make? And the answer is nothing. Nothing has been done. So why should we believe you? Why should anybody believe you until you give me a reason? Until there's actual concrete proof of going and doing the work, figuring this out, hiring the lawyers. The lawyers. Don't you have lawyers? Don't you have environmental lawyers? Don't you have teams of lawyers? Isn't Kevin Warren a lawyer? I think they might tell you there's a lot of boxes you got to check here. There's a lot of work you got to do before you can put that. That precious shovel in the precious ground and watch it sink into the human waste and slag. They're a long way away, man. And if you want to believe them, enjoy. Just have fun with that. Every sports fan has an angle. You're a sports fan. You have an angle. You have a team you trust. You have a favorite you might want to fade. A player you think is due that moment in the game you can feel coming. And you can decide, wait a second, I'm going to act on this. And that's where my bookie comes in. Because my bookie gives you a place to turn opinions into action. 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And I know that sometimes I try to save these things for when you have your, your strong thought and you, you, you click on everything, you send it to me and I want to make sure that it gets the credit that it deserves. This was from Jeff in Phuket in Thailand, right? So it says. I moved abroad to Thailand in 2015 and people often ask me what the hardest part about living away from home is. I originally from Northbrook, I grew up in a obsessive Bulls fan of the 90s. And aside from the obvious of missing friends and family, the answer remains not being able to watch live sports or attend games for the teams that I love. But one thing that did bring me an immense amount of joy was listening to Stacy King announcing for my beloved Bulls. It kept me connected to home in a way nothing else could. Through years and years of terrible and sometimes unwatchable teams, Stacy remained the same jovial, funny, charismatic voice I needed. And when the team was hot, garbage and the perfect definition of meh, he made watching Bulls games tolerable. And I'm filled with such an immense sadness, not only for his family and the Bulls and the NBA fans globally, but the loss of that voice that tied me back home. I'm sad my 19 month old son won't grow up listening to his calls and I feel like a hole just opened up and I have no idea how it'll get filled. For lack of a better expression. This just sucks. So while I have these soothing sounds, Dan, of you and Maddie to keep me connected to Chicago, I'll forever miss Stacy's unmatchable enthusiasm and sound. Rip to the King. Jeff, thank you for that. I appreciate it and I understand it and you're right, it just sucks. Here's a similar note from Tim, who said something you mentioned and struck a chord with me. Stacy King's interactions with fans, and particularly children, was so great. So genuine, so obviously fueled by his desire that children learn and love this game that I wanted to share my own personal story with this from only a few months ago, early January of 26, I took my family to a game in the 300 level and I follow Stacy King on x Twitter. I sent him a tweet. I asked if 300 level folks could come take a pick with him. And he responded. He said yes. So fast forward end of the game and we head down and the ushers won't let us down by the press area because we didn't have a 100 level ticket. My boys 11 and 9 were disappointed, but I understand when someone's doing their job as the usher was. So I sent Stacy a note on Twitter letting him know what happened. I said I was doing so specifically so that he knows and nobody else finds themselves in the same situation getting disappointed. It he replied. He asked for my email. The next thing I know we have four 100 level tickets and his personal assurance that he would get pictures with the kids after the game. They did. But Stacy wasn't done. He took the kids onto the floor while my boys stared up at him and the bleachers and the hoops with wide eyes. They got to go down and stand where the players play. Stacy had them out there for 15 minutes just talking about the game and asking about them. He didn't have to do any of that. He did it because he was a great person and a wonderful ambassador for the game and for the Bulls. He will be missed greatly and may his memory be a blessing to his family and to us all.
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Cody Delmendo
I love these, I love these messages about Stacy King because it just really resonates even more how much he just meant to this city. And you know, when I talked about, you guys asked me about him when I returned from Europe on Off the Ivy, you know, I could have gone on and on more than five, the five minutes we did because he just means so much to my Bulls fandom. A lot of bad years being a Bulls fan since I didn't really get to experience the Jordan era. But he, he made being a Bulls fan more fun than if he, if we didn't have him, I, I would, I would lean to get, I would lean to believe.
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Dan Bernstein
So yeah, there's, there's just, there's nothing, there's nothing good about it. And some of the happy memories while, while they give you a short term little bit of happiness, ultimately the takeaway is just, you know, too bad and it's gonna, replacing him is going to be a choreograph. A note from Justin says three things, guys. First, thank you for saving my ass. Literally. I had a great conversation with my doctor about what you've described as exploding taint syndrome. She giggled, by the way. Yes, A doctor found it funny. We've decided not to try that medication, so thank you. Well, you should do that on your own. You should figure that out. But the takeaway here is that a doctor didn't say that. That's. You're talking about Fournier's gangrene. The possibility of having an infection and the area between your genitals and your anus is not something to make fun of. For I am a doctor, and I have no sense of humor about exploding taint syndrome. Laughing doctor. Keep. Don't keep that doctor. Don't lose that doctor said so. Thank you. Two weeks ago, you started to sing the My Buddy to the My Bookie readings. And I was on a flight to Florida, and I had to shake my wife to listen to you two books bozos. She was aghast. That's been our bit since you two started advertising for them. She would sing My My Buddy every time you've done the read. Third, I'm sitting down to watch game three of the NBA Finals and I see a commercial. It's McDonald's. It's David Beckham in a car waiting for the food. At the drive through, he's talking to himself, saying, please be Beckham, as he pulls a collector cup. He then exclaims, it's me, David Beckham as he holds himself in cup form. That is a wild self arachbo. Yes, I agree. That is a. That is a different category of meta or rakpo. And it's the second World cup version of it, Justin, because Tim Howard does it in the Jim Beam commercial. That looks like US Goalie Tim Howard. I am former US Goalie Tim Howard. Like, that's. That is when you have to say your own name in the commercial. It is a special level of Iraq poem, but thank you for the feedback.
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Cody Delmendo
I found the audio for the one you originally wanted to do. Okay, so if you want to go to that one next.
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Dan Bernstein
I do, I do. I would say that we. We like to include a. An audio message as part of what we're doing here, because sometimes you. You learn something. It's interesting. It's funny. As this was from Mike. Hi, guys.
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Indiana Resident Caller
Indiana resident here. Just wanted to share with you a bit of our financials going on over here. There's a program through the federal government called Sunbucks, which provides $120 worth of grocery money to families who have children who are on free or reduced lunch for the summer. They get the $120. Indiana would have had to make a 5 million dollar investment in order to get the funds from the federal government. We said no. According to our governor, we don't have $5 million available, but we do have whatever money George McCaskey needs to build a stadium for the Bears. Schools are underfunded over here, people are getting kicked off of Medicaid over here. The roads are full of potholes, electric bills through the roof. But by God, whatever the Bears need, we're gonna help them get themselves a new stadium right there on that slag heap in Hammond. This place is such a mess.
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Dan Bernstein
Mess.
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Indiana Resident Caller
Run. Run. George, don't come here.
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Dan Bernstein
Could just said it better myself but I can't because I'm not an Indiana resident.
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Cody Delmendo
It goes well with, with today's, with today's podcast.
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Dan Bernstein
It certainly does based on the latest news. And there will be more bits of similar news, don't you worry. That is just as people actually do the real digging and ask the real questions and put in freedom of information requests for the government paperwork on what has to be done to build a stadium in protected wetlands. We're going to be hearing more about this in New Berlin, Wisconsin. Burke has sent a note with a question. There's a TV ad up here in Wisconsin. It's a local credit union for which Christian Yelich is the spokesman. It's just him. They don't say his name but he's wearing a generic jersey that says Yelich on the back. At one point they briefly show his back so it's clear who it is. Is this a clear case of Iraq poing or is this some sort of subset in the iraqpo genre? Yeah, I would say Berg that's what I would call a ground rule iraqpo where if you need to have him turn around and say let's see what your name is. Yeah, that, that's. That is just sort of one step removed. I would say the difference between a double and a ground rule double. I will call that a ground rule iraqpo in that particular case and you. Which you should not have to do the guys won MVP or the Christian Yelich should not have to be identified to a specifically local Wisconsin audience. That's. That's something. A quick note here from, from Jay Wint. He says P.J. carlissimo said the spurs were four. The spurs are four of six from three point lead that the spurs were four of six from three point land. It had four dunks. He said, that's a pretty good combination if you ask me. I don't care what the analytics say. 4, 6 and 4 dunks. PJ that's exactly what the analytics tell you to do.
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Cody Delmendo
I was going to say,
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Dan Bernstein
I don't care. They've been awesome from three point range and they're dunking the basketball. Whatever those damn analytics say. Hold on, wait, let me check. Let me check the analytics. Three pointers and dunks are the best way to have an efficient offense and win games. Well, I do care what they say, apparently. Thank you for that. Lisa took note when I was last week talking about Kevin Warren and I was. I used the line that Hans Gruber said in Die Hard. He said, alexander. When he saw the breath of his domain, Alexander wept for there were no more worlds to conquer. And Lisa said, you get Alexander weeping due to his lack of worlds to conquer. I get Ozymandias. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. And Lisa said, only I think a lot of people are looking at the swamp and despairing indeed. But I don't think, you know, Warren himself is not going to be. There isn't going to be the statue of Kevin Warren that erodes into. What's the poem? Vast and trunkless legs of stone. If I remember, it's Shelley, right? Ozymandias, I believe, is Percy Shelley. Yes. Two vast and trunkless legs of stone. Yeah, I don't think it's going to get to that point, but point taken, Lisa. Nicely done, Nicely turned. Much appreciated. This is from Ryan. Oh, where? It's my guy, Ryan. Regarding Stacy King's passing, I find myself increasingly angry at the Chicago Bulls. The Bulls had no role in his death, but here's where I'm at. They wasted the talent of one of the best local analysts in the game. The rise of Derrick Rose happened when I was in 6th or 7th grade. Formative sports watching for a kid. Joaquim Noah having a near MVP season. Jimmy Butler transforming into an NBA star happened in the following years. And through all of that, Stacy King was there. Not only making people smarter about basketball, but influencing basketball culture. We played a lot of pickup ball when I was a kid. It was rare if you didn't hear someone yelling on the playground, sriracha, give me the hot sauce. Or co opting Jimmy G Buckets. And letting everyone else on the court know they get buckets. I think about how great some of the Bulls teams were. I'm grateful he was there for those teams is the slop he'd been forced to cover. The last decade's been embarrassing. The Denzel Valentine half court threes, the frontcourt tandem of Paul Zipser and Cristiano Felicio, the rotating cast of professional nothings that suited up every night. Having to pretend Jim Boylan was an NBA coach the old 11th of February this year I could go on said you couple the awful on court product with the broadcast, move to the new channel. And then many Bulls fans lost interest in what was going on. The UC Stacey King still showed up every night, brought life and fun to something as dead and bloated as roadkill. The broadcast combo of King and Adam Amin was insanely fun, and it's shocking to say, but it topped what Stacy had with Neil Funk. But who was there to listen? Who was there to enjoy it? Not enough people. The Reinsdorf sports enterprise doesn't care about having top notch broadcasters. They've had a surprising amount of them. But Jerry pushed Jason Benetti out of town. He wasted Stacy King's career. He's actively neutering Steve Stone by continuing to that dork in the booth alongside him. It's yet another chapter in the book of bad Chicago sports ownership. Pour out a shot of Sriracha for our guy. RIP Stacy.
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Cody Delmendo
I don't disagree.
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Dan Bernstein
No, it's another way of taking that though that I hadn't really considered. And he's he's leaving out the biggest broadcasting Reinsdorf push out after Benetti. And that's Jim Durham, my favorite announcer. When I was, you know, at that impressionable age, the guy Jim Durham's a big reason I'm sitting here right now that I fell in love with the idea of sports broadcasting and that kind of energy and that kind of the the pure journalism of the Jim Durham basketball descriptions of, of pre Michael Jordan and Michael Jordan and all that stuff and say, oh boy, the way he's describing this guy Jordan is different man, that made me want to do basketball play by play and they pushed him out and I've never really got over that. So now you made me angry. Damn it, Ryan, don't do that anymore. But thank you for that. Matthew says walking through the grocery store, I saw a case of Oreos with the Team USA logo for the World Cup. There's pictures and the identifications of Christian Pulisic and Alex Morgan. Does a rack poeing only work for TV ads or store products. If you have to tell me who they are in a package of Oreos, it should be obvious or just slap on. We support Team USA on the package. Is this a valid Iraqbo? I'm gonna say no. I'm gonna. I'm going to give some room for a if it's cookies, a product in the store, a cereal box. I do think even the, you know, the Wheaties boxes did have names on them. Not all the time, but. But sometime. I'm not going to go that far. I think the rules in a grocery store are different. If you're looking, you're glancing at products, the way our brains work and the way you move products, the way we respond to different stimuli and that whole game of making us buy things using grocery psychology and hidden persuasion. Shout out Vance Packard that I'm going to. I'm going to allow it. I'm going to allow it. I appreciate the question, but that one I am. I'm specifically going to allow here is PV from Ah Guys I'm a 53 year old lifelong Bears fan and resident of arlington heights for 17 years. I live a metro stop and two and a half miles away from the land the Bears own at the former site of Arlington Racetrack where the stadium will eventually be if they ever get out of their own way. I live far enough away to avoid any annoyance from incoming crowds. I might actually go to a game. I've watched the Bears play my entire life. I've never gone to a game. I've come close a couple times until circumstances conspired against it. So when you guys have been saying repeatedly how little you care where the Bears play, I've been nodding along. I consume Bears football via television and always have. Even if they move virtually down the street from me, it's unlikely to change. But as this tale of corporate incompetence has dragged on, I've had more time and I wanted to think about it. I think I do care where the Bears play. I do watch the games on tv and I've come to realize that I want the Bears to stay at Soldier Field. Is there a more telegenic setting for a big game which, thanks to Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson, we can anticipate and dare to even plan for again? The team's becoming good. There's more. Late window games and night games when that obsidian late fall and winter darkness descends. The shots of the lit up skyline, the stadium on the lake, flurries falling, call me a meatball, remind me of the myth of Bears weather. But I get romantic about it. And then I think about what's going to be an anodyne domed, perfectly sodded new Stadium and how boring and characterless it will feel to watch games played there. And I don't want it. I want to see the crappy turf at Soldier Field. I want to see the Warren Bears logo in the end zone, feel the shaking of the stadium through my TV every time Caleb rips the heart out of the packers over the next decade. I want the shots of the skyline. I'm even okay with the interstitial B roll of deep dish pizzas coming out of ovens. I'm rooting for inertia. I'm rooting on Kevin Warren as he writes the book on how to lose friends and not influence people. I'm rooting for Soldier Field to continue to be the backdrop for my future football memories. Good take.
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Cody Delmendo
Yeah, he kind of reeled me back into Soldier Field because I've been pretty pro. Arlington Heights and I live, I mean we both live here in the city.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah.
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Cody Delmendo
It's actually further away. If they did go to Arlington Heights and I was, I've been pretty pro for it. But for me, the biggest problem with Soldier Field has always just been the getting there and getting out of there. And I do think that because there's not enough, like the seating isn't as big as other stadiums. Like the price for nosebleed seats for this organization in most seasons where they've been bad are the, the prices are bad unless the weather is ridiculous and they're bad. But now that Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams are there, those prices are going to skyrocket even more than they already were when they were bad.
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Dan Bernstein
You bet.
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Cody Delmendo
So that's why I've been very pro for them to move into a bigger place. But everything he said I don't disagree with. Like, yeah, I wish there was a way they could stay on the lakefront.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, go ahead. That's, that's, I don't mind that take at all. Especially once you, you inoculated against response by just saying you, you don't go to games. It's all about the TV product and that makes, it makes for a nice TV product.
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Cody Delmendo
And, and I, I really agree with that too. Like I, I, I've, the last two Bears games I've gone to are because I got free tickets. I'm. On Sundays. I am a, I have to be on the couch from noon till the last game on Sunday Night Football. And it's, it's, it's, it's, it's part of like my routine on Sundays in the fall, in the winter.
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Dan Bernstein
You, you and most people. Yeah, you and almost Everyone. Only a tiny fraction of people. And like I, again, I grew up with season tickets. We went to home games. We. And it was the whole family. Often. Well, some of my sister's just like, peace, no deuces out. But it was your whole day. You piled into the Caprice Classic and you got your chemical hand war there. Not the chemical hand warmers, the actual, like asbestos lined. You light this. This fuel bar and put it in the hand warmer and we'd sit in sleeping bags. But. But that's what you did. You went to games? Yeah, and. And then our seats moved when they redid the north end zone and the PSL thing came along and all that. But it was always nice to know you could go to the game if you wanted and you'd get rid of the tickets. We'd give them away and, and to friends and all that. But it's if. If you. The. The culture of the people who go is different than the culture of everybody else who watches.
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Cody Delmendo
Absolutely.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. It's just different. Couple more notes here from folks before we move on to the top 10 list for the week. This is Nick, or as I know him, as Terry once called him, Pekka Pekka Humdinger, who says, guys, this Cubs thing is brutal. And watching this collapse has me just uninterested in baseball right now. I'm grateful the World cup is starting, so I have a sports distraction. I know you guys aren't really into soccer. It's fine. I love it. I hope it's a fun tournament. Having said this, you need to be aware of the team that is representative of the island of Curacao. This is the first time Curacao has qualified for the World Cup. They are the smallest nation to ever qualify for the World Cup. All of this is fun, but you must know their head coach is Dick Advocate. A D, V O C A A T. That is a person. I wish Terry were here just so I could hear him talk about Dick Advocate. It is such a BNB name. He is the oldest head coach in the World cup and he's seen a lot. I'll be cheering for the USA and the nation of my great grandparents, Belgium. I also love watching Spain, but I will be an advocate for Curacao in this tournament. Thank you for letting us know, Nick. Thanks.
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Cody Delmendo
He is right about the Cubs thing though, too.
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Dan Bernstein
Advocate. Yeah, he's. Now, here's something you didn't expect and I want to close with this because I think at some point yesterday when we were talking about the Spider man movies. Oh, yeah. When I mentioned that I liked the Sam Raimi films in large part because I liked J.K. simmons's portrayal of J. Jonah Jameson. And I thought that was just, you know, every time he was on the screen, it was just automatic laughs, automatic awesomeness. And this is from Joel. Heard that. And Joel said, hey, Dan, I heard you mention J.K. simmons. You should know this. Two weeks ago, I was in Pittsburgh to see the Cubs break their 10 game losing streak. J.K. simmons was at the game to throw out the first pitch. After the game, I was walking back across the Clementi Bridge to my hotel and I look and I find myself walking right next to J.K. simmons. He was genuinely one of the nicest people I have ever met. He and I just walked and chatted for a few minutes about the game and his tour of all the MLB stadiums this summer. Just an absolute joy to speak with. And he took time for every. Everyone who wanted to say hi. Such a great guy. Not surprised. I've heard that before from people in the biz, almost unanimously people who've worked with him. Same thing, same thing. Just. Just a prince of a guy. And I love hearing stories like that.
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Cody Delmendo
Love to hear Joel hear us talk about it out of nowhere and then it like come full circle.
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Dan Bernstein
Yep.
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Cody Delmendo
Or his experience. So, yeah, very, very cool to hear.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, that's. I love doing this stuff. That's one of the reasons I love Fridays is because we always circle back with some of these connections and. And I always remind you, I read every email that comes into my mailbox. I read. I try to respond to every one of them. And I even, you know, I always fill up the FFF folder here, even if I don't get to all of them. I thank you and thank you for taking. I know a lot of these take time and a lot of thought and you, most importantly, that I respect about the way we do this. You put your name on it. Yeah. This is. We're not dealing with social media. We're not dealing with. With bots and sock puppets and avatars that you are who you say you are. I am who I say I am. And we're having an actual exchange here between what we know are people. It's not just. It's not just comments on a board somewhere or, or stirring up trouble or trolling or anything like that. So thank you for that.
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Cody Delmendo
I've enjoyed replying to a few of the Cubs ones that have come to all three of us.
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Dan Bernstein
So. Yeah. And they. My family knows if I'm sitting on the couch Downstairs sometimes if there's a game on and I'm, they see me looking at my phone and laughing. They don't even have to ask because they know I'm, they know I'm reading emails. Yeah. They know I'm taking the, whatever it is, the hour or so out of my day to do all this. And it's a pleasure, it's a joy. I look forward to it. And the, you know, sometimes I'll look while I'm out fishing or something and I'll look and I'll see in that little red circle in the corner the icon says, you know, 36. I'm like, who gonna be a long one tonight? But I love it and I do appreciate it and it is, it to me. It's, it's a really important part of the connective tissue of three 1, 2 sports where for all the shows and for, you know, our giant staff that we have here of, of Matt and Cody and me. For everybody that's involved in this. Yeah. And occasionally my, my kid that. Yeah, no, he reads it. You know, if you want to send. I don't think he's in the, in our email system though, though.
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Cody Delmendo
But I don't think so.
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Dan Bernstein
No, no, we should probably get them like jason@312sports.com we should probably get that if we, I'm gonna, I'm gonna see if we can add it. But it is a. It, it, it's important to me at the end of every day to get your reactions and get your responses and I've really learned how, how important it is and how it's so much better than what I used to have to experience with that God awful radio station text line that just brings out the worst in people and I think too often brings out the worst in, in, in the people who react to it. I think it was generally bad for, for radio programming to include some of that, but that's, that's neither here nor there at the moment. I do want to remind you that when you're out looking around your home this week and thinking about your, you know, cutting the grass or just seeing what else you can do to trim hedges or anything else, look at your windows and think about your windows. It's a good time for a windows reckoning. And as you're doing that, just know that Russ Armstrong's waiting for your call and he can handle whatever you want and he's going to get you the best price. And most importantly, the process is going to be personal and normal because Russ is the owner you're not going to go through layer and layer and layer of this call center that's outside of Chicago, representing this marketing company that sets you up with this person who may. You're going to repeat all the information through three, a bunch of different times and you're going to be exasperated by the time you're actually talking to somebody about Windows. Not with Russ. He is Chicago window guys. He owns the factory. The factory's here in Chicago. He doesn't use subcontracted labor. His crew works for him. The people that installed my windows install your windows. That's why I recommend him to everybody. You can get quotes elsewhere, but he's got a price match guarantee. You don't have to fall for gimmicks. It's the best product, the best price, importantly the best experience. 847-302-9171. Check out his five star reviews@chicagowindowguys.com and that brings us to this week's top 10 list. This one is not I'm not going to linger on a lot of the stuff. I just thought it would be fun. And that is because we saw Braden, Braden Montgomery, in a memorable Tuesday night make his major league debut. And I started thinking back about major league debuts between the Cubs and the Sox that I've experienced. I can't speak to the ones from, you know, ron Santo in 1960 or whenever it was. These are ones that I, of the, of the ones that I remember, whether as a talk show host, reporter or a fan. I've decided to rank these and there are some explanations as to why they are where they are based on the excitement over the prospect, the excitement about the debut itself. Wow, this person is finally here. Where they generally were in their development cycle and how well they did and then trying to kind of make it independent of where the rest of the career was because some of these debuts had nothing to do some of their bad players and some are good players and some are in between. So for honorable mentions, I have two and one. They're both White Sox in the honorable mentions. One is Zach Remillard who came into a game on June 17th of 2023, came into the bottom of the fourth inning replacing Tim Anderson. And if you remember, Zach Remillard had three hits, a walk and a game winning rbi. People never seen him before walk down the field. Who's this guy who's a. Well, his name is Zach Remillard. He's in the game for the White Sox. He's going to go win the game for you so that's an honorable mention. The other honorable mention, because it technically was not his debut and it's only on a technicality. Otherwise this one would have been way up there on the all time list. And this is April 2nd of 2021. Your mean Mercedes now your mean Mercedes had won at bat. The, at the end of 2020 he had won at bat. But his debut was actually April 2nd of the next year. Five for, five for RBI. And then everything went crazy. And I think he went 3 for 3 the next game and he started 8 for 8. And it was, it was, it was a thing. And then. You mean Mercedes was out of baseball by June, off the team and done by June.
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Cody Delmendo
I remember, I remember that he just like it, it was just like an insane like linsanity type run.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes. It was impossible. It was like, what, who is this guy? What does he do? Every ball was murdered. Everything was. And then there was, remember there was the whole Tony La Russa thing about when he hit the home run against
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Cody Delmendo
when they were like a thousand runs
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Dan Bernstein
and La Russa disciplined his own, got mad at his own player and apologized to the other team for his own player hitting a damn home run.
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Cody Delmendo
Yeah. And then he, yeah, it was like after that he fell apart.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh yeah, he was going to fall apart anyway. Right. It just, it was, you know, post hoc ergo propter hawk fallacy. But it didn't help. And it was, it just solidified that how, how out of his time and place Tony LaRusso was. And I just, I remember that vividly. So those are honorable mentions. Number 10 on my list, Darrell Boston. And his White Sox debut was 3 for 5 with a triple, a stolen base, two runs and two driven in. And I'll never forget the triple that he hit I thought was going to be a home run. It was off of a Charlie Huff knuckleball. And we were excited. For Daryl Boston, that was a big deal. It was a first round pick. And that was like another one of these White Sox toolsy, athletic outfielder types. Everybody in the Sox system was that and they were almost all bad. Unless you know, it was, you know, Sammy Sosa, who eventually was good for other reasons, helped along by other reasons. Number nine, Cubs pitcher Sean Bosky. May 20, 1990. Sean Boskey. Complete games, six strikeouts, one earned run in a 51 win against Houston. The starting pitcher for Houston was Mike Scott, who had won a Cy Young Award in 1981 of the 86. I think one of the greatest ball scuffers, ball cutters of all Time. That guy could doctor up a baseball and make it dance. But Sean Bosky also went 2 for 4 with a double in an RBI in that game. And, and he was bad. But when Sean, who's this? Hey, Sean Bosky. It was also a great Harry Carey. Name Sean Bosky. Complete game in his debut. He's number nine and number eight, Shota Imanaga. April 1, 2024. A five nothing win over Colorado. Six innings pitch, no runs, nine strikeouts, no walk. Bucks, the reason why it's down at number eight is he's 30 years old that I'm gonna, I'm gonna put less weight on a guy who's been a pro. It's, it's less of a deal for someone who isn't a little kid who's just showing up for the first time and has never seen, never played in a building with, with the extra set of seats, the extra deck and the concourses and has to look at all that, you know, they, they start putting the extra levels on there. It changes your, your eyes and everything else. But showed us number eight, number seven. Similarly, Kosuke Fukudome. March 31st. Yes, 2008. Kosuke Fukudome, three for three, including the game tying three run home run in the ninth inning. He had a single, he had a double in the 43 loss to Milwaukee. But the energy of that game time, three run home run. And the camera pans to the bleachers and there's all the racist jamokes with their, with their headbands and doing all of, all of their cultural appropriation and all of their, their marketed racism. Kosuke Fukudomes, you were how old I was in 2008.
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Cody Delmendo
So I was a junior in high school at the time. So we're talking 17 years old. And to this day I tell people that is my favorite loss I've ever had to endure from the Cubs, largely because of that game tying homer. It's just one of my favorite opening day moments ever.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay, well, that debut is number seven on my list. Number six is that of Mark Pryor, the number two overall pick on May 22 of 02, six innings pitched, 10 strikeouts in a 74 win over Pittsburgh. And I thought as I was doing this, I was thinking back and writing all this down. I said to Beth, hey, remember when I put Jason in his bouncy seat in front of the tv? And she said, no, you didn't. I said, yeah, I did. She said, jason wasn't born until oh, four, you dumbass. That was Zoe. That was your Daughter. You. You put your daughter in her bouncy seat and turned it toward the TV and said, you can say, you watch Mark Pryor's first game. And I said, oh, correct. I guess you're right. She was there and Jason wasn't at that time. But I did that. And there was nothing in that game that suggested that we were going to have all the pain and misery that the Mark Prior career would bring us and the bad luck. But it was pretty special. Number five. This one was cool. For different reasons. Nico Horner was called up to the Cubs on September 9th of 2019. Nico Horner was home. Why was he home? Because he was playing double A baseball in the Cubs organization and the season was over, so he went home. And then the Cubs found themselves in need of middle infield help in the middle of a playoff race, so they called Nico Horner up. His season was over until I said, your season's not over anymore. You're being promoted to the big leagues. 3 for 5, 4 RBI, including a triple in his big league debut. That's number five. What about their white sacks? There's no white sacks out here, Bernstein. Number four is Craig Wilson. I can't forget Craig Wilson. Nobody can forget Craig Wilson. He had this incredible start to his. He batted over.400. I think for the season, he batted over.400. He only had like 53 plate appearances. But on September 5th of 1998, up came Craig Wilson against the New York Yankees. He was 3 for 4 with a home run and two doubles. He had eight total bases in his major league debut. And Craig Wilson, like your mean Mercedes after him, had a tear, an absolute tear, to start his White Sox career. That's number four. Number three. And I know if you're an old Cub fan, you've been waiting for this one. You've been waiting for it. And you know what? You're gonna get it. Number three, May 31, 1988. Jeff Pico. Have you ever heard of Jeff Pico, Cody?
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Cody Delmendo
Does it make me a bad Cubs fan if I haven't?
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Dan Bernstein
No, but it's just. It's one of those names where people, if you ever hear. Well, remember Jeff Pico.
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Cody Delmendo
Yeah, it was before my time. Well, before my time, so.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, Jeff Pico, in his debut, pitched a complete game shutout, 4 hitter, a complete game shutout, 4 hitter in his major league debut. And it was the first complete game shutout, major league debut at the time, since 1909, since a guy named King Cole was a merry old soul. And a merry old soul Was he Jeff Pico, Number three. Okay. Number two, Braden Montgomery. I am putting that at number two, two for five, three rbi, a walk off to run homer. Now part of the reason why I put that so high on the list of Cubs or Sox MLB debuts is how memorable it's going to be. You're never going to forget it because you're going to remember it was that weird acid trip broadcast Bob Costas 80s night. It's gonna have, it's got a hook. It's sticky. The memory is sticky. The memory will stay with you and any little kid is going to remember it because little kids remember everything, especially little sports fans. He hit a walk off that photo of teammates waiting for him as he's. You see his back as he's headed toward the plate. Everybody that excited to greet him. That kid had a walk off winning home run. But you'll remember how weird it was because Bob Costas called it where all the graphics were different and everything looked weird. You're gonna remember Braden Montgomery. I also think he's going to be a really good player and that's going to help too. Braden Montgomery, number two and number one. I don't think anybody is going to forget on May 7th of what was the year 2010.
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Cody Delmendo
There it is. I know which one you're talking about.
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Dan Bernstein
Starlin Castro.
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Cody Delmendo
Yep.
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Dan Bernstein
Starlin Castro in his major league debut hit a home run in his first at bat. He also had a three run triple to go with the three run home run. An MLB record, six rbi, which I believe is still the MLB record for a major league debut. And Starlin Castro for a while was on pace for like 3000 hits. Yeah, he, he was on pace to maybe be the first 3000 hit guy not in the hall of Fame.
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Cody Delmendo
Yeah. But it's multiple 200 hit seasons. Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Starlin Castro for, for a while was a really productive player. He occasionally would drift away and his brain would drift and his focus would drift and he'd go to the zoo in his head and then a ball would go by him and he's chewing on his glove or he's picking flowers and then the din playing with dandelions because Starlin was kind of a T ball player in that regard. But that's a hell of a debut. Yeah. So that, that.
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Cody Delmendo
Can I give you a honorable mention or maybe.
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Dan Bernstein
Absolutely.
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Cody Delmendo
Maybe you might want to replace it.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay.
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Cody Delmendo
I think I, I would be surprised if you remember this guy. I, I feel like a lot of Cubs fans would, would be surprised or I think a lot of. I Would be surprised if a lot of Cubs fans remember him.
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Dan Bernstein
Got it as well.
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Cody Delmendo
So this is Ryan O' Malley in 2006. He debuted on August 16th. He has. He pitched a career like 12 and third innings.
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Dan Bernstein
Right? Okay.
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Cody Delmendo
In his major league debut, he pitched eight innings, gave up five hits. He did walk six, but he struck out two. But zero runs in a one to nothing win over the Astros. And he pitched four innings his next outing.
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Dan Bernstein
But.
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Cody Delmendo
And then never pitched.
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Dan Bernstein
That was it.
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Cody Delmendo
Major league baseball ever again. But his, his major league debut is like, okay, if I'm him, I just like, that's my claim to fame, you know, he pitched for the Cubs, Major league baseball. And you got the best out of them you ever were ever going to get in that one game. In his major league debut. You could for some. I don't know what his prospect status or any of that was because this is 2006.
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Dan Bernstein
Sure.
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Cody Delmendo
But for some reason I remember Lynn, Lynn Casper and Bob Brantley calling this game. And it sticks with me when I think about just random Cubs in their major league debut. On a negative side, there was another player he didn't have, like, he got hit in the head in his.
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Dan Bernstein
Adam Greenberg.
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Cody Delmendo
Yeah, he got hit in the head. Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Adam. Oh, amazing story.
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Cody Delmendo
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Incredible story.
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Cody Delmendo
Major league Baseball.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes.
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Cody Delmendo
Yeah. Like, that's the negative and the sad. It's a sad story, but it's something that I, I've never forgotten.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. Oh, Adam Greenberg. I. I was watching that. I remember I was all excited about him. You know, I was happy to have a tribe member make the major leagues. But. And I think that they. Some. There was a documentary about it that was done and somebody told that story like Moonlight Graham. You know, it's like something from. It almost seems fictional. But that is your list right there. Enjoy it. Have fun with it. Thought it would be fun. It is time. It is. Well, you know, before I do that, I want to let you know that I got picks for you, but the finals are back tonight. Here we go, man. And there's easy money at my bookie if you don't overthink it. You don't need a crazy parlay or spreadsheets. You need that team that you trust. So playoff, finals. Basketball is perfect for my bookie. Clean board. You want to keep it simple. You can. I think the spurs are given five, the latest that I saw in my bookie. A lot of people like the Spurs. To win that five number, you gotta. You got a lot to think about there. But back the spurs, you can back the Knicks because they keep proving everybody wrong. Ride the team's built to win. Let the playoffs do the rest. If you're new to my bookie, you haven't made a deposit. Don't sit this one out. Go register. Go deposit. Use the promo code DBU. Any bet you choose up to 500 bucks is fully covered. Make your play. If it doesn't hit you, get it right back. Opt in using the bet back bonus token. Pick your squad, take the shot. Don't just watch the playoffs. Cash in on them only at my bookie. Which leads us to DBU picks that are presented by my bookie. I, I don't think I bet this last time, but I'm going back there again. The, the guys who the guy's been delivering for me all playoffs. There's, there's plus odds on this. I don't know why. Devin Vassell, the over under for threes is 2.5 over. I'm taking Devin. Devin Vassell for three or more threes. And defiantly, even though I cursed him, because I took Mikel bridges to have 14 or more points and he had two. That's bad. That's not enough points. So you'd think that I would be off of Mikhail Bridges. I'm even more determined. I'm. That my. I'm. I am going to go back to the well. I'm going to give Mikhail Bridges my vote of confidence that he will make two or more threes. There. There's your parlay. Devin Vassell, three or more threes. Mikel Bridges, two or more threes. You got somebody to root for on each side if you don't necessarily want to root for the outcome. And those are DBU picks. Lock in your picks now with my bookie. Bet on anything, anywhere, anytime. And that is going to do it for Dan Bernstein. Unfiltered. Have a fantastic weekend. If you're in the middle of your weekend listening to this, I hope you are having a fantastic weekend. Thanks to Cody Delmendo for being the producer slash sidekick today. And we have been brought to you by Chicago Window guys and in partnership with my bookie, Dan Bernstein. Unfiltered. Unfiltered on three. One, two. Sports. The essential dining experience is set long before the plates are plated, the sauce
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Cody Delmendo
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