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Dan Bernstein
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Matt Spiegel
Time for what?
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Dan Bernstein
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah, it's insane.
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Dan Bernstein
We've never seen this before. No team in the recorded modern era of baseball has done what the 2026 Cubs have done.
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Matt Spiegel
And they are one victory away today from becoming the 11th team ever in baseball history to put together two 10 game winning streaks in the season.
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Dan Bernstein
This is from Bob Nightingale. The Chicago Cubs have now won 15 consecutive games at Wrigley Field, their longest streak since 1935. They have also won nine consecutive games overall after already having the 10 game winning streak there. What was the Cubs last season with two 10 game winning streaks? That would also be 1935.
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Matt Spiegel
All right, so then, so then the stat of them being the 11 team that must be in like the modern era of baseball, is that how however
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Dan Bernstein
you they did that? But apparently they did do it in the season where they lost the World Series. That year the Cubs lost the World Series 4 to 2 to the Detroit Tigers. In 1935 they won the National League with a record of 154. They had 847 runs, 597 runs allowed. So just for fun, just for kicks here, do you know what that starting lineup was for the 1935 Cubs?
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Matt Spiegel
Was that the Evers, the Tingers, the chance? No. Or they that was that before them?
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Dan Bernstein
No, it was I believe after. But you had Gabby Hartnett was the catcher HE of the 151 OPS plus that year to lead them in that category. That's good. Phil Cavaretta at first, Billy Herman at second, Billy Jurges at short, Stan Hack at third, Augie Galan in the outfield, Chuck Klein, the great Chuck Klein outfielder, and Frank debery. You then had coming off the bench, Hazen Shirley Kai. Kai Kyler was still going strong at age 36. Charlie Grimm, who is the manager, also played two games for them as a first baseman.
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Matt Spiegel
So the manager skip calling his own number that day?
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Dan Bernstein
Yep. Skips like I'm writing myself in the lineup and put him out there. What about the pitching? Well, your pitchers, you had 220 game winners on that staff in Lon Warnicke and Bill Lee.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah, they probably threw 400 innings.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, the innings pitched. Warnicke through 261, Bill Lee through 252, Larry French through 246, Charlie Root through 201.
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Matt Spiegel
That's the good old days of baseball.
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Dan Bernstein
You had, you had four different pitchers twirling over 200 innings for you. Wow, that's. And look at this. Lon Warnicke, 20 complete games, Bill Lee 18 complete games, Larry French 16, Charlie Root 11 Jesus Tex Carlton had eight, Roy Henshaw had seven. So pretty impressive.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah. All right, so for the Cubs, if they were to get the, the second 10 game winning streak this season, they would be the 11th team since 1969. Okay, so that's where the. So 69, the Mets, the Astros did it. 77, Royals, 78 Pirates, 2001 Cardinals, 13 Braves, the 15 Blue Jays, the 17 Dodgers, 19 Astros and of course the 25 Milwaukee Brewers. The Cubs were the 11th team since 1969.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, I mean what we're, we're running out of things to say at this point just how special this has been and just like making sure that everybody knows how special it is. And I mentioned this last season, I think it was probably was a game four was at the home game. Was that the Freddie Peralta game? The Freddy chants and everything that it just where, where. It's easy to make fun of Cubs fans for a lot of things and it has been for a long time. Easy to say, oh yeah, well, they always scream and it's every fly ball and there's so many tourists there that they don't know when to cheer and
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Matt Spiegel
they're all drunk and not watching.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, that's, that is lazy because you're. If you really think that you're not watching the games carefully or you're not attending the games carefully and you're not observing, what's been really cool is just how dialed in Cubs fans have been throughout this 15 game stretch. And you know me that I'm not, I'm not a panderer. I'm not. I've never been somebody who is going to say, oh, great job fans, best fans in the world and all this stuff that I don't do that. But at some point if I'm going to be the same person that's always pointing out the emotional amplification of Wrigley Field and the reverberation of Wrigley vibes and work in those areas where I'm not comfortable, where I can't measure things, then there has to be some credit given to a fans doing the job of fans. And it hasn't been the same sort of nervousness that, that overriding nervousness that Wrigley Field can have, that the, the attention that everybody pays to knowing, seeing a change in the on deck hitter, knowing that a managerial move has been made. You know what else I'm noticing too? That fans are watching Craig Counsel look toward his replay team, that there is actually a heightened sense now, let alone what's going on with abs. But I mean even just base path challenges and stuff like that, that when you have Council looking there and we saw it with a. Was there was. There was a play recently where Council looked in and was waiting and kind of got frustrated waiting for an answer, it's like yes, no. And he started to go up to his ears to do the headset pantomime mechanic and then they change him up and he's like no, no. Did that. No, I get it sort of unhappily, I guess we're not challenging and then kind of look back. But the fact that even in the ballpark there's that level of attention being paid to some of that stuff. Don't ever tell me that Cubs fans are certainly modern. Cub fans are inattentive because that's just wrong. It's just wrong. And I think that there is, that's coming through. There is a palpable sense of awareness that's going on that will reward you more than ever on a Craig Counsel managed team. And more than ever, the stuff that Bregman is doing and I mentioned this on off the Ivy, the off the Ivy podcast I mentioned this, that there's a great fan graphs piece by Ben Clemens talking about not just Nico Horner centering around the amazing stuff that Nico Horner has done the last month defensively, but also little things that Dansby Swanson and Alex Bregman do. Whether it's throwing up a glove to deke a runner to make somebody maybe pause just one step, that changes the way that everyone reacts on the base paths, to buy somebody time to make a throw or to catch somebody in between. There's advanced defensive stuff going on with the Cubs, and the ability to pay attention to that and enjoy that just makes all of the baseball experience more rewarding. I do think it comes through in the broadcasts and you hear JD Talking about it and you hear Ron Coomer talking about it and noticing these things. But when you're doing things at the level the Cubs are doing, it rewards you. It rewards your attention.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah, The Cubs at 26 and 12 Dan have opened up a nice little lead there on the Cardinals. They're three and a half up. They're five and a half up. They're 5 up on the Pirates, five and a half on Milwaukee and 6 up on Cincinnati. The Reds were in first place on May 1st and with say, a Suzuki back in the lineup, The Cubs are 18 and 6 with Saya in the lineup. Obviously 8 and 6 without say, Suzuki, but 18 and 6 since he's come back into the lineup. And the offense looks pretty different and they have been playing very different after that 7 and 9 start they they got off to.
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Dan Bernstein
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Matt Spiegel
This is from Jason that came through, and I wanted to address this and answer it for Jason. So thanks for the email. Remember Dan at 312 sports, Matt at 312 sports. He says it's too hard to get feedback for Friday feedback Friday in with a busy work week. Have you thought about moving it to Monday? Thanks. So the question being, have we thought about moving Friday feedback Friday to Monday in order to help Jason get his feedback in maybe over the weekend? So we discussed it, and the idea of moving Friday feedback Friday to Monday. We decided that we would not do that.
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Dan Bernstein
No. And let me just explain this. You can send Friday feedback for Friday feedback Friday whenever you want.
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Matt Spiegel
You could send it on a Saturday
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Dan Bernstein
or you could send it on a Saturday. You could send it immediately after this segment concludes. And I'm not going to miss it. I have a folder here that just Says F, F, F, which happens to stand for Friday Feedback Friday.
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Matt Spiegel
But it wasn't an immediate. And hard. No, we did consider. We talked about it for about 20 minutes this morning.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. And didn't you bring it up in front of the committee earlier? So.
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Matt Spiegel
And yeah, and the committee actually was. They were. They were torn on it and they. They voted. And actually it came up to a 5 to vote to keep Friday feedback Friday on Friday instead of moving Friday feedback Friday to Monday.
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Dan Bernstein
Yep. But we did consider it. And I would just say, don't worry. When you have a thought, don't wait, send it in. And it's a meritocracy for Friday Feedback Friday. It is just the. The ones that I want to read that I think are good and worth reading, I'm going to read. And sometimes the criteria change, and sometimes I think, well, this is a good time for this, but everything is going to be considered. I see everything. So as soon as you have a thought, send it in.
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Matt Spiegel
Send it in. I have one other one from Seth that came through. It's a question that maybe you want to address. He says this variable Rossini thing is getting ridiculous. Did they stay with their spouses for their health insurance?
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Dan Bernstein
I don't know. But the latest, which I imagine will address on forward progress. Yeah, the latest was a. I think it was a zoom interview, maybe from the. From COVID era. And she was. They were asked a question. What's something you do with your eyes closed? And she immediately jumps in and she's like, have sex with your husband or wife.
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Matt Spiegel
And Mike Vrabel was on this panel as well.
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Dan Bernstein
And Mike Vrabel, who's on the panel, sort of blanches and she just. You could not jump in, everybody, and offer that answer fast enough.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah. Because I'm sure that's. That was something she said in some pillow talk, that this is what I do at home. Wow. Allegedly.
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Dan Bernstein
Maybe.
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Matt Spiegel
Possibly. Wow.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. Because we're just revisiting everything. And I don't know, maybe. Maybe he's just needy. Maybe. Maybe there's a real wholesome ending to this. And, you know, a suggestion did come in that he might. And they might just say were all polyamorous.
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Matt Spiegel
Yes, I saw that. That came through.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. Yeah.
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Matt Spiegel
This is what we do. But if. If that was the case, they would have handled the exposure a little differently.
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Dan Bernstein
Maybe not. Maybe they're embarrassed about being polyamorous, and maybe they don't want to be outed as, as. As swingers. I don't know.
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Matt Spiegel
I think if you, if you decide to live that lifestyle. You're not embarrassed of it. It.
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Dan Bernstein
That's true.
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Matt Spiegel
And you know and say what's going on? There was photos of you. Yeah. I mean, this is part of our marriage and it's part of our relationship and it's not none of your business. So off instead of. That's laughable. There's no context here. So maybe. I think, I think they would have worn that with pride.
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Dan Bernstein
That gives us another option, though. If we're looking at PR options, there's. We are romantically head over heels in love with each other and nothing can stop our true love. Or to blave.
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Matt Spiegel
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
Whatever it might be. It might be true love conquering all. Or maybe they just say, yeah. Or maybe. Maybe this is a new option, a new door where they could say, yeah, this is part of our. The lifestyle. We've both chosen Polyamory and we have
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Matt Spiegel
opens are down and yep.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, it's all good and there's nothing wrong with it and it doesn't hurt anyone.
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Matt Spiegel
You know, years ago, I or I did a wedding. I. I was the officiant for a wedding. And the couple that got married, huge movie fans. They. They spoke to each other all the time in movie quotes and lines.
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Dan Bernstein
Did you do the Peter Cook?
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Matt Spiegel
I know, Dan. I did the whole ceremony in movie lines about love or marriage or. And I. But I opened this without telling them I was going to do this. And I opened it with love, true love. That's how I opened to the ceremony. Half the crowd got it, the bridegroom loved it. So that was the main thing. The other half thought I was drunk.
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Dan Bernstein
So either way, worth it.
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Matt Spiegel
Oh, I'm 100. Where they loved every second of it. So I. I scripted the entire ceremony with movie lines.
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Dan Bernstein
Man and wife. Same man and what?
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Matt Spiegel
Wife. Yeah, it was great.
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Dan Bernstein
I see that. I applaud you for that. I think that was the proper way to handle it and that the half of people who didn't get it have something wrong with them.
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Matt Spiegel
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
And I would consider them at fault.
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Matt Spiegel
Correct.
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Dan Bernstein
Here are some more of your submissions this week for Friday Feedback Friday. And it gives me great pride to say that this was sent in by Ball Sack in Raleigh, North Carolina. Well, Ball Sack, longtime listener, long time fan, says, guys, I was a who you crapping contributor back in the day. The segment had range, it had bite, it held people accountable. You were good at it. Which is exactly why what happened this past week is so delicious. I actually think the segment was overrated. But that's okay. You spent considerable time on this podcast chronicling the phenomenon of iraqpo ing the advertising industry's habit of paying a recognizable athlete for an endorsement deal and then having to actually tell the audience or who that person is because nobody on planet earth could identify them on their own. It's a beautiful bit. It's sharp, it's repeatable, and that's the kind of cultural observation that sticks. So imagine my delight when during your top 10 Chicago play by play guys segment, Dan, you gave yourself an honorable mention. And then when Maddie correctly called you a D douchebag for it, your defense was to point to your trophies and hardware sitting behind you. Dan, you a rack pod yourself. You awarded yourself an honor. Then you had to explain to the audience who you were to justify it. That is the bit. The company didn't have to just say his name. They had to point to his credentials. And that's you. That was you in real time on your own podcast. I'd also like to point out that I listen to you on podcast audio. I can't see your trophies, I can't see your hardware, I can't see anything behind you. For all I know, you're recording in front of a green screen in your local Mariano's for a plug. You cited physical evidence on a medium that is by definition, for the most part, audio only. That's legendary. Matty was right. But more importantly, you've identified a new subspecies of the Iraqpo, the self Arachpo.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah, that's great.
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Dan Bernstein
When you have to point to your own trophies to justify putting yourself on a list you made, this bit has found its highest form. Dan Bernstein, who you crapping?
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Matt Spiegel
So was that from the real Andre de Balzac?
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Dan Bernstein
No, it was not from honor to Balzac. It was.
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Matt Spiegel
It wasn't.
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Dan Bernstein
It was from a. The. The self titled straight up ball sack.
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Matt Spiegel
All right, I don't know if this helps or hurts you, but I will say this. When you. When you did it, you were in studio, so you weren't at home correctly physically point at your trophies. I don't know if it makes it worse or better that you were pointing at imaginary trophies to identify the fact that you or to justify the fact that you should have given. Given yourself an honorable mention. So I. I don't know if that hurts or helps. And then there was one. One other area. Henry did Bulzak. Yeah, I lost it, so it's fine.
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Dan Bernstein
Dave sends this and he says, hello, boys. I realize that as a pediatric doctor dentist, I was disqualified from the humorless response population to the side effects of jardiance, empaglyphosin. But I pretty much knew immediately why. As a healthcare professional, we tend to not treat things with the sophomoric response that many of these situations seem to lend themselves to. You made it clear. Medical doctors only. Fair enough. But as I have been married to a urologist for 25 years, as of this September, I felt qualified by association. But rather than give you my opinion, here is hers. It's twofold. The first being, whilst guys being guys, anything in that region is funny to the physician, it is literally just another body part. In that sense, an infection. There is like anywhere, just an infection and something that must be dealt with. Which leads directly to point number two. And this has been an ongoing question that we've had talking about exploding taint syndrome and jardiance and the fact that death by fatal taint swelling remains hilarious to me. He said shit ain't funny when it means we're getting paged at 2am because that's always when the freaky stuff shows up. Showing our age with the page comment. But man, it hits a nerve when anything means a middle of the night call or someone on your watch having a major complication. There are very few urologic emergencies. Fournier's gangrene testicular torsion. Oh, that's the one my cousin says he's great at undoing.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah, that's a good skill to have.
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Dan Bernstein
He said he is. He has. He prides himself he can untwist testicles like nobody's business.
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Matt Spiegel
Good for him, man.
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Dan Bernstein
Right? He says he's just. He happens to be really good at it. I said it's because your hands, your pants all the time.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah, Lots of ball in.
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Dan Bernstein
I practice a lot when I'm alone. The other two are pre apism and broken penis. Those are the four emergencies.
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Matt Spiegel
Let's leave that alone.
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Dan Bernstein
The four emergencies. Fournier's gangrene, testicular torsion, pre apism and broken penis. And members of broken penis. Members of broken member.
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Matt Spiegel
Oh, I remembered what I wanted to mention to you from. Yes, Unrated Bolzaks.
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Dan Bernstein
What was that?
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Matt Spiegel
Because you mentioned Mariano's. That I've. You'd be very proud of me. The other day I found a two pound package of ground beef.
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Dan Bernstein
Let me guess.
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Matt Spiegel
Okay, go ahead.
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Dan Bernstein
Two pounds. You got it for eight bucks.
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Matt Spiegel
I got it for five dollars.
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Dan Bernstein
Let's go. Outstanding.
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Matt Spiegel
I wasn't planning on making anything with it. I walked.
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Dan Bernstein
Doesn't matter.
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Matt Spiegel
Saw it and I made doesn't matter that night.
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Dan Bernstein
Yep. I would Bring it home. And I would portion it into exactly the sizes I would use for various things, then freeze it. And Ziploc did it all for the boys.
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Matt Spiegel
Just made. Made tacos with 5$2 pounds of ground beef.
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Dan Bernstein
So now, obviously, writes Dave, nobody wants to deal with these urologic emergencies. Guys tend to care more about their junk than almost anything else. So if complications arise, we're talking about medical, psychological, and social ramifications that make any humor almost immediately quashed by inevitable consequences of side effects from this medication. So, yes, we aren't generally funny, and yes, we get why it's funny. But there's just too many late nights, too much paperwork, too many headaches of the past to justify even a chuckle. So there you have it. That is her. That is her condensed response to why exploding taint isn't funny. Even if it's the result of a medication that's supposed to simply help diabetics, people with chronic kidney disease and heart disease. I hope that helps. And after rereading my email, I can say with certainty that I'm not funny either. Dave, thank you. We appreciate it. And that is the latest medical professional opinion to be offered on how when you mention exploding Taint Syndrome or Fournier's gangrene, the result is always, oh, no, you know, that's not funny. And the more you tell me something is not funny, the funnier I'm gonna find it. Yes.
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Matt Spiegel
And I wonder how many people from our community have looked up Fournier's gangrene.
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Dan Bernstein
Don't do that. But. But when you listen, you listen to the side effects, you listen to the side effects of Jardians, and they describe exploding Taint Syndrome. Fatal. Fatal taint. Swelling. That's a bad way to go. First, real bad. That's a bad way to go. But if you don't find that funny, I don't know what to tell you. It's everybody. It all gets back to the Mel Brooks rule. And the Mel Brooks rule is the difference between tragedy and comedy. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall down a manhole and die. And that, that is. This is the. It's the essence of it. And I know doctors are empathetic and have to be and do no harm and all that, but screw it, I'm not a doctor.
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Matt Spiegel
Except for the ones that wear cowboy hats.
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Dan Bernstein
Except for the end sock sets and socks. Hats, don't forget. This is Tyler. Remember the hitting coach in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Matt Spiegel
Yep.
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Dan Bernstein
He said my last message to you is in regards to Riley Martin being the ultimate symbol for non Division 1 schools and finding success. But today I am talking about the Devil Wears Prada. You on Monday Question why the Devil Wears Prada remains in the forethought of the generation that grew up with it. As a connoisseur of movies and classic television, I can say honestly that the Devil Wears Prada is much more than a movie for me, it is my Ratatouille. In the movie Ratatouille, the critic Anton Ego takes a bite of the peasant dish and flashes back to when he was a child and his mother made the meal for him. When I watch the Devil Wears Prada, I'm transported back to when I was about 5 years old watching Anne Hathaway bust her ass for Meryl Streep, uncovering her strengths through her career ambitions. Yes, the movies about New York fashion and publishing in the early 2000s, but for me it's a reminder of the light hearted moments of my childhood and my current situation of doing everything I can to get ahead in my career pursuit. It also marks a sad present. I wanted to take my mom to see it. That's the person I watched the movie with the most. And when I first heard last summer was coming to theaters, I told her I wanted to take her for a date to see the movie. But because I decided to pursue my career goal of being a hitting coach at the professional level and moved away from the Chicago area to Charleston, we're not going to be able to have that date. We'll definitely swap thoughts after we see it, but it won't be as enjoyable when I watch it in theaters alone. So this movie better be really damn good. Nice, Tyler.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah, nice note. Sorry that you're away from your mom for this, but fly her out or you fly back home. That's that's worth a date with mom.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes. Yeah. Or I would second that. Don't wait, Sox fan Dave says. Gentlemen, I'm really enjoying the podcast in your deep thought and your humor. I'm a lifelong Sox fan, but this email is about the Cubs success. Socks success would more likely be attributed to Pope Bob and his divine connection that would resurrect the Sox from the cellar. Cubs success this season is not necessarily because of their stellar defense, their timely hitting or experienced managerial decisions. It is because of one person, one hero that they did not expect the ass guy. Their tired history is filled with villains, Billy Goats, Black cats, fan interference, to name a few. How about embracing this hero, this legend in the ass guy? Going into that game with the Tampa Bay Rays. The Cubs were 4 and 6. They were struggling with pitcher injuries and while the injuries have gotten worse, as of Wednesday when I write this, they've gone 20 and 6. Cubs fans didn't know they needed ass guy. JD making sure everyone okay down there before that 25 second pause is just what the Cubs needed. If they end up winning 100 games, a World Series championship in celebration, they should acknowledge Ass Guy and influence on the season. I'm not saying they should erect a statue to the giant exposed ass, but remember, not all heroes wear capes and certainly not all heroes wear pants.
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Matt Spiegel
22 and 6 since that happened, 22
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Dan Bernstein
and 6 I would say this based on some very solid but quiet reporting. That's no guy, that's Ass lady. Just saying. Don't presume. I think let's just go with ass person.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah, let's say ass person. Let's just say ass person and then
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Dan Bernstein
we all have ass person's disease. But I would go I think we're just so, you know, so let's, as we think about this, if in fact we want to do this, be safer with Ass person. Yes, but just out of respect but noted. I will say that absolutely 100% noted. This was sent in by I Love the Leader Dan the other day you guys were talking about the Devil Wears Prada and Adrian Grenier and how now he's doing an ad for Jarlsberg cheese and you remarked you were trying to figure out if you liked Jarlsberg and the answer left open ended. Coincidentally, all three are connected. The movie the actor and the cheese. In the movie, after the Anne Hathaway character had a particularly bad day at her bustling fashion magazine, she arrives home at the apartment venting to Adrian Grenier's character while changing into her sleepwear. He, the sympathetic boyfriend, listens intently while finishing preparing a delicious looking grilled cheese. He plates the sandwich and hands it to her. She's winding down her story and remarks about why everyone is so thin at the magazine and then sighs and says I'm not even hungry anymore. Out of frustration or maybe to be thin like them, losing her appetite from being constantly stressed. Personally, I would have eaten the grilled cheese, asked for a second one with a side of cheeseburger. She puts the grilled cheese down, to which Adrian Grenier's character says, there's like a pound of Jarlsberg in there. That's too much as he snatches the sandwich away and takes a bite. I think that's how he got the jarlsberg commercial gig. I think that's probably right. And I did not put that together. But let me ask this question.
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Matt Spiegel
Well, yeah, you didn't. Did you forget that that's what the cheese was that he used? Oh, seriously?
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, yeah, I did.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah, of course. That's obviously the connection to it.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, I did. I did forget that.
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Matt Spiegel
And I'm waiting for him to get some kind of strawberry, maybe with Driscoll Farms, because remember, she quits to the job. He tells, she tells him she quit, he quits. She's home doing the, the Twins art project still. He comes home with a bag of groceries and he bought strawberries. It was like eight, eight. And he mentions that they're like $8 each, some really expensive strawberries. So I'm waiting for that commercial to come next as we. So far we've had the Starbucks energy drinks, the Jarlsberg cheese commercial, and now he needs the strawberry commercial to make up for the fact he was not invited back into Devil Wars Prada 2. But maybe you should have been a whiny little bitch, not break up with her. Maybe be in the second one.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, you forgot my birthday.
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Matt Spiegel
You weren't even there for my birthday party.
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Dan Bernstein
Grow up. Yeah, move on. Right?
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Matt Spiegel
You're trying to make her way as a fucking writer, dude. Stop being a whiny baby.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, well, maybe again, maybe he's needy again. Maybe that's the answer to everything. Yes, we're talking about needy men. And if you're, you're him. And you're probably thinking, you know, I'm a pretty handsome dude and. But this is like 22 year old Anna Hathaway, like here in my apartment with me. I'm never going to do better than this. So maybe, maybe he just understood sort of where he was and what that opportunity was. I guess perhaps.
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Matt Spiegel
I don't know.
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Dan Bernstein
I can't really blame him, I imagine. But everybody still looks good. People. Most of the people in this movie still look really good. And it's kind of unfair because Meryl Streep doesn't really age. And ever since Stanley Tucci went bald, he's got this, the whole same thing going on.
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Matt Spiegel
Oh, his clothes in this. I mean those clothes in both movies are fantastic. Well, I mean, his suits, man, are amazing.
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Dan Bernstein
He also, people forget he was a jeans model.
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Matt Spiegel
Oh, was he really?
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Dan Bernstein
Yes. Look up young Stanley Tucci. I think it's a Levi's commercial where he's wearing a tight white T shirt and he's dancing down the street showing off his, his jeans clad Ass. So, yeah, that, that's not a new thing for him. I mean.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah. And I will mention too, if you haven't, maybe you never have or you haven't in a while, take a look at Sophie's Choice, a young Meryl Streep. Because she's on screen. When I turn on my streaming services here, it's like she's on the home screen. Yeah, she's been a young, A young, young Meryl Streep.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay, I thought you got French Lieutenant's Woman.
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Matt Spiegel
But no, it's the picture of her they keep showing on screen. Kramer Advertising, Sophie's Choice.
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Dan Bernstein
Going Sophie's Choice.
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Matt Spiegel
Okay, just for the image that they're, they're showing of her. She's very attractive.
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Dan Bernstein
Come see Sophie. Want to see a hot babe? What's it about? Well, you know.
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Matt Spiegel
Well, I wouldn't, I wouldn't necessarily watch
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Dan Bernstein
the movie for that thing, but I
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Matt Spiegel
would pull it up on screen. Pull it up on screen.
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Dan Bernstein
And then after you do that, movies go, well, he's just a hot baby.
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Matt Spiegel
You could follow that up with a little, Little candles and some red wine and Schindler's List and call it a night.
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Dan Bernstein
Right? Yeah. Sophie's Choice.
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Matt Spiegel
You want to talk about, you know, getting your partner in the mood.
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Dan Bernstein
Date movie, little Sophie's Choice, Schindler's List, Netflix and Chill. Yes.
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Matt Spiegel
What are we watching tonight? You gotta got a pint of ice cream and some Sophie's Choice.
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Dan Bernstein
Have fun with that one.
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Matt Spiegel
No, but I bet you a lot of people don't. A lot of our, our community here don't know how attractive she was as a young actress.
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Dan Bernstein
She still is.
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Matt Spiegel
She looks great today, especially in this, in this movie. Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, here's, here's Jason, who says, regarding your discussion of the Chicago style hot dog ketchup thing, I totally agree with you guys on the overarching philosophy of don't yuck someone else's yum. Do whatever makes you happy when it comes to food, etc.
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Matt Spiegel
For sure.
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Dan Bernstein
When friends would visit from out of town and people would ask about the ketchup on a hot dog thing, I would always say, do whatever you like. I don't get it. It's corny. Some people like to get performatively up in arms about it. It always struck me as an odd stereotype that Chicagoans are supposed to have this aversion to catch up. And it's one I never really understood. But then the always delightful Jeffrey Bear covered this exact point last year in his Chicago Mysteries series for WTTW you why? In the specific context of the ingredients of a Chicago style hot dog, the issue is simply that ketchup would overpower and ruin the carefully selected and blended array of ingredients. The full paragraph at the link below is worth the very quick read as to the history of each ingredient. But the kicker is this. So why no ketchup? Because all of those carefully fine tuned ingredients are like a beautiful orchestra. The ketchup would smash it, boom, come in with a big bassoon and ruin everything. But why would ketchup ruin the harmony? Because it's loaded with sugar. And that's why we liked it so much as kids. And that absolutely makes sense. It finally made it all click for me and allowed me to at least provide out of town friends with the rationale behind it. You shouldn't immediately dump ketchup all over a Chicago style hot dog for the very same reason you shouldn't immediately dunk a finely prepared piece of sushi in soy sauce or an expertly seasoned steak in steak sauce or ketchup before trying it first.
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Matt Spiegel
Ketchup.
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Dan Bernstein
Try a Chicago style dog first, as the recipe contemplates and as it's intended to taste. Or you've never really tried it at all. And then look, if after that you want to dunk the whole thing in ketchup or soy sauce or mayonnaise or whatever, go for it. I won't yuck your yum. And no one else should either. But you should know where the ketchup aversion comes from.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah, well, it makes sense because it does. It does give a level of sweetness to the hot dog. But I would, I would, because I like hot. I like mustard and ketchup on my hot dogs. But it's got to be a thin bead of both because you can't have that overpowering vinegar, which I think is. Is more. Is more prominent than sugar in the ketchup, but the vinegar in the mustard, I think dominates the flavor more. So both need to be a thin
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Dan Bernstein
bead, but I imagine. Yeah, and there's also sweetness and a little bit of vinegar in the relish.
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Matt Spiegel
In the relish, yes. And then you're getting that, that bitterness from the onions. And then there's the sweet juiciness from the fresh tomatoes if you go that route.
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Dan Bernstein
And the heat from the sport peppers.
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Matt Spiegel
Yes, but yeah, a thin bead of both I think is acceptable. But yes, of course, that's, that's the deterrent, is the level of sweetness that your ketchup can provide.
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Dan Bernstein
Sean, in effingham weighs in, and we were talking about marshmallow peeps and about how. How neither one. What's wrong with Effingham?
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Matt Spiegel
I don't know. You have to say it angry. It sounds like you're. It's Effingham.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, there's a little Effingham. There's a Chicago band I like that had a song called Effing around in Effingham. But, yeah, it's on the way to the U of I. Sean says, I was never a fan of peeps or marshmallows in general, but a couple summers ago, the family and I were sitting on the back porch and we had a fire going. The kids wanted to roast marshmallows. So my wife goes inside to get some from the pantry, and she comes back out and says she couldn't find any marshmallows, but we have a bunch of peeps left over from Easter. Okay. So in my head, I thought, oh, boy, these are going to be a bust. But we started roasting the peeps on the open fire, and what happens is the sugar on the outside caramelizes, and now all of a sudden, you've got this sugary caramel crunch on the outside and a sweet, gooey marshmallow center. It was a huge success. We don't even roast regular marshmallows anymore. We stock up on peeps of any flavor when they go on sale after Easter, and we roast them throughout the summer. Ooh, that's a hack. That is a hack. Yeah. And the other great thing for those of us who don't like peeps, you get the joy of torturing the peep. It's like it's a witch. You can. You can.
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Matt Spiegel
Oh, yeah. You can see their little face melt.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes. Like the. Like the Ender Raiders are the lost king. Exactly. You have chosen poorly. But you get to do all that. Don't look. Marian. Don't make. Don't look. And you get to do that with. I'm in. I'm absolutely in.
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Matt Spiegel
You just crossed over two different Indiana Jones movies.
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Dan Bernstein
I know I did.
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Matt Spiegel
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
I know.
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Matt Spiegel
I'm sure that you knew that.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. I know. I can't do. I don't have an India. You will go to Bangkok Palace. There. That's all I got for you for there now. I got three.
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Matt Spiegel
That's. That's all. That's three of them now.
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Dan Bernstein
Yep. That's all. I'm not. I don't know.
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Matt Spiegel
The movie's over.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. The fourth one. I don't know. The crystal skull or whatever it might be. No, thank you. I'm done with that. But Sean, I. That's. That is good advice. I love that. That's something we can really take away.
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Matt Spiegel
I would actually do that. Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
We do like s'.
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Matt Spiegel
Mores. We'll do s'.
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Dan Bernstein
Mores.
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Matt Spiegel
We have our camping trip. We do at the end of the summer. I'll get some. I'll find some peeps and do that instead.
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Dan Bernstein
Sounds good. You mentioned something earlier in the show about the Cubs and the winning streaks that they're going on. Well, our longtime buddy, one of our Ride or die Strangles the Clown, wanted to send this in and it says in April you discussed the Cubs smashing last year's longest winning streak of five games. And now the Cubs are closing in on a second ten plus game winning streak. They're joining some rare company. And Matty, as you mentioned, the divisional era, only 10 teams have recorded two winning streaks of 10 plus games in the same season. And this is since 69. So you've got the 2025 brewers, the 19 Astros, the 17 Dodgers, the 15 JS, 2013 Braves, the 01 Cardinals, 78 Pirates, 77 Royals, and then in 69, both the Mets and the Astros. All very good teams with the pre wild card 69 Astros and 78 Pirates being the only teams to miss the playoffs, however, not a guarantee of A championship. The 1969 Mets are the only World Series winner on the list. The 2017 Dodgers are currently the quickest to achieve both 10 plus win streaks by finishing their second streak on July 18th as the Cubs could amazingly destroy that record. Complete both 10 plus game streaks by May 8th. I wondered if a team has ever reached three double digit streaks in one
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Matt Spiegel
season without having looked at this. I'm going to say no.
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Dan Bernstein
The answer is no. Okay, who came closest?
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Matt Spiegel
Dodger team?
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Dan Bernstein
Last year's Brewers.
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Matt Spiegel
Oh, the Brewers.
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Dan Bernstein
Wow. 11, 14 and 8. Should the Cubs lose Friday, Burn this transmission. If the Cubs win Friday, if they win, start the watch for a third double digit winning streak and then move the fic to defcon1 and get ready to sedate. Cody Delmendo I did warn, I did warn the FIC today.
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Matt Spiegel
You said stay frosty.
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Dan Bernstein
I said stay frosty. Which I stole that line. I just, I love that term. And I think that that came from Michael being Michael Biehn's character of Corporal Hicks in Aliens when he was talking to the other space Marines. I think it was his line. It might have been sergeant Oppone, but. But he said stay frosty yeah.
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Matt Spiegel
So if you're not listening to off the Ivy, it's our daily Cubs podcast with myself and Dan and Cody Delmendo. So if you don't know the reference of this email you should check it out. New episodes drop every Again Monday through Friday right around 9:30. We have new episodes for you on on Cubs Talk and really MLB Talk too. We get into other stuff outside the Cubs as well on off the iv. So check it out. And I guess if the Cubs can achieve a third 10 game win streak and then win the World Series then we have a data point to say if you can get three 10 game win streaks you'll automatically win the World Series.
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Dan Bernstein
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Don't worry about these other things that sound too good to be true about buy one get one free and buy two get one all that. It's they're gimmicks. Russ will explain and he'll offer you the best product with the best price guaranteed. Russ also has a lifetime warranty on all parts and labor and that means, yeah, if your kid puts a ball through one of these double pane windows, he'll replace it absolutely free. You don't have to wait weeks on end for a replacement because the factory's right here in Chicago. So I've done this multiple times. I have recommended to Russ to everybody and I'm recommending Russ to you. Call 847-302-9171 and check out his five star reviews at ChicagoNowGuys.com the top 10 list for this Friday that I hold in my hand. This has been a hell of a year for cubs pitching injuries. 20, 26. There have been some weird ones. There have been a lot of them. So I thought I would dig into Cubs history a bit today and re examine the top 10 Cubs pitching injuries of all time. This is a long history for the Cubs over many more than 100 years. And we were going back talking just now about the 1935 team and some of the everything we've known throughout the long history of the Chicago Cubs. Many of these are modern, but I will say not, not number one, not number five. We're going to start with the honorable mentions and congratulations to Matthew Boyd that Matthew Boyd's injury just a couple of days ago, how he tore his meniscus playing with his kids. Okay, happens. He'll have that little bit resected. I'm sure he'll be fine. And let's say first, some of these may be dubious. Some of these you may not buy. Some of the explanations and that happens in sports. People may say, and we know the ones that have been debunked. I think it was Brian Greasy tripping over a dog. It was Carlos Boozer tripping over a gym bag. It was Jeff King who said, well, I was cleaning my truck. No, you weren't. You were popping wheelies on a motorbike. And sometimes we find out after the fact what an actual injury was. But I'm going with the listed reported injuries. Okay, honorable mention Matthew Boyd. Also honorable mention, believe it or not, is a combination of injuries to Mark Pryor that are believed to have resulted in his untimely premature physical breakdown in 03. You'll remember Mark Pryor had a collision in between first and second with Marcus Giles of the Braves. And then in 05, he took a line drive off his forearm, a line drive from Brad Hopp of the Rockies and a hairline fracture. And it was believed after the fact that slight mechanical changes due to his recovery from these injuries and or propagating kinetic chain problems contributed to the deterioration of his career. So honorable mention there for mark Pryor, number nine is then cub Bob Howery in 2007. Howie. Yeah, Jimmy Pierce. Howie. Bob Howery hurt his back in 2007 moving a barbecue grill on his patio. And when I tried to do research on many of these injuries, all roads kind of led back to Paul Sullivan columns. And what Sully said at the time, the quote that he got here actually from Howery is said he has the receiver that's the reliever learned a lesson. And how we said, yeah, next time instead of moving it, I Might just wheel it, but I didn't want to take the COVID off to use the wheels, so I just picked it up. The manager, Lou Piniella sounds more concerned about his three left handers than about how Reese Health. Piniella said we need our left handed bullpen to start getting the job done. Referring to Scott Eyre, Will Omen and Neil Kotz. Pinellas said he needed them to give us a few strong innings and get some people out. I, I started laughing because Scotty Ayer was the one that Lou always referred to as Stevie Iyer and Will Omen was the guy that everybody yelled at. Jesse, remember that day when Will Omen kept spiking curveballs on the ground and he, and, and, and Fidelis said, it's like, you seen the damn game? Oh yeah, that was, that was Will Omen because I gotta, I got a guy out there throwing 52 foot curveballs, right?
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Matt Spiegel
You've seen the damn game.
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Dan Bernstein
You've seen the damn game. Yeah. And then it was shortly after that. Lewis, I buy you lose a game here, people just take their belt off.
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Matt Spiegel
He was a trip man. And then margaritas.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. And then he left and then he's like, I'm leaving. Claimed he wanted to take care of his, of his elderly mother. He just wanted to leave. So that was number, that was the other mention. So that was number. Did I do number nine before number 10. I did. I'm sorry. Here's number 10.
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Matt Spiegel
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
Jose Quintana in 2020 he cut his thumb while washing dishes, remember?
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Matt Spiegel
That's right. Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
Yep, yep, yep, yep. So yeah, so that I've got 10 and nine. Jose Quintana 10. Number nine was Bobby Howery. Number eight, Ryan Dempster. 2009, he was up top rail of the dugout. Cubs win on a walk off. They race out onto the field to celebrate and Ryan Dempster had a little problem as he tried to jump over the short fence of the dugout. His, his leg caught on the railing and his foot accidentally slammed straight down into the concrete and he broke his toe. So the Ryan Dempster broken toe from a botched run onto the field to celebrate a walk off win is number eight.
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Matt Spiegel
That's no Gouda.
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Dan Bernstein
Number seven on our list. 2004, the always hot blooded Kyle Farnsworth, after a particularly bad outing, took his frustrations out on an electric fan in the dugout. I was going to build this up and saying he kicked a fan. He did what? Yeah, he kicked a fan in the dugout and he sprained and bruised his knee doing that. So Kyle, now a professional bodybuilder, He's a very large man. So that was number seven on the list for our guy who had probably spent the night asleep on the pool table at ties till four. Documented. Happened right there on Ashland Avenue. Number six this year, Ethan Roberts. Ethan Roberts remains on the injured list because he lacerated his finger while exercising on the road, throwing a medicine ball off the wall. He was doing those sit ups with the medicine ball, where you finish with the throw. And the impact of the medicine ball loosened a metal vent cover on the wall that fell. He caught it and lacerated his finger. That is enough to earn number six all time in Cubs pitching injury history.
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Matt Spiegel
It's impressive.
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Dan Bernstein
Number. It is right now. Number number five. And this. Trust me, I do research. Right. This one I didn't know of, but I do. I do now. 1958, Virgil Hankerson. Did you know of this one?
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Matt Spiegel
No, I don't.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. While golfing on an off day, a wayward shot from another hole struck him in the head. Oh, no. Okay. He fell forward, hit his head again on a metal garbage can, which necessitated a trip by ambulance to a nearby hospital.
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Matt Spiegel
Oh, no.
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Dan Bernstein
While en route to the hospital, the ambulance was reportedly struck by a milk truck.
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Matt Spiegel
No way.
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Dan Bernstein
Wait, wait. And Hankerson's gurney rolled out of the back. I imagine this is one of the old station wagon ambulances with the swing door. Yeah, he rolled out of his gurney, rolled out of the back, down a hill and into a retention pond. No way into a retention pond. I'm not done yet. Where apparently, by the time they got him out the.
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Matt Spiegel
It was eaten by a gator.
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Dan Bernstein
The index finger on his pitching hand was severed at the second knuckle by a snapping turtle.
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Matt Spiegel
Oh, Jesus. There's no way this is real.
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Dan Bernstein
No, I made that up.
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Matt Spiegel
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, I had to sneak in one. So, yes, that did not happen.
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Matt Spiegel
So. Well, you see, you've learned that I'm an honest person. Because when you said, have you heard this one? I could have lied and been like,
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Dan Bernstein
well, yeah, of course I have. Of course, everybody knows about Virgil Hagerson. Everybody knows in 1958. And I then I had. I spent more time thinking of the perfect 1958 name.
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Matt Spiegel
That's a really good one.
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Dan Bernstein
So. Okay, yeah, that's. Just let the record show I made that up.
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Matt Spiegel
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
That's not real. The real number five is Kerry Wood in 07.
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Matt Spiegel
Oh, it's hot tub.
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Dan Bernstein
Bruised ribs. Bruised ribs while slipping, getting out of the hot tub.
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Matt Spiegel
Hot tub.
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Dan Bernstein
And there's a couple aspects to this that I found really funny. 1. One is after Lou Pinella told reporters what happened, he said, don't make a big deal out of it,
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Matt Spiegel
which is like telling us not to laugh at exploding pain syndrome.
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Dan Bernstein
Lou. Lou actually said, don't make a big deal. Okay, we'll get right on that. Lou, how many. How many DL trips do you think Kerry Wood had as a cub?
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Matt Spiegel
Either. Either. That was the one. Or a dozen?
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Dan Bernstein
Sixteen.
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Matt Spiegel
Sixteen. Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
Kerry Wood had 16 DL trips. Don't make a big deal out of it. That's number five. Don't make a big deal out of it. Number four. And this is apocryphal, but some people swear this is true. And this was another thing that I. That was reported in The Tribune in 1984. 5. Rick Sutcliffe fell off a stationary bike. I don't know how that happened.
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Matt Spiegel
Hey, Maddie.
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Dan Bernstein
What?
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Matt Spiegel
You stand on the stationary bike. Maddie.
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Dan Bernstein
Plausible at the time. Plausible. But what? Well, the reason people remember it is because he missed a start the next day. And it was that game was started by Reggie Patterson. And that day, Reggie Patterson ends up the trivia question as giving up the Pete Rose hit that tied him with Ty Cobb at 4191.
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Matt Spiegel
Interesting.
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Dan Bernstein
So did Rick Sutcliffe say he fell off a stationary bike to avoid giving up a hit to beat Rose?
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Matt Spiegel
That's a good question.
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Dan Bernstein
Don't know.
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Matt Spiegel
Hey, Maddie, watch me. I'm in the handlebar.
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Dan Bernstein
Hey, gee, how fast I can go. Look, I took my feet out of the stirrups, and it goes so bad, I can put them in. Yeah, well, that's interesting. Yeah. Number three on our list is 2005. Carlos Zambrano suffered acute mouse elbow. And what is mouse elbow? It is a strained tendon and or irritated nerve that comes from using your index finger to click a mouse repeatedly when your arm is not properly supported or your elbow isn't at the proper angle. And he said it was because he was sending too many emails. I don't know. There's a lot of things you can also do online. But Carlos Zambrano owned up to it and did say that he suffered from acute mouse overuse elbow. That is number three. Number two.
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Matt Spiegel
Forgot about that.
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Dan Bernstein
Number two. Also 2005, if you remember, in 05, that was the year the Cubs added reclining chairs to their clubhouse over on the side. And it was Mike Remlinger who had a locker near where the. Where the chairs were. And he decided to declare that that area defined by the chairs was off limits to media. The team didn't say it. He just did. And it was referred to as the Remlinger line. So if you were ever covering a game that everyone's like, well, that's, that's. You can't go past those. Those recliners, because that Remlinger says you can't.
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Matt Spiegel
So it was.
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Dan Bernstein
It was derisively referred to as the Remlinger line. Well, guess who broke his pinky because he got it stuck between the two chairs? That would be Mike Remlinger. Broke his finger. He didn't just break a nail. He was. He had his hands on their wooden handles on either side, and he swung in the chair. He wheeled it to the left and squeezed his pinky in between the handle of his chair and the handle of the other chair and broke his finger. So that's number two, Mike Remlinger, the number one Cubs pitching injury of all time. And this is real. This is real. This occurred April 17, 1888. April.
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Matt Spiegel
Oh, my God. I remember that game.
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Dan Bernstein
A young Mordecai Brown, as a child, was working on his family farm. He was feeding material into a feed chopper, and he fargoed himself. He got his hand in the feed chopper. And the doctor in 1888 did the best he could do with that young man trying to repair what was left of his hand.
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Matt Spiegel
What was his nickname again?
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Dan Bernstein
And the problem. The problem was, as he was recovering, he also suffered a fall and broke more bones in the same hand. So while he ended up losing an entire finger and half of another, and the remaining fingers then healed improperly because of the fall, Mordecai Brown became nicknamed Three Finger Brown. He also ended up in the Baseball hall of Fame because that injury and the way his hand healed gave him a unique ability to spin the baseball. And he was one of the first breaking ball masters of his era, one of the great pitchers of his era, and was posthumously placed in the hall of fame. That injury, April 17, 1888, is the number one Cubs pitching injury of all time.
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Matt Spiegel
So there's a lesson there for you youngsters out there listening to the program right now.
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Dan Bernstein
Keep your hand out of a feed
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Matt Spiegel
chopper, or if you want to go to the hall of Fame, stick it in one.
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Dan Bernstein
We're not saying that. We're not. We're only saying that satirically. So please, please don't. If you are looking to liven up your weekend here, you should do this because the NBA playoffs right now are easy money at my bookie. If you stop over thinking it you don't need a crazy parlay. You don't need spreadsheets. Just pick a team you can trust. I picked mine and frankly, I. I picked mine months ago. If you really are paying attention to the DBU picks, I, I got the spurs at what, 8 to 1, I think it was to win the NBA championship. That's right. Remember, I did, I did cast my lot with the spurs. But the. The board is clean. You can keep it simple. You can back the Thunder, you can back the Pistons. Ride the teams built to win. Let the playoffs do the rest. If you're new to my book, if you haven't made a deposit, don't sit this out. Register deposit, use the promo code DBU. Then any bet you choose, up to 500 bucks, fully covered, you make your play. If it doesn't hit, you get it right back. When you opt in using what they call 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 brings us to our DBU picks that are presented by my bookie. And you want to keep it simple. Here's an example. I've got the spurs and I'm giving four points to a Timberwolves team that is in tough with some injuries right now. And Wemby is still just realizing that he can bend time, space and dimension to his will. We are still watching the ascension of Victor Wembanyama. It is. He is changing the way we look at the game with the amount of space and area, vertically, horizontally, all that he can cover. So I'm going to be happy to give those four points.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah, I agree with you there. I'm going to take the spurs and lay those four points and I'm going to take the Knicks and put these together. Knicks plus one and a half. So Knicks one and a half, spurs minus four. Play them together as a parlay.
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Dan Bernstein
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