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Dan Bernstein
Everybody talked about it since I first moved to Oregon. The big one. The earthquake that trashed the whole West Coast. Total destruction. Officially calling it the largest natural disaster in American history. I just didn't know what would help me next. So I took it all. Even the gun. It was time. Cello see why American Afterlife is the number one fiction and drama podcast in America. Presented by pair of thieves. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to your favorite favorite shows. Available now. Dan Bernstein. Unfiltered. Unfiltered on 31 2. Sports. It's DBU on 31 2. Happy Friday. Feedback Friday. Happy May as well. We are brought to you in partnership with my bookie and today by Chicago Window. Guys, call Russ Armstrong at 847-302-9171. Check out his five star reviews at ChicagoNowGuys.com and I've got a big announcement today and that is we have refreshed your rewards for May. I know that's why you're all excited and saying, well what, what are the rewards we can win on the app? Well, we're gonna name the winners of the previous awards. That'll probably be on Monday when we do that. But all I'm gonna say is don't wait on this. Get your, get your, your code word in right now on the app because we have things for you when you go to the 312 sports app, which I know you have already, but if you haven't gotten it, what are you doing? What are you waiting for? Apple App Store, Google Play. We have dinner for two at Capital Grill. Dinner for two. Giordano's dinner for two at Antico Posto. If you don't know the cozy Italian restaurant and wine bar in Oakbrook center out there, I know we have there's for it might be convenient for you. Capital Grill, obviously here in town. Giordano's, wherever you need. Enter the promo code me Matt on any reward. Nice. But I buried the lead. We have tickets to see Weezer the Gathering tour with special guests the Shins and Silver Sun Pickups. That is a concert. Weezer the Shins and Silver Sun Pickups at the United Center September 22, 2026. So you can do this. Yeah. That's really awesome. So go put in the promo code, Matt on any of those rewards. It's M A T T by the way. Just Matt for a chance to win. Do that. So I want to get right in. I've got an awesome top 10 list today. We're going to be doing the top 10 play by play broadcasters in Chicago in my lifetime, we'll be doing that. But the this particular selection of Friday Feedback Friday was so much fun. And I don't usually do this. Can I highlight a comment on YouTube?
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Matt
Of course you can.
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Dan Bernstein
I would like to do that.
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Matt
Yeah, we generally don't do that, but they're certainly always there.
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Dan Bernstein
Every once in a while, something comes in out of nowhere. We're like, yep, that's it. And it kind of makes my point for me because throughout this week and we cover, there's so many I can't even remember now that we're doing, you know, I'm doing four, you know, three pods a day and four on Wednesdays. What gets said where. But this is a catch all for everything on Friday Feedback Friday here on three one, two, Sports. And ever since I made fun of the disclaimer in the Jardiance ad about exploding taint syndrome, about the fatal taint swelling that can occur, they keep warning you, you know, your taint could swell up and you could die. And I said, if you don't find that funny, something's wrong with you. And my point was, all doctors, when you mentioned that, like, don't make fun of that, that's very, very serious. No matter what. No matter what, doctor, they're somehow programmed to tell you, don't make fun of that. That's Fournier's gangrene and it's awful. And I know you think it's funny, but it's not funny. Which of course, to me, you can't tell me that because now it's more funny. Now that you say something's not funny, it inherently becomes funnier. And this comment came in from Dr. JoJo and it says, I know that you're joking, but if you saw a patient with Fournier gangrene, it is a horrible fate for anyone, especially if not caught early. There are a lot of things that seem comical when there's not an actual patient involved. Sometimes there is a delay in seeking care due to ignorance, financial need, or worse, being afraid of being shamed. I'm making this comment, I know you're not talking about anyone specifically, but this there may be. This is why some medical professionals will not openly joke about these things. Love the show.
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Matt
That's from Dr. JoJo. Does he also make like balloon animals
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Dan Bernstein
as he treats you? It's hilarious. It's like, I know you're kidding and I know you're joking about doctors telling you not to joke. Like, the levels of meta funny of this are Entertaining spectacularly to me, because it's just saying, like, yes, I know that we doctors are not funny and we take ourselves too seriously when it comes to some of these things. However. But I must chastise you for finding this funny. And here's why it's not funny.
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Matt
All right, Dr. JoJo, thank you.
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Dan Bernstein
Thank you.
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Matt
No, I.
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Dan Bernstein
So he's trying to say, yes, I understand that you find this funny, but it's. You can't joke about Exploding Taint Syndrome. You are not allowed.
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Matt
Well, now we have to.
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Dan Bernstein
More exactly, you have to understand the way this works is when you tell me not to, it's going to get funnier. Now to the emails. Ready? Here's Chris. Dan, I disagree that doctors have no sense of humor. My urologist that did my vasectomy did one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Obviously, one is awake during one's vasectomy and under a local anesthetic. And when he leaned over to actually cauterize the vas deferens, he blurted out, excuse me a second while I light my cigarette. As smoke rose from my crotch. It was hard to contain my laughter while being in discomfort and trying not to move. Said, unfortunately, Jardiance wasn't on the market, but any doctor that would do that would have found exploding Taint Syndrome funny. Well, maybe. Now. This is from Jay, and Jay describes himself. He signs this as your full time listener, Jay, who finds exploding Taint Syndrome to be very funny. He says, matt, you brought up asking an eye doctor about an ass problem. After I had a retinal scan, my doctor pointed out that there were marks on my eye and she asked me if I recently had a colonoscopy. Apparently, there is a connection between a certain kind of tracking mark on your eye due to colon problems. So I quickly scheduled a colonoscopy. Thankfully, it's as clean as a whistle. But I never would have guessed there is a connection between your eyes and an ass issue. So apparently an eye doctor might not find exploding Taint Syndrome funny either.
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Matt
See, I told you. Told you I'd ask the eye doctor when I go soon.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay, and one more on this topic. Guys, I am an actual MD. I have been an ER doctor for 25 years. It's hard to watch people's bodies fall apart and miserable things befall them. The exploding taint is one of the most horrible things that can happen to a person. See, here we go. These people think they have a little bump there and it's no big deal. And then their life turns into absolute hell over the ensuing days to weeks, if they survive. The last patient I saw with an exploding taint was just a couple of weeks ago. I did everything in my power to not laugh during the examination because of you guys. Said I appreciate it's a horrible situation. I totally understand why a normal person would find it hilarious. Thank you for the podcast. Keep up the good work, Dr. Guillermo.
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Matt
See, that's great. I love it. And I love the imagery of him trying not to laugh. Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
But at least he's admitting that he can understand that it's funny, right? Yes. Okay. On to more important things. Very good. On to more important things. Matt in Missouri says, does a Batacola win the Pavia bet if Pavia plays on special teams in a regular season game?
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Matt
No, the bet was take a snap under center as quarterback. At least one in a regular season game. So he has to be in at quarterback in an offensive play.
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Dan Bernstein
It could be a gadget play. Now let me ask this. Let's say Pavia lines up at quarterback and then goes into motion and stops in the slot. Or somebody else comes in for a wildcat snap. Does he have to actually receive the snap from center?
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Matt
Well, we didn't really specify in great detail like that, but I'm going to hold to the fact that he needs to receive the ball and be the quarterback on that particular play. I believe he. He will. He will get one quarterback play in the NFL. So we're going to go to the fact that he has to receive the snap and either handoff or throw the ball or get sacked or get murdered. One of those. One of those four things has to happen.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay, I think that's fair. Yeah, I will go with that longtime guy, Canuck Boy. There's a name. Canuck Boy is out. Guys, I was listening to you talking through the Diana Rossini Mike Vrabel situation on both DBU and forward progress. Thanks for listening to both. So the one part I'm not going to get past is her explanation for pulling that Twitter graphic.
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Matt
Oh, this was good. This is good stuff.
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Dan Bernstein
After she accidentally reported the future of Patriots free agency. Just a level set, what we're actually talking about. Diana Rossini posted a fully built graphic on Twitter breaking the news that Morgan Moses was signing with New England. Clean, intentional, team specific. Then it gets deleted almost immediately. And the explanation we're given is basically, I accidentally grabbed New England instead of NFL. They were close. Alphabetically. That's where this completely falls apart. Even if Adobe worked the way she's implying, which it doesn't the Alphabet argument still doesn't make sense. NFL does not magically land you on New England. If we're playing the Alphabet game, both New York teams would come in between. So unless the Giants and the jets don't exist in her NFL, that logic breaks. More importantly, that's not how Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator works in the first place. The Athletic obviously uses Adobe Creative cloud libraries for this stuff. That means logos and assets are organized intentionally in folders and groups. You're not scrolling through a chaotic alphabetical list like you're picking a song on a 2004 iPod. You select the exact asset or you drop in a pre built team layer that there is no close enough selection. There's no nearest logo feature or alphabetical misfire that swaps out NFL for New England. You either clicked New England or you didn't. That's the whole system. Which brings it back to the part that actually matters. That graphic wasn't random. It tied a specific free agent to a specific team in a polished publish ready for format. That isn't a stray logo slipping into a template. It's a decision. So let's line this up. A New England signing graphic goes out. It gets deleted almost instantly. The explanation relies on a version of Adobe that exists only in imagination, and the content itself implies a level of confidence you don't have unless you believe the info at some point. The simplest explanation is the obvious one. Diana Rossini had the information, posted it, and then tried to walk it back. Blaming alphabetical order in Adobe is creative. I'll give it that. Unfortunately, technical systems have a way of disproving these lies. That's who you crap. Well, you know what? That's that's kind of There have been some people doing that kind of work here. Eric sent a note and Eric said, boys, just an unreal conversation regarding the fishing nets. This is the sport. This is the sports conversation Chicago needs. The more I think about it, this particular DBU was absolutely absurd. Today, the Hudson News, cheating gifts, and maybe what he needed at the airport was some $15 smart water to help him make better decisions. Dan, quit buying piece of shit fishing nets from Walmart and Temu. I don't fish nearly as much as you, but I do go muskie fishing with my dad annually in Hayward, and some years back I was doing a houseboat trip without him. I needed a fishing net of my own, so I went to Bass Pro. Good fishing nets are absurdly expensive. I couldn't believe it. I didn't want anything fancy, just something super basic. And the cheapest I settled for was something like $100. And this was eight years ago. So fast forward through Covid, through inflation, and through the Orange man tariffs, and somehow we. We have Bernstein thinking $30 nets off Temu are going to function. Well, that Chinese guy who broke the net while helping you probably saw the piece of crap you bought and figured he was doing you a favor. That's from Eric. Yeah.
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Matt
So you being cheap, that's crazy.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, but I know you're right. I just. Part of it is also. Forget it. Just take it. Part of it's the.
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Matt
I've been taken.
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Dan Bernstein
Part of it's the weight of it. Like, I don't want to carry a heavy, like, boat landing net around walking. You're right, you're right, you're right.
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Matt
Who are you crapping?
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Dan Bernstein
You're right. Sorry. Steve from Westlawn said Tuesday, gentlemen, you were talking about Ben Johnson's quote about wanting players who, if you took football away, they don't know what to do with themselves. You went on to state that you don't want a neurosurgeon who isn't capable of doing anything else. Well, I'm not a neurosurgeon, but I am an internist and pediatrician, and I work with neurosurgeons. Listen, we love them, but they don't know how to do anything else. That's why they work 140 hours per week, and that's why you stay away from them at cocktail parties. That's. That's Steve from Westlaught. I didn't. I. I guess I don't know any neurosurgeons. I didn't know to stay away from him. Thank you. So this just says Dan as I sit here in my retirement home in my favorite Lazy Boy chair, eating a bacon bucket of KFC and drinking a can of Miller High Life. I gotta tell you, I am sick and tired of your goddamn liberal technology ideas, or this quest Tech, or whatever the hell these Silicon Valley nerds call it here these days. My goal has always been to make myself as big a part of the game as Barry Bonds, Albert Pujols and Roger Clemens. Accuracy be damned if I'm not highlighted as part of each week's recap on MLB Tonight. As I needed to be as much a part of America's pastime as peanuts and Cracker Jacks. I knew this whole league was going to shit the minute they brought the DH in the National League. I wish you all the worst. Sign Joe West. Yeah, that's What I thought. Thanks, Country Joe.
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Matt
Yep.
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Dan Bernstein
Glad you're listening. Appreciate it. Thanks so much. Here is Darren. And Darren sent this note. He says hello. Well, hi.
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Matt
Hello.
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Dan Bernstein
He said. You talked about Aaron Rodgers predictably delayed decision on his NFL future. And while salivating over the prospect of deliciously disastrous scenarios to cap his career, you both forgot the pinnacle moment of final humiliation we as Bears fans yearned to be inflicted onto our captors possibly already occurred. I take you back to 254 left of the Texans routing the Steelers in the AFC wild card game. Aaron Rodgers threw an absolute ham sandwich of a pass directly between the shoulder pads of Texan safety Kalyn Bullock, who returned the interception for a touchdown. The Steelers put in Mason Rudolph on the following offensive possession in a final march to the end of the season. Even while watching the game live, it dawned on me instantly just how satisfying it would be for a pick six to be the result of the last pass thrown as a professional and to lose a playoff game nonetheless. Almost as quickly as this realization occurred, a cloud of disappointment came over me, knowing Aaron Rodgers would undoubtedly be conscious of that possibility as well. This, I predict, will be enough to fuel his fragile ego, carrying him into at least one more NFL season. I hope my instincts toward who we know Aaron Rodgers to be are wrong. In any case, that guy sucks.
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Matt
That's good.
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Dan Bernstein
That's good.
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Matt
Yeah, I've forgotten that's how that. That game kind of closed out and. Yeah, he certainly would. Can you imagine if the question was, you know, he's retired? It's like, how do you feel about your last pass being intercepted and returned for a touchdown in a playoff loss?
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Dan Bernstein
Who's gonna ask that? Come on.
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Matt
We would.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, I would. Yeah. Every day we ask him.
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Matt
We welcome Aaron Rodgers to Ford Progress. Aaron, here's the question. Aaron, thanks for your time. Take care. Bye Bye.
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Dan Bernstein
Right. But every day, every single day, we ask. We stand outside his house, I ask him how that feels. That'd be fine. You know, the NBA playoffs are easy money at my bookie if you stop overthinking it. You don't need a crazy parlay, no spreadsheets, just a team you trust. And playoff basketball hits just right at my bookie right now. We had a bunch of games last night, that first one, actually. I followed Charles Barkley's advice last night and went over to hockey. I was actually watching hockey because he said, I feel bad for the guys at the game that they have to watch the rest of this. I'm not. The halftime score, 83 to 3683 to 36.
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Matt
Jesus.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, the board's clean. If you want to keep it simple, pick a team back that team you like the Thunder you like the Celtics. Ride those teams built to win. Let the playoffs do the rest. If you're new to my bookie, if you've never made a deposit, here's why you got to jump in right now. Because when you use the code DBU, any bet you choose up to $500 is fully covered. You make your play. If it doesn't hit, you get it right back with that bet back bonus token. So opt in with the bet back bonus and then that $500 is fully covered. You register, you make your deposit. Use the code DBU to get that Pick your squad. Take the shot. Don't just watch the playoffs. Cash in on them only at my bookie Jordan in St. Charles says amidst Tuesday's 20 minute DBU diatribe on the coming robo ump revolution and the effects of patronizing condescension on hypothetical man babies refusing to accept their growing irrelevance, Dan mentioned something unforgivable enough to make even the husk of Angel Hernandez feel pity. Dan said we don't have to have Like John Henry versus The Drill Press, Whatever it was, Dan as you know, the humble drill press began as a contraption made from bows and sticks many millennia ago and increased in complexity with more modern advents like the use of hardened metals, fixed mounts and specialized interchangeable bits. However, drill presses with exogenous power sources like steam and electricity only began widely circulating in the early 1900s with one of the first patented models offered by the now shuttered Sibley Tool Company of South Bend, Indiana. John Henry, the lead protagonist of an African American folk tale set sometime in the late 1800s and meant to represent laborer struggles in ever modernizing industries, was the direct competition against a steam powered rock drill. Not only did John Henry's mechanical nemesis exist a generation before most power drill presses even reach production, the rock drill and drill press are different enough that a blindfolded CB Buckner could identify them by smell. Semantic vortexes aside, let's not ignore the fact that you offered to diverge from John Henry's themes in the context of baseball umps. After spending a few metabolic calories on recall from gray matter, you might remember what happens to the mythologized rail worker after he vanquished his mechanized opponent in head to head competition. Spoiler alert. He immediately died of stress induced heart failure. Bernstein, you idiot. This tale reinforced the position that cold and indifferent engineered solutions are superior to humans and their famously delicate and fallible internal organs. It is no coincidence that an alarm would sound later in the podcast episode, though I think it had less to do with an imaginary fire and was instead the result of the spontaneous combustion of the handful of literary dorks and mechanical neck beards amongst your many tens of subscribers. All the best to you and John Smoltz. Thank you, Jordan. I'm getting my ass kicked today, and that's okay. It's all right. Let me. Let me just mention that there were so many essays, opinions sent in on Rossini and Vrabel that I can't get to all of them. I thought this was probably one of the best examples of putting everything together, and it's from Lucas. He said, I didn't think there was any way Mike Vrabel would end up resigning or getting fired for an affair, because I'm sure a ton of players and coaches in other sports are cheating on their significant others. So what happens when you combine huge egos and huge bank accounts and a lot of time on the road? But I'm now back to thinking that Vrabel should lose his job. Not because he broke some idealistic ethical standard, because he's a hypocrite and a liar, or that he divulged sensitive information for coverage. I think it's because he's stupid. If I'm in charge of the Patriots, I'm gonna have doubts as to whether or not he can lead this team through crisis. Let's go back to the start. Vrabel tried to squash the rumors and photos as laughable, and that response came out of a massive you can't touch me, I'm Mike Vrabel. Ego, energy. But it's plain stupid. Anyone in the public eye should know that a strong denial like that, where he's publicly mocking the reporters, invites scrutiny. It's not just ego that made him think this could go away. I think he's an idiot. He's been a head coach for seven years, a player for 14 on high profile teams, and still doesn't have a lick of PR instinct after all this time. That's stupid. More recently, we started connecting the dots between Rossini's Spotify account and his suspected Spotify account. Mike, it got brought up. The logical response is do nothing, say nothing, or delete all your public accounts. No, he chose a third option to hide his account by renaming it, but not to something innocuous. He named it T Y Capital C A R Ty Car, which is a Combination of his son's names. Not only confirming it's his account, but also indirectly bringing his children's names into this. That's stupid. Then the airport. In a vacuum, hanging around an airport gift shop waiting for your flight is reasonable. But he's flying into Utah for his counseling, where his home is. What made him think getting his wife a gift at the airport was a good idea? Does he not realize he's being heavily scrutinized publicly? A large human with a giant head. And every tabloid reporter wants the next bit of gold in this story. Get the fuck out of there, Mike. Why are you hanging around in the airport? Think nobody's going to notice you? More worrying to anyone concerned about his intelligence. Did he think being seen buying a women's sweatshirt in an airport gift shop would make him look good? Mike Vrabel might be a great football coach and a great motivator and a mentor to young players. Of being a head coach in the NFL is a lot more than being good on the field or the film room. If players start to sniff some stupidity on their coach, whether it's game management, personnel management, or in their not so private life, that coach doesn't last long. If I'm the Patriots, I'm worried about whether this debacle has irreparably broken Mike Vrabel's tough guy Persona and exposed him for being dumb. Vrabel needs to prove the most basic qualification of being an NFL head coach, and it's don't be an idiot. And so far in this, he's failing.
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Matt
Yeah. And one last thing to say about this Mike Vrabel situation. He looks like me. I'm older.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes. Period.
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Matt
Stop saying that. I look like Mike Vrabel. He looks like me.
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Dan Bernstein
Thank you. I think that's important. And it is an important note to make. We are going to close Friday Feedback Friday.
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Matt
You know, when he originally changed his Spotify account, he changed it to Mike V. Not Vrabel. And then people were like, that's still too obvious. Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
All right, I'll use my kids names. I think I asked this rhetorical question, and here's an answer destroyed today. No, it's okay.
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Matt
This is what this should be.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, this is kind of. And you know what? I always thought who you crapping sucked because so many people. But if somehow Friday Feedback Friday has morphed into a smarter version of who you crapping, I'm here for it. I'm absolutely here for it. So I don't know that we got to change the bitter. Think of no, no, no, no.
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Matt
It's Friday. Feedback Friday.
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Dan Bernstein
Friday. Feedback Friday. But if, in fact, you're looking at this as an opportunity, I'm. I am here for it. And. And if you want to come out and paddle my ass, absolutely. So this is, this is an answer to a question, Scott. What happened to Adrian Greineer? This is good. You asked what happened to Adrian Greineer. Well, everyone discovered Adrian Greineer sucks at acting. He isn't just a whiny bitch in the Devil Wears Prada. It's literally the only thing he's capable of doing except looking handsome. Okay, Yeah, I. I guess. All right, well, too bad. I feel bad for him then. But I didn't really quite think of it that way.
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Matt
Yeah. If you, if you haven't seen that movie in a while or if you've never seen it because you're like, I'm a man, I don't want. You watch the movie. But go into it with the perspective of Adrian Grenier. His character is a whiny little in the movie. Just go into it with that.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. It's sort of like going into the Karate Kid now thinking that Daniel LaRusso is actually the villain. Yes. Have you, have you look, have you seen that video? It's like a 15 minute re edit with commentary.
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Matt
It's great, actually. It's really good.
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Dan Bernstein
It really is.
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Matt
I forgot to mention, when we were on our flight to. To New York, I think it was on the way to New York, I watched. I watched Top Car. Have you seen Days of Thunder?
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Dan Bernstein
No, it's the.
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Matt
It's like Top Gun in, like nascar, though.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, right. We has to. Is he going to engage?
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Matt
Yeah. Okay, so. All right. You've never seen it. I watched that one again.
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Dan Bernstein
I forgot to mention that. I will watch it, but I, but I, I get the. The bit is that he's in a vehicle and he's having a crisis of confidence and he has to overcome his. His crisis of confidence with the help from a rival. Like, yeah, okay.
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Matt
Yeah, it was great.
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Dan Bernstein
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Matt
note to make before we move on to your top 10 list. May 1, I do want to acknowledge that it is mental health awareness month.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, perfect.
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Matt
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
Is there something special we can do? You know, we don't usually because I know we're, we're always aware of it.
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Matt
Well, no, let's, we can talk through that and think about something we can do here on the show. I just, I only brought it up because there was an email that came through from, from HR just talking about mental health awareness month and things that we can do there in the office, different things that are set up. And one thing I really, this, I really like this there. So there's a, there's a group walk set up later on in the month of May. So I don't know. There's this. So I just wanted to acknowledge that. I know that's something that you'd want to acknowledge as well. So May is mental health awareness month.
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Dan Bernstein
We should think about something extra that we can do for you. Let's do that. Let's talk about that. Yeah, we definitely should because I know that's important to you. It's important to me and I think it's, it's a service we can do. So. Yes. Now I've got my list here and you, you told me to put together a top ten of the best Chicago play by play guys of my Play by play. People of my lifetime could be any
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Matt
sport, any of the major sports. Play by play. Only in Chicago. During your time in life. 69 through today.
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Dan Bernstein
Correct. I limited this to people of whom I have a memory. Like if somebody was working when I was a toddler and I just wasn't aware, like, I don't know how long Lloyd Pettit did things, but it just. I don't have a memory. It has to be somebody that I can have a formulated opinion on their work.
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Matt
Yeah, no, I like how you put parameters on it because it doesn't matter what parameters you put, people are still going to get angry and mad at you, which is what I'm here for.
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Dan Bernstein
So.
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Matt
And that's another opportunity for people to
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Dan Bernstein
be angry at you. And that's okay. And I. And I tried. There's. There is no repository of all of the names all in one place. So I also say if I forget somebody, I apologize, but I think. I think I'm pretty good on this one.
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Matt
I just. I have one name that has to be on the list, and then anything else you put on, I'm fine with.
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Dan Bernstein
With. Okay, there's.
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Matt
I mean, there's one that has to be on the list. Otherwise you're a total idiot. More than just the regular idiot, I think you are total idiot.
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Dan Bernstein
And these are not all my personal favorites. There is obviously some subjectivity in this, but I also tried to suspend some subjectivity to try to evaluate the quality of the work, even if it isn't exactly my style. I want. I want this to be the people who I think were best at the job of local play by play, TV or radio. Okay. The best to do it. Number 10 on my list is Len Casper, who did Cubs TV and will be remembered famously for not just making the decision to make the jump to White Sox radio, but the fact that he could do that. The fact that somebody could be viable for, you know, for a. Branded a long time as the TV voice of the Cubs, and then to be given the chance and to say, yeah, I would like to do that. To go do White Sox play by play on the radio is a neat thing. The reason why Len makes the list, not only, I mean, obviously he's a friend, but the improv rule of you always work at the highest level of your intelligence. And the one thing I really respect about Len is he never wavers from working at the highest level of his intelligence. And his curiosity intellectually, he will. If he thinks of something that is interesting to him, he will ask the question and then he might later do the work on it. He doesn't presume ever that because he thinks something, that it's true across the board. He never imposes an anecdotal observation as an immutable baseball truth. He'll always try his best to use evidence. And he was an early adopter when it came to a lot of advanced metrics and yet was way less annoying about it than say, I am and less dogmatic about it, where I would be in somebody's face like, you know, you're an idiot and if you don't, if you think this way, you're stupid. Well, Len never did that like that. That was my, that was always my thing. Like, I don't want to talk to you because you're an idiot because you're not looking at the same metrics I'm looking at.
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Matt
Well, Len's a nice guy. That's the difference.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, and the thing is, but he also has a different job and the way over time, he's been incredibly patient in understanding the larger turning of that aircraft carrier and what it takes to bring your audience along in a comfortable way. He's taken a long term view of that. That takes a wisdom and a maturity that I lack. And I've always been impressed by, by that. Always. No matter what. Working at the highest level of his intelligence.
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Matt
Yeah. Just because you're so old. I wasn't sure Len Casper would make the list. I'm glad that he did. No, I'm glad that he did. I love listening to Len. I wish, like the point you made about the fact that he had the opportunity to go from being a branded voice of the Cubs to go across town and do radio for the White Sox. I was really happy for him that he made that decision because he really wanted to do radio.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes.
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Matt
Thing he wanted to do.
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Dan Bernstein
And it was great.
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Matt
I was really happy that he was able to make that, that decision for himself. But, man, I, I, I don't. I would, I would kill, kill, kill, kill for him to be on TV with, with Steve Stone.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, I know.
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Matt
I would, I would, I would kill someone.
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Dan Bernstein
I know it would be a great. They, they, they had the chance for a great broadcast and that's.
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Matt
But I know he wanted to do radio. I know that's, that's the whole point, but. Oh, boy.
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Dan Bernstein
I an, I only had one honorable mention that I should have mentioned.
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Matt
Oh, okay. Yeah. Who is it?
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Dan Bernstein
Me. I took myself out of this because.
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Matt
Wait, but you gave yourself an honorable mention?
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Dan Bernstein
I gave myself, I gave myself an Honorable mention. Because I, you know, I miss doing it. I love doing it. I loved calling Chicago Rockers games, I loved calling DePaul games, and I love calling Rush games, and I miss it. And I would. I'd love to do something again sometime, given the opportunity. On radio, not tv. I would love to do radio. So I'm honorable mention. I've got the hardware to prove it. It's behind me on my home setup, so I just want to take that out of there. But honorable mention for me. Don't make that face of me, schmuck.
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Matt
Don't look at me.
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Dan Bernstein
All right, number nine. Best Chicago play by play guys of my lifetime. Number nine is also you, is Pat Foley.
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Matt
Okay, a little low, but at least he's there.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, this. That was your guy?
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Matt
That was my guy. If you didn't have Pat Foley, then
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Dan Bernstein
this list was garbage. Yeah, I had Pat Foley there because of. Because of radio, because of tv, because of that voice, that. That fabulous Rolls Royce of a voice.
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Matt
Absolute best. Best in the business.
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Dan Bernstein
There's the draw that he's got. He. It is a. It is a rolling Rolls Royce engine of. Of a voice that he has. And just for a lot of us, the. That. That's the. Not just the goal calls, but all of it is the. In. In large part the. The sound of televised hockey. Unfortunately, the reason why he's number nine is because of Bill Wirtz. I didn't get enough televised hockey. It just wasn't. I didn't get enough of it growing up. While. That's a.
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Matt
That's a very fair point. And what was it. What was it we had to pay for to have? Was it sports vision?
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Dan Bernstein
Sports vision.
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Matt
Yeah. I would have had. I would have Foley higher because it is hockey.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, stay tuned. Okay. Number eight on my list is John Wideman.
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Matt
Oh, so we're going back to back hockey.
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Dan Bernstein
Yep, we went back to back hockey. I have John Wideman ahead of Pat Foley. Radio hockey is probably the hardest thing. I've never. I did one game, but it was TV for hockey. I've never done hockey on the radio. And to do it the way Wideman does it, with that kind of specificity, without any. Any wasted words to be that energetic and descriptive, that there's emotion that comes through in his descriptions, that. That is just through the modulation of his voice and the tension and speed and the. The energy that comes through as descriptive as you can be with those time constraints and with how hard it is to see where the puck is that things this big. It's not a giant basketball and you're far away. It's really hard. There's a level of anticipation. There's a. There is a. The concept of seeing where the players go to intuit a. It's like when you use Find My Friends on your iPhone and before it can tell exactly where your kid is relative to New Orleans, it'll say he's somewhere in the circle. Not that I'm stalking my kid, but for hockey, play by play, you better know where that circle of probability is just by where everyone else is, and then that'll take you to the puck. But John Wideman is just damn good. And as he is a pros pro at a really hard job. That's why he's number eight on my list.
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Matt
Hey, one other thing. I don't know. I'm sorry to go backwards on you, but with Foley again. Yeah. There was an event I was at with Pat Foley. I can't remember what. What we were doing, but we were in the green room beforehand and watching him put down Miller Lights. As you know, we're all just shooting the.
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Dan Bernstein
And he's legendary.
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Matt
It was. It was impressive to watch.
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Dan Bernstein
But he's no Steve McMichael. But he's. But he's.
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Matt
No one is.
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Dan Bernstein
But no one.
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Matt
It was very impressive because he wasn't a big guy, Pat Foley, but is.
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Dan Bernstein
He's. He's alive.
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Matt
Well, yeah. He is not a big guy. Or maybe he is. I don't know. I haven't seen him in a while. Maybe he's huge now.
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Dan Bernstein
Who knows?
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Matt
Maybe he's maybe 6, 5, and 250.
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Dan Bernstein
Here's the cake.
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Matt
There. There's the cake. He said every other word that came out of his mouth. Like. Like he has. Oh, no, it was just. I was. I was in awe. Like, between the beer and. And the F bombs that just came, I was like, my God, this is like my hero. This guy's the best ever. I was like, I. I went in. I was. I was. I was kind of awestruck when I met him. Like, it was like a thing. And then, like, for that to happen as we're sitting there just shooting the shit, couldn't believe it, but just an absolute. The best at it.
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Dan Bernstein
So. All right, so we were number. We were at number eight, Len Casper at ten, Pat Foley at nine, John Wideman at eight. Number seven. Good job.
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Matt
Seven.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes. Number seven is Jack Brickhouse. Hey. Not exactly sort of my style, you know, I obviously grew up with him from my youngest ages. He did everything, and he was Just ubiquitous presence. Doing the Cubs games every day. Doing the. And I don't really remember him from Bears games, but I've heard tape of him famously doing all those Bears games. And back in those days, he also was just, like, so ugly it was hard to look. I mean, the fact that, like, he would never have gotten the opportunity now. It would have been only radio. If he came up now, it would be only radio because. Wow, that was.
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Matt
Oh, he was a handsome young man. Come on.
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Dan Bernstein
You know, I didn't know it was a young man. I only knew it was an old man. And the reason. Rough life and. Well, here's the reason why he's on this list also, is so I could tell my favorite stories. And. And if you've heard this, you probably haven't heard this particular version of it, because I'm not on the radio anymore, and this is my first chance to tell.
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Matt
That's right.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay.
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Matt
I never even thought about this.
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Dan Bernstein
It's not that one. That one. I'll never. That one. You got to find me in a bar for me to tell the stuff. Okay, that. That stuff. That's excited for a second. No, no, no, man. Well, no, no, no, that's. I. I won't even do that here because then we're talking about this for social media, where the. The. No, the estate might. Might have legal the action against us. I'm not stupid. Well, so when I was working for the Rockford Royals of the Midwest League, they were. For a while, they were owned. I forgot who the owners were. They were bought by the Cubs. So the Cubs bought the Rockford Royals with the intention of changing their name and making them the Rock. They eventually became the Rockford Cubbies because they wanted, like, an owned and operated affiliate in Rockford. They owned them when they were the Royals and began the transition of ownership while they were still a Royals affiliate. And one of the things that they did was they brought people over for signing and appearances, and it was. You had a goose. Attendance. So Jack Brickhouse was long retired. He wasn't really working, but they brought him by in 90. When was I there? 94. And we're all excited. Hey, Brickhouse is going to be here. Will you put him on the broadcast? Of course we'll put him on the broadcast. You can't do an inning with Jack Brickhouse here. Yeah. For a Rockford Royals game. Absolutely. So he shows up and the limo pulls up and he gets out. He's waving hi to people, and there's a stagger in his gait. He Was absolutely shit faced, just completely obliterated. And we bring, they help him up to the press box and he comes up the stairs, up the aluminum bleachers to come walk into the press box and walk down. And we had this mic we put on him and it was on a remote pack. And we're like, hey, Jack, just so you know, this cord is short, so if you get too far from the desk, this is, this is going to pull out of here. So just kind of keep going. Okay, I gotcha, kid. All right, let's do this. And. And we welcome Jack Brickhouse. And the first thing he does is he stands back and the microphone falls and breaks and the batteries fall out. So they got it put back together, whatever it was fine. And apparently what happened was they knew that Jack might want to drink. And they told the limo driver the, the. Or excuse me, they forgot to tell the limo driver, Jack is going to want to stop for booze. Don't stop anywhere. And the driver's like, well, I didn't know, I didn't know. And he stopped and I guess he drank himself half asleep in the limo on the way out. So they learned their lesson the next year when it was the Rockford Cubbies, they did the same thing. Jack Brickhouse is coming. Like, all right, listen, can you make sure that when he shows up he's okay to go on the air and that like he's going to make sense and he's going to be compass mentis. And they say, where was he driving
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Matt
from that he got that shit faced
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Dan Bernstein
on the way from Chicago. It's an hour and a half. Okay, so they tell the limo driver, apparently they warn the guy, don't stop for booze, fine. So I'm like, all right, we got this. Jack shows up, they bring him up to the booth. He's obliterated again.
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Matt
Well, he knew you had to see you, so.
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Dan Bernstein
So yeah, I'm like, what the hell, man? So we finished up, we get through the interview and we finish it again. And as I heard after the fact, and I'm not gonna name any names here, but you know who you are if you're listening to this, this who, who explained who went to the limo driver and said, what happened? We told you not to get him booze. And the guy said, well, he said, can you just stop? I need some ice,
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Matt
okay?
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Dan Bernstein
He had his check full of airplane bottles, okay? And apparently just got ice and brought, brought everything with him. But Jack was, he was a. He was everywhere all at once. And for the time that he did it, who embodied sort of the representative of the fan. Jack Brickhouse, number seven, all time Chicago play by play guy, number six, Pat Hughes. And I will say Pat, who is a wonderful guy, definitely not really my style of play by play, just artistically that Pat is. Part of. What's amazing about Pat is he's working in a different idiom than a lot of people. And when you think about baseball, play by play guys that you, you have a lot of people who have a very specific Vin Scully sound. And there are some people who have, you can tell an Ernie Harwell or a Jack Buck where Pat Hughes is very much his own person and he's got his own broadcast sound and there's a classic. It's like he's almost like classic architecture or in some ways I would compare him to a Rolex watch. His technique is exquisite. It's just something that is sort of timeless and well engineered. And there's no debating objectively how good he is at what he does. He is. However, he's a very specific idiom that might not be for everybody. It's. It is a little more sort of Middle American homespun, however you want to put it. But his, his staying power is due to a. The fact that artistically he is a. Almost a classicist when it comes to the way baseball is, is delivered. Pat Hughes Cubs BROADCASTER on the radio occasionally. TV is number six. Number five is Don Drysdale. Don Drysdale was the White Sox television broadcaster for six years and maybe the best athlete to ever do play by play. I know Pat Summerall was, was a kicker and Frank Gifford was a good player, but wasn't really a play by play guy. On the list of former athletes who became play by play broadcasters. Don Drysdale, you're talking about a Hall of Famer. Drysdale was a dude perhaps overshadowed by teammate Sandy Koufax for a long time. But when you start looking at the records that Drysdale held, what he meant to great Dodger teams, the fact that he was also a tremendous hitter. Don Drysdale was often used as a pinch hitter and I think he hit 30 homers in his career. Dreiser was a network level play by play man and did network play by play for a long time, starting in 1970. He started doing play by play when he was 34. Think about that. That he retired relatively young and the statistics that he compiled in his baseball career were fast and furious. And then he decided he was. This is not a guy who was just farting around with a beer in his hand and giving opinions and telling stories. He was. This is the craft of network play by play on multiple networks. He was involved in some form or fashion in network MLB playoff coverage even through 1986. And if I asked you who the play by play voice was for the 1984 NLCS that ended with the Steve Garvey home run in San Diego, that was Drysdale. And Drysdale as the White Sox announcer was part of maybe the best booth, was certainly one of the best booths. And that's a, that's a different list because then Hawk Harrelson did color. It was Drysdale and play by play. And the Hawkaroo could do his whole shtick, everything, the whole bit. But he wasn't overwhelming the broadcast with his, with his whatever version of that play by play was that Hawk did. It was the perfect fit where you had this. The straight man doing outstanding network level play by play. And the other thing about Drysdale, he called college football on the network too, that this is a baseball hall of Famer who also did college football play by play and did it well.
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Matt
He did the Rams too, apparently, with Dick Enberg. Started off with the Expos too. I didn't. And the Rangers.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes. In like 1970. He was a kid when he started. But, but this was, I mean, to do that, I defy you find another athlete. Not. And not an analyst, not a studio person, an actual play by play person. Where Don Drysdale, the Hall of Fame pitcher, also did network level football.
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Matt
Yeah, that Cubs Padre series was. He was the play by play man with analysts Reggie Jackson and Earl Weaver.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes. I mean they said stuff. Those were really good broadcasts. So Don Drysdale is number five. Rudy at the wall. This ball is gone. And I tell you, I didn't miss it. Number four. I agonized over number four and number three. Absolutely agonized over this because separating the two was very hard for me because they're from the same generation of play by play. And.
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Matt
And who else?
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Dan Bernstein
Number four on my list, all time best Chicago play by play guy, Hawk Harrelson. Number four is Adam Amin.
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Matt
Oh,
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Dan Bernstein
and obviously his resume with the number of Bears games that he's done nationally, the number of Cubs games, the number of White Sox games that he's done nationally for Fox. His local work has been with the Bulls. And I think he's done a really good job. I think some of his best work has come recently when essentially these Bulls games have been two and a half hour basketball podcasts. And he and Stacy have been a must watch, must Listen, I also thought that when asked to joke around, like at any tone of broadcast, Adam Amin can, can function at a very high level. If you're screwing around and having fun and making jokes and you get real laughs and he can really be himself. There's no put on there, there's no pretense. He can be critical, he can be funny. He's got an incredible voice, just a, just an amazing voice. He is wonderfully descriptive. And the one time he was forced into a, into an emergency radio call of a Bulls game a couple of years ago, tremendous. And they, because there was an issue with Swirsky and they. Somebody had to cover radio and Adam mean, did it. And I was kind of thinking there because I was working for the score at the time, like, you know, it would have been nice if somebody, you know, kind of wanted a radio call. I'm right here. I probably could have done it. And then I heard Adam and me and I'm like, yeah, no, no, that's. You want a real pro? There it was. I think Chicago is lucky to have him doing local stuff. And every day that he does, we're blessed to have it. It's Adam Amin at number four, narrowly edging him out at number three is Jason Benetti. And like I say, I wanted, I thought a tie would be a cop out. I initially wanted them to tie, but I just thought that people would call me out on that because it would have been, it would have been a cop out. You would have been right. So why, why is Benetti number three? He is a great TV play by play guy. Again, a fabulous voice, a great sense of the scene and of the moment of the story. Never loses sight, whatever the event may be. Always thematically able to weave in reminders of the larger context of what he does. And he's a multi sport radio star. Listen to him do basketball on the radio. Listen to the Westwood One football stuff that he does. College, NFL, college NBA games. He's. There isn't. He's done everything the guy's done, like cornhole games coming up. He. If there's something happening, if people are jumping rope in the backyard, he could go out in the back and make it compelling and describe it for either radio or television. And I thought what he brought to that White Sox broadcast, you're talking about, you know, wanting to hear now if we could hear Len and Steve together, I thought that Benetti and Stone, oh, they were fantastic. Oh, it was just, it was so. It's so smart. And unfortunately, because of the short sightedness of Jerry Reinsdorf and getting into a contractual pissing match that we as White Sox fans were cheated out of a generation or more being able to grow up with him doing White Sox baseball. And it's, it's, it's a crime, it's a shame that that's the case. But Jason Benetti is my number three all time Chicago play by play voice.
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Matt
So number two is Hawk.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. Number two is Jim Durham. Oh, Jim Durham. Jim Durham who people are gonna say, wait a second, didn't we also lose him because of a contractual pissing match with Jerry Reinsdorf? Yes, yes, we did.
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Matt
And certain pattern we're seeing here.
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Dan Bernstein
And, and Jim Durham was foundational to me wanting to be in broadcasting for me, wanting, sensing the excitement, the joy, the energy that, the fact that this was a job, that this could be somebody's job. And I didn't realize how spoiled I was as a Bulls fan listening to Jim Durham and my upbringing, I mentioned this before, my upbringing with the simulcasts. He did the radio call, they carried his radio call over the TV broadcast. He would do while doing, or however you want to put it, while doing tv. He would describe everything for radio. That's how I learned. And if somewhere you got tapes of those, I would tell any aspiring play by play person, if you want to see how to keep up speed, if you want to see how to describe something as it's happening, what these descriptive words mean, the use of verbs, how to, how to understand. And the closest I can come, and this is somebody who isn't eligible for this list is Doc Emmerich, who is obviously one of the best all time at anything. And I think Doc Emmerich and Jim Durham would both be teaching tape when it comes to this is what you're seeing. These are the words that you can put together in a given order with a certain timber to them to, to do so expressively and meaningfully. Luckily, I was able to tell Jim Durham this before he, he died too young. And I got to tell him this at a, at a CBA game that he was doing with, with Bill Walton of all people, and fledgling ESPN too. Jim Durham is, is, was for me a foundational influence and I think the second best play by play guy, Chicago local play by play guy of my lifetime, number one is Harry Carey. And it's my hope that you understand that the current caricatures of Harry and everybody does the impersonation, that's not a hard one to do. Boy, oh boy, the whole Will Ferrell thing and the Ryan Dempster thing. And the idea of Harry as this, the elderly silly guy, not fair, not wrong, because he was. That he was post stroke. And when Harry sort of moved into being more of a mascot, that's how we remember him. That's not fair because in his day, he was the best. When he did White Sox baseball, he was a. Even then, a cultural phenomenon. When he would sit in the bleachers with his shirt off and doing games, the honesty, not just when you would hear his voice, it sounded big and professional. There are. There are a lot of. They're still people to kind of do this because that comes from Harry. Gary. But it doesn't. It still doesn't sound right. We call them pukers. Hey, everybody, what's her name? Who sounds like that? Beth Mowins does. Like this. That all started with Harry Carey and people trying to sound like Harry Carey, but Harry, Hi, everybody, and welcome back to the ballpark. That you're like, all right, baseball game, here we go. Unflinching honesty. Didn't care if the team would be pissed off. Adam. And when you combined him with Jimmy Pearsall and. And something bad would happen and they would, they would. They never, ever, ever thought you as a fan was entitled to anything but what they actually thought. And sure, it crossed over sometimes into being maybe a little insulting or maybe got a little too salty, but, man, Harry took care of you as a viewer and as a listener. And the pre stroke Harry was, was the guy. Now, the fact that he also left the White Sox and when he came to the Cubs, what he did, the man was a culture changer. He was. He was a cultural phenomenon. That. That entire idea, the entire branding of Wrigleyville party, Cubs bleachers. That's Harry Carey, the hard drinking, partying lifestyle Cub fan bud, man, he started that. The. The bleacher bums were. Were not celebrated. The bleacher bums were exactly what Lee Elias said about them.
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Matt
They were degenerates.
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Dan Bernstein
They were gross. Yeah, Lee Elia was right. He was absolutely right that they were. They were unemployed degenerates paying their $2 every day because they had nothing better to do and nowhere to go. Harry made them cute. Harry made the whole thing about that Cubs branding of day baseball. What a pretty girl. And all of it. And the partying, that was all him. And he lived that life, man. It was real. It wasn't one of these Dean Martin actually drinking apple juice kind of things. Harry was out there among his people and try to get him home. Good luck. Good luck. It's like. It's like Bill Raftery. You think you're going to close that bar with him in it? No. No, you're not. But I also. I really want to make sure that people realize Harry was really, really, really good at his job. And he. He did tv, he did radio. He did both. He would cross. He would. He would do them. And he was. At least. And I can say this to me, when I was 10 years old and I got to meet him and sit in the booth, just an exceptionally nice guy.
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Matt
And he came from St. Louis. I mean, started his work in St. Louis.
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Dan Bernstein
Mm.
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Matt
And then. And then transition and move up to Chicago and did both teams.
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Dan Bernstein
Both teams. And completely changed the culture of one of those teams in a way, off of which they're still making money today. They're still the Cubs brand, the cut, all of what the Ricketts and Hickory street partners have built around that. The billions of dollars they make is in large part due to the influence of Harry Carey, who's also the best Chicago play by play guy of my lifetime. All right. Is that cool?
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Matt
Very good. Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Is that all right?
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Matt
Yeah, that works. That works a little low, but that. That's.
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Dan Bernstein
That.
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Matt
That's fine. That's good.
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Dan Bernstein
Like you, you know, I put thought into these things, and I get worried. And I. And I get worried about somebody sending me a. Like, is Judd Surat gonna send me an email? What are you doing? Why aren't you putting me on there? Am I gonna get angry? Things? Gary Thorne.
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Matt
No, I think the only emails you're going to get. Giving yourself an honorable mention.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, you know, I got to take myself out of the running.
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Matt
Very douchey.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, it is. Yeah. Absolutely. Giving myself an honorable mention. Yes. Like I say, I'll start, I'll wave. I'll wave my awards around for you there, day or night. Verbo Care is here 247 to help make every part of your stay seamless. If anything comes up or you simply need a little guidance, support is ready whenever you reach out. From the moment you book to the moment you head home. We're here to help things run smoothly because a great trip starts with the right support. And, hey, a good playlist doesn't hurt either, you know, whenever the stakes are high, my bookie is where you turn bets into bankroll. There's always a big matchup on the schedule. Everybody's watching, everybody's got to take. No matter the sport. The props can be just as fun as the final score. That's why I use my Bookie. Ooh, I got some props for you today. Just wait. Just stay right there. My bookies prop board is deep. It's fun to play. Player performances, game milestones, everything in between. Whatever action you need to keep things interesting all game long is there. Get in. Right now, Everything lives at MyBookie AG. It's one account, one wallet. Bet the spread live at the action. There's a casino you can jump in during halftime or between games. Everything's at MyBookie AG. And with the code DBU, your first bets covered up to 500 bucks. If it doesn't hit, you've got the bet back. Bonus token, you can run it back so you're not just watching the action. The code dbu. Make it pay with my bookie. And my bookie presents DBU picks. Matty, start us off.
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Matt
All right, just looking at the three NBA games tonight. This is not good because I'm doing a lot with my heart here tonight. And you know how that, that, that always fails you. But we are going to take Detroit and give three and a half points against the Magic. We are going to take Houston and lay three and a half points against the Lakers. And then the final game, Toronto and Cleveland. We are going to take the four points and the Raptors. So Detroit minus three and a half. Houston minus three and a half. Raptors plus four.
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Dan Bernstein
All right, I am looking at that Orlando Detroit game and wondering, did the wake up call come too late for Detroit? Did it come too late? Did they dig themselves too deep a hole? My bet is that Cade Cunningham, after all of the record setting number of turnovers that he's had and coming off that performance, I will take Cade Cunningham 30 or more points tonight. He's going to score 30 or more. And I also like Orlando's Anthony Black to have 14 or more. I'm going to look at those two props in that game. Cade Cunningham at least 30. And for Orlando, Anthony Black at 14 plus. And those are the DBU picks. Lock in your picks now with my bookie bet on anything, anywhere, anytime. That will do it for this Friday. Have a lovely weekend. We will talk again on Monday. Thanks to Chicago window guys. Call Russ Armstrong at 847-3029171 and we are brought to you in partnership with my bookie, Dan Bernstein. Unfiltered unfiltered on 312 sports.