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Dan Bernstein
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Dan Bernstein
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Matt Spiegel
Dan Bernstein Unfiltered Unfiltered on 312 Sports
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Dan Bernstein
DBU on 312 brought to you in partnership with my bookie and today also by Chicago Window Guys. And congratulations to the Chicago White Sox because it's a big deal for what this team has been through to be over 500 this late in the season. They're 22 and 21 and I know this could possibly fall under damning with faint praise and saying, oh look, the lowly White Sox have finally done something that is that merits some kind of credit. But no, it does. It is a big deal. And that's okay to be excited about it. And why not? Because I don't know that they're getting good. Because this is a probably a corollary to my belief that the best time to be a fan of a professional sports team is when you know they're getting good. I don't think they're getting good, but this version is it's okay to be relieved when you know your team as grown beyond total laughing stock. So maybe I am damning with any phrase. I hear myself say it, but yeah, it's it's all right to say, all right, they've done something that is worth noting. They're 22 and 21. They're a game back in the AL Central. But God, the American League is awful. And even in a terrible American League, the White Sox Current playoff percentage chances as of right now 8.7% on fan graphs. All right, so you're saying there's a chance 8.7% playoff percentage for the White Sox at their current record of 22 and 21. The win percentage of.512. And I'm going to repeat everything that I said last time when we talked about the White Sox in this space, and that is the fact that Colson Montgomery is good is the most important aspect of what's going on right now. If your young shortstop is good, that's huge offensively and defensively. Colson Montgomery being good matters a lot and it seems like he's good. So that's very exciting. And now the Cubs and the Sox will square off and and we urge you not to fall into the bullpen if you're near the bullpen because then you're just wasting everybody's time. So good times for the we'll see if the weather holds. I don't know exactly. The weather might be a little sketchy the weekend, so I think tomorrow supposed to be fairly rainy. I don't know if we have some long delays or just make sure you're checking the weather if you're planning on going to these games. So I'm just going to remind you of that. And because it's Friday today, we have both our Friday feedback Friday and we also have a top 10 list. And I, I have to admit that when we get to this, it became something I did not intend. It started out as one thing and then it turned into something else. And I think the interesting thing is going to be the something else that it turned into. So we will get to that. We also have the PGA going on and if you're betting golf right now, you don't have to just throw a dart at somebody outright and then sweat it out for four days. Because in my bookie you can bet the entire tournament and not just who's going to win the trophy. If there's a head to head matchup you like in any of these remaining days, jump on it. You can bet the round. You can then follow the cut line. Boy, Bryson DeChambeau, he's looking at, you know, being cut from another major here. He's got things to fix. You could Wait for Sunday and predict who's going to make the charge and jump on that person. Because PGA Tour betting is better when you just keep it simple. With my bookie, you don't have to know every single player's individual putting stats. You don't know how. You have to know if the dry, the wind has dried out the greens and the putting stats on fast greens of a certain grass. And you don't have to be a weather guy, just a little extra to sweeten the deal. Use my code DBU Dan Bernstein Unfiltered and then your first bet is covered up to $500 when you make your first deposit. And then you're not overthinking it. You find your angle, you make your pick, you cash in at my bookie there. That simple. And let's get to Friday Feedback Friday. Now, I have to say that the, the mail that has come in, I never know exactly what's going to hit a nerve. What exactly is going to find the that, that, that sense of I must communicate with a podcast. I have to be heard. I have to send in what is being said at this podcast so I can, I can be a part of this. Well, it appears that this week there were a couple of things to which you reacted, and they've been coming in all week. And one of the things was Popeye. But let me just say this, that there was some there was a question as to whether or not the character Popeye was actually in the Navy for a lot of you sent in basically stuff from your Gemini AI searches or Wikipedia. I've got all that stuff. I did not have this. And that was the question as to whether or not the character of Popeye was a sailor or, or was a member or a former member of the actual US Navy. So thank you to Pete in West Town. And Pete said there was a cartoon called the Mighty Navy that featured Popeye. And according to Cannon, so canonically, he is in the U.S. navy. He enlisted in the Navy in 1941. He proceeded to eat a can of spinach, load himself into a torpedo tube, and fire himself at an enemy destroyer following the Mighty Navy. His naval uniform became a Popeye staple there. So that is now done. That has been established. That is, that is handled. It is taken care of.
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Matt Spiegel
All right. So he was in the Navy.
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Dan Bernstein
He was in the Navy. And then you remember we read something last week about the guy using marshmallow peeps for s'. Mores.
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Matt Spiegel
Yep.
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Dan Bernstein
And that also brought out some response. Joe and Beverly said, you, a listener, sent that S' mores hack using peeps in lieu of marshmallows where the sugar on the outside caramelizes. I will definitely be trying that hack this summer. We tried a bunch of s' mores hacks in the backyard during the pandemic and I thought I would share some that worked. One, instead of using Hershey's chocolate, use the flavored Ghirardelli squares. All of the Ghirardelli flavors bring a different spin on the Samore, but a Samore with mint chocolate or sea salt and caramel. Game changers. Well, like that. I also like their peppermint white chocolate. I don't know if that's exactly going to work on us some more, but I'm willing to try it.
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Matt Spiegel
Yep.
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Dan Bernstein
Number two, instead of using a graham cracker, use pretzel fins. The salty pretzel combined with the sweetness of the marshmallow and chocolate is a great combination. Joe, those are both outstanding suggestions and much appreciated. We also had discussed Michael Biehn when I was talking about that the Corporal Hicks would use that term stay frosty. And this is a Dan who said, I heard you mention Michael Biehn on the pod. My brother in law met him a few months back and knowing that we're big fans of the Aliens movies, he was kind enough to get us Michael Bean's autograph which is framed in our home office. And he signed it to us with the advice Stay Frosty. And it is indeed a picture of Michael Biehn as Hicks and it says to Karen and Dan, stay frosty. I like it.
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Matt Spiegel
I did not know.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, I didn't know that he used that as his, his special catchphrase but very, very cool on the idea of no ketchup on hot dogs that we had also discussed and the not yucking yums and let people do what they want. And understanding why that started. This was Mark and he said, I'd like to explain where my lifelong aversion to ketchup on a hot dog came from. It was not culinary sophistication. It is not any Chicago tradition. It was Clint Eastwood in 1983. I was an impressionable 11 year old kid and my dad took me to see Sudden Impact and he actually sends the video and he said that was it. Case closed. When Dirty Harry says nobody and I mean nobody puts ketchup on a hot dog. Said 11 years old dirty Harry, the coolest human being on earth. If Clint Eastwood said nobody puts a ketchup on a hot dog, I'm not gonna be that guy. There's no cultural food principle. It's an 80 movies quote, rewiring a child's brain. And let's completely ignore everything else about Clint Eastwood, but in 1983, he was dirty Harry and Dirty Harry had spoken. I do remember that. That was the movie with Go ahead, make my day. And I think the reason why there's the hot dog reference is in the original movie Dirty Harry, in that defining scene when he's pointing his Smith and Wesson Model 29, I think it is.44 Magnum. And he says in all the hubbub, I don't know if I fired six shots or only five.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Ask yourself, do you feel. Or do I feel lucky? And he's pointing it at him. He's eating a hot dog.
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Matt Spiegel
I think the better line, as he's pointing the gun at someone is saying, do I feel lucky?
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Dan Bernstein
Well, he. I think that is the line. Ask yourself, do I feel lucky?
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Matt Spiegel
Well, do you Ask yourself. But he's asking himself if he feels lucky.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, if I feel lucky, I feel lucky. I'm holding the gun.
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Matt Spiegel
I'm lucky.
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Dan Bernstein
But he's eating a hot dog.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
And as he's shooting people, as the, the. It's all breaking out, there was sort of hot. There was hot dog symbolism. I don't know what it means or what the point of it all is, but that I think that's why it came up in 1983. But Mark, thank you very much for sending that in. It is appreciated.
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Matt Spiegel
All right, can I share an email with you real quick? Because I need your help to. To think through this. This email here. All right, this comes to us from Kevin in Jefferson Park. He says. Hello, men. Hello. As. As someone who's worked on cruise ships, I got a kick out of had eye twitching flashbacks during your cruise discussion. One quibble, Matt. I'm sincerely glad you had a good time on your cruises, but saying that cruising is fun because you didn't have problems on your Viking tour is like saying, I don't know why everyone is complaining about their exploding Dodge Darts. My Ferrari works great.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. Because Viking is known as.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah, okay, okay. Well, first of all, I didn't say that I had. I had, I didn't have any problems with my Viking cruise. I said I had a spectacular time on my Viking cruise. Also mentioned how I had a great time on the Disney cruise that we took. It was fantastic, top to bottom. Why should I be held at fault for paying a little more to go somewhere that I know is fantastic with fantastic service and accommodations when other people choose to go on other cruise lines that are, as he puts it, great wolf lodges with a higher risk of infection. If you choose to do that, like, if you know what you're getting into, then that's what you deserve to get. Like, why should I be at fault because I chose a. Like a cruise line? I don't particular.
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Dan Bernstein
I think he's letting you off the hook is what he's doing. I don't think he's put. I don't think he's faulting you at all. Okay. Because I just found this email.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah. Because, I mean, he's saying that cruises suck, but if you. If you're going to go somewhere shitty. Yeah. You're going to have a shitty time. Right?
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Dan Bernstein
This is hilarious.
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Matt Spiegel
It's like. It's like going to a place, you know, that has terrible hamburgers and thinking, oh, my God, all hamburgers blow.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay.
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Matt Spiegel
Then go to a place that has better hamburgers. Right.
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Dan Bernstein
He's. He says Viking is an outlier. The Disney cruise is run as well as it is because they have to abide by the strictures of Big Mouse. This is really fun. Do you want to read the rest of this?
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Matt Spiegel
The rest of the cruise industry, by and large, is focused on cramming as many people as they can into a barely regulated tub flagged out of a dummy core in the Caribbean with nickel and diming said waddlers for everything. They're floating great wolf lodges with a higher risk of infection. It's long. If you want to keep reading it, go.
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Dan Bernstein
The default theme of every standard cruise is Blue Lives Matter. Everyone is named Todd or Leanne or all of them are the neighbor who tells you that where you live used to be nice before insert ethnic group moved in if they brought their family. The children are mandated by law to scream, cry like they're being constantly electrocuted, especially while you're trying to have dinner at one of the restaurants on board that charges a cover. Tired of having to make small talk with American racists? Great news. You can make small talk with European racists. They're really good at it, too. They invented it. They. They are all named Clive and Nancy, exchange rates being what they are. And they came to drink Heineken, berate the staff, and throw up in the casino when you swerve around that puddle. Knock, knock. Who's there? Swingers. The Todd's and Leannes who've taken to the high seas to partner swap. And they only know how to interact with their fellow cruisers in the creepiest way possible. Hope you wanted to see someone dance suggestively to literally any song played in any part of the ship. They claim the hot tubs at the beginning of every cruise. I'd sooner swim in the water under Chernobyl than get in one of those with them. Were you trying to get a cup of coffee at the buffet? Well, while you do a red faced parrot head in a let's go Brandon T shirt is going to tell you why it's your patriotic duty to bang his wife who coincidentally looks exactly like him. Are these Todd's and Leanne's also racist brother. It wouldn't be a cruise if they weren't. I saw many beautiful places while working those contracts for five hours at a time every two weeks. I met many great people who were also on the crew. As for the rest, I'll leave that to Todd and Leanne. See you on the Lido deck.
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Matt Spiegel
Kevin, thanks for the. Thanks for the email, buddy. Appreciate it. Good stuff. Listen, like and I'm not going to denigrate any other cruise lines because I haven't been on any of their cruise lines. And here's the reason why. Because I've never wanted to go on any other cruise lines. There's a reason why, like, everything that I've learned and seen and have heard are just that's not what I want to do. So choose the right ones or just don't cruise at all.
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Dan Bernstein
Or Viking Cruise Lines.
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Matt Spiegel
We've been outstanding. They it was great. I can't wait to do another Viking Cruise Line.
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Dan Bernstein
Nobody was trying to partner swap with you? No.
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Matt Spiegel
And the Disney one was great too, as much as they're. The only bad thing about it was there were so many kids, but it just, it was great. So yeah, some of these other ones. Yeah, I would avoid those at all costs. But thanks for the email. Good stuff.
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Dan Bernstein
David asks you and Maddie keep using this term. I can't figure out when you're describing the naming of somebody presumably famous in a film or a TV show. Closed captioning shows it as Iraq. B O E I N G Iraq. Boeing. Clearly not it. My hearing isn't sharp anymore. I can't make out what you're saying. I tried Googling some descriptions and guesses but no luck. Iraq. Poeing help.
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Matt Spiegel
Yes. Yeah, I finally saw the Jim Beam commercial last night.
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Dan Bernstein
Bad, isn't it?
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah. So a guy drives through someone's fence into the backyard and then a soccer ball flies at Tim Howard while he's in full gear and he's like, hey, you look like US national goalkeeper Tim Howard. I am Tim Howard. Yeah. I finally saw it bad. That. That is.
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Dan Bernstein
That is a drive by brutal Iraq poem. Yes, but. So that's what it is. And the word. And this is what I said. I sent this back. I said it's Iraqpo ing named after former Washington linebacker Brian Iraqpo and his appearance in a GEICO ad in which the GEICO caveman in the locker room had to say your pro bowl linebacker, Brian Iraqpo. And what it means is like if a celebrity in an ad also still has to be, you have to take time within the ad to stop and tell everyone who that famous person is. That's a rack poeing.
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Matt Spiegel
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
And it questions like, did you sign the right person for this? If in fact you have to tell everyone who the person is, aren't we really defeating the purpose of hiring somebody? That's all that that is.
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Matt Spiegel
And that started decades ago in radio for us where we made fun of that commercial whenever it was that it came out. And now whenever it happens in commercials, it just, it flashes at me like a bright red light.
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Dan Bernstein
And this on that topic, Seth said there was a bizarre international Iraq poing this week.
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Matt Spiegel
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
The tiny nation of San Marino was competing in Eurovision and brought out 64 year old boy George for the Eurovision Eurovision entry, calling out his name because even the parents of everyone in that crowd were the only people alive when he was relevant. Okay, so Boy George. I didn't even know he was still performing.
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Matt Spiegel
I had no idea.
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Dan Bernstein
George o'. Dowd, Is that his name? I believe. Okay.
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Matt Spiegel
Boy George. Yeah, that's, that's. I never, I don't think I've ever knew his real name.
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Dan Bernstein
I think it's. I think it's George o' Dowd is his actual name. But I certainly could be wrong.
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Matt Spiegel
You are correct. George Allen o'. Dowd.
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Dan Bernstein
There it is. This is Eric. Hello, boys. You two are hitting a peak. I'm not really sure what the peak is, but it's something. You called yourselves out. But allow me to point out the gold. That was your fashion discussion when you were talking about coaches. Dan is here admiring $5,000 suits. How incredible the materials are. Matt prefers NBA coaches. Go back to the high fashion suit life. Both of you chide the children for their pajama wardrobes. Meanwhile, Dan is buying women's socks from homeless people at expressway exits. He also wears pants that have no more ass on them because it's worn away. Matt has become a fishing shirt connoisseur even though he doesn't fish. Then we move to Forward progress and Matt's level of Bears meatball is incredible. Numerous potential negative Bears results throughout the various podcasts get discussed, and the answer is always, but that's not going to happen. Even Dan can't resist. What. What games are the Bears going to win? All of them, he says. I think we've officially arrived at the point where a new listener would give these pods a whirl and think, what in the actual fuck am I listening to? Which, to me, is exactly why they're so incredibly good lately. Thanks, Eric. And then his PS is the guy who threw a rock at the seal should be stoned to death.
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Matt Spiegel
I mean, I. I do these podcasts with you, and I wonder what the Am I listening to? I mean, exactly. I don't know. In our defense, too, we. We even said while we were talking about how nice we want NBA coaches to dress, that we dress like slobs and. And very lazily so.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah.
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Matt Spiegel
And even when we were talking about the kids wearing pajama pants. Yes, I. I mentioned that. Only because. And I'm sure when you. When I were in high school, it was the same thing. Like, you dressed nice in high school.
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Dan Bernstein
I wore jeans and, like, rugby shirts.
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Matt Spiegel
Okay, Well, I mean, we always wanted to look nice, so we had nice jeans and nice shirts, and we always dressed up to go to school. I would have never worn sweatpants or pajama pants to school. That's why we get on the kids today. But, yes, we. We do dress like slobs and we don't have. Why are you dressed in a polo shirt again for two days in a row?
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Dan Bernstein
And my nice pants.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah, it throws me off. Why do you do that?
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Dan Bernstein
I'm golfing. Where? Jason's coming down here and, like, noon, and when we're done, we're going directly out to golf. That's why.
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Matt Spiegel
Okay. All right. That's fine. It's acceptable. Can you shoot me a text in the morning before. So I know.
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Dan Bernstein
So it doesn't freak you out that I'm wearing a collared shirt off.
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Matt Spiegel
That you're wearing a collared shirt when you come on the screen and there's a. Well, when you appear on the screen.
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Dan Bernstein
Yesterday, there was a client meeting.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah. Yes, it was a client meeting.
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Dan Bernstein
Yesterday I had a. It was, like, a nice business lunch, and, like, there were people in from out of town from the other parts of the company, and I was just kind of there.
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Matt Spiegel
Wait, did you eat?
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Dan Bernstein
I. I poked around at us.
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Matt Spiegel
Okay, so you didn't do, like, your regular eating? Okay, No, I wouldn't turn people off.
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Dan Bernstein
No, I wouldn't subject anybody to that. I gotta.
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Matt Spiegel
Okay. I got, like, just making sure.
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Dan Bernstein
Like a side salad with a piece of shrimp on it.
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Matt Spiegel
Okay, perfect. Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
Is that good?
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Matt Spiegel
That's fine. That's fine. All right. Golfing today. Thank you. Acceptable move forward. Sir,
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Dan Bernstein
There's another Popeye email.
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Matt Spiegel
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
He says. Loving the podcast, gents. Anyone would easily assume that Popeye was in the Navy, not just because of his anchor tattoos, but he wears the traditional white enlisted sailor cap, a round brimless cotton hat commonly called a Dixie cup in the Navy. I believe that in some instances he wears his pea coat. Both uniform items are issued to you in boot camp. Okay.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah, but you could also buy those at, like, an Army Navy surplus store, too. You could if you wanted to. Maybe that's what he wanted to do. Maybe he wanted to appear to look like he was in the Navy, but Popeye was actually in the Navy.
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Dan Bernstein
There's one on Lincoln right there. Lincoln and forgot what the cross street is right there. Just south of Belmont, there's a nice Army Navy surplus store.
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Matt Spiegel
I think we should dress up. We should do a whole week of dress ups. No, if we have to do the. The clown costumes for one.
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Dan Bernstein
No, no, I'm not doing a whole week of dress ups.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Like, hard enough for me to put a collared shirt on.
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Matt Spiegel
We could do military one day. We could go to the army Navy surplus and get gear. We could do cowboys one day.
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Dan Bernstein
If I. If I do the army Navy surplus, I'm buying a ghillie suit.
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Matt Spiegel
What's a ghillie suit?
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Dan Bernstein
You know, a ghillie suit. You look like it.
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Matt Spiegel
It.
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Dan Bernstein
It. It's a camouflage, but it's like all hair.
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Matt Spiegel
You.
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Dan Bernstein
You look like a.
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Matt Spiegel
You know what I'm.
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Dan Bernstein
You've seen it?
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Matt Spiegel
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
It's like G H I L L E. They have them.
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Matt Spiegel
I didn't know that. Wasn't that what it was called? Yeah, that was the name of it. Yeah. So you look like you're forest shrubbery, right? Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. So that's the name. Look at you, I believe. Yeah. G H, G. Gilly suit, I think.
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Matt Spiegel
G H I L L I E. Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
I know stuff, man. You know? I know stuff.
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Matt Spiegel
I know. You know you know a lot about a lot of things. Yeah. You can wear that. I think you should do that. You should do that. And I'll dress up like Popeye.
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Dan Bernstein
Done.
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Matt Spiegel
All right.
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Dan Bernstein
This is Mac. He said. I'm so glad you're focusing on the coaching of the Bears defense. There are other people in this town who do what you do, who take Dennis Allen speak as gospel. And it reminds me of Ryan Poles telling us he saw things weren't right in camp with Shane Waldron, but he did nothing about it. You can't tell me the Bears didn't self scout weekly and know in real time that their fundamentals weren't good. So what do we know? They had a ton of injuries. Dennis Allen, with relatively the healthiest crew he had all year, which is still banged up, called a gem of a game against the Rams. His track record should give us some confidence. But then you have that player report card where Dennis Allen had by far the worst grade for what was a special season. So where conjecture comes in, as Ben did say, or did Ben say? The question is, did Ben say look at your grade in that report card. We heard this repeatedly in our exit interviews. This is on you and you need to be better. Did DA come up with this to defend his reputation? And Ben just thought to himself, sure, fall on that. Or worse. Does he believe that? Robert Mays recently said his spidey sense is up on coordinators who don't have a clear and obvious success in year one. To expect them to do so in year two, regardless of injury is typically a losing bet. Said you had a national guy ranked the Bears defense dead last in. In post off season moves. I think it's a little ridiculous. And people in the league. No, that's for Mac. Thank you, Mac. And of course, yeah, of course we're on that. We're not here to. We're not here to cheerlead. We're not here to. To shine or polish your apple, whatever metaphor you want. We're gonna tell you what we think about the Bears. That's all there is to it.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah. And I, I think saying that Dennis Allen is on the clock is a fair assessment given what we've heard from Hellas Hall.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes. Yeah. And. And, and other things out there too. Edwin Emails. I enjoyed listening to the segment this week about all the consternation and kerfuffle within college football over Lane Kiffin's comments regarding Ole Miss. But one thing that strikes me is the richness of Kiffin suggesting that some families are not going to want to send their kids to Oxford, Mississippi, but they'll be happy to send her to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Oh, really? Would it be the families who are going to be thrilled with the fact that the governor of Louisiana who was involved in Lane Kiffin being hired as coach at LSU has recently canceled an election while it was in progress just so the Louisiana legislature can redraw congressional maps to ensure that the state of Louisiana will not be represented in Congress by anyone who is a person of color. It seems to me there may be some trouble with those folks enrolling their kids at lsu. Edwin, thank you. The only thing missing there would be Lane Kiffin, who you're crapping.
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Matt Spiegel
But I don't know if you missed this text I sent you the other day, but LSU at Ole Miss, September 19th, 6:30pm ABC. Yeah. Yep. Gonna mark that one down on the calendar.
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Dan Bernstein
I did see. Cindy from Tacoma, Washington, writes that you guys talked about the Cubs trip to Texas and how awful Globe Life Field was with Dan putting the emphasis on the funereal corrugated roof, saying you'd rather have the AAA park in Sacramento. One of the absolute joys I've had in my life is touring the country with my bestie and fellow long timer, Zed in Schaumburg. Zed. Remember Zed?
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Matt Spiegel
I do, yes.
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Dan Bernstein
Zed from North Carolina, right?
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Matt Spiegel
Yep. Absolutely.
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Dan Bernstein
It was Zed in North Carolina. Then it was Zed in Schaumburg. That's right. She's great. And so Cindy says, we've watched home games in 21 of 30 Major League ballparks together, having a blast doing it. While Globe. Globe Life Field is awful, the ballpark that preceded it was worse. In 2018, we went to a Rangers Diamondbacks game at Globe Life Park, AKA the Ballpark in Arlington. Everything you hated about the current ballpark was amplified there, with the exception that it was open air, while the Coliseum in Oakland was a dump. Tropicana was horribly outdated. At least those ballparks had some sort of character. Globe Life didn't. Bland inside and out. Felt like it was made by AI instead of being a living, breathing ballpark made by a human being. Another major disappointment, the food and the staff. The food not up to par with Oakland's food the staff wasn't welcoming. In June, Zed and I are going on a road trip to see games at PNC in Pittsburgh, Progressive Field in Cleveland, Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati. And if they wind up being worse than either Globe Life park or Globe Life Field, I'll be stunned. We're also attending games at American Family park in Milwaukee, finishing up the trip at Wrigley. And a big part of it, of the games we went to see 10 years ago, was listening to U2 and Terry back in the day, and it revitalized my love of baseball. I wanted to set out to achieve a goal that I have and going to see a home game at all 30 major league ballparks. I agree with you wholeheartedly. I'd rather have the AAA park in Sacramento than have to spend another minute at any Rangers stadium. And no, it's not because I'm a jaded Mariners fan and had to see them win a World Series before we made it to one. That's Cindy in Tacoma. Send our best to Zed.
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Matt Spiegel
Yes, and good stuff, Cindy. And by the way, those five ballparks you mentioned, PNC and then Cleveland, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and of course Wrigley. You're going to have fantastic time at all five. All five?
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Dan Bernstein
You've been to all five?
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Matt Spiegel
I have not, but I've had close friends who have been to all five of those. My wife was actually in Cincinnati last year for a game at Great American Ballpark and nothing but great reviews.
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Dan Bernstein
Cool.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah, PNC is actually on my like we we're trying to find a weekend to get to Pittsburgh just to go see a game at PNC for so many good things about it.
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Dan Bernstein
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Matt Spiegel
That's good stuff.
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Dan Bernstein
Just please, gentlemen, keep up the great work in bringing attention to this disease. Get your exploding Taint Syndrome screening today. Thank you, Zorba. Lastly, and this is for you. I saved this for you. Oh, boy. And this is awesome. And it was sent by Joey. I heard you guys talking about the theory that Maverick intentionally killed Goose.
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Matt Spiegel
Oh, that's not a theory. It's a bullshit conspiracy thought from his lunatic.
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Dan Bernstein
It made me remember my very first day in school while I was in the Navy learning about the cockpit. I was an aviation Mechanic egress. Which means I worked on the explosives that initiate the ejection sequence. All right, you with me?
- [36:29]
Matt Spiegel
Yep. Got it.
- [36:30]
Dan Bernstein
Before we even sat down at our desks, the instructor hit play on the scene where Goose died.
- [36:41]
Matt Spiegel
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
We watched the scene, and the instructor said, this is bullshit. Now, this was 2002, so we could only assume he's done this in every class since he viewed the scene. To summarize, the explosives are designed to shoot the canopy backwards. Due to the sequencing, front of the canopy goes first, etcetera, in milliseconds, the explosives fire and propel the canopy away from the plane. So the argument that he's in a flat spin so the drag wouldn't pull the canopy away falls on its face. And here's why. It is specifically designed not to happen, first and foremost. Furthermore, on top of the seat are little nubs that are literally called canopy breakers. If the explosives were to fail, these canopy breakers on the seat are designed to shatter the glass. There is no scenario in which Goose could hit his head on the canopy. Goose lives, I suppose, until Maverick inexplicably flies them into a tower. Trying to be cute.
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Matt Spiegel
All right, so what, Schmutzie? His theory is that he.
- [38:15]
Dan Bernstein
Okay, it's smooth.
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Matt Spiegel
So he survived the canopy collision, and out of embarrassment of what happened before the restaurant gets there, he says Maverick swims over and spins his neck, as he puts it, and kills him.
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Dan Bernstein
He's not strong enough to break a guy's neck with his bare hands. He's not telling a Steven Seagal movie.
- [38:39]
Matt Spiegel
Well, I think I. I mean, come on. I'd like to give it a try. Like, I could either.
- [38:45]
Dan Bernstein
Come on.
- [38:46]
Matt Spiegel
But that's. That's his theory, so. But that's great information.
- [38:49]
Dan Bernstein
That's fantastic.
- [38:50]
Matt Spiegel
And I love the fact that he's in the Navy and the guy actually shows the scene. Scene and then calls it bullshit.
- [38:55]
Dan Bernstein
You know what I love? I love the fact that this guy was in the Navy and didn't have a thought on Popeye.
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Matt Spiegel
That's right.
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Dan Bernstein
Right. So what were the odds that we're gonna get all of these different actual Navy guys or members of the Navy? And some are like, well, I was issued this cap and this peacoat, and he was fired out of the data spinning. These are completely separate thoughts in the same week.
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Matt Spiegel
That's great. Yes. Wait, was that. Is that the last email for Friday Feedback? Friday. Okay, before we move on to top 10, I want to. Because I've been saving this. I want to share this with you. I think I thought you would appreciate this. You remember Jennings Dunker, the offensive line drafted by the Steelers?
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. Yeah.
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Matt Spiegel
So I, I saw his what he eats the night before and then the morning of a game, and I wanted to share it with you. Okay, so about 5:30pm the night before a game, he'll eat two to three servings of pasta with marinara sauce. Meat sauce.
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Dan Bernstein
Which one? Marinara sauce is not.
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Matt Spiegel
Well, he calls it, he calls it meat marinara. Okay. Which it's not.
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Dan Bernstein
But no. Yeah, yeah.
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Matt Spiegel
But anyway, two or three servings of pasta, a basket of bread rolls, a 12 ounce steak and two servings of fruit. At 8:30 that night, he has a snack. Three full hamburgers, three bags of baked lay's, potato chips, hot chocolate and various hydration mixes. Game day morning 7:15. You'll eat four slices of toast, two large bowls of wheaties, a stack of pancakes and two chicken breasts. And then an hour and 45 minutes later at 9:00am Four more slices of toast and one additional chicken breast.
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Dan Bernstein
Wow.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay, so that tells me he needs all of those calories to keep effective weight on. And the moment he's done playing, he's going to lose 100 pounds.
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Matt Spiegel
Oh yeah, for sure. That's, he'll, he'll look unrecognizable.
- [40:55]
Dan Bernstein
Yep.
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Matt Spiegel
Except for this hair and the mullet and the mustache.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, it's like, is that even fun? Like, eating is a joy. Eating should be a joy.
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Matt Spiegel
Right.
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Dan Bernstein
And it should be special if not fetishized. The way some of us do it. It should just be something you, you look forward to. You really enjoy it when eating becomes work.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah, I wouldn't like that.
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Dan Bernstein
No.
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Matt Spiegel
But isn't that crazy?
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Dan Bernstein
That's crazy. But that, but believe it or not, it sounds crazy. If you ask every NFL offensive lineman, you'd get something similar.
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Matt Spiegel
Oh, for sure. I mean the, the, the caloric intake has got to be just insane. His post game meal includes a double bacon cheeseburger, family sized cheese curds, onion rings, and a minimum of three sides of ranch dressing.
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Dan Bernstein
Wait, family sized cheese curds? I don't even know what that means. Like, how many cheese curds can a family eat?
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Matt Spiegel
Well, when we go up to the bra stop, we always get cheese curds for the table. There's six of us, we get one basket. I mean, I could, I could take it down myself. It's not, it's not a lot, but it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a large order. It's meant for the table. So. But yeah, I could do it, you know, has good cheese curds. Is Culver's. Yeah, they do place.
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Dan Bernstein
You better believe it when the boys
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Matt Spiegel
will want to go through there, like after baseball practice or whatnot. And I'll always get like a small cheese curve. It's really good for a fast food.
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Dan Bernstein
You know what else is good there?
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Matt Spiegel
Everything. Oh, yeah, no, their stuff is good. My favorite part about Culver's is the marquee out front. They always feature. And there's no. There's no punctuation at all or separation, but they feature the flavored custard of the day followed by like the special fish sandwich of the day. Yeah. The signal read like Snickers milk. You know, Snickers, you know, mint chocolate, walleye sandwiches back. That's how it reads.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. That's the one on 176, right?
- [42:52]
Matt Spiegel
Yes. Yeah, exactly.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, I know that one very, very well because it's. Yeah, it's after I. After I fish at my fishing spot that may or may not be near there, I will sometimes drive by and there's also. I can go down to the corner where there is the BP station at Milwaukee where I can. I generally will fill up and head home.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah. God, what was Gas I saw the other day was $6 for the. The ultimate stuff.
- [43:21]
Dan Bernstein
Yeah.
- [43:21]
Matt Spiegel
Even the cheap stuff was 4.99.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, in the city, everything is. Is like 525 now. Oh, speaking of which, while we're talking about. About cost of living and affordability stuff, I want you to tell me the Mariano's right down here. I want you to tell me the current retail price of one can of chunky soup. Okay. This is. This is the actual Campbell's Chunky Soup. Same or. Or Progresso. They're the same price.
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Matt Spiegel
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
For the same size. Can I. Gotcha. What? How much do you think a can of soup costs at the Lakeshore East Mariano's?
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Matt Spiegel
529.
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Dan Bernstein
You're off by 425.
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Matt Spiegel
Oh, is it really?
- [44:13]
Dan Bernstein
Yeah, it's 425 for a can of soup.
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Matt Spiegel
Well, how much is it normally?
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Dan Bernstein
225.
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Matt Spiegel
Is it really?
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Dan Bernstein
Get out of here. Yeah, it's almost double. No way. Yeah. And I used to complain about 225 and wait for it to go on sale when it was like, if you buy five, you get them at 175 or 199. 425 for a can of soup, and it's normally 225.
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Matt Spiegel
Because I. My initial thought was it was around, like, 3, 380 to 390.
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Dan Bernstein
No, no, no, no. When you say normally.
- [44:43]
Matt Spiegel
Yeah, normally.
- [44:44]
Dan Bernstein
There is no normally anymore.
- [44:46]
Matt Spiegel
Okay, well, yeah, you're right.
- [44:47]
Dan Bernstein
It had been a while since I bought one, but I remembered it as being, like, around 225 regular. Not, you know, full price.
- [44:53]
Matt Spiegel
Four and a quarter. Huh?
- [44:55]
Dan Bernstein
Four and a quarter for a can of soup.
- [44:58]
Matt Spiegel
I only overshot that one.
- [44:59]
Dan Bernstein
But still, that. That's wild. All right, let me explain now, in the top 10 list, what happened here?
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Matt Spiegel
Okay, well, explain the top 10 list.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, the top 10 is my most. The list of the most interesting players who've played for the Sox and the Cubs.
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Matt Spiegel
Okay, so you went with most because I gave you the category of 10 players that played for the Sox and the Cubs, and I said, take it whatever direction you want. Yes. And you turned it into the most interesting.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, I turned it into something else.
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Matt Spiegel
In what regard most interesting? What do you mean?
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Dan Bernstein
I don't know. Just. Just the place, their stories, or the fact that they play for both team. Just what was interesting about them. And. And it ended up being. It kind of went off the rails for me.
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Matt Spiegel
Excellent.
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Dan Bernstein
And this may end up being something else that we can do in the future. Just something else that we can think about as. As time goes by here. Okay, so it's a much longer list than you think. Oh, no, it really is. It's a lot of players in general. When you. When you look at the total group.
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Matt Spiegel
Oh, yeah, I thought you meant your list. I was like, well, it should be 10, but.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay, no, no, no. If you look at the total. So here's. Here's the question I have for you. Just, I think, thought this would be a little fun trivia exercise range, though,
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Matt Spiegel
because I will have no idea where to start. Give me a range.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, you'll. These are. These are all. All people you. You should know and you will get. Okay, but just for just this, none of these people are on the list. But can you name the three players who've played for the Cubs and Sox with the last name? Jackson,
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Matt Spiegel
Darren.
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Dan Bernstein
Darren played with the Cubs from 85 to 89 and the Sox from 94 to 99.
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Matt Spiegel
Reggie didn't play for either. Other Jacksons for the socks and the Cubs. Yep.
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Dan Bernstein
One's a pitcher, one's a position, but one's a center fielder.
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Matt Spiegel
Oh, yeah. No, that's Johnson. Shoot. No, it's gonna be the other two.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. It's Austin Jackson.
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Matt Spiegel
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
2015 with the Cubs, 2016 with the Sox and The guy who played for every team. Edwin Jackson.
- [47:20]
Matt Spiegel
Oh, yeah. Edwin Jackson.
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Dan Bernstein
2010, 2011 with the Sox, 2013 to 2015 with the Cubs. I just thought those, those three Jacksons were interesting. But I want to start out with an honorable mention just because some of these. He ended up being, like, a better player than I thought he was. And that is number 10 on my list. Well, let me just get some names out of the way that I didn't put on the list. There's some of the best players, like Clark Griffith had a 46.6 war. Johnny Evers of Tinker to Evers, the Chance played for both teams. Phil Cavaretta played for both teams. Hoyt Wilhelm played for both teams. But okay, I just.
- [48:02]
Matt Spiegel
Johnny Evers played for the Sox.
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Dan Bernstein
I guess he did. He had a zero war, but he played. He did.
- [48:07]
Matt Spiegel
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
Johnny Evers played for this. He was on the Cubs from 02 to 1913, and he played one game for the White Sox in 1922.
- [48:17]
Matt Spiegel
And then he was like, screw this.
- [48:20]
Dan Bernstein
Well, that.
- [48:20]
Matt Spiegel
Playing for the White Sox.
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Dan Bernstein
The same goes for number two on this list. But so I've got. Dennis Lamp got special mention here. Dennis Lamp had 7.8 war with the Cubs and 6.1 war with the Sox. And then I was thinking, too, that as a kid at the. Around the same time in Chicago, we had both Dennis Lamp and Dennis Lick. Do you remember Dennis Lick?
- [48:48]
Matt Spiegel
I don't.
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Dan Bernstein
From the Bears.
- [48:50]
Matt Spiegel
Mm.
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Dan Bernstein
Big tackle. I want to say number 71. Big, big old big tackle. Dennis Licking Lamp. Dennis Lamp and Dennis Lick. And both were large, dark haired, Mustachio men. So I think they. They led. They led the league in. In Dennis L. Big mustache guys. Okay, so that was. That was an honorable mention. Also. I also put Don Kessinger on there because Kessinger was not only a player on both teams, Kessinger was the manager. He was player manager of the White Sox. He was on the Cubs from 64 to 75 and then the Sox from 77 to 79 and was the last player manager in town, number 10. And this starts out how this list changed for me. I decided that there. I'm making some mergers here, and I am. I am declaring that we're merging in the interest of efficiency. And like the McKinsey consultants that came in, and they want more cost effectiveness from our baseball memories. And they said, there's no point having two people when you can sort of mash the people into one. Okay, I'm merging Giovanni Soto and Wellington Castillo.
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Matt Spiegel
Why?
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Dan Bernstein
We don't need Both of them.
- [50:14]
Matt Spiegel
Okay, fine.
- [50:15]
Dan Bernstein
We don't need both. They both played for the Cubs and the Sox. They're both catchers. So we're just going to make Giovannington Sotillo.
- [50:24]
Matt Spiegel
Okay, that's fine.
- [50:25]
Dan Bernstein
All right. They're all the same person.
- [50:26]
Matt Spiegel
We can do that.
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Dan Bernstein
All right. So that, that's. This is going to be an exercise here. We are that as as of right now, Giovanni Soto and Wellington Castillo are the same person there so that we just save money. We just, we just, we just cut a whole salary there and we can go through and we can make sure that we stay on budget by cutting costs. So there's that, that, that's number 10.
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Matt Spiegel
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
I'm doing the same at number nine. Because we don't need both Juan Pierre and Lance Johnson.
- [50:57]
Matt Spiegel
Fair. Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
They both, both played for the Cubs and the Sox. Both played center field. Both slappy left handed, pigeon toed fast guys. Right? Yep. Who can't throw.
- [51:10]
Matt Spiegel
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
Neither one just pus armed pigeon toed, slappy fast guys. So now wants P. Onson is a new guy.
- [51:21]
Matt Spiegel
But didn't. Didn't Hawk.
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Dan Bernstein
Didn't.
- [51:23]
Matt Spiegel
Hawk didn't have a. Like a magical love affair with. With Lance Johnson was one dog. One dog.
- [51:29]
Dan Bernstein
Yeah, one dog loved. One dog loved him. Well now he's got to also love
- [51:33]
Matt Spiegel
Juan Pierre because they're the same person.
- [51:37]
Dan Bernstein
As of right now. They're the same guy.
- [51:39]
Matt Spiegel
So are you merging all 10 spots from people?
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Dan Bernstein
No, I'm open to it though. That's the thing. If you, if there are other potential mergers because this, this goes back. This is something I've always wanted to do. When we have redundancies in sports, we didn't need a punter named Louis Aguiar and a punter named Leo Aragus.
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Matt Spiegel
Do you combine them?
- [52:02]
Dan Bernstein
We combined them.
- [52:03]
Matt Spiegel
All right. No, that's. I mean that's fair for 10 and nine right now.
- [52:06]
Dan Bernstein
Also in the. And I said in the NBA we didn't need Matt Garrity and Matt Harpering. They were the same person. Okay. So we merged them. They've become the same.
- [52:16]
Matt Spiegel
That.
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Dan Bernstein
So there's a couple more here that I'm doing this with.
- [52:19]
Matt Spiegel
Fair mergers.
- [52:20]
Dan Bernstein
Those are two. Soto, Giovanni Soto, Wellington Castillo merged Juan Pierre, Lance Johnson merged now.
- [52:26]
Matt Spiegel
So 10, nine, eight.
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Dan Bernstein
Number eight. I just have Oscar Gamble. I didn't know Oscar Gamble started his career with the Cubs in 1969. And Oscar Gamble is awesome.
- [52:36]
Matt Spiegel
No idea. I had no idea he played.
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Dan Bernstein
I had absolutely no clue. And I saw that he played 24 games for the Cubs in 1969 and then went on to play for the Sox and the Yankees. Sox famously 77 to 85. And I just, I loved Oscar Gamble. I put him at 8 just because I wanted to talk about him. Maybe the greatest Afro in the history of baseball. Up there with Gary Maddox. And that is an actual Maddox and not a Maddox, but There were Bake, McBride and some others. But Oscar gambled there near the top of that list.
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Matt Spiegel
Cubs, Phillies, Indians, Yankees, White Sox, Padres, Rangers, Yankees, White Sox. Yep. Had no idea he was with the Cubs.
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Dan Bernstein
I didn't either, but he was magical.
- [53:24]
Matt Spiegel
Year of 1969.
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Dan Bernstein
Number seven for the my. The most interesting Sox and Cubs. Interesting doesn't have to be good. Number seven is Craig Kimbrell. I don't get it. I've kind of. I don't. The whole like, end career Kimbrel thing. Like, ever since he left the Braves, he's been bad. And he keeps getting. I think he's still in the league. People keep trotting him out there. He's doing his thing. And I remember being at Wrigley the day. It was the day the Cubs got him and Kyle Schwaber walked out on the field and like, signaled to everybody, his teammates before the game by doing the Kimbrell thing. And everybody got excited and oh, here go, here come the Cubs. They got Craig Kimbrell to shore everything up.
- [54:17]
Matt Spiegel
All right, he is, he's on. He's currently a New York Mets.
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Dan Bernstein
Yep, Yep. Number six. We have another merger.
- [54:26]
Matt Spiegel
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
And. And this is more of an acquisition. I think this is more. Your one is subsuming the other. But we don't need both Nick Madrigal and Nikki Lopez. Fair, done. Okay. Both played for the Cubs and the Sox.
- [54:46]
Matt Spiegel
Yep.
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Dan Bernstein
We are gonna roll Nikki Lopez into Nick Madrigal.
- [54:51]
Matt Spiegel
All right, so then who would the Cubs have on their roster today?
- [54:54]
Dan Bernstein
Whoever it did, it's the same thing. It's just Nikki Madrepez. And that's going forward that they're. They're, they're going to be the same entity. Nick Madrigal. Nikki Lopez becomes Nicki Madrepez. Because, you know, you go through these lists and you're like, why do we have two of these? You know, this is, these are redundant pieces. Number five, because I find him interesting as a former Cubs and Sox is Rich Gossage because he was an up and comer with the White Sox. The flame throwing right hander who then as we know, settled into a Hall of Fame career as really the archetypal closer.
- [55:38]
Matt Spiegel
The.
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Dan Bernstein
The whole idea of the guy with the Fu Manchu mustache who scares you down and throws inside that, that. That whole thing, that's goose gossage. Now, he had 41.1 career war and only 9.7 of them with the Chicago teams. He got to the Cubs long after he was done at his best as a closer. And adding him to a long list of people who. And the closers would love to come and die with the Cubs, whether it was Rick Aguilera or Mel Rojas or some of these. Or all these Astros they keep getting. Although, nice, Phil. Phil Maton was. Was decent last night. He was decent, although I think some of it was by mistake, but I'm not going to get into that right now.
- [56:22]
Matt Spiegel
Hey, it doesn't matter. It works.
- [56:23]
Dan Bernstein
Doesn't matter, right?
- [56:24]
Matt Spiegel
Yep.
- [56:25]
Dan Bernstein
Number four, we have another merger.
- [56:28]
Matt Spiegel
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
Because they both played for both the Cubs and the Sox. They have both been kind of for both the Cubs and the Sox. One played Cubs, oh, 6 to 08 and the Sox 97 to 2000. The other was a Cuban 2000 to 2007 and a White Sox from 11 to 12. I am combining Scott Ayer and Will Omen. They're now Squat Oyer. Same dude. Lefty Loogie. Fine. Stevie Iyer. That's his name. That column. Stevie Iyer. He didn't know his name. So, Sky. Sorry, guys, but you've. You've been merged and Scott Ayer and Will Omen are now combined into one person named Squat Oyer.
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Matt Spiegel
Oh, what do you. What do you. Oh, go ahead. Sorry.
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Dan Bernstein
I had a little honorable mention here. I scribbled in the name Ross Glowed for some reason.
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Matt Spiegel
Oh, yeah?
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Dan Bernstein
Ross Glowed. Why?
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Matt Spiegel
Remember him?
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Dan Bernstein
What do you have the stadium light up? Ross Glowed.
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Matt Spiegel
Are you on three?
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Dan Bernstein
Yes. Anymore.
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Matt Spiegel
Do you have any mergers left in these three?
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Dan Bernstein
No, we're done with mergers.
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Matt Spiegel
You're done with mergers. Okay. All right. So I know. I know one of the three that's left. I'm trying to think the other two.
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Dan Bernstein
These should be easy.
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Matt Spiegel
Well, it should be. Yeah. But I'm also dumb. All right, well, I know Sosa is one of them. So we're.
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Dan Bernstein
That's number three.
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Matt Spiegel
So number three.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay, number three is Sammy Sosa, who put up 58.8 B war with the Cubs and 1.1 with the White Sox. And the reason why he's interesting is because he was two different people. It almost is like it's not the same person. And we know why that is. But he just. As a White Sox, he was very Much like Luis Robert. He was a big, like a strong, toolsy, fast guy, great athlete. And then he just became Sammy. He became this giant, the international star of stars. And hitting his home runs and with his hop and his kisses and his things. And Sammy Sosa is number three on this list.
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Matt Spiegel
We're not looking for quality of player. Is Jose Quintana one or two?
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Dan Bernstein
No.
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Matt Spiegel
George Bell?
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Dan Bernstein
Nope.
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Matt Spiegel
All right, what do you got for me at number two?
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Dan Bernstein
Ron Santo.
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Matt Spiegel
Oh, yeah, that's right. I forgot Santo played for the Sox.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, he would prefer that you did, too, because apparently he was. He was miserable when he was on the White Sox, but it was a matter of, I guess, retire or extend your career a little bit. And that was the opportunity he got. And he.
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Matt Spiegel
It was.
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Dan Bernstein
It was not fun for him. And it's 72.1 war with the Cubs and negative 1.6 with the White Sox.
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Matt Spiegel
What year was that with the Sox?
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Dan Bernstein
74.
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Matt Spiegel
74. Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
He batted.221 with five home runs in 1974, played more second base than third base and did some DHing. And I think he was miserable. And White Sox fans weren't all that happy to have him either. He was always a polarizing player.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
And it was. It was odd. It. No, he looked weird in the uniform. It was uncomfortable for everybody involved. So Ron Santo, I do find that interesting that he finished his career with the White Sox. Totally forgot that he's number two.
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Matt Spiegel
All right.
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Dan Bernstein
And then number one is number one for. For reasons beyond just the baseball itself. By far the most significant and interesting Cubs socks crossover is Steve Stone. Not only because he was equally effective with both teams. 6.1 wins above replacement with the Cubs. 6.3 wins above replacement with the Sox. He was a legendary broadcaster with the Cubs and now has arguably become the same with the White Sox. You know, I was thinking of putting Harry Carey on the list. We talked about Harry Carey several days ago. You put Len Casper on the list as well, but only Stoney was a player for both and the broadcaster for both.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah. And like, the best.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. Huh.
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Matt Spiegel
That's great. That's really good.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. So I just thought there's. And a lot of this we were talking about because Liam Hendricks just signed that minor league contract with the Cubs. I did consider merging Kimbrell and Hendrix, but I. But they're too different.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah. Don't do that to Hendrix. No, I will be a factor this year, so.
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Dan Bernstein
Correct. I wouldn't do that.
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Matt Spiegel
We don't want to do that to him.
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Dan Bernstein
But, yeah, I Just have the easy number one on this. Just as far as the layers, there's this. The layers involved in the. The relationships that he's had and the relationships with the different ownerships, all of it. Steve Stone is number one, the most interesting crossover Sox, Cubs, as player and as a broadcaster. And that is this week's top 10 list.
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Matt Spiegel
Yeah, I got to get in touch with Stoney. I need. I still have that. I have a 1980 Baltimore Orioles jersey I'd love for him to sign.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, how cool would that be? Yeah, yeah. Do it while he's on this side of the grass.
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Matt Spiegel
Well, I can't do it when he's on the other side.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, you don't want to.
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Matt Spiegel
I mean, hard to go and ask him then.
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Dan Bernstein
Right. But I'm saying, you know, you got to. You got to do these things. You got to make sure. Because otherwise you're going to. Because it's all about you. And really. And it's all about, you know, the. You know, whether or not you can make sure the value of that jersey appreciates.
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Matt Spiegel
Oh, no, it's not. It's not value for anyone else but me.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. All right. Just making sure. Yeah. When you're watching basketball tonight, which I definitely am planning to do alongside the baseball, the NBA playoffs can be easy money at my bookie. But stop overthinking it. Maybe it's not a crazy parlay for you. Maybe it's not spreadsheets, and it's just finding a team that you trust. I think I have one. And that's why playoff basketball hits so well at my bookie. You got a clean board. And if you want to keep it simple, just keep it simple. You can back the Thunder. You can back the Spurs. You like the Cavs. You like the Pistons, you like the Knicks. Ride the teams built to win. Let the playoffs do the rest. And if you're new to my bookie, if you haven't made a deposit now, you can use the promo code DBU. That way you register, you deposit and use DBU. And any bet you choose up to $500 is fully covered, covered by your bet back bonus token that you get. And then when you make your play and if it doesn't hit, you get it right back because you have the bet back bonus token that is yours because of the code dbu. Pick your squad. Take the shot. Don't just watch the playoffs. Cash in on them. Only at my bookie, it is time for our weekly DBU picks, or they're twice weekly, I should say presented by my bookie. And Maddie, you're Mr. NBA. You're Mr. Everything. So you start.
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Matt Spiegel
All right, so before I get to my NBA stuff, I just want to refresh everyone what I did with the PGA Championship on my bookie. Ag, you can go. And they pair up two golfers and you're basically playing those two guys head to head. So you don't have to worry about who finishes, you know, first or who wins the tournament. It's about, does this guy beat this guy? And so I took Scotty Scheffler and the News of Rory McElroy walking away from his practice round because of a blister under his toenail, which sounds awful. I thought, all right, I'm easily going to take Scotty Scheffler. And when I checked earlier Today, Scotty was 2 under, Rory was 4 over. And unless he has a day today, he's not going to even make the cut. So I'm doing good there. And then I have Cameron Young over, John Rom. Rom was one under, Cameron Young was one over after the first round. So we'll see how that continues. But those are my guys, Scotty Scheffler and Cam Young. And then for the NBA tonight, Dan, I am taking Detroit on the road plus four to force a game seven. Detroit plus four at Cleveland to force game seven. I think they're going to win that game. And then I am going to say the spurs are going to do, are going to get rid of the Timberwolves and I'm going to lay the five and a half points on the road. Spurs five and a half in Minnesota.
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Dan Bernstein
All right, there it is.
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Matt Spiegel
Currently 64, 38 and 1.
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Dan Bernstein
I like the odds that I got for tonight's spurs game.
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Matt Spiegel
Devin. This is a good pick.
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Dan Bernstein
Devin Vassell, three or more threes. It also looks to me like he has the green light every time he touches the ball. He is out there to defend and shoot threes when he's got threes. So I'm, I think there are three of them that are going to fall for Devin Vassell in this game tonight, which it should be a slug fest, I imagine, because it's gonna, it is like the last game watching I.O. and Nas Reed and these guys fighting until they could just. There's only so much you can do against a guy who's, who's 15ft tall. So seriously, I don't know. I don't know what you do and I don't know how you can feel that there's much you can do when he's out crossing people over and shooting threes at 7 5. I mean really and blocking shots without even really having to jump and can use either hand. So good luck with that. But those are the DBU picks. Lock in your picks now with my bookie. Bet on anything, anywhere, anytime. Have a lovely, safe weekend, especially if you're going to the rate and you're planning on supporting your favorite Chicago team. Just don't, don't be an idiot. Everybody's just there to watch baseball. Have fun. And we we'll talk on forward progress a little bit later today. And then back on Monday, Dan Bernstein, unfiltered unfiltered on 312 sports 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.
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Matt Spiegel
So I took it all. Even the gun. It was time.
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Dan Bernstein
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