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Progressive Casualty Insurance Company and affiliates not available in D.C. prices vary based on how you buy. Dan Bernstein Unfiltered Unfiltered on 312 Sports It's DBU on 312, brought to you in partnership with my bookie and by Chicago Window guys and Russ Armstrong. 847-302-9171 and check out their five star reviews at Chicago Window Guys. Well, the big man has weighed in a big statement from governor JB Pritzker when he was speaking yesterday, and this is very clear what the strategy is now going to be at the governor's office. And that is tell everybody the truth about how difficult the Bears have been to work with, how inconsistent, how unpredictable and unreliable a partner the Bears have been in some of these negotiations because everything has been some kind of game with Kevin Warren. Everything has been, oh, we're focused over here. We're focused over there. Look over here, look over there. I'm gonna, I'm gonna run the whole little playbook on here and the people involved who actually do hold the purse strings and will make the decisions on the infrastructure and what the Bears like to call tax certainty and which is, of course, the inevitable tax breaks that they're going to get there. They, they need a partner in this rather than somebody who's constantly looking for an angle, playing people off of each other, trying to take advantage of dividing instead of uniting. And that's what the bears have decided to do. And it's about damn time. I think that the people involved in this, in the governmental level, who in large part have been. And JB knows he's going to be a punching bag from Indiana because that's all Indiana is doing, is playing silly games while they're trying to raise taxes. They don't care about what they're doing to the people. They're making them pay for it and telling them they're not making them pay for it. And the people are, okay, fine, that's great. We don't care that our taxes are going up. Okay, well, I would and I do. And if you want to pay the taxes, that's fine. But if they're going to work something out, I'm going to let the governor's words speak for themselves because not just his, because Deputy Governor Andy Manar had some stuff to say in a radio interview as well that I think is really important here. But don't take my word for everything. I've been telling you everything here at 312Sports that on this show and on Forward Progress, we have been consistently explaining about what the Bears keep doing wrong in this and how they haven't established themselves as being a trustworthy partner because of how they're conducting their business or thinking that they're constantly able to pull one over on people and they're just not that. If Kevin Warren thinks he's the smartest person in the room while he's standing at the precipice of a toxic swamp. It's silly. It's silly to act like the smartest person in the room when you have painted your yourself and your bosses and a very, very proud football organization into a corner where you've mismanaged everything so badly that now what you're getting, it's almost, it's. And I find what Pritzker is saying here condescending and deservedly so. His statement immediately after the crash and burn in Springfield was extremely condescending. But what he sounds like is a disappointed parent because you know what, what he is saying in general, this is what this message is from the most powerful person involved in These negotiations to the Bears. And I think that this is also directed at George McCaskey as much as it is Kevin Warren, if not more. It's four words. Get your shit together. That's what he's saying to the Bears. This is doable. I appreciate all the outreach because what's buried in this is that the Bears have been making calls everywhere in Illinois. They don't want to go to Hammond. Everybody knows they don't want to go to Hammond. It's a ruse. And what Pritzker says, like, all right, you need to. You need to call a special session to do this. Fine. It. He's. At some point, the amount of favors that people are doing for the Bears here to try to. To placate them or try to get them what they want, and it's met with nothing. It's met with games. That's what the Bears have done is done nothing. Like, well, okay, well, I don't know. We're making this huge announcement. Our board has voted. We're going to Hammond. And everybody rolled their eyes at. Except. Except too many people who go along hook, line and sinker and follow what the Bears are saying and believe what the Bears are saying, even though they haven't earned any of that. Oh, the Bears are going to Hammond. Some of the coverage has been embarrassing, some of the reactions, absolutely embarrassing. And there's a handful of people who understand what's going on here. Clearly, the governor is one of them. They got to figure out how they can get the legislature, both sides, around the same bill. And I'd be happy to call a special session. This is what Pritzker said yesterday, because we know there was a House version of the bill, there was a Senate version of the bill. Pritzker said, I put together the deal to start with to make sure that we knew all things. The Bears didn't come with a list. It was all the things that they said but didn't have a plan around. We put a plan together. They decided to glom onto the mega projects bill that I proposed. Pritzker then said he would expend political muscle on keeping the Bears in the state on a priority basis, saying, the first priority to me is we're not raising people's taxes to pay for a privately owned stadium. That's number one. And by the way, that's what Indiana is doing, that they are raising taxes of their constituents, their citizens. But I guess that it's okay when they do it. Don't raise my taxes or for the Bears, okay. He said that's number one. I think it's a mistake to say somehow that there's anything less than full commitment on my part to getting a legislative priority done. But again, the priorities are the people of Illinois. Here's. Here's what I love here. Pritzker continued to say the Bears were also to blame for the breakdown in negotiations, saying they didn't show up for the end of the session. That's. We keep saying that. That is what's so galling here is you play game after game after game. Kevin Warren ignores the advice of the lobbyists and Illinois and Chicago and Cook county political experts hired to help him manage this, hired to help guide this. And he didn't listen to him. And they didn't show up in Springfield. They made a mockery of it. They had Scott Hagel standing by a staircase for a whole day doing nothing, standing there, no meetings. They had a guy from their front office, you, you can go. You got this. All right, we're busy. We have other things we got to do. They didn't show up. He said it. Pritzker. They didn't show up for the end of session. This is Pritzker. More. There were a number of issues, some of them self created by the Bears, some of them just in trying to get to the two houses to work together in the end. A spokesperson for the Bears, according to the Tribune, did not respond to a request for comment. Pritzker said there have been incoming calls from the Bears, not just to me, but to legislative leaders. Said he hadn't spoken to Roger Goodell, but he didn't answer a shouted question about who he had spoken with. I've said and made sure that they understand they've got to decide what their priorities are for the state, what they're going to ask for. Do you find that unreasonable? I don't. I don't at all that this is. This is calling out the games, the gambits. Everything's a ploy, everything's an angle. And the Bears have been doing this for years. For years. The whole. We're gonna move to Indiana. Here we go again. We're watchless. We're gonna move to Indiana. And everybody rolls their eyes except for all the rubes out there that weren't around. Every time they try to pull this, I just, I sometimes I feel like I know that when the Bears did this stupid bit with planet park in 1995, we're moving to Gary and they brought out the model and they set it down on a table, I was standing there laughing at It. Mark Potash was standing there laughing at it. And I know Mike Mulligan was there standing there laughing at it, too. I know the three of us are still working and remember what happened in 1995 and how ridiculous it was. They're doing the same things. And yet the breathless television coverage and the number of media outlets that take Kevin Warren at his word on this stuff. We've lived this. We've been through this. And I love what Mark Potash said at the Point. He said, this is the time. This letter of all the board has voted. Now. He said, this is when you're driving somewhere and your dad has threatened to turn the car around if you don't knock it off. I will turn this car around, drive a little longer, and then it's like, well, that's it. And as a dad or when you're the kid and you know that this is coming, the turn comes, and dad turns the car like, that's it. We're going home. You can scrounge it. We're not. We're not going out to dinner. That. That. You. You ruined it. I gave you a chance, and you ruined it. And the car's starting to turn, and then both kids like, sorry, sorry, sorry. Please, please, can we still go out? Can we still go to dinner? Come on. You promised that. No, you blew it. You blew it. And you're. Then you. Maybe you drive a little bit back toward home, and the kids. Finally. It's finally setting in that you actually turned the car. But they're kids. They don't know. You're really actually still bluffing, and that this was just a part of the bluff to make it look more serious. You want to go to dinner, too? You're hungry. You also got excited to go out for Mexican or whatever it is, so you turn the car back around, which is what the bears are going to do. And I thought it was great that Potsi said that. Everybody seems to know that, except for people who are paid to know better. So for Pritzker to come out this quickly, too, I thought there might be a little longer cooldown time. But to come out and then say, that is laying it out there. Get your shit together. What do you want? Have your experts who have written bills before, you are hiring advisors. You are hiring outside consultants who have experience in doing this. Listen to them. Get out of the way, Kevin. And listen to some of these people about how to marry a bill in the House and a bill in the Senate. And then you say, you know what, Governor? He's asking you what do you want for Christmas. He knows he's going to put something under the tree. He's asking you make your Christmas list. You want a bike? Maybe we can't get you that bike. We can get you a bike. I'll stay up all night putting it together. What do you want? You want a light Bright? You want a Millennium Falcon with sound effects? I'll get it under the tree. Just tell me it's all set. We're more than willing to meet a lot of this stuff more than halfway. Get your together and I think that message to George McCaskey resonates as much as anything else. Get off the baseball field or the soccer field, take off your umpire stuff and come do the work of being a Bears owner. Be present. Be there now. Andy Minar, the deputy governor Save Big Money, said, we haven't heard a word from the Bears about how they feel about either one of those two bills. While we still know today their preference would be to stay in Illinois, particularly developing the site in Arlington Heights. Right there, somebody said it. I think it's incumbent on the Bears now to say to the sponsors of the bill and to state government and to the governor how they feel about both of those bills. And when the announcement came down, when this big Bears announcement, we have voted. We are pursuing Hammond, Indiana. We are headed into the swamp, the fire swamp, the rous, the rodents of unusual size, andy Minar said, I don't think much has changed from our perspective. Both chambers of the General assembly have each passed bills where a majority of members have given their thumbs up to a package of incentives. The statement from the Bears seems to be more of what we've heard from them to date. Here's this is more from Manar. It is unquestionable that there is a deep feeling of being misled at this point. What we would like, what the governor would like, what our administration would like is for the Bears to take a look at both bills that the House and Senate passed to focus on what they think works for them. The ball is in their court and I think they need to do it now. This is from one of the Insider newsletters who says both Pritzker and Menard seemed optimistic that the House, the Senate administration and Bears can reach an agreement and that legislators could be called back before veto session in November to pass a bill. Pritzker said they got to figure out how they can get the legislature, both sides around the same bill. Be happy to call a special session. This, this isn't hard. The the, the Bears at this point need to be lectured. You don't have the leverage right now. Everyone knows you don't want to go to Hammond. It would be a disaster. Not for me. I think be awesome, as it doesn't really affect me. And as a taxpayer, I got to be really clear about this. Really, really clear. I'm fine with them going. Indeed, I'm fine with it. Then I'm not paying for anything and I get to turn on the game and see the Bears. It. It doesn't matter to me, it's fine. But they don't want to be there because there are a lot of people for whom it does matter. They don't want to be. Everyone knows they don't want to be there. Except for all the Indiana, you know, rubes and cheerleaders and for everybody for whom this has become a proxy for other stupid things. It's not a proxy for that. This is pretty simple. This is. The Bears have fucked this up and now they're being treated in a way they probably don't deserve. There are a lot of people would have just said, get out of here. Fine. It's enough already. Kevin, congratulations. You're in the Fire Swamp. Enjoy. Congratulations. But they're not doing that. And the reason, honestly, that Pritzker is probably not doing that is I think he's calculated that losing the Bears, he now thinks doesn't. How he can stand on principle and stand on. On. On political principle, on ethical principle, and say, no, we're not going to give billionaires money. He's trying to give billionaires money. He's trying to do something I don't even want him to do.
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But what he shouldn't do, he shouldn't act upon the idea of what happens if I lose the Bears, because he knows they're not leaving the state. They. They'll stay in Soldier Field with a new lease beyond 2033 before going to Indiana.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, I think they can cut a reasonable deal. I think that's what he's looking at here is I'm not giving him too much. I told him I'd give him infrastructure, but be a part of the process right here.
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Okay, so weeks ago, I asked you about this. We talked about this on this show. I said, how are negotiations working behind the scenes? And you told me that there is communication that the lawmakers will get something in place, knowing what the bears want, knowing what the bears will accept. How has that not happened? It's inconceivable to me because the bears have not participated to this day. With either of those bills.
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Dan Bernstein
From what I understand, Kevin Warren has been given roadmaps to all this stuff. There are people that the Bears have hired to assist in actual legislative communication and engagement. And for whatever reason, Kevin Warren is trying to manage this through press releases and games and showmanship rather than the rolling up of sleeves and engaging in the actual battle business of crafting legislation. It's not sexy. It's not fun. You don't necessarily get photo ops and your. Your moments standing there in your blue suit and your orange tie. But we're not. That's not the time for this anymore. The time is for. For when the rubber meets the road. Can you get stuff done? This is what I know the answer, though.
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He can't.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, then this is why the message is to McCaskey. Then get somebody to Springfield who will. If Kevin Warren isn't interested and all he's interested in is showmanship and silly leverage games and leading his favored media around by the nostrils. Ooh, look at this. Cover this. Look at this. Cover this. And there are people who have fallen for this crap who shouldn't. Too many. Too many people. Look, I don't know if it's just getting the clicks on your headlines or trying to drum this stuff up. I think the Tribune has done a really good job of asking the right questions and putting the right things close to the lead in their stories because they. There's still enough institutional knowledge at that what's left of a broadsheet newspaper to remember 1995. It's not that long ago. How many times did the Bears have to do this same damn thing? And if people go, they're moving to Indiana. Like, everybody just got here. It's. It's. It's just.
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It's. It's embarrassing and it's bananas. It's inconceivable to me that the Bears have not participated. And when. When Pritzker, in that statement said they just didn't show up. I'm telling you, if I'm. If I'm of any significant leadership in this state, I tell them to go kick rocks.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, but if you're.
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You want to go to Indiana, then go to Indiana, because I'm done. This is like, you can't even be a part of it. You can't participate in the legislation that would. Would provide you tax relief and tax breaks on a new stadium that you would own.
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Dan Bernstein
Everybody else is there doing the work. Everybody else? Yeah.
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That's insane.
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Dan Bernstein
It's insane to me. Well, this. They needed to hear it. I Guess they, they need this. Like, well, that's JB Pritzker being condescending. You're damn right it is. The Bears have earned it. The Bears have absolutely earned this. In expecting everybody to keep stopping what they're doing and kowtow to the latest see through games and transparent whims of this stuff that whatever way the wind is blowing for Kevin Warren. Let's try this. Let's try this. And when you have people who have been put in the Bears building or within the Bears orbit working for the Bears to help them do this and this falls into a pattern with Warren where Warren always knows better. This has happened with other deals that have gone on that I've been told inside that building where there are, there are all kinds of mundane deals that other people do. And then it gets to Kevin Warren's desk and then it's like, well, why don't we go back to this and why don't we leverage this and why don't we pretend to do this? And what this is just, it's not uncommon, it's not rare. It's got to stop. It's got to stop. Stop playing silly games. Get your together. You've been hearing it from me for, for longer and now you finally heard it from the governor. They're walking up to you with a bag of cash you probably don't even deserve and you won't take it because
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you won't do the work. They don't deserve it.
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Dan Bernstein
Do the work. Yeah, do the work. Get in the room where it happens. You don't send some mid level proxy to stand in a stairwell. And even doing that is what is that what message is, is, is being sent and how's that supposed to be received? Everybody is there grinding through text and working on numbers and percentages around the edges. And if this and then this and we got to take care of this and get an easement for that and, and you're not there. Get in the room. It's maddening. It's maddening.
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That's why I asked that weeks ago that if they're not physically in the room, how is the communication happening? And we assumed that it was and
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Dan Bernstein
that hasn't even happened or everybody is just such big Bears fans and loves the Bears so much that they're. Everybody's going to handle everything without you there it is. It's unconscionable that they let it get to this point.
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Well, if I'm, if I'm the governor, if I'm Illinois, if I'm State legislation, I, I give them, give them a deadline, say, hey, you. You want to work with us, let's talk. And you have until this date that might happen. And you have until July 1st. And if we don't hear from you before the end of the month, you're
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going to Indiana, right?
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We're done.
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Dan Bernstein
Not to mention, not to mention you have the leverage of Soldier Field that at some point you can say, hey, even if you get started now, this is what the timeline is. You're going to have to re up your lease. You're going to have to add on or extend your lease at Soldier Field, perhaps. And you still owe money on Soldier Field, right? At some point they're going to say, look, we're just kicking you out. You're not going to have any. But go. Go back to champagne to go play. You're not, you're not going to have a plague. We're not going to just keep bending over backwards to make sure your lives are great and it sucks because the team is good.
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No, you want to go to Indiana, then go to Indiana.
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Dan Bernstein
Right? But even then, that process, even if they decide to do that, they're going to need a place to play.
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I know, but just go. It's not our concern anymore.
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Dan Bernstein
Go.
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If you don't want to participate, why bend over backwards? Why, why get in that room and do the work if they can't even bother to show up?
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Dan Bernstein
So I think it was an important move by the governor to say what is long needed to be said.
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3 years this dude's been here.
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Dan Bernstein
Yep. It's good on him. Good on Deputy Governor Andy Minar for coming out and just saying what needs to be said. We know what you want. We know why you want it. Well, you bought the land, you had the land and you never engaged and you never were a trustworthy partner. Be trustworthy. Be a partner. Tell us what you want, why you want it. Look at this bill. Look at that bill. Help do the work. It's not everybody else's job to take care of you, George. Be there. Every sports fan has an angle. It's the team you trust. It's the favorite you want to fade. It's the player you think is due. Or you feel something during a game, something's coming before everybody else sees it. Maybe it was that home run against the Cubs that as soon as the guy gets hit by a pitch and JD Says, you know, this guy's swinging a hot bat, there's a swing and a drive and the game is over. As a Small business owner. Sometimes it feels like no matter how much planning you do, there's always surprises like an urgent, expensive repair. But here's a surprise you will like with progressive. Small business owners save 13% on their commercial auto insurance when they pay in full. So enjoy a surprise for once. Get a quote in as little as 8 minutes@progressivecommercial.com progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates. Discounts not available in all states or situations. My bookie gives you a place to turn those opinions into action. Whether you're watching playoffs of hockey or basketball or you're all set for the World cup that's coming in just a bit. We got a promo code for you, dbu that gets you an exclusive offer just because you're listening. So remember DBU when you register. When you sign up at MyBookie AG, back your side before the game. Follow the momentum live. Make the moments you already care about feel bigger. Check out my bookie. You're already watching. You already have a take. Now you can play it. So bet anything, anywhere, anytime with my bookie. Must be 21 plus. Please gamble responsibly. Last night's White Sox game was a, it was an acid trip, man. It was, it was bizarre. So I flip it on because I was watching. I rage quit the Cubs early and I knew I was going to watch hockey. If I got close late, I'm like, okay. And I had forgotten that it was 80s night. Oh, what a night. And there's Bob Costas and Steve Stone. First of all, no doofus for a night. So all of a sudden I don't care who they could put next to stone or put nobody next to stone. It doesn't matter. It's just like that there's somebody who understands baseball at the very least and who, who is not just over promoted into an undeserved job that's too big for him. It's Bob Costas. And I thought maybe it was just a couple innings that they're going to do like 80s graphics and the 80s commercials and, and talk about all the 80s players and show old things. So first let me say this was narrow casted to me. If I didn't enjoy it, it's a huge miss and I did for the, for the most part. But, but, but as a Sox fan, it kind of pissed me off a little bit because you're getting some huge crowds there, you're getting some sold out parks to watch, an exciting team that feels like it's got a lot of things going its way, a lot of bounces and there's this, this is the, this is the fun energy. This reminds me a little bit of, of the 1990 team. You remember that Jeff Torborg 1990 Sox team that had Bob James closing games and they were in it against the, the sort of incipient bash brother A's teams. And I think The Sox won 90 games. And they, they, they were just an exciting, fun team. They didn't make the playoffs. Is that thig pen year? 57 saves and they were 94 and 68 in 90. Yep.
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Second in the AL West.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, that was that. And that was a much better team at a really good AL West. This is nowhere near as good a team and a terrible AL West. Doesn't matter that there's stuff going on. You got Breedon Montgomery making his debut and these guys are talking about Carl Yastremsky. And I was thinking, see I. There was some like long dormant old jerk off socks fan in me that stirred last night. There was way too much Cubs talk. Like I was feeling old. Like I turn out a Sacks game. You're talking about Harry Carey being a Cub fan, a Bud man. You're talking about the Sandberg game in a sax game. Like I was feeling that a little bit last night. Like, no, no, no, no. Wrong place, wrong time. I know Costas is always going to default to Cubs and sand because he called the Sandberg game. And, and Stone was a longtime Cubs guy, so that was, that was really kind of leaking into it. I'm like, don't lose sight of this being a Sox broadcast and Costas was kind of being a dick and they didn't have the clip ready for him and he was yelling at the truck and he kept bringing that up like, don't, don't do that. That was lame. Like that. That was just like, like small time and lame. And I know they're paying you a lot of money to be there and that's why they have them on the pregame and the post game and they're getting their money's worth. I wonder what they paid cost us. What do you think they paid him for one day of work? 50 grand? What do you think? Honestly?
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Oh, God.
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Dan Bernstein
More than that. More than that. You think, you think he got 100 grand? You think he got six figures? Really? For one day?
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It's Bob Costas. I know. Kidding me.
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Dan Bernstein
And they put him to work. He's how old? 72, 75 grand? Please. I'm just wondering, my man. 50 grand. I wonder if they. Did he get a hundred grand days Work.
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It's Bob Costas for one day.
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Dan Bernstein
I know, it's, it's pre game, it's post game. They, they, they, whatever was in that contract, they got a lot out of.
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Yeah, that 1990 team, Carlton Fisk had a 4.9 WAR.
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Dan Bernstein
Huh.
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Frank Thomas, a 22 year old Frank Thomas, he only had 240 plate appearances. 191 at bats. On this, on, on that year, his OPS plus was 177.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. Yeah, okay. That's great. That team.
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His, his OPS plus was 134. Dan Pascal, 136. Your guy Von Colorone was a 110.
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Dan Bernstein
Wow, look at the pitching staff. Wow, look at the pitching staff. Who are the starters?
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Greg Hipper, Jack McDowell, Molito Perez, Eric King, Alex Fernandez, Adam Peterson.
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Dan Bernstein
Eric King was good too. And I'll, I'll never forget the day they, it was, was it the same day they called up or. They had Ventura Fernandez and Frank Thomas. It was a road game. And out of nowhere, Hawk just went, yes. And Wimpy Patchwork is like, why are you saying that, Hawk? Like, look at the first round draft picks out there.
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Yes, Greg Hibbard was a, he was a 3.7 war. Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Greg Hibbert had a hell of a year. So as a Sox fan, Breed Montgomery's up, like. And you have these guys yammering about the Sandberg game. You know, like something didn't feel quite right. And then it was. Everything was so weird. It was like, what? And then they lost sight of the game. And Casas even apologized late. He's like, yeah, you know, we haven't really. We don't know any of the players are. They didn't know that Tristan Peters had left the game and had been replaced by somebody else. They didn't know who was playing where. And it's hard, but I didn't like his little spat with the truck and the problems that they were having talking to each other and getting the clips played. And I keep thinking Stewie Griffin is like, clip. Don't be the clip. Do we have a clip? Guess we don't have a clip. And then they kind of came around at the end, like, look at what Braden Montgomery is doing. How much fun is he gonna be? How much fun is he gonna be? That. I guess it's. And why not? Why not put him in right field. You got any number of jamokes, you've been, you've been running out the right field. Just put him out there. He's get. Let him, let him enjoy this let him have. Go through some difficulties. Let him get that out of the way. He looks like it, whatever, whatever you want it to look like when, when you see that little, the, the way he throws his hands at the ball, the way he flicks it, that home run to win the game. And, and he's. All he's doing is smiling. They rip his shirt off. More of that. I can't get enough of him right now. Like that. That's exactly the, the energy of bringing guys up. And now you're going to bring out Hagen Smith. Sounds like it. They didn't say no. Noah Schultz. Hagen Smith. And I'm not. It's nowhere near Cubs 2015, but that feeling of 2015 was like, ooh, who's this guy? Oh, who's this guy? Oh, this guy's coming up. And they're all good. It never happens, but you know, Antonacci's good. I think Schultz is obviously going to be good. Braden Montgomery. I, I don't know. You never know. But it's all about enjoying this stuff. And it was just a weird timing to have it also be backward looking to have a. An entire evening of backward, backward, backward, backward. And I get it. You didn't think you were going to be this good. This caught you by surprise. You had no idea that on June 9th that everybody's gonna be looking forward already.
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Co-host or Guest (possibly a sports analyst or commentator)
Yeah, they. They obviously plan this well in advance, not knowing where it would be. I'm sure regretting it now. I'm telling you, Dan, I, I would think a guy of Bob Costas is his years and experience. Minimum 250 to.
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Dan Bernstein
To do that last for a day.
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Co-host or Guest (possibly a sports analyst or commentator)
Yes, it's Bob Costas. I don't understand what you don't understand about that. It's Bob Costas.
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Dan Bernstein
You think he got 250 grand one for one day of work and they're
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Co-host or Guest (possibly a sports analyst or commentator)
gonna regret every penny of it too. But Yeah, I think 250, man. At least it was a guy who earned 7, 8, 9, 10 million.
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Dan Bernstein
I know, but it doesn't mean you can charge that now.
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Co-host or Guest (possibly a sports analyst or commentator)
Sure it does. It's Bob Costas yet.
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Dan Bernstein
I know, but, but I, but you and I are of an age that you hear Bob Costas and you're like, oh, the great baseball sage and brilliant and he's conversant in everything and smart and. But we're old, right? I don't, but I, I can't speak for every Sox fan, but if last night even I was like doing out here. I want to hear about Braden Montgomery. I Want to hear about this team? You know this like they've earned it. This team has earned attention. This team has earned that. They have, they have.
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Co-host or Guest (possibly a sports analyst or commentator)
And again, they planned in advance and they probably regret it in the moment. And now looking back at how it came through last night, I'm sure they regret the whole thing. It was a clever, clever novelty to spit out for one day, but they didn't anticipate being where they were last night and calling that kid up on that same particular day.
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Dan Bernstein
I know the most exciting kid in your organization.
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Co-host or Guest (possibly a sports analyst or commentator)
And then he was going to sit down with Bob Costa and say, hey, this is what we need you to do. We got this kid coming up.
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Dan Bernstein
Sorry. No, I'm not, I'm not saying they should have scuttled it, but it was jarring to have a planned backwards looking broadcast. This is, this is all planned. We're going to go back 40 years, 50 years and sit in this 45 year time difference while the future arrives tonight. It just was a, is a jarring, impossible message to push through successfully. And at the end they kind of came around and they found the vibe a little bit, but it was weird. Weird. The whole feeling was weird. And it's, it's impossible to pull off. The other point being, don't start screwing around with novelty broadcasts until you fix the main one. It's all the idea that you can be like, hey, we're gonna play. We're gonna play little games. Look at this. Bob Costas is here. You fumble the actual broadcast that everybody hates because the play by play announcer isn't ready for this job. Wasn't ready for this job. Nobody liked him, made a bunch of enemies, treated people like crap and is still here. Like until you fix your basic broadcast, until you make the experience of tuning in and watching it less of a choreography. It feels like, what's the word I'm looking for? It's just too sort of precious and entitled to say, oh, well, we're gonna have a little fun with our broadcast. Look at this. We're gonna get away from the usual and, and go to this sort of silliness here. No, not, not until the nuts and bolts are fixed. You ran off Jason Benetti for this, for this. And now you're. Now it's ho, ho, ho, 80s night. Where, here's the. Where's the beef lady? Come on, man. Come on.
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Co-host or Guest (possibly a sports analyst or commentator)
You say ho, ho, ho.
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Dan Bernstein
It's 80s night and the feelings, right? Oh, yes, it's 80s night. Oh, what a night. And it was fine. It was good. If I like, if I can't appreciate that, then you screwed up royally. Because that's my childhood. It's watching Bob Costas and Steve Stone. I watched Steve Stone. Do you know ABC Monday Night Baseball? When I wasn't watching, because he was. He was, like, pitching and still doing stuff. And then Costas was the big game of the week, and all the. All the reminiscing and all the talk. Get. Fix your regular broadcast and let White Sox fans be. Be present and in the moment. It's just too bad it worked out that way. But that's why I. You know, my first thought was, like, what is this? No, it was just like, well, this is weird. Oh, Brandon. That's Brandon Montgomery. He already got a hit. All right, I'm leaving the Cubs. I'm leaving hockey. I'm sticking here. I'm watching this. And then I turn around, I come down, and Beth is down there, and she's watching hockey. I'm like, hey, hey, hey, lady, what are you doing? And she goes, well, the cubs are down 7. Whatever. Like, yeah, I was watching White Sox. You kind of gave me a looks like, really? Yeah. She said, are you okay? Like, yeah, I'm okay. I'm actually want to watch the White Sox. It's like. But you get so mad when you watch those games. Like, yeah, because me yelling at the broadcaster. I wasn't yelling at the broadcaster last night. I was yelling at somebody. I was. I'll tell you in a second. But first, Russ Armstrong. It has windows for you. He has everything you need. And you don't have to fall for silly teaser things like big Window says, if you buy one, we'll give you one. But they don't really mean that. They just. They. They say that. And they say, well, we make windows in Chicago. No, you don't. No, you don't. You're not. You're not in Chicago. You don't make windows. See, Russ does. When Russ says he's Chicago window guys, he owns the factory. The factory is here. The windows are made for your house, custom made locally here in Chicago. The crew that does the installation works for Russ. It's not third party. The same people that have installed my windows are going to install yours. Russ is going to match any price that you get. Go ahead and do your due diligence and spend hours and hours and hours with these other companies telling you this and loading you up with brochures up to the ceiling. And. And then you say, well, hold on a second, Russ, what can you do to get this this is what they've all said. Or instead of wasting all that time, you can just go right to Russ, have him walk around and he'll say, okay, what do you want here? You want a French door is here. This opens here. This is a big fancy transom window. And this is all of this kind of fan. Whatever you want or just simple or just, hey, we got a couple broken windows. Replace them. Here's what it costs. I'll get on it. I'll go make the windows of my factory. That's all that easy. 847-302-9171. Check out his five star reviews at ChicagoNowGuys.com and because he's local, he's parts and, and labor, he's going to guarantee everything. So if your kid is outside throwing a baseball and throws a ball through the window, call Russell, replace it free. Don't worry about it. 847-302-9171. Check out his five star reviews at ChicagoNowGuys.com Hey, Will Venable, stop it. Stop being stupid. Stop asking your team to do stupid things and then your team is being bad at executing stupid. Don't call the stupid. Stop bunting. Stop bunting. Stop giving away outs. Stop bunting. Stop with the silliness. Get that out of your system. You're better than Pedro Griffal. Better, because that's not hard. But please, for the love of all that is holy, please, please, please stop bunting. It would make me very happy. I don't know what was going on out there. I don't know why you're. You feel that you got to keep making things complicated, more difficult for folks. Just don't there. That, that's, that's just my message. We don't need any of that. Your team's not good at it, apparently. Don't ask them to do it. And all I want to do now is I just want Braden Montgomery. Cam, I would like to see right now he's, if he's probably having a bowl of Lucky Charms and that's fine or he's, he's working on his, his various swings at this point. I guess right field is going to be where they play him. He can play center well, so. But I'm not worried about that right now. Just play him every day. Don't jerk him around. Put him out there. There's no reason these to have the Randall Gritchicks on on this squad when you have your own guys. I don't need other old journeymen taking up space. And if There are real prospects. Bring them up, Bring them up. That's why I was talking about. That's that whole 1990 thing. When you knew a generation of prospects, a group, when it was Ventura, Thomas, Fernandez. You already had McDowell out there. And I loved that year. I loved that year. That was, that 1990 was one of my favorite White Sox years. So. And if I remember, wasn't it the end of 1990 when they debuted the new look because they knew they were going to be leaving Comiskey for the new park and is, I want to say it was the end of that year, even though they didn't make the playoffs. But they, they, they brought out the new unis, the black and the white and the black hats. And everyone's like, yeah. And when that, that Black Sox hat hit and everybody knew that we had a hit on our hands with, with that hat. It was. And a lot of. I think, I think Chris Tannehill and I are probably the only people who still have the, the script C White Sox hat. There's that, that famous picture of me celebrating the Duke national championship. I'm sure it's, it's, it's there somewhere. People use it derisively and I, I know people have their fun with it, but it's, it's probably the happiest face you're ever going to see on me other than when I'm holding a fish. And it was, it's, it's. I got my Duke sweatshirt on and covered in beer and I have a like a half sideways White Sox hat with the script c celebrating the 1991 national championship at the, at the official bonfire the university had to throw so we wouldn't light other university property on fire because we were stupid.
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Co-host or Guest (possibly a sports analyst or commentator)
Yeah. Those uniforms debuted September 25th of that season, right?
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah.
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Co-host or Guest (possibly a sports analyst or commentator)
1990.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. Yeah. Because I was already back at school and I remember turning on the TV like, oh boy. And my roommates like, oh, sure, you're just copying the Yankees. That's all they're doing. They're just trying to make it. Sure. Because what's the classic look? They know the classic look is the Yankees and they're just, it's just copying the Yankees. So I mean, you can like it, it looks good, but only looks good because it looks like the Yankees. Is Frank Thomas. He just, you know.
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Co-host or Guest (possibly a sports analyst or commentator)
Is your roommate a 50 year old New Yorker?
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Dan Bernstein
Well, now he's a 56 year old former New Jersey who lives in LA.
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Co-host or Guest (possibly a sports analyst or commentator)
Yeah, but what was he them? That's what he sounded like.
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Dan Bernstein
Hey, seriously, I Seriously, this Frank Thomas, he's nowhere near as good as Hensley Mullens. Hensley Mullins is so much better than Frank Thomas. It's not even close, really. Okay. I'll bet you on that. Yeah. I don't know why you like this Frank Thomas guy too much. He's got. He's got a weird swing. He can't run. He can't throw. You watch. Hensley Mullins. Can you keep your. Remember that name? They call him Bam Bam because he hits a ball. Okay. I got you there, big fella. We'll see. We'll see how that goes. Boy, I had fun with that one. I even told Frank about it. Frank. Frank loved. He's like. He's like. I always had him call him like, hey, this is Frank Thomas. Hensley Mulen sucks. I still probably should do that at some point, but it was great night. It was a great night, and whatever you paid cost us. You probably could have added a little bit of money to maybe make him change the schedule a different night. Find. Find some other one. But, hey, it's a Tuesday night. When you planned it. When you planned it, you. It probably looked like the perfect night, but those tickets are starting to sell. There is energy there. Right now, The. The only downside to the White Sox being exciting and good and. And interesting and a hot ticket is I don't get the whole bathroom to myself if I go to the game. And there are. You are going to have to prepare, get there early so you can get your eating done. People like, we have to be there early so we can watch betting practice. I like going. The other things I like to do when I go early to a Sox game, you can get. You can have your run of the place. You can. You can get. You know, the smell, the. You have to wait a little bit to let the onions on the. The griddle tops cook down a little bit. You don't want the first batch of onions when you get a polish or when you. Whatever you get. When you get the dog. So you definitely have to have the hot dog later. But other stuff you can get first. It's not all that important just to giving you some, you know, ballpark food strategy here, which is, you know, don't. Don't go for the early onion. Onions. Oh, major league onions. I still do that at the grocery store every time. Put your onions in the basket. Onions. Sir, we're going to have to ask you to leave. I am leaving. I'm checking out. I'm buying my onions, and I'm Screaming onions and I'm leaving and there's nothing you can do about it. Sorry. Not really. The finals are back tonight and the NBA playoffs are easy money at my bookie if you stop overthinking it. You don't need a crazy parlay, even though I like them. No spreadsheets, just a team you trust. Is it the Knicks? Can they go up 3:1? Can they firmly take control of this series with a major home win now that Madison Square Garden's fully unleashed that they're not going to be wanding down the players as they come in? Everybody blaming the sleepy for ruining all the momentum. Oh, no. That it's, it's, it's his fault. That it's. It destroyed everything they had going. I don't know. It's a basketball game. They'll show up. They'll be fine. Can you look up the referee crew for me tonight, please, Maddie? Yep, I'm sure that's been announced. So if you like the Knicks, if you like the spurs, bet them. If you're new to my bookie and if you've never made a deposit, there's less reason to sit this one out. Go to MyBookie AG when you register and when you make your deposit, use the promo code DBU. And any bet you choose up to $500 is fully covered. Make your play. If it doesn't hit you, get it right back. When you opt in using the bet back bonus token, pick your squad, take the shot. Don't just watch the playoffs, cash in on them. Only at my bookie.
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Co-host or Guest (possibly a sports analyst or commentator)
All right, your crew chief tonight is Zach Zarp. Zack Zarba.
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Dan Bernstein
Zach Zarba, crew.
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Co-host or Guest (possibly a sports analyst or commentator)
Okay, James Williams is your referee, and your umpire is Courtney Kirkland.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay? So we have had the Scott Foster crew, we've had the James Capers crew, we've had the Curtis Blair crew, and now it's double Z. Not Zach Zaidman, but Zach Zarba. Okay, the physicality, we. I do think the way they officiate early as far as what they tolerate for basic physical play is going to be important because these games have at times become wrestling matches. It's become extremely physical. And that is the nature of playoff series, especially final series, because when you know every play by the call and a lot has been made of the. The Spurs 45 set. Oh, everyone's got this. They call it 45. You know why they call it 45? Because the four sets of screen and the five sets screen. That's why there's, it's, it's, it's not Some secret code and it's a. It's basically a horns action. Every team runs a version of it. Their version pulls the screens in, out high, a little tighter in. But it there nobody's reinventing anything other than the alley oop from anywhere. Which is more a strategy that I would use that when you have a guy for whom you can't throw an alley oop too high, you can't. He's gonna, he's going to get it and nobody else on the floor can get it. The key for the Knicks tonight is Carl Anthony Towns. There isn't a lot of Wemby Kryptonite out there and over years and over time it's obviously going to change. He's going to adapt to all of that. I'm Talking about the 22 year old WEMBY right now. There aren't a lot of guys who can play him close to straight up. Cat is one of those and he's, he has to be engaged. And also I gave you one of the worst bets of all time when I was telling you about Miles Bridges last game. Excuse me, Mikhail Bridges. Very different guys. Mikal Bridge has got to score. I don't think they're going to get that kind of performance out of OJ and Anobi. It's got to be somebody else. I don't think you can count on the fact that you're going to get a crazy anunoby game. Landry Sham. It's been brilliant. Although is it just me or does Landry Shammit look like an evil wizard? You know what I mean? Like he, he, he looks like he should be in, in a dark cloak holding a crooked staff and, and with lightning shooting out of his fingers and blowing things up. He's just. His face is sharp and mean looking. I strictly talking about where just how he looks. He looks like he should be a cartoony evil wizard. So that's just where my head is. Sorry. Watch where Carl Anthony Towns is. Watch how many alley oops they get. How many lobs to Wemby because when he's getting lobs when he's in that, that close to the basket, it's a different game than when he's wandering around the perimeter. It's a different game than when he's leaves and trusts that he can get back because they've done a really good job jamming him and jamming him on the roll where he's. He's been used as a screener a lot and Wemby's a good screener and a wide screener obviously, but an aggressive screener. He's, they're not going to get him for that, that shove of Jalen Brunson. But after he screens, they're hitting him. So before he can even get momentum going back toward the basket, there's a jam, there's elbows, there's knees in there and he's having to fight his way. Whether it's they'd much rather have him flatten out and be a pick and pop three point shooter than affecting the game close to the basket and rolling. So if he's able to anticipate that or they can change the position of the screen to make their angles more punitive. That if you are going to jam him, that that's going to take somebody off of the back baseline and that back corner. That's what they've been doing is if they can get it to him, he's making that, that quick skip, skip to the corner. So what they can do in response to that is say, all right, who's coming up to hit him his guy right to the basket. That if you're, if your dude is leaving to go pop Wemby on the roll, get your hand up the ear cut because they'll find him. Just some thoughts on tonight's game and that's what you get on Dan Bernstein, Unfiltered. Thanks for joining us. That's going to wrap it. We have been brought to you by Chicago window guys. 847-302-9171. Call Russ Armstrong. Get your windows. You've been waiting around long enough. And in partnership with my bookie Dan Bernstein, unfiltered unfiltered on 312 sports.