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Mark McCray
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Dan Bernstein
Dan Bernstein Unfiltered Unfiltered on 312 Sports DBU on 312 is brought to you in partnership with my bookie and by Chicago Window guys and Russ Armstrong. 847-302-9171. It is Friday Feedback back Friday. We also have a top 10 list for you. But can I just say, first and foremost, this might be the greatest day of my life. I had. You know, my, my, my wedding day, the day my children, each one respectively was born. You know, my kids bar and bat mitzvahs. It's Zoe's college graduation. All these wonderful things, they all pale in comparison to today. And here's why. Because when I got here and Liz, our office manager said there is a giant box in my office that I signed for yesterday afternoon after you'd left. And guess what it is. Guess what it is. Hold on. I. I'm bringing it over. If you're, if you're listening to this on the podcast, I had to step away from the mic and grab this and present it to you. This is my long awaited, long desired Stan Van Gundy body pillow.
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Matt
Can I get his face in the screen, though? We're not seeing his face. There we go. Yeah, now we have to see him. Hey, can you pull the top of his head up a little bit so you get the wrinkles out of his. There we go. I want to see him nice and smooth and so. So a listener sent that to you.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes. I want to thank listener Tim, who has known for years my. One of my. One of my biggest desires has been a Stan Van Gundy body pillow. And this is high quality. It's soft. It's. He's on both sides of this.
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Matt
All right. So you and Beth can enjoy him.
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Dan Bernstein
He's just. He has just called a timeout. His team is down eight, and he's got to get this. This thing together and figure it out. And they've just got to rebound better. If only they can rebound. It's okay.
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Matt
No, that'. That's not the. That's not the look I'm seeing. I'm seeing. He's just stand. He's. He just stood up at the bench.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah.
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Matt
And he noticed the. Either the beer or the popcorn vendor walking.
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Dan Bernstein
No, no, no, no, no, no.
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Matt
It looks like he looks happy.
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Dan Bernstein
He noticed that they've got the wrong angle. They practiced all Shoot around. All they did was practice the angle of that ball screen, and they still messed it up.
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Matt
Well, he looks happy to me, though.
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Dan Bernstein
No, he just needs a hug. Everything will be okay.
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Matt
So what. What will you do with him?
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Dan Bernstein
Like, I'll just. I just need to reassure him everything's okay. It'll all be fine. It's just basketball, Stan. It's just basketball. It's just basketball. It's okay. There, there, there. See? I got it. Yes. Okay, I'm putting it away. And now we can begin Friday feedback. Friday.
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Matt
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
I need to. I'll just start every day reassuring Stan Van Gundy that everything's going to be fine one way or another. Before we get into the emails, I just want to remind you that if you are a sports fan with an angle, my bookie is here for you. That's where my bookie comes in. You can turn all your opinions into action while you're watching these games. You think, wait a second. That's not right. This score shouldn't be. Oh, wait a. Okay, then you play it, and you can turn these opinions into real things. It's all right there, no matter what you're doing. Maybe you're watching the playoffs, you're watching hockey, you're watching basketball. Maybe you've got the Cubs at the Sox game on or you're getting ready for the World cup, whatever it may be. You can do it before the game. You can follow it all live and make all these moments you already care about feel bigger. With my bookie you're already watching. You've got to take now play it, bet anything, anytime, anywhere. With my bookie must be 21 plus please gamble responsibly. I It's usually the silliest things that draw the most Friday feedback and that always have somebody thinking I have to respond to this. I am compelled to provide my response because of what they're talking about that is so important or I must share a story and you'll get a sense for this as we go through this was Lucas who sent an email that says what really irks me about grocery stores asking customers to donate money to fight hunger isn't that they're asking you to support local hunger. It's how much food the grocery stores throw out on a daily basis instead of donating. There's so much food that goes to waste cause it doesn't look perfect or the store just bought too much and it needs to make room. That food ends up in a dumpster because it's cheaper to do that and write it off as inventory shrinkage than to figure out the logistics of donating it or giving it away for free or at a loss. There are some stores that will even purposely contaminate discarded food or incinerate it to prevent dumpster diving and potential liability issues. So giant grocery store chains reporting record profits and instituting dystopian dynamic pricing policies. Maybe instead of trying to guilt me into giving $2 to feed starving families, do your part. Stop wasting so much food in the first place. Nicely done.
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Matt
I do like that Mariano's has a section of the produce that is. That they sell. Not good looking produce. Have you seen that?
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Dan Bernstein
No, mine doesn't. That's awesome.
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Matt
Yeah, so we had there's a rack that says, you know, it says something along the lines of still good. Just doesn't look, you know the part. Whatever. Something like that.
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Dan Bernstein
I've never seen a whole rack of
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Matt
of usually fruit that might look unappealing but is still perfectly fine to eat. So they have a rack like that. And I also think if there are organizations that would take that food and put it to good use, I think they would. They would come by and pick up from grocery stores if that was established.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, just give it. Yeah, absolutely. They give it to them. And I've Especially like, if they want to do that with vegetables. If you're making a soup or a stew or something like that. Who cares what anything looks like?
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Matt
It's all going in there doing like a stock. Yeah, yeah, that's all you need. Can I share one? An email that came through because it's not. It's about grocery stores.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, there's a lot of grocery store thoughts here. That seems to be a frequent topic here.
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Matt
Yes, this is from Jason. I don't know if you saw this one from Jason or planned on reading it, but he said. Hey, guys, just wanted to say I fully support Matt's anti grocery scooter driving stance. With all due respect, your electric cart does not give you a free pass to drive like a complete jackass. We're all part of a larger functioning society. Allegedly.
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Dan Bernstein
Allegedly.
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Matt
It's already bad enough in grocery stores with Dan out there refusing to support local hunger. We also got a Dodge, a motorized rascal doing six miles an hour near the canned tuna because somebody spotted a sale on Little Debbie products.
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Dan Bernstein
You know, they actually are not far away. It's actually where. That's. That's like one aisle over, same little spot. You gotta come screaming around the corner by the florist.
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Matt
In yours. Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
Around the.
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Matt
No, the florist is on the other side. This is.
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Dan Bernstein
You gotta come whipping around, fishtailing into the florist and you can. You could do that spin perfectly.
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Matt
And Jason says, trust me, I know grocery stores. I worked produce at the Dominic's for almost 11 months back in the late 90s with that misunderstanding with the rotisserie chicken incident happened.
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Dan Bernstein
No, no, that was famous. I read about that for weeks.
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Matt
He says, I regress. Back in my day, if your knees hurt at the jewels, you leaned on your shopping cart like a man and suffered quietly.
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Dan Bernstein
And you didn't get the. The free day of puttering yourself around and then. And then getting up and walking out.
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Matt
Thank you, Jason.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes, appreciate that, Jason. There is another note from Josh who says something similar. He said, my other issue with the prompt to support local hunger isn't the grammar. It's that the store has all the fucking food. I've got six chicken thighs, potato salad and corn. What am I supposed to do? He said, thank you for fighting the good fight. That words matter. And there was. There was a lot of that. My favorite one. There's. There are several. My favorite one was this from Laker. Chris. Dan, like you, I sometimes enjoy being extremely pedantic for my own amusement. What do you think? Pays my Mortgage Chris, he said. So when you told the story about being in the checkout line, seeing that it's asking people to support local hunger and then inquiring. I knew where you were going from the beginning. When I lived out in the late 2000s, I was at a stoplight in Aurora. I lived out there and I looked over and I saw a placard in the grass advertising a support traumatic brain injury 5K. Oh no.
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Matt
Come on peoples, come on.
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Dan Bernstein
Immediately I started chuckling to myself in the car, imagining a group of runners with hammers hitting each other and random non participants in the head causing a massive IQ drop in the streets of downtown Aurora. Support traumatic brain injury. How's the 5K going? Great.
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Matt
What 5K? I wasn't in a 5K.
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Dan Bernstein
I don't know what you're talking about.
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Matt
This is here on a bro.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, it's so good.
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Matt
Yeah, like I don't, I don't get why organizations don't catch that like you're, you're saying it incorrectly.
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Dan Bernstein
I think.
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Matt
I guess I'm never gonna go to the kid at the grocery store making, you know, whatever they make 12 bucks an hour now or who knows, I don't know, 14 or whatever they're making and saying hey, I'm, I, I don't support local. I'm not gonna do that to the kid like you did. But like why can't we catch on to that and be like hey, let's word this correctly.
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Dan Bernstein
This is from David who says, I'm with you Dan, and your resistance to supporting local hunger. Matt, wording matters. And while the 20 something watching these self checkout lanes can do nothing about changing the script, Matt, would you rather you take that little stand up bit over to the store manager? Because that's borderline Karen behavior. I'm sure the checkout guy has dealt with much worse than Dan's little open mic bit. This reminds me of Ron Santo asking us repeatedly to fight for a cure for jdrf. Ultimately someone must have said something because they finally change his script. I'm not sure to what exactly, but it made sense even coming out of Ron Santos mouth. Yes, fighting for a cure for the Juvenile Diabetes Research foundation wouldn't be like fighting for a cure for juvenile diabetes which will never ever top one of the great malaprops of all time. And I am not making this up. This actually happened. I was at the gala for jdrf, the big nice gala. Harry Carey was the keynote speaker.
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Matt
Oh, that's interesting choice.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. And he was in. This is. This is like heyday Harry carry man. And he and everybody's going and he said what an honor it is to be here. I'm so happy to be in this room with everybody helping to fight juvenile delinquency.
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Matt
Wrong room, Harry.
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Dan Bernstein
But only Harry could say that and have everybody find it lovable and charming. Yes, we're fighting something. It might not be juvenile diabetes, might be juvenile delinquency. Whatever it is, Harry's here to help.
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Matt
At least he knew that there was juveniles involved.
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Dan Bernstein
He had something on it, but he was. He he knew it and he was right. On a more serious note here, Canuck boy has Bears thoughts for us and he says all of this talk about the Bears ignoring the defensive line. I think there's a bigger long term strategy at work. To me, 2026 feels less like we coach them up better defense and more like a transition year. I think Ryan Poles is playing out some expensive veteran contracts before reshaping the roster again for 27. Look at the current cap structure. The Bears potentially can move on from sweat Odengbo, Jarrett, Edwards, Gallimore and Comet in 2027. Just doing that frees up $125 million in cap space. When you combine it with projected starting cap room in the rising cap, it matters because Caleb Williams is going to need that massive extension sooner rather than later. The Bulls Bulls the Bears have made a conscious decision to load up the offense now with younger, cheaper weapons at receiver and tight end rather than pouring more resources into an aging defensive front. I think quietly they're setting them completely rebuild the D line in 27 through both free agency and the draft, and by then, hopefully you're already developing young pieces like Austin Booker and maybe Shemar Turner into rotational contributors while adding premium talent around them. Honestly, this offseason feels like an admission that some of the previous defensive signings were mistakes or at least short term placeholders. Rather than doubling down, they're resetting the timeline around Caleb and the offense first, then rebuilding the defensive front once the books clear. Even Roma Dun becomes interesting in that context. At some point they have to decide whether he's a foundational wide receiver one type player in a Ben Johnson offense. Because right now it feels like the organization's searching for what the receiving room becomes around Caleb. And the more I look at it, the more 2026 feels like a bridge year financially and structurally, structurally, while 2027 becomes the real defensive reset this year. Let's just look forward to 3532 outcomes. Okay? I think that's a valid theory I mean, if the numbers line up, I don't think there's a reason to say that's absolutely not true. Magic Juan in Buffalo Grove writes to say I was disturbed to hear about Kyle Busch's untimely death due to a neglected cold that devolved into pneumonia was not treated promptly that ultimately led to his death. It's an endemic problem. It affects both men and women equally, especially parents with young children in busy households with demanding jobs with a pervasive feeling we don't have the time to rest, heal and recover after watching a couple family members ignore treatable problems that led to devastating illness, disability and in one case, death. I pledged myself to take better self care whenever I became ill or injured, to be more proactive and with preventative screenings. I have a special needs teenage daughter. I can't afford to be sick or injured and not recovering promptly is more devastating to my household. One other interesting aspect of this phenomenon is in how many cases the wealthy often have the worst health care. Dr. Mikhail Varshavsky, aka Dr. Mike, argues that the wealthy often receive worse care because they get exactly what they ask for, often asking for unnecessary treatments that make them worse in addition to not taking the time to properly care for themselves. Think about all the celebrities who died young due to unlimited access to opioids and other medications because of wealth and influence, like Michael Jackson or Matthew Perry or refused procrastinated treatments or surgeries that led to their deaths, like Tom Petty and Prince. Steve Jobs infamously berated his nurse refusing to wear an oxygen mask during his cancer treatments because the oxygen mask made him look stupid. Even fitness pioneer Jack Lalanne, who lived to be 96, died from respiratory failure resulting from a cold that turned into pneumonia because he refused to go to the doctor at least a week earlier, he continued his two hour daily workouts until the day before he died. Proof positive. You cannot out tough, outwork out exercise a serious illness. Correct, Scott says. Hey Dan, in all your time spent in Italy, did you have any Chicago style Giardin era? Yeah, me neither. Maybe Il Papa needs an authentic jar for his sandwiches or his eggs. This gift not only isn't stupid, it might be the least stupid idea that Brandon Johnson has had as mayor of Chicago. It is Scott in Oak park, but he said missing particular Chicago specialties. Now in Indianapolis, but loving St. Elmo's Central Indiana shrimp.
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Matt
Nothing like it.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay, maybe he asked the mayor say, hey, bring me a little jar near. I can't get it here. My guess is that the Papal people Hey people, people that he could get whatever he wanted if, if he wanted it. I love that this says hopefully this is in time for FFF. And it is. It's from 50 Shades of May who said thank you on the Bear Stadium deal for giving us the facts as Rich Miller lays them out in in Capital Facts. One piece I keep finding perplexing is how most people seem to accept that these schools need more money because there's a new building on the block. It'll sit idle most days. It doesn't add another student to the school's population, which I feel like is the main driver of an increased cost of education. Now I'm all for the different stakeholders getting their piece and they're being fully on board with how these deals oftentimes end up leaving everybody but the team worse off. But help me understand is why the schools are the biggest concern and the biggest power broker when this building doesn't necessarily increase their need for capital. He said. This is from a guy with a private university finance degree and an mba. So either they failed me, I'm failing them. My brain has entered sundown phase. Yeah, there is some expectation, I believe that with the increased business and there is potentially some residential into the larger complex, so I know that there is potential that it could actually increase the school's population. So I don't know exactly why, but as far as I'm concerned, that's where tax money is supposed to go. It should go to helping people who need it. It should go to public schools. It should go to roads and things that actually help people and make sense to a neighborhood as long as it's not lining the pockets of billionaires for no purpose or no reason. But I do think it's a fair question and if that is accounted for somewhere or explained better, I will find it and try to bring it to you. This is Jacob and Jacob says you guys will appreciate the story. As dads, I'm a regular listener. I'm working on introducing sports and sports talk to my boys. My 16 year old's a high level athlete. My 8 year old is starting to understand the rules of some sports. My 6 year old has autism. I'm not worried about him at the moment. My four year old, well we'll get there eventually. He watches football with us when it's on. Today I'm sitting in the car with my four year old waiting to pick up our six year old and the four year old unprompted, says a Chicago sports podcast from 312 Sports Now I had I been listening at the time I would have thought he's just repeating what he heard on the show, but you guys were not on. I guess he hears you a little too much since he's with me the most in the car. My 4 year old likely recognizes the sound of your voice. That's Jay and Lake in the Hills. I think he's doing a Kevin Koski voice. That's what I, I, if he's saying it like that. A Chicago Sports podcast from 3one2Sports. If he's doing like the, the good voice. He's doing big voice. I think he's doing. Cause, yeah. So. Yeah. And I sent this email to Kaz because I, I thought he would, he
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Matt
would like he's getting an early start on his voiceover work.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, that. You want to make the money.
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Matt
Maybe we can bring him in.
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Dan Bernstein
You want to make the money?
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Matt
Yeah. Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Let's, let's give the four year old a little try out. Who's that?
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Matt
That's Jay.
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Dan Bernstein
Jay and Lake in the hills.
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Matt
All right, Jay, use the the audio up yes.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes.
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Matt
Portion of the 312 sports app and then let's hear your four year old.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes.
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Matt
Say it and if it's good, we'll use it.
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Dan Bernstein
And speaking of that, Speaking of the 312Sports app and the voice message possibility, we got a good one here from Tim.
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Matt
This is, we did.
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Dan Bernstein
This is a really good one. And I thought that this, this is a perfect use of this to make your point. You get in, you make the point and. And we got it. And here it is.
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Tim (Listener)
Hey, good evening, Dan. This is Tim up in Minneapolis. Been listening for a very long time to you dating all the way back to when you and Terry Boers were working together. And I haven't missed an episode of DBU off the ivy or forward progress yet. But during your Kyle Busch discussion On Tuesday the 26th, something kind of piqued my interest when you were talking about whether or not he felt he should go to the doctor or if he was going to try to tough it out. And one of the ultimate litmus tests that I have when it comes to how you're going to handle medical situations is how you felt about the COVID 19 vaccine. After googling a little bit, I do admit I never found an exact quote saying yay or nay to what or not he agreed with that. But it did say Kyle Bush never publicly disclosed his COVID 19 vaccination status, stating throughout the pandemic that he viewed his medical choices as personal. In my opinion, if you're covering up how you feel about vaccines. You're afraid of losing endorsements, which to me says he probably wasn't a guy who believed in them, period. Also, the whole medical aura around NASCAR fans and probably most of their drivers is that they think that that learned doctrine probably isn't good for him. Anyway. The other thing I found interesting was you kept talking about the fact that he was worried about being replaced, and it dawned on me that most NASCAR fans are really worried about being replaced or replacement theory. Kind of had to chuckle to myself. But I hope all is well, keep doing amazing work and have a good rest of your night.
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Dan Bernstein
There you go. That. That is a point. Nicely and economically made and well done.
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Matt
Yeah, I hope if you guys caught the other podcast we're going to do. The Forward Progress is our other podcast we're going to start. Tim's actually going to be a host on that one.
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Dan Bernstein
On Forward Progress.
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Matt
Yeah, poor word. Progress.
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Dan Bernstein
I told the story the other day about while watching the series between the Carolina Panthers and the Montreal Canadiens that every time Sebastian Ajo touches the puck, I must say aho. And explained why. And it was because of the Three Stooges episode Maha Raja Aha. And your wife says, asshole, right? She says, get out of here. And I couldn't help myself. And I kept every time like, oh, really? Ringing around, picked up by Aho. Aho. And then she throws something at me. So. And his shifts were a nightmare for her. And then she. And then I would do it from the other room and then I would do it under my breath. So this is Stephen Gurney. He said, as soon as you said something about Ajo and not being able to stop yourself, I knew exactly where you were going. How? Well, let's just say I too, was a stooge enthusiast as a child. We didn't have a lot to do on those two hot summer afternoons, but watch WFLD and work on our Nuk Yuks and our why I oughtas while plowing through some Faygo grape soda in the basement. Nothing cracked me up more than that bit, Maha Aha. In fact, it would soon become akin to the It's a Wonderful Life boys Hee Haw greeting for us. We would pair it with Baja and even Bodhisattva. Won't you take me by the hand? Our parents just love that. Fast forward junior year of college, my girlfriend is performing with a dance team at Purdue. Yes, this is going somewhere. One day, she tells me, the girls on her squad each get to escort an astronaut across the field for a Football halftime ceremony. It's Purdue. They do that stuff. I ask her who she gets to escort. Is it Neil Armstrong? Is it Buzz Aldrin? Nope. She says, john Blaha.
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Matt
There you go.
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Dan Bernstein
My face reddened. My face purpled because I wanted to marry this girl someday. So with every ounce of my energy, I somehow kept my aha to myself. Seven years later, we were married forward once more to 2010, and we are taking our kids to Disney and then to Cape Canaveral. And you know where this is going. The sign at the entrance to the Space center said, today's featured visiting NASA astronaut is John Blaha.
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Matt
And I hope he did it.
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Dan Bernstein
Please. That was the day I had to tell my children about my love for the Three Stooges. And my wife looked at me as if to say, I will kill you. Love your show. Love your suit. Love that you, too cannot hear Aho without doing this thing at this age.
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Matt
I hope he gave a really loud block.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, yeah.
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Matt
I hope.
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Dan Bernstein
I hope that. Yeah. Because now that she's mayor, what is she doing?
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Matt
Right?
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Dan Bernstein
That is your responsibility to do that there, Brendan, in Mount Greenwood. You know, now that I think about it, Terry used to do that with the Pistons announcer, George Blaha.
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Matt
Yes, he did, didn't he? Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
The voice of the Pistons, George Blah.
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Matt
Yep.
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Dan Bernstein
So this is Brendan. He says, so often in our current climate, we seem to live in an era of zero consequences. No one seems to have to pay the price for their actions anymore because it's all about clicks. It's a particularly acute problem when the stupid are continually rewarded for doing stupid things like messaging out war plans on signal or starting failed media outlets to take on all the woke social justice warriors. Well, somebody didn't tell Six Flags that idiots don't get what's coming to them anymore because they've banned a dumbass influencer with millions of followers. They've banned him for life from all of their parks for attempting to eat an order of chicken nuggets on a roller coaster. Man, I'm totally serious. And he links to this.
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Matt
Did you watch the video of this?
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Dan Bernstein
I didn't.
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Matt
Okay. I watched the video of the dude on the roller coaster, and his buddy next to him has the dipping sauce, dips it, and then pulls it out while they're on a roller coaster. And all the sauce, because of the motion, the movement, like a big string of it flies behind them. Now, if you're sitting behind these two getting hit by honey mustard sauce from a chicken McNugget, what if it's ranch it wasn't ranch because it was yellow.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, if it's honey mustard. No, ranch. Getting hit by ranch wouldn't be that bad.
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Matt
I think getting hitting by by any condiment while you're on a roller coaster would have been anger inducing.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, not any condiment. I mean, what? Okay, really?
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Matt
You? Come on, you're really going to be that guy right now? So some stranger throws a condiment in your face and you're going to be
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Dan Bernstein
like, oh, it's ranch.
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Matt
It's fine. I'm okay with it.
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Dan Bernstein
What if it's olive topanade hummus?
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Matt
No, read the email.
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Dan Bernstein
Sorry. So I don't know how you feel, but I'm just so sick of these dumbass sub jackass stunts being mined for social media fodder. It's not cool. It's not inventive. If you're trying to eat chicken nuggets on a roller coaster, you kind of honestly don't just deserve a ban, you deserve to choke on your stupidity and rib meat. I don't believe in the social theory of natural selection because, I mean, look, is in charge of the world, but just once, it's nice to see an idiot get his comeuppance. Now watch this guy become the next senator from Ohio or something equally stupid.
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Matt
That was my favorite line of the whole email.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes, because it's probably true. Yes, we are going to close Friday Feedback Friday with it is it was sent in by Strangles the Clown, but he signs this the Strangles Consortium. Does that mean there are multiple people that form Strangles the Clown? Is it like the Dread Pirate Roberts? Oh, is Strangles a concept?
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Matt
He must be
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Dan Bernstein
the Strangles Consortium. Or is he now in charge of a larger group of like, Strangles the Clown trainees?
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Matt
These are all very valid questions.
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Dan Bernstein
We will find this out. We need to know. And this just says good sirs, Friday off the Ivy, you were discussing the long hair of Houston Astros pitcher Spencer Arrogetti. Matt, you said Araghetti's hair was more pirate like than model like. And after the obligatory Y, I started to ponder if there's a better example of a baseball pitcher more pirate than model. Ahoy, former Chicago White Sox pitcher Monty Stratton. As a promising young right hander, Stratton won 15 games for the White Sox in 1937, even earning a spot on the American League All Star roster. And his fate would have it, while hunting Wabbits in 1938, Stratton's shotgun accidentally discharged, striking a major artery in his leg, which then required amputation. It must be noted there was no mention of a young Dick Cheney at the scene, nor if Stratton's dog was ever investigated in the accidental shooting. Stratton was later fitted with, you guessed it, a prosthetic wooden leg. Monte spent the next two years as a White Sox coach and batting practice pitcher with hopes of resuming a once promising career. Peg leg Monte in even pitched several seasons with semi pro teams in Texas, but he never appeared in another big league game despite falling short. Marty's valiant comeback attempt was the subject of a 1949 film, the Stratton Story, starring Jimmy Stewart. Woody Allen shot a short film documentary parody about a picture based on Monty. While Monty Stratton was definitely more model like than, say, the Russell brothers, I can definitively state he is more pirate like than Spencer Arrogetti.
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Matt
Yeah, that's a good, good catch. I wouldn't, I wouldn't say that Monty was model like. Here I'm looking at the actual news.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, you look at the picture.
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Matt
Yeah. Monty Stratton, ace pitcher of the Chicago White Sox, was rushed to a hospital hereafter he suffered an accidental bullet wound while hunting rabbits. Oh. Physician said it appeared amputation of his right leg would be necessary. Yeah, I'm not gonna go model like, but yeah, more definitely more pirate like. Yeah, this is, this is old Monty Stratton right here for you, Dan.
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Dan Bernstein
All right, hold on, hold on. He's got my emails up here. Yeah, no, I, I wouldn't say he's got. He would have any career as a. As a model. Unless he's trying to flap his ears and fly away.
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Matt
He could hear things from very far away.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, he's got like that Don Mossy kind of look to him. And that's that if you're scoring at home. Not a compliment.
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Matt
Thanks, Strangles.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, thank you. Yeah, the Strangles Consortium. Yeah, I can only imagine they all get out of that little tiny car together.
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Dan Bernstein
If you need Windows, stop screwing around with all these big window teaser deals. You say, Well, I heard it's buy one, get one free. I heard it's buy two, get one. I heard it's all 50% off. All right, here's an idea. Call Ross Armstrong and let him explain what Windows really cost and how he can decipher these companies that are just trying to Tease you into things you don't want or need. When you talk to Russ, first of all, he's not going to take up half your day. He's just going to say, here are the windows that I have. Here's what I'm capable of doing. What do you want? How do we do this? And then he'll match any price that you've already been quoted and maybe he'll even come in lower. You don't know. So whatever you've thought about the other calls you made, whatever your products you've looked at, Russ is going to give you the best product and the best price. And he guarantees that. I know for a fact because I've got a lot of Chicago guys, Chicago Window Guys, windows all throughout the house. And they're way better than what our original builder put in. They look better, they're easier to maintain, they clean off better, and most importantly, they keep the temperature in that room in the room. And you don't feel like you're heating the area outside your home. So have Russ over. And then it's not like he has to go farm this deal out to somebody else. He's not a marketing company. He is the end to end owner of Chicago window Guys, owner of the factory. The factory is here in Chicago. It's his crew that does all the installation, the measuring, all his people, everything centralized through rust through Chicago window guys. And he'll handle it directly for you. So call him. 847-302-9171. Check out his five star reviews at ChicagoNowGuys.com to everyone that I've recommended, Russ, everyone who's come back to me has said it was everything you said it would be and better. Either it was even less expensive than I thought, even more convenient and less of a headache than I thought it. And the whole, the whole aspect, the process is just nicer and easier. And you don't have to worry about the price because he's going to match or beat anything else. 847-302-9171 chicagowindowguys.com as always, I get a text from Matt and he says, here's what you're going to do. And I think about it and I go, okay. When it comes to our weekly top 10 list. And this week he said, hey, we're talking. And I was listening to owc, how the Bulls are in the market for a new coach. And indeed they are. And it's probably going to be someone that you've never heard of. It's probably going to be a huge leap of faith that they're not going to bring in some 60 year old. It sounds to me like this is going to be a young rising star who may know what is coming next, who can match wits with some of the counterparts. They're also getting jobs around the league and grow with the team. So then I thought, you know, it's possible some of these decisions that you make where everybody's excited and loves that first press conference, for the most part, it sometimes doesn't work out all that well. And that's why I've put together the list of the top 10 worst coaches in Chicago sports in my lifetime. Whatever you want to call that era starting. I was born in 1969 and the people of whom I have memories. So there are some in there. There were some. I, I know Abe Gibbon was bad. I didn't experience Abe Gibbon. So I kept it to coaches that, that I experienced.
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Matt
I'm going to, I'm going to write down right now what I think your top three are. I won't share that, but I'm going to write down who I think you're. You're the top three worst coaches in your lifetime.
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Dan Bernstein
In all of Chicago sports.
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Matt
In all of Chicago sports.
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Dan Bernstein
I mean the four major sports.
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Matt
Yep. 1, 2, 3.
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Dan Bernstein
Written down. You do? In order. In order. Okay. All right. Well, I want to start with the honorable mentions.
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Matt
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
My first honorable mention is John Fox of the Bears. Part of it was expectation, part of it was his pedigree, part of it was his predecessor who will be mentioned in a bit, was so bad that they needed like replacement level coachy NFL coach to repair some of the damage. And I guess he did that. But it's just nothing really happened. Nothing ever got going and then everything went off the rails. And his legacy was just getting Hallis hall up to proper condition and industry standard to hold their practices and their training camp and everything else there. But John Fox honorable mention. Also an honorable mention for whatever was left of Tony La Russa in the second go round. Tony LaRuss on the first go round was good and he had a Hall of Fame career for a brief period of time he was sort of ahead of things and doing things differently, but not when he was unearthed and, and brought back from his dried and desiccated form to manage the White Sox because it was such a, it was so unfortunate. That was the win time. That's when this was all ready to go, when the rebuild was complete. And instead of bringing in a real manager, they just Unearthed him and installed him. And it was such. It was such a middle finger to fans for Jerry Reinstorf. So I want to do this because I want to do it, and I don't care about anybody else. And this is my buddy, and I'm making a manager, and that's that. And the baseball people, nothing was really ever the same. It felt like that was both the end of something and the beginning of something breaking. So Tony LaRussa's second time through. Honorable mention. Worst of all time. And I. And I'm. When I got to this list, with the exception of. Of one, I don't know how many of these. These people, I would say weren't. Weren't good people. There's. There's one guy on this list who definitely just was. That is just a bad guy, but definitely not. Number 10, Bill Cartwright. Wonderful guy and a champion as a Chicago Bull. A very good basketball player and a case study in how to make the most of your skills and how to maximize what you do and how you do it, your unique abilities. I think he, despite lingering injuries, I thought he got the most. I thought he set his greatest examples to the Bulls, and his importance to the Bulls were as a player, not as a coach, because he was a bad head coach. And the. This, the systems didn't work. The intensity wasn't there. I know he had problems with his voice, and that was a real headwind, being able to be heard above the din of a game. It. And the. And the. Jerry Reinsdorf did everything he could do to help him out and helped him fix his voice. Sent him to Pavarotti's doctor, paid for everything, to fly him around the world to get the best possible care. But Bill Cartwright checks in at number 10, worst coach, and I am going to cop out at number nine because there is a Blackhawks coach above this. But I don't really know enough about the quality of hockey coaching to determine which of the random forgettable bad Blackhawks coaches should be on here. There's only one that rose above them in my eyes. So number nine is whoever you want. It's Jeremy Colleton. It's Luke Richardson. It's Dirk Graham. It's Trent Yawny. Like, who. Who. Who's that? Yeah, that's. You get the point that if. If you know the name, if you're. If you remember, like, guys like, you know, obviously, you know, Quennville and Keenan and Savard was bad, but he wasn't this bad. Whoever you want. Lauren Mollikin. I don't know if you're interim. You're not on the list either. So some of these might be interim, but they're all in one. They all. They all. They all check in at number nine. Number eight. Worst coach in Bears history. Dr. Death himself, Mark Tressman.
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Matt
Oh, eight, huh?
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. Oh, you thought he was in the top three? Yeah, I had him a little higher. I had him.
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Matt
Yeah, I had him at 3.
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Dan Bernstein
Nope, nope. He's 8. Because he had a good first year. Yeah, that offense, like the Mark Tressman offense in the first year, was pretty damn good.
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Matt
Oh, it was very good. But he was just. He himself was so weird and odd and.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes, that's why he's on the list, because no one has ever lost control of a locker room that thoroughly. No one has ever had a team completely check out. Football wise. Non. Football wise. And. And when you had not only Lance Briggs deciding, yeah, I'm not even going to ask for permission to go open my Double Nickels barbecue house in Sacramento. And away I go, where is he? I don't know. And then they find out, oh, he was opening his barbecue place. Did he have permission?
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Matt
I don't know.
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Dan Bernstein
He was just there. He didn't really care. He didn't even think to ask because it didn't matter. And then it was Brandon Marshall commandeering a meeting room to call his own press conference without any Bears people involved. This was somehow allowed. It wasn't. And then he used the opportunity to again drag an accuser through the mud using a incomplete and if not entirely falsified documentation about the actions of this particular woman against him. And a lot of reporters stood around for 45 minutes terribly confused. And then Mark Tressman had players fighting with each other that he had denied hearing anything about it, famously so, for his unique ability to lose control of a team as fast as he did. Mark Trestman is number eight.
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Matt
Don't forget the alternating lockers of offensive and defensive players. So they all get along and growing.
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Dan Bernstein
The man.
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Matt
Oh, my God.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes.
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Matt
All right, so. All right, so he's not three. But I'm confident my two and one are correct, though.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay.
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Matt
I would go on my bookie and make a wager.
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Dan Bernstein
You would. You're that confident? Two and one in in order or did you box it?
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Matt
No.
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Dan Bernstein
So it's. It's not a quinella. You have an exacta?
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Matt
I have an exacta, yes.
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Dan Bernstein
All right, well, we'll see if you're exactly right. Number seven. Alpo Suhonen.
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Matt
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
Or Suanin. Alpo Suanin. Blackhawks Coach. And it was a fascinating idea that was a complete flop. A total flop. Alpo Suonen was sort of an odd hockey thinker who wanted to apply a new and free flowing system that he learned in Finland. His background was, I believe, as much in production of theater as it was coaching hockey. He was just a very odd man. And every time he talked he would had sort of philosophical ramblings on things that would tangentially touch on hockey. I'm not sure that his players really understood what he was talking about. I know I didn't understand what he was talking about. And then he was gone. And Alpo Suhonen, we hardly knew ye. But to rise above the the catch all category at number nine means something. Congratulations.
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Matt
Congratulations.
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Dan Bernstein
Alpo Suhonen, number six. Maddie, I'm sorry to do this to you because I know he's important to you.
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Matt
I know who it is.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. And I, and I know that he was, he was your guy for the season that you were the everyday beat reporter for the Chicago Cubs. Mike Quaddy is number six. Mike Quaddy is one of these people that over time people were just referred to as a good baseball man. And Mike Quaddy was a long time AAA manager. And that was really about what Mike Quaddy was and should have been was a long time AAA manager. But when, when Lou Piniella up and left and he just had enough, Lou went home. Lou called a press conference and they sat there and Tom Ricketts sat in his chair like this the whole time, you know, just kind of frowning and losing. I gotta take care of my mother. I'm. Hey, thanks for everything, but I gotta, I gotta get out of here. And he just bailed. So Mike Quaddy was next man up. And then he got the job the next year. He wasn't just interim that they went out there with Mike damn Quaddy. And you know what? He was a lightweight. Just tried to make the players happy. Gave everybody nicknames and always called everybody by their nicknames and didn't really have much to offer. His staff was filled with his minor league friends. And for his time here, the cubs played a lot like a. AAA baseball team that was managed by a AAA guy. And that's what you got. What I do like what I'll never forget about. Mike Quaddy is something that he and I have in common. And I always respected him for this, that he, for his fun and relaxation. And I believe in Florida, his favorite thing to do is not just to fish, but to walk around and fish, which is a different kind of mentality. And people say, walt, you go out in a boat and go deep sea, he's like, no, he likes to. He's. I like to walk the shoreline and fish for speckled trout and that. That's my kind of dude. Because the, the.
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Matt
The.
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Dan Bernstein
The thrill of the hunt, the thrill of moving around, of spotting things, of seeing things. I like that. And I want to have it on my list at some point. I want to go speckled trout fishing with Mike Quaddy because I think I like.
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Matt
I like Mike Quaddy quite a bit.
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Dan Bernstein
I know you do. Did you? Did you. He liked you?
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Matt
Yeah, we got along. We got along. We had one moment. We had one moment. He had a little frosty with me, but. But it was good.
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Dan Bernstein
It was.
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Matt
It was a good day. He was a dog lover and he was. Yeah, big, big fisherman. He was also part of the Oakland A's organization 2002. So if you watch the Money, the movie Moneyball, he's the third base coach and you see a guy running into the pile to celebrate and you see Quaddy on the back. Really? Yeah. So he was part of that team as well.
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Dan Bernstein
Who plays him? I don't know.
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Matt
It's nobody. Because you don't. There's never any other scene. He gets that one scene where you see the back of his jersey and
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Dan Bernstein
if you had all the money, that would have been a great role for James Tolkien. The guy who recently passed away.
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Matt
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
Who from?
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Matt
You know, the.
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Dan Bernstein
From Top Gun and the principal from Back to the Future too. He was both the emperor Napoleon and the imposter in Love and Death. He would have been a great Mike. Claudia.
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Matt
Good. Good call.
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Dan Bernstein
Number five.
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Matt
Number six.
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Dan Bernstein
Is he number six. Number five is Pedro Grefold. What a disaster. And that's just a. It was just a bad hire. He said things that he didn't mean. He meant things he didn't say. There was absolutely no consistency to the actual actions on the field. And we'll never know how much his inability contributed to the depths that the White Sox sank from which they are now beginning to emerge. Because I always thought that amid all of this, all of the downturn in the nadir and the time that they spent in the wilderness, it was a mixture of bad, unlucky and stupid. So I don't know if they had mitigated the stupid, would the bad and unlucky have made it as bad as it was record setting bad? I don't know. He contributed to it. He had a lot to do with it. Wrong guy, wrong time and Getting rid of him was a major step in accelerating this now celebrated rebuild. Pedro Griffo, congratulations. Your number five.
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Matt
Oh, and on quick note on your White Sox too, Dan. Two games above.500. They've actually gotten to a zero run differential. They're out of the negative.
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Dan Bernstein
There you go.
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Matt
They're on their way to make their way to the positive.
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Dan Bernstein
And Munataka is one behind Kyle Schwaber in home runs. He's still hitting him. He is still.
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Matt
I heard a conversation yesterday about this. This need to sign him to a. To a different deal, even though he signed to a two year deal. And I, I had heard there's a conversation on the radio and it was. I mean you're. You're talking hundreds of millions of dollars, which is just.
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Dan Bernstein
What? Insane.
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Matt
Insane.
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Dan Bernstein
Why would they do that?
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Matt
He signed two years, correct?
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Dan Bernstein
Yes.
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Matt
So he signed this year, next year. I don't know why the need to.
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Dan Bernstein
Huh.
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Matt
To sign him to like a multi year, like hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Dan Bernstein
Why?
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Matt
I. I don't. I don't know. I don't get it.
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Dan Bernstein
No, that would be stupid.
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Matt
Like, what's he gonna do, go to another team? Yeah, he's under contract, y'.
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Dan Bernstein
All. Or maybe yes, he'll go to another team and you, and you find another slugging first baseman. What? Yeah, he. He does some of the more replaceable things. Okay, I. That's fascinating to me. That's. That's an interesting take to wake up with that thought. Number four on this list of worst coaches of my lifetime. Let's hear it for Tim Floyd. He used to call me the shell answer man because people would ask questions and I'd be muttering to myself, what the actual right answer? Well, he. Someone else would ask him a question, he'd point at me, goes, why don't you ask the shell answer man over there? He seems to have all the answers. But I, I got along well with Tim. And the, the stories are awesome, the ones that can be told, I guess. But Tim, Tim liked to. He liked his alcohol, he liked to go out drinking, and he liked to hit it hard. And he know, and notoriously, Tim would sit down with his fellow coaches and as they ordered the first round, he would say, y' all make sure I don't do anything stupid.
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Matt
Oh boy.
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Dan Bernstein
That's how he was. Team Lodge.
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Matt
Let's go, Tim.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, different Lodge, but that was a different Team Lodge. Not your Lodge, but the one on division was one of the joints where, where, where old Tim. Whether it was there, maybe a golf outing where you Would just make sure you'd say, hey, but, hey, guys, I'm gonna have fun today. Y' all make sure I don't do anything stupid.
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Matt
And.
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Dan Bernstein
Well. And the Bulls teams were just horrendous. So bad. And I mean bad, bad, bad, bad, even. And it's sort of like the thing with Pedro Grefol, where I don't know how his inability contributed, and it was just in the whole. The way it was handled with the whole. It started the Iowa State thing, and he begat Gar Foreman because Gar Foreman came with him. And then Gar Foreman just kind of stayed in the organization. And they never thought to. That he didn't need to be in the organization. They never. Who's in that office? Go, Gar Foreman. Are we allowed? Do we have to keep him? I guess we have to keep him. So, Tim Floyd, you're my guy, man. I would love to hang out with. Like, he's. He's fun. But number four on the list.
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Matt
Okay. All right. So my. My top three. I had Trustman at three, so obviously wrong.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, you left out the Bears representative at number three. Come on, man. Powdered toast man himself.
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Matt
Oh, okay, So I had him higher.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, you did? Well, then I don't know who you left off. Matt Eberfluss is number three.
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Matt
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
My God. Because I called it from the moment he opened his mouth from the very first press conference. They should never have hired him. However, it happened with Trace Armstrong and the agents and the. The. The. With Ryan Paul's. Paul's fine. How this guy got through, the number of interviews that have to be done, the amount of vetting that has to be done, and that first press conference, we play by the hit principal. Oh, good Lord. They've hired a high school gym teacher. And that's what they got.
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Matt
That's great.
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Dan Bernstein
That's what they got. That's what everything was here. You saw it. You saw the meltdown in the Thanksgiving horror show. You saw everything else that went wrong at the ends of games. Just no concept, no understanding it could. Didn't know a challenge. Sometimes didn't know what down it was or didn't know how many timeouts he had. Any rubric that you want to use to grade a coach Matt Eberfluss does poorly on that. I think that not having experienced Abe Gibbon to have memories of Abe Gibbon. Matt Eberfluss is the worst Bears coach of my lifetime, and he's number three in all of Chicago sports.
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Matt
All right, so now it occurred to me who I Who I forgot. And I don't know what order you have them in, but I. I say you're two and one are Jim Boylan and Terry Bevington.
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Dan Bernstein
Flip.
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Matt
I think I. Because I forgot Bevington.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, flip them.
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Matt
Okay, so you're going. Okay. Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
Come on.
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Matt
So Bevington is two.
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Dan Bernstein
Number two. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Terry Bevington.
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Matt
Shit. I totally forgot about TV because.
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Dan Bernstein
Because I don't know again, who in the organization. Another all long time triple A guy. Just one of these pieces of baseball furniture that is around. And it used to be the teams just were fully was a good baseball man. What does that mean?
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Matt
Well, he's.
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Dan Bernstein
He's. He sits in the corner of the dugout and he beer farts. And that's a good baseball man. And Terry Bevington, if you don't really know the story, the famous stories. One is when he went. He went out to the mound to make a pitching change, and out he goes and he's on the mound and he signals to the bullpen there was a problem. He hadn't gotten anybody to warm up. So he was signaling to an empty, cold bullpen. And the bullpen people are looking at each other like, were we supposed to have somebody up? Somebody. Because he's calling for somebody and nobody's warm and they're like, I don't know who you're calling on, bro, but you didn't tell anybody to get loose. There was the very. There was the very famous argument he had with an umpire over the fair foul call. I think Robin Ventura hit a ball.
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Matt
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
And Terry Bevington was arguing the wrong case.
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Matt
Oh, my God, that was one of the worst.
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Dan Bernstein
And not only did he argue the wrong case, he goes running out at the third base umpire. And later he and the third person was looking at him like, what? What? Because apparently Ventura hit what Bevington thought was a fair ball. Bevington ran out arguing at the top of his lungs and read in the face that it was foul because he simply misspoke. He should have been arguing it was fair. And the umpire's like, well, I said it was foul. Ball is foul. It was foul the whole way. And he's like, do you. Do you mean fair? I said it was foul. Every. And then he realized, oh, I mean, I mean, it was fair. That's what, that's what I meant. So afterward. And then he's reporter said, what was that exchange? And he explained it. I was saying foul, and he was saying fair. And I was saying fair. And he was saying. And I didn't And I got confused over what I was arguing, so.
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Matt
Oh, my God.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, he did that too. And when I covered some games, apparently he had some anxiety when it came to speaking to the media, especially early. And when you would go into the manager's office, the manager was not brought out to a deus and an Electern. You would sit in the manager's office on the other side of his desk, and they'd sit there with their pants off with their junk hanging out. Bevington wouldn't do that. A lot of managers would be completely naked or they just. They wanted to take you off your game by showing you stuff you didn't want to see and spitting on your shoes. Bevington would chug Miller lights like three. And you'd see the cans on his desk. Empty cans would be sitting right in front of him immediately after the game. And then they'd let the media in and he'd answer questions at his desk, but the entire time going. Like burping through his nose. And I'd send the tape in and whoever's taking in the tape going, what are those noises? And either it would take somebody having to edit them out or. That's why his post game sounded weird. Yeah, just. Just not a. Not a smart man. I don't know what he's doing now, but he was. He was nice enough, but bad and not bright. And number two on the list of worst all time coaches or managers in Chicago sports. And number one indeed is Jim Boylan, who somehow the Chicago Bulls made the actual head coach after his interim status. And sometime I need to ask Michael Reinsdorf about this because I found out after the fact that that part of the way, see, Boylan was. Boylan is a weasel. That's the other thing of all this list. Boylan, piece of shit, bad guy, bad guy, backstabber. Like all of the tropes about assistant coaches. The kind of guy who's gonna say, well, give me the job. I can do this, I can do that. You should do this.
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Matt
I didn't want to do that.
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Dan Bernstein
If something goes badly, he would go to the owner and be like, well, that wasn't my decision. If it were up to me, I would do this. I would do this. And it was all. He was just a backstabbing weasel and put players in positions to fail rather than succeed. Had no idea what he was doing, didn't know why he was calling timeouts, did that stupid ass punch clock. They remember that. When he put in an actual punch clock. I think Ryan Archidiacono was the Only guy that ever used it. But he's like, well, I used to work at a car dealership and we used to have to punch in at a time card and that's what we're going to do. So I know when players are here and when they're leaving. And most of the players said what an NBA player should say. When a coach says that to an NBA player, it is coach, and I'm quoting the great Tony Dawson. It's going to rain in this motherfucker before I punch in, before I use your dumb punch clock. And that. That is exactly what an NBA player should say to a coach who asked that of him. But after all the stories that got out about him afterward, that players hated him and other people hated him, and somehow he was able to weasel his way by sitting next to Michael Reinsdorf on the plane and. And trying to say, well, I would do this and I would do that and it. And Fred Hoiberg doesn't know what he's doing. And Fred Hoiberg would do. And apparently there were other things that Boylan would do that he would. He would leave the building, wait for Fred Hoiberg to leave, and then come back to the building later to make it look like he was there after Fred left. Like, stuff like that.
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Matt
So he wasn't using the time clock,
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Dan Bernstein
but not punching in the time clock. But he, for him, he would do stuff like that and be like, yeah, I'm still here. I'm still. Where's Fred?
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Matt
I don't know.
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Dan Bernstein
I don't know. Fred took off like weasily just workplace weasel, stuff like that and no coaching chops whatsoever. When his both had coaching jobs like University of Utah, they couldn't wait to get rid of it was nearly ruined that program and made everybody miserable and somehow was given the Bulls job. And then as. As a finishing perfect Little Chef's kiss of a touch. When they hired Arturas Karnashovas, who took forever to fire this guy. That was one of my first red flags with AK was you don't need six months or three months of observation all of a sudden to fire this idiot. It should be the first thing you do. Walk in, where's the bathroom? Does my card work? You're fired. And I didn't like how long it took. But Jim Boylan issued a team press release from him welcoming Arturis Karnashovas to Chicago. How that was allowed to happen, how somebody in that department and be like, yeah, I don't think you can do that. I don't think you're allowed to send a press release out unilaterally. So the Chicago Bulls from you, officially welcome the guy that the people above you just hired. It was all very odd and poorly handled. And the fact that he's not here is something we should celebrate every single day. The worst coach in Chicago sports history, since I'm. That I'm able to remember, is Jim Boylan. Congratulations.
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Matt
All right, give me your. Your list of 10. Fire through those.
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Dan Bernstein
Number 10, Bill Cartwright. Number nine, a bunch of forgettable and interchangeable Blackhawks coaches. Number eight, Mark Trestman. Number seven, Alpo Suonen. Number six, Mike Quaddy. Number five, Pedro Grefol. Number four, Tim Floyd. Number three, Matt Eberfluss. Number two, Terry Bevington. Number one, Jim Boylan. And we should mention there are two Jim Boylans in Bulls history. Jim Boylen, a n who worked with Scott Skiles forever, was sort of his right hand guy, did some interim stuff. Not that Jim Boylan. The other one. B O Y L E N the worst coach in Chicago sports history.
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Matt
And Terry Bevington, after his managing career in Major League Baseball, he worked in a Michigan area with a group called the the Doolin. D U L I N the Dulin Dodgers, an elite travel baseball organization. So he was a coach and instructor for the Doolin Dodgers. That would help prospects who are committed to, like, SEC and other Division 1 athletes. He's retired now, though.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. He can do less damage there. I think that's fine. Less damage did not make the list, however.
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Matt
No, he doesn't.
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Dan Bernstein
Also an honorable mention. You know, everyone's got an opinion on the upcoming World Cup. Maddie has got his Italian American T shirt on. He will be celebrating Team Italy the entire time. I'm. I'm still.
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Matt
Remember, we didn't make these.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, that's right. You're out. I forgot. You're out. I always presume Italy's in.
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Matt
No, but a real tournament this year.
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Dan Bernstein
No, apparently not. I. But I will. I'm going to find a team, and maybe you've got a country that you are rooting for or a favorite you think is overrated. The World Cup's fun. You don't have to love soccer. Be like, do what I do and just pretend you love it and be a part of it. And if the, if it goes in the goal, you jump up and down. It's sort of like the way most people like hockey in Chicago. And as a new player, when you go to my bookie, because you have the promo code dbu when you sign up, you can claim an exclusive My bookie offer. DBU is your code, and the World cup turns every match into a conversation. My bookie lets you turn the opinion into action so then you can back your side before the kickoff. Follow the match live. Stay locked in. Opening whistle, final kick. The World cup only comes around once every four years, so make sure you're in on the action and not just watching it from the sidelines. Go to my bookie. Use the code. DBU must be 21 plus. Please gamble responsibly. And that leads us right to our Friday DBU picks, presented by my bookie. I'm going to keep it very, very simple and do it like Maddie does it. I'm not going to bother with the props for seven o' clock tomorrow night, Game seven at Oklahoma City. I like the visiting spurs and the three and a half points. I will take it. I will take the team with the best player. I can't wait to find out the referee assignments because that's going to be critical. And I know I'm going to be beating my head against the wall because Oklahoma City gets all of these damn calls. Rooting against them is a nightmare. But I do root against them because I don't like them. And even though they are allowed to play the way they play and they are legitimately great by these current rules, I don't have to respect it, and I don't. I'm rooting for the spurs and I'm taking the three and a half points.
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Matt
All right, I'll make a play on that tomorrow. But for tonight, I'm going to St. Louis and my Chicago Cubs, and I'm gonna actually put some play on Seiya Suzuki. And I think Suzuki is going to have two or more hits. So I'm playing that. And I will take, say, a Suzuki hitting a home run tonight.
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Dan Bernstein
Look at you out there propping.
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Matt
He's facing Andre polante for the St. Louis Cardinals. Suzuki is 4 for 8 with two doubles and a walk in his career against Polante. So I'm gonna say two or more hits for Seya and a home run tonight.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. Remind me, because I. I lose track of if I've done this. On which show have I shown my Stan Van Gundy body pillow?
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Matt
Yes, we started the show.
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Dan Bernstein
I just want to make sure we
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Matt
introduced Stan to the world.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay, so make sure he's. Because he's still there. I just, I. I can't get too far away from him, and I always have to keep him top of mind. Those are our DBU picks that are presented by my bookie. Lock in your picks now with my bookie. Bet on anything, anywhere, anytime. And also have a terrific weekend. I know you might be back to the grind with. With your youth baseball and all the youth sports and all that, but it should be pretty nice out there. I just know the highlight for me. Oh, should I mention what I'm doing Sunday?
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Matt
Yes. Oh, yes, you should. I. Oh, my God, yes, Absolutely should mention it 100%.
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Dan Bernstein
So I have been invited by our friends at the Wiener Circle on Sunday. I'm going to be part of their podcast. I don't know when they're going to produce it, when it's going to air, but I'm going to be part of their podcast, slash TV program or YouTube program, and I'm going to be a guest on the pod. I am then going to interview for a temporary job, and if I pass the interview, I'm going to be trained by Poochie herself. And then I'm going to put on an apron, and I'm going to work a shift at Wiener Circle.
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Matt
Very exciting. So you're not doing wiener counseling, you're doing.
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Dan Bernstein
No, no.
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Matt
I.
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Dan Bernstein
However. However, I believe Poochie is a certified wiener counselor as well, because I know. Because I know exactly what she would tell Mike Vrabel, and I think that'd be the best counseling that. That Mike Vrabel could possibly get is you. I think you can imagine exactly what Poochie would say to him.
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Matt
It would be a little. Little more vibrant, but something along the lines of, you know, keep your wiener in your bun.
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Dan Bernstein
I think. I think it would be along the lines of zip your pants, big fella. But I think there would be some. Some rebald modifiers in there. So have fun with that, as it were. Circle.
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Matt
That's going to be a good.
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Dan Bernstein
I cannot wait. I cannot wait. I. I just. I. There's some known unknowns. It's the unknown unknowns that have me a bit frightened. But if. If you feel like stopping on by at Wiener Circle, I. Whenever. Whenever it is sometime early afternoon Sunday, I'm gonna be there.
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Matt
Come on by and see D.B.
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Dan Bernstein
yeah, come on by. Come on, come on. Roll on up.
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Matt
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Char Burger.
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Matt
Saturday. Saturday, Sunday, I'll be so 12. You will be at Romeoville High School on Saturday for a tournament. 13U is at the Inwood Sports Complex. And then Sunday, they're both at Inwood. So if you're. If you got a kid in a tournament, come on out. Look for the Slammers organization. Come on by and say hello.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, there it is. That's our weekend plan. And we will be right back at it on Monday. This has been Dan Bernstein Unfiltered on 312 Sports, brought to you by Chicago Window Guys, 847-302-9171. And check out Russ Armstrong's five star reviews at ChicagoNowDownGuys.com and in partnership with my bookie, Dan Bernstein, unfiltered. Unfiltered on 312 Sports.