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Chicago. This is your morning routine. Listen to this. Capp and G hood. That's right. That's right. We're bad. Uh huh. Watch the show on Twitch. Follow ESPN 1000 Chicago. Stream the show on the ESPN Chicago app and on in there. 100.3 HD2 and on ESPN 1000 Chicago. No. No. No. No. David Kaplan and Jonathan Hood. Good morning everyone. Bring them out. Bring them out. ♪ Bring 'em out, woo ♪ ♪ Bring 'em out, bring 'em out ♪ ♪ Bring 'em out, bring 'em out ♪ ♪ Bring 'em out, bring 'em out ♪ ♪ Bring 'em out, bring 'em out ♪ ♪ Woo, woo, woo ♪ - Good morning, welcome in the Jhood Show on ESPN 1000. I'm David Kaplan, hoodie has today off of being tomorrow and guess who's my co-pilot today? He is the most negative man in Chicago sports. His name is Nick Friedel, our guy, he is here. We'll get into some of Nick's self-loathing all morning as we prepared the show. Shayne Orling is the executive producer. Jay Moore's at the controls. I'm capped 3-1-2-3-3-2-3-7-7-6. So Shayne comes in as he does every morning. We says, all right, let's got this, this, this, this, I have my notes and Nick's like, no, I don't like that. I don't like that and the Cubs are this and the Bulls are that, you ever gonna be happy? - Chicago sports has prepped me for a life of misery cap, especially from a distance. As I watch all this unfold, I think, the bears are this city's only hope for a long time and maybe it can turn around. Maybe they finally have all the pieces in place and they've got the right quarterback at the helm. But I have so many questions that I wanna get into with you and there's a reason I feel the way I do because none of these teams are run well. Always, always, always go back to who is running the show and how that show is being run. And you can usually find the answers in pro sports. I have said repeatedly and this ties into the negativeness that seems to always drive you crazy. The town in America that has the worst ownership in pro sports right here, Chicago, Illinois. - So you don't like the addition of Esauk Paratus? - I'm very, very proud of you for nailing that name on the first time right there. - Esauk Paratus. - I think it's gonna be okay, but after the way all these other moves have played out the last few years, I'm skeptical at best. I think he's a better version of what they were looking for, a safer version of Morrell. And maybe he turns into the player that they need him to be a third base. He's under team control for the next few years. It makes sense, but Cap, why as a die hard Cubs fan, should I feel good about any of this stuff? Why should I have the trust that I had 10 years ago with this front office and with ownership to a lesser degree? Explain that part to me with this move and any other moves that are forthcoming in the next 24 hours. - It all sucks. (laughing) - Bingo. - Let me just read you something. Esauk Paratus is sixth among all third baseman in F-War. He's fourth tied among all third baseman in baseball and what weighted runs created plus. He is third in baseball among all third baseman in OBP. He is first in walk percentage. He is sixth best in strikeout percentage. He is a walk to strikeout ratio first in all of baseball. Ground ball percentage, he is first in all of baseball. Fly ball percentage, he is best in all of baseball. - Great cap and I can't wait to see him do it at Wrigley day after day after day. But I got caught as soon as that deal went down on the first two thoughts in my head were, oh my God, what are the rays gonna do to unlock Morrell? Because he was the guy that so many people here were like, he is the man who's gonna be the next star of this team. How many times were you and I texting in the last year and a half? Morrell, oh he's got it. He's got that aura about him. Well, he can't hit and he's not a very good fielder. That's a problem. But the first thought of my head was, uh oh, what are the rays know the jet and the cubs don't? And my second and this ties into many themes that we'll get into today is when you're trading with the rays for a basketball analogy, it's like trading with the thunder. That is not something you usually wanna do because the Rays track record is, we're gonna find guys that you've never heard of or that you don't know a lot about or who have been thrown off by other teams and we're going to rehabilitate their game and we're gonna make them a lot better. And it's why teams in the NBA don't like dealing with Sam Presti because he has that track record in Oklahoma City and it's why as soon as it went down, as soon as it went down, I went, uh oh, why in the world are the Rays this high? Morrell in on top of it, the two prospects that are also going to Tampa Bay. - First of all, first of all, let me just tell you, Jose Bautista, the Rays let him go for 50 grand. He turned in to be a hell of a player, hell of a player. They traded a bunch of different, in their history, they've made bad deals too and they've made a lot of good ones, a lot of good ones. They're a really well-run franchise. They can't afford Esauk Paratus, they cannot. He's got three more years of arbitration, his money's gonna keep going up and they don't have it. So the Yankees and the Dodgers, according to multiple reports yesterday morning, were engaged in a bidding war and Jed rolled in and said, "Hang on." - Because, because when you think bidding war, immediately you think Chicago Cubs. Good for Jed and cap, this is a problem for me as a fan. I still wanna believe in Jed. I know what he did with BO to get that team across the line, but that was eight years ago at this point. I have lost faith. You know where I stand on Ricketts? I don't believe that the money has always been spent all the way with the ownership group, but with Jed, what this deal told me was, he's not going anywhere right now. - He's not. - And everybody needs to stop thinking about that because clearly Ricketts is allowing him to try to remake this on the fly. What concerns me is, all these guys have deals that are on the books. And I know they're gonna have 80 million in space next year with the deals that are coming off, with the deals that are on there. Nobody really excites you that much. So for Paredes, I think he can be a solid player, but on the surface, what I also think now as a fan is, well, he's gonna fit in with the rest of the number seven hitters in this lineup right now. - So, Craig Council was a huge acquisition in the off season. It was supposed to be. - He was a huge acquisition. - But I'm saying, he has improvement to be. So is Dan's me Swanson. And I mean, he's terrible in year two. - Okay, but Craig Council, as Jim Bowden said to me the other day, the former GM, he said, well, let's see. You fell one game short of going to the playoffs with David Ross. You ostensibly upgraded with a guy that he thinks is among the best in the game. He said, and the team isn't as good. That tells you this is not a managerial problem. This is a roster problem. Craig Council was a solid upgrade. And they spent biggest contract in the history of baseball for a manager. 40 million bucks for that guy. 40 million dollars. - They spent the money, but the return on investment is in there. - But is that his fault or is that Jed's fault? - Well, I think, I think that it's absolutely Jed Hoyer in that front office's fault. But cap, this is the issue that I'm having is, why is it that nobody saw that this roster just wasn't that good? And how much of that is Jed, the front office, the player development part, and how much of it is Jed going to Rickett saying, "Hey, I need some more money for player A or player B." And Rickett's going, "Eh, you know, I don't know. We've given you your budget. This is what it is. I think that's what bothers me the most." - But let me ask you a question. Why does it always come down to, they don't spend enough, they spent 55 million more than anyone in their division and they're in last. - Now, okay, it's seven or nine. Our first division reference. Who cares about divisions anymore? - There's seven in all a baseball. There's more than enough to win there. - But divisions, who stop with the division stuff? It doesn't matter. They're playing everybody even more now every year. The division stuff doesn't matter. And this is the problem for me again, with Rickett. Rickett's is sitting there saying behind the scenes, "Oh, well, we've spent like way more than Milwaukee in St. Louis. Who cares?" - There's seven in all the baseball. I spend a lot more than a lot of people. - And they're spending a ton of money. I want them to spend as much as they possibly can. - And they worked out for the Mets last year. - It didn't work out great, but I don't want there to be any restrictions. And I feel like that's the problem with the Cubs is, "Hey, we'll spend," and they've proven, they'll spend money on a manager, they'll spend money on, "Hey, we could go down the list." Swanson, "But cap, there were four guys last year, and never do all free agent signings work out." But it was Turner, Correa, Swanson, Bogart. We agree that the Bogart's feeling it hasn't looked particularly good either. - He doesn't even play short anymore. - But the problem for me is, it was like those three guys went off the board, and the Cubs are sitting there going, "Well, I guess we'll spend money on somebody. Let's spend money on the cheapest guy of the four." And that has always been my point to you. It's not that the money's not there, they're not spending 'cause you're right. Seventh date, depending on the day. It's that I want them as a fan to never have money in question. And it always has felt with this ownership group while they've made plenty of right moves and they won the World Series and Theo was an incredible hire. It's always like, "Oh, no. I don't know if we can spend that much." I mean, go back few years ago, they gave away Darvish. That was all money. It was all financial. Ricketts is telling Jesse, "Oh, the losses are gonna be biblical." Well, guess what? The losses aren't biblical anymore. And my biggest source of frustration is that Ricketts and the Cubs, way before any of this Jed stuff and how bad the product is on the field, they got every single thing they wanted. They got the TV station. They got the ballpark renovation. They got all the area-- - Hold on, they paid for the ballpark renovation. - But they got everything around the ballpark. When you go to Wrigley now, it feels very corporate. It looks nice, but it does not feel anything like it did five, 10 years ago. All that money's going somewhere. All that beer money, all the hot dogs, all of that stuff. It's all going to a place that should be always pushed back into the team. And as a fan, I'm watching all this change and I'm going, "Sure, they've spent money." But I always believe they could spend more and I think that's part of why I don't have the faith anymore that Ricketts is the guy, although he's not gonna go anywhere. And I don't have the faith that Jed has the ability to turn things around and has the magic touch that his old boss used to have. - Three, one, two, three, three, two, three, seven, seven, six, so the Cubs trade Christopher Morrell and prospects for Itzak Paredes. Did you like the trade? Paredes played in the All-Star game? He actually is a former cub. He is a guy that the Cubs signed for $800,000 in 2015 out of Hermosillo, Mexico. Same year they signed Christopher Morrell internationally. And then they traded him with Jamer Candelario to the Tigers for Justin Wilson and Alex Avilla when they were in their window to try and repeat and it didn't work out. He then gets traded at Tampa, 31 home runs last year, All-Star performance this year and now he's a cub and they have control for 25, 26 and 27. So I would think they'll extend him. Either way he's gonna get paid a fortune through arbitration if he plays at the level that they've hoped to acquire him at. Three, one, two, three, three, two, three, seven, seven, six and then Garrett crochet through three innings. I think Fettie through four over the weekend. The trade deadline is tomorrow. We expect a very busy 24 and like 33 hours. What's his name? Chris Gatz didn't go to sleep. Did you say 24 Cap? I did. He can go to sleep in 33 hours and get some rest. With a road to 24 baby, you said it. They've got their second 14 game losing streak and my dear friend John Greenberg, I don't know if you know John from the athletic. I've heard of John. He had a great tweet yesterday. If you took away the two 14 game losing streaks, just wiped them off the records. The Sox would still have the worst record in baseball. That is so impressive. That is insane. The White Sox record right now is a robust 27 and 81. Three, one, two, three, three, two, three, seven, seven, six. More to come from the Cubs, maybe? A lot to come from the White Sox. We think, what do you think? Next. This is Cap and Jay Hood. They beat in the traffic commute. So you don't have to. That's it. No! Say again, say something now. Oh! On ESPN Chicago. Hoodie's got the day off. That means I get to work with my friend Nick Friedel. Three, one, two, three, three, two, three, seven, seven, six. The trade deadline tomorrow at five central. Five central, we will know who's still on the roster for both Chicago teams, who they've gotten, who they've gotten rid of. Yesterday, the Cubs made the first big deal for a Chicago team. They traded Christopher Morel and two prospects for Esauk Paratus. Did you like the trade? Three, one, two, three, three, two, three, seven, seven, six. Jim and Donner's Groves first. Hey, Jim, what's up, Sparky? Hey, Cap, how you guys doing this morning? Good, man. How are you? I'm doing well. I want to practice this by saying I'm a huge Cubs fan and I like the paratus trade. I like the future options and everything. So I'm optimistic with it. But my question is for the White Sox organization. Like with Crochette, talking about him getting traded and wanting a new contract plus his performance yesterday, how's that going to impact his trade value? I don't think yesterday hurts his trade value because his mind could not have been clear, razor sharp, ready to go ready. First of all, he looks and goes, man, we suck. And it feels like he's got to be perfect to win. That's A, B, I don't blame him at all. Saying, if I get traded, if you want me pitching in October, I've already got a way past career high innings. I've already come back from Tommy John once. You want me to risk that? You're going to pay me or I'm not pitching. I don't blame him to you. No, no, it's the same field cap that you have when a football player is holding out. If you're putting your body on the line, especially when you push yourself to the limit that it feels like Crochette is at already, I don't blame him. I don't either. Do you, Jim? No, not at all. But I'm feeling GMs are going to look at that and be like, OK, do we really want to mortgage the farm system and give up multiple top prospects with this guy? And then after $150 plus million to him, and then what if it doesn't work out? Well, that's the risk. So a team-- and we appreciate your call, man. Have a great week. Thanks for listening to the show. Look, if you are the Dodgers and you have-- they were the smart ones. They got their TV deal done several years ago before the court cutting became a real thing. And I think their deal was $7 billion. Their total value with their deal. Now, the stations out in LA regret it greatly every day. I remember interviewing the late Vin Scully after he had retired. He was promoting whatever it was. And I got him on and he said-- I said, so you said at home, watch the Dodgers. He goes, no, not really. I'm like, you don't watch the games. He said, my cable system doesn't get them. Yeah, Vin Scully. So they got the money, though. They got the money. The Cubs, from what I know, the marquee deal isn't the cash cow that they hoped it would be. And now, Xfinity is going to take not just here, everywhere. The regional channels are going to move off of basic cable, where Mont Pak Kettle get regional sports. And some of the money goes to the channel, even though they don't ever watch it. It's going to go to an increased tier where you want it. You're going to have to pay extra for it. Well, are you paying extra for a 27 and 81 baseball team? Are you paying extra for a hockey team that to this point-- I know they got Badard-- hasn't gotten to the playoffs in several years. And are you paying extra for a both team that has openly said we need to be in the top 10 worst teams? That's my question. Good luck to-- Would you like to be in sales for that channel? That would be easy. Elmo. It's a tough job. But, Cap, if the Cubs are struggling with the marquee point, what are all these other teams? Forget just the white Sox and the Bulls and the Black Sox. Yeah, how about the twins? The Timberwolves and they're a good team. That, from a distance, that is the story to me in sports that's not getting enough play right now. Shay, what did I tell you? That is the untold story that people don't realize. Nick said it exactly right. Yep. Yeah, but just bringing it back to crochet and setting the business up at a side, like I get, you might be concerned about giving him an extension. If you're a GM on a contending team, shouldn't you just ignore that? What is Garrett Crochet going to do? Say the Dodgers trade for him. He's going to walk into their clubhouse and look Freddy Freeman and Mookie Betts and Showe Otani's interpreter and all these people in the face and be like, yeah, guys, great to be here. Happy to be on a team that's going to make a run. But I'm not going to pitch the playoffs. Yes, and they would all support it, because they've all got their money. They might all support or they might understand it. You can't tell me it wouldn't be a little bit awkward. He gets traded to Philly. Oh, hey, Bryce, great to be here. Happy to be around talking to Zach Wheeler. I'm so happy I'm here. He's making $800,000. If he blows out, none of those guys are going to go. Hey, guys, let's take up a collection here. Here's $50 million for you, because you blew out of it. You're doing something I didn't think I was going to do it all today, and you're making me agree with the cap man. Dude, I can't see it 20, 30 years ago, 50 years ago, he walks into the clubhouse and guys go, oh, come on, man. You're not tough. You're going to sit out because you've thrown too many innings. Now in 2024, especially with the money that's being tossed around, I think those guys will be like, hey, man, can't wait to see you next year. It'll be fun. Good luck getting your deal. Right. I have a hard time believing these guys who are playing every day, trying to win a world series money aside. And every one of them's making multiple millions. Of course they are, but they're also all trying to win a world series. Like I just don't buy that the clubhouse vibe would be peachy cream if crochet walks into a team that's trying to win. And he's like, I'm not going to pitch in the bow seat. And he would say people might be a little pissed. People, not his teammates, they would understand. Hey, man, it's a business. This is a business. This is not a video game that you play 18 hours a day. This is a business. And if he blows his arm out again and gets another Tommy John, good luck trying to get another big, get a, any kind of contract. Get that. But you could have that conversation like five years ago for whoever is in the clubhouse that these teams, Bryce Harper went through arbitration years. Bryce Harper went through years with the Nationals, wouldn't pay him. He wasn't getting traded someplace and going, I'm not going to hit in the playoffs unless you give me an extension. These guys all played through the same thing crochets going through right now and earned their big deals. I don't think they would be all on board with him coming into the clubhouse. I disagree. He's not pitching in the playoffs. I disagree. And I think the Dodgers would know if we're giving up all the talent it takes to get him, we have to extend him. Period. Yeah, everybody's got to be on the same page no matter what. You're not making that move without it. Out after winning an MVP because the Red Sox wouldn't pay him. I don't know that he's suddenly going to be like, have a bunch of sympathy for a guy who doesn't want to play. Disagree. Disagree wholeheartedly. Garrett crochet. Here's his innings pitched in his four years in the big leagues. Six, 54 and a third, 12 and a two thirds, 114.1. Are you crazy? Well, no, the inning concern is actually a genuine one that GM should look at and ask the question, can he continue to produce with more innings? He's just turned 25 June 21st. I just think if you're an opposing GM, you call the bluff on, I'm not pitching in the playoffs. Okay, and guess what? If you're the opposing GM and you call the bluff and you give up three of your top five prospects to get Garrett crochet and he walks in and goes, just letting you know, I won't pitch out of your bullpen. Don't even ask. And I am not pitching in the postseason. Either talk to my agent or I'm not pitching. Period. That GM looks like an idiot. Or that GM pays him because he just gave up three prospects to get him. What he's saying, right? Pay me. You're going to make so much money in LA Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles. If I help you win the World Series, I need to have the risk taken away. So if he blows out, he goes, I got my money. The temperature in these locker rooms and clubhouses and pro sports has changed dramatically. Certainly. And I view it through the prism of the NBA, but all these guys want other guys to get paid. They understand the business. Totally. Both sports more than they ever have. And I think not only because the information is more readily available, but, Jay, going back to your point, they know the money that's involved. Right. I mean, the money is astronomical. And so I don't think there would be any issue with a guy saying, hey, I want to protect my arm. I want to protect my future. I want to get paid. If you pay me, I'll do what you want. 100% agree. 100%. Look at Caleb Williams' Twitter buy. You know what it says? I'm a business, comma, man. Not a businessman. I'm a business, man. And that's what these guys are. They're brands, they're businesses. Crochette knows, hey, man. I had to miss a whole year with Tommy John. If that happens again, it'll be a lot harder to get 125 million. Oh, yeah. And they signed Tyler Glass now in the off season on a trade. He said, if you're trading me to LA, you better extend me five for 125. And the money's there. And the money's there. So pay the guy. And I think the Dodgers and the Phillies would. But also it was interesting that all this came out last week. And then the Orioles traded for Zach Efland. That told me a lot of like, they're shutting the door on any player that they're going to need to pay money to. Because they struggle to make money. Like the Cubs were playing the Orioles. They swept the series, by the way. And the place was half empty. It's like, how could the Orioles not be drawing? The reckoning count of the half? Three quarters were cut there. The reckoning is coming. And it ties in. It is nice that we're having both these conversations through the crochet story. Because the reckoning with television in the haves and the have-nots and pro sports, it's coming and people faster than people would expect. And it's happening right before our eyes every day. A little more here is. Here is Craig Council on the Morrell trade. Yeah, I mean, it's always, you know, a little bit strange. I'm sure he's telling someone during the game that they've been traded. And, you know, it was certainly surprising and shocking to Chris. And he's providing co-stars with a lot of memories, for sure, even in a short time here. In the end, we think we got a third baseman who's been a really good offensive player in this league. And can do really well for us at that position. This is Council on adding that bat "Itzak" paratus to the lineup. Yeah, I mean, I think this is just a, you know, a good offensive player. You know, he's been a third baseman in this league for quite a couple of years now and done a good job over there. So we think we're, you know, adding just a solid third baseman. So they get a solid third baseman for the first time since Chris Bryant was here. By the way, he's on the side of Millcart in Denver. Holy cow. That's a very expensive Millcart, though. Wow. That's why it's not how much you spend, Nick. It's who you spend it on. We will always go back and forth on this. But Cap, I'd be remiss if as we're, as we're going through Esok Paratus, how many times I feel like all the Chicagoans out there are going to call them Isaac Paratus. Right. Isaac Paratus. Oh, go over. It's like the old days with the bulls that everybody kept saying, "Oh, Tom Thibodeau's here." And Tim's finally sits in with the PR staff during the summer, leading into that first season. And he's like, "Hey, uh, by the way, guys, it's Thibodeau." And they're all like, "What? It's Thibodeau." So let's try to hammer this pronunciation down. Eatsock Paratus. Bingo. Cap's nailed it. That is the man's name. That is what everybody should call him. Not, not Isaac. Not Paratus. Right. Let's remember this. Eatsock Paratus. I want you to know, Nick, you're pissing on the wind right now. We are going to get a lot of Isaac Paratus. It's not going to matter. Like, I know how it goes. I'm just trying to save everybody before it starts. Dude, we spent four months saying, "K. The Williams." Every single segment on this show, and we still got a guy to call up and say, "Kaleep." Oh, no. Right. He did. Kaleep. Oh, no. Kaleep. Yeah. Kaleep. There it is. Kaleep. All right. Problems with the offense. It bears camp over the weekend. And boy, the head coach certainly has changed the vibe he's given off. He looks like he's in control. Next. Time for shot or no shot. Brought to you by ESPN Betna Live in Illinois. Start up today. New users get $100 bonus bets. With any sports book Betna say, good morning, to Shay Winger, Norway. Good morning, boys. How are we doing? Who names gives a kid a middle name after Deborah Winger? Bette. It's not. It's a family name. Bette. We've been over this. Bette. It is not Deborah Winger related. Okay. Whatever you say. How are we feeling on a Monday? We're good, man. Good. What's going on? I've got close family friends, the Winger. So don't let him give you any crap. I'm telling you, this guy, he's ridiculous. All right. That's a lot of love. Let's get started, shot or no shot. An interesting story over the weekend. Bob Nightingale reporting a name as the potential next manager of the White Sox. A.J. Przinski. Nightingale reported Przinski as a "serious candidate for the White Sox managerial gig, assuming it feels like a certainty they move on from Pedro Grafol at the end of the season." Przinski has no managerial experience, but obviously had a stellar career on the field for the White Sox. So, shot or no shot. A.J. Przinski would be a good manager for the White Sox. Look, if they had a team that was ready to win, could A.J. do the job? Yeah, I like A.J. I've always had a very, very good relationship with A.J. I like him very much. A.J. taken over a team that's coming off the historically worst record in the history of baseball. I don't know how that would play out. He wasn't the easiest guy around the ballpark for the front office to deal with when he was here. Now, he's matured and he's really good at his media work. You're going to drop him in on a team that's going to finish up the track. Like, you're not going from, you know, 38 and whatever to, hey, they won 90 ball games during the playoff. That's not going to happen. They don't spend money like that. A.J. the answer here though, Kev, has to be shot because anything is better than Pedro Grafol. A.J. I don't disagree there. A.J. anybody. A.J. just drop Przinski in if he's terrible. Go to the next person. My question for everybody is why not you're going to run A.J. back. It's for an Aussie back. Why not just throw Aussie back in? He wouldn't take it. He wouldn't take it. No. Why would anybody want this job though? I think he's Aussie even said on the air because somebody went to their post-care pregame show, him and Chuck, and asked would Aussie take the job? And Aussie said I was in it last time and I think I'm done. His wife has said you're done. I do not want you managing. No, it's not what I signed up for. I'm done. We're going to be around the grandkids and we're not doing it. If you're the White Sox, it can't possibly be worse than this year. So who cares who it is? Just try somebody else out and see. Oh, they're going to fire Pedro. That's a guaranteed. Absolutely. But OK, Przinski or anybody else. Sure. Give him a year. It's what happens. It is the most embarrassing organization that there is. And the fact that Jerry said in that press conference that part of the reason he hired gets this because it would take so long for somebody else to learn the organization is one of the most laughable quotes in the history of Chicago sports. There you go. The fact that AJ ruffled feathers with the front office, am I crazy that that actually makes him a little bit more of an attractive candidate to me? I'm not talking about the baseball side of things. I understand what you're saying. But like I look at AJ and I see a guy who's been publicly critical of the owner. And historically ruffled feathers with people in that front office when he was a player like at least it would be a conflicting voice in the organization. They have been so inside the box. And so people who will like be respectful and do things the White Sox way. AJ feels like a break from that. I would at least like that they're going outside of their usual path with hiring. Yeah. Look, you'd have to pay him a significant amount of money to get him out of the broadcast booth. And again, I think he's really good at that. I just don't know what bringing him in here. Him in here does. If you're not going to spend big to try and turn the thing around. And they just don't do the biggest contract. White Sox history is Andrew Bennett tending for 75 million. And you think the Cubs are cheap? What is that team? Well, I lived it with their basketball team. So I've seen it. Nobody who has lived in this city or followed these teams is surprised by the issues that the White Sox continue to have. Because when you are run by the rhymes, they're historically not going to spend at the same level. And, Cap, I listen to you guys all the time. That always is what the White Sox problem seems to be. Hoodie says it over and over. It all leads back to money. They're not going to spend the same way. And if you're a fan of that team, why would you go out of your way to put the financial support behind them when you know it's not a two-way street? Nick, you actually led me to something interesting. You said they're the most embarrassing team there is. So an impromptu shot or no shot. Because we talk so much about the Oakland A's and how bad of an organization they are. But I was just reading in the last 106 seasons. The White Sox have won where they won a playoff series. One season in 106 tries that they've won a playoff series. Shot or no shot. The White Sox are the worst organization in baseball. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Do you mean the A's? The A's have won one players. The White Sox have one season where they won a playoff series in 106 years. They won three in 2005. That is the only season since 1917 where they won a playoff series. Okay, yeah, because the A's have won multiple world series. The White Sox are a complete joke. I think they're right on par. They're right on par with the A's. Wow, that is like I never like I know that they have won a lot in the post. That's stunning when you put it in those terms. 2005 is the only season since 1917 where they have won a playoff series. The only the only thing I'd say having having lived out there for a few years. John Fisher is completely ridiculous. The owner of the A's because he has actively tried to push them out of there. Like major league style. He wants them out. He's been trying to get them to Vegas. The one thing you can say about Jerry is that he's been loyal to Chicago, but it's at the detriment of the city because the way he runs these teams has not been conducive to winning over and over and over again decade after decade. Cheers. Unbelievable. Che. All right, Montez sweat had to be removed from bears practice this weekend after making contact with Caleb Williams. It's actually not the first time that he's done this. He made contact with Caleb, but previously in a camp practice stripping Caleb on a strip sack. And I guess the report was that he pointed to himself. He took some blame for it. He knew he shouldn't have done that, but he's living on the edge of these rules. He's going full board, giving seemingly close to maximum effort at camp. So shot or no shot. This is actually a good thing from onto sweat as long as he doesn't hurt anyone. I mean, again, are they going full bar trying to get to the quarterback and kill him? Probably not. So look, he's a stud. He's an outstanding football player, and they're lucky to have him. And lucky that they were able to get him extended for 98 million. So a good thing. Yes, and no, it's not that it's not that big a deal. He didn't crush the kid, meaning Caleb. But I think it's good for you. It was just that he got his his message across. But I don't think it's a big deal on the whole. I don't either. Shay. All right. Well, Ryan polls was featured in a damn weeder article detailing his plan for Caleb Williams, saying that he has to train Caleb to be more than just a quarterback. He has to train Caleb to be a CEO. Ryan polls said when he took a GM job, nobody trained him to be a GM. He had to figure that out. He had to learn to lead people. And he put quarterback in that same upper echelon of figureheads with the organization, saying you have an owner, you have a president, you have a general manager, you have a head coach, and then you have a quarterback. My question shot or no shot. Caleb Williams is more important to the franchise than all of those rules. Oh, man. Man, that's a shot because he's so, so important to everything going forward. But I've always believed the guy who picks all the players and puts the whole thing together is just about as important as anybody in the organization. Cap Shay, it's a shot because if you don't have the right quarterback, you have nothing. You can't win at any level of football without having the guy in place. And cap, it's what has scared me in listening to all the hype around this Bears team right now is because absolutely it's warranted. I watched Caleb Williams at USC. He looked awesome. But I don't know if that's going to translate. And I certainly don't know if it's going to translate right away. It might, and he might be that great immediately, but he might not be. I mean, everybody guys who have come through here with all the hype in the world, and they never were who everybody wanted them to be. So if you don't have a quarterback, you don't have anything, especially in the NFL, all the rules, they're great in theory and on paper, but they have to be in practice. And you've got to have the right guy pulling the trigger behind center. Agreed. But it's tough, man. Paul's Paul's has put this whole thing together. So they're both important. Shake. All right. The goodwill we talked about last week with hoodie of Nate Davis practicing in full to open camp. He showed up. He went full bore in the opening practice. That's all gone. Nate Davis is currently listed day to day. And Matt Iberflu spoke bluntly about the need for players who are available. Yeah. I mean, availability is everything right in this league. And so you got to be available to practice. You know, you got to be able to go through hard in terms of, you know, doing hard better during training camp. And that's all part of preparing for the first part of the season. You know, to be able to do that to call us yourself. You know, that's your individual responsibility to the football team. And you're not out there. Guess what? That doesn't happen. You know, so availability is important at every position. You know, and sometimes guys get injured and that's the way it goes. And there's some things you can do, but they have to get back as fast as possible. Because to me, there's a lot of competition on this roster. I might be reading into things, but that sounds like a very fed up version of Matt Iberflu who's kind of sick of dealing with Nate Davis always seeming to be on the sideline. Shot or no shot. Nate Davis is officially a cut candidate. I mean, to go from signing a $30 million deal before last season to a cut candidate, that's why you traded for Ryan Bates, which would put Coleman Shelton in at center. Does that put Connor Williams back in play as a free agent? Maybe? I'd say it's a shot because if he can't get back on a field, they can absolutely send a message. Shay, I also think it's a shot and I say that because when you start hearing a pro coach say, anything to the extent of availability is crucial and you've got to be out there. That is code for we are pissed off that this player is not out there practicing. We need to find a better way. And when that starts happening, you get the messaging from a front office or a coach in that regard. Uh oh, if you're the player. Yeah, no doubt about it. Uh oh, if you're the player 100% and the key is how he ended that statement when he says there's a lot of competition on this roster and cap just mentioned all the guys you brought in that have an opportunity when Nate Davis isn't playing. Well, if Nate Davis isn't going to be available and somebody wins his spot, what does it do you to keep this guy on the roster who you can't count on when you need him? That's where I start to wonder if they're really sick of this dude. Could you just cut bait? What is the cap ramification? There's got to be some type of a pretty good cap for him. Three for 30 uh cut post June 1st, they'd save a little over $600,000. Okay, so basically it's a non factor to your cap. Yeah, he's got 10.75 in dead money, but you actually save money against the cap. Just a very small amount by cutting him. Uh if over the cap what I'm looking at here is is correct. So yeah that he's definitely cut a bull. The next year, if you cut him, you get back 10 million. So maybe you just keep him his depth and then cut him in the off season. But that's probably what they do. They keep him now because there's no saving to it. And someone would pick him up in two seconds. Yeah. And then after the season, then that'll be all folks. Thanks. Get out. So there you go. You got one more or are we done? We're done. He's done. He preps to just a certain level. Three one two three three two three seven seven six. We'll go around the NFL. It's a staple here on the show. It's next. Welcome back. Welcome back to Captain Jay. I'm Chicago's conference for ESV in Chicago. It both sucks. These sucks. I'm just a fan. I'm not a football about you. I love the Green Bay Packers. The guy is wrong, but there we go. This is not Detroit, man. This is the Super Bowl. I love winter. He starts the comedy. This is a really thickly built guy. I mean, what's absolutely looking for all these things here? We do it every day. It's time to go around the NFL, the National Football League. Here's St. Northern. Big news over the weekend. A couple quarterbacks signed deals. Two attack of Ayloa signed a 212 million four year deal in Jordan Love. 220 million over four years. And listening in the afternoon, Carmen and Sylvie were on Friday reacting to this news. I felt like I was going nuts. Sylvie kept asking for nuance in the quarterback market. Am I crazy that nuance just shouldn't exist in the quarterback market because there are so few of them? And if you're a GM and you have a quarterback like Jordan Love or like Toa who has proven that they can play at a high level, get you to the playoffs and give you an opportunity to win, the replacement to that is garbage. If you don't keep this guy and you're going to have to pay them more than you want because of the nature of the market, you have nothing. You're forced into doing it, right? Like there should, there is no room for nuance in the quarterback market. It's one of the few spaces and sports where you just start stuck paying them. So are you telling me it's business? Yes. Garrett Crochet's waiting outside to beat your ass. Garrett Crochet's not expiring into in a year. No, no, it's business. It's business. You want to go try and win a championship? Pay the man the money that he has earned. Guess what? Or he says to you, I've gone way over my innings limit. Same thing with a quarterback. Jordan Love had them by the short hairs. And guess what? Should he have gotten 56 million after one year? Absolutely not. But guess what? That's the price of doing business. Same deal with the pitcher. Okay, but here's my here's my difference for you between an MLB pitcher and an NFL quarterback. If you don't get Garrett Crochet, you still have your fourth starter in the playoffs who might be like a four and a half ERA guy. If you're ball tonight, have to look up who it is. But if you're ball tomorrow, you'll live. Getting Garrett Crochet and not getting Garrett Crochet will not be the difference in you winning a World Series. Having a quarterback is the difference between you being a four-win team and a 12-win team. Still, you attain these businesses. And that's what they are, businesses. And if they're making that kind of money that they can give Jordan Love or Trevor Lawrence, guys who've done zero, the highest paid quarterbacks, none of them have ever won a Superball. None of them. Not one. But that's the cost of doing business. Correct. That is correct. It's the most important position in pro sports. Agree in any sport. All of them. Correct. Yeah, the highest paid quarterbacks, Joe Burrow, no Super Bowl, Jordan Love, no Super Bowl, Trevor Lawrence, to a golf, Herbert Lamar, Hertz, Murray, DeShawn Watson, Kirk Cousins. You got to go all the way through like 12 of these guys before you get the Patrick Momes. Right. Right. So Patrick Momes is 12th in quarterback pay. Now, that's probably going to change. I imagine a restructure is going to make his annual worth a little higher. But also, it does it bother anybody, the reporting on Jordan Love's now the league's highest paid quarterback. Well, he's not. The total contract value is less than a lot of these, certainly less than the homes. He has the most contract value. His average new money per year that they write this out as is 55 million. But in reality, he's got 150 million guaranteed and 75 of it paid as a signing bonus. So his actual annual average earnings is going to be 36 million short of DeShawn Watson. The way this whole thing gets reported is funny to me. And it feels like it's not a conspiracy, but definitely a way to make people forget that DeShawn Watson got paid, but he got paid and try to eliminate the fully guaranteed deal. Shay, welcome to the world of pro sports reported. These agents, but I know that you are very well versed in, but it's all about the agents and the spin game. I think it is a terrific point though to remind everybody just how atrocious said to Sean Watson deal is, but it ties into what we're all saying, which is the market for quarterbacks in the NFL is unlike anything we've ever seen in pro sports. And it's only going to evolve and gain even more money as time rolls along. Because if you don't have a quarterback, and it's what the Bears feel like they have now, everybody hopes they have now. If Caleb Williams is the guy, the Bears are set up for a decade. If he's not a big uh oh, and they've got to go all the way around again, the way we saw him with Trubisky a few years ago, and right back into the bad, bad times of being a team that doesn't have what it needs. Oh no. Big J more. Oh no. No, I don't say that man. No sad. Hey, we lived it. We did. You don't have the guy. You don't have anything. That's it. Che. Any concerns for the bangles, everybody's kind of penciled them in as being one of the best teams in the AFC with Joe Barrow back healthy, looking like a young Eminem. And there is for me a little concern. And I think the cart's been put in front of the horse here a bit. Joe Barrow returning from his second injury shortened season in four years. Is he going to be available the entire season? I don't know. And Jamar Chase and Trey Hendrickson still have not practiced for the bangles, amid contract disputes, Trey Hendrickson demanded a trade, said his intention is to be in Cincinnati, but they don't seem to want to pay him. And Jamar Chase isn't getting any reps with his quarterback because he's not getting paid. Is this really going to be the smooth sailing burrows healthy so they're back? The alert? Are you a little worried, Captain? I think it's absolutely an issue. It's so nice that there's none of this drama with the bears. No drama. Everybody's in camp. Everybody's jacked up. Let's go. Yeah, but you better enjoy the moment right now because it'll never be like this again. Right, Kate Keenan Allen's in the final year of his deal. You go out and let's let's assume, get wildly optimistic bears win 12 games. They make a run to the Super Bowl and maybe they don't win it. You're like, all right, here we go. I want to get paid. Well, I don't have that room on my cap. Bears have traded so and so and they've released this one. What? Yeah, that's what I think everybody needs to enjoy the moment for what it is right now because it'll never be this optimistic and the waters will never be this calm again with all the characters in play. Kate, your point about the bangles. Hell yeah, you should be worried. If you can't get everybody in camp and you can't find a rhythm, especially to start the season, that is a concern. But, and this is where there's a big difference where the bangles are and where the bears hope to be, the bangles know they have the guy in burrow. He's shown it. He's gotten him to a Super Bowl. He's gotten him within a couple minutes of winning it. They just don't have the rhythm before camp that the bears have at the moment, but how far is that going to take them right now? Yeah. The great, great question. Shake. Yeah, the cowboys. I want to cap your cowboys, in fact. Also having some issues, obviously, CD lamb holding out, but they really badly screwed up the deck press got thing. They they should have paid all these guys years previously. They should have had CD locked up. They should have had deck locked up. They should have had Michael Parsons locked up. And instead, they've waited out the clock on all of them. Now you have CD holding out of camp. Michael Parsons gets his deal, but deck press got a year ago. You could have locked up for a fraction of what you're going to end up having to pay him because not only did you wait too long in the contract window, you have waited too long in the actual off season where you needed to do it. Jared Goff got his deal. Tua got his deal. Jordan Love gets his. Trevor Lawrence gets his. You're the last guy to sign and you have the most accomplished quarterback of the bunch. You're screwed. Any agent worth their salt should sit down across from Jerry Jones and demand a $60 million a year payday. And then it is totally Jerry's fault. 100% Jerry's fault. There's no question. And the amazing thing is like if Caleb is that dude, like three years from now, they're going to be coming him going, you want to extend? Yeah, I need 80 million a year. I give you some more money. I can say it's coming. But he'd be worth it at that point. No question. If he's that good, 100% agree. But Shay, why is it that the Cowboys always screw up like this? Every time they have good players and they just want to wait the clock out and get the contracts done at midnight instead of figuring out your problems at 10 p.m. The with the anxiety goes up the letter you go to dress your issues. They are pro but they are homework procrastinators. Dude, it's crazy. I espower. It is insane. And for a guy like Jerry to be like, I'm an owner. I'm a GM. I'm a president. I'm all of these things. Well, then guess what? It's your fault when you don't get these things done. And now Dax got your entire organization over a barrel. If there if ever there was a team that didn't have a cash flow problem, though, it's the Dallas Cowboys. I'm saying they're going to be just fine no matter what. It makes no sense as much money as they make that they will not pay these guys when they should. They'll just print some more in the back and they've completely screwed this up with deck. If you pay him a year ago, you're paying him what? 48 million a year. And you're you're good. Now you're going to pay him 60. Put yourself in cap. Hell. And it's all your fault. Not good. All right. We have got our French baseball correspondent, Jesse Roger joins us. Next. Why is he French? I don't know. He's embarrassed for the Olympics. Ask his parents. We will get into what's going out with the Cubs and White Sox and the other big deals around baseball next.