Kap & J. Hood

7/26 7 AM: White Sox are close to 100 Loses!

Hour 1: The streak continues as the White Sox lose 11 in a row; will the White Sox lose 100 games? Former White Sox ace Dylan Cease gets his first No-Hitter, Chicago the worst sports city? Do the White Sox have to trade Garrett Crochet? And should Caleb Williams play in the Hall of Fame game?

Duration:: 43m
Broadcast on:: 26 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

(crunching) - Chicago. - This is your morning routine. - Listen to respect my name. - Cap and G hood. - That's right, that's right, we're bad. - Uh huh. - Watch the show on Twitch. Follow ESPN 1,000 Chicago. - Stream the show on the ESPN Chicago app. - And on in there. - 100.3 HD2. And on ESPN 1,000 Chicago. - No. - No, no, no, no. - David Kaplan and Jonathan Hood. - Good morning, everyone. - Bring 'em 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 ♪ ♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa ♪ - Oh, yeah. And welcome in to the Cap and G hood morning show. On ESPN 1,000 and we're streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. With David Kaplan, Jonathan Hood with you, we've got Jay. We have got Jay Moore, we've got you for a three hour ride here on this Friday morning with open phone line for you. 312-332-ESPN-332-3776 is our telephone number. And Cap, I will tell you at the beginning of the season when we knew this White Sox team wasn't gonna be any good, I gave you the reveal right here in the studio of which team I was gonna follow this year. And that was gonna be the San Diego Padres. You know, you could find me a lot spending time on vacation on the West Coast when I'm not on the show. And I said, I need a team that I could just be able to follow. It was not gonna be the White Sox this year, even though I'm a lifelong White Sox fan, you know that that fandom courches through my veins. But I just knew that this team would not be competitive to the point where this ball club's gonna lose more than a hundred games this season. So I gave you the reveal on Zip the Hoodie, bam, Padres. So, of course, I'm following him on a daily basis. - That was the best. - I mean, yeah, absolutely. So I'm following him on a daily basis. And Shea reminds us, hey, Washington and San Diego is taking place at National Park, Dylan C's got a no-hitter going. Oh, here we go. You turn it on and Dylan C's is able to get the second no-hitter in Padres history. His slider was unbelievable. They had such a tilt on it. It wasn't even about his fastball, it was a slider. And but I'm so proud as a White Sox fan to see a former White Sox pitcher, be able to get that job done and not worry about pitch count and ex-fip and all these other things. He goes, just give me the ball, Shilt. Move out of the way. I got it. And you got a no-hitter yesterday. - So I was up at Expresso with my son Brett. And he's like, dad, let's watch the White Sox game. We're gonna watch baseball. We love baseball together. - That's fine, but it's not, you gotta tell him, that's White Sox baseball, that ain't baseball. - And I had money on the Padres. I said to you yesterday, I'm betting the Padres. - Yeah, so I had money on the Padres. I said, you did say that. - I did. - 'Cause it was the first game on the slate. It was 11.05, and so I did the analytics that I had. And I'm like, Padres are gonna beat them. I didn't think they'd throw a no-hitter, but I said they're gonna beat him. So I look on my phone and I'm like, Brett, he's got a no-hitter in the sixth. Put it on, dad. And we put it on, set it up right there on the table, eating our omelettes, and we're not moving. We're gonna stay there till that thing ends. And here we go, ninth inning. And they show the bullpen. There's somebody warming up for the Padres. Dad, they can't take him out. I said, that's if somebody reaches base. If they give, he gives up a hit. If he gives up a hit, they will pull him then. 'Cause he's well over 100 pitches. But you could see his determination. There was no chance he was coming out of that game. And when they hit the ball the right field, first of all, you have that slider you're talking about with the tilt. - Oh my God. - He had one where it was spinning, but it ran away. I was like, what is that pitch? And they said, that's a different version of his slider. Exploded away. Got him, struck him out, swinging. And then they hit the fly ball the right and Brett and I are high-fiving. Some Padres and we're high-fiving. It was so cool. - Abrams to right field, Johnson coming in. He makes the catch. No hits for the Nets. Dylan sees throws a no-hitter. The second no-hitter in Padres history. There'll be a sea of San Diego celebrating back home today. - The great Don R. Sillo on the call. - Yeah, and sea of San Diego. I would have thought it's a San Diego one. - Remember in Anchorman, San Diegans. - I was super cool. - I was overjoyed to see that. And just be able to watch that live. I was like, there's my guy right there, Dylan sees. And as I put, I think I put it on threads or on X someplace. I said, you know what? That's the greatest White Sox highlight of the season. Even though he doesn't impeach for the White Sox. - It really was. Because you realize, you realize, Cap, that Dylan sees is a guy that still should be in a White Sox uniform with a contending team. You know that Chris Sale should be on this White Sox team being part like this old veteran that's still on the team. Getting the job done. Here's a guy here that has a betting favorite to win the Cy Young. The babyface assassin who I've called him, Ronaldo Lopez, a guy that was just sunk. Just a young pitcher. He said, ah, this guy just doesn't have it. bullpen arm at best. And look what he's doing now. He has made the All-Star game. Think about those three pitchers. Seas Sale Lopez. Now, yeah, that's part of woven in the fabric of the Chicago White Sox for years. And they're with other teams. Getting the job done. That stinks. But it just shows you the development is right, but there's always something where Chris Sale, the disconnect between he and Kenny Williams. What? How does Kenny Williams win that situation? I don't care if Sale has a bad bedside manner. That guy could pitch. That guy was solid for you. Same thing with Dylan Seas. There's no way he should be pitching for my Padres. Absolutely not. He should be right there in the mix with a contending White Sox team. Lopez, young player, what do you say all the time? Don't give up on young players. Look what he's doing right now. So it just shows you that it doesn't matter if you get to a certain level. The White Sox are not a serious organization in which you have certain talent and there's a threshold. Kind of like the A's. You get to a certain level. Yeah, we can't pay him. We gotta let him go. That's not right. It is Chicago after all. But imagine if you had paid, as you said, cease and Garrett crochet. And you've got some young arms coming and you just draft them. You had the makings of putting together a pretty damn good rotation. I mean, I'm not telling you you got to go pay one. So they'll show Hayo Tani and Yasha Nobu Yamamoto. But my god to be this bad. See, look how good you had it though with a cease. You got him at his apex. And then now look at him now. That's a guy that still should be with the White Sox. Now I'm not one of these guys, Kevin, if you know me. I'm not one of these guys like, boy, you know, I wish, I wish, I wish, because you got to keep moving forward. You can't look backwards if you're going to move forward as an organization. But yet the organization's moving backwards. What I'm saying is that a guy like Dylan Cease, throws a no hitter yesterday. His stuff, there was a time when he was at the White Sox. I would say on the air, the only guy that doesn't know he's got good, that he's got good stuff is Dylan Cease. He's the only guy on the ballpark that didn't trust his stuff. As he grew in mature, he got better. Similar to Maddox when he first got here. Yes, Maddox had good wipeout stuff. But he was six and 18 his first full year. Yeah. And, well, I don't know about this guys, what people were saying. And I remember talking to somebody over at Riggly, they said, you could just watch this kid pitch and just need seasoning, it needs time. Right. You don't give up on young kids and sell low. You don't. And so it's going to come back again, Cap, with another cornerstone that could be for your franchise for the next 10 years in Garrett Crochet. The story is unusual in itself. In that he gets the ball at the last minute is like, look around here, who could be the opening day starter? Garrett, you do it. Me? Right. I've never done that. I've never done that. What? I was shocked, he said. Yeah. Here, take the ball. And look what he's done with it though, Cap. On a horrible team. Move the one loss record and some of the other numbers that seem inflated aside. That guy's doing work. And the White Sox have babyed him throughout all this. A guy that can give you six plus probably every start, but they're saving the arm for someone else. Okay, so now he is making it more difficult. He has requests. Now he's not a five and 10 guy. Five and 10 means five years with the same team. 10 in the big leagues, you can veto any trade. Kyle Hendricks has that. He doesn't have that. He's a baby. He doesn't have a no trade clause. They could literally trade him to wherever. And he has nothing he could say about it. Except he can have requirements. If you want me to keep pitching way beyond the number of innings I've ever thrown, here's what I want. And he's got a list. Good for him. And if people over at the White Sox don't like it because he's going to make it more difficult on him and we'll get into those requests too bad. It's a freaking business. This is this kid's life. Yeah. If he blows out again, he's already had a Tommy John and doesn't get the money. What are they going to say then when he's working at FedEx? Going, I didn't ever get paid. Yeah. Damn. You got to think about your future. His future, I don't know if he's married, but if he's got a wife, if he's got kids, that's who he's got to be loyal to. Pitch your ass off and be a great teammate for the Chicago White Sox. And they've been good to him. But guess what? Either you pay him or you trade him somewhere that someone does because this is this kid's life. I'm all about Garrett Crochet getting taken care of. One way or the other, and it won't happen with this franchise, unfortunately. We've already went through the names of Lopez, and Sale, and Sees. And this is not one of those hindsight things, Cap. It's really-- it's right in front of you when it comes to Dylan Sees. It's not hindsight. The guy was pitching at a top level. The guy was at the top of the American League-- let alone Major League Baseball. And he said, now, we're good. Do you know how frustrating that is when you're in a big market like this one, my hometown, and you can't hold on to your talent because, well, money? What Ben and Tendi is at the very top of all the money that you've spent on one player for one contract. That tells you all you need to know. If I wanted to live in Oakland, I'd find myself an A's Cap, and just walk around and green and gold every day. That's not what we are, Cap. Because, again, in this city, that's not good enough. It's just not. It's not good enough in LA. It's not good enough in New York. The idea that we're going to go through this again with Crochet, a guy that is, again, could be the face of your franchise. And you're just going to move on? You don't have any cornerstones. And that's a major problem. So, as I do every day after I get off the air with you, you and I walk to the garage together. I drive over to the gym. I park the car, pay my parking, and then I go on a four-mile walk before I work out. And I'm walking through the city, and I'm going across the bridge on Michigan to Wacker. And I'm looking up the river on both. I'm like, what a great-looking city this is. And then it struck me. Carm's tweet about how pathetic in 2024 our four teams are. Hawks, Bulls, Cubs, White Sox. And I cut a little video and said, are we still one of the best sports cities in America? I argue with you, we're not. It's my freakin' hometown like yours. The White Sox may end up with the worst record in the history of baseball. The Cubs spent 200 and almost 30 million to run out of dead-glass place team in the NL Central. The Bulls, they're a train wreck. And the Blackhawks, they're irrelevant right now. They have Connor Bedard, but they are not even a playoff team. - They're on their way. - I hope, I hope, but we're there at today. It's embarrassing. - Yep. - You know what I always say, best sports city in America. 'Cause we have great fans here, everyone's passionate. Our owners do not treat our fan base like they wanna be the best in each sport. - We just wanna play big games in September. We just wanna be a contender. - No, I wanna hear you say, I wanna win a freaking championship again. None of them say that, why? - It's not just recent. This has been a problem for decades. - Right. - You know, it was hard for Jim Henry to say on the record that you're trying to win a World Series. Wouldn't say it. - Seriously, not on the record he didn't? It was hard for Jim to say our goal is to win the World Series. - But it was more Ed Lynch before him. - Still? - Yeah. - Well, Ed didn't say it either. - Ed would never say it. - No. - Jim made it clear that's what his goal was, but it's just embarrassing that we have this world-class city. I know we've got our issues, but it's a world-class city with so many great fans. And not one owner has called the press conference and said, okay, I just want my fan base to know this. It's unacceptable that we're in dead last in the NL Central. I would love to have Tom Rickets do that. It's unacceptable. And I am gonna hold people accountable here. And we're going to get this thing fixed because it's not about resources. We've spent plenty of money around here. We've got great facilities around here. We've paid a billion dollars to upgrade Wrigley, the locker rooms, everything. And that's what we're getting, unacceptable, and I'm as angry as you fans are. How come you don't do that? - Well, the reason why it doesn't happen across the board in Chicago's sports cap is because it's hard to be able to relate to the fan base when you're looking through the tinted windows of your limo. That's why there's a disconnect there between us and them. It certainly is. I don't care if they sit amongst us like in the good seats along the fans, but mentally and from a business standpoint, there's a divide. There's a disconnect. The fans don't know the business operation of what we're trying to do. They don't know. We are more privy now than we ever have been before about what happens in the front offices of all of these sports teams. It's wide open now. It used to be through columns. This before getting into the business, it's through columns. You hear rumor in your window, but there's always going to be that divide. We're going to do what's best for business. And then you have to take it because you're a fan. Where are you going? That's the arrogance that's there between fan base and ownership. Hard for you to relate when I can't see you through my tinted windows in the back of the limo. Yeah, I just, you don't, you don't, you don't agree. Okay, you're right. No matter what owners will tell you, you know them, you can have access to them. But mentally, there's always going to be, they'll come back. I don't want an owner who to educate me on the finances of the team. I'm not expecting the White Sox to sign Show Hay Otani. I was not. I didn't, I was hopeful the Cubs would, didn't think they would. Turned out they had no chance. I get there are some financial restrictions. I get it. I understand that. But I want to hear somebody speak. I'm talking about with passion, with fire. You know what? I'm hurting just like you are out there and I'm going to leave no stone unturned to do the best we can within the limit of our resources to fix a dead last team on the north side. That should never happen again. And heads will roll. I'm putting everyone on notice if it doesn't get fixed this winter, period. It'll never happen. And if it does happen, it'll never show. They never want to be that close to you, the fan. Not that close. But they should. Because that's why they originally got into it. Oh no. They were fans. Jerry has talked openly about growing up a Brooklyn Dodgers fan before he moved to Chicago, go to law school and how much he loves baseball and how he traded his Bulls championships for another White Sox championship. Tom Ricketts met his wife in the bleachers and was going to games when he was studying at University of Chicago. Like these guys have openly, Rocky's talked about or the late Rocky talked about growing up a kid with his dad owning the Hawks and being at the games and knowing the players and loving the team. And he said, he didn't sit in the skybox. Rocky sat in the seats until the day he died. Well, I want that. I want that patching. I want someone to hold everyone freaking accountable and nobody does it. And it's so easy. If you had an owner that came out and said, hey, there's a press conference at Wrigley. So and so is going to speak and be poured his heart out. This is unacceptable. And I'm going to show you, I'm going to get it fixed. And if the guys I have who I love can't get it fixed. I'll find new guys, period. Every person in town would be like, okay, that's what I've been waiting for. - And you don't get anyone like that across the board anymore. Not since the late George Steinbrenner. - The Golden State guy you do. - Well, it's still business. It's still business. He says he wants to win. He's maniacal about winning. That's fine. But it does not relate to the fan. We're saying, I feel how you feel fans. It's about business. Remember, Cap, it's about business first. I mean, you would think that we'd be up there with, you know, with the priorities. We're not up there with the priorities. The passion comes from the closed doors when it comes to how much revenue is coming in. And or revenue that's not coming in. And how we can be better with that. Then it's about bread and circuses and fans. We're a distant second. And you know why? Look at the teams. Look at my Chicago White Sox. We're distant second. I would just love for Jerry Reinsdorf and for the ball club. The ball club. To be able to match the amenities and everything else that's around guaranteed rate. If the amenities, the food and the fun around guaranteed rate is top notch, how come the rest of the ball club isn't? - Right. - That's a major problem. - Like Brooks and his team, they do a great job in bringing good sponsors and whoever's in charge of the concession, the food of guaranteed rates outstanding. - That's top notch, but the ball club is not. But it would be like feeding spam. That's, yeah, I'd like a spam dog, please. I'll take a spam burger. That's all you got. - Damn. - Crap. - Spam dog, spam dog, yeah. Spam dog. - Right. - Yeah. - Spam dog. - Expired cracker jack, expired cracker. That's what the team is. - Hey, Powell, I'll take two. - Yeah. - Lemon chill. - No, lemon. Just chill. - Down to lemon chill. - Yeah. - I mean. - No, lemon chill. - Right. - I'll take four. - Tanks. - This beer says it expired in 2016. - Warm beer here. - Warm beer expired. That's what that team plays like. - That's ball club. - But why don't anybody, what? It's so easy. We're all sheep, man. Lead us. Just say, hey, guess what? I'm gonna get this thing fixed. Period. I'm putting you on notice. - Do the White Sox have to trade Garrett Crochet? Did they have to do it? We will discuss that coming up next. Cap and Jhood, weekday morning, seven to 10. - Cap and Jhood, I'm back. - Appreciate you guys. I listened to you streaming on ESPN 1000 apps. - Chicago's home for sports. ESPN Chicago. (upbeat music) - Cap and Jhood, weekday morning, seven to 10. Here on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. Shane Orling's road to 24 continues 'cause the Texas Rangers swept out the White Sox. Rangers win as the Sox are now 27 and 78 on the season. But the bigger story is about Garrett Crochet and the ace for the Chicago White Sox and he was all star this year and rightfully so. He has been spectacular. But as we mentioned in the previous segment, Dylan Sees and Chris Sale and Ronaldo Lopez, they've all been part of the White Sox and they've been very, very good with the Sox and now they're with other teams. And Garrett Crochet, by the time we get to the deadline cap, could be another White Sox picture that's going someplace else. I understand the thought process in this building and around the Sox fandom, they're saying, not again. You can't trade this guy, you can't. But here's the thing, that's the reality. The ownership is not going to change. When it comes to Garrett Crochet, a guy that could probably get paid handsomely by a lot of teams because of his prowess, here's the bottom line. Joey Reisner is not going to pay him the money that he's worth, he's not. And so I'd rather for him to go someplace else and to be able to get assets, rather than to go with a push and pull and this whole thing of Crochet, not getting paid. Look, he's not going to get paid here. Even though that we're in Chicago, it's Rockford when it comes to the White Sox and the way they handle their payroll. And so if he goes as a Sox fan, if he goes someplace else, I get it, I don't like it, but that's exactly what the reality is. - So I have my guys working on some audio I recorded with Jim Bowden after I did the Cubs podcast on YouTube. We're asked him three White Sox questions. So when I get that, Jamero, get those cut up, we'll play him. But Jim's opinion, and you'll hear it for yourself, was there is no scenario you can keep Garrett Crochet, and if you could extend him, none. Because he does not believe the Sox will contend in a foreseeable future. In his opinion, he's got an informed opinion, he was a GM for 16 years. He believes you have to trade him and get a haul back and he goes, and you will haul back, there you go. He said, you will get a lot for this guy. He would trade him to Baltimore. But now that Garrett is saying, I'm not going anywhere and pitching in the postseason unless you extend me. So you can trade me, I can't stop that, but I will not be available to you in October if you don't extend my contract. And I support what he's doing. Don't tell me he's a bad, I don't mean you, but anybody. Don't tell me he's a bad teammate. He's got to look out for himself, it's a business. You want me to help you make tens of millions of dollars and win a World Series and you're not going to pay me? And I get hurt and you go, oh well, sorry. Thanks. No, it's actually a good business on his part because it's like he wants to stay with the white Sox, but ultimately the Sox could get themselves some minor league talent and if he goes someplace else cap, he wants to be assured that he'll be with that ball club and get paid handsomely. Correct. And so this is why it's a tough spot for Chris Getz. Which team will want to not only have crochet for the long haul, but also pay him what he's worth because he's the hot commodity right now. He's one of them, that is for sure. He is 100%. I wonder which team that would be? That would pay him? The Dodgers absolutely would pay him 1,000%. Houston reportedly would pay him. I'm not sure what Baltimore would do because they have Corbin Burns who's going to be a free agent, he's their ace. He's one of Cy Young with Milwaukee. He wants 300 million. There's a big difference to being Garrett Crochet reportedly wanting the Tyler Glass now deal, five for 125, but he's also nowhere near as accomplished as Corbin Burns. He guards in his first year as a full-time starter. Corbin Burns is one of freaking Cy Young, man. Listen, to White Sox fans and my White Sox friends that are listening to the show, I understand your frustration. I totally understand it because you say, well, if you're going to rebuild this thing, you got to start with someone. Well, clearly it's not going to be crochet because that's going to pay him. That's not going to be Luis Robert who's been around for a while. That's not a loy. By the way, restaurant quality at Bette by a loy yesterday, by the way, at the last game. Nice job just looking at pitches in the clutch. Good spot. How about the sucks? Did you watch the whole thing? Watch it enough of it. Did you see when he gets thrown out at seconds? Oh, yeah. And even, I love Len Casper and Darren. And they both said, hey man, if you're going to try and stretch a ball into a double, DJ said, you got to be running from the moment the ball hits the bat. Yeah, he does not do that. And he comes jogging, oh God, I can get the sack out. Great throw. See you later, thanks for coming. And but again, on top of that, the cherry on the crap Sunday is no real accountability. No, no real accountability because you're up the track, you're in the mud, you're 27 and 78. And it's like, ah, another bad play. Another bad. You can have a highlight reel of horrible plays by the White Sox this year. But when you are this bad, this is what happens. Bad baseball, bad base running, bad fundamentals. It's all there. It's all there for you. Then you have a highlight reel of just horrible play by the White Sox under Pedro Grafalle. When each game, Pedro Grafalle just amends his legacy of never being a manager in this game again. Oh, he'll never ever again. Never. Let alone a bench coach. What do you mean, he gets a bench coach job, right? What is he going to tell a young manager, you? What are you going to tell him? You're right. If I'm a manager, I look over like, you mean that ragtag group you have with the White Sox that was an embarrassment to baseball? What are you going to tell me? What advice? What salient advice could you tell me? Seriously? It's more than I don't have the horses. It's just that you don't instill anything in these players. And the players couldn't care less also. So it's just a witch's brew of just bad. Players don't care. Manager is bad. And so this is what you get on a nightly basis. No surprise. No surprise. But to the White Sox fans who are listening cap, I understand that they're like, wait, man, we got to start someplace. Who's going to be the guy? They don't have any cornerstones when crochet is gone. There are no guys. I mean, like I said, I like Corey Lee. Corey Lee on a good team is a backup catcher, not a starter. On this team is a starter. You don't have anybody. You thought I was crazy when I said that this ball club will not contend until after 2030 cap. You have to rebuild the minor league system and the major league system. And you're going to do it with a low payroll. You're hoping that you can be at least as good as the guardians or the twins at this spot. Wait until you hear what Jim Bowden says. I called you as soon as he said it. Did I not? Yeah. I'm like, hoodie, you got to hear this. So we'll get that audio up for you as soon as we can. I mean, you think that just I'm joking around. I just know that and listen, your baseball guy, you understand that if you don't have the wherewithal or not willing to spend, that means you have to grow your minor league system and hope that in three to five years, those players can be something and that trade them off and sell them off for parts. And then at that point, you're hoping to be a contender is 2024. That'll be all for this decade. That'll be all cap, but it's really, really, pathetically sad it is. So three, one, two, three, two ESPN, three, two, three, seven, seven, six is our telephone number. We'll keep our eyes on crochet because that's from the John Heyman piece, right? John Heyman. Correct. Put it out there about crochet saying, Hey, I got some demands here. And rightfully so rightfully so rightfully so again, the deadlines right around the corner, and we don't think that crochet is going to be around. And so so I'm clear, Shay, he's in the Seattle series. He's still slated right for this this weekend. Yeah, I believe so. I don't think he's going to make that start. I don't think so unless there's, I mean, but it's a tough spot because there's parameters around what crochet wants. Who's going to want crochet and then pay for crochet? It sucks for me because I've been saying I'd like to get Baltimore's prospects here. But yeah, I mean, I feel like it totally removes Baltimore from the equation. They have a lot of young guys on their team that they're going to have to pay to huge extensions. And if they don't want to do that because historically they don't spend a ton of money, they might just hold on to their prospects and get more kicks at the can. And I don't know any teams that's trying to do the White Sox a favor, a solid. When you're a young GM, how many friends do you really have in the bigs? Can you do this for me? Can you just take them off our hands? Just get a couple of your prospects, please. Can we just do this? Let's sit down and figure this out. I don't know who gets knows. We'll see. Good luck. We are less than a week from the Hall of Fame game. Should Caleb Williams play in that first game in the Hall of Fame game? We'll discuss that coming up next shot or no shot at eight o'clock. Captain Jay Hood on Chicago's home for sports. Here's to Dave's headline headline with Captain Jay Hood. White Sox lost their 11th straight yesterday, 2-1 in Arlington. Max Scherzer passed Justin Burlander on the career strikeouts list in the game, striking out nine White Sox hitters. He moves to 10th on the all-time list, Sox fall to a season worst, 27 and 78, 51, under 500. They started a weekend series that guaranteed rate with Seattle tonight, who last night acquired Randy Arosarina, the slugger from the Tampa Bay Rays, pregame 630 on ESPN 1000 with a great Connor McKnight. What did you say several years ago arguing with Carmen and York about Arosarina? Remember that? A rub shares in the seventh floor, he said, "You really like this kid." Correct. Ah, he's just one off, just a... Remember Carm yelling at me? Yeah. Who? Yeah. He was all over, man. Say that. The kid's going to be a really good player, man, and they're going to end up moving him at some point. Why can't one of our teams go get that kid? Say that. Reports yesterday in the future of Garrett Crochet suggest the White Sox pitcher wants an extension from whatever team trade for him, or he will not pitch in the playoffs. The report also says Crochet is making it clear, "I want to be used only as a starter, not out of the bullpen." Cubs and Royals tonight after a day off yesterday, Kyle Hendricks gets the start in the series opener from Casey First Pitch at 710 in the Olympics start today, the opening ceremony set to begin 11 a.m. Central from Paris. Cheyborn. You're listening to Cappin' Jay Hood, follow the show on Instagram @thecappman and @ijjhood. This is ESPN Chicago, Chicago's home for sports. It's a Cappin' Jay Hood Morning Show on ESPN1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app with you till 10 o'clock, then Mike Greenberg comes in at 10, Black and Abdullah in for Carmen and Yurco from 12 to 3. Carmen and Sylvie together between 2.30 and 6.30, White Sox baseball against the Mariners at a 6.30 pregame right here on the home of the White Sox, ESPN1000. We've got shout-out and no shock, tell me away, 8 o'clock, who's hoping that you can have a great Friday and a great weekend. Here's a question to Matt Eberflus. Matt, what do you think your side is capable of playing the whole fan game? Yeah, here shortly, here shortly, we talked about it, had lengthy conversations about it during that personnel meeting, you know, I had it with the coordinators before that and I've been talking to Ryan, so we'll make a good decision here soon. Let me tell you something. It's not about me, Capp, as an individual Bears fan. It's about what's best for Caleb Williams. I just want him to get acclimated to the system as much as possible with live rounds, and I'm just using that phrase because we're talking about not taking on your own teammates, but we're just talking about the opposition that's trying to come for your throat, right? I'd like for him to get as many snaps as possible that makes him comfortable. He doesn't have to play a half, didn't have to play the entire game, but just a couple of series or a quarter for him to get comfortable. If it's not the first game, I expect him to play a good amount in the first half of the other three preseason games. That makes sense. If it's not the Texans game, the other ones, I'd like for him to at least play a quarter. Yeah, I'm cool if he doesn't play in the Texans game. They haven't been even in padded practices yet until today. So what are you going to put him in? I remember when Mitch was the starter in like 18. I think it was 18 the Bears played in the Hall of Fame game. He handed the ball off three times and put a baseball hat out. That was it. Okay. What are we doing there? So people could say he played. Now my question is, will hard knocks say, hey, we need him out there for at least three snaps? He can hand off, but we got to show him on the field. Yeah, I think a lot of this has to do with entertainment. Right. Put him out there. Sure. That could be. We'll see. But he's not going to be out there for a quarter or a half. Not going to happen. Some might be wondering why this is a topic. The reason why that this is a talking point is because you and I have been there before where you had a Matt Nagy putting the starting quarterback under a glass. Nope. He's fine. He's ready to go. And then they come out. Flaz a pancake. We just saw this recently. We just look forward to that packer game. Ah, 2019. I mean, just recently, new home for Chicago Bear. Here we go. Here we go. Here comes the boom and then flaz a pancake flat. You can't have that, man. You just want, but you might still not look good in the first regular season game. I guess my point is is that you don't want to be, I thought, like, wait, so where's my center? Is this my center? Okay. So where are my weapons? You shouldn't look like you haven't been under center before. It should feel comfortable at the very least. Correct. So you and I have been here before of not having your stars out there because you're so afraid of injury. Come on, man. I mean, what does Tom Brady say about live action? What has he said before? He's like, I got to get out there. And I have to get hit in the preseason to know I'm back. The season's back. I'm good. Seashay. This all comes from anticipation to see what Caleb Williams looks like versus what's right for the Chicago Bears. Now, as I said, to me, because there's four preseason games, I didn't necessarily have to see him against the Chiefs. Traditionally, as we remember, Cap, that fourth one, you see all the backups. This is for the 51st, 52nd choice on the roster in the practice squad. That's what it is. Usually, historically, you hardly saw any starters out there. You saw your third string quarterback, all right, get out there for half and then the other guys for a half, but you didn't see any starters out there. So how different is this? Is the real first preseason game really the bills? Is that the real if the first one because it's second one here, but if you don't see Caleb in the first team, is it really at the bills? Probably. Would you rather for kill Williams to start? I mean, this is Canton and then the bills and then they'll be at home, right? I guess the Bengals. And then they finish at the Chiefs? Is that right? Yeah. At the Chiefs. I could easily see Caleb do very, very little to nothing this week, play good amount against the bills, even more against the Bengals and sit the Chiefs game. Okay, you know, it's important that he's ready and the first team's ready. No question. We don't want the flat as a pancake. No, you know, like, oh my God, they're overwhelmed because you know what the storyline is going to be with this. It's happened very every year if the Bears are not playing their ones and you come out looking like that. It's like, well, what are you guys been doing? How come they did so the preseason does matter, I believe, not to the point we're playing for four quarters, but I think several series of not the entire first quarter is important. Agreed. Agreed. Not that you're talking about during the preseason just this week during the preseason. Yeah. Next Thursday. Very, very little. Very little for me. Some thoughts here from Javan Dexter because we got not only talk about the offense but the defense as well because it's interesting the conversation we have with Mark potash and go back to the ESPN Chicago app, click cap and Jhood and hear our conversation. Our first hour this time yesterday we're talking to Mark potash from the Sun Times who covers the Bears. Javan Dexter talked about the defense and the benefits of having Montes sweat on the team. Ron, you, I think having a guy like Montes in my room is like highlights that. You know what I mean? I get to see that in my room like two chairs, three chairs next to me. So having a guy like that that you can look to right there and he's at where you want to be at. That helps you as well. Coming out early, hot tub, cold tub, all of those little things that he does, if I see him doing something, I'm going to do the same thing because he's having the success that I want. Okay. So when he sees Montes sweat in the facility, in the hot tub, he gets in the hot tub. There he just said. Basically he's watching how a veteran takes care of his body, how the things he does to prep. I remember I was talking to somebody, I'm trying to remember who it was at Riggly. And he said, God, I didn't realize the pre-game routine. Some of the veterans go through where they get their super early, eat a little something, get in the weight room, get in the sauna, get in the steam, get a massage. Like it's like a two and a half hour deal to get ready to play one game and then do it all he was. And you do it all again tomorrow? No. After the game, I work out again. He said, it's a lifestyle to get your body right to get your body right, or you will not last. That's interesting. Yeah. So, so Shane, the Hall of Fame game from there from August 1st on will always have some kind of football on Thursdays through February, right, through the, through the Super Bowl. I think we're going to get football every Thursday, believe that's the case. That's unbelievable. It's like every, so starting with the Hall of Fame game, moving forward, we're going to get football every Thursday and then we shape or four. And then it's, they're at high level discussions to get this set for 18 games. Bring me a Friday night game. Let's go start my weekend with Friday night NFL in. Here's Shane Orley. Shane. I really, if it weren't on peacock, I would embrace it more. I would, I don't, I don't need Friday night NFL anyway, but did the fact that it's exclusively streaming on peacock really ticks me off. Who cares? Yeah. People who don't want to pay for peacock, and don't watch, and also, I won't use the thing though. Cappy is like the NFL, the playoff game, the cold weather game, Miami and Kansas City. That was exclusively streamed on peacock and was sold to us as a massive streaming victory. Had like a third of the audience of every other playoff game. Guess what? I watched it. I'm not worried. But the other two thirds of people didn't. Okay. Too bad. I don't, I don't wake up in the morning and go, Hey, Mindy, can I get a cup of coffee and what were the ratings last night? I enjoy it. I like care about, I don't care about the ratings. I care about the average fan that's not watching these games because the NFL is putting them in a place where they have to pay for it. Guess what? That's the way the world is now, man. You could scream from the high heavens, you're pissing in the wind. Sorry. I understand that. I'm just making the point. Just because it's how it is doesn't mean I have to like it. Neither one of you have to take the cheese. You have to understand Shay that cap is just tweaking you there. He doesn't really believe that. He is in the pocket of big television. That's what I'm understanding, hoodie. I retired from that. He's in the pocket of the NFL and big television. This guy supports corporate interests. I'm looking out for the common man and this guy is trying to ruin their lives. I'm a norling on C-SPAN from Capitol Hill with that comment. Exactly. It's very good. Now let's go to Fox News. Big Pharma is a problem in this country. That whole thing, Cap, you don't have to listen to him, Shay. He doesn't know. And besides, he's a baseball guy. He's not even the football that much. Let's just be honest. He's a Bears fan. The rest of the NFL is fine. No, no. He's a baseball man. I love the NFL. You don't love it. You're a baseball man. No, no. Everyone knows it. Baseball's first. But I love the NFL. College, it's a betting opportunity. It's okay. You guys are totally passionate about college football. I've told you before, baseball, the NFL, college basketball, the NHL, they're all there. I mean, college football's like sixth on the list. Horse racing's better than college football for me. But this guy will tell you, first and foremost, everything you need to know about the draft knows every bit about it. You said horse, right? Yeah. Just want to make sure. Yeah. And the draft? I read. I've watched the first round, and then I'm out. It's good to be able to watch the talent, too, though. College football's okay. That's your deal. That's Shay's deal. I'll let you guys have that. That's a sixth on the list for me. So that's it. Just being honest, I'll watch an Ohio State game or a big Georgia game. You think I'm going to be other than gambling, watching San Diego State Hawaii? No. No, no one really watches it, Cap. If it's at a bar, it's just on. No one's watching all four quarters. You're locked in in the hood cave. Who are you? Craping. Thank you very much, Smokey. Shout out. No shot comes your way to eight o'clock right here on cap and J.