Kap & J. Hood

7/22 7 AM: Buy, Sell or Hold?

Hour 1: Kap returns from vacation as the MLB trade deadline approaches, the major question for the Cubs is Buy, Sell or Hold? The Cubs are 48-53 and can't get their offense together. What moves do you think the Cubs should make and do you think they will make the playoffs?

Duration:: 45m
Broadcast on:: 22 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

"Chicago." "This is your morning routine." Listen to respect my name. "Cap and Chee Hood." That's right. That's right. We're bad. Uh-uh. "Watch the show on Twitch." "Follow ESPN 1000 Chicago." "Stream the show on the ESPN Chicago app." "Anon in there." "100.3 HD2." "Anon ESPN 1000 Chicago." 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." "Bring 'em out." "Woo!" "Woo!" "Woo!" Oh, God. Welcome in to the "Cap and Chee Hood" Morning Show. On ESPN 1000, and we are streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. With the returning David Kaplan, Jonathan Hood with you, we've got Che. We've got J-Moor. We've got you for a three hour ride on this Monday morning. What open phone lines for you? 3-1-2-3-2-E-S-P-N. Is our telephone number Cap? It's good to see you again, friend. Great to be back with you, my friend, at an awesome week off. Got a new dog. David, recognize you coming through the door. Why? I wasn't sure if it was you or me or J-Moor. The bronze God has walked in. Got a little color. I don't know. A little. A lot of sun. I was out on the water. My God. That was great. The sun loves you. And then some people go to the farmer's market and get vegetables, fruit, flowers, maybe a cookie or a pie. So, is that like a farmer's tan? No. I hit the shirt off. Okay. Okay. But we went to the farmer's market last week ago, Saturday. Yeah. Bought another dog. Mm. Golden Retriever. Golden Retriever. That's outstanding. You know, now you've got three dogs again. Yes. It's a three dog night for you again. Yes. So, what's the pooch's name? Maverick. I give you Captain Pete Mitchell. Call sign. Maverick. [applause] Stop the applause. [laughter] It's what? Maverick. Why is the dog's name Maverick? It's not because you're James Garner fan. It must be for another reason. Because my wife and I were walking through the farmer's market and there was a breeder set up there. He's like, this is our last litter for about a year. He's got something. He's got moving out of town for a while. And he had six puppies. We walked, put all of our fruits and vegetables in the car, came back to get some flowers. And he had three left. Two girls and a boy. My wife picked up the little boy. And he started licking my face. He's licking her face. She's like, what do you want to do? I said, hon, this is your call, not mine. She's been saying since Yoshi died, we are good with two. Okay. Your call. I just go to the house. It's your house. You run it. And -- You know, that's not true, but go ahead. She said, let's do it. I'm like, wow. Serious? She's like, let's do it. Now, here's what -- All right, sold. Now, there is a twist. There's a twist. You're the impulsive buyer. And she now, all of a sudden, said, let's do it. Right. How about that? Right. There's a switch. How about that? So, went home, got a check, paid him. Took, got in the car. It was hot. It was like 90 degrees. And poor dog had been in -- you know, this little wagon probably for four hours by the time we got it. And it handled by everybody coming through because he's adorable. Got him in the car, had the air conditioning cranked up. And she's like, what are we naming this dog? And I go, how about Maverick? She's like, that's awesome. Done. Oh, my God. Top-gun Maverick, baby. Do you have anything else on your mind besides that movie? I mean, my God, you talk about the one-trick dog, a one-trick pony in this scenario. Really? Do you have anything else on your mind besides Cubs baseball and Top-gun Maverick? You're making it seem like it is the greatest movie ever made. It's close. It's not. That'd be close. I actually started in a new show while I was gone. Yeah? Called Presumed Innocent. I heard about this. Oh, my goodness. Is that good? Again, let's go back to where we were, Squirrel. Back to the dog. Was there a dog in Presumed Innocent? No, but you said, is there anything else on my mind? Yeah, I got a new show I started. Okay, no. That's not where we're going. We need to talk about this name. I'm just saying, like, there's other names out there. You couldn't call the dog Rover? No. I'm throwing Rover. This was 1964. Benji? No. I'm throwing with Benji. Benji's a good name. Benji? No. It was a star on NBC. You remember the show? Yes. Maverick. Maverick. Maverick. Okay. I just need to know how the other dogs are handling Maverick because I think they're the dogs because you party play it every other day at your flat. I'm sure that there might be a little envy by the other dogs. I'm sure you're walking around the house talking about Maverick, Top Gun Maverick. Right. And now there's a dog named Maverick. So we're how the other dogs feel. Sparky and Stanley are handling it very, very well. They were right at the get-go. They were more sparky. He was like, "Who is this little intruder here who's very small?" And now he's been great with him. Great. Did you explain to the other two dogs that this is Maverick? Did you do the introduction? Yes. We did. God. Yep. Is that what you do as a dog owner? You're supposed to explain? You explain. Uh-huh. I want you to meet your new brother. Yes. Is that how you do that, Shay? If you were going to bring a second dog in, would you explain to your dog, "Hey, just so you know, we got somebody else coming in." Would you have a sit-down, an explanation, but get him a beer, have a conversation over dinner and a beer? Yes. Would you do that? Yeah, probably. You'd drink it out of the can and then the dog would drink it out of the bowl, of course. Correct. Yeah. If we brought a second dog home, there'd be the whole like, "It's ridiculous, man. The dog parent thing, but I've fallen into the trap." You would definitely have that. Your brother's here. Say hello to your brother. Meet your brother. Hang out. The brother. That's right. Thank you, Steven. Hey. Well, I doubt that seriously. What? I don't know. That would be the case. I thought my first dog's black. My brother. He's super cool, this dog. Super cool. And my other dogs are the greatest, so yeah, we're back to being a three dog night, baby. How about that? How about that? Shay puts it out there. His dog was black. He... Well, is it on or off? Damn. It's unbelievable. Well it's good that you're back in that you're happy now that you have a three dog home. Yes. I just think the name is ridiculous. The name is amazing. No, it's not amazing, Cap. It's not amazing. It's just that you're just on this one track, you're thinking that you saw the greatest movie ever. Because you can't... How many times you watch it? Thirty times? Or more than that. That's insane. Between Mindy and a friend. Way over that. That's insane. We thought maybe beekeeper. That's another great movie. The beekeeper. Mm-hmm. Jason Statham. Do not tell me you were going to name your dog after the beekeeper. No. It was Maverick, man, from the get-go. Beekeeper would have been a nice thing. Couldn't be her bee. Good day. Goodkeeper. So, all good, man. Anthony and Schumburg are on Cap and Jhood. Hey, Anthony. How's it going, guys? Hey. What's up, Anthony? I just want to let you know Maverick is an awesome name. That's the name of my great, uh, great name. Oh, you're the man. Yes. So exciting. For sure. For sure. I call him Mavi Boy. Yeah, we were calling him Mavi, but then my wife bought a training book. And now it's... You can't do that. Don't call him Mavi yet. He has to learn his name. Oh, all these different rules. Yes, yes. I agree with that. But after a year or so, you'll start saying it, uh, you know, another thing. I just want to say that was a great seventh inning stretch at this at the Schumburg Boomers game. And another thing, my kid won the 50/50 raffle with the tennis ball by making it into the blue barrel bucket at second base. Now, this is at the Schumburg Boomers game. Friday night, I was there. Yeah. Yeah. That was... That was a great time out there. Packed. They lead the league in attendance. It was packed. We did the anthem. How about the first pitch? But he'd have been proud. I was... I was late for that. Like down the middle, baby. Now surprise. Yeah. Not a surprise. Of course you did. And let me tell you, the Schumburg Boomers, they had some scarf giveaway for Harry Potter. Hmm. Timely. And it was lined up. I pulled up and I'm like, okay. They're not all here to see me throw out the first pitch and hear him saying, "What's going on here?" It was jam-packed. Well, you were part of the attraction. We've been talking about it for weeks here on the show. First of all, it's not surprising you threw it down the middle because it's not like you walked 30 miles beforehand and then threw it on the curve. What's in that? I knew, I mean, here's a guy that is a natural picture. Of course you threw it down the middle. We had fun. That's not surprising. We had fun. The singing though, I would ask the Schumburg Boomers to send us a copy here to ESPN 1000. I want to hear that. What'd that sound like? Oh God. Oh, it was stellar. That's right. That probably sound like an old door hinge. Yeah, it wasn't good. I want to hear what that sounds like if Schumburg Boomers, hey, you're a partner here, sending the sound. J-Moor. I'm sure they have it. J-Moor have your inbox ready. I want to hear your caps sing the seventh inning stretch. I would say that the pitch that you threw out was probably better. Yes, I would agree. Totally agree. You know, it's funny how the world works, right? Maverick is a cool name. Go ahead, J-Moor. ♪ Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack ♪ Oh, pretty good. That's naggy. Oh, that's a good job, Cap. In that naggy. Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack. ♪ Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack ♪ You know, it's funny about naggy. Naggy knew that he made the mistake or did not pronounce that properly. I don't know if you heard the aftermath of that. I did. He'd just like, yeah, it's just the accent. Right. It was peanuts. That's how he would say it from where he's from. Right. He's from Pennsylvania. Yes. So he knew what he said afterwards, like, yeah, I know. I was going to say, Cap, you know, this is how the world works. You can ask someone, hey, what do you think of that beautiful sun today on a beautiful day in Chicago? What sun? It's dark. It's a terrible day. Why is it terrible? It's a beautiful summer day in Chicago. Just like someone would say, I love the name Maverick. I love it. It's a cool name. Hey, Maverick. Some would say it's terrible. Some would say it's great. Jose and Berwin. Oh, yes. People 1000 Jose. Hey, guys. Good morning. I'm with Jay Hood. Maverick is a stupid name. It is so typical, man. I mean, I can't, are you going to be a great out of safe prosecutors since you're watching that show on an apple? Presumed innocent? Yeah. I bet you'd be a great state to 30 for Chicago, huh? That's all I gotta say. I'd have a great day. Yeah. Thanks, Jose. No, I will not be a prosecutor. See how the world works? First call says, what a great name. My great name's name, Maverick. Next call, what a stupid name. Right. The world. And one segment right there. Right there. Right there, Jay Moore. That's the world right there. Great name. Stupid name. Yeah. Exactly. It's a dog. Hey. It's my dog. Going up on the pole now. Good name. Well, we know that works. Yeah. It'll be like 72% stupid name. If it's camp's name, it's dumb. Right. That's okay. And then of course, the Russians will weigh in. They will not like it also. So now it's really heavy against you. Bring it on. I can handle it. It's just, I mean, but I just, I want to, and that's just a microcosm of society right there, that first segment. Great name. Stupid name. Correct. Pizza, good or bad? Right. We always say on the show, what do we always say about pizza? There's no bad pizza. Exactly. Correct. There's no bad pizza. Deep dish. I hate deep dish. Thin cry. Thin crust. Stop. I mean, to the point where when black Abdullah and Travis Wacker put out their pizza of the week, it's like, hey, it's usually, oh baby, and it's a picture of pizza, right? Yes. Wherever it's from. It's pizza. They all look amazing. The pushback of, I see some bird dens. I don't know if I like that. I don't like deep dish. I don't like tavern style. That sucks. Does it really? Does it suck? Or does your life suck? Right. Right. Like, if you wake up and go, I don't like you. Really? Can we just? No. Have a little more. Piece of quiet. Um, well, not until 10. After 10, maybe we have some piece of quiet. That's it. We're going to be loud between now and 10 o'clock goes through our every morning. I mean, we had good reports on Caleb. Yep. White Sox had a very consistent weekend. No need for the shot. It's not a shot. No need for that. Don't do that. 27 and 74. I can read. For all the haters. I know what's going on. Cobb scored four runs the entire weekend. They won one game. Don't worry about the White Sox. That took care of them Friday night. They had network Jonathan Hood come in until he wasn't. Love it. It was not pretty. Gotta be honest, man. Oh, doctor. I'm sure I'll be asked again, but it just came out. It just like no folding of the hands and the Chicago White Sox. Fall short. Fall short. That's like, oh no. No, it came out Friday night. There are 47 under 500. And now the big rumor is this weekend from both Bob Nightingale and Ken Rosenthal that the Dodgers and White Sox are discussing potential of a deal for Robert, Copec, and crochet. They'll get two or three of them. I would not surprise them. Are they like grandfather didn't they get like a 40 man roster in the big leagues? Hey, man. They got plenty of minor league talent. If you like it and you know, it's going to be cultivated. It's going to be good. It's the Dodgers. So that's a head nod. Yes. To all of that. Wow. It's the Dodgers. I just watched them last night. Solid. Solid team. Yes. Three options for the Cubs. Buy, sell, or do nothing. We're going to talk about the Cubs coming up next cap and J. Hood weekday morning seven to 10. You're talking back in your mouth. Okay. It's about that time. You're tuned in to the cap and J. Hood show. You're doing a hard call. You know, you know, I'm Chicago's home for sports ESPN Chicago. Captain Jay Hood weekday morning seven to ten here on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. Here's hoping that you're going to have a great Monday and a great week as we keep your company until 10 o'clock that Mike Greenberg comes in right here on Chicago's home for the Bears and the White Sox ESPN 1000. So cap, we just got off the weekend got through the all star break and you say, okay, it's go time for the Cubs. We have documented how crucial this time is between now and July 31st for the Cubs to be able to make a, as I used to say, right? To be able to do something here to be able to shift the narrative for the ball club to be closer in the wild card race for Jed Hoyer and Carter and everyone else in the front office to say, hey, we need to sprinkle on a little something extra for the bullpen a little bit more for offense to be able to take a stretch run to be a playoff team. And what happens? You come off the break and you lose two out of three against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Not the championship type ball club that we saw cap. It's a okay team. The point is though is that the bats are still slumping. That's amazing to me after that time off to come back and still have the same issues offensively. I just don't, I mean, it's a head scratcher to me. Once again, the strength of the ball club is a starting pitching, but the offense just sucks. Just not good enough. Yeah. And I said this over the weekend, when I did my wrap up, my recap, the bullpen since the 27th of June is like top three in all the baseball. That's a large sample size here. It's a 22nd of July. It's almost a month. They've done a really good job, so you've got to give them credit for getting different guys in here. They got lighter junior back. They're going to get merry weather back. They still left themselves without a closer and that for me is an unconscionable sin two years in a row. I excused it last year because you tried to see if Al Zalai could be that guy. You knew going into this season, he didn't have the stones to be the closer and you did nothing to address that. Now you've blown 18 saves, but they have fixed that late inning stuff in terms of the six seventh eighth inning when they got to have relievers and they've been really, really good. That all said, offensively, have you ever heard of a big hit in a big spot? They get men on. They take more strikes down the middle for strike three than almost any team in baseball. I mean, I'm watching them take fast balls right down the middle. See you later. Now the umpire on Friday was horrifically bad and I follow umpire auditor on Twitter. Oh, yeah. And they blasted him. Roberto Ortiz, yeah, he was horrifically bad on Friday. Morrell with men on takes one, clearly two inches down low, strike three in half, three inches off the plate, strike three. There were multiple things twice to have that guy. Is there any accountability by Major League Baseball? You want me as a fan and I'm a die hard like you. We watch everything. Yep. Is there any accountability where they come out and go Roberto Ortiz has been suspended for five games because of a horrific performance in the Cubs Diamondbacks game. That's not why they lost that didn't help. They lost because they can't freakin hit the bullpen is getting better. The starting pitching has been outstanding has been and you need a big hit in a big spot rarely do you come through yesterday and the ninth Zuzuki came through drove in the tying run the dribbler up the middle and then correct. You got a ground ball base game tie and then they go to the post game because in the seventh I believe and in the ninth Christopher Morrell came up and you know I like the kid. He makes no money. He's 25. He's got 18 homers. Yeah, his average stinks. But guess what? You're not going to trade him because all you're doing is selling low and that's a stupid deal. You're not going to get enough back to make it worth your while. There's no reason to move him. So he comes up and he swings so hard and when he makes contact that ball goes a long way. He doesn't come through in the seventh and in the ninth. So Jesse goes to the post game and you know I've been all over council as has Tommy Waddle and Sylvie when Waddle said there's another one strike that they called strike three and the ball's not there. The one to Morrell on Friday and council's like that's low. How about coming out of the dugout? I'm not asking him to be Mike Dica. That's not who his personality is. He's got to be himself. But if you're going to bark from the dugout, how about coming out and get your ass kicked out and maybe just maybe show a little fire that shoots some adrenaline through the stadium that carries to your Moribund team. Yeah, Sylvie said it Friday. Absolutely. Again, I'm not asking him to be me who would have gone in and flipped over the buffet table. That's not a mature response. I'm not claiming to be mature. But Craig has to be Craig. But if you're going to stand there on the top step of the dugout and go, "Hey, that's low!" Okay, get your ass out on the field and get in his face and go, "You've been effing us all day long. I'm done with this. He's going to go, 'You're gone, great.' And then get your money's worth and just maybe with 41,000 in the ballpark, a little shot of adrenaline, everyone goes nuts, maybe it carries over to your lousy-ass team. He doesn't do it. But then in the post game, Jesse asked a very fair question. Earlier in the game, just like the bats, looking like the seventh inning when the rail, there's a time run at second, he's looking like you're swinging for the lake there, I don't know what do you think about some of those? Come on, Jesse. Come on. That's your comment? I think that's a bad take. He's swinging for the lake. That's a bad take. That's a bad take. Why is that? Why is that bad? He's having a good bat trying to hit the ball hard. It didn't work. The pitcher made a good pitch. He made it out. Okay. That's the most fired up I've seen Craig counsel all season long. Good for you, Jesse. That's a legitimate question. Do we try and just punch the ball the other way? Again, I am a fan of Christopher Morel. Has he had a good year? No. He's hitting whatever, 2-13, whatever he's hitting. He's got 18 home runs to lead your team. He's 25. There's no value in trading him. He'd be a throw in and a deal. Well, Jesse's question was very fair. And for Craig to finally show that his heartbeat gets over 60 beats a minute to do it to Jesse, stop yourself. Well, from counsel standpoint, he's trying to protect his player. I get that. That's why he said what he said. But let me just follow up by saying this. That more reporters in there, if you're seeing the same thing time and time again, we're getting bad swings and early swings like Pete Croarm strong late in the ball game. You get the reliever on the ropes. What is the first thing you do? You fly out to short left field. You're not going to take some pitches? These are questions that I would ask if I'm in there like, "Hey, what's the approach in that spot?" And so maybe more of those questions will get his heart racing a little bit. Jesse's the first one to actually challenge counsel about the at bat from Morel. That was him defending his player. Let's get that. Okay. What manager does it? Okay. But couldn't he have answered it this way rather than, and you may be right saying, Jesse, I don't agree with the take. Chris is a hard swinger. He's trying to put the ball in play. I don't agree with you. Instead of that's a bad take. That's a bad. That's what you're taking. It's a bad take, Jesse. I thought Jesse's question was legitimate. Your team is awful offensively right now, awful. And you're going to come at Jesse? You could disagree with him. Right. But how about showing a little fire on the field? Well, he can't do that, Cap, because this is a year of evaluation. He's managing like it's a year of evaluation. He's managing as if it's Dale Swam in there. Or Mike Quatty. Well, we're just going to see what the ball club does and we'll make our adjustments next year. What do you mean adjustments next year? It's now. You got $237.6 million payroll. You can't tell me though that he's not managing as if he's evaluating the ball club for next year. He is. Give me those key moments that council really made a difference in the dugout this year. Go ahead. There's not a lot of them. And I'm not saying that's out of his, that's his fault. He can only play the roster that they gave him. But still it's about pushing the butt right buttons. Which wire are you cutting the red one or the black one, Cap? If you're, if you're a crack council, what you're talking about is valid. Correct. More than valid. Correct. So look, everyone's not going to be booing from the Yankees or somebody or snicker from the Braves flying off the handle going after the umpires. I understand everyone's personality is different. However, I think that from a fan based standpoint, from a ball club standpoint, you're not just the CEO presiding over the team. You're just a manager of the ball club. And whatever he's saying off to the side is one thing, Cap, but being, you know, quiet and being soft spoken, that doesn't bring home the wins. You have to be a leader from the front. Council does not lead from the front. I'm just telling you like, how do I know? I'll see the one loss record. Whatever you think of the ball club is one thing. We can blame jet for that. However, the most demonstrative he's been is this with Jesse. Right. That says a lot. It's the same crap we used to get on Dick Geron about or some of these other guys that would just barely speak above a whisper in the, in the, in front of the press. You're like, so is this how you talk to your players? Is this how you rally the troops? Really? I'm just telling you, I'm looking at the one loss record and I'm listening to that. I'm like, so that's your concern, his bad take. You know that's bad approach. But again, it's a ball club filled with bad approaches offensively. I don't like the ambush. I think that's BS. I do. I know the Shays brings it up because he thinks that's a catchphrase. I just think that you still have to be able to work account. Even in 2024, but all the great numbers and everything that you, I don't care. Like at some point, a fly ball can score a run. Being able to take some pictures to wear down the opposition matters still today in 2024. I don't care what numbers are are. At some point, you have to think as a hitter, not from the numbers, but from the situation at the plate. And that's the problem with the Cubs. We're going to ambush him. First ball, fastball, fly out the center, fly out to right. You're not even working to count. You're making it easy for the opposition. That's the Cubs way. That's what I'm seeing. You're not good enough to go first ball, fastball and be able to keep the line moving. You're just not. They're just not coming through in big spots. I mean, you have opportunities and they can't get it done. It's embarrassing how bad they are. You're spoiling really good starting pitching. You really are. Managa took a no hitter into the sixth. He gave up two hits and seven innings, one run. And when Euhinio Suarez hit the ball, the Waveland Avenue, my son turned to me, Brett, the most optimistic Cubs fan in the world. I think it's over, Dad. I'm like, what? I go, relax. It's one to nothing. He goes, we can't hit. And he was almost right. They end up getting a run in the bottom of the night to tie it. Brett, what did you just say? Most optimistic fan in the world. It shocked you, I'm sure. I was stunned. Stunned. What's he saying there? It's over, Dad. I think it's over. What? Yeah. It's pathetic, how poor they're playing. Pathetic. I just, like the White Sox aren't trying. That's a different argument. No. The Cubs, and I got a message for my friend Nick Friedel, who I talked to over the weekend, who I love dearly. He takes the easy way out. It's so disappointing. And I told him this. They don't spend enough money. Nick, could they spend more? Absolutely. If you were the owner, and that was what you saw your GM was running out there for $227.6 million, you wouldn't give more money either. They spend $60 million more than anyone in their division. They're 8th in the major leagues in payroll. He doesn't like that, I call him Mr. Ricketts. Well, it's not like Tom and I are friends. I don't hang out with him. He's Mr. Ricketts. You want me to call him Tom Ricketts? Tom. And the family. Nick would like you to spend more money because Nick thinks the only way to win is to spend $500 million. How'd that work out for the Mets? Not too good. Not at all. No. The Cubs are 8th. Could they be top five? Certainly. But guess what? There's more than enough payroll in there to be a way better team that dead freakin' last. So we'll get into buy, sell, or do nothing if you are the Chicago Cubs. I mean, I want you're done so I can pay off this tease. Let me know what you're done. I'm done. 3123 to ESPN 3, 3, 2, 3, 7, 6, our phone number three options for the Cubs buy, sell or do nothing. Where do you stand on it? We'll get your phone calls on there also still to come. The Bears broke camp over the weekend. It's all part of the mix on the Captain J. Good morning show. Here's to Dave's headline headline with Captain J. Hood. The Cubs lost two of three to the Diamondbacks at Rigby Field this weekend. They're 18 consecutive innings without a single run being scored was tied for the longest streak of the season before they scored in the bottom of the night down one. Nothing on a sea. Zuzuki RBI single that played in Nico Horner. They win it in extras when Horner walked with the bases loaded. It started a three game series with division leading Milwaukee. Rigby Field tonight, first pitch at 7 0 5. White Sox swept in the return from the All-Star rate losing all three to the Royals of falling 20 to 27 at 74 on the season. True Thor, Parver stayed red hot six scoreless innings. They'll play the Rangers tonight. Start a four game road series pregame and ESPN 1000 starts at 6 30 and Zander Schoffle came from behind one a second major of the year with a victory at the Open Championship in Scotland shooting a 65. On Sunday, they'll overcome a two shot deficit and win the tournament. American swept the majors this year for the first time since way back in 1982. Jayboard! Mrs. Cap and Jay Hood. They beat in the traffic commute so you don't have to. On ESPN Chicago. We can turn the page on the Open now and golf. Get away from that ghetto course that they're playing in. No sun. Horrible place. Some of Galvar says the worst back nine of their whole career because of that awful course. Oh my God, that's one of the great courses in the world! To America's as we keep your company until time clocked over. Get shot at no shot eight o'clock. I don't care, Cap. Up there playing at Jackson Park. Those greens, which I played Jackson Park, much better manicured green to that. Oh my God, you can have a major at Jackson Park compared to that. 312-332-ESP and it's our telephone number. You're funny. Well, Cap, it's awful. Dark, dank, cold Scotland. They don't manicure the green, it's awful. That's where golf started. It's the birthplace. And where to die. It looks like where golf died. How about a little water on the grass every now and then? Weeds everywhere. Awful. I told you, K-more and I can go anywhere in the city and build that. Okay, you don't have to worry about water in the grass. Just keep it like that. All right, we want to have the green, just like Scotland. All right, just let their weeds grow up there. Put an old tire there. Okay, that's going to be the sand dune. Oh, pack of cools, just crush it in there. All right, smashed up liquor bottle. All right, we're good. Isn't this beautiful? Is this wonderful? Don't turn the sprinklers on. We don't want that. We want to look just like England. Awful. Awful. We move now to... Lots. What's so great is you'll have three of your friends. You're mucking your muck friends that will text you. I don't know what your partner's talking about because they don't know satire. Because they take everything I say seriously. They do. But of course. And then you have to go back and backtrack, be like, "He's joking." No. No, take it seriously. Yes, exactly right. It's terrible. It is kind of weird, though, because I feel like I could build exactly what they have out there. Correct. And it'd be great. I don't have to cut the grass. I'd play it in March here. Sure. Absolutely. No problem. Why is the open in March? Well, it's over on the west side. I mean, one of the weather conditions can be similar. Yeah, it's cold. No sun. Don't have to turn this brick on. We need... Yeah. Perfect. Drizzly. This is just immaculate. No, it's not. Awful. Ask the golfers. Don't ask me. Ask the golfers. They have a hard time. You're correct. Let's talk a little bit about this question that we had regarding the Chicago Cubs. Because you have three options if you're dead. And again, Milwaukee comes right to town here, Cap. I mean, no time off. You had your all-star brick. Lose two out of three against Arizona. Now the Milwaukee Brewers come in. You buy, sell, or you hold if you're dead. Now, here's the thing. We criticized the Cubs for holding on after the championship run. They stuck with the court too long. It got old. It got... It was a team that just couldn't find it way offensively. And at the time, I said this, Cap, maybe two years after the championship, you have to change up the dynamic a little bit. They did not. It was the same old, same old, and they cannot hit the baseball. But in this situation, with good pitching and not enough hitting, this is a tough spot. There are some assets you could trade if you are the Cubs. But does that mean that you're going to be better for the long haul? Like next year. That's the question. Look, if you go out and trade as has been rumored for Jameson Taehyung and he gets moved. I would assume this is the last year of Kyle Hendricks. Maybe he comes back at a reduced number. He's making a big number this year. And he's earned that. Assad, he's okay. I don't think he's an all-star. He's all right. Hey. Jordan Wicks is done for the year, so we really don't know what they've got there. Wysneski, if he's in your rotation, you're not seriously trying to compete. He's not a rotation piece. He's a middle reliever. That's what he is. Where are you getting the pitching? Where are you getting it? Don't you have anything in the Meyer Lake system? Yeah, Kate Horton's coming along. You've got a couple of guys, but you're telling me a team that's spending $227.6 million and feels like they could compete this year and the Reds win yesterday. No, the Reds aren't last place. So the Cubs are a half game out of last now, because the Reds lost in the Cubs win. They've lost four straight. Who's your pitching staff next year? Emma Naga? Yep. Uh, Steel. Yep. Who else? Assad? Well, I would say Kate Horton's going to have to replace Hendrix because he's not going back next year. You depend on that, don't you? Horton would be good enough to be in that fifth role? I would think, but he's out injured. I mean, next year. I hope? Yeah. Okay. So we're counting on a rookie, Assad, Steel, and Emma Naga, and where are you getting someone to take the innings of tie-on? Who's had a really good year? Really good. I would say that's good enough to compete. It is. Are you really trying to win? No, I mean, I'm just saying. How are you upgrading your, your, your more abundant offense? That's your question. So where are you getting a closer? What? Is Ben Brown going to get the closers' role? I would be okay with that. I don't like peace-milling in that spot. I would give him the job. Everyone can't be the O5 White Sox that go with three closers to win a championship. Yeah, I would make him, he throws 99 miles an hour. He's a two-pitch guy with a good breaking ball. That's what I would do. He'd be a closer, not a starter. Okay. And, but the question still stands, buy, sell, or hold. I mean, can the, is the Brewer series, the litmus test, to tell you all you need to know? Right now, the Cubs are three and a half games behind the wildcard. Yep. Okay. And you are almost in last place. You're just being held up by the Reds. This Milwaukee series could tell you all you need to know. Okay. So you, you have three with the Brewer starting tonight. Assad, tie on, steal. Okay. And then you have a day off. And then you have three in Kansas City. I would tell you, man. That's a good team. That's a hell of a team now. It really is. Bobby Wood is on a tear. He's a stud. We don't have a Bobby Whit in this town between the two teams. I think that's fair. I think that's fair to say. Okay. So you got three with Kansas City and the trade deadline is a week from tomorrow. And everyone, a ball, a bunch of my buddies are all texting me. Blow it up, sell. Who are, I just asked you this a couple of weeks ago. Who exactly are you selling that you're going to get this mother load of prospects? At least the White Sox as pathetically bad as they are. If you trade crochet, Robert, Copec, as has been speculated, fatty, you're going to get a haul of prospects back. Who are the Cubs trading? Well, I think that for any ball club, if you're going to be a non playoff team with this payroll back to back years, usually you pair back instead of paying more. And so having said that, I think that the biggest assets that you could trade is from your pitching. You don't want to do that. But if you just hold cap, you might get some of the same next year. Because if you're Tom Ricketts, what are you going to say when Jet comes in the office and you're a non playoff team, what's Jet going to say, hey, we need to add more to our bullpen. Okay. How much that going to cost? And we're going to look to try to kind of do something better with our office. Well, how much that going to cost? This is the payroll. It is what it is. How much more do you need? Well, that's my question that when Nick and I were on the phone having our conversation. Conversation. Yeah, we were debating it, laughing and he's in town. And he said, no, you could spend more. Yeah, they could. But guess what, 227.6 is more than enough to win that lousy division they're in. Guess not. If you spend it right, well, I want to read you something. I want to read you something with doing all my homework while I was off, I was hanging out. Listen to what their lineup was yesterday. This is the Chicago freaking Cubs who I think it was yesterday or Saturday's lineup. They're batting. Needle. He's hitting as a cub 133 with an on base of 149. That's about as bad as it gets. He's strong who's hitting 189 with a 238 OBP. He's fast. He's a good defender. They had Morel at 202. They had master bony at 207 and he's gone up 60 points. Yeah. 207. Dansby Swanson, who makes 25 million a year, he's betting 210. They had a Maya in there hitting 217. Okay. And that's a team that you're telling me is serious about trying to win. That's the lineup you're running out. The Bears broke camp this weekend and Ryan polls has passed out a book for everyone to read. What is that book? We'll tell you next on Captain Jhood. The truth of the matter is you're listening to Captain Jhood on ESPN 1000 weekdays, 7 to 10 a.m., but it'll last a lifetime. It may only be three hours a day, but it'll last you a lifetime. Captain Jhood, weekday morning 7 to 10 here on ESPN 1000 with you till 10 o'clock that Mike Greenberg comes in at 10, Carmen and Yurko 12 to 3, Waddalom silly 230 to 630. And then White Sox baseballs that take on the Texas Rangers, a 630 per game and a 7 o'clock first pitch right here on the home of the White Sox, ESPN 1000. So excited that the gates have swung open in Lake Forest. So happy that we can talk about the Chicago Bears now. Super cool that football's back in the first two days. The news on the offense is very encouraging. They said, Caleb Williams looked really, really good. We got to hear from Shane Waldron yesterday. He talked about how Caleb has continued to elevate each day. And then I was reading during the NBA finals, Caleb was staying in a hotel near Alice Hall. And so was Keenan Allen. So they got together every night and had dinner and they would watch the games together in one of the two rooms and they would quiz each other. Hey, here's a play call. Tell me what it is. And then the other one would have to draw it up on a board. And Keenan Allen said this kid is just really, really locked in on this offense and how much smoother now from doing all that he is calling out the plays and understanding all the concepts. He's a rookie as he's learning all this. And I thought it was cool that a veteran did that. We will hear a lot of Ryan Paul's here throughout our broadcast because he got changed speech to the media. One thing for sure, Allah Phil Jackson from his time with the Chicago Bulls, there's always a book for players to read. Ryan Paul said you passed out this book called Wisdom of the Bullfrog. I challenged my front office staff to read this book called Wisdom of a Bullfrog by Admiral McRavin. And one of the chapters I was talking about the only easy day was yesterday. And that's going to be our approach is a daily approach, a daily effort, the work ethic has to go in, in training camp this year for us to reach our ceiling and really define who we're going to be in 2024. The chapter also talks about like the character of the people that are leaders in that space. And it talks about passion and stamina to do it over and over and over again. The resilience coach ability grit. And the beautiful thing is the way that we scout our players and the types of people we bring in this organization, they have to have that and we constantly are very intentional about developing those traits as well, which makes me feel really confident that again, we're going to be able to reach our ceiling and have success. You would suggest that book as well, right? I'm a huge Admiral McRavin fan. I made my kids all watch this video where Admiral McRavin gives this speech and talks about the first thing that you should do every morning is make your bed. He said, why? Because it's the first task you accomplish at the start of your day. Damn, I got something accomplished. He said, and you move on from there. And I wanted my kids. I was raised that way. I wanted my kids every day before you get on that school bus. You make your bed. It's a first task we accomplish. And he's awesome to listen to one of the great speakers I've ever heard. Which book would you give to your 10 year old team if you had to? Wow. I would play the Admiral McRavin speech or I would give it to him myself. How about sounder, something simple like that? Maybe. Like I'm a four agreement sky. But it's a little too complex for the 10 year old. I understand. But good album though back in the 60s. 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