Kap & J. Hood
7/11 9 AM: USA Basketball '92 vs '24
[MUSIC] Good morning, Chicago. And welcome in to the Captain Jay Hood Morning Show on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app with David Kaplan. Jonathan Hood with you. We have got Shay, we've got Justin, we've got you here on this deal breakers Thursday. 312-332-3776, our phone number, and cap, we have a poll question now. We talked about hot and cold weather, I was in East Texas from my vacation not too long ago. It was warm, again, storms, so it wasn't intolerable, it was fine. Shay just got back from New Orleans, it's a different type of heat there. It's not just warm but it's humid, it can't wear on you if you're out there too long. Don't mind the warm weather, but here's the thing, I'm from Chicago, you're from Chicago, we're used to everything. And the idea that people leave Chicago for the cold weather, the cold weather is not here anymore like it used to be kept. You may not like the 55 degrees, but we went through the bone chilling cold. Whatever's happening with climate and that, I have no idea what's happening with climate change, I'm not versed on the subject. But the point is, is that the weather that we have to deal with with snow storms and everything else, it's almost passé versus what we used to live with. When we, funny guy, we were kids, I mean you would get brutal cold for three months. And I went to college in the Twin Cities, Minneapolis, St. Paul, we thought it was cold here, it was crazy cold there as well. Now, like this past winter, it's mild, mild, like this was no big deal, yeah we had a couple snow, it was a big deal, I mean it was easy, easy. When you're stuck on the expressway, and we just had that not too long ago with the whole thing, I like your drive where everyone was stranded, that's a whole different kettle of fish, that's totally different cap than what it used to be. It's a mild winter compared to what it was. So it was so brutal, I didn't have snow days as a kid. I was part of the snow storm of '79 now, like we still had to go to school, there was no snow days, you trudged through the snow and got there, you might have been late, but you had to get there. Yeah, I remember the snow storm of '67, I was six. And I remember having to try and trudge home in that snow, we had a week off of school because it was crazy snow, 26 inches, some crazy amount. The '79 when I was already in college, I was in Minnesota, but I can't remember maybe one other snow day ever in my life. You know, under Dr. Ruth Love, the superintendent of school, she was awesome. Yeah, yeah, there was no snow day, you're going to get your education, huge in my family and the community. I don't care what it is out there, you got to get to school, that's the way it was, man. It was just totally different. It's the whole thing where the education was pounded in my family and the community, like I don't care, you got to get there. And so we have a poll question regarding the weather and what you prefer. Correct. So I put this out there and I asked the question, would you rather have the weather be too hot or too cold? Yep. 2,256 votes were closing in on 57%, 56.6, like it too hot. Here's Shaye Norley. Shaye. Just dumb. It's too cold, is infinitely better than too hot. That's absolutely not true. If it's too hot, the key word here is too, not just hot. If it's too hot, you cannot escape it. You can only take off so many layers. Too cold, you can bundle up as much as you need the ball of love to become a Baptist church. And I got the guy in the back there, you've praised me though. Hey man, Shaye, that's such nonsensical thought process by you. Because if it's too hot, get in the freakin' air conditioning. If it's too cold, get in the heat. Hallelujah. Yeah, but I'm not saying that you, like this isn't a situation, would you rather be too hot or too cold? To me, if it's not a situation where you have the choice to go indoors and be in a climate controlled environment, if I'm going to a football game and I'm gonna be outside, we'll say I'm at Soldier Fields, then I'm not in climate- Do you rather be 85-90 than be like 22? No, 'cause I can bundle up. If it's 90 degrees, I'm just stuck there. Perfect example. I'm at the Cubs game a couple weeks ago. It's 96 suns out. Field level is probably 104. There's nothing I can do about it except sit there and sweat. Nothing. If it's 35 in November and God willing, the Cubs are playing in a World Series game and you're sitting there, you can bundle up. Nothing worse than being in a baseball game being cold. Nothing worse. That is really nothing you can do there. You're sitting there, though. Even the beard doesn't keep you warm. You're just shivering. You can bundle. You can put a coat on. You'll be all right. You're still freezing. I'd rather have that than be sitting in those stands under the beaten sun, sweating my bleep off. We get the best of both worlds when the new stadium opens for the Chicago Bears and Origin Heights. Correct. You're good with that, Shay, right? 75 degrees in climate control. I have footballs and outdoor sport. I have to give that up. That's another thing. If I'm giving things up. Yeah. 'Cause I've lost the war on that, but footballs and outdoor sports. Let me ask you a question. You have to let that go, man. Shay, you have to let that go, 'cause again, for us around here, there is no bear weather. I know that used to be a thing like, "Oh, you know, when they come in there, we're going to beat their ass because of the weather," but then you got Atlanta and San Francisco beating your ass in a regular basis in big playoff games. There is no bear weather. He's correct. Shay, let me ask you a question. If I came in tomorrow and I said, "Shay, I found out I have a long lost relative that just died. He left me a billion dollars. Buy you and Mackenzie a house, but I'm only going to buy it one of two places. Tell me where you want it. Alaska or Hawaii? We would both answer Alaska. You're sick. It's not even close. You're sick. I've been there. I'll never go back. Summers and Alaska are beautiful. Oh, God. Yeah. Okay. Where it's dark. Stop. Alaska. I was there. You know I was there. Yes. Seven days, six nights. Yeah. I'll take a beautiful home in Hawaii. You're an idiot. No. I take the house in Alaska. But it's also like Hawaii on an island. It's I mean, they're both far away, but I thought you were going to offer me like Miami, Florida or Colorado, someplace, Aspen, Colorado. It would still be Aspen, Colorado. Why you shake your head? He's Nordic. He's not only door laying, but he's Nordic. It's Nordic. It's Nordic. Yeah. Why? I'll take a list. If you offered me Scottsdale, Arizona or Portland, Maine, Portland, Maine is the choice. Yeah. You're insane. You're insane. I would not know. You are insane. I'm going to be close to this. But you know what? Everyone's paradise is different, Cap. My paradise would be someplace warm and tropic. My friend George gave me that question, live in Alaska or live in Hawaii and he sent me the mic drop emoji because any normal humans taking Hawaii and maybe if they've never been to Alaska, I've been it sucks. I've been there. It was a rib. I think on me when I first got here to ESPN with that's when Jeff Schwartz was running the station. He says, I got an idea. Why don't you cover the UIC flames? We sent a brother to Alaska, we'll put it in feeder. It'd be great. Huh? You're saying sending me to Alaska. It'd be great. Yeah. So seven days, six nights, one hour of sunlight today. The worst one o'clock in the afternoon, it's not the whole year and then at another point in time you get one hour of night. And also I will tell you this, it's the coldest I've ever been and I'm from here. Yeah, I could take it. It was minus five was the regular temperature, Shay, minus five. That last night of the tournament, that top of the world classic cap, you remember those basketball tournaments? I've never been so cold. I thought I was covered up nice, big leather coat, double gloves, long underwear, boots, thought I was good. Yeah, I'm warm. I'm be warm to that last night when it was minus 60 without the windshield. Holy smokes. Never been that cold, the cold and the wind cut right through that leather coat, cut right through it. Brutal. It was something, man, you never see me move so fast to try to get into that gym. It was absolutely brutal. Yeah, no, you could, you can keep Alaska, but at least you weren't sweating. Now, if you'd asked me like, that's true, Honolulu or Fargo, North Dakota, I'd probably say Honolulu because I would be bored out of my mind in Fargo, North Dakota. Yeah. You went in Alaska too. Oh, shot. Alaska is gorgeous. Better football in Fargo, I think. Well, three, one, two, three, three, two, ESPN, three, three, two, three, seven, seven, six, our phone number cap. I prefer the warm weather, as you well know, when we travel, it's tropical. That is more right. We'll find an island to be on. We have no problem with that. But the islands around here, Stony, Blue, that's so much in the winter. We got some calls we got to like Taylor and Hyde Park. He's with us here on cap and Jhood. Taylor, good morning. Hey, what's up, guys? How you doing? What's up? How's business? Business is booming, man. Business is good. You know, whether it's hot or cold, people still like to, you know, smoke weed. So that's great. That's good to know. No matter what. Right. In any weather, no question. In any weather, right? So look, guys, I wanted to talk about the Olympic team and me and my friends have been debating this kind of the past couple of days, and I want to be very clear here. This team that we see this year is the most talented Olympic team we've ever seen. No. I'm going to tell you, one second, one second, let me just break this down for a quick hot second. You're going to be the 1982 dream team, and I'm going to say that in '92, don't look at their careers, you can't look past '92, we have to say at 1992, you had an old Larry and an old and an HIV old magic. You had Michael in his prime with two championships. Did you have that? The HIV. Are you the old? No, I love magic. What did you do? That's critical. You can't be the best, the best. You can't be at your best, and you have that kind of in '91, '92. That's going to be very clear here. That's fine. Okay. So at that time, Barkley, Robinson, and Carmelone have not won their MVPs yet. They were only all stars, and the only individual award they had out of that group is a defensive player of the year by David Robinson. So in '92, you can't look past that, because again, we can't look past the future and see Anthony Edwards and say to him how many more rings they might win. You have to say, in 1992, that team had Christian Leitner, two old, all pro, all-world guys, a magic prime, I mean, a Michael prime, and that's pretty much it as far as-- What about Charles? Charles. No. Charles didn't win his MVPs while acting '92. They were still an amazing player in 1992. They were all stars and very good players. But this team has way more individual at the time of '92. We have to say 1992. That's why this team is the most talented team we've ever seen in the Olympics. This team now, if they played in '92 against that team, they'd get their ass beat. That's impossible, and I'm going to tell you why. The candidate team they played last night would win the silver in '92, and it would be a hand down silver. The international game was nowhere near from a competition standpoint than what it is now. You had one or two, maybe, one of the best players in the year was Tony Cucote, and he was a sixth man over in the NBA. So what I'm saying is that, any two team was very good, and I think it was one of the greats as far as what it brought to basketball, but at the point of 1992, they were a group of great all-stars, no real individual awards besides Michael, and two old guys were way past their prime. You could say LeBron and Curry are older, but it's a different old. It's way different. All right. Let's break it down. Well, thanks, man. Do you know the '92 dream team off the top of your head? Yeah. Do you have any... I have it in front of me. I have the dream team. I'm talking about the '20, '20, '14 here. Okay. So give me... Laitner barely played. Okay. So the forward on this team is LeBron James. James or Laitner? Okay. James or Laitner? Laitner didn't barely play. I'm just saying, like, was he a center or forward on that team? Power forward. He wouldn't match up with LeBron, but the small forward would either be Larry Bird or Scotty Pippin. Okay. So on this team that's Durant on this team, and he's a forward, is Kevin Durant better than those guys? In terms of power forward, Carl Malone was in his prime. He would break Kevin Durant too, Taylor. Let's do it this way. Let's do it this way then. The forward's on this team, Anthony Davis, Kevin Durant, as well as Jason Tatum and LeBron James. Yep. And their forwards were Carl Malone, Charles Barkley, Chris Mullen is one of the greatest shooters of all time, and Laitner who barely played on the team, they had to have a college guy. Your guards, the guards that they had were Magic Johnson, John Stockton in his prime, Michael Jordan. Let me think if there's any other guards on here. I think that was all the, oh, Clyde Drexler also in his prime and went on to win two titles. I got Devin Booker, Steph Curry, I've got Anthony Edwards, Drew Holliday, and now Derek White. I mean, what are we talking about here, Taylor? Can we get him back up here for one second? And but we got to get through the centers. If we're going to match it up, we need to talk it out. Okay. The centers. Patrick Ewing, David Robinson. Bam out of bio and Anthony Davis is a forward center and Joel Embiid. He's a great player, but I'll take Robinson in Ewing. Also one of the guards on this team is Tyreys Halliburton is a nice player. Yeah. Yeah. I wish the Bulls at him. What are we doing here? Taylor, how much did we smoke this morning? No, in 1992, all those guys, they didn't have any individual awards yet. It's a team story in Manhattan. Okay. They work the MVP. You talk about MVPs in digital credit years and champion more champions, more MVPs, more individual awards. Like, what are we talking about here? It's a team story. Taylor. If we took that team, right there in 1992 and dropped them into a game today against the guys who are playing at Team USA, the dream team of 92 would beat their ass by a mile. Who? Who did shooters in that team? Who could shoot? Who could shoot at three-pointer? Chris Wallen. But he can't go to shadow. He couldn't go to shadow. Oh, now you're changing them. He wouldn't go to the goal point. You asked me who could shoot. But he wouldn't be able to be on the court. How about Larry Bird? He was 35 on the floor because his back was hurting. He couldn't shoot guys. I watched tape of them compete in scrimmage. I watched them play. I watched them scrimmage on tape, the game, not highlights the game. They would have destroyed this team. Guys. In 1992, you guys are smoking some. It's impossible. A 35-year-old Larry Bird, he's on his back because he can't get up. You know what Carmel would do to Kevin Durant? He would make him cry home to mama. Kevin Durant would step out and say, "Come guard me the three-point line." Oh my god. And every bar goes through chicken all day every day. You're insane. How am I insane? And I need to those guys that have any individual awards. But you're saying they're better than a team with full of individual awards, full of champions, full of first team, all this stuff, and way more talented from a family can shoot the three and defend. Well, I can put a bow on it by saying, Taylor, we love you. Well, here's how I can put a bow on it. The way you put a bow on it is this. You continue to talk about the individual achievement of this team for 2024. Those guys in 1992 knew how to play as a team. You don't think there was egos in that '92 team? Yes, but they had a common goal to win the gold. That's the difference. You keep talking about the individual achievements and the championships and MVPs and all that. Yes, it's great. But again, when you have to work as a collective, those guys knew how to do it. You could call them all all you want, but then you had to play. You knew how to dominate. 100%. 100%. It's funny. Michael Jordan's name didn't come out of that conversation. I don't think he was kind of great. He was. Oh my god. He's the best player from either team. Yes, it's not even close. I mean, so listen, it's nothing wrong with trying to be able to latch on to today's players. So I'll talk about how great the athletes are. There's no question. The athletes of today are great, but those guys were seasoned veterans and knew how to win, knew how to play and dominate and intimidate, by the way. The '92 team is the reason why you have so much influence now in the game when it comes to international play. The Europeans were like, OK, enough of this. We're going to work hard and get into the lab and make sure that we're going to be embarrassed like this again by NBA players. I would like to sit down and have a drink with him and have this discussion. See, I think he's an intelligent basketball fan. Yeah. I would love to sit down and have a cocktail with Taylor. Give your number to Shay. I want to have a drink with you and just debate basketball. 312332 ESPN, 3323776 is our phone number. If you're on hold, you will be on the air on the Captain Jhood Morning Show. Captain Jhood on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN and Chicago app. With you till 10 o'clock, then Mike Greenberg comes in at 10, followed by Carmen Yurco at noon. Then it is Abdullah and Waddle from 2.30 to 6.30. And then it's bears weekly with Jeff and Tom. And then it's black and Abdullah 738, all part of the mix right here on the ESPN 1000. Looking forward to it, man. Looking forward to all of it. Do not forget to check out the YouTube YouTube dot com look for the Captain Jhood channel. We have our own channel for things that you might have missed on the show. You don't get a chance to listen to it live from 7 to 10. It's all right. We've got clips of a lot of the segments we do here. Go to Captain Jhood, the YouTube channel and subscribe right there. James in New Lennox is with us on ESPN 1000. We have an array of things we're talking about, including Team USA from 2024 versus the 92 dream team. James, good morning. Hey guys. Hey, James. Do you only can you hear me? Yes, sir. Okay. Um, do you know the only thing worse than that last guy's take, in my opinion, is cap's take on this Billy Jane King thing. I was born in 80. So before my time, but that wasn't even a contest. That was just a joke completely. She was 29. Rachel is 55. You know that. Hold on a second. You know that he had just straight set destroyed Margaret Court, one of the best players in the world a few months before the match crushed her. You realize more than 30,000 people attended at the Astrodome. Another 90 million watched it. It's considered one of the most watch televised sporting events of all time. Yeah. It doesn't matter if one person watched it or a million people watched it or 90. He was 55. She was 29. So, so let's compare something. Brianna Stewart's 29 right now. She's 64, 170. She's one of the best players in the WNBA, correct? Mm hmm. Okay. And I was just going off people off top of my head, uh, look at them up. Damn Cassell is 54 years old. Yeah. He's champion. Now best was different than tennis, but Brianna Stewart should beat Sam Cassell if they played one on one now, but it would probably be pretty close. But the thing about the battle of sexes and tennis is nobody takes into consideration the never to lova Jimmy Conner's match where he straight said it her and there was only a five year age difference there and they were both, you know, still towards the top of their game. You know what I'm saying? As far as ability. James, I think that was the next, that was the next will like match. James is more than James James. We're having a, you want to have a conversation about this? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's more than just the competition. It's about the time. Yeah. It's before your time, but it's about women and their empowerment thinking that, oh, women can never be as good as men. It wasn't necessarily about the competition as much as it is the empowerment of women saying, Hey, you know what, I can play this sport too. And it was a big deal because it's again a battle of the sexes more so than a man being stronger than a woman. Yeah. It was a, you have no idea how big a deal it was then. I get that it was a big deal, but I'm saying it's, it's not like, they were each at the top of their game at that point. You know what I'm saying? But Bobby Riggs had just beat one of the best players in the world and straight sets a woman. And now Billy James King comes in and pounds him. That was still just a one off event. It's like, that's why Venus Williams has been asked, would she play any of the top guys right now? And she says, no, because she'd get crushed. She said that on talk shows, nobody at their peak at the same like age level is going to do anything. That's the same thing with like women's soccer. Like I want them to get as much money as they can, but should they get equal money? No, because they don't bring out all the same things that the men's team does. It's just, you know, there's got to be gradual progress on things with all things. You can't just go from, we have nothing to now, we have equal, you know what I'm saying? Not saying that that's not how it should be, but there's other factors in play. Like I get it was, I get it was significant. But yes, besides the age difference, it is about the history of defiance that was there for women and women's sports. Correct. That was a huge moment for women's sports. That's all it is. It's about. It's title nine. It's the whole conversation about women and how they were undermined as athletes. And so it was up to her to say, you know what, I will carry the torch in this one off. A big television event, of course, but there was many during that time cap where dad would come home with a skinny black tie and the white shirt sitting there with his can of beer. Like that woman can't beat that guy. That's just a woman. After all, she's not any good. Let's turn this on. Oh, she won. It was a win for women and athletics at the time. No question. It was a gimmick. It's just that it was something to showcase that women also can play sports and can dominate. That's what that was about. If I'm, you tell me if I'm wrong about that, you're a hundred percent right. So by the way, we have some breaking news. Can I give it to you? Yeah. Should do we have the breaking news? We don't need to play the sounder for it, but this is from Jesse Rogers ESPN moments ago. The Cubs AAA outfielder Alexander Canario is en route to Baltimore, which could mean bad news for Cody Bellinger. He left the game last night after getting hit on the finger by a pitch. He's not having a huge season, but would still be a loss and perhaps now would complicate his trade market. Canario back. You can find other things he could be stuck with. I mean, here's the thing with Bellinger, whenever he returns, he can deliver. That's all. Yeah. Let's find out how long, if this is indeed what it's about, then let's find out to get it taken care of. More Pete Crow. Hey, you know what, maybe Canario can step up with an opportunity and go, wow. Yeah. This is kind of how it works sometimes in the playoff push cabin. I'm not saying that's where the Cubs are, but it's just like new talent that comes on the team. It gives you a fresh outlook. It happens midway of the season, toward the end of the season. You bring, you call someone up or you trade for someone all of a sudden. It's an infusion of kind of energy to the ball club. Somebody knew. Yeah. Let's see. Andrew and Dallas, Texas, listening on the ESPN Chicago app. Andrew, good morning. Good morning, guys. How you doing? Good. Thank you. I heard you guys talking about the weather. I was telling Shay that I lived in Buffalo, New York for a long time. My job transferred me two years ago to Dallas and I was telling him the snow up there is no joke. And the heat down here is like there's snow up there. Yeah, which one is it in the year 2000 when we lived in Buffalo, my next door neighbor was the elderly woman and me and my son went out thinking that we was walking on her driveway. And as we got the shoveling, we were standing on our neighbor's car. That's how high the snow was. Oh, wow. That's tough. And I don't miss the snow at all I do with the heat all day over snow. Yeah. Yeah, you got it. Shay. All right, Andrew. Appreciate your telephone call. Appreciate that. 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Captain Jay Hood on the ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. No cap it is is interesting. I feel like that you and I saw the best of the best in sports. The top of the top the 92 dream team is known as the greatest team ever assembled because of all the all stars and the accomplishments that were made by this team. I can understand from a modern fan a young fan that would say, Hey, you know what I think LeBron James is the best. Well, you probably would think that LeBron James the best because you didn't see Jordan everything he went through correct and that's fine. This happens at the barbershop all the time. You get a younger person coming in there and saying, Hey, Ant Man is the best guard I've ever seen and all like, but I know that that's not true because I saw the best correct. I just think it's interesting in this in these sports discussions or debates that here's the best that we've seen. What are you going to say about Patrick Ewing or Larry Bird or Michael Jordan. Paul Malone, Charles Barkley, Magic Johnson, some of the best ever correct, but yet sports is redefined for us by some to say, Oh, no, I mean, those guys are good for their day. But look at, I don't know, Tyree's Halliburton, even sound right. Right. Hey, you listen, you might have liked Clyde to draw. You might have loved Clyde to glide Drexler, but this Devon Booker, what right? Like you have to be better than that. And this is no shade at today's players. I enjoy today's basketball. I enjoy today's athlete, but when you put it side by side, come on, man, really? You can't redefine sports for me because I saw the best. I'm not saying that you can't find a team that's going to be better than the 92 dream team. But again, I'll go back to what I said before. It's about team, team, Bam out of bio versus Patrick Ewing. I mean, are we serious here, Taylor? In Hyde Park? It's just nonsense. Do you know what Patrick Ewing would do to Bam out of bio? Oh, eat him for lunch. Oh, my goodness. Scotty Pippin guarding on the wing. Are you kidding? That's what I mean. They put Scotty Pippin on Durant. Yeah, let's see it. I'd love to see it. Scotty Pippin. I'd love to see that. Oh, man. Let's go. Let me tell you something. I know that you guys are into Chris Mullen, but let me tell you something. Today's player, Derek White. Derek White against Chris Mullen. Chris Mullen? Right. He was a monster. A killer. A killer. With his crew cut. Oh, that's that. He'd be close. Come on now. What do we do it here? I'm not the old man, the rocking chair saying that today's athletes aren't great because we know they're more athletic cap and they're more well-rounded as far as being able to shoot the three ball. But it's not going in every time. When you're going from the foul line down, a lot of these guys are just dominant. Dominant. Can you tell me who the leading scorer on the team was? For Team USA? In '92. It was not Michael. Was it Barkley? It was Barkley. Yeah. He averaged 16 a game. 16.3. Michael averaged 12.7 because he didn't have to play all that. None of the scores. Okay. June 28, 92, they played their first game. They played Cuba, Chicago, or Chicago USA wins 136.57. Post game show next. Post game show next on the ESP 1000 USA basketball network. June 29, next day. They played team Canada 105.61. June 30, 112.52 over Panama, July 1, 128.87 over Argentina, July 3, 1981 over Puerto Rico, and July 5 gold medal game, 127 to 80 over Venezuela. Come on, man. Come on, man. What are we doing here? It's just funny. And again, nothing gets today's athlete. Taylor, don't get high on your own supply. The differences cap is that these players are not individualistic. All the players, a lot of the players we just mentioned in today's dream team, today's dream team, they're their own walking brand. Individual players, it's different, totally different. Can I offer a caveat that, and if we get to the end of the Olympics and the USA dream team in 2024, boat races, all of its competition and wins the gold medal, then I think we can start to have a conversation because this USA team will be facing a much higher level of international competition than that team did. This is true. Anytime they take an international talent now, we're talking about some of them are NBA talent. Some of them play at high level overseas. So it is different than it was in '92, that's for sure. The French team now is borderline an NBA team. Go bare lead, right? Yeah. Is Wembley playing on the French team? I'm sure. Should be. Yeah, I think they are actually. I think that's a one-two punch. I'm sure they have that kid that got drafted first over all this year. Yes. You're talking about, I mean, the international competition has leveled up significantly from where it was in '92. 100%. So if the US goes out and hammers everybody this year, then I think we can have a little bit more of a conversation about it. But we haven't even seen them play yet. Play as a team. Yeah, I'm just telling you, as someone who did this for a living team, USA 92 would wipe the streets with this team. They would. Alan Evanston on ESPN 1000. Hello, Al. Hey, guys. Hey, longtime listener. You guys are awesome. Love the show. Thank you. I appreciate you, man. Yeah. Thinking about this whole 92 dream team and this current iteration of it, I mean, I think the redeem team, if you look at it, would come just as close as beating these guys if you want to go with Taylor's viewpoint on it, that you had LeBron, yeah, Michael Red who could shoot, yeah, Dwayne Wade, you had Kobe, you had Dwight Howard, who might be one of the most underrated big men that ever played this game. Chris Bosch, Chris Paul, Carmelo gave the guard any guard on those teams. Carlos Boozer was in his prime, his heyday pretty much. Carmelo. Yeah. That's, I mean, if you want to go Apple for apples, I think that's a closer, a closer team. You have LeBron who, you know, was in the early part of his career towards his end is kind of like a canceling out. And one of the things that these international games have shown is as soon as the game starts getting kind of physical and teams start playing more defense outside of shooting isn't always reliable. You need that mid range down low game, which you're trying to bring back with this team. But I mean, I think 92 is so far gone from anybody else. I think this is closer to a redeemed team. And I even still think the redeemed team could beat this current team. I don't know what you guys think about that. Hang on now. Because we got Jeremy at Northern Iowa, listening on the ESPN Chicago app Jeremy say a little bit about that. Hi, Al. Hey, what's up, Jeremy? Not much. And I just call it kind of just thinking about the eras, like, right, like Michael Jordan was the best player in his era. And I don't even know if we think LeBron is, I mean, he's great, but I don't know. It's just, I think they rise above and attacking. Al, do you agree? That's fine. In the era, you have to go LeBron. He's just done so much. I mean, all around player, yeah, you got to go LeBron. I mean, Durant has shown that he can't do it by himself. He helped a really stacked Warriors team, but LeBron has done it year after year. I mean, to the point that he's still on the all-star team and they're looking at him as they can't tell if he's not the best player, not at his age. So I mean, it's hard to argue that. Yeah, I agree. I just, I was going to look thinking more like Michael, everybody talks about how Michael wouldn't hold up against today's athlete. And I just look at it like he was in a different era of sports medicine and, you know, training and nutrition and all that stuff. I think he would have risen up. And I think even the 90s athlete would have, if they were dropping today's era, like Cap says, they would have risen up to a different, you know, a different form of athlete. They think it's just what I look at it. Absolutely. Jordan and those guys, Pippin, they've shown that if they, you know, if they would have had the medicine like this, they totally would have risen to the occasion. And like you said, I'll definitely parrot that. But they didn't like that. Wasn't the time. Like they were just dominant and they were golfing 36 holes and drinking Budweiser and still smacking teams around all over the world. So I'd be like, I mean, it's hard to even compare where these guys need a night off after, you know, two games in a row. Yes. It's a good point. Al and Jeremy, we appreciate the phone call. It is true. The nutrition was different back then, plenty of cigars, a lot of beer, you know, a whole day of golf. It just looked it up. Yeah. Nude beaches. That's what they did. Still wiped the streets with these teams. Jordan and Pippin's play is transferable to 2024. Yes. Especially Pippin's defense. Yes. Imagine that today. Oh my God. If Scotty could play the way they used to play with, you know, physicality, oh my God. He would add a three point touch. Even if he didn't, but if he could add three point touch to that, now that's an all around player. Okay. Totally agree. Yeah. I believe so. It's like Michael Jordan could shoot long distance twos and people look at his three point numbers and go, oh, he couldn't play today. And I'm like, well, if you had a coach who told him you're okay. Step outside and take 10 of them instead of two, the numbers would have looked a little different. Yeah. A lot of it was in the from the foul line down jump shots. That's why people look at de Rosen cross side like, oh, what is he doing? Where's your three point shot? Nope. Hey, I'm just getting buckets. It's with de Rosen with de Rosen could play back there back in those days, bucket get just bucket getter. Agreed. Fourth quarter clutch. He was. That's what he was with the Bulls. Agreed. All right. We got the cap and Jhood cut of the day. That's next right here on Chicago's home for sports. Feel the boom and power of the dark side Friday, July 12th is Star Wars night at win trust field. The force will be with us always as the Schonberg boomers will take on the windy city Thunderbolts featuring Star Wars theme fun and a fireworks and drone show after the game. The fun continues on Saturday, July 13th when the first 1500 fans will receive a replica Jersey thanks to wind trust for a ticket info. Go to boomers baseball dot com again boomers baseball dot com Schonberg boomers baseball field. Boom Justin pottinger. 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Is there a little cover for him or no but his head spins and it spins in one direction and stops when he goes to sleep. So he kind of keeps a castle a strong eye around the room and it was a little tilted to the right. Good night Otis. Good night. Well a good night Otis is what you said good night Otis you say so this is what's happening Shea clearly Mindy has hidden the medicine away from Cap. This is what happened. He's not on his meds. It's sad but we're watching him go senile in front of him. It has nothing to do with it. I'm telling you you are talking to a plastic owl and putting it to bed. Each night Otis goes to his spot yes and that's all folks. The Cap and Jhood cut of the day. Up to you by David Flom, Nat Moore the amazing Chicago cut stake. You got a special occasion. You have a business meeting a lunch. Just want to have a great meal. It's the best Chicago cut stake house on the south north side of the Chicago River. Shea Justin you want to feel old as young people. Sure. Anchorman was released 20 years ago yesterday. 20 years ago that didn't sound right. Anchorman. Yeah. Okay. That's all it was. Wow. It just seems like there was just yesterday. Okay. What is the biggest quote from Anchorman? Your favorite quote from that movie. Favorite quote. What does he say 50% of the time it works all the time. Something like that. Yes. Shea? Milk was a bad choice. Yes. It's so damn hot. Milk was a bad choice. Yes. Do you have a favorite quote from the movie? Oh, I don't know. Off the top of my head. No, but oh, that is a great movie. I might have to go rewatch that one. So when that movie first came out. I love scotch. My kids were so, I love Scott Scott Scott. Yes. My kids were so excited. We sat down to watch the movie and my wife watched like nine minutes of it, not even ten minutes. I'll give her nine and she went, okay, this is the stupidest movie I've ever seen. We're turning it off. And my kids went ballistic and she got up and walked out of the room. She's like, this is hideous. I can't watch this. She is the wet blanket of comedy. She doesn't get it. The reason why it's funny is because it resonates with us because Anchorman looked like Ron Burgundy. Right. And they were kind of like that. They were like a team. Right. Yes. Yeah. I'm in a glass case of emotion. Game seven of the World Series, Anthony Rizzo turned at staying in front of the dugout, like on the step. Today, but Ross, I'm in a glass case of emotion and Ross went, it's only going to get worse. It's the best, man. Twenty years. It's crazy. We thank you for listening and calling in and being part of the program here on cap and Jhood, our thanks to Justin and Sharon, the other side of the glass. How about we do this tomorrow with seven? That sounds like a plan, man. Let's do it. Find out what's going on with the weekend weather with Tracy and more. Not happy with what I'm seeing right now. Blue meow. For cap. I'm J. Good. Tracy. We'll talk to you tomorrow. 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