Kap & J. Hood
7/10 7 AM: Coach Kap's Team Dominates
This is your morning routine. Listen to respect my name. Cap and G 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. And on in-bare. 100.3 HD2. And on ESPN 1000 Chicago. No. No. No. No. David Kaplan and Jonathan Hood. Good morning, everyone! 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. 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. Ooh, God. Welcome in to the cap and G hood morning show. Our ESPN 1000 and we're streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. With David Kaplan, Jonathan Hood with you. We've got Shay. We've got Jack. We've got you for a three hour ride on this one little Wednesday. What open phone lines for you at 312-332-ESPN-332-3776 is our telephone number here on this rainy Wednesday. And cap, boy, what a day for you. That only do you do a award winning show on Tuesday with me. You bring flowers home to Mindy. Good night, Mindy. Take that. Here's some beautiful flowers for you. But then you go to the gym and you put on your whistle. And there you are, coaching in a game yesterday. And I don't know if you saw it was on the bottom line here on Sports Center, the final score of the game in which your team won. I don't know what the score was. We just went out and competed and played hard. Kids were amazing. Yeah. I don't understand what you mean. You don't know what the score was. I mean, it's a sport. You still don't play the game one way, hoodie, the right way. Yes. We go out and compete defensively. We set a tone by really getting after the ball handler. Yeah. And we're on selfish offensively. We push the tempo. We don't look at the scoreboard. We just play the game one way, all in. Well, in the game of life, if not the game of sports, it is about winning and losing. You have to find out where you are. We knew we won. We knew we dominated. Oh, good. So what was the final score? What was that? Final score. What? 40 to 4. Pardon me? What was the final score? 40 to 4. 40 to 4, the final. Back with more in a moment, a cab radio network. That's what happened. You beat the ball club 40 to 4, the competition that your team faced. You won 40 to 4, you say? We did. Huh. Well, how'd you do that? Kids played great, man. Uh-huh. They did. Damon, I think it's Seisel is how you pronounce his last thing. Damon had 14 Avery Zetterman knocking down shots, got two steals, went down the court and laid him in. It was super cool, man. Yeah. I don't understand why you weren't sure of the score. I mean, I just think that's odd. 40 to 4, you say the final. But was there more scoring than that? Was there more than just 44 points score in the contest? To your knowledge? So I wasn't sure what the score was, because when we went up 20 to 4? 24, OK? 20 to 4. Uh-huh. They stopped putting the score up there. Who's they? I don't understand. Scorekeeper. The scorekeeper stopped taking the score. She just left the score. Did she go to the bathroom? No. Lunch, what happened there? They stop. She keeps the scorebook. Like I have the break down here. Yes. I want all the kids to get their credit. We have-- [LAUGHTER] OK. What are you laughing at, Noreley? That's amazing. Well, hold on a second. I mean, Aaron Levoy, Zetterman, in Candela, Zymol, Pajoscus, Pavic, Weed, Downing, Prado, Zygorski. Everybody on the roster got a taste at the basket. It sounds like it. But I'm confused on you're not sure what the final score was. You say the lady walked away from the scores table. No, I say she walked away. She just stopped putting points up for us. Because on the scoreboard, that's a league rule. And I think they don't want to embarrass the kids. But you're smart, I wholeheartedly cosign it. This is why you've lost the fire. I mean, it's one thing for you to say, yeah, I'll never coach again, and now you're back to coaching. OK, that's just you. I mean, whichever way the wind blows. The kids are so much fun to be around there. Awesome. That's fine, Cap. But let's get back to the story here. The story that we're talking about here is that the lady looked at the score, you dominating. Both ends of the floor and says, I'm going to stop putting up numbers. No more points for you on the board. Wait a minute. The other team has got to be able to score two. What I'm saying is, is that if you can't do anything about it, you take your beating and you go home. I've been on the other end of it. It's no fun. When? When I was back coaching. Yeah, in the '80s? No, when I was coaching my kids in Little League, I was coaching Alex's team. We were down like 19 to 2, and they're stealing on us in the seventh inning, and I got tossed because I was yelling at the other coach. I'm like, dude, 19 to 2 in the seventh, and we're stealing? Deal with it, he told me. That's right. Do some about it. And I went at the Empire, and I got tossed. Cap, they turned the scoreboard off. Which I'm fully supportive of. Fully supportive. Can I just tell you something? If you're not coaching, you would think that's an outrage. The old school cap would have said, A, you don't want us to score, stop us, take that. But now, grandfatherly cap says, it's OK. Everyone gets a participation trophy. It's OK. Back after this. You're all right with it? No, it's not that it's a participation trophy, but it was-- we got a really good team, man. Those kids play their tail off. Would you have liked to know, do you have the actual final score? Do you know how, actually, how many points you scored total? I mean, besides the 40? No, that's what we scored. Is that the total? But the scoreboard only said 20 to 4. [LAUGHTER] Oh, that's just fun. I just think it's funny. That's all. She turned the scoreboard off. OK, that's enough scoring. Take that. How about the other team? But the same size as your ball club? We were just bigger and stronger. We were just bigger and stronger. Yeah, yeah. Their coach, really nice guy Jason. He's a police officer. He really tries to hard with those-- they're running their play. Like, I thought-- I'm like, wow, look at that. Like, I thought he did a really good job. It's just-- I got some really good players. I would buy GM. Yeah. Zetterman, put a good team together. So I would ask, so what do you think the other team learned from playing your ball club? That we're really good. [LAUGHTER] Oh, god, the cap. That's not the answer I was looking for. I just want to know-- because you learn from that, right? You say, OK, we got to work harder. We got to just mature and get better. Yeah, they got to get physically stronger. That's all. They just-- they got to develop physically. OK, so, Shay, you hear this. And no surprise that cap is flourishing as a head coach. He's had plenty of time to sit back and just watch how it's done. He's playing Doberman defense against 10-year-olds, by the way. That's exactly what he's doing. He's John Boxy. He's Tech's winner. He's putting the Doberman defense on, just taking his kid down. So should the scoreboard have been shut off? No. Make him wear it. They're 10 years old. [LAUGHTER] I've been-- I was a kid. I got-- That's funny. I got-- I was in bad spots like that playing youth baseball. You got to wear it. You got to feel it. And then you remember what that felt like. And it never happens again. They felt it. Did they? Yes. Could you see it on-- I mean, you're focused on your team. But did you see the other team? Would you see their response, their feeling? Yeah, yes. Do you feel bad? You don't feel bad about the score. It seems like you feel a little bad about it. It was embarrassed to admit it. I think you should say it with your chest. 40 to 4, we beat the hell out of them. I just-- I think someone that goes around on a daily basis telling people to take that, I think it's very interesting that you take them-- Well, do you want me to turn to the police officer head coach the other end who could kick my ass and go, hey, Jason, take that. Yeah, I mean, that's who you are. All of a sudden, now I'm modeling. I feel bad. I beat your team. I feel bad. No, no, no. You take that. You always take that. What's better in that spot if you're the opposing coach? You walk up the cap and get a pat on the head and a good game coach. Or just rough night-- rough night kid, take that. [LAUGHTER] I'm just saying that if you're going to be maximum, take that in every aspect of your life, including your wife and your family, and our listeners, and sports figures, you know? Contreras, like everybody. Yeah. Everyone take your take that except the team that you faced. Feel bad for you. [LAUGHTER] And I dropped the-- I mean, I gave it to Mindia. Take that Sunday. Yeah. Because we came home from being out of town. We had a cooler food that we took from Wisconsin and brought it home. Because otherwise, it gets wasted. It sits in the fridge and it spoils. Yeah. So we come home with it. Where are-- there were some pastries they had bought up there that our son Garrett said, can you bring those home? Yeah. We packed up the cooler, brought it back, and she had the pastries in a bag. Yes. She moved the pastries into the cooler, unbeknownst to me. Because to our drive, she wanted a mistake cooler. Sure. We come in, and she's looking around for the bag with the pastries. Where are the pastries? I said, hon, I don't have them. All over me. Yeah. All over me. And I said, maybe they're in the cooler. She said, well, if they're in the cooler, you would have been the one that put them in there. I said, I haven't touched that cooler. Only thing I did was take it off the ground and put it in because it's heavy. Yeah. And take it out, wheeled it in, haven't opened it. Yes. She's like, there's no way they're in the cooler. If you didn't put them in there, then you left them up there. I'm getting accused, of course. She opens the cooler, and they're right there. That's right. Right there. And she's like, oh, wait, I think I'd put them in right before we pulled out. Oh. I said, take that. I want an apology now. And? Sheepishly, she gave me-- Yeah. She should give you one, exactly. You'd give it to you immediately as you asked for. Sheepishly, because you're the one. You're the victim at all costs every time it's you. She hasn't treated you well. I've said that for years. But think about this. But again, the question still stands about the 16 points. Is it too early to stop keeping score in a youth basketball game? I say tongue in cheek that it's interesting how that all work. I'm just glad that your team won. But it just shows you your coaching prowess in which you've put in the install for these kids to be able to be as good as they have been. I think that says a lot for you, which I said, you should have gone back to coaching. And now, when people start hearing this, you start getting calls from the NCAA. Big game tonight. Another big game. Yeah, big game tonight. OK. 3, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, ESPN is our phone number. Northside Michaels on Cap and J-hood. Michael, good morning. Good morning, fellas. How you doing? Good. What's up, Mikey, Mike? What do you-- What do you think of all this, Mike? Yes. So, both of them want to say Cap, congratulations. Thank you. It's all to the kids, man. They were there awesome. So, I want to offer up my opinion. I'm not taking a sign. I'm going to share this with you. I am an IHSA sports official. I want to say kudos to your league and to the scorekeeper, where I do football. Now, I used to do baseball. We have rules in place to prevent lopsided scores like that. For example, when one team gets a 28-point lead, then the team that is in the league cannot run free. No passes, no blitz. Everything has to be up the middle. They must take some action to do something about that score. F in our league that I work with, if there's a huge lopsided score, that coach may find himself in front of a committee and a panel. These are 10-year-olds, they're not pro. They're not from out there, because their parents want them to get some exercise, have some fun, and make some wholesome relationships with other adults from children at home age. Mike, if they just run the football offensively, is that a violation also? You said no sweeps and no throwing the football offensively, but can they just run it? Pass to go up the middle between the tackle. That is correct. I'm getting my defensive lineman in and get him a few carries. Boom, right through there, touch down. [LAUGHTER] And if that coach finds himself in front of a committee, because the answer like that, he may not be coaching anymore. It does matter. I'm also a special education educator. And it matters. These are 10-year-olds, and we have a bad habit of all over the world of treating a lot of these kids as miniature adults, which they are not. And we need to remind ourselves that, like I said, they're here to get some exercise, have some fun, and make some friends. You are. You are so right. Yes. [INAUDIBLE] Because you came to practice. You participated throughout the whole season. Yes, you get a trophy. The winners, the champions, get a bigger trophy. But trophies are not that expensive, and everybody gets one. You are correct. I have a son who went through special education. So God bless you for what you do for those kids. And I agree with him 100%. So you're going to turn off the dormant defense now? Not at the start. And we have a tough game tonight. I just did that. But you're going all 94 feet, though, right? No, you can't press till the final two minutes, only if you're down. OK. So we just pick up at half court. And if you have a 15-point or more lead, you have to pick them up at the three-point line. You can't be out there trapping at the half court or picking them up there. And I agree with all-- look, I got a really good team. Those kids play their tail off. But there's going to be a game where we're going to have to wear it, too. These are 10-year-olds. Probably not. You're coaching. More than likely not. You had the most experience. You've seen it all. You're going to get it done. Demanding. Take that. I need you to box out. Do you hear me? Yes, coach. I just want the kids to have-- I tell them all the time. We have two rules. You play hard. You're on time. Yes. If you're not on time, you won't play. Yes. You have a responsibility. Our game's at 6.55. You're there at 6.30. I got there at 6.10. All my guys were there by 6.15. No question. If you get a chance to see when it caps games live, it will remind you of some of those great Nolan Richardson teams from Arkansas. That's exactly what you're going to see. So just so people understand. Wow. In youth sports. 312-332-ESP at 332-3776 is our phone number. So 16 points. Is it too early to stop keeping score in a youth basketball game? Shea says that's way too early. Said, hey, let him wear it. That's what he says. They're 10. I can't do that. I just think it's fun. I think it's fun. My angle on it is I'm glad that you're coaching and that you're enjoying yourself and that you're winning. We're just having fun, man. That's my angle. We had a good time last night. And we'll hopefully have a good time tonight. I just want kids to have a good experience and have fun. Absolutely. 40 to 4 year final, back with more of the post game show after this on ESPN 1000 and the cap radio network. Welcome back to Captain Jay Hood Experience. Weekdays from 7 to 10. On Chicago's home for sports. ESPN. Chicago. It's a Captain Jay Hood morning show. On ESPN 1000 and streaming on the SP in Chicago app. Glad to have you with us here on this Waddle Wednesday. Still to come. We have a shot or no shot at eight o'clock. If you're just joining us for talking about cap, he's back to coaching. I'll never coach again, kid. Take that. He's back coaching. But there's 10 year olds. They're 10 year olds though that he's coaching. And he has is undefeated so far. And last night's game, he and his team walloped the competition say we won big. We don't have to embarrass the kids by putting the score out there. Walloped the kids 40 to 4. That was the that was the fun. That's what you told me. Walloped. And so now another game back to back game. I did not use the word walloped. Oh, I use the word while I just said we won comfortably. Yes. Yes. Well, I would well, if you were going to write this in the newspaper, that's how it would be written. And what I'm saying is is that the question is for the audience is is 16 points to early to stop score in a youth basketball game. Shay believes that, hey, you keep it going because they have to learn, right? Shay, that's what you're saying. They have to keep learning. You got to wear it. Yeah. You got to remember what it felt like to see 40 to 4 on that scoreboard so they don't ever say it again. What are you embarrassed about? You came on the air and said, are we one 40 to four? You asked to put the tweet out. Yeah. Nobody's embarrassed. You don't have to be ashamed. You won 40 to 4. Yeah. And so we're just trying to figure out how do you handle it? As I asked, what do the other team learn from it? And I guess they say, hey, you know what? You got to step it up a notch because there's a great competition in this league, right? If you're the coaching on the other side. Correct. Yeah. Tom's saying. What's so wrong about what I'm saying? What's so wrong with Shay saying? Hey, man, you're the one back to coaching. And we'll celebrate you today. There's nothing to celebrate me. Celebrate those kids. Oh, man. They played their tail off. Of course. Those kids, it is so much fun to stand there. Like, I don't sit down. I just stand and watch. Yeah. And everybody played the same number of minutes. We had all 10 of our guys there. So we played four minutes, four minutes, four minutes. We had four minutes to perform it. And those kids play so hard. It's amazing to watch. Where do you think that comes from? You got to have a mission statement. You wanted to play hard to play hard. But it's awesome. But you can't get people that don't play hard. It's unsustainable. Motor, I think, you're born with a motor. And then you can be coached, obviously. Those kids, like, one of the kids, his dad played football in the Big Ten, his mom was a Big Ten tennis. Like, he's got jeans. Yeah. I mean, these kids all compete, man. All of them. Let me just say this. And they all were cheering for each other. Yeah. Which was super cool to watch. Let me just say this. Seriously. Would I be in touch? I'll say this. That I think that we've evolved, we have evolved as a sports society. Clear it out here. No, I'm good. And I'm powering through. We have evolved as a sports society cap in which there was a time where, indeed, you did have to wear it. And you just had to look at that scoreboard, whether it's football, basketball, baseball, whatever. You just have to do it. I think that we've evolved in that we want kids to stay more involved in sports. I can go through neighborhoods in which I used to play softball or baseball. And it's, I mean, it's nothing but grass there, or weeds, because kids don't want to play. And I just think that when you say that, hey, you know, we'll cut the scoreboard off because we want them to come back, that's a reason for them to return. Like, okay, you know, we didn't win today. We can learn from this and move forward. You don't want to lose kids as far as sports are concerned. And so I think that instead of just beating a team or a bunch of kids down, the kid can be encouraged and say, you know what, we didn't win today, but we're going to come back. Yeah. Because in my day and your day, it's who it was. It was a goose egg on the scoreboard. That's what it was. And you had to be tough enough to handle it. I think it's a little bit of a difference in this era. You want kids to continue to play sports and get exercise and have fun. Yeah. It bothers me to drive by parks and there's nobody in them. Yeah. God, that was where we hung out. We played every day. Yeah. So. Yeah. Kenosha, Wisconsin, Lenny is on ESPN 1000. Hey, Lenny. Good morning. I just, you know, I wanted to comment off of Mike's statement. Uh, I think the way that they're running things now with our generation is just awkward. You know, that 40 to four score definitely should have stayed on the board. There's no way it should have came off because now you're looking at kids that worked hard like your kids, your kids worked hard to get that 40 to four score up there and nobody seen it. They cut the scoreboard off because the other kids didn't work hard. No, they weren't. Those other kids played hard, man. They did. They tried. We've got some really, really 10 years old. These kids are tough. Asical. Yeah. But I remember when he asked you if you would take the job. I was listening that morning too and you asked them what kind of kids am I going to have? You know, are these kids going to? They play? You know, what's going on here? What am I going to have? And he told you, yeah, we get all competitive kids. It's a competitive league. All these other kids on the other teams, they paid to get on that league too. You know, this isn't free signups and, you know, everyone paid to get in that league to cut the scores on the kids is killing them. And it kind of chased me out of our coaching up here in Kenosha on our football league. Like Mike was saying, if you get up 21 points, you can't throw the ball. You can't run sweep. You can only go right up the middle. So now, so now let's say I only run right up the middle. If I still score right now, I'm in front of a committee telling them what happened. You know, there's no congratulations to the kids that worked their butt off in practice to beat this other team by 21 points. But Lenny, here's the thing though, Lenny, here's the thing. You know that you won, your team knows that they won no matter what the score was. That's correct. Let me listen, you can talk about it in the locker room, but there's no need to necessarily rub it in. I guess that's, that's my point. As I said, I think that we've evolved as a sports society in which you don't have to hang up a 73, nothing, your final and just have to have it on the scoreboard for the rest of the game. You don't have to do that. Agreed. Back in the day, we were armed to be able to handle a cap. It's different today. It is different. And I said, I think there is, and again, it's not softer. It's just different to me. It's the way that we handle youth sports today. It's just different. Like those kids that we played against, some of them just were, they were physically outmatched. And they played hard, man. They hustled. I heard their coach Jason calling out plays. Those kids ran them. Yeah. It's just by execution. That's all. And again, it's learning. It's about learning at that level. You're just trying to develop and learn, totally get it. It's not like when we talk about professional sports and how a guy or a girl did not get the job done. It's just different. It's different. Because it's all a learning experience for all the kids, win or lose, as we go to Kyle and Oprah on ESPN 1000. Hey, Kyle. Good morning. Hey, good morning, gentlemen. How are you today? We're good, man. What's up? Thanks for checking in. Don't worry, man. Hey, quick. I have a couple of quick points for cap one. When you guys were up by 20, what did you do with your team to maybe work on some other skills? Maybe did you have them dribble with their offhand? Did you put in a minimum amount of pass? Yes. And I hope you also went to the bench. Everybody played the same amount of minutes. I have 10 kids. We went. We changed like hockey lines, five in, five out period. And we had a minimum. We were up, I don't know, we were up 20 minimum number of passes. Yeah. You can't, we stopped trying to fast break. We didn't pick up at half court. It's what you do. Yeah. You can't tell them not to shoot. They're there to play too. Exactly. No, but did you have them work on their offhand dribbling? We do that in practice. We're not, you're not going to practice dribbling with your offhand during the game. We just play. We just don't push the ball inside and then press none of that. None of that. Well, no, no, but, but, and I'm just speaking from a coach who's done it at basketball and youth lacrosse, right? It's going to be difficult when you're up by a substantial amount, whether the scoreboards on or off, because the kids know, and you and I both know cap, the parents on the other team, they know, right? They're the scoreboards on or on or off. We always try to work on our skills that needed to be improved during an actual game situation. There's nothing beats that. Yeah. Yeah. And again, you're not getting in the middle of the game, go, okay, we're only dribbling with our left hand. No. Yeah. That's as, that to me would be as egregious as trying to press and, you know, score a hundred points. That's, that's not what it's about. You have it cooking and you probably would score with your offhand too. So now, now you're definitely rubbing it in and you don't need to do that. We just, we as minimum number of passes and I get it. The kids are so unselfish. It was super cool to watch, you know, Thomas Prado cheering for Charlie and Candela for Avery or for Johnny or for Jack or for the miles or this one or that. That's the thing that was super cool to look, I'm going, wow, these kids are cheering for each other. Super cool. Sure. Three, one, two, three, two, ESPN, three, two, three, seven, seven, six is our telephone number. We're talking about that. Also, the Cubs with a victory against Baltimore. How did they do it? We talk about it. Otis the owl, baby. Here we go. I told you. I had to talk with Otis. Walk through a restaurant last night with Otis under my arm. Not Otis to the restaurant. Yeah. Otis is resting right now back in the office at home. Otis, four and one, Otis is doing a good job. Will you take Otis to the World Series? Oh, wait. You have to go to the World Series. I didn't know that we were eliminated already. I didn't know that they put a rule in and said the Cubs are eliminated. All I know is Otis is four and one. We go back to work tonight with him and Aga. Steel tomorrow. Well, I can tell you, Shay, but you stick to your analytics, kid. You understand you're an old cook, right? Captain Jay Hood with day one and seven to ten. Wow. Here's to Dave's headline, headline with Captain Jay Hood. Cubby's got to win over the Baltimore Orioles yesterday, 9-2 at Camden Yards. Michael Busch, Ian Hap, both Homer in the game. I'll change the tie-on through six innings of two run baseball in the bullpen, slam the door with three shut-out innings. Cubs and Orioles again tonight, first pitch, 5-35 from Maryland, Otis the Al, now four and one as the new unofficial Cubs mascot. White Sox and twins will play a straight double dip today after the rainout yesterday. So here are both games here on ESPN 1,000, starting with the pregame show at 1230. Tampa Bay race, shorts up, Wanda Franco has been formally charged with sexual abuse and exploitation against a minor in the Dominican Republic. He has not played since the accusations first surfaced back in August of 2023. And based on a poll of AP voters, Caitlin Clark holds a lead over Angel Reese in the WNBA's rookie of the year award at the Midway Point of the season, Reese set the WNBA record for consecutive double doubles with 13th, currently leads the league in rebounding. Jack, Captain Jay Hood are back and you know this man, Chicago's home for sports, ESPN Chicago. It's a cap and jay good morning show on ESPN 1,000 and we are streaming on the ESPN Chicago app with you till 10 o'clock. So my Greenberg comes in at 10 followed by Carmony Yerko 12 to 1230 into White Sox baseball double header against the dreaded Minnesota twins first game 1230 pregame right here on the home of the White Sox ESPN 1,000 black and a dollar. They will be on YouTube YouTube.com look for black and a dollar on their channel or check them out on the ESPN Chicago app. All right, cap. So the Cubs yesterday, as we talked about it, it was a big series for the Cubs right into the all star game. It's the Orioles and then the St. Louis Cardinals. So as I told you, the Orioles, real ass team man, they have played really good baseball. However, the Cubs that we saw yesterday is the Cubs who've been waiting to see all season long. 92. I mean, I hear Jim Deshais talk about ambush all the time, big time on that offense for the Chicago Cubs. But after it early and often in the first four innings of the contest, yesterday, watching that game was very entertaining to see Michael Bush continue to be one of the best hitting first baseman in the game. Look at his numbers. Yes. They did a comparison yesterday on social of Michael Bush against Pete Alonzo who. A lot of people, me, you included, said, well, I'd love to see Pete Alonzo here. Guess what? Michael Bush's numbers are better than Pete Alonzo. So when we talk, it's funny. We just talked about this yesterday about cornerstones for the Cubs, right? And we said, well, what about Michael Bush? And look what he does. Yeah. I mean, he got home run yesterday, four for six, two runs and an RBI slash I have 273, 365, and 473, we look at the cornerstones, that's a guy for your future, for your present, but definitely for your future. So if he's part of the future, then that makes it, you know, one less thing you have to consider doing in the off season. Pete Alonzo is going to be a free agent. Why would you spend the insane money that he's going to cost if you got a guy that you like who's 26 years old, making no money, who's actually playing better? Today I had a good night, Ian Hap has been on fire and over the last six weeks, weighted runs created plus, which is a great metric to look at a player's abilities. 100 is league average. If you're 140, you're a star, Mike Trout in his heyday got to 175, 180 and that was just unheard of. You know, over the last six weeks, Ian Hap is third in baseball and over 200, over 200 weighted runs created plus. Show Hay Otani is one of the two guys ahead of him. When you get that type of offensive help, James Sittai own pitches really well. They jump Dean Kramer, the Orioles starter and then the bullpen gives you three, shut down innings and hunt their biggie comes in. Kid throws a hundred. They drafted him out of Harvard. My question is why would it take so long to get him up here? Yeah. At point 79 ERA, a triple A, his family was at the game. He made his debut. It was super cool to watch. I just want people to understand what the Cubs are facing here against the Orioles. And again, the series is not over yet. It's just the point is that the way the Cubs laid it on the Orioles yesterday was impressive. We're talking about Henderson, Rushman, Santon, dare, all hern. We're talking about players cap in the first four of the lineup for the Orioles, the OPS. We have an OPS of 988, 804, 803 and 812. That's a far cry from anybody on the Cubs. The Cubs have one player that has an OPS that's 800 or above and that's Bush. But you're talking about a murders row as far as getting on base and being productive. The Orioles and the way that the Cubs laid them out early, you know, the old adage in baseball. If you want to try to get a lead, get it early and try to hold on to that lead, get to the starting pitcher early. That's exactly what happened yesterday. Yeah, you're exactly right. The game was close in the middle till Ian Hap broke it open with the three run bomb. Now you get him a naga tonight, but you got to face in this series is it Corbin Burns tonight or is Corbin Burns tomorrow night? I think Corbin Burns is tonight. That is a really tough pitcher to have to try and beat in his park where he's very, very comfortable. He's been very, very good and they're going to be hacked off. Yes they will. It's Burns against Eminaga tonight. And then tomorrow you have justed steel going on the hill and he's been throwing the heck out of the ball against Suarez who has a 2.48 ERA, five and two. So the next two games are going to be very, very tough games to win. See what kind of showed us shows up here tonight? Yeah, because we for the all-star game, when you really take a look at it, you pull the layers back cap, he was dominant early because the league did not know what to expect from Eminaga. Then you start to see, whoa, he's really kind of a two-pitch pitcher and you have to guess and it's all very effective. His stuff, what impresses me about it, Eminaga is how he throws pitches on the outsides and he's able to try to get the pitches and the strikes on the black on the outside. He's very good with that. Yeah, he, you're exactly right. He doesn't split the middle of the plate. If it goes down the middle, it's probably going to get hit. He's very good at up, down, side to side. We'll see. This is the pitching match up of the night. Oh, God. You know, all baseball, Eminaga, Corbin Burns, absolutely right. And this is a huge week for the Cubs. They've won four out of five and now a chance to go take a series over the win tonight. And then you have four in St. Louis. Shae, I wish you could go first that. Shae, I wish you could go back to your files of your shot of no shots because I'm sure, this time last year, you asked when the Cubs are 43 and 49, are they sellers or are they buyers? Because guess what? Today they're 43 and 49. Oh, yeah, because his weighted runs created double plus minus this with this ex-fip he would tell you. Yeah, they're done. And then they ended up getting red hot and getting the 12 games over 500, which completely destroyed all his analytical mindset. Actually, last year offensively, they had really good analytics. I've brought that up multiple times this year that last year, offensively, analytically, they were good. And then they were able to step up after the train deadline. They played well up to early September and then the bottom fell out. They ran out of gas because they had enough bullpen help. They finished. We've said one game behind the Diamondbacks, which is true, but the Diamondbacks had the tiebreaker against them. So they actually were too behind to get to the playoffs. This time last year, they were 43 and 49. Yep. Now they're 43 and 49 again. Yep. Okay. Can they make the run? You said that more than likely it's not a run left in them. That's what you said. I said that. I think what? Last year ago? Yeah. Yeah. I heard you were putting dirt over the grave. I was. But this, but this time. And I got Otis. Of course. Yeah, that's always helps an owl. The owl, the wise owl is Otis the owl, man. There's something. There's some karma coming from Otis the owl. Okay. Good karma. Oh, we'll see. No pun intended. No, fully intended, fully intended. There he is. Everybody. He's David Kaplan. Thank you. 3, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, ESPN, 3, 3, 2, 3, 7, 7, 6 is our telephone number of your phone calls coming up. Are you buying it? The Cubs can turn this around now again. Two more against the Orioles and then the St. Louis Cardinals ran into the break. Captain Jhood on ESPN 1000 also on our YouTube channel. Captain Jhood are back and you know this man. Chicago's home for sports ESPN Chicago. Captain Jhood on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app Ian Hap goes yard. Time to have a fly ball right field. That one will struck that's on its way gone onto Utah Street. Ian Hap stays hot three run homer and it is seven to the Cubs go on to win nine to two against Baltimore. We'll see what happens in the next couple of games. White Sox by the way are rained out and they're going to have a double header against the dreaded twins. It's something man. You know I saw the video and now you saw it too of the announcement of Gary Crochet going to the All-Star game. Yep. Could you imagine I mean the players in that locker room and it's like this guy again Pedro. Okay now what? There has to be something special because you're gathering us for what what are you going to say to us. I mean Ed you know it was going to be contrived right if you're a player in there and he brings the team together you know it had to be for something right it wasn't because the ball club is bad or because there's no standards. Correct. So it's just like when Council came in there Council you saw the video of Council announcing shoulder right. Yeah it was super cool super cool Pedro comes in Ireland all right listen up oh god. This guy. I went to the weight room it's like it's like I'll congratulate Crochet on my own time. But you know that when he says listen up like what what are you what are you going to tell me now as bad as this ball club is what are you going to tell me coach skip what do you got for me skip yeah and if you have something actually good where you've been like these these videos are supposed to be like a surprise I just I just think that that's fascinating it at 26 and 67 what do you got for me skip 3 1 2 3 3 2 3 7 7 6 is our phone number by the way a couple of notes on Ian Hap that we've been talking about I asked you during the break I said you know he's a little bit of a conundrum not bad not good I'm just saying that you're waiting for the consistency on a regular basis from Hap ok so my friend Cody Del Mendo does a good job on the cubbies yeah he said like with runners in scoring position this year Ian Hap is a 278 4 36 6 25 slash line a 193 weighted runs created plus and a 1061 OPS in 94 played appearances with a runner in scoring position that is ridiculously good and since May 26 Ian Hap 273 396 09 that's a 999 OPS that's insane 11 homers 10 doubles 38 RBI's a 177 weighted runs created plus he is killing it some empty calories early though wasn't it yeah he was terrible early he would tell you that yeah I know he and he's a really good dude Ian is a very very honest person he would say to you I've been terrible early yes but now he's been amazing he's got a flush on I don't like our team I think right now I feel like I'm not ready to go through all this time right now you never know how I feel but he's going to flow right now he's going to flush it and you're ready for the White Sox out of the day bring it on from J. Kuda number of wins on Mondays since opening day Yukon men's basketball won White Sox nothing read that again number of wins on all on Mondays since opening day Yukon men's basketball won the White Sox 0 oh my god 3 1 2 3 3 2 ESPN 3 3 2 3 7 7 6 is our phone number go ahead shake how is that possible you haven't tripped and fallen into a win on a Monday one time how is that possible they just won their first road series opener in I think what eight road series at least no they won it the marlin's yeah White Sox yeah cubs and White Sox both because I think the Cubs won their first road series opener since May 10th or something like that yeah the Sox first of the year crazy Taylor and Bloomington on Captain Jay Hood Taylor good morning they good morning boys how we doing well man what's up hey cap what's the name of your guys bitty basketball team the captains with a captain yeah hoodie I got an idea all right we we've had a rough couple of weeks for the camper and I think we need to everybody band together get air Canada to sponsor this team oh my god oh my god Canada Captain baby take that that'd be amazing they owe us they do owe you actually that's a great one if they owe you for having your bag sequestered in the airport across the Timmy hose the Tim Hortons coffee and donut shop they should be the title so I had to fill out a form the other day to get them to pay for my hotel room they denied it come on man yeah denied sorry we canceled your flight for mechanical reasons after six hours in the airport and so that's on you what no and then I asked for them to reimburse me for the flight I had to take the next day because they kept telling me there were no available flights yeah I had to get back here to work so I paid I told you this I booked a $1,700 flight Toronto to Chicago then I went back on two minutes later and there was a flight like an hour later for 700 and whatever so I booked the $700 one cancel the $1,700 one and said I'd like you to reimburse me for that you said you couldn't get me back I had to go to work they couldn't get me back till Tuesday the lady told me this was Saturday night they won't pay for the flight I understand that though but the bottom line cap is do people right that's all I'm saying yep I mean you would hope that cap at some point would get back on Air Canada after the experience like hey you know what we didn't do this right but we'll make sure we in reimbursed you so it's not just a complete loss yeah just do just do customers right but see here's the thing cap they look at you and they say yeah he's just a customer with a bad experience we could replace him correct it's kind of like how some sports owners are you're not gonna come to the game that's fine we'll find someone else to replace you and to me that's not right good luck yeah absolutely ridiculous this powerful microphone that you have you're telling everybody about your experience how do you think other people will think about that airline I heard cap say this I probably will avoid that they were horrible to deal with horrible there's the one lady I told you this at O'Hare Maria Maria was amazing at Air Canada baggage claim and she herself tracked my bag down from Chicago in Toronto and I got it a week later she was amazing yep Maria you see Maria at the baggage claim at O'Hare you tell her she rocks yeah it's just good that again it's not against the entire airline I know people here whatever we want to hear they're good people everywhere but again take care of your customers agreed after an experience like that just take care of everybody make sure you're there to put smiles on people's faces yep when you're a company right totally agree totally agree we got shadow no shot that's in two minutes on cap and jayhood