Kap & J. Hood

7/3 7 AM: Chicago Baseball: Bad to Worst!

Hour 1: Kap has waived the white flag on the Cubs. Hoodie knew the White Sox was bad in February, the teams have went from "Bad to Worst" both the White Sox and Cubs took L's yesterday. The bleeding won't stop, some Chicago baseball fans are ready to move on to the Bears and believe baseball is over. Are you already onto Caleb Williams and the Bears?

Duration:: 48m
Broadcast on:: 03 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

Chicago, this is your morning routine. Listen to respect my name. Cap and G hood. That's right. That's right. We're bad. Watch the show on Twitch. Follow ESPN 1000 Chicago. Stream the show on the ESPN Chicago app. And on in there. 100.3 HD2. And on ESPN 1000 Chicago. No, no, no, no. David Kaplan and Jonathan Hood. Good morning, everyone. Bring '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. Welcome in to the Cap and G hood morning show. On ESPN 1000, and we are streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. With David Kaplan, Jonathan Hood with you, we've got Charlie. We've got J. Moore. We've got you for a three hour ride on this Waddle Wednesday. What open phone lines for you at 312-332-3776 is our telephone number. And Cap, once again, you and I, watching Chicago baseball. And once again, two unhappy households. The Kaplan household and the Hood household unsatisfied by the effort for the Cubs and the White Sox yesterday. Unbelievable. I cannot wait for the gates to open in Lake Forest so we can start talking football on a regular basis again. Caleb Williams, optimism, all that. Because this sucks on a nightly basis. So watching the game and you and I are texting back and forth. And I, first of all, want to read-- Oh, God. --text.gov. Then my guy Hoodie is the greatest. You texted me last night during the ball game. 6-6 now. And it said, "Get ready to go. Cleveland Moneyline. "Cappy Copac coming in." I said, "I'll be rooting for you." Of course, they score on a fly ball of the center. Now, I know that Andres Jimenez is one of the faster dudes in the game. And he's on third with one out. It is a medium fly ball. The chance that Robert's going to throw him out is got to be, I don't know, 2 in 10. Maybe. Maybe at that. And Robert does not even round the ball the way you're taught to come in. A little crow hop, they call it, "Bam, let it go with all your momentum." And take a shot. If the guy scores, ball games over, you lose. And we play the game, as her med words would say, to win the baseball game. I don't care if there are 700 games under 500. You play one way. You play the right way. Period. It's like manners when you're eating. I tell my kids. We don't have company manners and then eat like a slob at our table. Not going to happen. We eat one way. We play the game one way. We play hard all the time. We try to win. He just caught the ball. I think he forgot how many outs there were. And caught it. Just stood there and watched. Oh, there he goes home. My question is, why does the manager do nothing about it? Not say a word in the post game where he didn't even want to address it. It's asked of him. He doesn't even want to address it. That bothers me. Had I been his general manager and you and I talked about this. Page last night. Yeah, come in in the hotel in Cleveland. Oh, hey, Chris, what's up? Pedro, I appreciate everything. I called your agent. We'll have a check sent to you for what we owe you. We're changing managers tonight. Done. Because they have a loser's mentality and that guy tolerates it. That makes him a loser. He tolerates this nonsense. Ridiculous, horrible effort. And the guy had four RBI's last night and he'll be best remembered for not even attempting to throw home. And the question I had, I went at it with someone on Twitter and I said, well, what if just on the off chance that Jimenez slipped? One in a million. As he's running, he stumbles. He could get up and crawl home because nobody threw the ball. That's a loser. That's what a loser does. The pitch, swinging a pop fly out in the center. Roberts drifting back, trying to get behind the ball. Jimenez tags and the Guardians are going to win. Robert didn't even make a throw. He just could not get behind it. And it was plenty deep enough as it was. Yeah, he was not going to throw him out from catching that even if he did get behind it. A game ending sack fly and the Guardians beat the Sox seven to six. Well, let me make sure that Lennon DJ understands something. Let me make sure they understand something right here on the home of the White Sox ESPN 1000. I don't care if he didn't have a beat on the ball if he felt like he couldn't throw him out. You give the effort because you're professional. Darren Jackson's better than that. He's better than that because the competitor and DJ would have said, I'm going to throw it. If I got to throw my arm out, I'm going to put it toward home plate. Hey, anything could happen. But the point is, you just don't catch the ball and say, Oh, well, sixty third loss is just like any other night. Let's go to the next game. That's not right. That's not showing competitive spirit. It doesn't matter whether or not he could throw him out or not. It's the idea that you're a dead-ass ball club and then you do that. You scratch and claw your way back into the game. You score two runs in the sixth, three runs in the seventh. At six, six, I know that it was a fair to complete. As soon as I saw Copic go through the gates in Cleveland, that'll be all. Because I know it was a non-saved situation. It was a whole situation. There's no way that Copic can get out of this because I'm a White Sox fan. I know what that looks like. But the idea that you don't even throw toward home plate is a microcosm of how dead this baseball team is. I don't care, DJ and Len, that, well, you know, you wouldn't have had a play anyway. It doesn't matter. The point is, is that you give effort. It's almost like Robert said, you know what, I carried the ball club. I gave you four RBIs, two for four, gave you a home run. That's all I need to do tonight. That's all. But you're not going to do the other end, the extra. The idea that also, that in the infield, that you're trying to make a play at third base and then the young throws the ball into someone's back. You can't even throw a ball to third base. This team is awful. And I'm going to tell you something else. I have never been in my career. You can say whatever you want to say about me as a fan, as a broadcaster, whatever. But in my career, I have never been one to be a coach killer, saying, "You know what? This guy should be fired. This guy should." I've never been that guy because I know that the players and management and ownership, for the most part, do what they can to be able to win. We can poke holes in it because we're fans. We can see the underachievement when teams are not fairing well. But let me just tell you right now. Look, call me late to the party, whatever. I don't want to see Pedro Grafal in a White Sox uniform as a manager in this ball club. I'm surprised when I woke up this morning that he's still the manager of the team. I know I've been indifferent to Grafal since he's been here because there's no way he's going to win here. You just know that there's not a commitment to winning over there at 35th in Shields. And that's fine, Cap. The point is, is that he should not be in place as manager. It doesn't change the fortunes of the White Sox. But ultimately, here's a guy that makes promises. When he came in and talked about, "We're going to play hard, and we're going to beat your ass," and all this stuff, all these declarative statements he said. You've seen the clips about how Pedro Grafal talked about the kind of baseball the White Sox are going to play. Cap, I haven't seen any inkling of that. Of course, you've got to win the way you win, you've got to have players. But you don't even have a way of playing baseball. There is no White Sox style outside of suck. So the promises that he made, Grafal, talking about how, you know, we're going to play hard, and we're going to run the bases hard, and all this other stuff, you're not seeing that. When you don't throw the ball in in a crucial situation, even if you're not going to throw the guy out, you've got to make the effort. Not making the effort tells you where the White Sox are as an organization. They don't play for Grafal, they don't play for each other. And that's exactly what I'm talking about. Today, Grafal should be fired. I'm never that guy. But that's enough, Cap. That's enough. You can't just keep going out there. You're going to lose 100 plus ball games. We said that at March. But there's a lot of teams that are just not good. You still have enough talent. But when you don't have enough effort in your beating yourself, that's even worse. That's worse. I've seen bad teams on the north side and the south side all my life. And when you at WGN down the street would say, "Hey, you know what? I'm looking at this roster. This team's not good enough." Me over here saying as a Sox fan, "Eh, you know what? We're not going to contend maybe next year." But when you beat yourself, that's the worst. That's the worst. So not only do you not have talent, but you're beating yourself too? Yeah, I'm not throwing the ball in. Yeah, I'm going to throw into runners back because I can't complete a double play. I don't run the base as well. I don't know how many outs there are. That's when you're beating yourself. I don't want to see it anymore. That's enough. That was awesome. You are exactly correct. And there is no commitment to playing the game the right way over there. Whether it was guys jogging down to first. Well, it's growing a little tight. Then don't be in the lineup. Either you play the game the right way or you don't play. If he had hit a ball last night to the morning track and he ended up catching it running toward the wall. Okay, I got it. Not going to happen. That was a medium center field fly ball. He never even, you heard Len say, and I'll disagree with Len. I love Len. He said rounding the ball trying to come in to get momentum on the thing. He never even did that. No, he just stood back battling and flat footed. Yeah, ball game over. And if you go watch, and I like Michael Copac, I know he's struggling. He needs a fresh start. He needs a fresh set of eyes on him. Guys got electric stuff. He stood there. Did you see him? He walked toward the foul line and he's looking back like he didn't even try. No. No. And so, but again, that's the ball club. That's the ball club. That's what it looks like. I mean, so Pedro, before I was asked, what's going on with Robert, the night inning? Well, there is no throw. What happened there? No, he's playing in, you know, because we just want to know. Ball was hit 309 feet, 310 feet. He's playing in. He's going back. You know, even if he runs back and comes in, I mean, there's no play there. I mean, we're going to dissect that. We're making something out of nothing, really. That's not, you know, I thought I got out from there. Damn! But that's not the point, Pedro. The point is, your guy just quit on the play. Game over, not even going to try. Didn't even try and round over behind the ball to get momentum on the throw. His teammates were looking back like, wow. And if you listen to the play-by-play call from John Shriffin, they were incredulous. Nobody wants to throw their teammates under the bus. I get it. That was a joke. Shriffin said, nope, nope, that's unacceptable. Let's throw it to Chuck and Aussie. That was it. Yeah. And I think that stone concurred. Again, as a competitor, you still have to have the effort. Again, maybe a lot of us can't relate to that because we've never been in major league baseball uniforms. But even if you're on your favorite softball team, for God's sakes, throw the ball in. I don't care. But 24, that was at 24 in 63 play. They're every bit of 24 in 63. And so for Pedro to just be indifferent to it, that tells me that he's indifferent to this job and indifferent to try to make this team better. So you're just not going to do anything, right? It's almost like I said we're effing flat, and so now I can't say anything about the ball club now. Well, if you're afraid by a dog, if you're afraid to say something when you're ball club, this is on you. It's on Chris gets. It's on Jerry Ryan's door. But also Pedro, look around. Again, here's a guy who's supposed to be a-to-be manager just to say, okay, for some of our young guys, we're going to make sure they're major league baseball ready. When Grafalle was hired, I told you at the time, I'm indifferent to it because he's not going to win anything here. Whether it's the GM, whether it's the owner, they're not going to win anything here. But the idea that this goes unchecked, then he doesn't need to be here. He gives a shoulder shrug to that, that we're making a big deal out of this. Okay, well then, you don't need to be here. Find a manager that does make this a big deal. You know who would think this a big deal? David Ross. He would think that's a big deal. How about that? You're exactly correct. I'm just saying, like, I'm never that guy, Cap. But, and we have fun on this show, and we, you know, we talk about things and hope that our teams get better, but there's no need for him to be in the dugout today. Absolutely not. In the air, is it deep enough? Yes. Robert makes the catch. Here comes Jimenez. No throw. Guardians win it. You're hit. No throw. Tom Hamilton, happy. Yes. Not a ESPN Cleveland. Happy. That guy's awesome, by the way. I mean, there you have it, Cap, but that's it. Now, from bad to worse, the Cubs play the Phillies yesterday. And what was the preview from David Kaplan? Hey, kid. No swabber. No Harper. We should be able to hang in there. No shot. No shot. No shot. We'll talk about it next on Captain Jayhood. Captain Jayhood, our best. I appreciate your show. I'm an Uber driver. And for 7th and every day, I've got you locked in. Chicago's home for sports. ESPN Chicago. It's a Captain Jayhood morning show on ESPN 1000. It's streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. It's hoping that you have a great Wednesday and a great holiday week. And glad that you're with us. We'll have a shot of no shot coming up at eight o'clock right here on Captain Jayhood. Just one other point, Cap, about the White Sox. We've seen this before, at times, where there's a hitter that just gets a hold of one, right? And the outfielder doesn't even move. Yep. Now, the pitcher is a little pissed that he gave up the home run. That's one thing that the other side is like, "Hey, man, can you give me a little effort?" "Can you just kind of trot back to the wall a little bit?" So that was the equivalent of what we saw yesterday of Colpeck just staring in at Robert saying, "Hey, man, listen, you fight to the end. You gave up the fight in the ninth." He did. That's the point, is that as a competitor, you fight through the end. It's not the, well, the percentages say that, "What out of ten chances he would have it?" This is where you don't need analytics. That just comes from baseball instinct. Hey, man, for my teammate, I'm going to give it all. I'm going to throw, I'm going to pull my arm out, that rifle, and throw it to home plate. I may not get them, but at least I'm going to try. I'm not going to let just the guardians just walk over us and just win here in the ninth. I'm going to try. Yeah, you're going to lose the ball game. The ball game was lost when Colpeck went through the gate because it's not a save situation. I told Charlie, "I don't have the metrics on it, but you and I have watched enough baseball to know that when you bring a closer in in a non-closing situation or a tie ball game, in a whole situation and not a save situation, there's failure there, failure." And I know that Colpeck couldn't hold it, but again, those white-togs beat themselves as much as the guardians beat them yesterday. And then we turn our attention to the Chicago National League Ball Club. I want to read you something. Oh, God. This is the batting averages, OBP, slug, all of it for the bottom of the cub lineup. Chris Morrell, 195 with a 304 on base percentage. That's awful. 370 slug. That's awful. And he leads your team in home runs. Embarrassing. Danzby Swanson. 289. Yeah, 289 on base percentage. A 359 slug and a robust 214 batting average. Peacock Armstrong, 188, 238, 271. Tomas Nido, 202, 238, 323. We brought in that vaunted hitter off the bench. Master of Boney, 146, 226, 167 slug, and Amaya, 189, 253, 260. Do you know how bad you have to be to have that as the bottom four or five guys in your lineup? That is White Sox, A's, Rocky's, Marlin's bad. And that's why the Chicago Cubs wake up this morning in Dead Last and the third worst team in the National League. Well, the scouting report or what we talked about before the game was no swabber, no Harper. Doesn't mean necessarily you're going to win the ball game. That's not a guarantee. But the two of their big boppers are out. And then, of course, you have a youngster in Mercado on the mound that the Cubs look at the scouting report. They look at the tape on Mercado because they only scratched two hits and two walks and four strikeouts. I mean, Michael Mercado, good old number 63, he was, I believe, acquired from Tampa Bay. I think he was drafted by Tampa Bay originally. He's 25 years of age. He made his Major League debut last night and was just tremendous. He, look, this wasn't like Paul Skeens making his debut against you when he came in. Okay. Paul Skeens was the number one overall pick. Everyone believes he's going to win rookie of the year. He's going to be a perennial also. That's different. Michael Mercado shut you down like it was unreal. I sat there and watched it with my family. We watched the Sox and then we watched the Cubs game. And it's amazing to watch how inept this team is offensively. I've never seen anything like it. Yet they run the same guys out there day after day. They don't claim anybody off of DFA. They don't make a trade. They don't call up Canario from the minors who's sitting, I think, 246, but has 15 bombs. Nothing. Not taking a chance. You know what's here? Is it working? And you keep watching your season spiral right down the toilet drain. I want to just ask you if this is as bad or worse than after the championship season for the Cubs, because we do recall cap in 18 and 19 where the Cubs had a hard time scoring runs and we were asking at the time, how come, you know, Jed or Theo, how come they don't change things up where you still stuck with the core, but that core stopped hitting. It just that the well was dry offensively. Do you think this is as bad or worse as because that time, I'm sure you were saying it because I know I was saying it. And sometimes you just have to be able to take out some of these pieces and say, all right, let's change the dynamic offensively. And it was always the same. You recall this, right? I do. And I remember and I know Jay Moore's got the audio somewhere in that system if he could find it. I think it's apropos to play today. It was Theo Epstein saying at the end of the 2018 season, our offense is broken. You remember this? I do. Broken. And yet their big move going into that off season was Daniel DeScalso, Daniel DeScalso, who was horrible here, horrible. You look at this team now, I think this team is far worse offensively than that team when he called it broken, broken. This one, this has gone off the cliff. It's a car wreck. I hope I'm never in that situation. But if a car leaves the road and is going over a cliff, oh God, clear it out, Harry. Oh, sorry. Fine. If your car is launched off the road, all of a sudden you're like, it's over. Just awful. What am I going to do? It's over here. It's starting. Oh, just unbelievable. It's just wine soaked and just Wisconsin all through his throat. Hello, baby. Hello, my God. Hello, my rag on gas. Just awful. All that Wisconsin mozzarella. Oh, just on me. Just the... I didn't have any mozzarella. I had wine. Just that. That's what it said. Just the whiskey voice, the wine voice just soaked in Wisconsin. Just ate up late plain Singapore, Jim. Not drinking it. Playing it. Oh, just. My kids and my wife and I finished a dead last. Six. Not a six. I got crushed. Never keep the joker in your hand, ever. Yeah, well, that's too late for that. Correct. Been married for a long time. But if a car goes off the cliff, I would imagine you're thinking in mid-air, well, this isn't good. This is it. It's over. That's where this team is. It is over. There is no run coming, and there is no 2023, win 10 of 12, dance beats on the injured list, bagging the GM to keep them to get no, no more. Start trading now. Jump the market. That's it. Here we go. Oh, Yankees, you want Bellinger? Jesse reported on our show Monday morning. Yankees are tracking Bellinger. You can have him. There you go. I'm clearing the decks. Wow. Get the money out of here. Move him. Let's go. Jamar, are you hearing this? Are you hearing this? Yes. This man, David Kaplan. Jamar is busy looking for Theo calling the offensive. No, no, no. I want to make sure that Jamar is making sure he marks this for us. This man has waved the white flag on the Chicago Cubs this morning on July 3rd. Is that what you just did? I did. You just waved the white flag on the cub? It's over. Oh, God. But what about-- What surprised me on September 8th and go, while they're back in it, I'll bet you that's not going to be the case. Wow. Just can we get the training camp for the pair for us? It's the wrong W flag. He just declared that the season's over. I declared the stock season was over in February. But the point is, though, is that cap, the optimism. What about the run for the cub? It's not coming. It's not. Wow. What do you tell me? Chris Morrell is going to hit it like a 330 clip, get his batting average to a decent level? No. Not going to happen. And again, I don't call for hitting coaches and pitching coaches to lose their gigs because like Tommy Hottavy, his bullpen's horrible. But his starting rotation's outstanding. It's the same guy coaching both of them. Maybe it's the man who put the pieces there, the guys that run it, Jeddon Carter, on the offensive side. I can't believe that Dustin Kelly, vaunted hitting coach that he must be, is going into the dugout going with two strikes. I'd like you guys to take the fastballs down the middle. I don't believe he's telling them that. He's not. My god. Watch Suzuki takes more pitches right in the middle of the zone, Morrell right in the middle of the zone. And Dan's me. Dan's me may as well just use a bat made of Swiss cheese because he's got, he's impotent at the plate, impotent. This is breaking news. I mean, everyone knows how I feel about the White Sox. There's a reason why that I became a Padres fan for the season in boycott of what the White Sox are doing. But you're saying today that after these Cubs lost with no Harper and no Swarber. And by the way, it's not about those two. It's about a whole team, including Trey Turner, who also will kick your ass to as we saw yesterday. Yep. You're saying that that's all, even though you're going to be able to get a Ben Brown returning, you'll get a Mark Leiter Jr. returning. We'll get a coming off of the IL as well. Merry weather. Cap, you're getting players back in the second half of the season to make a run. A what? Well, a little run. Okay. You mentioned a couple of bullpen pieces. Yes. What about the offense? I read you the bottom of that lineup. You're telling me they're all going to start hitting like Ted Williams. Oh, no, no, no. Tony Gwynne. Oh, no, no, no. As you always tell me, it's about that bullpen. Even though I've been telling you since May, hey, man, you need to get some offense. I don't disagree. But when you blow 17 saves, everybody starts to press like, Oh, God, here we go. And it affects everything. That bullpen was an ill-conceived idea from the day they all showed up at spring training. I understand. Shame on them. Shame on them. Yeah, I understand. It's not like I'm separating myself from the pitching staff cleared out for God. I'm not separating myself from the pitching staff. If I'm an offensive player, I feel I feel empathy for my teammates that are struggling. But I got to do my job. That's not how it is though. When you and baseball consistently show up, you're like, all right, four, two, and the ninth. Oh, we lose. Oh, we got a six three lead in the ninth. They score four, the Giants. What? At some point, everyone starts to press then. A great bullpen could save so many games. And instead, the Cubs have given them away. Period. I understand, but I mean, you are waving the white flag at 39 and 47. Okay. Can you imagine telling yourself in January that we don't even get to the trade deadline and cap his way of the white flag on this season? No. No, because we all thought. Well, we all thought, and listen, I'll be the first to raise my hand and say, hey, Charlie, last year, the Cubs actually had a chance to be able to get it done. But Jed did not believe in the ball club because he did not supply enough relief pitching to get you over the hump. This year, I thought, okay, Jed learned from his mistakes last year and not believing in the ball club. And so now this is going to get better. It's more than just a player or two that you need now. First of all, the players you have in place are not hitting the baseball. That's one thing. So even your key guys that you rely on offensively and the baseball and then on top of that, after the starter leaves, there's always a worry from the Cup fans saying, oh my God. So whatever lead we have, it's never safe because the bullpen is filled with holes, including the closer. So that's tough. That's a tough way to go. Yeah, it's, it's pathetic is what it really is, pathetic, like, how are you going to fix your catching? You're going to go out and find a catcher? The Maya, the Maya looks limp offensively super, just great. Really fired up. Tomos, Nito, oh, stop. There's a reason the Mets DFA them. We just changed the deck chairs on the Titanic. That's all we did. Okay, Gomes, get out. We'll bring in Nito. Yeah. Yeah. Nito is just a little bit shorter letters for the guy I have to stitch on the back of the jersey. That's unbelievable. That's it. That's what we got. So Cap has waved the white flag on the Cubs. What does that mean for Jit Hoyer, the rest of the Cubs management? Also, we were talking about what happened with the White Sox. I mean, if you're a Sox fan, you can, if you watch that game or listen to it here on the ESPN 1000, that's enough of Pedro Grafalle. And by the way, that doesn't change the fortunes. The ball club's still going to lose a hundred games. But the point is though, is that just the little things, the fundamentals, all the stuff that Pedro talked about with the White Sox are going to be, it's a complete opposite. You know when it was better, those fundamentals under LaRusa. How about that? 3-1-2-3-3-2-E-S-N. 9-3 wins under LaRusa with a lot of the same talent. Oh, by the way, Tim Anderson's back on the market. You want him back? 3-3-2-3-7-7-6 is our telephone number. We'll take your phone calls. Also, you will hear from Craig Council, the manager for the Cubs, where his thoughts about the Cubs and our loss against the Phillies. We will talk about that coming up next on Cap and Jhood. Here's to Days Headline, headline with Cap and Jhood. Cubs dropped another one last night, 6-4 to the Phillies, they didn't get 3 in the ninth on a Suzuki homer, but prior to the ninth, two lousy hits. Hayden Wysneski gave up five earned White Sox, fell to the Guardians, 7-6 last night, a walk-off sack fly that Luis Robert made a curious decision on, deciding not to even attempt a throw home. Sox are back in action tonight on ESPN Chicago. Hunan Connor McKnight's pregame show starts at all at 5 o'clock. Chicago sky rookie star Angel Reese and Indiana fever rookie star Caitlyn Clark, the only rookie's name to the WNBA All-Star team. And this in this morning, the LA Lakers have shockingly extended LeBron James, who said he would take a huge pay cut to help the team. I guess that plans moved two years, 104 million plus a player option and a no trade clause. Good for you LeBron. Jayboard. Kevin Jayhood, our best first time caller, huge fan of your guys show. Chicago's home for sports, ESPN Chicago. It's the Cap and Jhood Morning Show. On ESPN 1000, and we are streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. With you till 10 o'clock and then it'll be my Greenberg at 10 o'clock followed by Carmen and Jesse 12 to 230 into black and a dollar in for Waddland Sylvie at three White Sox baseballs they take on the Guardians at five. And that is all part of the mix right here on ESPN 1000. 3, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 3, 7, 7, 6, or a phone over if you're just joining us. You know, obviously I've got angst about the White Sox. I mean, I know that they have been a bad team, I knew there was going to be a bad team based on the roster and the lack of commitment over there at 35th Street. So that, I mean, water is wet, of course they're going to be bad. But it's just the way that they lost yesterday that has me saying that's enough of Pedro Grafalle. That's enough. And I'm not a coach killer. Never have been in my career. But that's, you can't make promises about the way the ball club is going to play. And then they play like that. And then of course, the theme of Chicago baseball this summer cap is no accountability. It's a, it's a no accountability summer on both sides of town. You know, usually you get this maybe on one side of town, but it's on both sides. No accountability on the part of Grafalle, especially publicly. And on the other side, well, there's the Cubs against the Phillies. And I know that you are not happy about, you know, some of the things that Craig Council isn't saying about what's happening with this Cubs team. Yeah. Again, you have to be yourself. And just because I would go in there and raise Holy hell or say things to the media, it would always be something I said to the media after I said it to the player himself. He's not going to hear from the media, do you hear what he said about you? No, he's already told me that. But just he's basically rolled over into fetal position. I'm serious. This is not a shot. This is just stating fact. He has rolled over into a fetal position and just went, Oh, please, mommy, make it stop. He's got his $40 million deal, but that guy's a competitor. Craig Council's won the World Series as a player. Craig's been a successful manager. He came here because he thought they're going to give me resources and we're going to have a really good thing going here. And we may not win the World Series in 24, but my teams are going to play the game the right way. They're going to play hard and his team's done anything but look like they're playing hard. They look lifeless. All right, let's hear from Craig Council, the manager for the Chicago Cubs. Well, this is how Ron Santa would say, here's Craig Council manager at Chicago Cubs with us on the pregame show, but at the Cubs are winning the fine manager of the Chicago Cubs. Correct. Jimmy Regal went the fine manager, Jimmy three in a row, otherwise, I'm here with Jim Regal. So here's Craig Council manager's co-cub. He left some fastballs and bad places. You know, one, he didn't get far enough in and then the other one was supposed to be away and ran back over the plate and and that's runs on the board. And, you know, there was there's the walk in the second just lead off the inning. Definitely hurt. You know, the ball that Clemens said maybe is just a regular out and said it's a, you know, double and we got trouble there and before this before the second home run, we fell behind three one and had to had to throw a strike to, you know, and start to get the base hit. So he fell behind to some other hitters and I think that hurt him kind of with, you know, contributing some runs. I mean, he didn't, he did a good enough job throwing strikes. You know, that was something maybe we had a chance at, you know, a thought facing him, but he did a good enough job throwing strikes and I think, you know, we got through that first inning. We, we had some good swings the first inning, we had good at bats the first inning. It's involved harder the first inning and he got, once he got through that first inning he was, he did a nice job anyway and we just didn't, you know, we didn't put pressure on him. You know, we put pressure on the first inning and then after that, let him, let him off pretty easy. Well, we didn't, there was nothing happened and, you know, essentially the first eight innings, you know, we had a good first inning and, you know, Cody's double got us to run in the third, but, you know, four through, four through eight was, was nothing. Um, obviously had a, had a good ninth inning and, um, but not enough. Wake up, Kat. Come on. We got to show your funny guy. So bottom of the first M Mercado pitching for Philly. I'm reading from the MLB playback play, Horner ground out, Bush walk, balance your fly out. Suzuki singles, first and second, young kid on the ropes, Riggly is rocking and half strikes out swinging. I was sitting at the table with the family. We were eating dinner and I have the game on. And my son Nick said, hey, get a hit here. You jumped this kid right away. We had the lead and I said, that's not what this team does. I will guarantee you he strikes out guaranteed, bam, inning over. There are times you have to get a big hit in a big spot. They don't do it. Mm hmm. No, back the last time they did was it when, uh, Morrell hit a home run to beat the whites. Who's it? Morrell. It got to hit to beat the white Sox. Mm hmm. Beyond that, name me a spot. They've lost the opening game of the series eight consecutive series. Sounds like a team ready to go when they read that scouting report. And the, and the Charlie note here is talked about was Neski was Neski's a long man. That's what he is. Pull pen filler, 10th home run, 10th home run allowed in his last 19 and two thirds innings pitch. So he's a long man. He's just sitting there to just fill the bill, be innings eater, give you 89 pitches. But again, it just was not enough as the Cubs lose six to four. Abby is, Abby is in Lincoln square and she is with us here on cap and Jhood. Abby, good morning. Abby, what's up? Good morning. I got to say I'm not a quitter, but Kappa, I got to be there with you. That was just growth last night. So I had no desire to go to the game and no desire, but my best friend every year she buys tickets for me and my family. The deal is we pay her back and food and beer. We have a great night. I was angry at my Italian beef and my beer last night that I was spending all this money on and for the kids and everything else. And I wrote the script beforehand. I said we're going to make this new kid look like a Cy Young award winner. You're right. To come back, we're just enough in the night to give people hope when Suzuki hit that home run. I stood up and clacked just because my kids were so excited, but I wasn't excited. I'm like, maybe we'll get one more guy on and then we'll strike out to end the game or we'll hit a long fly ball out to the track. And that's how it happened. And at one point after I used the washroom, so I didn't have to go back through the middle of the seats, I sat behind that sanitary obstruction pole and I thought, I just want to stay here. I don't want to see home plate. I don't want to see what's going on. This is a better view. I didn't know my wife was going to call the show. Just like my wife, like when Suzuki hit the home where I'm like, get out of here and my wife like so they'll lose six to four. What does it matter? Good night, Mindy. Good night, Mindy. I have a great night. Because she knows she doesn't have time to watch all that. She knows what's going to happen because she could see it like everyone else sees it. Since this team is grossly underachieving. It's a menaga against Wheeler tonight. A menaga is supposed to be the stopper in all this. But what good is it if you don't get any run support? 3 1 2 3 2 3 2 3 7 7 6 is our phone number more of your phone calls plus a bathroom sink discovery. Oh man. It happened here in the building. We'll tell you about it next. Captain Jayhood you're listening to Captain Jayhood follow the show on Instagram at The Catman and at IGJhood. This is ESPN Chicago, Chicago's home for sports. It's a Wanna Wednesday on the Captain Jayhood morning show on a ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app will hear from Tommy coming up at 835 right here on Captain Jayhood. I have not been to the men's bathroom here on our floor yet. But Charlie has and wait on our floor you mean on 7 or outside the showcase where we bump into the ABC stars? Yes. And so we turn to Charlie Bevins with the latest on our bathroom sink here on the level in which we broadcast from. Go ahead Charlie. So I walk in and I look in you know I wash my hands and everything like that I look in the sink just shavings like beard shavings like tran like whiskers all in the sink and I was immediately teleported to like the freshman dorms of when this guy with the beard would always would always shave but he would never rinse out the sink. I mean you know you guys have had to go on the road I've spent multiple nights in various hotels you forget what city you're even in like I'm sure you've you've shaved at the office before something like that but I think to not clean it up is a little bit egregious. I know who did it. Oh I'm telling you like if you save any of the shavings we could do DNA I could tell you who did it because I've seen the dude shave in there. I know who you're talking about cap. The guy with the straw. Yes. So first of all let me just pull the curtain back. Oh no. I walk in every morning somewhere between 5 45 and 6 30 depending on traffic. Yes. I come through security and I walk through this little hallway and there is a guy sitting there and I inter I one day said hey my name's David Kaplan from ESPN with those I see you every morning what's your name just call me officer whatever is last name. And I said officer yes I'm an officer okay I asked someone else I go is that a police officer he said no he's just a security guy okay every morning I come in he's got a big thing a hot coffee from Dunkin Donuts but he's drinking it out of a straw and I finally one day said excuse me officer what's with the straw I like hot coffee out of a straw he's got a very quiet demeanor let's put it down I won't say anything about his personality and then I walked into the bathroom and he was in their shape changing clothes like it was like his private locker I'm like I will bet you that's his facial hair okay because I was worried obviously it can't be she and I was like was he back here late last night does he pack run out of time no now see it's got to be opposite it is the officer that you saw coming into the building Charlie it's him and that's just unbelievable that you can't even run some water around it right just to be able to get the shavings out like so the same officer by the way you know first change of clothes I know Cap's been in there I know I've been there as well you go in and he's just got a whole change of clothes his clothes are laid out across the sink and his shoes are on the bathroom floor he's doing a whole deal we'll now refer to him as officer Strawley okay so officer Strawley yes he loves the straw yes officer Strawley by the way for such you know a guy that you know you could fear nothing like that straw with a small coffee by the way you think there's a big coffee small coffee large straw correct there's a disconnect there yeah I want something I don't know why but like I want something like that in my security officer just some little like there's no explanation for that it's mysterious and and I'm not like it makes me instill more trust in in them to to protect us but just run a little water like you said I'm just telling you God forbid God forbid something happens here he'd be the last one you turn to oh god I'm just telling you there that's the guy who called me out yeah what he called you out for I'm just saying that that's that would I called him out yeah that would be the one that would he would say you know what let it happen to Charlie it's okay because he called me out I mean just run some water there's paper towels in there clean after yourself how clean up after yourself man again it was like I was back to the dorms you know it's a it's something that guy there officer sloth Strawley I was it's rally a big word officer strawley 3 1 2 3 3 2 ESPN 3 3 2 3 7 7 6 our phone number uh alpha strawley and jaymore it would be the carnival straws with the multiple colors you recall that right big clown on the on the box the carnival straws gap you remember those oh yeah the ones that had the little bendy it was a little expandable thing economical it'd be a hundred a box fantastic fantastic hold me out of one of those clown straws wrinkle georgia listing on the ESPN chicago app here's Marty on cap and jayhood Marty good morning Marty what's up Sparky good morning guys uh I'm a lifelong cub fan been been a cub fan for almost 60 years uh and so I don't get a chance to watch the cubs as much as I used to but I always follow up on the next morning and catch up what's going on but this team has no emotion management doesn't give of a manager any new players and he plays the same guy every day same guys every day and the team band after like 226 they got four guys that are been 220 or less that's what I see from this company a great starting pitching and all the rest are bad so I would say no one is untratable and to start over and bring up some guys to the miners they can't do any worse all right Marty we appreciate your party thanks man from on northern Georgia there's no question about a cap like I here's the thing the cubs are not the white socks so it's so I think that's a bridge too far just blow the whole thing up no no I don't believe that that's where the socks and the Rockies and teams like that are but there has to be improvements on this roster and it starts with the bullpen and at some point you got to find bats because the bats are as is just not good enough to compete look hoodie as you watch this team play I want you to tell me how you fix this thing in the off season if you're not going to spend to get a star in here and for everyone says well they won't get one soda no they probably won't why would one soda let let's assume one soda gets 400 million I just pulled the number out of thin air okay let's assume that Tom Rickett said Jed there's a check 400 million give it to Juan Soto the Yankees are going to be at the same number yes so would the Dodgers so would probably the Mets so why would he pick the Chicago Cubs right you had to find players there fall in love in Chicago like shoulder like when John Lester signed here he said a I believed in Theo and Jed because he knew him from Boston and B he thought that team is one that close to win in a world series and they 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