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"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 1,000 Chicago. Sweep the show on the ESPN Chicago app. And on "Infair." 100.3 HD2. And on ESPN 1,000 Chicago. Now, no, no, no. David Kaplan and Jonathan Hood. Good morning, everyone. Bring 'em out, bring 'em out. Woo! Bring 'em out, bring 'em out, bring 'em out. Bring 'em out, bring 'em out, bring 'em out. Bring 'em out, bring 'em out, bring 'em out. Bring 'em out, bring 'em out. Bring 'em out, bring 'em out. Woo! Ooh, good job. Welcome in to "The Captain Jayden Morning Show." On ESPN 1,000 and we're streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. With David Kaplan and Jonathan Hood with you, we've got Shay. We've got Jay Moore. We've got you for a three-hour ride. Here on this Monday morning with open phone lines for you at 312-332-ESPN-3323776 is our telephone number and cap everybody wants to know. And you're off on Friday. They've been wanting to know all week last week and they want to know this morning off the top because I remember it like it was yesterday. People were wondering what's going on with your bag. From Toronto, a golfing excursion, having a good time. This seems like it was years ago now but you had a nice time in Toronto. All you wanted to do is have your bags and Air Canada still had your bags. It's Monday morning. Did you get your bag? The bag showed up, we went to see the stones for our anniversary on Thursday night. And I'd probably over-indulge a little bit. Got home, went in just straight to bed, got up in the morning, there was my bag at the door. - Finally. - Finally. And I would like to shout out, if you ever get a lost bag, the lady at Air Canada Chicago named Maria who thought I might be Yugoslavia. She's amazing. Do you know, I called there again on our way to the concert going, where's my bag? And some guy answered, I think he was Maria's boss. He said she stayed two hours after her shift. He said she's got a family. She said, I got to find this man's bag. This is ridiculous. And she tracked the bag down, got someone to go get it. They got it on a flight. And when I woke up in the glow of the rolling stones, my bag was there, everything inside. - Wow, sitting on the porch. - Sitting by my front door. - How about that? - How about that? - So, Maria at Air Canada, at O'Hare at baggage claim, you're a rock star. - So we're clear, Cap. How many total days did it take for you to get your second bag from Air Canada? - Six. (laughing) - Damn! - Six days. - You got united, fly the friendly skies. - Yes. - You've got Air Canada. We'll lose your bag and get it to you in under a week. - That's a pretty long title on the business card, but I totally understand. - That's correct. - I mean, that's unbelievable. - Correct. - Six days for you to get, again, golf clubs in hand, you're good there, but the other bag, it took six days from Toronto to Chicago for it to finally land on your porch. - How about that? Still haven't gotten reimbursed for the flight, mind you, that they canceled. - Oh, well, that's a different story. Now, that's a different thread. We gotta make sure you're paid. - And they said, wait in this line, 200 people deep at 11 o'clock on a Saturday night, and we'll try to get you a voucher, but the 19 hotels they work with in the area were all sold out. Fortunately, 'cause I flew a billion miles in my previous life and I have all these, this status, I was able to get my own room at the West and in Toronto by the airport, but I had to pay for the room, and I called and they said, well, just, we'll get you a credit for it. Now I get an email back over the weekend. Just letting you know we're not going to pay for your hotel room because it was mechanical, is the reason we delayed the flight, and there's no provision to pay for it if it's mechanical versus weather-related. - Oh my God. - Yes, I will never fly your Canada again. (laughing) - What, but the reimbursement though, that's needed though. There's got to be a way to be able to get your money back. I think that that's the new thing now. - We have disputed on your credit card. - Well yes, and we're going to check in every day until you get your money back. - There you go. - Might be until Christmas. - I got the bag back. - Yes. - And the anniversary was Thursday. Got home super late from the concert, but it was an amazing show. And then Friday I opened up the bag and made sure everything was in there. There's the air tag still there. And there was the gift, one of the gifts for my wife. I gave it to her, so. - See, I would say all, all's well that ends well, but I mean still, it took a lot for you to get that bag back, but at least you got it back. - That is correct. - So we're good. - From bad to worse when it comes to your baseball team. So you don't say that there's big games in June, Cap. You don't say there's big games, but I think there's always, when you look at the schedule as a player or as a manager or as a realization, you can always look at the calendar and say, you know what, we're gonna circle this series. We're gonna find out where we are and who we are about when we take on this team. When you are in last place and you're taking on the first place team, it's a measuring stick contest to see. All right, we haven't played well, but we're going into the belly of the beast. We know our fans will be there. Cubs against Milwaukee and the Cubs lost two out of three against the Brewers. You're now 11 and a half games in the rear in the National League Central in last place while the Brewers are 50 and 34. I thought that this was an opportunity for the Cubs to stand up and do something. And we saw some things we hadn't seen all season from this Cubs team. - Watching this weekend made me want to puke. It really did. Ian Hap had a big home run in the eighth to win on Saturday on Friday, you lose, and you blow the game again. And then on Sunday, and I like Ian Hap very much. You know that. - Yes. - Good guy, solid, not a star, solid player. Was he playing with like a blindfold on in left field, on a ball on the track? 'Cause he completely lost it. Ends up instead of a man on and two outs. Now we have two on and one out. Another guy reaches his base and Bryce Thuring hits a laser beam home run. Grand Slam, thanks for coming. Have a really nice day. Now, it doesn't excuse Kyle Hendricks giving up the Grand Slam, but that ball has to be caught. But that's a physical error. While it bothered me, I could deal with it. What really hacks me off is the $40 million manager shows no level of accountability for anybody. None. Hold on a second now. Chris Morrell gets picked off of first. He's out there the next inning. Cody Bellinger takes off from first, is around second on a routine fly ball. Oh God, there's not two outs. Race is back and he's out by 70 feet and no level of accountability other than the manager saying Cody made a mistake. You lead all of Major League Baseball in outs on the bases. All of it. You have a crazy number of people thrown out at the plate. Yes. Do you change third base coaches? Oh, absolutely. But have they? No, they have not. Okay. Did they pull Morrell after he got picked off? No. No. Did they pull Cody Bellinger? Nope. Had I been the manager, here's exactly what I would have done. Cody, you're done. Have a seat. And I don't care if I'm putting the ghost of Jan Gomes out there. I don't care. Somebody's going out to play the outfield. And when we get to the post-game and someone says the play with Cody, I'm done watching guys make mental errors and not know how many outs are in the game. They are Major League players. And I am not going to tolerate it. I let it go too long. Shame on me. But from this point forward, no more. I'm not going to do it. Cody sat because Cody lost how many outs there were. That's a mental mistake. I'm not tolerating this nonsense anymore. We've gone from eight over to one of the three worst teams in the National League. Shame on me for allowing this to fester that much longer. But I'm not going to watch this BS anymore. But you know what our manager says? Cody made a mistake and the offense has to be better and we just didn't make a play there. Somebody please give this guy an EEG. Isn't that when they check your brain to see if he's all locked in? Because he looks awful. It all falls at his feet and he doesn't do blank about it. - The only signs of life from the Cubs is Justin Steele as you saw. He told the whole dugout to wake up and he's probably talking about himself as well because he was involved in a third inning on Saturday that I've never seen before, Kevin. I've never seen a ball club just not fundamentally sound on a rundown where Steele's got to be able to feel the bunny could not do that. So I don't know if he's on to himself or the ball club or just the collective, but he's screaming wake up as he goes to the dugout on Saturday. I hadn't seen that far from anybody from the Cubs all season. - And what I loved was that I was watching the game outside on our back deck and got family. It's 17 people sleeping in our house this weekend. - 17 and four dogs. It was chaos, fun chaos, but we're watching the game. My father-in-law is sitting there and the game is on and I'm like, wait, wait, did I just see what I'm seeing here? Screw up or run down at second. Screw up another play. There's nobody covering first. - Terrible. - And I'm looking at it, this cannot be a major league team and my phone lights up, I have a text. Oh, hoodie, that's dignity on a beautiful Saturday. Here we go. Another awful inning from the Chicago Cubs. And once again, no one will do anything about it. It's a joke. - Just flat out bad baseball. Now that's the game that you won in which you had bad fundamentals, but I like that steel was saying something. You know the problem cap and we're gonna hear from Craig Council coming up. So there's no sense of urgency at all at 39 and 46. It's a sleepy ball club. - So it's the most boring 39 and 46 team to go. - But here's the thing, and I wanna talk to you about Craig Council this way, 'cause this is a different conversation that we had. If you're Craig Council, unless you're just comatose, you have to feel bad that you took over a ball club in which you know that Ross was a good man. Whatever you think of David Ross, he was a good man. And I don't think that he was holding the Cubs back from being a winner. I just think that the ball club is what it is. But Ross, as we said at the time that Council was hired, hmm, that's a surprise. No one knew that Ross was gonna get fired. No one knew that Council was gonna be the Chicago Cubs manager. But because of what's happened here, Cap, if you're Council, you gotta feel bad. Like I came here to make a difference. And actually it's worse with me being here. Maybe he doesn't see it that way, but I know we all see it this way, that if Ross is in place, maybe the Cubs are a little better because he knows the players better than Council does. But if you're Craig, you gotta feel like, God, we're worse under me than it was under Ross last year, last couple of seasons. - They just look lifeless and there's no level of accountability. David Ross would not have tolerated some of the nonsense that we're watching. - No. - That he would not have. Quiet now, it would have been behind the scenes, but then you would have saw someone pulled out the line up and he would have gave a reason. But it would have been overt, but you would have known there's changes that was gonna be afoot. - Anthony Rizzo told me they were playing in Pittsburgh and it was, God, I wanna say it was 2015, but it might have been '16. Anyway, he had a ground ball to shortstop. Routine tosses his bat and jogs down to first, and of course the guy boots the ball, he ends up picking it up and throwing him out. He said, I got back to the dugout, and it was not one step into the dugout, and David Ross in his face, we don't play that way here, period. He said, I was held accountable. Everybody saw it. He said, and I learned, you don't do that. I'm looking at the line up from yesterday. Now this is not Craig's fault, this is Jed's fault, but this is the Cubs from the number five on down. Half 229. You used master bony as a pinch hitter, 149, pinch hitter. Joke, he should not be in the big leagues, we've got him. Morel, 198, Swanson, 217 with a robust 293 on base percentage, and a 364 slug. Pete Croiramstrong, 192. Miguel Amaya, 189. That is a major league line up. You're paying 227 million for it. - Yeah. - Patrick Wisdom does not belong on a major league roster. He can't hit. What are we doing? - It's bad, and here's the difference. We have seen bad Cubs teams, seen bad White Sox teams before because you knew coming in the roster was a nap door. They still need some pieces, so it's gonna be a long summer. But again, the expectations and the salary for the Chicago Cubs to be able to be 39 and 46. And again, I don't, I'm not gonna say must have series cap, but it's a measuring stick series to say, okay, we're gonna play hard for council, right? This is a guy here that's against it. Every time he steps out of the guy, he's getting booed by the Milwaukee faithful. All right, we're gonna step our game up a little bit. We're gonna be a little bit more keen with our at bats, not at all. Still roll over the short, roll over to the third, not fundamentally sound. Now you can't get that, you can't get a run down right. Just, I mean, that's just bad. That's just bad baseball all around. And again, council's the face of it. This whole thing that Jesse told us, by the way, of council just kind of looking over the ball club, that's saying a lot because he's observing. Well, does council have a say at the end of the season saying he wants half the roster gone? I mean, you can observe, but what voice does he have? - Let me ask you a question. - Just ask him. - If you looked at this team, and Craig council was sitting with us in the studio, I would like to just ask him. Craig can ask you a question, please. I want a direct answer. How do you, as a successful, most highly paid manager in the history of the sport? How do you, day after day, sit there in the dugout with your cool blue Cubs hoodie, and watch a team make the most outs on the base paths in all the game, the most outs at home plate, when they run and they are sent incorrectly? How do you tolerate that and never say a word? Never. You imagine how Ozzie Gean was managing the Cubs? Oh my God. - Yeah. - We'd think games would have to be played on delay. He would be squaring up a storm and rightly so. Like, I want to know seriously, Craig, explain to me how you can stand there in the dugout, and just what? - Cody made a mistake. - I'm not. At some point, show a pulse. I'm not expecting you to be me and go meathead. I don't expect you to be Lou Panella, which the other day was the anniversary and they showed him, kick a dirt, a Mark Wagner and all that. The Cubs then went on a winning streak. I don't know if it's related or not. But, how do you sit there and go? On my watch, that team is pathetic at the fundamentals. And guess what? Oh well. - Yeah. - So how much blame does Craig Council deserve? Is it time to be more critical of Council and the Cubs? 3, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, E-S-P-N. 3, 3, 2, 3, 7, 7, 6, 0, phone number. If you're at Amfam Field in Milwaukee, to make the trip to see the Cubs and Brewers, if you get a chance to watch or listen to the game, it's time for you to speak out. It's July 1st and the Cubs are in last place. They have mustered two hits yesterday against the Brewers. - Mustered. (laughing) - That's seven to one, the final, the Brewers over the Cubs. You'll hear from Craig Council next. Cap and J-hood, weekday morning seven to ten. - This is Cap and J-hood. They beat in the traffic commute, so you don't have to. - Stop. (dramatic music) - On E-S-P-N, Chicago. All the Cubs need is some victories, but they lost two out of three against the Brewers. Cap and J-hood, weekday morning seven to ten. Here on E-S-P-N, 1000. Here's hoping that you're gonna have a great Monday, Cap and I, keeping your confidence 10 o'clock, and then Mike Greenberg comes in at 10 right here on the home of the Bears in the White Sox. So here's some thoughts from Craig Council. Hold on to your steering wheel, 10 and two now, so you don't fall asleep. Here's Council, his thoughts about the Rocky 4th inning and the 7-1 loss that the Cubs had against the Brewers. - I mean, he was as good as we've seen in the first three innings. - He's on Hendrix, by the way, (laughs) I love the early breakdown, by the way. Talk about Hendrix. Hendrix went three and two-thirds, seven hits, seven runs all earned. I'll walk in three strikeouts. It's right on two home runs. That lettuce didn't hold up, but here's Council. - I mean, he was as good as we've seen in the first three innings, for sure. The beginning started out instantly with a swing and a bunch or whatever. You know, the pitch to the eligibility made a bad pitch, I thought, just left the curve ball up and the pitch has been really effective for him. And then they just, you know, they just, they strung together some hits. You know, the missed play of that fly ball hurt us, for sure. And they got a huge hit. Look, we can still get out of that inning too. And it's a three-one game and we've got a lot of game left to play, like I said, he made some pitches and they put him over the fence. He's, to me, he's always a guy. We did a nice job. We kind of didn't let him settle in right away. And that's what you have to do. And then he got into rhythm and then as the game got going, the off-speed started getting into the zone and the combination of the pitches hurt us. It's a day when, you know, it's one run. So it's hard to see a scenario where that's gonna win us a game. And so offensively, you know, no matter who we're facing, we're gonna have to be better. You know, that's kind of what I take away from it. - Brother, you had two hits. What do you mean a rhythm? Peralta had the rhythm. - One hit after the lead-off guy hit a whore. Two hits, two GD hits. This is Bob Euchar said major league. I just, I, look, I know and I've said this to you a billion times. There are people out there right now listening going, I would love to reach through the radio and punch this dude right in the face. Bring it on, that's fine. As long as you listen, I don't care. I don't. I'm not everyone's cup of tea. Craig doesn't have to try to be me, but show a pulse at some point. - Well, he's as good as we've seen him for three innings. Miss played a ball in the outfield and got a curve ball up. That was a bad pitch. - Peralta get on the thinking stuff, start to get up in the zone. Wake up, show me you're alive. - It's, it's literally embarrassing. Like if you had said to me the day I called you going, you're not going to believe this. I'm here in Craig Council to the Cubs. - Yeah. - Remember that? - Yeah, I do. - We've got that audio around there somewhere of the two dudes doing the podcast or doing the radio show in Wisconsin. Are you seeing this cross? No, you're kidding, right? And they're, the one guy said, I'm crying. He's in tears that Council came to me. If you had said to me that afternoon or the next morning, hey dude, July 1st, you are going to think you have the worst manager in the game. - What? - That's something. - I seriously want to hook him up to like an EKG, is he have a heartbeat, a pulse. - Now see, when you're winning, it's okay to be able to have that tone because he was winning with the Brewers. He looks at that other dugout and goes, boy, I wish I had a Contreras behind the plate. I wish I had that 'cause I got a Maya on my lineup, but I wish I had a Tarang over at second base, an Adamus, a Hoskins, you know, I wish I had a Yellich. Then it's hitting 321 and 488 on slugging. I wish I had that. And he looks over to the Cubs and he goes, my God, I thought I had something here. This team blows. - Right. - I mean, seriously. - Maybe he's not red blooded anymore, maybe he's green blooded. - That check comes through the 15th and the 30th. Listen, these guys don't want to play good ball. I get paid the 15th and the 30th. - But here's the thing, like, he's just lucky that the owner of the Pistons doesn't own the Cubs 'cause he'd buy his deal out today. - That's a gift. If I'm Greg Council, oh, you're gonna pay me all at once, or are you gonna pay me a deal over the next few years to sit on the couch? Great. - I'm out. - See ya. - Listen. - Oh, my God, I mean, this thing's an absolute train wreck. - Cap, we heard from Jed Hoyer. We saw some of the stuff on Twitter and also just read some of the quotes. Jed's leaning toward if this doesn't turn around being a seller. Now, let's go back to the conversation that you and I had about, well, who are you gonna get rid of? All I know is this, is that if the Cubs are not going to succeed and turn this around by the time we get to the deadline, and it's looming large, by the way, if the Cubs don't get to where they need to be as far as contention for Jed to add, then I'm not sure when you'll be able to contend. If it doesn't happen this year, I'm not sure when it's gonna happen because it's not just, well, we're gonna pair back payroll and get rid of a few guys and just add on. Yes, you do need relief pitching worse than a whole bone needs a ham sandwich. You need relief pitching, but you also need offense. And I don't know if you can fix that in one-off season. If you can't do it with 230 million, how about less than that and trying to get it done? Right. Did you see the signs they were holding up at American Family Field? It says it's a wanted poster with a horrible picture, a council underneath. It says wanted stole 40 million, maybe found in the last place. Oh my God. That's a broom stand there. They're laughing at us. Belly laughing. Oh my God. I went into, there's this bar in the neighborhood up here. So the whole family went yesterday. I'm wearing the hoodie right now. Jerry's bar. I walk in. There's a guy in a hobby by as Jersey. God. And then there's five or six in Brewer Gear. 'Cause the game had just ended. And I walk in and immediately just, they're all over me. 'Cause I go there all the time, all over me. Hey, How's Craig Council doing? You guys okay down there? I mean, it's what I can say. You got no ammo. You got no ammo. I need you for you to address Jed though. I want you to address Jed because if you are not going to contend, Cap, first of all, he's on shaky ground to me in his position. If you didn't win last year, no go to the playoffs. If you go to the playoffs this season, then how many more chances, how many bites of the apple does Jed Hoyer have? It's a fair question. You and I have a very good relationship with him. He comes on whenever we ask. We don't abuse that opportunity. We had him on opening day. I mean, what? Look, if I was Tom and I called Jed in, Jed, come on in, close the door. Okay, I need to know right now, how this is getting un-eft, how are we fixing this? Because I cannot allow you to trade three of our top five prospects to go get a guy to save your job who's in a walk year or has one year left on his deal. Vlattie Guerrero, or whoever that might be. Because I don't think, as they are today, one guy fixes this thing, unless it was Babe Ruth. I don't. - Right. - If Tom said, okay, you want to trade this guy and this guy and this guy and get Vlad Guerrero in here and sign him to a big extension, okay. So if you drop Vladimir Guerrero at first, does that fix your problems? - No, it helps your offense some, but then the seventh, eighth, and ninth is still an issue as far as your relief pitching. - Correct, your starting rotation has some injuries that they're dealing with. Your catching is the worst in Major League Baseball because while I think Martine Maldonado needs a gun and a mask to get his paycheck for the White Sox, Corey Lee is like 21 years old, 22. Like I'd love to have a young Corey Lee like that. - That's our future. - Right. So you have the worst catching. Your shortstop looks like Jason Hayward contract part two. You don't have a third baseman at this point. Now maybe Matt Shaw's that guy out of the minors. Again, he's a prospect means he's never done it. You got two more years at 20 million at E and half. He's hitting 227. Center Fielder is your number one prospect and he's hitting 192. Zazuki, it's okay. He's an average Major League ballplayer, making a lot of money. I like Michael Bush very much. I think he has a chance to be a solid player. Star, probably not, and your bullpen is pathetically bad. You've blown 17 saves. So explain to me, Jet, if I give you the wherewithal to go sign Vladimir Guerrero, or I give you 400 million and you signed one Soto in the off season, there's your one big move. How does that fix your team? - It does not. - It gives you a star. - Yep, it pushes you further, but it doesn't fix all the issues, the gaping wounds on this baseball team. This is why this off season will tell a great story. I'm not trying to fast forward through the season, but what I'm just saying to you, Cap, is that there's going to be some big, big issues that the Cubs have to address. If they're going to be a non playoff team, if they're not going to be in the race, it looks like they're not going to be. I'm going to be wrong about the Cubs being a playoff team this year based on how they're playing. There's going to be some big decisions to be made over at Clark and Addison on what kind of ball club do you want to be? Are you seriously going to be a contender for the next couple of seasons, or will you take a couple steps back? - Okay. - So, we'll talk about it. - I would tell you there's a kid named Moistus Biesteros. - Yeah? - golfer. - He is a, no, not Savvy's kid. - Oh. - And he's killing AAA. Just came up there two weeks ago, killing it. At some point, I want to see him up here. Let him catch the big, portly fellow that can hit. I want to see this kid at the major league level sooner rather than later. - All right, we'll take your calls. 3-1-2-3-3-2-3-7-7-6 is our telephone numbers talk to you about the Cubs. Losing to the Brewers by the score of 7-1. Coming up, we'll talk about the Bulls as well. The Bulls may be stuck quote unquote with Zach Levine. We'll explain all that coming up next. Captain Jay Hood on ESPN 1000 and also on our YouTube channel. - Checkmate 16, Indian Suppression on target. ♪ That's why I see him in my shot ♪ - Shot or no shot with Captain Jay Hood on ESPN 1000 and ESPN Chicago app. ♪ That's why I see him in my shot ♪ - Good morning 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. Now time for shot and no shot brought to you by. - That would be ESPN bat live in Illinois. Get that $100 in free bets when you make any sports bat. Wager, open your account, download that app today. We say good morning to Shay, Winger, North. - Good morning boys on a Monday, how are we feeling? - I'm on Monday when I get to see hoodie in a chemolize you on, Houston Rockets, Jersey. It's a good morning. That is an awesome shirt. A wash day at the hood household. Digging deep into the drawer for this one. Just something clean. - That one's cool. - After smelling like liquor for the weekend, my spot on something clean. - We've all been there. - Let me tell you something, Cap, the Brewer fan, as I see on my phone here, laughing and smiling this morning. - Believe me, I'm getting it from all sides. - Laughing and smiling, it's unbelievable. How do these small market teams do it, man? - The structure, knowing that you may not win the big one, but the point is though, is that it keeps the fans interested that you're at least gonna be a playoff team. The Guardians, the Milwaukee Brewers, teams like that, finding a way. Meanwhile, these big payroll teams, they're sweating it out. - By the way, at the break, I pulled up on my phone, the highlight, you remember when Jim Leland told Barry Bonds to leave spring trading? - Yeah. - It's screaming at him with F-bomb after F-bomb. All right, you wanna have it out? Let's do it right now. You can go home, and he went off on him. Those Barry Bonds, yet Cody made a mistake. And it just keeps happening. - Yep, you don't talk to players like that anymore as we turn to Shane Orley. - Well, what do you brought up the Brewers making the playoffs? I was glad at least over the weekend to see one team in this town be a little aggressive. The Blackhawks went and traded themselves back into the first round with two second round picks. They ended up with three picks in the first round. Today, the expectation when free agency officially opens, they'll go sign Tyler Bertuzzi, then half a point per game player in Toronto a year ago feels like they are making moves to build a competitive team sooner than later. Shot or no shot. The Blackhawks are gonna end up getting back to the playoffs before the Cubs. - Oh gosh. - That's a shot. - That's a shot. - And I never thought I'd say that. Never thought I would say that. - I'm just wrong, man. I don't mind being wrong here every morning, but boy, that looks my pick of them to get to the playoffs. It's like the Cubs are not interested as much as I am in their team. - It's unbelievable how bad the Cubs are right now. - The Blackhawks in the playoffs sooner than the Cubs. - If I had told you that there is no way either of us would have signed up for that, no way. - The Blackhawks started their rebuild, what, two seasons later, technically? - God. - And it was unfathomable, but you go land counter but hard, pick in the top five again, get three guys in the first round, feels like they're gonna make some splashes in free agency this offseason. - Yeah, and this kid Tyler Bertuzzi? - Bertuzzi, yeah. - Yeah, so he's got to be related to Todd Bertuzzi, right? - No question. - It's not his kid 'cause I'm looking that up and the parents are not Todd and whatever, but I just played in that call tournament in Toronto with Todd. I could have broken the story, never even thought that the Chicago Blackhawks, he's the nephew. Tyler is the nephew of former NHL player Todd Bertuzzi, who was an animal and the nicest guy in the world when I met him, but he was just physical and tough. Played, I think until he was 39. So if we're getting a guy like that, let's go. - Shay, please ask that question after the major league baseball trade deadline. Just put a pin in it, just bring it up again. Well, it's July, people are doing what they're doing in the summer, this'll be a fresh question for the audience. - Will Cody Bellinger be wearing different color pinstripes? Matter of fact, shot or no shot after the major league trade deadline with the Yankees sniffing around and the Cubs right back where they were a year ago. Shot or no shot, Cody Bellinger will be wearing different color pinstripes on August 1st. - Johnny, no, you can have this one. (laughing) - You know where I'm going. - You did what? (laughing) - I will say no shot, Cap. I will say no shot. - I will say no shot. - He's wearing different pinstripes? - Yes. - Oh, I'm gonna say shot and guess what? I'll put his not following the fundamental rules ass, right in my car. I'll make sure it's charged up and you right to the airport. - I will say no shot because it might be a team with just solid colors, with no pinstripes. (laughing) - Could the Atlanta Braves use, could the Atlanta Braves use them? I don't think they have pinstripes. I think those are solid colors, the Braves. - They might have an alternate with pinstripes, but I think you're right on the solid color deal. - Just move it, let's go, no shot. I like to see the Yankees be the old Yankees. They're poor, they're scuffling. - Geez. - Can you answer me a question? - Yes, sir. - It's a serious question. - Yes, sir. - How can Miles master bony at 149 or whatever it is he's sitting? And Patrick wisdom and the catching situation. Like, how do these guys stay in the big leagues? Canary Hill keeps sitting home runs in the minors. Other guys look like, hmm, got a chance, maybe. And they don't even get a chance. We keep bringing the same goofs up. - Oh, well, the answer to the question would be that they don't want the good young talent of the Cubs sitting. They feel like if you're going to call them up, they should be playing right away. And by the way, you might get your wish at the end of the deadline. I think that's the answer, Cap. The answer is they don't want their good young prospects sitting on the bench watching instead of playing everyday. - But who do you let them play? I had some of these guys. - Okay. - Like the catcher, right? You'd rather have a young catcher than what you have right now. - Okay, he just went up to AAA and he's killing the ball up there. I'm going to trust that they know more than you and I combined about player development. I mean, they do this for a living. They get paid a lot of money. So if they feel like Moistus Biesteros, yeah, we love them. Top six prospect and a loaded system. If he needs to stay down there, okay, I'll trust that you guys know better than I know when he'll be ready, but he can't be that far off. He can't be. - Okay, and what about the other players? Like, you don't want to see, you don't want to see the Patrick Wisdom up there, right? You'd rather have a minor league player than Wisdom, languishing on the bench? - I would just like to see, can Alexander Canario jumpstart your offense at all? And if he can't, well then, what are we doing? He's got, what, 15, 16 home runs and the minors are ready? He'd be the leading home run hitter on the Cubs. - I'm just saying. - You want an answer? I mean, that's the answer. I'm sure that's the same thing they would say. They'd rather have master bony seeing on the bench than your best minor league hitter. They are horrifically bad. - Here's Shay Norlin. - For what it's worth, Balistero, said MLB pipeline is a 2026 ETA cap. I wouldn't get your hopes up. - Here's Shay Norlin. - 2026, he's in AAA, Shay. Look up his numbers, Pete, and my LB. - He's hitting like 310, I think. - In AAA, how can he be 2026? - 20 years old, they don't want to activate the clock. - Look that up, boys. - Thanks, Colonel. - Here's Shay Norlin. - Two interesting stories came out in a Bob Nightingale trade deadline piece regarding the Chicago White Sox. I got very scared of something when I read through this. The first was that the Sox quietly engaged with Garrett Crochet on talks about an extension looking to lock up their young, apparently phenom pitchers, but excellent this season. No progress was made. The idea the White Sox are gonna be able to extend Crochet, they've lost faith in that. They're a little more motivated to move him. Also per Bob Nightingale, the White Sox are trying to move Andrew Ben-Intendi, who has $50 million left on his deal from 2025 to 2027. He's also been one of the worst players in baseball this season, 45% worse than average by OPS+, and all of a negative 1.8 wins above replacement. Now for my little fear, shot or no shot. The White Sox are going to use Garrett Crochet to get out of the Andrew Ben-Intendi deal. - You gotta get as, wow, no shot because their payroll is small compared to the big market teams. You can't minimize the asset that is Garrett Crochet just to get out from underneath a crappy contract. That should be a separate deal. Hey man, we made a bad signing. I was a previous regime, pay it off and move him, get something, done, eat what I gotta eat, gone. You gotta max, if you trade Crochet, which I think is a mistake, he's 24, he is top 10 pitchers this year in Major League Baseball. - Yeah. - That's fair, right? - Yes it is. - Okay, you're gonna trade him and get less back so you can move a bad deal? That's just bad management, in my opinion. - Yeah, that's a no shot. - And Shay, if you were in charge of the White Sox, you would have cut Ben-Intendi. Just cut your losses. It's not gonna Chris Gets. You just would have, I mean, you're not going anywhere, you eat the money and you just move on. - It's just, that's the kind of owner I would be in sports in general. If I made a bad deal, $75 million for Ben-Intendi and we are a year and a half into said deal and he's one of the worst players in baseball, I would find a way to pay him 50 million to F off, respectfully. - That's all fair. And I would agree, Cap, these are two separate entities, we're talking about two separate players. You wanna trade Crochet 'cause you wanna get draft picks and you wanna get younger, go ahead. I'd rather for them not to, Cap, but I understand the position that the Sox are in. The Crochet could be ACEs for this team the next few years, but the Sox aren't winning the next couple of years, they're just not. So, with or without Crochet, it's gonna be the same ball club. They're not going anywhere. - But you're trying to trade to get another Crochet. He's only 24, if you told me he's 29, 30, okay, I get it. 24 years old, flamethrower and left-hander, good person in the, like, there's no negative. - I agree, I agree, these are two separate deals to me. - What did the Royal do? Remember when you came on and said, the Royal had just signed Bobby Whit Jr. for $285 million. Remember that? - Yeah. - Okay, their fan base goes, whoa, super cool. We committed to one of our young guys, rather than being a farm system for everybody else. And the Royal, while maybe not going to win the World Series, they're having a better year this year. - 47 and 39. - Correct. - Look at what happens when you spend a little bit in invest and say, we're gonna have a cornerstone in our franchise. Look what you have, who's the cornerstone of the White Sox? (laughing) - But Gary Crochet should be one. - If you're ready to win, yeah. Like, if you're building, if I could tell you, like, okay, in three years, Cap, you'll be in the playoffs. Okay, then you keep Crochet along. You keep him with you on the ball club. But they're not ready to win in three years. They're not. - Wow. - They're not ready to win in five years. It takes a lot. You have to re-imagine the minor league system two now. - Correct. - Don't forget about that. - Yeah, I think that's the tough part is your minor league system's bottom third in all of baseball. And having Crochet long term is nice, but if you were a year away, I could see locking them up. - When you're three or four plus years away from contending, you have to reload your minor league system and you can do it by trading Crochet. - Shay, I'm a bottom line fan. And what it comes down to is, have you done it before, Chris gets, where you could be able to say, hey, we are trying to fix the minor league system. Now we have all these assets and we're gonna be ready to win in three years. Neo fighting the job as a GM. And then as a person that was presiding over the minor league system, it was in the middle. Now it's even worse than that. And the bottom of the third. I mean, think about the Orioles, right? They need starting pitching help. They think they can win a World Series. They have one of the best farm systems in baseball. Can you snag two of their top five? - It'd be nice. That would be nice. - And those are star level players. Like that's-- - Well, yeah. But they're not giving you Jackson holiday either. - No, probably not. - No. - But can you get Hest and Kirsten? Maybe. - Maybe. - Now once they're on your team, what are you gonna do with them, Cap? What are you gonna surround them with? And that's where I'm saying it as a bottom line. This is not just being negative. It's just being a realist when it comes to the White Sox. It's gonna take a lot to get underneath the Han and Williams regime to try to fix this thing. I mean, the Rocky Series is one thing. It was like two Spider-Man memes pointing at one another. You're bad? Well, you're worse. So this series didn't tell me anything. - No, it did not. - Shay, can you squeeze in one more? - Yeah, on Friday, Hody, we were reacting to the spectacle of the presidential debate with Chris Black, who believed we were missing a golden opportunity as a station for a campaign of our own. If you missed it, we've put together some promotional material. - The place, ESPN Chicago, the year 2024. One candidate born and raised in Skokie. - No nonsense, host David Kaplan. He's all nonsense. - Yes. - The other candidate also born and raised in Skokie. That is offensive and inappropriate. Two sports talk show hosts will vie for a one-year term as president of ESPN Chicago. Whatever that means. - Oh! - You civil discourse lead the day in this race of no purpose. Everybody just tweet cap at once. Just right, take that. No context, no nothing. Eric, take that, take that, take that, take that. - Or will this just turn into petty fodder for each other's shows? - My response is-- - Okay, then you're bored. - Stay tuned to ESPN Chicago for election 2024. - Shot or no shot, cap, would win the election. - That's a shot. - That's a shot. - Ah! (laughs) - You believe you take that, Shelby. (laughs) - So the election, this is a black creation believing that someone should run for president of ESPN 1000. And this election year. And we believe that you would be the candidate to get that done. - I can tell you this. I'm not speaking for Sylvie 'cause I'm not gonna negatively campaign unless I have to. I would, there will be a level of accountability that you've never seen before. - Oh man. Oh man. That means new pens for everybody, new yellow pads. - Correct. - And a working computer. - No more, will I walk into a studio and have a mic fall out of the hole. The mic stand, okay? - Damn. - Do you have any other campaign promises? - Yes. I will make sure that every day you come in, lunch is provided by management. Whatever your shift is, or dinner, there will be an endless stream of cold beverages available in the lunch room. All at no cost to anybody else. - That's awesome. - Congress is laughing that one out of the building. No, who shot that gets through? - And the majority leader Craig went, what? - I will say, just in terms of the campaign, I like capsods a lot. If we're going the attack ad route, no disrespect. I'd take Jaymore and I creating attack ads over Tyler and Melon. - Oh man. And there's me and Waddle on the other side of the room, just lobbying back and forth, making negotiations on behalf of both candidates, having a heads of lunch. - To be all kidding aside, I have a less than zero interest in politics and in running. So I will just sit back and be a good team. - Oh no, brother, you've been nominated. - Yeah. - The convention has happened without you. - Yeah, thanks. - Folks, I'm David Kaplan, you know me. Folks, when you sit at your table in the morning, you gotta figure, what station do you want for sports? (laughing) Ready? (upbeat music) Mommy. (laughing) That's what you gotta do, cap. Campaign. Around the NFL, next on cap in Jayhood. (upbeat music) Welcome back to cap in Jayhood. I'm Chicago's home for sports. E-S-T-N Chicago. - Knit both sucks, be sucks. I'm just a fan, I'm not a football evaluator. I love the Green Bay Packers. - The guy is wrong, but there he goes. This is not Detroit, man, this is the Super Bowl. - I love winning, he starts the comedy club. - This is a really thickly built guy. - I mean, what's the answer you're looking for? All these things here, huh? - Whoa, boy! - It's time to go around the NFL right here on cap in Jayhood on ESPN 1000, reminding you to check out the YouTube channel for cap in Jayhood. Yes, cap and I have our own YouTube channel. Make sure you subscribe to cap in Jayhood, the YouTube channel, in case you missed certain segments on our program. Around the NFL, here's Jay normally, check. - All right, we have a list here. Some CBS sports writers voted on players who are on the track for the Hall of Fame. Will they make it or not? - Ah. - I will offer-- - Dave Williams, Roma Dunezay. - I will set the NBA. - I will offer you the player. You can tell me if they voted yes or no. I'll start with Devontae Adams. Devontae Adams' careers, six Pro Bowls, three All Pros. He's led the NFL in touchdown grabs multiple times, over 10,000 yards for his career, 12th all time in career touchdown receptions, five touchdowns from the 100 mark Hall of Famer or no? - Yes. - No. - CBS Sports voted yes. The career numbers, his 29th all time in catches, 44th in receiving yards, not quite good enough, but if he continues at the pace that he's expected to, should be more than enough. - Packer, right? Do they do that in the NFL? Do you pick a helmet? - I don't think you do. I think you just go in. - I think he goes in as a raider. But no rings, though, right? No rings? - No rings. - No. - Yet. - Where's he gonna get a ring? - Fair. - You don't know. - Somebody gonna donate one? - No idea. Maybe when he's 35, he gets traded to the bear at the deadline 'cause of an injury, heaven forbid, and we win the Super Bowl. You don't know. - All right, next one. - Keenan Allen. - No. - Wait a minute, six Pro Bowl nods, no All Pros. Ify career marks. - Hey, no All Pro, huh? - Never made an All Pro. - Just a solid player, Cap. Like all the very good-- - That's a really good player. - That's the answer to-- - No, for me. - That typically keeps you out. If he gets a Super Bowl and a couple All Pros in Chicago and keeps the career numbers at the track that they're at, he's got a chance. But today, no shock. - All right, zero. - Mike Evans is next, and this one's interesting because people forget Mike Evans has been like the most consistent, incredible wide receiver in the NFL, 10 straight thousand yard receiving seasons. He's also wanna just four players in NFL history with 750 catches, 10,000 yards, 90 touchdowns in his first 10 seasons, and he has a Super Bowl. - That's a yes. No. - Oh, they voted yes. - Okay. - Majority voted yes on Mike Evans. I think he's rather easily a Hall of Famer. - What holds him back, Cap? - He's a good player. I just took a guess. I don't think there's anything holding back. I was just taking a guess on how the goofy, you know, committee would be. - That's a yes for him, for sure. - There is some goofiness that will come into play in a little bit when we get to a couple quarterbacks that made this list. But first, let's go with DeAndre Hopkins. - DeAndre Hopkins. - Hardaway? - I would say no. Hall of the very good? I would not say yes to that. Shay, what do you think, Cap? - First guess, DeAndre Hopkins' really good player, not a Hall of Famer. - That is correct. He's not a Hall of Famer currently. He's basically the Arizona/Tennessee version of Heinz Ward, who is also not a Hall of Famer. But that should, like Heinz Ward, everybody knows Heinz Ward. - One Super Bowls with Pittsburgh, right? He visits this great wide receiver for the Steelers. That's how strict the NFL Hall of Fame is. - Yeah. You know, if that was baseball, or basketball, Heinz Ward would be in the Hall of Fame. - Oh, of course. - Nice guy, decent numbers. - Out of the hole. - NBA, the basketball Hall of Fame, as you put it, it's like the village bice. It's like a divvy bike. Everybody gets a ride. - No question. No question. DeAndre Hopkins, Hall of the very good. - Looking at his numbers, Cap. - Yeah. A long time with Houston and now with Arizona, his numbers are really-- - Now he's with Tennessee, right? - Yes. The comp is plexigal burris. So there you go. - Without the shooting of self in the leg part, yeah. - Tyree Kill on this list. Obviously, Hall of Famer, Tyree Kill. - That is a shot. He is a Hall of Famer. - All pro nods. He's one of the best receivers really to ever do it. - You say Tyree Kill? - Yeah, Tyree Kill. - Yeah, he's a Hall of Famer. - To the quarterbacks, where I think we can embrace a little debate. Matthew Stafford, two Pro Bowls, zero all pros, zero MVPs, one Super Bowl win, and the all time statistics, currently 11th all time in both career passing yards and touchdown passes. But did they vote him in? - They probably didn't. And if it's my vote, he gets in. - Posthumously. - Aw, let him and Kelly enjoy the moment. - Down the line. - Do you think she'll bring the backup quarterback from Georgia to his induction ceremony? - The one she was sleeping with or the other one? - Yes. - She comes double fisted if you're probably the expression. - Wow, I will say they did not vote him in yet. - That's correct. They did not vote him in. And I, this is the Eli Manning debate. You have the Super Bowl and Eli has two of them. You have- - And two Super Bowl MVPs, I might add. - You have no all pro. Stafford does not have a Super Bowl MVP either. I believe one that. - No, because it was correct. - Fraudulently given to Cooper Cup, it should have been given to Aaron Down. - Agree 100%. You and I unlocked up. But for Stafford, you have the all time statistics, but you are a losing player in Detroit, went to a loaded team where you didn't win Super Bowl MVP. You've never made an all pro team. You've only made the Pro Bowl twice. Then if you look at historically, if you don't have an MVP in your quarterback, you ain't getting in. - So yeah, I would agree that he is not a Hall of Famer, but he will be later on in life. - The other, Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson is a Hall of Famer. - Read some numbers, please. - For his career, well, the accolades are really what it comes down to. He's got the Super Bowl. I believe he was Super Bowl MVP. Nine Pro Bowls, two trips to the Super Bowl. - Origin, please? - Origin. - Yes. For Russell Wilson? Can you say it in the sentence? - Russell Wilson stinks in 2024. What do you ask me? You want me to, what is he? - It's like the spelling-- - NC State quarterback? - Like the spelling bee. - NC State and then Wisconsin. - It's like the spelling bee. I'm trying to be careful 'cause I don't want to get in trouble. - The spelling bee. - They always ask the origin and also say it in the sentence. 'Cause maybe that will sway us one way or the other. - I thought you were walking me into a chat. - No. Russell Wilson, to me, is a Hall of Famer cap. You don't think so? - Uh, I'm gonna say... - Come on, for Ciara. - I like Ciara. We had a good time together. - Hold on. - Not like that. We were in a golf tournament. - He can news. - I would say he will resurrect his career in Pittsburgh and then we'll get in the Hall of Famer. - He's a Hall of Famer to me. - I think he either needs to win an MVP or a Super Bowl. He actually got fewer votes in this poll than Stafford did. Both were nose. If either of them win an MVP or another Super Bowl, I think they're both locks. - Well, that's not happening for Russell Wilson. That'll be all. This is it. - Then I got bad news for Russell Wilson. He ain't getting in. - His numbers equate to this cap. Ready? Jim Kelly. Roger Staubach. Matt Ryan. Dan Fouts. Randall Cunningham. Steve Young. Matt Stafford. Ken Anderson. Joe Montana and Cam Newton. That is named for you, I think, five Hall of Famer's. - Yeah, he's borderline. I think he needs to have a good year in Pittsburgh. And I think he will. He will be 36 this year. I mean, he's 36 years old. I mean, I think at this point in time, he's a Hall of Fame. Now again, it depends on when he gets in, but he's getting in. The Seattle team is, again, whenever you think of that defense, Russell Wilson was a big part of it as well. He and Pete Carroll. - I don't know. I'm not denying he was a big part of it, and he has a legacy in this league, but zero all pros, never won an MVP. It's unheard of to have only one ring, no all pros and no MVPs and get in as a quarterback. Unheard of. Man, I thought, well, okay. Sorry, Pedro. I just thought he put enough work in to get there. And nice enough guy, smile. - The point of the exercise is the NFL has it right. To get into the Hall of Fame, you have to be the very best of the best. You basically have to have been a top three player at your position at some point in your career. And if you weren't, you're not getting in. - All right. That is our look around the NFL right here on Captain Jay Hood, some baseball conversation with Jesse Rogers, Cubs Sox, everything else MLB with Jesse Metz. - I'm mad at him. - You mad at him again. - I am. - All right, Jesse will be with us coming up next on Captain Jay Hood.