Kap & J. Hood
6/25 8 AM: Albert Breer
[Music] Good morning and welcome in to the Captain Jay Hood Morning Show on a ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app with David Kaplan, Jonathan Hood with you. It's now time for Shot or No Shot brought to you by the BESP event. Not live in Illinois. Sign up today. New users get $100 in bonus bets with any sport to put fat. We say good morning to SHAW. Good morning boys on a Tuesday. How are we feeling? Good man. How are you? I can't tell if it's 8 a.m. or 8 p.m. Looking outside. We're having a great time here on the night show. This is something. Yeah, it's pitch dark here. Tracy dropped the ball today. Guess she just decided to take the day off because now look what we got here. Just complete darkness here in the city. I would say this, Shay, just to follow up to the last segment. This shows you the difference between hockey and the other sports. For the Khan Smite to go to Conor McDavid, the losing. The losing team, the losing player. Imagine if this was in the NBA. Imagine if it's the best player in the playoffs. But yet he's not on the winning team. It's similar to like this. Andre Dawson won the MVP in 87. He was outstanding on the last place team. But still, it was a losing team. It wasn't like 87's offense was down. I think people just enamored by a guy that says here. Here's a blank check. Just fill it out Cubs. Whatever it is. Alright, 500,000. Is that good? Alright, I just want to play in Chicago. But he was the MVP on the last place team in 87. Correct. But it's like disconnect. I think if you're not watching hockey to say, wait a minute, the guy on the losing team gets the just desserts. Because it's for the whole playoff and he was otherworldly throughout the playoff. He wasn't in game six and seven. They did a great job on him. You know the point would be made is when it was clutch time, when you had to be able to lock it in, you couldn't even get a shot off. Do you deserve the cup? Do you deserve that trophy? The case can be made even though I would agree with you that he is the best player in the world in the national hockey league. And they did an amazing job on them. I'll give them all the credit in the world. But it also, by the way, she had to disconnect the Florida Panthers. It's the Panthers, right? The mascot is a rat. Isn't that crazy? Adam, you don't want to have a palm tree on it. Is that more HL than anything else? I hate them. I genuinely hate them. I think the NHL needs to start putting teams in places where people actually care about hockey. Instead, we could Seattle and Utah. They're going to put a team in Arizona again. They're going to put a team in Atlanta again because it worked so well the first time. Got two teams in Florida. Like, can we put team? Imagine that. There were so many Oilers fans in that building last night. If that game had been in Edmonton, you would not see a single Florida Panther sweater. Not one. I think that's fair. I hate these non hockey towns that keep winning cups. It bothers me. It was a great environment last night on TV. I'm telling you, that crowd was into it. Into it. It was dry-cidal in the game that he skates. Will he help you scratch last night? He was there. Okay. Wouldn't know he played in the whole series. Just ask him. All right, let's get started, shot or no shot. The White Sox lost again yesterday. Three-nothing to the Dodgers. I don't want to talk about the team at all because Garrett Crochet was excellent again. Went five and two-thirds, six strikeouts. No runs allowed. Five and two-thirds scoreless innings. He's also moved up to fourth in American League Sayyung odds. He's been rocketing up this odds board. Now he's got the fourth best odds to win the AL Sayyung. On the topic of can you win individual awards on a team that bad? Shot or no shot. Garrett Crochet can win the Sayyung even on a historically bad team. He would have to be so off the charts the rest of the way. And he's going to soar by his career high innings. I don't think it can last. No, I say no shot. He can win it. It's a no shot. The rest of the league in pitching would have to be down for that. He's got three oh five all right. He is very, very solid. It's very surprising by the way too. He didn't think you're going to get the ball day one. Crochet is like you're giving me the ball? I've never started before. Yeah, we got another choice. You got to start. Okay. And he's been great. Awesome. He's been great. I just don't think at the end of the year that you can't. You can. You can. I mean, how many innings is he going to end up throwing? You can't push this guy that hard. He's never done it. What's the point on this team? And I hope they don't trade him. That's the other reason, Shay, that he can't get it done. He'll be on a national league team by the time you get to July. That's possible. It sounds less and less likely the more we go on with this whole White Sox tear down deal. He's so good. I think you'd have to get a lot back. Like an enormous haul ring the bell. But if he stays in Chicago and he can like Felix Hernandez one side young, I believe on a last place Mariners team. But he was so dominant. So dominant. Crochets. Losing pitcher record, too. Like the pitching wins and losses doesn't matter anymore. It's all about all the other things. Your ERA, your advanced stuff. Got nothing to do with your wins and losses. Felix Hernandez proved that. So if crochet keeps this up. Now your point, Cap, about the innings. Who knows? Cap, I don't mean to car me up, but could you just remember? What was that situation where someone said one, the American League hitting championship and was traded to a nationally team? By the deadline. Do you recall this? Was that Willie McGee? Let me look. Let me look. You know what I'm talking about, right? There was like an award for a player, but he was traded and still won the batting title or something like that. Or something. I feel like it's rattling around in my brain, something like that. Where someone won a big award, even though they were traded to a different team or different league league. It was Willie McGee was traded to Oakland. Yeah. It's happened three times, actually. Harvey Keene of the Indians for slugger Rocky Calavito, who had won the American League home run crown. Harvey Keene, the batting champion for the home run champion. But the Willie McGee one. St. Louis Alfielder Willie McGee was traded to Oakland, but still won the nationally batting title that same season since he had enough played appearances. 1990. How about that, Shay? Remember last year when Otani was still with the Angels and there were all the trade rumors. We were wondering if you could win an MVP in both leagues. Yeah. See? How about that? I don't even remember what happened yesterday. But why do I remember Willie McGee in that spot cap? Willie McGee. He was a hell of a player. That's interesting. Yeah. And so that is the reason why I bring that up, Shay, is because what if would crochet, right? He's that good and he goes to someplace else and still can be able to win a title. You know, be the top of the Cy Young standings. Let me see. That could happen. Career high in innings. And you can't make what's now, right? Yeah. But his career high prior to this, his career high in innings pitched for Garrett Crochet of the White Sox. 54 and a third. He's 54 and a third right now. He's almost double. Right now. How far are you going to let him go? It's only June. You going through 200 innings? No chance. No chance. You can't. On this team? Well, it'll be on somebody's team. He's already had a Tommy John. Cap, it's going to be on someone's team. He's at 94 and a third. I don't think he needs to throw 200 innings to win it though, either. Nobody throws 200 innings anymore. He could throw 170 and win it. Okay. You're going to let him throw 170 innings on this team. And it was what? Two years ago he had Tommy John? Well, Cap, you're not going to shelve him. He wants the ball to be fifth day. He does? You're not going to put him on ice. They can hang a banner from the rate. Wow. Garrett Crochet, American League Si Young. Yeah. All right, Jay. Put it on the season ticket package next year. The Cubs lost another close game last night with Drew Smiley walking in the winning run in the ninth inning for a walk-off walk. Cubs have fallen five games under 500. They're 37 and 42. How about this? Since May 1st, 18 and 30. Falling from first place in the division to third worst in the National League. Shot or no shot? The Cubs will end up with a higher draft pick than the White Sox. Oh, that's a shot. Because the Sox can't pick higher than tenth because you can't be in the lottery back-to-back years as a big market team. Yeah, that's a shot. Absolutely a shot. Now, they could also turn this around. They're only three games out of the wild card. And maybe over there somebody walks into Jed's office today and says, "I don't care what the cost is." Go get a closer. I don't care. Yeah. Fix it. Now, again, that plugs one hole. What about the rest of them? I think if you fixed your bullpen and got a couple of arms, not just one, a couple. Three. At least two. And then get some guys back from injury. If you fixed your horrible bullpen that's blown 17 games, I do think everyone relaxes. I mean, if you took of the 17, you blow in a game of eight wins. That's all of a sudden you're like, "Wow, we're going to the playoffs." As a position player and as a hitter, I got to take care of mine. Correct. But everybody's tight. We're going to blow. We got to get more. Relax. We got to win. You had eight more wins to this team and take eight losses away. It's a totally different vibe. Totally. Interesting you say eight because April 27th, this team was eight games above 500. Yeah, I just picked a random number out of 17 blown saves if you took eight and gave them victories. Awful. In the span of about 50 plus games, 50, say 53, 54 games, this team is hitting under 200 with Ronald's scoring position. That's all you need to know right there. It's not all that deep. Not for me. It's not that deep. We're watching the games every night. We know what is going on. They can't hit and they've got no leverage. 7th and 9th. You're starting pitching. He's a strength of the ball club. That's all you have. But when Jed just sits on his hands and just like, you know what, it will manifest itself because it's June, the whole organization, it should just rename the team. Chicago, it's June because the Cubs don't care. They think it's a long season. We'll get out of it and maybe they will, but we haven't seen any side of that yet. I just don't see who they think is going to magically appear that they can get for their bullpen and that automatically they're going to get back in the race. They're nine back and they're dead last. Yeah. It's embarrassing. Shay. All right. There's a story going around a man at a casino in Singapore. Allegedly suffered a cardiac arrest after hitting a jackpot for $4 million on a slaw machine. I mean, $4 million and he was so excited that he allegedly suffered a cardiac arrest and passed away. Now, this is being disputed. It sounds like he could be alive and well. There's no confirmed story. The whole, obviously, is that he's alive. Well, the video I sent you, they're working on him on the ground. I'm going to operate under the idea that you win $4 million and immediately pass away because I believe that might be the best way to go. Shot or no shot. This is the best way to go. And never enjoy the money. Win the money, but never enjoy it. You go out a winner. No, it's not the best. The best way to go is to go in your sleep and that would be, yes, but to go in your sleep and not have to suffer some horrific disease that we see people pass away from every day and just go to sleep and not wake up. Yeah, be sad, but that would probably be the most beautiful way to go. No suffering. It's over. Yes. But wow, win $4 million and cash him in. I'm telling you, it's great. Your last feeling is the best euphoria you've ever experienced lights off. You don't know the difference. You just had the greatest moment in your life. Bang, you're done. I think that's incredible. You go out a winner. Not everybody gets to say that. Wow. Imagine if that happens to Cap, though. I mean, $4 million, he finally gets the big one because he's been betting all his life. He just wants to have the big one and he finally gets it $4 million. And then so long, everybody, and Cap starts to float away. Wait a minute. I got to put this in a parley. Wait. Mindy. Mindy. Good night, everybody. Good night. Thanks for coming. You'd be so pissed by the time you got to the Pearly Gates. Be so pissed. Wow. What's the matter, young David? I had $4 million back on earth, and I had $4 million back on earth. I couldn't even touch it. Oh, God. Sorry. [laughter] You'd be so mad. Wow. Young David, please, calm yourself. You won't need that money here. What do you mean I won't need the money? Oh, God. Sorry again. Just say it. I mean, it's right there. I've been waiting for this all my life. $4 million. Give it to Mindy and the kids. Yeah, but still, in heaven, you'd still be pissed that you can't put it in the parley or on a horse or buy a horse. You'd still be upset about it, though. What did you need that money for? There was a horse at the Kingland sale I wanted to buy. Here's a horse right here. It's there beautiful, but I can't gamble on them up here. You sent me down for another year just so I can get those millions. Sorry. You're up here now. I want to see if the Cubs turn in the round. He wants to see it, heaven. While he's dead, what if the Cubs turn in the round? No shot. Lord, just laughing at you. You're ever knowing. Do the Cubs turn around this year? No shot. Absolutely not. Ah, come on. You can make things happen. Not with this ball club. They don't care. They're horrible. The good Lord's is sports talk shows. It'd be great, actually. He's breaking it down for you. We actually do a show up here at Winchester. Cap upstairs doing sports talk. Put that in theater. Good old GSPN. Oh, GSPN like that. That'd be great, Cap. That's your next spot, right there. You won't be with me, but you'd be happy. They didn't tell you. Am I going to? Oh, God. We got mornings. Ha! Dude, yeah. Can't the morning shift up there too, right? We got mornings. Bad news is starts next week. Ha, ha, ha. That's nice to know. You guys think it's all fun and games until Heaven's just a cornfield in Iowa? Wow. You're doing a show in the outfield. That's okay. Calling baseball. That's no problem. As long as Tim Anderson hits the home run. Turn over again every day of my life. I can see eight keys. I'm telling. Come on. If that night the lights shut off, you would have been going out in a euphoric place. You would have never known what happened to the White Sox after the fact it would have been wonderful. And instead we got to be living in this misery where the White Sox are an historically bad baseball team. That was the moment winning four million at a slot machine. Lord take me. It's not going to get better than this. That's kind of true. Actually, cap is to get better than winning four million. Put that in the poll at ESPN 1000 is to get any better than winning four million dollars. Pretty good. And dying afterwards around the NFL is coming up next Albert Breyer scheduled to be with us at 835. Look at that. Well, we'll see. Follow Chicago's home for sports on Twitter at ESPN 1000. Cap and Jay Hood are back on ESPN Chicago, Chicago's home for sports. Mick Bould sucks. He 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 coming. He's coming. This is a really thickly built guy. I mean, what's answer you're looking for on these things here, huh? Oh my. What do you mean be careful? You know what I mean. I didn't say anything wrong. I was just trying to make sure that you understood where I was coming here. Everything from that. Is it clear now? Yeah. All right. Now we go around the NFL right here on cap and Jhood here on ESPN 1000 around the NFL with Shane or like Shane and invented my frustration a little bit on the NFL or on the NHL expanding into cities where nobody cares about hockey. I hate it. And fittingly, Bill Barnwell posted a piece on ESPN.com. If the NFL went the route of European soccer and supported 100 teams in America, where would the expansion teams be? I want to offer some of the more fun locations for you. Tell me if it could work. Okay. In the Midwest, Barnwell has 17 teams, including the existing teams. The first expansion team goes to. Good morning. Rockford, Illinois. No, get out of here with that. Get out of here with that. Yeah, don't even joke. Rockford. No shot. Next. There's space. Come on. There is space. No, it's your question about that. But the hockey team is strong enough. That's all you need up there. He had I believe a rule. He was not going to put any team in a city with an existing team. So Chicago could not have a second team. Therefore, Chicago's second team went to Rockford. You know what? I'm out. There is going to be a second team, maybe not in our lifetime, but your lifetime shade. It's going to be a second NFL team in Chicago. It'll be an AFC team in Chicago playing in Soldier Field. Shea. How about Columbus, Ohio? Hmm. Got an NHL team in Columbus. Yeah. Ohio State. Yep. College Town. But could you imagine Ohio State Saturday, your NFL team on Sunday, back to back? Yeah. Too many Browns and Bengals fans in the area. Hmm. Yeah, no shot. Yeah, poach some of them. Not that's not. What do you mean poach some of them? The growing city. They could put another team here called Rockford. I don't care if the Bears are only 17. I'm not jumping off the ship. That's my team. Not saying there, but in Columbus, I think that's possible actually. You're not poaching fans of the Browns and the Bengals. You could rip off some of the Southern Ohio fans that latch onto Cleveland. No way. Almost worked there. It would take time, but you could. I mean, the whole point of this, he said, look at London, where they've got like nine teams and a 20 square mile area. And they all have individual fan bases in the Premier League. From my time there, I'd like Columbus, but I wasn't going to be there full time, clearly. Shout to Kirk Herb Street. Go ahead. Everything you and Herb Street. Woody Des Moines, Iowa did make the list. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, Quad City's supporting the NFL team. What do you think, Cap? Des Moines. No shot. Yeah. I don't think so. No shot. You know what's in my, in back my mind for all of this stuff is the portrait 500 companies and this infrastructure to be able to support these teams. Like the sponsorships. That's what's in my mind. It's like, what's the big sponsor to support the teams in those cities? You know what? This is why we can't have the whalers of Hartford anymore. Oh, these fortune 400 companies. Oh. Just saying. There's no shot. All right. What's the next one? We moved to Texas. Okay. First St. Louis was on the list. That's an obvious. Yes. They never should have lost their team. So I'm glossing over. They should absolutely have a team. We go to Texas, where Barnwell's putting a team in San Antonio. Yep. Over Jerry Jones dead body, but there should be one. There should be one in San Antonio, but Jerry says no. Or Austin. Oh boy. Austin's on the list. Barnwell also said he is preventing Jerry Jones from suing over another team being in Texas. But out of respect for Jerry Jones, he won't put a team in Fort Worth. Okay. That's too close. I understand. Too close for come. Right there. San Antonio should have an NFL team. I would agree with that. They have the infrastructure there. It's between. You see the Austin or San Antonio and Austin is booming and is booming. The other thing is just they're running out of space. It's so much construction going on now, now cap with businesses and homes and everything else. Boy, oh boy. It's it is expanding. I've never been to Austin. It's one of the places I'd like to visit. I've never been beautiful. Probably go back again this year. Che. My favorite location on the list. Waco. Waco. I've been there either. I don't plan. I don't think I need to go to wake. No shot. I'm going directly into the Baylor Bears stadium and directly out of the Baylor Bears stadium. The idea of Waco scares me. I don't think so. Yeah. Pass. Next one. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Interesting. How much money does Sonic have to support the Thunder and the Oklahoma City football team? Right. Because that's the homosonic if I'm not mistaken. Oklahoma City. Yeah. So. I've never had Sonic. My kids like Sonic when they visited relatives in Texas. It's okay. Never been. It's okay. Um. Yeah. Um. You know, it's funny, Che, from my standpoint at Cap's standpoint, we never thought there'd be any pro anything in Oklahoma. Such a strong college state with Oklahoma and Oklahoma state. Never thought we'd see that there. Possibility though. Absolutely. Next one. Jaymore. We're putting an NFL team in Laramie, Wyoming. No shop. No. And I've been there. No. Hey, would you be held? No. Wait a minute, Jaymore. Wait a minute. Nah, I can't do that one. Would you tell us Jaymore you said like if you're trying to kick it in Laramie, you go to Denver, right? Or Colorado Springs? Yes. It's nothing up there in Wyoming, man. So you do it to drive to Denver, right? Is that what you did? Yeah. You got to drive to Denver, man. And get out of that. They just put a movie theater there like, but three years ago? Four years ago? Oh, wow. First movie theater in Laramie was three years ago. Yes. What time? No shot, Jaymore. Seriously. The first movie theater in Laramie opened three years ago. Maybe four. Three or four years ago. Shit. It's unbelievable. They would die. Yeah, I would never live there. Not in a million years. So you go see football there? No, football team. Where's my IMAX? Dude, I go to a Wyoming college game. Why is it different? Because the culture and the schools there, but I'm talking about professional. Well, the professional football team would not last in Laramie. Jill. Jaymore, how was the running water? I know they just put that in a few years ago as well. Is that good? It's actually pretty good. The candles that you light things with that doesn't cause any problems that you don't have lights yet. No electricity. Oh, man. We're working on it. We're working on it. I had to save some of these for Albert Breer as well. Could you squeeze in one more? I've got eight candles in Laramie for dinner. He's got 11 teams going to California, and I want to ask you if he's cheating. Because obviously Los Angeles has two teams. San Francisco has a team, and he's putting teams in San Diego. That's okay. Should be one. Give the Chargers back. Yep. But then he's going Anaheim, San Bernardino, Bakersfield, Fresno, all basically LA. And then San Jose, San Francisco, Sacramento, and Oakland. Come on. You're cheating. Sacramento, yes. But that whole thing that you just gave us Fresno, Bakersfield, that's the whole same area. He's doing two entire metropolitan areas. The Bay Area is one pretty much. Would you say Fresno, Bakersfield, and what else? Fresno, Bakersfield, San Bernardino, and Anaheim. Anaheim, no. That's all LA. That's LA. That's LA. No. But that little glom, those two or three represents one area. All right. Let's ask Albert his thoughts. I'd like to get his thoughts about some of these. I think that's pretty fun. And more around the NFL with Albert Breyer. That's coming up next on Captain Jayhood. Here's to Dave's headline, headline with Captain Jayhood. Captain Jayhood brought to you by the village of Bowling Brook home to the 2024 Live Golf Individual Championships at the awesome Bowling Brook Golf Club. Cubs lost in walk-off fashion last night to the Giants at San Francisco 4-2 in the night. They're up and they go to some dude named Colton Brewer. He and Drew Smiley combined to allow three runs. The winner on a walk-off base is loaded, walked after an intentional walk, loaded the bases. That is the Cubs 17th, blown save of the season, falling the three games out of the NL wildcard. They're in dead last in the division in the central. Cubs playing the Giants again tonight at 8-45. White Sox lose to the Dodgers, three zip at the rate last night. Garrett Crochet continued his great season, five and two-thirds shutout innings, six strikeouts. He handles Shohei Otani exceptionally well. Lowering his ERA to 3.05, Sox and Dodgers again tonight, pregame on ESPN 1,000 at 6-30. Panthers, Stanley Cup champs after beating Edmonton 2-1 against 7 at the Cup final last night. A Canadian team has not won the title since 1993 when Montreal turned the trick, Connor McDavid, Khan Smythe, for playoff MVP. And Mark Harmon is reporting, he's from CHDO, that the Bears have made progress in their discussions with Arlington Heights and the School District Board for a stadium deal. No comment from Kevin Ward. Jay Moore! You're listening to Captain Jay Hood. Follow the show on Instagram @thecatman and @IGJhood. This is ESPN Chicago, Chicago's home for sports. Oh, football on ESPN 1,000. Hello, Bird. Albert Breer. Hey, Bird, senior NFL writer for SI.com. And joins Captain Jay Hood, Bird said, you're it, Bird, on ESPN 1,000. What do you mean I'm it? We see, that's the game. I just tag you, and you're it until you tag somebody else. Albert Breer. No, no, I'm not playing a game, I'm reading, and I'm not it. Okay. On Chicago's home for sports. What bird is it? It's not time for Albert Breer. With this here on the Captain Jay Hood Morning Show, and Albert's on the hotline. All right, it's Tyronauto Hotline. Good morning, Albert. How are you? Good morning, guys. How you doing? We're doing great. I want to ask you something that I'm hearing about the Bears. I know they're still doing their due diligence on Yannick in Gakwe and trying to upgrade their defensive line in some way, shape, or form. I'm also here and they are doing due diligence on Senator Connor Williams. A, have you heard that? B, is he going to be ready to play? To get a question, I think he will be ready to play when the season starts, and it doesn't surprise me. I mean, I think that's obviously been a point of emphasis for the Bears is to improve their offensive line, and it would make sense to go in and bring in a guy like that who's got position versatility. He's played all three positions over the course of his career, tackle, guard, and center between his time with the Dolphins and the Cowboys. I think as he gets closer to full health, his value team is going to increase just because he can play so many different spots and bring it a lot to the table for whatever keeps the upside. So the Packers make news by having a policy to succeed Mark Murphy as president in 2025. That Packers team always seems like it's run by the fans. How much power does a president really have when the fans are really owners? I think there's probably more power than any other president, but to be honest with you, because the person who's in that role essentially does a lot of the things that an owner does. Now, obviously he doesn't have the team in his portfolio, and he's not going to profit from the team, the devaluation of the team rising the way an owner would, but in a lot of different ways, you know, functionally he works as the owner. He represents the team at league meetings. He is the one who's got the vote when it comes to league matters on behalf of the Packers. And you know, he's going to be the one who's going to have the final say on co-tirings and GMirings and all that sort of stuff. So, you know, one that is in a football-specific position, I think it's actually one of the more powerful president rules in all sports because you don't have an owner there and the absence of the owner leaves, you know, a lot of things to be done and a lot of like different sort of roles to be filled and the team president and Green Bay fills a lot of those roles. I don't know if we'll have anything like that again, Cap. What do you think? I mean, as far as a professional sports where the fan says, "Hey, I own, but yet you're the one that has the policies when you go into the boardroom." Right. Those shares are pretty much what's the right way. Let's be honest though, guys, I mean, it's not like these aren't real shareholders. Correct. Exactly. I mean, like, there's a board and the board is the one that makes the decisions. So the fans aren't running the team. You know what I mean? Like, there's a board and basically the president is the head of that board, you know, so it's almost, and I think, you know, you could eventually see this where you have corporate ownership and sport and other sports, right? Like, could that eventually wind up happening in the NFL? I've talked about private equity going into it. You know, like, it's just a different ownership structure and it's a unique ownership structure because the way that team has always been set up. So like, I don't think there's anything quite like it in any North American sport anyway, but the idea of corporate ownership or there being conglomerates that run teams like that happens in other sports. And, you know, I'd say the Packers are probably closer to that, closer to that than they are to a traditional, you know, NFL setup. Right. He's going to have what I was reading yesterday. He's basically going to speak as the owner, the fan who owns those shares. It's something you frame and put on your wall as a Packer fan, but it has zero value. It's not real stock. Exactly. It's not real. Yeah. It's fun. I mean, that's the great thing about that. Like, I mean, you talk about just generating a revenue stream out of nothing like how much is it cost to print out those pieces of paper? I don't know. Not much. Right. So I don't know. I could probably do it at home. If you have a good nap printer and nice paper, I get to do it at home, right? The toner is very clutch in that spot, Albert. Yeah, that's true. That's true. So is there anything that you are watching? I know you like to get a little time off before your grind of football comes as we all do. Is there any big story coming around the corner that we're not really like, oh, wow, didn't see that coming? Is that deck Prescott getting signed? Is there something out there? Yeah. I mean, like this time of year, the contracts are the big thing, you know, like I don't, you know, I think we'll all, you know, usually that July 15th, like franchise tag deadline is the one that you look at, say, okay, you know, how is, is there someone that's going to get done before then? All those guys are signed and all of them accept T Higgins are signed the long term deals that I don't think T Higgins is going to get a long term deal and Cincinnati. So, you know, there's nothing really there on that. And then, you know, I think like you have, you know, the usual contract negotiations that are going to go into the summer and the big ones are the quarterback ones, right? Let's see. You mentioned Dak. He's one Jordan loves another to a type of a low of course in Miami. So those three. I think the Cowboys situation overall with Dak, with CD lamb, with like a partisan, how hard does Michael Parsons push with two years left on his contract to get an extension. Obviously, the markets changed for non quarterbacks with Nick close to getting 34 last summer. And now Justin Jefferson getting 35 and that kind of hits the Cowboys with both barrels, right? The receiver in in CD lamb who had 1700 yards last year and then, you know, a guy in like a Parsons who, you know, as a patient performance every right to ask to be the top top paid non quarterback. So the Cowboys is going to be a lot of attention on them as we get closer to training camp. Just trying to think like what else, you know, the injuries to where it's obviously guys coming off of injuries, you know, so, you know, Aaron Rodgers returning from parts unknown. I'm sure it will be a another big topic of conversation and how he looks coming up the Achilles to, you know, Kirk Cousins, you know, what does he look like coming off of his Achilles injury? I generally where it is this time of year, you know, and then, you know, every so often you have a guy blow his hand off with fireworks, which could happen. So, you check that box exactly because the 4th of July is right around the corner, possibly expansion in the NFL. Here's a piece you got to hear about next on Captain Jay Hood. This is Captain Jay Hood. They beat in the traffic commute, so you don't have to, on ESPN Chicago, Captain Jay Hood on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. Albert Brier with us every Tuesday at 835 right here on the home of the White Sox and Bears. Albert hell of a game last night, by the way, that thing, that this sports like game 7 and the Florida Panthers feels like an expansion team to me still after all these years, but they get it done. They knock it down yesterday. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure South Florida is overjoyed with with winning the Stanley Cup. I'm sure that I'm sure that there's riding and looting and everything. Oh, yeah. Exactly. It's like Detroit or Chicago where we get 5 million for the Cubs parade. Yeah. Sunrise Florida is just all of us, I'm sure, in that little town. Yeah, I guess, I've never been to the arena, but I guess the arena is like the parking lot of them all or something like that. Yes. Is that right? That is correct. Yes. Cause I actually said, I actually said, I tweeted something about like, I don't know if there's ever been like two cities that are more different playing for a championship than Miami and Edmonton, and then I got all these people that were all upset at me for saying that that was a Miami team and they said, it's not a Miami team. And then, you know, I argued, well, it's actually like, like, would you call the Patriots belt Boston team? Would you call the Cowboys, Dallas's team? So anyway, yeah, lots of arguments over Florida geography on that one. There was a peace spot. We had to get you on this, the Barwell piece on ESPN.com. What if the NFL expanded to a hundred teams? Now, now here's, it's the NFL. We know now in 2024, anything could happen. It's on every network. It's on a lot of streaming platforms. We could have football on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, they still draw a number, as we will know, right? And attendance. So there's some cities here. There's some cities I'm sure that you miss that's no longer in the NFL. Like a San Diego. That makes sense, right? To have a team back in San Diego at some point. Yep. Yeah. I mean, I definitely miss going to San Diego for work. How about Salt Lake City? That would be interesting. Salt Lake City, I think. I think it would support it. I just think it's one of those places where we're adding enough value to the owners. Like that's the whole thing that people miss with the expansion talk is like, all right, well, now instead of talking about, but now instead of breaking up the money, 32 ways, you're breaking it up 34, 36 ways. And so, I mean, you know, the way these guys operate, like they're not going to do that unless bringing in somebody new into their club winds up giving them more money. You know what I mean? Like that's the whole governing principle here. So it's not as if like they're going to do this out of charity from for some city. There's a thing that got, there's anything that gets me to is like, I don't think they're ever going back to St. Louis, like St. Louis is not a small place. You know what I mean? Like it's a, I mean, it's not New York or Chicago or LA, but it's not like it's like this tiny dot on the map, you know what I mean? Like, so, so that part that that to me always kind of got me is like, well, they're leaving St. Louis and they're never going back there. Oh, then I mean, like to me, that that that tells me the only place that they would expand to probably has to be overseas, but maybe I'm wrong. Sisha, you went too far with some of these that he put on here. You put on Fargo, North Dakota, Bismarck, Sioux Falls, Bozeman, Montana, Laramie, Wyoming, that doesn't get the rich too far. How about Anchorage? Laramie, Laramie, Wyoming. Oh, God. No chance. No chance. No. St. Juan, Puerto Rico. I mean, Laramie, Wyoming's probably, I mean, smaller than like some of the suburbs of Chicago, right? That is correct. But what makes sense? I mean, I only can height bigger than Laramie, Wyoming, Rockwell certainly is. Yeah. Is that true? Jay Moore? Yeah, it's bigger. Yeah. Here's one that made sense to us. What about in the Mid-South along with the Saints? What about Memphis or Little Rock or Oklahoma City? I see. I might guess it would be like Memphis, like you would see the types that would say no. All these teams have territorial rights, you know, that they're willing to enact. In fact, that was part of the deal with San Antonio when they had sort of tossed around the idea of trying to attract an expansion team or like whether or not the Saints would stay there if you were a post-Katrina, they went and they set up shopping, played games in San Antonio. You're the Raiders, it's Florida with San Antonio, and you're the Cowboys and Texans had always stood in the way of that. So Memphis is an interesting one, but Memphis, I mean, I actually look at it like they had the choice to go to Memphis when they moved the Oilers. And I actually think that's when the NFL got right, you know, like so you look like when they expanded to Jacksonville, right, the whole idea was that that was going to become like the next Atlanta, like it was going to grow that way, and it obviously hasn't happened. I actually think in this case, they nailed that one where the Oilers could have probably gone to Memphis or Nashville and Memphis had been in the running for an NFL team before. I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, Memphis is not growing anywhere near the rate that Nashville was growing. So they wound up getting that one right. And I can't imagine the tides would allow for another team to be in the state, and they were in the state borders. Albert, have a wonderful day, man. We'll look forward to seeing you next month. All right, thanks, guys. All right, we'll see you at Albert Breer on the Car X Tiger, and I don't know hot. Walk off, walk for the San Francisco Giants to get started. Don't start. Well, Chicago sports is what happened yesterday, right? So mad. Well, I mean, we have to talk about the news cap. That was the news. Yes. Oh, my God. In two minutes on Cafe Jhood.