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Cap has returned from O Canada. Good to see you. Back from Canada. Good. Back from Canada. No luggage. How was your trip? I had a great time. We went four and one in our five matches, but did not advance to the shoot out round. We lost our last match. We were four and oh, and your partner went brain dead chipping in the final match. Had a great drive, just missed the green in two, and the other guy was in trouble. And I went brain dead. Scolded across the green into the water. Well tell us about the course. Where were you? I was at a course called Redtail, which is two hours from Toronto. Russell Martin, remember, used to play for the J's, and the Pirates, and the Dodgers. The catcher. He was in it. Todd Bertuzzi, who played, I don't know, like 19 years in the NHL. He walked by me, and I'm like, I think that's Todd Bertuzzi. He is one big SOB, nicest guy. And then I'm seeing this other guy, I'm like, God that guy looks familiar. Someone goes, that's Dino Cicirelli. Oh, God. That guy. So I went up. I call the Edzo. I go, you're not going to believe this. Guess who's there? Todd Bertuzzi goes, oh, TB's great. Good guy. And I said, Dino Cicirelli, he's like, oh, the nicest human in the world, but when he was coming with the North Stars, wow did we hate him. And I went up to him. Excuse me, Dino? Yep. My name is David Kaplan. I interviewed you, and the Hawks were rolling. I found you in your bar. He's like, I remember the interview. He said, I just sold that bar. He said, you asked me about the little Dino dinosaurs from Sinclair gas station. And then he said how much he loved coming up the stairs at the old stadium and hearing 18. He knew the number. He goes 18, 676, yelling, Cicirelli sucks. Yeah. So we talked for quite a while. Super nice. It looks amazing for 64. He looked tremendous. Great shape. And now I get home. First of all, no luggage. It's all lost. You have no luggage. No luggage. Did you bring any? I did. Oh, you did bring luggage. Big travel golf bag. My clubs gone camp. They can't find them here, Canada. Can't find them. This is a direct flight, right? Was it? Nonstop. Toronto to Chicago, back and forth. Correct. And somehow, some way they don't, your luggage is missing. Correct. By the way, Saturday when I turned it in at 5 o'clock. And so I sat there from 5 o'clock. Flight was originally supposed to be 545. Then it was 745. I switched to a different one. 745, 845, 945, 1045, 11 o'clock. We're sitting at the gate. 882, watching stuff on my phone. I checked all my luggage, but I took one. Thank God. Backup battery with me. Put it in my little bag. And there were two elderly people in wheelchairs. They were right there at the gate. Sitting, waiting, waiting, waiting. Finally, I said, sorry for the inconvenience. We are moving you to gate 55, 5-5. Like the other leg of the terminal. So they get people to push them. I'm like, can I help anybody any luggage? No, we're good. Okay. Get all the way to 55. Sit there for an hour. Attention, flight, whatever it was. Air Canada. Sorry for the inconvenience, folks. We're moving you back to gate 82. Oh my God. You should have heard the one guy in the wheelchair. He was so mad. God, it's like being in Atlanta. Yeah. Changing the gates four or five times before a flight is brutal. We get all the way back to gate 82. And this lady sits down next to me. And she's like, I think you should book a hotel room. I'm like, excuse me? She's like, I can read. This is true. I can read lips. She just said to the other lady, the flights cancel. Oh. I'm like, what? And sure enough, I'd get on my Marriott Bonvoy app. I booked the West. I'll deal with them having to give me a credit. They give you a credit. The line by the time they announced it, I already booked the flight. They said, yes, please get in line at the customer service outside gate 82. The flight has been canceled, unfortunately. Hmm. Okay. I want to just leave. Yeah. There's 200 people in line from three or four different flights of gate 200, at least down the terminal. It's 11 at night already. I'm tired. I want to just get some sleep. We will email you within 30 minutes with your new flight arrangements for Sunday. Well you can't leave an international airport when you cleared customs. So all the gates, the doors were locked. Oh, God. Yeah. Walk over to another gate. There's a lady there from air can. She's sitting on her computer. Excuse me. I'm what? That's how she answers me. What? I said, um, can you just tell me how I get out of the terminal? Not my responsibility. Go back to your gate. I'm busy. What? Excuse me? Wow. Here comes another lady who's her superior. I said, excuse me. Can you help me? What? Wow. You people are not real friendly. I got to get out of the terminal. She said, uh, go back to your gate and let them deal with it. We're busy here. Wow. Okay. Uh, go back to gate 82. Wow. Really nice gentleman. Yeah. Hang on a minute. You got to go through there. You're going to have to re-clear customs to go back into Canada because I was now considered being in the United States even though I was in Toronto. I finally get through there. I go out and I get to the cab line. I wait in the cab line, 15 minutes, not terrible. Get a cab to the hotel. Get to the hotel. There's got to be 200 people in the lobby of the hotel because there were flights from all over because of we had mechanical, but there was weather, the whole deal. I walk in. I'm like, oh my God, I'm going to be here forever. It's really nice lady from the Weston. She's walking by and she sees me kind of like, can I help you? I said, do you have to come out to your desk because I at least have my status. I'm a platinum. Of course. And she said, oh, that desk is closed. I'm like, oh, she's like, you have a reservation. Yeah. She goes, she works. She goes, I just work in the restaurant. I'm like, oh, I appreciate it. Thanks anyway. She's like, hang on. What's your name? My name. I show her my passport. She goes back and gets my key. I'm like, wow, things are looking up. Go upstairs and they now, to this moment, I have not got an email from them at AirCannon with my new flight arrangements. I bought a ticket to get home yesterday, paid for it myself. Oh, man. Yes. One-way ticket. You would not believe what that was. I go on. There's one seat left. One-way from Toronto, 1700. Oh. Yeah. I could show you the receipts. I got them right here, 1700. So I book it. You get 24 hours to cancel. So I book it, brother, call the customer service line. And I, the lady said, we don't have any seats available. I said, you do because I'm holding one on your flight at noon. She's like, you are? Yes. You switch me into that. She said, well, you have to cancel it. And then I'll see if I can re-book it. But I said, okay, me being smart, I go back on my app. There's another flight at 11 a.m. So I booked that one. That one was 700. So now I'm $2400 into trying to get home. Yeah. My wife's saying to me, just rent a car and drive back. No shot. Oh, 500 and some mile? No shot. Yeah. I'm out fall asleep. The drive to run on to Detroit and then Detroit to Chicago would have been interesting. So I buy the 700-hour tickets from $2400 in. The lady gets disconnected from me, from Air Canada. I look, my phone goes there. I'm like, what? Wow. She calls me back. It's an awesome lady. She calls me back, so sorry, I think I disconnected you. But I had your number in my profile. Okay. You got two flights now? Yes. I'm at the airport because you used a kiosk rather than the app and try and check in there. All the kiosks are down. You hear all these people grumbling. They've got some issue going on. Oh, wow. The second flight was on a United flight, but they're a partner airline. I said, you know what, I'm checking in for the $700 one. I appreciate all your help. Once I check in and get the boarding pass, I cancel the $1,700 flight. Exactly right. Right. Yeah. So now I'm good to go. Can I just get my bags please? Because they're here at the airport. I have air tag in my bag. Smart. I can see it. I can right now. They're still sitting in Toronto somewhere in the airport. And they said, no, it's in a secured area. We can't get them. What do you mean you can't get them? They've been sitting there all night. I called on my way to work this morning to just let the music play. Finally somebody answers. We haven't been able to locate your bags. I said, well, I have you have. Yeah. I have an air tag. I can tell you they're right outside the Tim Hortons in the baggage claim area. Of course it's at the Timmy hose. Of course it is. And I've never been to a Timmy hose. Yeah. But like where you put the bags in, there's a Tim Hortons right there. Yeah. Put it on the belt. It's it's in there. It's right there. I'm like, you can see it. I can see it. I just looked now. It's there. But I got just got a text. It says, yeah, we'll have your bags are landing at 7 a.m. and they'll be delivered by one. So I went back on the app just as we were going on the air. Still sitting in Toronto, Air Canada, the worst. That is unbelievable. That's unbelievable. Brutal. The Air Canada show. Let me tell you one other thing. This is my problem with our friend here, Good Karma. So they sent me an email to fill out forms. I already went to the baggage claim office at O'Hare yesterday, filled out the form. Yeah. Marie was a lovely lady and she thinks I'm Croatian. Well? She said name. I show her my path. Oh, Kaplan, that is a Croatian name. Czechoslovakian. I said, I'm neither. I'm not Czechoslovakian, I'm not Croatian. I had big name in Czechoslovakian. Okay. You can believe that. Sure. Sure. It's not Kaplan-ich, but I get the point. It gives me all the info. Click on this link in a couple hours. Nothing there. Nothing there. Nothing there. Finally, I get an email. Click here. So I'm just pulling it, I'll go to work. Bitpoint defender pops up. That is not a website we will allow you to access. I get it if it was xvideos.com. Yes. It's Air Canada. It's Air Canada. Can you get it? A block? Air Canada. Blocked. So I'm like, huh. I know how to go around them. I'll use a different browser. Bitpoint defender pops up. Wow. Yeah. Through Patriot. Love. So I may not get my golf clubs back. And all my sons come and bought Mindy a nice little like golf jacket through flowing hearts. They're worried you're committing treason. We see. Excessing a foreign website. Wow. So. And I'm home watching the most boring baseball team in the league. They're not the worst. They're clearly not the best. But they are the definition of vanilla. They don't have one guy on their everyday lineup. I'm not talking about the pitchers in Menaga school, and you know, I love Justin Steele. Is there one guy where you stand up and go, huh, I gotta go to the bathroom. I'll be right back. Wait a minute. I thought you were going to the bathroom. No, I got to watch this guy hit whether that's Sosa or Rizzo or in his prime Chris Bryan or Harvey Baez or Frank Thomas or Albert Bell on the south side like Patrick Kane with the puck on his stick, Connor Bedard. Obviously the great bullshit. Is there one guy on the freakin Chicago Cubs where you go, I have got to watch that guy. Not one. Is there any outrage from any of them? Does anybody have the balls to go to the podium and go, okay, enough. We're a better team than this, and we got to play better. No, Luis Severino looked like Whitey Ford out there. So will he get your luggage by one? There, no shot. Jed Hoyer is starting to feel some heat. We talk about it next on Captain J. Hood. Welcome back to Captain J. Hood, you're officially locked in on Chicago's home for sports. ESPN Chicago. It's a Captain J. Hood morning show on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago App. He was hoping that you're going to have a great Monday and a great week as we're going to have a shot or no shot coming away at eight o'clock. Well, I think it's pretty clear if you know Chicago sports that this was not a good weekend for the Chicago Cubs losing two out of three against the New York Mets, okay. The Mets are surging since they had Grimace as part of the fray. Soon as Grimace throughout the first pitch, they've been on a roll, yet have something to rally around. Grimace from McDonald's gang has been the thing that's helped the Mets. But the Cubs lose two out of three, Cap, and the offensive issues with this team aren't going away anytime soon. They are boring. Isn't that the word you use? I said they were beige, but you've used the word before. Mm hmm, they are boring. What is compelling about them? My buddy Taylor from the Quad Cities is listening to the shows he does every day. Chris Morel's exciting goofball. He hits home run. Stop yourself. He's hitting two oh three Taylor two oh three look, and you and I both like Chris Morel. I love Chris Morel, but he has not been he's like the rest of the team just bland and beige. And that's what base that Cubs baseball is so far. Yeah, he hit a home run Saturday, four forty six. He hit one four twenty five yesterday. Great. He's hitting two oh three. He's a butcher at third base. He was actually decent last night. And just there's nothing compelling about this team. Nothing, nothing. Tell me how it's going to turn around. Now they had to put Jesse's guy lighter on the bolt on the interlist from the bullpen. Luke Littles back. Oh boy. He's on the Des Moines shuttle every other week. Yes, but he does have big feet. This team sucks. So down on them, so down. And there's no sense of panic or urgency or nothing. I watched the highlights, Mallory Swanson scored a goal yesterday for the Red Stars. She shows more fire in one goal than her husband shows all season long. I'd rather have Mallory at shortstop. She's done more than he has her seventy seven million for that guy. What? Well, he's a microcosm of the issues with this Cubs team. He's just one of the many issues on this team. First of all, the Chicago Cubs can't stay healthy. And I know I'm just telling you now, Cap. I'm telling you now before you say, you know, I knew Jed would use this as an excuse. I'm telling you that this is exactly what's going to happen at the end of the season. If the Cubs are not a playoff team, that'll be the first thing out of Jed's mouth. Well, we were hurt all season or hurt in the unopportuned time. So we did not gel as a ball club in the first year of counsel. That'll be the first thing he'll say. But then my retort to that would be, well, you came into the season with a roster that could not compete, especially a bullpen that could not compete. I still raise my hand as I have for the last six to eight weeks on the show and tell you that the offense needs some bolstering. They need some help. You have been talking about the pitching. One arm can't fix this. One arm or two arms can't fix the doldrums that the Cubs are in offensively. I've been saying it. They need to be able to have some guys that can help offensively. But again, the question still stands. Are you trying to compete or are you not? That's what I need to know. Any Cup fan needs to know. What is this season? Is this a season where you're just trying to find out, well, who's going to be the future of the ball club? No, with a little seasoning, the Chicago Cubs should be with Milwaukee competing for the central and everyone is just slumping. They are emblematic of their manager. Just bland. Yeah. And I was excited when they signed. Crank counter. Sure. I was very excited. I'm not telling. He's not a good manager. He's a solid manager. He is. I see no fire and waddle gets full credit the other day. What day was it that was I wasn't in Canada because I think it must have been just before I left. Patrick wisdom's at the plate. Cubs have given up the nearest three run home run to the Giants. You remember that? And the first pitch to wisdom is a ball. Second pitch is a ball. You're down a run in the night. The third pitch is literally nine inches at least outside. I mean, literally not close. Strike one. It should have been three and all. He would have walked in the at bat. He ends up not getting on base. They end up losing the ball game. Waddle was 100% spot on. That was the moment that Craig council comes out of his coma because standing in the dug out there with his nice cool blue hoodie on and never yelling, never getting fired up. Press conferences after the game are boring, boring, nothing. I don't see one guy come into that press conference or in that locker room ago. This bowl blank is enough. It's got to get fixed. We got a good group of guys in here, but we're not playing our potential. Do you hear one guy say that? He's throwing anything ever. Anybody ever get ticked off? Nope. It's June. What we heard the shortstop say, yeah, and you're hitting 200 with an LPS and the sixes. You stink. Here's Craig council. Well, it was just some basic, it was mistakes kind of out over the plate and they put two balls in the seats with, you know, balls out over the plate. Some of the balls hit hard. Like in the first, we're just kind of some balls out over the plate. It didn't quite get to the spot he wanted to get to and they made them pay for it. Severino pitched well. No question about it. You know, our opportunity was in the sixth. We got the first two guys on and we've got two, three, four coming up. You know, he made some pitches to those guys. He just struck out Michael. Billy gave him a good, good great battle, ended up making a pitch and he pitched out of it, but he pitched well tonight. Yeah, I mean, we didn't certainly gain any ground here and do anything to get us moving forward. And, you know, it's going to take better than four and five. No question about it. Try to start it tomorrow. So let me just give you if people did not watch the game. Let's give you just a clue of what Cubs baseball is offensively. So it's laughable, but it's ridiculous that Edwin Diaz gets kicked out of the ball, because this guy had sticky stuff on his hand. The before, before the whole thing happened, by the way, before, you know, he starts his first pitch. I, you know, you don't see it very often on TV anymore, Cap, where you see the umpires checking the glove in the hands of pitchers. That used to be something they clued in on and you'd see it on camera. This was off camera and then there was a replay of Edwin Diaz and the umpires looking at his hands. They're sticky stuff back here and regularly spend those coming out because Edwin Diaz has just been ejected. Big carapaza there between Diaz and Mendoza, he's the crew chief. They inspected him for the sticky stuff and didn't like what they found. And he has just been thrown out of this game. Yeah. Get out, Timmy Trumpet. Get out. Which is just dumb, by the way. I mean, all that stuff on your hand, you don't think the umpires would check that? Of course they would. And so he gets kicked out of the ball game. And by the way, shame on me, because I said to Jay Moore, hey, man, do you have the audio of what you just played? Yeah. I said, can you get what's that song that Edwin Diaz comes out to? And she goes, Timmy Trumpet, I go, Jay Moore, Timmy Trumpet, you ever heard of that? Jay Moore is a voter for the Grammys. Not this year, he's not because I got his vote because he lost a bet to me, but sorry Jay Moore. I forgot your music wizard and I'm an idiot, so. So Diaz gets kicked out of the game. And here comes Smith that comes in and he's the reliever after Diaz. So here's the problem with Cubs baseball. Okay. The guy is cold. He just came in eight, 10 warm up pitches. And what does Ian have to? First pitch flies out to right. And of course, because Boog Shabby works so much with Jim de Jay's, they use this phrase. They ambushed him. I heard that. Kiss my ass with ambush. It's wrong. They ambushed him. No, no, it's wrong, Cap. I know that's the pitch that they have wanted, but the point is though, this guy comes in cold. How about see a few pitches? You're down three in the ninth is okay, so fair or not fair. So I was going to say to you, if you were one pitch that one run down, it's five four three, two, whatever it is. Okay. If I get a pitch there, I'm going to try and hit it out. Okay. I get that. You're three down. Okay. You hit a home run. How the frickin' Luyah? Now it's five to three. No, I want you to get on base. Yes. I need traffic to keep him uncomfortable out there, ambushed to my ass. Oh my God. The first pitch. You know, he's cold, Cap. I love Boog. But that was bad. But I mean, it's the marquee phrase. That's what they use them. I only hear that in cup games because that's the shades thing. They ambushed him. No, it's wrong. It's bad baseball. Great. Because he's cold, Cap, give him a good work account. Maybe you can draw a walk. Who knows? Okay. Then morale strikes out looking. Yeah. Okay. So you're not swimming the bat. Did you see how many pitches they took for strike three that not just Chris? Yeah. Two run home or how many they take that are not like, Oh, borderline right down the middle of the box. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You're out. That's when you're scuffling. Like, how did you not see that swans and singles he gets on? And then here comes the great Patrick wisdom striding to the plate. Ah, he just saw on everybody right down the chute. So long, everybody. Good night from Riggly. I mean, I mean, seriously, in that spot, Cap, again, runner on, you know, runner on base. What are you looking at? Anytime I see that many strikeouts looking, you're not looking at the scouting report, pal. Yeah, I can understand if you're giving your all and you're swinging through it. But when I see that many strikeouts looking, especially where the location was like, and we've been in a hundred locker rooms, the replays are going on the TV. Right? Yeah. Scout, it's right there on the TV before you go to the video room. Hey, show me that pitch again. That's all. You took strike three right in the box. No, again, they weren't going to win the game. I get it. But still give him a finish. Give him a finish. That's what you do. And I just want to just caps like that. Just that ninth inning. You're correct. That's Cubs baseball right there. You're correct. The other thing I would say is Craig. At some point, and again, I am not denigrating Craig Council in his baseball knowledge. He's a brilliant baseball guy. His record and his time in Milwaukee show that he was a winning player. Show of pulse. How about a pulse once? One time. Can you show a pulse, please? Can you please if you're going to sit at your freaking desk in that office on the road or at home, once go, you know what? This isn't what I signed up for. I came here because I was told we're the big market team in our division. We're not acting like it. We got a $230 million payroll and we're playing like the Oakland A's. It's embarrassing and I'm not going to tolerate it anymore. And if I got to go get the Iowa Cubs and the freaking Tennessee Smokies and the Myrtle Beach Pelicans, I'll let them play because I'm not seeing it. You know what he does? Well, is it Severino pitched a good game? Yeah, he did. Yes, he did. He did. Yes, you are. Guess what? Your team looks lifeless. That's on you. Cubs now are two games out of the wild card. 312-332-ESPA-3323776 is our telephone number. Chris tweeted as I've never seen a manager of a team with expectations look more boring than Lovey Smith. He's more boring than Lovey. He was horrible at press conferences. Yeah. So let's talk about Jed Hoyer, that aspect of it. We just went through the game with just some of the things that we saw at Capitol. Let's talk about Jed Hoyer. I mean, if he doesn't turn this around, what's next for Jed, let's talk about it on the Captain Jhood Morning Show. Checkmate 16. Indian Suppression on Target. That's why I say him in my shirt. Shot or no shot with Captain Jhood on ESPN 1000 and ESPN Chicago F. That's why I say him in my shirt. Good morning and welcome in to the Captain Jhood Morning Show on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago F. With David Kaplan, Jonathan Hood with you, that time for Shot or No Shot brought to you by. That would be ESPN back now live in Illinois. Sign up today. The years just get $100 in voting, that's in any sports for back. We said good morning to Shay W. Norm. Good morning boys on a Monday. How are we feeling? Awesome, man. It's something to be back with you guys. If I don't get my luggage, so be it. You know when you are kind of drifting into someone else's lane when you're driving and you know it's your fault. Somebody just laid on the horn on me this morning on South Shore Drive and I know it was my fault. It's my fault. I didn't, you know, when you get into the car wash, sometimes the mirrors readjust themselves. You've seen this before like, oh, the old car wash comes in and the mirrors are, I'm drifting in the left lane this morning cap and the guy, he just lays on the horn and I just put my hand out. I was like, you know what? Sorry. That's all on me brother. Sorry. And I know that feels bad because I know what that is on the other side. You're like, why is this person just this jackaloon in my lane? And I just felt bad. I've been feeling bad about it today because I kind of crashed into that guy. Yeah. And then you're here. Yeah. He's okay. No accident, right? No accidents. Sure. You're good to go. No accident because there was an accident. I would have been here faster. You're like super sweet ride. Yep. It's super cool. Yep. When the big SUV pulls into the parking garage and I see you go by, it makes me smile because I know you love that vehicle. And there's a button in your vehicle, I'm sure because I have it. You hit the button and the mirrors fold in. Yes. Yes. You hit the car wash, hit that button. Yeah. It'll alleviate your problem. Yes. Felt bad about it. Guy was laying on his horn. He wasn't mean, just laying, but I deserved it. 100%. Correct. It happened. Here's Shay Norlin. Shay. All right. It's NBA draft week and the bulls are reportedly aggressively looking to move Zach Levine. Casey Johnson reported as many as 15 trades involving Levine have been floated, 15. So one problem I kind of have with it is the players you get back in a Levine deal are going to be on expiring contracts. They will not be players you're expected to build around. You might get somebody worth extending, but it'll be guys that are on expiring deals. You look to get off the money sooner. Levine and his current iteration and with his price tag, likely not going to fetch much in the way of draft capital. You might get a second round pick. I saw an offer floated where Philly was sending a second round pick this year. So that leads me to the question. No shot or no shot. The bulls will trade Zach Levine before the draft on Wednesday. That's a shot. They got to move on. They have to. First of all, I think we have an incompetent front office and they've done nothing to dissuade me from that opinion, but once you decided you're going to move Alex Caruso and the fact that was it Will Gottlieb from CHCO or was it Darnell, maybe somebody reported that the bulls I think it was Gottlieb bulls had multiple offers of multiple first round picks, including one that would be in the top 10 nope. Hang on to him. Yep, because it's a joke got to turn lights on in the spring cap got to have a play in or play off at the United Center as if that matters with that roster. Yeah. But think about it. And I asked you this before I left and I'd love for somebody to answer this for me. Okay. So you sell out one home play in game. I don't know how much that one game makes, but you're telling me that that one night of gate and concessions and parking and TV revenue is more valuable than adding a top 10 NBA draft pick to your lousy roster. That's correct, because you and I and the fans don't matter. That's why it matters. It is paramount for the bulls from their standpoint to keep the lights on at the United Center for a play in game. But John, if I said to you, you're not going to get that gate tonight, whatever that is, let's call it 2 million. Sure. Sure. Maybe I'm way short. But you're going to draft a player that's going to be part of finally turning this nonsensical franchise around Dalton Connect. He's supposed to be there around nine or 10. Oh, we need perimeter shooting, huh, that guy's a really good player. Maybe he gets you into a position where you're in the playoffs and he bangs threes that gets you into the next round and you make more money. It's penny wise and pound foolish, isn't that the term? It is. It's idiotic. Captain, this is how they think they're over there. And it's not like, oh my God, you struggle at the gate. So we must find a way to get into the play in just to appease the fans. Get out of here. Get you lead the league in attendance. Number one in attendance. So that's why it's why it doesn't make sense. And by the way, if you missed that money from the play in, Janet Jackson or Justin Timberlake will fill the bill, because they've already, they were all, they were both here last week. Now, you know how much the rent is on that building. It's a lot over a million dollars to be able to rent that building. So it's not like you're missing the money. You're correct. That's why it doesn't make sense. Even Shay in a week draft that it is, you have to start thinking about younger assets. And so it's a no shot. The tray will not take place before the draft. The draft is Wednesday this year. And then Thursday, it is earlier in the day because of the presidential debates. Shay. All right, Bob Nightingale reported over the weekend, the White Sox are already having internal conversations regarding replacing manager Pedro Grafoul in 2025. Nightingale said the Sox are looking at Skip Schumacher, the current manager of the 27 and 50 Miami Marlins, and that Tony LaRusa will play a quote integral role in the decision making process and hiring a new manager shot or no shot. The White Sox are destined to screw this up. The hiring of Schumacher, like they won't get it done. You mean, just in general, they're going to hire the wrong guy. They're going to let Tony lead the search. It's something along the way. They will screw this up. Wow, that's a, that's a, well, it's a shot because of how the organization's going. At this point in time Chris gets was his got the people that he had in the minor league system. It was his average. They think it was middle of the pack as far as basically baseball, the minor league talent for the Chicago White Sox. So now he's a general manager. I know that they have new voices in the front office, but again, it screwed up when you're not willing to spend money in a major market like Chicago. You can call yourself the number one team in town, number two team in town. It does not matter. When you're not willing to spend money, then of course it always feels like you're screwing it up. You just can't win on the cheap. You just can't, not in this city. You can't do that. You have to be able to spend money if I'm Jerry Reinsdorf at his age, and if I love baseball so much, I will do whatever it takes to win. You may not be competitive from a butts and seed standpoint, I guaranteed rates, but if nothing else, I will have a competitive ball club. Skip Schumacher was the manager of the year, right? Anyone manager of the year last year? I don't know. I think he did. He's a good baseball man. He did win manager of the year. Yeah. He's a really good baseball man. My question is he's got the answer. He's out of contract. He's going to be a free agent like counsel was last winter. Why would Skip Schumacher take this job? Money. But how much would he get paid? Hold on a second. Money. Yeah. He's paid $8 million a year for Craig Counsel. Now maybe Skip Schumacher doesn't have the 10 year resume that Craig does? I can promise you someone out there who needs a manager will pay more than the White Sox. The Sox are not paying $5 million and $6 million for a manager. And I hear he's a really good baseball man. The hope is that Schumacher has a really good agent for him to understand that if you went from Miami to the White Sox, it's a lateral move. Correct. By the way, I'm not trying to compare market size. I'm just talking about way that you that you run your ball. Level of commitment to winning. Yeah. It's the same. Why would Skip Schumacher, if he's really good, and again, I keep hearing from people I trust in the game, dude, he's a really good manager. Really good baseball man. He's in a horrible situation in Miami. How do you let the manager of the year get to the final year of his deal because you're cheap. Yeah. So it's not a very well-running club. Oh, they traded a Louisa Rias in May, first week of May, I went, we're waving the white flag. We're done. No one does that better than the Marlins, by the way. Wave the white flag. Here's a World Series Championship. Wave the white flag. No consistency with the franchise. However, I'll say this, though. I'll say this, say the difference between the White Sox and the Marlins in this regard is, is that the Marlins, at least they have had spells where they've built it up to be a World Series Championship. I've seen more World Series Championships with Miami than I have with the White Sox. Correct. But if he's really good and he hits the market, you're telling me that there's not one big spending team that says, hang on a second, he's not going to the White Sox. Here you go. Here's $5 million a year. If Schumacher was the manager of the Chicago White Sox today, he would be yet another boob with a Sox cap on his head because he'd be fired in two years or three years. He would. He would because a team is that ready to win yet would beat him down. Why would he take that job because he's friends with Tony? It's fine. Hold on a second now. I'm just saying it's the same job, though, Shane. No, I'm not disagreeing, but one of the guys he's closest with in the league is in the front office here. Correct. But you're telling me that the sock, he's going to take less money to go to the White Sox because I get damn well promised you they're not going to spend at the top of the market. They would never have done what Jed did to go get counsel 8 million a year, the highest pay manager in the history of the sport. So you don't think the White Sox would be competitive money-wise? If he had all their options, no. And my point is if he's that good, no one else is going to want him that spends how Milwaukee was offering $5 million to keep counsel. So you're telling me there's no other team out there that's going to pay for a quality manager. I don't buy it. I don't buy it. I was going to circle St. Louis, but they've turned things around. Looks like Marmal safe for now. Right. Because that was going to be the plum job, right? The way that they were playing early. Right. Oliver Eberflues is starting to study himself. They've turned around up there. It's like coach Eberflues has kind of studied the ship right now. Thanks to the Cubs. Cubs help that cause. No question about it. Just says I thought that that would be the job that would be open by now. This is a massive week for the Cubs because if you stub your toe in San Francisco, lose three or four, and then you're going to Milwaukee, what if you get swept in Milwaukee? What are you going to be? $80 billion out? The Cubs will be fine at San Francisco. San Francisco is not a very good team, but they just took two or three here tonight. You won two out of three. Yeah, I came around. Days run together. Yeah. No, I think I think that series will be fine. I think the Cubs will find a way in San Francisco. It's a picture you just painted plays out and they lose six the next seven seasons probably about over here. Shay Norley. Kevin Cohen this morning on on sportsman like had an interesting conversation about the greatest sports collapses. He refused to believe that the Florida Panthers blowing a three O lead would be the biggest collapse in American sports history. I didn't realize people were saying this. There's a whole piece in the athletic about how it would be. And I looked into some of the history. The only time a three O lead has been blown in a championship round in American sports history was the 1942 Stanley Cup final unique for a couple reasons. One, it was World War II. Many of the best players were literally at war overseas fighting for their country to the NHL only had seven teams six of them made the playoffs and the playoff format was bizarre. The one and two seed faced each other in the opening round of the playoffs. It allowed the fifth seed red wings who were under 500 to make the Stanley Cup final. They got out to a three nothing lead and blew it. So my question shot or no shot the Florida Panthers blowing a three O lead in the Stanley Cup final would be the biggest collapse in American sports history. No shot. It is the Yankees blowing a three O lead to Boston was wasn't a championship. He said he's talking about for the stakes with everything on the line championship. That was a huge collapse. There's no question massive Yankees red talks. But again, he's talking about in that championship scenario. Is it the greatest collapse? First of all, I think Edmonton's the better team. I do they they have the best player in the game that guy is the best player on the planet and one of the five best hockey players I've ever watched McDavid. He's insane. Connor McDavid. Connor McDavid. You'd be you'd have to put him in the top five now. Even though we grew up watching the Edmonton Oilers and the Gretzkis and the Yari Curry's and you know those those great Edmonton Euler teams. You have to put him in that conversation. Mark Messier. You have to put him in that conversation now. I'm kind of McDavid. He's insane. Top four. I'm talking about Euler's absolutely insane how good that guy is. I'd have to go go back and really research all the great collapses in championship round history. Well, yeah, I'm not limiting it to just that. But for me, like red Sox Yankees wasn't a championship. There had to be something after to finish the story. Yeah, that was the analysis collapse. But this is the Stanley Cup final. You blow a 3.0 lead in the cup final. That's brutal. This is like 28 to 3. This is like the 73 and nine warriors blowing 3-1 to LeBron. The 16 and L Patriots losing in the Super Bowl. They lost to a 9 and 7 Giants team and that jackaloon in theirs telling me they're one of the best football teams ever. No, it was a huge. They were 14 and a half point favorites. They scored 14 points. That's an enormous collapse. Yes. This is not the worst collapse. So again, I believe Edmonton's a better team. They have the best player. So yeah, no, this is not the biggest collapse in American sports history or North America. Yeah. So that's a no shot. I agree with that. And we just laid out a couple. I think that's a really good example. As a matter of fact, I can make the case for the Patriots. I'm trying to think of my lifetime. I think that that might be the word in that scenario, championship on the line. Yeah. I mean, losing like that to that giant team. Yeah. I put Eli Manning in the Hall of Fame. No question about it. What's the bigger collapse? That Patriots team losing to the Giants or the Falcons blow in 28 to three in about 17 minutes. Oh, no, the Falcons not even close. Not even close. The bigger collapse. The Falcons is not the biggest collapse. They hit a 25 point lead with 17 minutes left in the game. Okay. Then the music city miracle. They're up 38 to three and lost the Buffalo, right? Yep. Yeah. That that's way bigger. No, for me, it's the 17 and all or 16 and all, whatever they were Patriots, 18 and all. That was the Super Bowl either the music city miracle was a playoff game for one, the Super Bowl. Yeah, the biggest games. That's what he's talking about. Go Patriots collapse. That's not not getting it done when they were undefeated. That's fair. All right. Coming up, we have around the NFL. We get Jesse Rogers, the, the documentarian of our time, Jesse Rogers, he was really good last night. We will angry with him, but don't be mad at him, man. Well, he did a great job on the documentary, but he put this vanilla Cubs thing together. He was right there. Oh, okay. All right. Well, you're from Jesse. Come here at 835. Captain Jay Hood on ESPN 1000 and our YouTube channel. If you missed something, get the podcast on the ESPN Chicago app. Captain Jay Hood are back on Chicago's home for sports. ESPN Chicago. It both sucks. He sucks. I'm just a fan. I'm not a football about it. I love the Green Bay Packers. The guy in front, but there he goes. This is not Detroit, man. This is the Super Bowl. I love winners. He starts to comment. I mean, what's the answer you're looking for on these things here? Time to go around the NFL, right here on Captain Jay Hood on ESPN 1000. We'll hear from Jesse Rogers coming up at 835 around the NFL with Shane Orling Shay. I was looking forward to this piece from Sports Illustrated 100 bold predictions for the 2024 NFL season. What? 100 bold predictions. That's a lot of yellow pet I got to use here, so let me get a fresh pay. Don't worry. We're not going through all 100 of them. We're not. Some of them are goofy, like Roger Goodell will write a well-received novel under a pen name, a romantic fiction. Roger Goodell's getting into smut under a pseudonym. No shot. James Skinner will not allow that. Or your family cat will die peacefully of old age during the third quarter of a week, another ding game between the Titans and commanders. That's a shot. It's not sure. Boy, I tell you what, I know you love the NFL, Shay, and I think Cap is with me. I think he's with me on this. There's nothing like the Arizona Cardinals 325 game or a nice little nap. You're not not. We've talked about this before. A little... A little siesta. Hoodie doesn't always listen to me, but he'll remember this one. I called you on a Sunday afternoon after the bear game to go over a couple of things from a noon bear game. And then you said, "Are you watching the afternoon games?" And I said, "Bret and I are going to take in the app, the Arizona Cardinals." That was the only game that was on the main channel. Yes. We had the red zone going, and we both passed out. Out. That did like a home game for Arizona. Yes. No atmosphere. Chris Myers on the call. Oh God. Right. And it's like the Raiders and Arizona Seahawks and Arizona. Goodnight, everybody. I'm going. So long, Shay. Chris Myers is out there. It's incredible. I can't stay up. All right. So we're going to bring shot or no shot to around the NFL. I have a grouping, a selection, if you will, a menu of these bold predictions. I'm going to offer them to you, shot or no shot. The Detroit Lions will win Super Bowl 59 over the Cincinnati Bengals. That's a shot. That is an absolute shot. Detroit as Coach Ditka would call them. Detroit. Detroit, yeah. Yeah. Not Detroit. Detroit is really, really good. And the Bengals, they're loaded up for this year because they're going to lose T Higgins and they getting their guy Joe Burrow back. So yeah, that's an absolute shot. I think half of that is a shot with Cincinnati. I see Detroit taking a little bit of a step back. I don't see him in that stratosphere because usually this is how it works. You know, I don't know where here you come. There might be injuries and that rooting for them just saying this how it works in sports. You take a step back and then you move two steps forward because you added on what you needed. So I think half of that is a shot with Cincinnati. Yeah, it's no shot for me with the Lions too. Hard to go from being the hunter to the hunted. It's totally different mindset. Harder schedule. You'll get everybody's best punch. I think they take a step back as well. Shot or no shot. Seven head coaches will be fired at the end of the NFL season. Oh, man. Wow. Seven more. Okay. We're averaging about seven a season, but it's starting to pop up. Well, that's a no shot. That's a no shot. Seven. Okay. Carolina? No, they just fired their guy. This will be. They've already had two and two years. Notable patient organization. Who's there? Head coach. Steve Canellis. I like that dude. From Tampa. Lou Canellis. Not bad. Uh, Jets, yes. The Buffalo Bills, if they have a rough year, he could get fired. Okay. They had to get rid of like 80 guys off the roster because of salary issues. Jets. Okay. The Dolphins are not going to fire Mike McDaniel. The Jets could absolutely fire Salah. I got one. That's my one on the wall. He's getting canned. Buffalo, the Jets. Keep going. North. Cleveland with all that talent doesn't make it's the fans he gets whacked to anything short of two super bowl. I'm sorry. Anything short of two playoff appearances. He's fired. I'm sorry. I mean you get there just getting into the second level is not good enough for a Cleveland. Okay. So I have three potentials Houston's not firing their guy Jacksonville's not firing their guy. Careful now. Doug E.P. could see his way out of there. If you're not in it again, that's not going to get it done and and Trevor's on the line. Okay. Contract. Okay. Yeah. He signed. That's four. Indy. They changed stiking. Could he get wet? Nope. Nope. That's four. Tennessee just hired a new guy. The Chiefs aren't getting rid of Andy. The Raiders. Nope. Nope. The Broncos. Nope. The Chargers just hired their guy. So we're at four. Cowboys. Absolutely. That's in play. Probably happened. Happy a firing could be a mutual parting of ways with Mike McCarthy. Yeah. Supposedly he's getting tired of Jerry's meddling. That's five Philadelphia. If they don't have a good year, he could get whacked. Will get whacked. Okay. That's six. Deball. Deball. That's another one. That's seven. He will be fired. Washington just changed coaches. Detroit. No. Green Bay. No. Minnesota. No. Chicago. They have a bad year. Possibly. Tampa Bay. Absolutely could whacked hot bowls. Okay. That's nine. New Orleans. They could absolutely whacked Dennis Allen. He showed up last year. That's ten. Atlanta just changed. Carolina just changed again. They're not firing Shanny. The Rams. He's not going anywhere unless he retired. Seattle. They just changed Arizona. They would have to be really bad. They'd have to be horrific. Yeah. So how many? We had 10 or 11. We don't have any potentials. Yeah. So there's absolutely seven could change. There's like six or seven now. It's crazy. Che. Jayden Daniels will win Offensive Rookie of the Year. No shot. No shot. Yeah. Thank you. Next one. Justin Fields will score at least five touchdowns as a non-quarterback. No shot. No shot. I think that's a shot. No. Under. Maybe a few but not five. Joe Burrow will win League MVP. Shot. Wow. They got the best coach. They got the best quarterback. They get the best tight end. They got so many problems off the field. So many. Josh Allen would like to have a word. He could get there. He's working with nothing now too. Jaymore. There we are. Give me another one please. This one's probably my favorite. Jerry Jones will say something memorably stupid about not paying his young star players similar to his Zee Koo joke during the Ezekiel Elliott negotiations. That's a shot. It's Jerry Jones. He's got his own radio show. He just says anything. He does. And nobody. Yes. Answer no one because he's the GM by title and the owner. He's got enough shots at it to be able to say something like that. It's his own radio show and his back against the cold white wall after games. Correct. He speaks before. The coach does. Imagine if George did that. Oh God. I think we were underachievers today. I didn't like the running. Could you imagine? Could you imagine the Caskey with the wispy mustache against the wall after a game? I think we should run the football more. I always thought that. We've talked about this in the meetings. George? Who asked you? Go get your step. Remember when Jerry rolled out AI, Jerry Jones to answer reporter questions last year? He's addicted to doing things that are memorably stupid. Yes. He's a showman before he's an owner. He's a showman before he's a GM. He is just that who he is. It's always very leery about the right side of the defensive line. We should have spent money there. I gave him full autonomy. It stinks. Can you imagine George liking three years with a Kaleb who when they're doing contract negotiations? Oh man. And that is our look around the NFL right here on Captain Jay Hood coming up next Jesse Rogers with the latest on the Cubs and Sox and everything else MLB on Captain Jay Hood.