Kap & J. Hood

6/24 7 AM: Jed Hoyer: Under Pressure?

Hour 1: The Chicago Cubs GM Jed Hoyer is starting to feel some heat for the struggling start. What happens for Jed Hoyer if the Cubs don't turn around this season? Kap's golf trip to Canada didn't go as planned. Lost luggage, delayed flight but got there and back safely. Will the Oilers "Oiler Girl" make tonight's game 7 of Stanley Cup Finals?

Duration:: 46m
Broadcast on:: 24 Jun 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

This is your morning routine. Listen to respect my mean cap and G hood. That's right. That's right. We're bad. Uh-uh. Watch the show on Twitch. Follow ESPN 1000 Chicago. Swing the show on the ESPN Chicago app and on in there. 100.3 HD2 and on ESPN 1000 Chicago. No, no, no, no. David Kaplan in Jonathan Hood. Good morning, everyone. Bring em out, bring em out, bring em out, bring em out, bring em out, bring em out, bring em out, bring em out, bring em out, bring em out, bring em out, bring em out, bring em out, bring em out, bring em out, bring em out, bring em out, bring em out. Ohhh, God, welcome in to the Captain J. Good Morning Show. On ESPN 1000 and we are streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. We're with David Kaplan, Jonathan Hood with you. We've got Shay, we've got Jay Moore, we've got you for a 3 hour ride on this Monday morning. We'll open full lines for ya 3-1-2, 3-3-2, ESPN, 3-3-2-3-7-7-6. Here's our telephone number, and we are skating at full strength here this morning. All four of us are here, cap has returned. From Oak, 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 4-1 in our five matches, but did not advance to the shoot out round. We lost our last match, we were 4-0, and your partner went brain dead chipping in the final match. Hmm. 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 he used to play for the Jay'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, nice 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 it, 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? Yeah. My name's David Kaplan, I interviewed you when 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. 18, 676, Yellen Cicirelli sucks. Yeah. So we talked for quite a while, super nice, he 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? Nonstop. Toronto to Chicago, back and forth. Correct. And somehow, some way, your luggage is missing. Correct. Since when, 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. 35, 845, 945, 1045, 11 o'clock. We're sitting at the gate. Gate 82. I'm watching stuff on my phone. I checked all my luggage, but I took one, thank God, back up 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. 55. Like the other leg of the terminal. So they get people to push them. I'm like, can I help anybody? 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 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 canceled. I'm like, what? And sure enough, I 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. 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. You can't leave an international airport when you cleared customs. So all the gates, the doors were locked. Oh, God. Yeah. So I walk over to another gate. There's a lady there from Aircan. She's sitting on her computer. Excuse me. 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. 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 got 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. Fifteen 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. Oh. 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. This really nice lady from the Westin. 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? I give her 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 gotten an email from them. An air cannon 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. Whoa. 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. Just switch me into that. She said, well, you have to cancel it. And then I'll see if I can read 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. I'm like, oh, 500 and some mile. No shot. Yeah. I'm out fall asleep. The drive to Toronto to Detroit and then Detroit to Chicago would have been interesting. So I buy the 700-hour ticket. So I'm $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. Calls back. I'm 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. 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. 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, it's 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. Yeah, 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 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 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 friends here at 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 showed her my pet. Oh. Kaplan. That is a Croatian name. Czechoslovakian. She said, I'm neither. I'm not Czechoslovakian. I'm not Croatian. I led that big name in Czechoslovakian. Okay. You can believe that. Sure. Sure. It's not Kaplan itch. But I get the point. It gives me the 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 they block you from 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 in and bought Mindy a nice golf jacket. Through flowing hearts. Yeah. 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 pictures. I love Justin Steele. Is there one guy where you stand up and go, huh? I 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 Havi Baez. Or Frank Thomas. Or Albert Bell on the south side. Like Patrick Kane with a puck on his stick. Connor Bedard. Obviously the great Bolsti. Is there one guy on the freaking Chicago Cubs where you go? I have got to watch that guy. Not one. Do you hear 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 you get your luggage by one? There, no shot. Jed Hoyer starting to feel some heat. We talk about it next on Captain Jay Hood. Welcome back to Captain Jay Hood. You're officially locked in. No, it's over in the sky. On Chicago's home for sports. ESPN Chicago. It's a Captain Jay Hood morning show. ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. Here's hoping that you're going to have a great Monday and a great week. As we're going to have 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 knee on 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. They've got to have something to rally around and 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. Boring. 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 bowl on the interlist from the bullpen. Luke Little's 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. $177 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 Jet 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 would be the first thing out of Jet'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 would 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 this 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 I wasn't in Canada? Because 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? Mm-hmm. 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. Ah, strike one. What? It should have been three and oh. He would have walked in the at bat. He ends up not getting on base. They end up losing the ball game. Yeah. Waddle was 100% spot on. That was the moment that Craig Council comes out of his coma. Because standing in the dugout 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? Mm-hmm. Anybody throw anything ever? Anybody ever get ticked off? Nope. It's June. It's what we heard the shortstop say. Yep. And you're hitting 200 with an LPS and the sixes. You stink. Here's Craig Council. Well, it was just some, basically, it was mistakes kind of out over the plate. You know, 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 were just kind of some balls out over the plate. That didn't quite get to the spot he wanted to get to. And they made him pay for him. Severino pitched well. No question about it. You know, our opportunity was in the sixth. We got the first two guys on. We've got two, three, four coming up. You know, he made some pitches to those guys. He struck out Michael. Belly 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 game 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. 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 that you clued in on and you'd see it on camera. This was off camera and then it was a replay of Edwin Diaz and the umpires looking at his hand said, "Ah, there's sticky stuff." Back here at Wrigley, Carlos Mendoza coming out because Edwin Diaz has just been ejected. Big carapazza 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 Shae goes, "Timmy Trump," and I go, "Jay Moore, it's Timmy Trumpet. You ever heard of that?" Jay Moore's 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 you're a music wizard and I'm an idiot. 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 a problem with Cubs Baseball. Okay, the guy is cold. He just came in, eight, ten warm-up pitches. And what does Ian have to do? First pitch flies out to write. And of course, because Boog Shabi 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 Cap wanted. But the point is, though, this guy comes in cold. How about see a few pitches? You're down three in the ninth. Okay, so... Fair enough, 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' luya? 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 him, my ass. Oh, my God. So, the first pitch, you know, he's cold, Cap. I love Boog, but that was bad. Well, just, but I mean, it's the marquee phrase. That's what they use in... I only hear that in Cub games. 'Cause that's a chaise thing. They ambushed him. No, it's wrong. It's bad baseball. Great. Because he's cold, Cap. Give him a... Work account. Maybe he can draw a walk. Who knows? Okay, then morale strikes out, looking. Yeah. Okay, so you're not swimming in the back. Did you see how many pitches they took for strike three that not just Chris? Yeah. 'Cause Chris had a two run home run. How many they take that are not like, "Oh, borderline." Right down the middle of the box. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's when you're out. That's when you're scuffling. Like, how did you not see that? Swants and singles, he gets on. And then here comes the great Patrick wisdom, striding to the plate. He took so long, everybody. Right down the chute. So long, everybody. Good night from Wrigley. 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 scatter 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? Because I mean, if you're not reading the scout, it's right there on the TV for you to watch. They 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. Still give them a finish. Give them a finish. That's what you do. 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 a 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 freakin 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, he was. Guess what? Your team looks lifeless. That's on you. Cubs now are two games out of the wild card. 3 1 2 3 3 2 ESPN 3 3 2 3 7 7 6 is our telephone number. Chris tweeted us. I've never seen a manager of a team with expectations look more boring than Lovey Smith. He's more boring than Lovey and Lovey 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. Here's to Days Headline. Headline with Captain Jhood. Well, it was not a great Sunday if you're a Chicago baseball fan. Cubs fell to four below 500 yesterday, two out in the wild card, with a five-two loss to the Mets that saw them shut out and six by Luis Severino. Javier Assad tagged for four runs at four and two-thirds innings. They'd lose the series two out of three. They started a road series with the Giants tonight. That means I'm on late night baseball duty, but he goes to bed, first pitch, at eight forty-five. Good night, Mindy. Wow. White Sox lost their weekend series. Two Tigers, two games out of three, with an eleven-two pounding at the new rate yesterday. And that what they changed the name of the company to? The rate. Yes. Guarantee rate no longer exists. It's the rate. The rate. Yes. And by the way, is the rate with still the arrow pointing down? Yes. Eloy Jimenez returned to action for the Sox. Pulled up the blame running the first, saying his hamstring is sore. Bob Nightingale also reported the Sox are already having eternal conversations regarding a replacement for Pedro Grafalle in 2025. The Sox start a home series with the Dodgers tonight. Pre-gammon ESPN 1000, home of the Sox at 6-30, first pitch, 7-10. Angel Reese powered the Skypass Caitlin Clark in the fever, 88-87, and come back fashion. Reese, 25 on eight of 12 shooting with 16 boards. We're going nine of eleven from the free throw line. She said she was motivated by Sylvie sitting down there near the floor with his family yesterday. He took in the ballgame. And the Traveler's Championship wanted a playoff by Scotty Scheffler, but featured a delay after a bizarre protest with six climate protesters, idiots we call them, rushing the 18th green while launching smoke bombs. The security and police in the area lit them up. Do you see the guy tackle the one? Oh man, signing to play safety for the pair. We are here. Jay Moore! This is Cap and Jay Hood. They beat in the traffic commute, so you don't have to. On ESPN Chicago. Cap and Jay Hood on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. But with you until ten o'clock then my green work comes in at ten followed by Kerman and Yurko at 12. It's Jesse and Sylvie from 230 to 630 into White Sox Baseball as a tick on the Dodgers. A 630 pregame right here on the home of the White Sox, ESPN 1000 as we talk to you about the Cubs and Jed Hoyer. So when it comes to Jed Hoyer, it's very simple, Cap. When you have the payroll that the Cubs have of 230 million and you're getting these results. That's the thing. We're just talking about every day, every week, the trend. I'm not saying that this is what it's going to be at the end of the season. We're talking about what we see here in the first half. This is what we're seeing right now. But my thing is, is that as you've been saying, you want to be able to see the offense turned around. You say that hey, the offense has turned, but you also say the pitching is paramount. That you've got to be able to have guys in the bullpen that you can trust. The strength of the team is a starting pitching. But what good is it if you can't hit? I just think the offense, it lacks a lot and I don't know who's going to turn it on for them. Yeah, and I still believe the bullpen is the single biggest problem with this team. And again, the offense hasn't been great. I will not argue that point with you at all. But the bullpen has blown 16 saves, 16. I'm not telling you to have 16 more wins that the bullpen did their job because that's not realistic. How about another six, seven? This is a poorly constructed roster. And I like Jed very much. Jed's a really good dude. But let's be honest here. This is show business, not show friends, right? That's correct. Okay. Twenty twenty, Theo's still here, but he's basically out his way out. Pandemic Cubs win the division and Theo leaves. Twenty twenty one, Jed blows it up correctly. But the PCA becomes a good player and not the deal in the way he put it together. PCA for Harvey Baez for three months. Brilliant. Canario and Caleb Killian who's injured for Chris Bryant. Fine. Fine. We'll see if Canario ever makes it. He got rid of Rizzo for Kevin Alcantara, who's one of their better outfielders. He's top 100 prospect. Fine. This is Chicago, man. Twenty twenty two, you were horrifically bad. Twenty twenty three, you in your front office, let the team down because you finished one game out of the playoffs and your big move was training for Jose Quas. He pitches in Toronto now. Didn't they just pick him up? I believe so. He was DFA. So you didn't even have him for 12 months and you gave up an outfielder. I'm not telling you he's Babe Ruth. But Nelson Velasquez is still in the big leagues playing a meaningful role on a pretty decent Kansas City Royals team. So that was a poorly constructed deal. You let your team down, if you're gonna keep Ballinger and keep all these guys and not blow it up, then you owed it to that team to add to that bullpen. And that bullpen was terrible and they were fried at the end. Then you went and spent forty million on a manager and gave him a lousy roster. And we're seeing that lousy roster play out again. As I said, sixteen blown saves. You came in short in the bullpen to begin with and it's only gotten worse. Now they just put lighter junior on the injured list. They got merry weather on the injured list. They got Alsalais on the injured list. And don't you dare up there tell me what we've had all these injuries in the bullpen. You had a lousy bullpen to begin with. You didn't have a closer. Alsalais is not a closer. We've been screaming that for a while. Nice piece in the seventh eighth inning throws ninety six. Good breaking ball, good slider. But you don't have enough talent there. Talent is what wins in the big leagues. On top of it, do you have one star player you guys have unearthed? One. Chris Morrell is hitting two oh three. Like him very much. It's fun to watch. He hits a few home runs. He's your leading home run hitter. The hundred seventy seven million dollar shortstop. I'd rather have the guy up in Milwaukee. What will he Adamis? Again, he's not Babe Ruth. That guy's a winning ball player and guess what they're paying him. They signed him I think what to a two year deal for twelve and a half a year. He's a free agent at the end of the year. We got Jason Swanson playing for us. Or Dan's be Hayward, whatever you want to call him. Sure. Albatross contract. He's playing terrible. He's a non factor in the game. Nico. Nice player. He's okay. He's not a superstar. Michael Bush will see he's developing. Maybe you're catching an embarrassment. The worst catching situation other than the White Sox. And you at least have Corey Lee at age twenty one. Who looks like he's going to be a pretty good player. Parper future. Yes. Yes. Maldonado. He's horrible. Jan Gomes. He's gone. Horrible. Amaya. As pedestrian. And mediocre as they come. Oh. Tomás Nido. Got a double on Saturday. You'd have thought Johnny Bench is back here. The way people were rea. Oh my God. We got a double. He was DFA by the Mets. In the beginning of June. He was. PCA. Good defender. Good defender. Runs like the wind. He can't hit his weight right now. He had a three two pitch last night that basically hit him in the foot. And he swung and missed at it. He's lost up there at the plate. And I'd keep playing him because I'd rather watch that dude try and develop. Ian Happ. Great kid. Makes an awesome cup of coffee. Very average player. Good defender. Good guy. Average ball player. Suzuki. Suzuki makes me want a puke. He can't stay on the field. And I love this guy. He was top five in baseball from the end of July through the end of last season. He had a great spring. The first two then a half weeks of the season. I bought a ticket on him. That guy's looking amazing. Oh, there goes my oblique again. And since then, not too good. So there in a nutshell is the crappy version of the Chicago Cubs. And if I'm Tom Ricketts, I got a lot of concerns about what's going on here. Because are you going to let your team president go into the final year of his deal as a lame duck? Because you know the last time I watched the lame duck operate in this town, his name was Ryan Pace. And he mortgaged heaven and earth to go get Justin. How'd that work out? Not too good. He plays for Pittsburgh now. You're going to let Jed all of a sudden try and make moves. Desperate men do desperate things to keep their gig. You either have to sign them to an extension and stay with the program or go on changing people. Period. That's a fact. I have said one thing that's wrong. Dispute one thing I said. I'm Tom Ricketts. I'm calling him and Carter in going vanilla one and vanilla two. We have a two hundred thirty million dollar payroll. And I don't see it on the field. You want me to give you more money? People are saying I'm cheap? The hell are you spending my money on? Thank you. Do the Edmonton Oilers have a good luck charm? Let's talk about a next on cap and Jhood. Welcome back. Welcome back to Captain Jay Hood on Chicago's Home for Sports. ESPN Chicago. Captain Jay Hood on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. Kappa wants you to take this piece of paper. Yeah. And I want you to write something for me. Yep. And do something that Jesse had me do on Friday. Blind resume. Okay. How many guys? Two. Two. Okay, so we make a line down the middle. By the way, I wanted to shout out the seagulls from the game last night. I thought they had a better game than anyone on the cup. Wait a minute. Are you saying that you watched it? The cup game? Yeah, every second of it. The seagulls in the middle of the diamond, right? Yeah. Between second, between third and short. Yeah, I thought they had a more productive guy than anybody on the cup. Other than Morrell's Homer. Yeah. Okay. Player A? Yep. Is 29 years old? Mm-hmm. 16 homers? Mm-hmm. A 241 on base percentage. God. Okay. That's OBP. Okay. Yep. Okay. The other player is 26 years of age. Mm-hmm. 29 homers, a 269, sorry, 360 on base percentage. It's 360 on base percentage. Okay. So player B, 26, 9 homers, 360 on base percentage. Mm-hmm. Which player would you like? A or B? 29 years has 16 homers this season. Yeah. Mm. Mm. 29 has 16 bombs. And the other guy is 26. I'm gonna... I don't know this. I'm gonna bet the 26 year old is Aloy Jimenez. Am I right? It's Michael Bush. It's Michael Bush. The 26 year old. The 29 year old is Peter Lanzo. Okay. Which one would you... Which one would you rather have right now? Uh... Peter Lanzo is a 241 OBP. Mm-hmm. Oh God. And he's got Boris as his agent, so he's gonna ask for the moon, not signed to like February 18th because nobody's gonna give him the moon. 323, I'm sorry, 323 on base percentage. 241 batting average. Okay. Yeah. 241 batting average for Peter Lanzo. All right. So that's BA. And three, what? 323 on base percentage. That changes. Yes. If I can get a reasonable contract, I would probably sign the polar bear. Hey, Bush, I think is your future. Bush is a nice player. Yeah. But he's another vanilla nice average ball player. Mm-hmm. Yes. I just don't understand how you spend $230 million and you don't have one star. There is not one star on that team. Nobody. I like Justin Steele. I'm a Justin Steele fan. Yes. And Imanaga, he was horrible the other day, but he's still pitching well. Asad, he was okay. Yeah. Just not good. Let me ask you. Yes. And I'll be locked in the Stanley Cup championship hockey game sevens tonight between the Oilers and the Panthers. Well, I can't wait to watch game sevens. It'd be very interesting. Oiler girl. Yes. Edmonton Oilers. I guess biggest fan. A playboy model? Former playboy model? So she just got featured after she flashed her breasts. Yes. A game recently. Mm-hmm. And they've gotten hot since then. Yes. Down '03. Now it's out of three since she flashed her breasts. Correct. And some of the fans are mad that she hasn't been at all the games. I watched her do an interview. And she was interesting. But... I'm bringing her to game seven. She's got to be there. I'm flying her in. Shay, are you not bringing the Euler girl? I think that that's a good luck charm. I don't think there's any question. Yeah. Now that she's posing in playboy, I think you got to get her into the game. She's got to get there. If she's in Edmonton and she's not going to be there for game seven, you got to have all the luck. You were down '03. You tied it at three. She's got to come on the trip. Right? Fly around the team plane. No, you can't fly around the team plane. What's wrong with that? The organization would have backlash from all the conservative people out there. We can't believe you show your breasts and they automatically get you to the game. But back channel? Yeah, they probably got to figure out a way to get her there. I think if you haven't seen this, look it up yourself, Euler girl. She's a big Edmonton Euler fan and she flashed and Edmonton's been on a rally ever since. Correct. So, got to bring her. Got to bring her. You can't put her on the team plane. Hey, Jonathan, I'm the owner. Yes. You're my buddy. Yes, Jonathan. Here's two tickets, I need you to get these to Euler girl and here's money. Get her to the game. She's got to go, man. Excuse me. Euler girl? Yes. We'd like to have you at the game. Shadow no shots in two minutes right here on Chicago's Home for Sports.