Kap & J. Hood
9/20 7 AM: Bears vs Colts Preview
Hour 1: Week 3 and another Bears Friday, The guy's previewed Bears vs Colts, the pros, cons and who will come out on top. Bears OC Shane Waldron spoke to the media, Colts Fan drops a Colts Theme Song. Cubs Manager Craig Counsell finally shows some post-game fire then the White Sox owner exposed? The Athletic released an embarrassing story.
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♪ It's Friday, it's Friday ♪ ♪ I'm in love with this Friday ♪ ♪ Oh, Friday ♪ ♪ Thank God it's Friday ♪ This is Bears Friday, Friday. Chicago, thank God it's Friday. This is your morning routine. Listen to respect my name. Captain G. Hood. That's right, that's right, we bad. Uh-uh, uh-uh. Watch the show on Twitch. Follow ESPN 1000 Chicago. Stream the show on the ESPN Chicago app. And on Instagram, 100.3 HD2, and on ESPN 1000 Chicago. No, no, no, no. David Kaplan and Jonathan Hood. Good morning, everyone. Bring 'em out, bring 'em out. Woo! ♪ Bring 'em out, bring 'em out ♪ ♪ Bring 'em out, bring 'em out ♪ ♪ Bring 'em out, bring 'em out ♪ ♪ Bring 'em out, bring 'em out ♪ Woo! Woo! Oh! Welcome into the Captain J. Hood Morning Show. On ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. We're David Kaplan, Jonathan Hood with you. We've got Jay, we've got Jack, we've got Jay Moore, we've got you for a three hour ride here on this Bears football Friday. One open phone line for you, 3-1-2, 3-3-2, ESPN, 3-3-2-3-7-7-6 is our telephone number. And cap is our last time that we talked to our listeners and our viewers about the Bears and Colts is gonna take place on Sunday and get full coverage starting at 7 a.m. right here on ESPN 1000 on Sunday morning and cap. Again, we've gotta be able to come to a consensus what our pick is gonna be with the Bears and Colts. We know it's on the line. The Bears are one in one, you know, coming off some things that they need to work on for this game on Sunday. And then a desperate Colts team, 0-2 that's banged up defensively. This will be a very interesting story by the time we get around to 3.25 on Sunday. - Completely agree with you, a thousand percent. I truly believe the Bears are gonna win the football game. I think the defense can harass Anthony Richardson, who's a wildly talented guy, but he's still at this early stage of his career as a propensity for turning it over. But you gotta run the football. That team is banged up on the defensive line. Latte Latu, the kid from UCLA, did not practice. They've already put DeForest Buckner on the injury reserve list. He's gone at least a month with a severe high ankle sprain. So guess what? It is time to run the football, go double tight ends, get yourself a 12 personnel, and then make plays in the passive game when you establish the run. I went back, Waddle studies the all 22 multiple times. I watched it. He was not bad. He was not, when he was clean, kid completed, 77% of his passes for 140 some yards. Let's start running downhill, smash people in the mouth, and then you'll have an ability to take some shots down the field. It's a big game, man. It's not a must win. There aren't a must wins like that. This is a big game. You have an opponent that's wounded. You gotta go take advantage. - And a dangerous one at that, Cap, because when you're Owen, too, the last thing that the Colts want to do is stare at Owen three and their season being over. And again, there's a lot of things that are against them in this game. I, it's not about, you know, Manny Reflus told us this past Monday about the crowd in Houston and the silent count. We're going to get some of that coming up in Indianapolis on Sunday. There'll be a lot of Bears fans there, a lot of Colts fans. So there's going to be a lot of noise on both sides. So I would imagine first time around against Houston, especially with the penalties, some of the offensive linemen that sucked because they kept putting you behind the sticks time and time again. My hope is, is that this offensive line is ready for again, a hostile crowd in Indianapolis. - Yeah, and with the way that the Bears defense is playing, and I'm not expecting shutouts, there's going to be opportunities to make plays though. You got to get pressure on this kid, harass Anthony Richardson. And you got to stop the run first and foremost because they do have the best running back in the game. Jonathan Taylor is a star, a absolute monster. So we've seen the Bears the first two weeks struggle against the run early in the game, whether it was Tony Pollard for Tennessee, whether it was Joe Mixon early, and then they were able to settle down and make it life really tough on him till he suffered, I think an ankle injury in the hip drop tackle that wasn't called you have got to stuff the run and then harass that kid. It lets you pin your ears back and go after the quarterback. So we're going to see how things shake out, but I think the start is very, very important. You've got to get Caleb comfortable and then be able to make some plays and score some points. - Indeed it is on Caleb Williams and the offensive line to figure out how to get this done and to be able to be comfortable and score points and be able to not shoot yourself in the foot so often. A lot of this also comes from Shane Waldron, the offensive coordinator. What is his game plan going into this game against Indianapolis? Some thoughts from Waldron yesterday. Here's one that didn't I expect. How about this for a question? Don't you feel like you're asking Caleb to do too much right now? - I think Caleb's done a great job with what he's been asked to do, don't feel like it's been too much and I think more of it is the game reps, the live reps, so to speak, in regular season here and he's continued to grow and I can't say enough about his attitude each day. He comes into work, ready to learn, ready to continue. You're going to see different blitz patterns. You're going to see different front structures. You're going to see game plan elements every single week and I think for him, the more reps he gets, the more times he sees it in those game scenarios, the better he's going to continue to get every single week. - Yeah, what about the running backs and the rotation of the running backs? - Yeah, I feel like we have a good group of running backs. I think Chad Morton and Jennifer King have done a good job of allowing those guys to gain a lot of reps and different styles of run throughout the course of the season. I mean, throughout the course of our training camp heading into the season here and now it's about finding that rhythm as a whole, feel good with Swift and with Khalil and with Roshon and the different styles that they can bring. So yeah, each week evaluating what fits them best and like I said, every week has its own individual entity and figuring out how they fit into the game plan this week, how we can maximize their tools. - Wonder how he fits into how those running backs fit into his game plan this week? - Yeah, I would like to see more, as I've said to you, between the tackle running, take an advantage of some opportunities, let your offensive lineman eat, let him just go out and hit people in the mouth. Let's just go, bam. Not, oh man, we're on silent count, they're a click lay getting off. I mean, what are we doing here? We've got to be smarter. If you want to use Cole Komett, Mercedes Lewis or Cole Komett, Gerald Everett or Mercedes Lewis, Gerald Everett, whatever combination, I don't care. Do whatever you have to do to establish the run and then you watch Caleb make place. I will predict Caleb gets his first touchdown pass and I think he's going to hit a couple of big passes. I really, really do. - I think that they can work on that secondary. First of all, as we talked about all week, the defensive line for the Colts is banged up. But the other thing is, is that I think because these weapons that we talked about, that we lauded for a long time, the Moors, the Adunzays, the key now in the fees available, the Andre Carter's been a player for the last couple of weeks. You can utilize those guys, Cap. I mean, and again, it doesn't have to be 40 yard passes. It's just matriculate the ball down the field. Because Caleb Williams loves Aaron Rodgers so much, I think that the game plan that Rodgers put out there for the Jets and their matchup against the Patriots yesterday is perfect, pitch and catch, get the ball down the field, get comfortable, roll out to the left or the right, try to find your receivers and just get comfortable. I know that the line for the Jets is better than the Bears, but the point is though, the game plan is the same. Just getting comfortable. Rodgers was in no hurry yesterday. - He was not, he's slow, you could see now again, he's 41 years old, they're 40 years old, whatever he is. - Yeah. - And Caleb's 22. And Rodgers has, you know, top five quarterbacks of all time on his resume. Caleb hasn't done anything yet, but he slowed the game down. You could see, first of all, he ran for a first down and I mean, I don't know what his rushing total number was on the prop heading, but I guarantee you, he went over. And then there was one where he rolled to the right, to the bottom of the screen. Here that comes the pressure, he looked just like Caleb does, spinning away. And then he just looked and there's my tight end right there. Boop. - Yep. - Getting a 10. - Yep. - I wasn't worried about, oh my God, I got to hit the 90-yard bomb. Just get the ball out and get it, where it has to go. - Yes, clearly. - And they dominate and then their defense just came to eat. Oh man, did they make things tough. And then the Patriots got the ball into the red zone and Drake May was in. And he dropped back and he actually had a receiver open, but before he could even pull the trigger, there are three green defenders engulfing him to the ground. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Super cool. - So that's all. - I think because he loves Aaron Rodgers and I know that the media and the fans are like, oh, why is this guy talking about Aaron Rodgers so much? It's because Rodgers makes it look easy. When he's in a rhythm, he makes it look easy. Kind of like a starting pitcher, just like you could just tell. 90 pitches, he's back there like Bob Ross just painting the corners, whatever he's got to do. Same thing with Aaron Rodgers. And so if Caleb likes him so much, I hope he watched that game because I know that Rodgers makes the game look easy. Caleb could do the same thing. I know the offensive line is a big factor, but also he's got a number of weapons he can utilize. This is not just the old bears, where it's just one guy. He got three or four guys you can go after. And one of them, by the way, is not named Gerald Everett. - Correct. - You don't have to force feed the ball to Everett just because Waldron says so. - Yeah, I mean, if he's there and make a play in the passing game, go for it. - But I would prefer to see them establish the run with called Comet leading the way in Mercedes-Louis. Let's go. - Yeah. - By the way, you know, the Colts are ready for this matchup against the Bears cap. They're ready to go. Jay Moore, when you give us the here comes the boom, man, that gets us ready for Bears football. We get that here comes the boom, the music surfs going. You hear Joni Aken there. Well, you know what, the Colts are ready as well. They got their own version of here comes the boom because they're ready for the Bears. You know this, right? The Colts? - No. - Yeah. - Oh God, no, not that guy. I saw him on social. ♪ This is our Colts, this is our team ♪ ♪ We bleed blue ♪ ♪ This is our Colts ♪ ♪ Whether win or lose ♪ ♪ We love them ♪ ♪ For the shoe ♪ ♪ Colts for it ♪ ♪ Let the world hear us now ♪ ♪ This is our team ♪ ♪ Go Colts ♪ - Oh my God. That's horrible. Like I literally, if I was the owner, I'd call that dude and go, hey, I'm giving you two tickets to the game. They're at the 50 yard line. I got a supermodel sitting with you. Don't ever, ever post another song again and burn anything you've got. That song is an embarrassment. And if you watch the video, it's truly pathetic, sad. It's embarrassing. - Colts Pulse Game Show. Right around the corner from Lucas Oil Stadium on the Colts Radio Network. ♪ This is our team ♪ ♪ We bleed blue ♪ - Silent. ♪ This is our Colts ♪ - Bring it home. ♪ Whether win or lose ♪ ♪ We love them ♪ ♪ For the shoe ♪ ♪ Colts for it ♪ ♪ Let the world hear us now ♪ ♪ This is our team ♪ ♪ Go Colts ♪ - Whoo! Whoo! - That is so bad. I mean, that's truly, like if I was his dad, well, I'd probably disown him, but I would call him for sure, no son. - Cap. - I love your passion for your favorite football team. That's horrible. Don't ever play it again. - Cap, is anything that sounds more Indianapolis than that song? - The only thing is the kid, Jay Moore, you gotta find it. - The kid boom goes the dynamite, remember him? - Yes, but this is-- - That was an indie. (laughs) - That was ball state sports. - Nothing sounds more Indianapolis. Nothing sounds more in Nap Town than that right there. Holy smokes. - Do you remember boom goes the dynamite? - I do, I think we all do, yes. - Oh my God. - I think that says all you need to know, Cap. - Wow. - But that's, hey, you know what? We got here comes the boom though. You know what? We got ours and we got the Bears fight song and they got that. That was a compare. - Yep. - Yes. ♪ ESB in Chicago ♪ ♪ New home New Day ♪ ♪ Yep ♪ ♪ Here comes the boom ♪ ♪ Here comes the boom ♪ - Yeah, big difference there. - Wow. - Go ahead, go ahead. - I think ours is so good. - Cranking again, Jay Moore, show 'em. Cranking again. - Bro! ♪ ESB in Chicago ♪ ♪ Top of the pocket ♪ ♪ New home New Day ♪ - Bro! ♪ Here comes the boom ♪ ♪ Top of the pocket ♪ ♪ Here comes the boom ♪ ♪ Here comes the boom ♪ ♪ Here comes the boom ♪ ♪ Here comes the boom ♪ ♪ Here comes the boom ♪ ♪ Here comes the boom ♪ - Hey! ♪ Here comes the boom ♪ ♪ Here comes the boom ♪ ♪ Here comes the boom ♪ ♪ Here comes the ♪ ♪ 20 yards ♪ - What you gotta love about that, Cap, is that there's bass. You know, there's, that sounds strong. - That was a Zetterman production. - Jay Moore production. - Was that a Jay Moore production? - Yeah, I believe so. - Zetterman, Jay Moore and-- - A collab. - Josh Norman production. - Josh Norman production, yes. - He was a hell of a cornerback for the Redskins back in the day, too. And a Panthers. - Not the same guy. - Oh. - Possibly within the family tree, possibly, but-- - Basketball player at Illinois. They called him Snake 33. - Nope. - Ken Norman. - Oh. - To me, to the old timer. - golfer, ran a live for a while. - No, we met the shark, not him. - I drank the worm. - No, still, not the same guy. Not even Norman Lea. - Lefty pitcher for the Reds back in the 70s? - No, no, sorry. - Freddie Norm. - No, wrong Normans. We better get out of here. 3-1-2-3-3-2-E-S-P-N-3-3-2-3-7-7-6 is our phone number. Bears fans, the Bears will win if it's our last time to talk about the Bears this week before we get ready for the Bears and Colts. Let's get your thoughts on the Bears coming up next on the Cap & J-hood Morning Show. Here we go. All the Colts. - This is our Colts. This is our team. We bleed blue. - Gary, come in here. (upbeat music) - Cap & J-hood, I'm back. - I want to thank both you guys, man, for the great season of bad information. And I just want to say I appreciate you guys, and I love this show. - Chicago's home for sports, ESPN Chicago. - It's a Cap & J-hood Morning Show on ESPN 1000, and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. Thanks so much for being with us. We hope that you're going to have a great weekend. As we get ready for the Bears and Colts, our coverage starts at seven right here on ESPN 1000 on Sunday Morning. - By the way, yesterday at the end of the show, Tracy said, "Oh yeah, no rain." And then you said to me, "Did you hear what she said? No rain." I said, "Well, Cheryl Scott said there might be "a little bit of rain in the forecast." I got up this morning, assuming that you and Tracy were accurate. I came in, I said to Jay Moore, "It's coming down like sideways at my house." I'm out there with the puppy. I'm like, "Do your business already, man." They told me it wasn't going to rain. I was soaked and changed, jacked. - Well, let's just take a couple of steps backwards. What me and Tracy said, do I look like Steve Baskerville to you? I don't have a map to tell you what you're talking about. Me and Tracy, I have a lot of side gigs. One of them is not being a weather man. So don't put that on me. - You're not stony. - Yeah, I'm not stony. I'm not Jim Tillman. I'm not any of those guys. I don't fly a plane. So just understand, Tracy's the one who takes here the weather. - I'm just gonna let's ivory there. - Any other brothers you want to bring up that do the weather? - A brother. - Yes. But no, it's not me. It's Tracy. There was a few sprinkles in South Shore. A few sprinkles to ruin the car wash from yesterday. - Oh, god. - But nonetheless. Yeah, I mean, you have a beef. Reach out to Tracy, a butler. - And she said it to me, and I love her. She's a dear friend. She's, did she not say it to me like, did you not hear what I just said? - I just, yeah, right. - And I came up this morning. I got maverick, it's 4.46 in the morning. We're walking out, I'm like, what the? - Yeah. - Thanks a lot, butler. Love the brother next to you. - Yeah, that's a middle finger to you. And that's what she did to you. She's like, oh, there's no rain, bam. Rain everywhere. Wow. So you have a beef, reach out to her. Me, let a car wash later on this afternoon. 3, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, ESPN, 3, 2. - You know me, I get it, I'm nuts. I understand people go, that dude's nuts. I get a car wash seven days a week. - I understand. - I bought the monthly pass at the waterway. - Yeah. - Gave my credit card, just paid for another year. - You. - I just pull it, drive right through. See you tomorrow. - Yeah. - Damn. - That's right, Jack, he gets a car wash seven days a week. Sometimes he brings the car. Let's go in here now from Caleb Williams, the quarterback for the Chicago Bears. - Here you go. - Well, what's Captain doing in the car wash? That's weird, he didn't bring his car this time. He must've forgot. - He keeps me clean. - Yeah, so the thoughts now from Caleb Williams, how to stop the pressure? - I think one community. - Wow, Smokey. Hold on a second. (laughing) Geez. - Happy Chinook. - Hold on a second, that's not what I expected there. All right. I think one communication is making just faster adjustments throughout the game. Having better communication between myself, coaches, and the offensive line and things like that. Make sure you're on the same page and making the adjustments we need to, you know, in game. Obviously you have adjustments and things like that that you practice throughout the week. But, you know, the other team's job is to try and confuse you. There are different things at you, different looks. And so being able to, you know, adjust quickly in game, I think is the most important thing and starts with communication. I think one of the things we'll be able to do really well soon is I think we'll be able to run the ball. I'm trying to figure out exactly what runs fit best with, you know, our personnel, the people we have. I think that's the thing that's gonna emerge here really soon, you know, and having confidence and keeping it safe fast with that, you know, with running backs, why receivers tight ends, everybody, you know, having confidence that, you know, we're gonna, you know, we're gonna break through and figure out exactly what, you know, what our personality is of the run. And then other than that, I think that's probably, I think that's probably the one that I think is gonna come faster than others. - That's it. - Surprise, surprise. - Make you smoke. - That's it. - But he's right though. He says, it's just about the personnel. What personnel matches what they wanna do? And he talked also about running the football there. So he's right. - So there was a play on the All-22 where Caleb made an adjustment at the line in the protection and it was the right call. - Mm-hmm. - And Tabajang, it's still got beat. Like they adjusted to get some, he still got beat. - Yeah. - So if you're not healthy, don't play. If you're healthy, do your freaking job. - That's it. So the parents will win if, 3-1-2-3-3-2-3-7-7-6-7-7-6-7-7. We've laid out. Now the defense being opportunistic cap, just continue to do what you're doing. And then some. Because you're needed with a rookie quarterback, he can't put it all on his back. Just keep doing what you're doing. By being opportunistic, being able to get turnovers, punch the ball out, just give the offense multiple opportunities, more than they think, to be able to get it done offensively. Punch the ball out, do what you gotta do there. Of course, the offensive line has to be able to hold up. Seven sacks, how about two? - Yeah. - Can we get two? - That'd be great. I'm not expecting a perfect game. The other team gets paid too. Everyone forgets that. They get paid. They got good football players, but let's go. They will win if they run for an in excess of 125 yards. - I think that's possible. That's gonna be spread across the running backs. - Correct. - Oh, speaking of running backs, Cap, you mentioned a couple of them, but there's one that you didn't mention, which I find very interesting by the time we get to kick off. Will Vail's Jones be available? - So he's been at wide receiver in practice this week, which tells me that Keenan Allen's not playing again. They're saying that Keenan Allen's staying while they're calling it a heel might be a form of planter fasciitis. Take, I heard Sylvie say it took him three. Sylvie, I know you're awake. Text me if I'm wrong. I think Sylvie said it took him three years to feel 100% better from his planter fasciitis. I had planter fasciitis. It's awful. I can't imagine being six, five or whatever he is. - Yeah. - Not Sylvie, Keenan Allen. - Damn. - That's not right. - I just wanna be clear. - That's awful. - Just leave him alone. - I'm pretty tall, right? - No, you're like five, eight. - I'll dunk on your ass. - What? - I'm sure Sylvie said it took three years. Keenan Allen doesn't have three years, obviously, but playing with planter fasciitis, taking him from a guy who had it, it's horrible. Horrible. I do not wish planter fasciitis on anybody. - So you're saying that he's working with the wide receivers when you already have DJ Moore, Roma Dunezay, Tyler Scott, DeAndre Carter. - Correct. - I'm just saying, like, could Jones be active to be able to have one of those running plays we're talking about? Like, it's one thing that we have Swift and Khalil Herbert. I'm gonna take the over and rushes for Khalil Herbert, over two. Over two carries. - Is that the line? - I mean, no, that's a line I'm putting 'cause the last couple of games, the first couple of games, he's only run the ball what, twice? - Yeah. - In each game? - Right. - So I'll just say over two. Over two carries. - Right, I'm gonna look up on the app. What is the carries for Khalil Herbert? And if it's like three and a half? - Over. - In. - That's the hope. - Like seven and a half? Okay, now we're flirting with, if DeAndre Swift gets going early, they may just feed him. - I just, that's the one thing I wonder about the inactives, about Vales Jones. I think there was the right thing to do for the Houston game 'cause it sends a message. That's why one of the things, if you just joined us today, we talked about this week is, do you send a message on the offensive line by having Nate Davis not inactive 'cause it's a numbers game? He can't just bench him, but he didn't have to start and Matt Pryor could be in his position at the right guard. - Correct. - So, I mean, so if, I'd like to know the surprise inactive for this, if there is one for this Sunday. And I wonder if Vales is part of that. - Well. - Or Tyler Scott. - No, there's no, not if Keenan Allen's out. - 'Cause he was inactive in week one. - Correct. - You had Keenan Allen then. So, if Keenan Allen can't go, and I'm gonna bet that he's not, he hasn't practiced, I'm gonna say he doesn't play, then Tyler Scott could make a play in the passing game. Or Rome. - Get ready, Rome. You could be wearing number 13 next year, if you want to. - 'Cause Keenan Allen, it's not a surprise to us, Cat, 'cause we talked about this this summer. Like, Keenan Allen's here for a song. And if he's able to play more than 16, 17 games, then we could talk contract extension, but that's not, it doesn't look like that's gonna be the case. - Not even a song, a hook. - That's just the hook, right? Not even a song. - Just a little bit. Just the one stanza. That's all that he gets. - That's it. - We have some Cubs and Sox news that we're gonna get to here this next half hour. - Oh boy. - If you've missed it overnight, you need to hear what we have laid out for you, not just Cubs fans, Sox fans as well. So stay by yourself and the vice for that. But first Joey G and Melrose Park are on Captain Jay Hood, Joey, good morning. - Joey! - If you win, if you offensive line could protect Caleb and the parents win if they can open the hole. - For Herbert. - Yeah, they'll be G Andrey Swift first. He's the starter, he's the guy. And then-- - Yeah, he's hurt. - To me, he's no Montgomery. So that's why we were the best last year. - Second best in rushing. - Why? - We had Montgomery, so running back. - He was on the Lions last year, Joey. - Two years, two years, two years ago. - I love doing the Montgomery, Joey. - Two to what? - Yeah. - Now you win. - So, he says-- - I'm gonna take him, take him, take him. - Oh, I don't want to use up my time. - Wow. - I must have roll over a minute for this week. - Something different with you? - Yeah. - Oh, he says he does one take a ball this time. He only has certain minutes on his phone. - Well, you got a singular wireless plant still? - I think so. - Jeez. - But so, Joey, Jesus. - A lot, Joey. - It comes down to the trenches. All right. - He's right. - 3, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, ESPN is our phone number. Coming up next. Cup fans, Sox fans, stay by your listener vice. Two big stories from yesterday that Cap and I will review next on Cap and Jay Hood. (upbeat music) - Follow Chicago's home for sports on Twitch at ESPN 1000 Chicago. Cap and Jay Hood are back on Chicago's home for sports. - ESPN Chicago. - Oh, Jay Moore. Worth it to set out with this. Cap and Jay Hood on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. Greenie comes your way at 10 o'clock followed by Carmen Yurco at 12 and they'll be at Buffalo Wild Wings and Hoppin' Estates. One in Sylvie, three to six thirty into Bleck the Dollar. It'll be Bleck in Tyler today, six thirty eight right here on ESPN 1000, Sox will take on the Padres. That'll be an 840 start right here on the home of the White Sox ESPN 1000. So we've got, go ahead. - Hey, what is Riot Fest? I think that's why I have dollars off. I never heard of that. What is that? Am I out of touch here? - You've heard of Riot Fest, you just forgot. A music festival. - I knew it's a music festival. What kind of music would be a Riot Fest? Is that a rap fest? Is that, what is it? - Jay Moore, it's everything, it's everything. It's kind of like a lot of palooza. - Oh, so like a Bruce Springsteen could play it Riot Fest. - You would not as we talk about the Cubs and the White Sox. So right here on ESPN 1000, you know why? Didn't pay as much. We turn now to... - Got it. - You would not just be at Riot Fest. It's Bruce after all, it's great. - So you wouldn't get a huge name, you'd get good bands that are trying to make their way. - You know it, man. - Got it. - You know it. There you go. - We flipped a coin and we have two stories here, Cap. Cubs and the White Sox. We flipped a coin, Cap won, so it's a Cubs first. - Okay. - So, okay, shocking, Cap. For a guy that you've been on all season long for not saying anything, showing no fire, kind of like a guy that's observing the ball club, more sort of the mange in the ball club. Great council. The Pyro and Ballyhoo, all of the expectations for the Cubs because, oh, like Madden, they're stepping up in class with the manager. They went top shelf with council. It surprised everybody. And he's kind of been in the dugout, just observing what he does not have on the ball club. But he came out and said something powerful for the first time all season. - He did. Like, I still remember calling you. - Oh. - It was like 11.30 in the morning and there was just the Rosenthal tweet. - Excuse me. - Oh God. - Council. - I don't want my baby here. - Council expected to make his decision and then they thought it was the Mets or somebody else. - Yeah. - And then a few minutes later, it says council, two Cubs. What? - Yeah. - And I wait, here comes another tweet. Cubs in agreement with council. I called you up, you're like, what's up? - At the airport, I was at a midway going to UIC. - Right, you went from here to there. I said, Craig council just went to the Cubs. - What? Like, where'd that come from? What happened to David Ross? Out. Holy cow. And then I've been less than impressed with council's demeanor. He's a good baseball man. I'm not saying he isn't. So quiet, gross, come on man, let's go. Guys get screwed on some pitch calls, get tossed once in a while, do something. Your team just keeps spiraling farther and farther down for two months. - Yesterday, that's the guy I want. - Yeah, I mean, we've got to get better, man. Like the team, the team we're chasing is 10 games ahead of us. You got to get better. And then we should try to be building 90 win teams here. I mean, you know, like that's like what you have to do to, you know, that's a playoff standard. I mean, that's what you got to get to, to be safely in the playoffs, right? Safely in the tournament. So from that perspective, you know, we got a ways to go. - Craig Council, manager of the Cubs, you know what that is? Craig Council, all those years at Milwaukee, and all the success he had at Milwaukee, says, you know what, there's a ceiling on my success. I need to go to a major market 'cause they'll have a commitment to winning and we'll get to the playoffs. And he comes to find out, Captain, he has less than. His old college coach, Pat Murphy, is the manager for the Milwaukee Brewers, and they have been amazing. If you go back to yesterday's show, we talked about how they've gone through a lot Milwaukee, where they're not even supposed to be in this position, but they have more wins than any other team in the National League against over 500 teams. It's almost like Council's gone, that's okay, we still have the Moxie to win baseball games. You know what that was from Council? That's him being pissed off that he's not in Milwaukee. That's what it was, because he's used to having the champagne celebrations and everybody give 'em all the flowers, and he comes here and it's like, I don't have the grinders here that I had in Milwaukee. - Correct. - They're always to have grinders, Cat, because it's Milwaukee. We talk about the lack of star power on the Cubs. That team just finds a way to win ball games every single night. - Correct, they went out early in the season, they needed more star, how many would they say they used 17 starters? Some like crazy number. - Yeah, oh. - We'll get Aaron Savale. All of a sudden, he starts throwing the ball really well for them. It's funny, when you get to a winning situation, you raise your standard. - Yeah, 17 starters, 12 closers, fourth best ERA, 49 wins versus over 500 teams. Pat Murphy, the old bench coaches, the manager of this baseball team. You know what that is? It's like, I know we had a good relationship for a long time. You've been really committed to me, but yeah, I think it's time for us to move on. We need to break up. Why? Because she's hotter. It's Wrigley, it's Clark and Addison. And it's like, oh, so you're gonna break up with me? I've been a solid six and a half for you, solid seven. So you're gonna go with that 10? Okay, go to the 10. And guess what, I'm still getting it done. I'm still thriving, I'm still winning. And you, you're with that 10 and you're unhappy. - Correct. - That's what happened, Cap. He goes to the 10, that's the Chicago Cubs, meeting multiple revenue streams, the cool place to be. Wrigley feel all that. And he's got a 78 and 75 wagon he's pulling up to. - Correct. - He's pissed. I've never heard him like that before. - Raising his voice like that? - Me either. - Animated almost. - Yeah, man, we gotta start building teams that win 90 to get in the tournament safely. Then you go from there, he went on to say. I mean, what are we doing here? Another, another season where you have a solid record. Not great, not horrible. - I'm not telling the white sex bad. I'm talking. - Yeah. - You know, you're not gonna finish with 72 wins. You're gonna finish 83, 84, respectable, decent. You're gonna pack the ballpark every freak of day. You know what you're gonna do at the end of the season? You're gonna take a... - Are we most careful? - Careful, careful. - You're gonna flush it. You're gonna go into bathroom. Whoo, that stinks. There goes another season. I thought I was told by when Theo got here, every season is sacred. You don't treat seasons as sacred, Chicago Cubs. You don't. You walk around with it, like those black glasses on and a stick and you're trying to not trip over anything and you don't wanna walk into traffic. Come on, man. Act like the Cubs. I need to be able to buy all the rooftops. Done. I need to build a Draft King Sportsbook. Done. I need to put signs up. Done. Video boards. Done. Guess what? You had a closer, you're in the postseason and you were too freakin' cheap to get one. Or you don't value them. How many times? Other than when they went and got Chapman and then they got Wade Davis at the end of his rope, he was fine for a year. Who have they gotten? Did they get the best on the market in 2018? No, they got Brandon Morrell 'cause he was cheap. He barely pitched, he blew out. What a shock. Al's a lie, not a closer. Ooh, now we're here and they love Porter Hodge. Okay, you better be right. Maybe he's the next coming of Jesus Christ as a closer. You better be right. Yes, the Cubs in this situation is the stinky hot girlfriend we talked about yesterday in deal breakers. Coming up, you think that's good? Yeah, you think that's bad. Wait 'til you hear this about the White Sox. Pass me the aerosol, will ya? Oh, God. Oh, my God. It's older, it's older with the hot Cubs girlfriend and then, of course, the Sox as well. That article you're gonna reference, folks, get ready. Wait 'til you hear this about the athletic regarding the Chicago White Sox. You think it's bad? It's worse on Cap and J-Hood. Follow Chicago's Home for Sports on Twitter at ESPN1000. Cap and J-Hood are back on ESPN Chicago, Chicago's Home for Sports. (dramatic music) We got Shatter No, Shatter coming away at eight o'clock. We've got the picks at 818 in Courtney Cronin, with the latest on the Bears at 835, right here on Cap and J-Hood on ESPN1000, and we're streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. If you go to the athletic, now known as NewYorkTimes.com/athletic, you'll see a piece that's entitled, "An Owner Who Thinks He Knows Everything," led the White Sox to historic disaster. Ken Rosenthal's part of this as well, Cap, of this piece. And it really goes chapter and verse of the Chicago White Sox, not because they're on the precipice of losing the most games ever, immediately baseball history, but just the idea of how it's run. Cap, there's some damning stuff in here, and I don't know if Jerry knew that this piece was coming. He was quoted in this piece as well, but this in particular, the White Sox come up their plane. They're charter. They charter at an Airbus 320. It's a plane first manufactured in the 1980s. It features only eight first-class seats. The rest is coach. A majority of major league baseball teams chartered the bigger 757s, with ample first-class seating for the players and the coaching staff. Even well-known frugal franchises, such as the Rays and the Rockies and the Marlins, they have nicer planes, but not the White Sox. There's so many quotes in here, anonymous, and on the record talking about how the difference between the White Sox and other clubs is so stark, players who leave the White Sox for other teams celebrate their freedom by texting each other. This is the big leagues. They don't do the little or the big things right. How about that for a reputation, Cap? - So I would love for someone over there to tell me if you're all about doing the right things for your players and you want to be loyal, then why would you put them on a substandard plane so that when you go into free agency, the first thing I'm talking about, not a guy scraping to make the big leagues, he'll fly a prop plane. You want to go after the best of the best? You want to sign good players or you want to keep good ones that you draft? Why would you not want to strive to treat your players the very, very best? Why? - Especially when you love baseball the most. - He loves the six championships in eight years with the Bulls, but he's a baseball man. Rizedorf. - Right, let me give you an example. We work here at Good Karma Brands. - Yes. - We are given a great, great benefits package. Like Craig and Keith and Danny and everybody there have put together really good benefits, whether it's health, whether it's retirement, whatever it is, because they want to treat all of us the right way, hoping that making a great place to work with a good culture, we're going to want to stay. Fair? - Yes. - So why would you not want to treat your multi-million dollar baseball athletes the right way? - That's a great question. Because they run the organization, they meeting Jerry Rinesdorf and those around him, like it is in the 1980s. What this piece read, and we ask you to please or take a look at this piece, it reads as a guide that loves the past and hates the present and future major league baseball. Because through this column cap, as we read, the White Sox are so far behind in analytics. Something that I think Rick Hunt wanted to have more of. I'm sure Chris gets wants more of, but as far as an analytics package to be able to figure out, hey, Tommy fam, this is where you need to be in the field when you're playing. And the analytics were so bad that from a defensive standpoint, you wonder why the Sox are so bad. The Sox ranked near the bottom of all the available defensive metrics, because as Tommy fam says, that's a huge area I felt that could have been better. Talking about how the analytics was so stark and not on point that the Sox were out of position defensively. And I know, look, when we play softball and we play baseball, we're just doing it because of the love of the game and because we love it cap. But when it comes to business and major league baseball, it's about analytics today. We could say that, oh, it's not the numbers and all that. But this is what major league baseball relies on. The top notch analytics. The idea that the White Sox are behind the times with the Zalas and analytics, it's a private outside firm that is cheaper. But not in-house, an outside firm to determine what a pitcher needs to throw against a certain batter. They tell you about, well, if you have your curve ball, if you've got your breaking ball working against this team, it'll be good. That's not analytics cap. What analytics is is that for every batter, you should know exactly where to pitch them all the tendencies. And apparently the White Sox are behind the times and that too. So when fans, the average fan calls us and says, oh, the Chicago White Sox, they don't want to spend money. Oh, the Chicago White Sox, they're so cheap. All the White Sox don't have a commitment to winning. This piece tells you all you need to know, cap. It's one thing for people to say on the surface, we don't win because Reisworth doesn't spend. But then when you have a piece like this that tells you the travel, tells you about the analytics, that tells you all you need to know about the White Sox. I mean, so you're going to skimp on analytics. And you know how, I know it's true because it was in that broadcast booth for years with Ken Harrelson. I love Hawk, but you always tell you about the will to win. Yes, TWTW, that's how you get it done. No, you don't. No, you don't. It's more than just the will to win. It's more than just the human element. Reisworth's recording the same piece. It's not about just the individual. It's about putting the individual in a position to succeed. That's what numbers are for us, what tendencies are for. You can't do that in 2024. And you wonder why your dead ass last in Major League Baseball. It's going to be like that for a while, especially if you don't turn things around internally. He looks at baseball like his 1985 cap. You and I love the old days of baseball, but that's the point where we think that the way it was played then should be played now. And the guy, he talks about David Eckstein like he was one of the greatest players of Major League Baseball. I wish we had our David Eckstein. How would that work today? Eckstein, nine of those guys in your lineup. You know what nine David Eckstein looks like? The 2024 White Sox. That's what it would look like. Stop. Come on, man. And you wonder why they're going to be bad for a while because you skimp on analytics. And then the reports come out that they're going to cut payroll. So next year is not going to be much better. No, Captain, I was 100 games again or more. Right. So when you read this and you read, for example, game planning, there's a part in there about game planning where I know, because I was there for 25 seasons. Like with Theo and Jed came in, like game planning, here's the quadrant we want the pitch in because Jonathan Hood can't handle that. Stay away from this quadrant of the plate because that's where he kills us. What did it say there about the White Sox? Yeah. Keep the ball down. Keep the ball down. Because this guy's not a low ball hitter. Yeah, your curve ball. Yeah, your curve ball, your off speed pitch is good. So utilize that. Well, what about the guys I'm taking on? Just utilize those pitches. That's fine. But again, from batter to batter, it has to be a different game plan. Correct. Not just you got a good fastball, blow it past him. That's your game plan? Right, like the Cubs or the Dodgers or some of these really, like the Rays are at another level analytically. They got their pitchers. OK, your spin rate is going to work in this quadrant of the plate. That's how precise their game plan is. That's a joke. It's a joke. It's a joke over that. I mean, it's truly pathetic. Jack, it doesn't make sense now that Michael Copac's ERA with the Dodgers sub one when it was 4.74 with the White Sox this season. See, now here's the thing. It's the difference right there. Now here's the thing. Copac just could have just rolled up into a ball. It was like, oh, it's the Dodgers. He'd been like Joe Kelly. Like, the Dodgers, I don't know if I can handle this. I don't know. He's killing it with the Dodgers. Why is that? I mean, with heightened expectations, you think he'd be worse. He's excellent. He's part of a winning ball club. Yep. Same thing now. The Royals average 100 losses over five full seasons. The Orioles, 105 over four. They did not rebound quickly. What does Jerry Reiser have says? Well, look at those teams. They rebounded quickly. They did not. They did not. And you're not. Again, how do you have top shelf, first class people working in the offices as far as the charities are concerned, the food, the amenities, everything else. And you're dead last when it comes to the actual baseball. Which is what they're selling. Books in his team. O'Donnie O'Reilly. O'Reilly, yeah. I mean, those are quality people and quality employees there. Baseball side, yeah, not so much. And then Chris gets us a nice guy. He is. But guess what? Read some of that stuff what they wrote about how uninformed he may have been on how to make some of these trades. Because you hired a Neophyte who's never done it. There you go. Didn't even interview anybody else. Because he didn't want to know anyone else. It's pathetic, yeah. So that's what you get, White Sox fan. Read that. It's not hyperbole. We are quoting certain paragraphs from this column written by Ken Rosenthal and others. Shout out, no shot. That's in two minutes on the cap and J Good morning show.