Hammond site might not provide as much space as Chicago Bears thought

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Call him 8473029171. Check out his 5 star reviews at www.chicagawindoguys.com and we are brought to you in artnership with my bookie. I certainly hope that you had a chance to see the report last night on NBC5 by investigative reporter Paris Shuts. Really interesting to find out what is going on, what is not going on over in Hammond with the supposed new focus and interest in moving forward with all guns blazing for the Chicago Bears to build their new stadium in the swamp of human waste that is Hammond in Vienna. When we last left you in the adventures of Kevin Warren, when we last left you, the Bears Messiah had told the owners of the Bears, "Follow me, follow me, you hire me, I will lead you to the land of milk and honey. I will lead you to the land where all is green with the money to be made by the Chicago Bears' hotels and businesses and our domed stadium and everything that we want. And it may not have to be on the land that you bought specifically for those purposes that's ready for you to build their. "No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, we are going to do this in the swamp. Follow me, George. Follow me, Bears. And stand with me, I have led you here. I have led you to this slag heap covered in treated human waste. Thank you. Now give me money. That's when we left you. Now, they've announced even though they didn't really change anything. The announcement did nothing to actually establish anything new other than the fact that they said our board has voted all of the various little Macaskis. The Macaskis are here and the Macaskis are there and the board. They have come together. They have found the door that enters the board room. They bump into it a few times and their chairs are backward and they spray celtzer and they have big floppy shoes, but they sit down and then they vote. And they said, "Hammond it is." And you know who believed them? Stupid people. Really, the dumbest possible people like the better side you're going to heaven! Well, I must be true. Really? Really? See, here's what we're learning. And this is what Paris Shots reported. Just now, just now, this is after Roger Godell was photographed out there standing next to the refinery. They're wearing their hard hats. They said, "Well, look at this. Roger Godell is here. He's improving these stadium sites." And then the bear said, "Well, there's the one site and then there's our special secret site. We have another site that we're going to build." Well, see, here's the problem. And now, the actual news people are finally starting to catch up. Finally answering some of the questions here that we've been asking. What about the permitting? And the fact that this is protected federal wetlands and protected federal waterways and state waterways. So the report last night said the bears may, may, may, may not have the space they thought they had at this supposed Hammond site. Because Paris Shots checked out the permitting records and actually what the bears have done, we keep saying show your work. If you're moving to Hammond, there's private businesses there. There's public land there. There's protected federal wetlands there. How, what are you doing? You don't have that land. That land isn't yours yet. People have that. And you may not be able to build a stadium on it. But they hadn't really cared about that. And you hadn't cared about that either. They said they're going to Hammond. That means they're going. Okay. Well, on this slag dump that has also protected natural, national wetland. The Army Corps of Engineers has determined that the easements in their for this land for the establishment of this what they're calling reclaimed brown field. Reclaimed brown field. There's no redevelopment of the wetlands until about 2050. 205. So if you want shovels in the ground, you might want to get on that. If you're going to, if you're going to be building a stadium in 2050, you got some work to do. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management, the IDEM, tells NBC five. There's not been a permit application filed by the bears. For even to begin to find out what studies might have to be done to see. If any of this land, the tiny little parcel on which they might be able to build. Could even support a stadium. If they wanted to build a stadium, maybe, maybe you'd have enough room. On the lost marsh golf course, if, if, if the slag and the treated human waste underneath, if after a minimum, the experts that I've talked to that say the environmental studies themselves, the actual environmental studies could take six months to a year. Even find out if it's viable. Kevin Warren doesn't care. Kevin Warren has got his mark here in the in the McCaskey family. And because they are not capable of doing anything, they have to turn to a con man. I can save you. I'll build a stadium. I know you're in the land in Arlington Heights. And that's where your families wanted to build the land forever. But no, come with me. I'll just fill in the air. All that gas and all of this brown field. That's where we're building. Well, you're going to apply for a permit. No, no, don't talk about that. We'll get around. Just, you're not even faking it. You're not even faking it. If you're going to fake this, if you're going to pretend that this where you're going, at least apply for the permit. It's like a hundred bucks. They're going to need so many different permit permits to build. Maybe it would have filed an application by now with the ID EM. They have no record of it whatsoever. None. Whatever tiny little area. That's the thing. You don't know even the land that you think, well, this is smaller than we thought. Kevin. Kevin. Come here. George. George. Kevin. Kevin. What's a wetland? Oh, don't worry about it. George. Don't worry about it. We just we're going to need a few years. Just give me more time. Give me more time. It'll be fine. We need a few more years. Kevin, you didn't say anything about wet land. What do you mean we didn't apply for the permits? We need to apply for the permits. Come on, man. Come on. If you're going to pran the owners of the bears by telling them you're going to do all this and do all this and do all this are focuses here are focuses there are focuses here. And we say our focus is here, but we're talking to these people here because we're pretending that we're doing this. But we're really doing this because we just have to keep extending this. Man, I keep getting the feeling that by the time George McCasky realizes he's the fish in this by the time he realizes he's the mark. Kevin Warren will be long gone on to the next thing. Just like the big 10 after he was gone, they had to do all this forensic accounting and go back and find out what was what was sold and what wasn't and he was already Kevin Warren was there smiling and waving his Bible and there in his orange tie and talking about the how all the state was going to do this and the city was going to do this and he was going to lead the bears to this way. Everybody at the big time was like, wait, what? He sold the TV right so that we already agreed that he can't do he did what this is what happens without supervision and by the time George is the new big 10 by the time George goes hold on. What, well, who's doing what? I hired who to do what? At the time they asked the correct questions that they should have asked before, should have figured out on their own, he'll be onto the next thing. It'll be Kevin Warren boutique consulting firm, Warren and associates, or it'll be as an offshoot of Kevin Warren ministries. He'll be onto the next thing. At that point, at the time, George wakes up one day and goes, "Oh, you're so good here." I think I was promised something. I'm not getting. I think that we were under the impression that this was all going to work out just great. Brown field. Congratulations to Lost Marsh Golf Course. I played Lost Marsh Golf Course. There's a lot of my golf balls out there. I will be contributing. That's my contribution to this. Obviously, the Bears are going to build this beautiful, glorious, generational, massive mixed use entertainment district on top of just the golf course now. She can't really build anything else around. So I've contributed multiple golf balls into the swamp. I'm going to have a presence there. And they might be the golf balls on which my son drew dicks. I mean, he did. Jason, get me some golf balls. I think that's me some golf balls and he drew dicks on all of them. Thank you for that, kid. Much, much appreciated. He's like, "Hey, Dad, I got the golf balls." And he did a different color sharpies, purple, red, blue, every one of them had a dick on it. So those are in the swamp out there. The ones that I have sprayed in all directions, blissfully spending an afternoon only celebrating my good shots and forgetting the bad ones. Because I've soft golf in that regard. I've solved it. And I don't remember the bad shots. I don't keep score. And I just am happy about good shots. And I like being generally, I like being outside and looking at birds and wildlife, although around there, it's mostly being around farts. But that's what you get when you want to play golf in a swamp. Here's the difference. You build a golf course on a brown field. The keyword, on. On. When you build a golf course, you're moving around a lot of dirt on top of all this stuff, on top of the slag heap, on top of the treated human waste. You can move that dirt around. And then you put grass on top of the dirt and you're done golf course. Stadium that holds 80,000 people. That's not just moving around dirt on the top. That's digging. That's going way, way down underneath. That is foundational. That is down into the water table is what that is. And you start talking about where they're going to park. Oh, gee, can they park underground? I don't know, can we dig here? Does this support it? We were digging up all of this treated human waste and all of the industrial waste. Sure, that's fine. No big deal. Maybe we should apply for permits. Now we don't have to apply for permits. Don't worry. People who got to fall for this, where it's a, we're not even going to apply for the permits. So you say, what is, what is this brown field that they're talking about? As they, as lost marsh golf course was, was hailed as brown field reclamation, the 330 acres in 2003 on top of a slag dump. Well, the US EPA defines brown field as a property where expansion redevelopment or reuse may be complicated by the presence of potential, or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant. And it has previously developed land that's been abandoned, which may carry pollution or risk of pollution. And the definition varies. It's decided by policymakers and land developers. The main difference in definitions of whether a piece of land is considered a brown field or not depends on the presence or absence of pollution. And it requires further development before reuse. So for a golf course, all you have to do is kind of, okay, we're okay to build on top of it. Yeah. So they do. And they plant the grass and they move things around. They put the sand traps in there. You go, got to golf course simple. Stadium very different. Examples of post-industrial brown field sites include abandoned factories, ash ponds, landfills, dry cleaning establishments and gas stations. Typical contaminants include hydrocarbon spillages, solvents, pesticides, asbestos, and heavy metals, like lead. Many contaminated post-industrial brown field sites sit unused because the cleaning costs may be more than the land is worth after redevelopment. Previously, unknown underground wastes can increase the cost for study and cleanup. And this is just from Wikipedia. Depending on the contaminants and damage present, adaptive reuse and disposal of a brown field can require advanced and specialized appraisal analysis techniques. Ah, see, but those, those special analyses, those also need permits. And the bears haven't applied for any of those. Not near, lost marsh, not near wolf lake, not near lake George, not near all of these wetlands and waterways that carry state and federal environmental protections. But if you're looking at 2050 as your start date, oh, okay. Good man, this is, we keep watching this slowly unfold. The Kevin Warren production here, and that's what this is, where he said, we're going here, we're going here, this is done. We have talked to them and they said this, all this land that is occupied by other businesses, other industries, people are there. And they say, well, we'll just, eh, we'll build a stadium there. See, that's not how it works unless you're really stupid. And there are a lot of really, really, really stupid people that really think the bears are of their word when it comes to what they're doing. And I just would urge George McCasky really strongly before you realize, before you understand where you're being led and who's doing the leading, George ask questions. George, have Kevin Warren come in and sit down and start answering some questions because I don't know how long he has been allowed to operate unfettered and unchecked and unsupervised, but the bears are in some stuff here. And again, if you're Illinois and you're looking at this, the reason why you're going to, you may not be too concerned and you may be thinking, all right, let's just, let's extend that lease at Soldier Field. I don't think if, in fact, Caleb Williams wants to sign that long extension and be the Chicago Bears quarterback for, for an era, he's going to play all of his real home games not including overseas stuff. That guy is never going to leave Soldier Field. The bears may never leave Soldier Field at this rate. What are they doing? What are they actually doing? Not what are they saying? I know what they're saying. We're going here and our board is voting here, but how many times I've been going back how many years? Focus is here. We're focused entirely on here. We are moving forward with this plan. Nothing changed when they said nothing. Absolutely nothing changed. That's why Cam Buckner called him out and said, okay, well, what's different here? All the Illinois has asked is, what do you want? Come to the table. We're meeting a halfway on this. Come figure it out, but because the bears don't have the money, they got to play all these games. And maybe Kevin Warren told George, hey, George, you got to give me some leeway here. You got to let me say, don't look behind the curtain here and you got to let me bluff. You got to let me play poker. You got to let me pretend because then everybody will believe me. Everybody will think they're going to fall for every ruse, for every dodge, for every gambit. They're going to fall for it. And then we're going to get everything we want because I'm going to play them all. I'm going to play them like an instrument. How's that going based on the responses that we're getting from everybody? Who's basically telling them, get your shit together, stop screwing around and let's really talk about it. And show up. That's the other thing. Show up, Kevin show up, George. You want to talk about some stuff, talk about some stuff. You want to put a meeting on the schedule? Schedules wide open. Come on in, let's talk. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Did you apply for permits to build on all this land? You say where you're going to build? Oh, oh, you didn't. Oh, okay, see that's what we thought. We thought you didn't. Thought you didn't. Because you need those things. You need to do the environmental studies. You need to find out if this brown field with everything under it is viable for a stadium. And even if it were, even if you find out, yeah, it's tight. This is the only land we have is on the golf course. So we can't go over here. We can't go over there. There's going to be no hotels. There's going to be no retail. Maybe not the condos that we thought of the park land that we thought we can't really do that. And I can't hold a stadium. Can you dig down? underneath into all this protected area and have the foundation this needed for this. And we don't know are you going to find out maybe don't you need a permit to start all that stuff? Yeah, have you applied for it? No. Okay. Then the lawsuits. They haven't even accounted for the fact that even if they had applied for permits, even if they say, well, now we're applying or ours got lost in the mail. We tried to apply. We believe it. We're going there. We're going. We're headed for Hammond. We're headed there. Soon as we get those darn permits, we'll get our environmental studies and then we'll fight all the lawsuits and then we'll build there when we're allowed to in 2050. Really? Really? This is this bit is what we're buying. And just now they're finding out what all wetlands and George should call Kevin in. And if you're like, what are you doing then? Kevin, where where where does this end? Oh, just wait. This is and what Kevin will tell him is, oh, this is just part of it. This is I'm I'm just beginning. This is I'm changing the plan. And now we're going to a different plan. This is all part of what I've been thinking the entire time. And when when do you think when do you look at him and think? I think you're full of shit. When do you do that, George? When when when you say, hey, Kevin, it's been three and a half years. We've had the land for five years. Why are we falling further and further and further and behind? And this is almost by the time all is said and done going to be double the cost of what we thought this all was and we're paying taxes on all of this land that we own. Where's this going? And when is it going there? George, ask these quite get answers to these questions. Actually pin him down. So I'm going to say find out because the rest of us are just going to sit in the laugh because watching bumbling upper class twists being led around being such an easy mark. I guess the question yesterday about like what do the Macaskys do? I know you own the bears, but you're not football people. You're not business people. You're certainly not political people. What do you do? When you're that easy a mark when you when you can't do anything on your own, you can't negotiate deals. You can't work the political back rooms. And you haven't built your business to be able to afford to do what you want to do. This is why somebody can come in and say, I got you just hire me hire me. I'll get you. I got you there. Thank God Kevin is here to save us. Okay. How's that going for you? Maybe apply for a permit next time. Maybe at least that'll allow you to pretend that you're making an effort to move to some of these places that you've done the work that you've done the due diligence. And it's it's got me wondering now. If maybe the NFL calling them in and asking for updates isn't Roger Gidell's way of telling George, hey, George. What is your guy Kevin doing? George Gidell might know this. He's got a television. He can he can see this reporting. He knows a lot of this stuff. Roger can play the political game. He's got people telling me I can't build over there. He knows you think he was calling them in like, yeah, George. Maybe maybe you're being told some things that aren't true here, but you're making the league worry a bit about how this is all going because you're you're moving backwards, not forwards, but this is where we said, I'm sure there'll be another chapter, but that is just today's chapter of Kevin Warren leads the bears into the swamp. This story ever going to end. I hope not. It's so much fun. It's it's it's so much fun to watch other big powerful people. They must know what they're doing. They have no concept of what they're doing and they haven't. It's no longer the longest story in Chicago sports in some time. And again, it goes back to one of the first major stories I covered when I moved to Chicago to become a reporter. And it was Planet Park, one of the first big bear stories of them were moving to Gary. We're here are the models here are the mockups were going to Planet Park and Gary Indiana. And it was then it was one of the silliest most transparently ridiculous stupid things that was never going to happen. And what go it just it's time is a flat circle. Time is a flat circle and and it's incredible just the after all this turnover the number of people that were part of that the number of people that live through that and we're seeing the same things again and anytime actually news people ask these questions what's been done. What's been done. What work has been done to prepare you for this move that you say you're going to make and the answer is nothing. Nothing has been done. So why should we believe you. Why should anybody believe you until you give me a reason until there's actual concrete proof of going and doing the work figuring this out. Hiring the lawyers the lawyers the don't you have lawyers don't you have environmental lawyers don't you have teams of lawyers isn't Kevin Warren a lawyer. I think they might tell you there's a lot of boxes you got to check here there's a lot of work you got to do before you can put that that precious shovel in the precious ground and watch it sink into the human waste and slag. And if you want to believe them enjoy just have fun with that every sports fan has an angle your sports fan you have an angle you have a team you trust you have a favorite you might want to fade a player you think is do that moment in the game you can feel coming and you can decide wait a second i'm going to act on this and that's where my bookie comes in because my bookie gives you a place to turn opinions into action whether you're watching the NBA finals. Maybe you're watching Stanley Cup finals watching that last night. 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Friday feedback Friday and a variety of subjects and I think you can imagine what we've been talking about throughout these these weeks with everything that happened and I know that sometimes I try to save these things for when you have your your strong thought and you you click on everything you send it to me and I want to make sure that it gets the credit that it deserves. This was from Jeff in Fouquet in Thailand right so it says I moved abroad to Thailand in 2015 and people often ask me what the hardest part of a living away from home is originally from Northbrook I grew up an obsessive bulls fan of the 90s. And aside from the obvious of missing friends and family the answer remains not being able to watch live sports or attend games for the teams that I love. But one thing that did bring me an immense amount of joy was listening to stacey king announcing for my beloved bulls it kept me connected to home in a way nothing else could through years and years terrible and sometimes unwatchable teams. Stacey remain the same jovial funny charismatic voice I needed and when the team was hot garbage in the perfect definition of me he made watching bulls games tolerable and I'm filled with such an immense sadness not only for his family in the bulls and NBA fans globally but the loss of that voice that tied me back home. I'm sad my 19 month old son won't grow up listening to his calls and I feel like a hole just opened up and I have no idea how it will get filled for lack of a better expression this just sucks. So while I have the soothing sounds Dan of you and Maddie to keep me connected to Chicago I'll forever miss stacey's unmatchable enthusiasm and sound R.I.P. to the king. Jeff thank you for that. Appreciate it and I understand it and you're right it just sucks. Here's a similar note from Tim who said something you mentioned and struck a chord with me stacey king's interactions with fans and particularly children. Was so great so genuine so obviously fueled by his desire to children learn and love this game that I wanted to share my own. personal story with this from only a few months ago. Early January of '26, I took my family to a game in the 300 level, and I follow Stacey King on X Twitter. I sent him a tweet. I asked if 300 level folks could come take a pick with him. He responded, he said, "Yes." So fast forward, end of the game, and we head down, and the ushers won't let us down by the press area because we didn't have a 100 level ticket. My boys, 11 and 9 were disappointed, but I understand when someone's doing their job as the usher was. So I sent Stacey a note on Twitter, letting him know what happened. I said I was doing so specifically so that he knows, and nobody else finds themselves in the same situation getting disappointed. He replied, he asked for my email. The next thing I know, we have four 100 level tickets, and his personal assurance that he would get pictures with the kids after the game. They did, but Stacey wasn't done. He took the kids onto the floor. While my boys stared up at him and the bleachers and the hoops with wide eyes, they got to go down and stand where the players play. Stacey had them out there for 15 minutes just talking about the game and asking about them. He didn't have to do any of that. He did it because he was a great person and a wonderful ambassador for the game and for the bulls. He missed greatly and made his memory be a blessing to his family and to us all. I love these messages about Stacey King because it just really resonates even more how much he just meant to this city. When I talked about, you guys asked me about him when I returned from Europe on off the I.V., I could have gone on and on more than five minutes we did because he just means so much to my bulls fandom. A lot of bad years being a bulls fan since I didn't really get to experience the Jordan era, but he made being a bulls fan more fun than if he if we didn't have him. I would lean to believe. So there's just there's nothing there's nothing good about it and some of the happy memories while while they give you a short term, a little bit of happiness, ultimately the takeaway is just, you know, too bad and it's going to replace him as going to be a chore. A note from Justin says three things guys. First, thank you for saving my ass. Literally. I had a great conversation with my doctor about what you've described as exploding taint syndrome. She giggled by the way. Yes, a doctor founded funny. We've decided not to try that medication. So thank you. Well, you should do that on your own. You should figure that out. But the takeaway here is that a doctor didn't say that that's you're talking about 40 years gangrene, the possibility of having an infection in the area between your genitals and your anus is not something to make fun of for I am a doctor and I have no sense of you were about exploding taint syndrome. Laughing doctor, keep don't keep that doctor. Don't lose that doctor. So thank you. Two weeks ago, you started to sing the my buddy to the my bookie readings and I was on a flight to Florida and I had to shake my wife to listen to you to bozos. She was a guest. And our bit since you two started advertising for them, she would sing my, my buddy every time you've done the read. Third, I'm sitting down to watch game three of the NBA finals and I see a commercial. It's McDonald's. It's David Beckham in a car waiting for the food of the drive through. He's talking to himself saying, please be Beckham as he pulls a collector cup. He then exclaims, it's me, David Beckham as he holds himself in cup form that is a wild self-arachpo. Yes, I agree. That is a, that is a different category of meta or racco and it's the second world cup version of it, Justin because Tim Howard does it in the Jim Beam commercial. That looks like US goalie Tim Howard. I am former US goalie Tim Howard. Like that's, that is when you have to say your own name in the commercial. It is a special level of a raccoing, but thank you for the feedback. I found the audio for the one you originally wanted to do. Okay. So if you want to go to that one next, I do. I do. I would say that we like to include an audio message as part of what we're doing here because sometimes you learn something. It's interesting. It's funny as this was from Mike. Hi, guys. Indiana resident here. Just wanted to share with you a bit of our financials going on over here. There's a program through the federal government called Sunbucks, which provides $120 worth of grocery money to families who have children who are on free or reduced lunch for the summer. They get $120. Indiana would have had to make a $5 million investment in order to get the funds from the federal government. We said no. According to our governor, we don't have $5 million available. But we do have whatever money George Mckasky needs to build a stadium for the bears. Schools are underfunded over here. People are getting kicked off a Medicaid over here. Roads are full of potholes. Electric bills through the roof, but by God, whatever the bears need, we're going to help them get themselves a new stadium right there on that slag heap in him. This place is such a mess. Run, run George, don't come here. I could just set it better myself, but I can't because I'm not an Indiana resident. It goes well with today's podcast. It certainly does, based on the latest news. There will be more bits of similar news. Don't you worry. That is just as people actually do the real digging and ask the real questions and put in freedom of information requests for the government paperwork on what has to be done to build a stadium in protected wetlands. We're going to be hearing more about this. In New Berlin, Wisconsin, Burke has sent a note with a question. There's a TV ad up here in Wisconsin. It's a local credit union for which Christian Yelich is the spokesman. It's just him. They don't say his name, but he's wearing a generic jersey that says Yelich on the back. At one point, they briefly show his back. So it's clear who it is. Is this a clear case of a rack poing or is this some sort of subset in the rack po genre? Yeah, I would say, Burke, that's what I would call a ground rule or rack poe. Where if you need to have him turn around and say, let's see what your name is. Yeah, that's that is just sort of one step removed. I would say the difference between a double and a ground rule double. I will call that a ground rule or rack poe in that particular case, and which you should not have to do. The guy's one MVP or the Christian Yelich should not have to be identified to a specifically local Wisconsin audience. That's that's something a quick note here from from Jay went. He says PJ Carlisomo said the spurs were for the spurs of forest six or three point land that the spurs were four of six from three point land. It had four dunks. He said, that's a pretty good combination. If you ask me, I don't care what the analytics say. Four and four dunks PJ, that's exactly what the analytics tell you to do. I was going to say, I don't care. There've been awesome from three point range and they're dunking the basketball. Whatever those damn analytics say hold on. Wait, let me check. You checked the analytics three pointers and dunks are the best way to have an efficient offense and win games. Well, I do care what they say apparently. Thank you for that. Lisa took note when I was last week talking about Kevin Warren and I was used the line that the Hunts grubber said and die hard. He said Alexander when he saw the breath of his domain. Alexander wept for there were no more worlds to conquer. Lisa said, you get Alexander weeping due to his lack of worlds to conquer. I get a zamandius. Look on my works. You might he and despair. And Lisa said, only I think a lot of people are looking at the swamp and despairing. Indeed. Yeah. But I don't think Warren himself is not going to be there. There's going to be the statue of Kevin Warren that erodes into what's the poem vast and trunkless legs of stone. I remember it's it's shelly right. Azamandius I believe is Percy Shelley. Yes. too vast and trunkless legs of stone. Yeah, I don't think it's going to get to that point, but point taken Lisa nicely done nicely turned much appreciated. This is from Ryan. Oh, where's my guy Ryan? Regarding Stacey King's passing, I find myself increasingly angry at the Chicago Bulls. The Bulls had no role in his death, but here's where I'm at. They wasted the talent to one of the best local analysts in the game. The rise of Derek Rose happened when I was in sixth to seventh grade formative sports watching for a kid. Joaquin Noah having a near MVP season, Jimmy Butler transforming into an NBA star happened in the following years and through all of that. Stacey King was there not only making people smarter about basketball, but influencing basketball culture. We played a lot of pickup ball when I was a kid. It was rare if you didn't hear someone yelling on the playground. Saracha, give me the hot sauce or co-opting Jimmy G buckets and letting everyone else on the court know they get buckets. I think about how great some of the Bulls teams were. I'm grateful he was there for those teams because the sloppy been forced to cover the last decade's been embarrassing. The Denzel Valentine half-court threes, the front court tandem of Paul Zipser and Cristiano Felicio, the rotating cast of professional nothings that suited up every night. Having to pretend Jim Boylan was an NBA coach, the old 11 February this year I could go on. So you couple the awful on court product with the broadcast move to the new channel and then many Bulls fans lost interest in what was going on to the UC. Stacey King still showed up every night brought life and fun to something as dead and bloated as roadkill. The broadcast combo of King and Adam Amin was insanely fun and it's shocking to say but at top of what Stacey had with Neil Funk. But who was there to listen? Who was there to enjoy it? Not enough people. The Reinstorfe sports enterprise doesn't care about having top-notch broadcasters. They've had a surprising amount of them but Jerry Push Jason Benetti out of town. He wasted Stacey King's career. He's actively neutering Steve Stone by continuing to that dork in the booth alongside him. It's yet another chapter in the book of Bad Chicago Sports ownership. Pour out a shot of Siracha for our guy, our IP Stacey. I don't disagree. No, it's another way of taking that though that I hadn't really considered and he's leaving out the biggest broadcasting Reinstorfe push out after Benetti and that's Jim Durham. My favorite announcer. What I was at that impressionable age. The guy with Jim Durham is a big reason I'm sitting here right now that I fell in love with the idea of sports broadcasting and that kind of energy and that kind of the pure journalism of the Jim Durham basketball descriptions of pre-Michael Jordan and Michael Jordan and all that stuff and say, oh boy, the way he's describing this guy Jordan is different man. That made me want to do basketball play by play and they pushed him out and I've never really got over that. So now you made me angry. Damn it Ryan. Don't do that anymore. But thank you for that. Matthew says walking through the grocery store, I saw a case of Oreos with the team USA logo for the World Cup. There's pictures and the identifications of Christian, Pulisic and Alex Morgan. Does a rack-poing only work for TV ads or store products? If you have to tell me who they are in a package of Oreos, it should be obvious or just slap on it. We support team USA in the package. Is this a valid a rack-po? I'm going to say no. I'm going to give some room for a- if it's cookies, a product in the store, a cereal box, I do think even the weedy's boxes did have names on them, not all the time but but sometime I'm not going to go that far. I think the rules in a grocery store are different if you're looking, you're glancing at products, the way our brains work and the way you move products, the way we respond to different stimuli and that whole game of making us buy things using grocery psychology and hidden persuasion, shout out, Vance Packard, that I'm going to allow it. I'm going to allow it. I appreciate the question but that one I am specifically going to allow. Here is PV from AH. Guys, I'm a 53 year old lifelong bears fan and resident of Arlington Heights for 17 years. I live a mattress stop in two and a half miles away from the land the bears own of the former side of Arlington racetrack, but the stadium will eventually be if they ever get out of their own way. I live far enough away to avoid any annoyance from incoming crowds. I might actually go to a game. I've watched the bears play my entire life. I've never gone to a game. I've come close times until circumstances conspired against it. When you guys have been saying repeatedly how little you care where the bears play, I've been nodding along. I consume bears football via television and always have. Even if they move virtually down the street for me, it's unlikely to change. But as this tale of corporate incompetence has dragged on, I've had more time and I wanted to think about it. I think I do care where the bears play. I do watch the games on TV and I've come to realize that I want the bears to stay at soldier field. Is there a more telegenic setting for a big game? Which thanks to Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson, we can anticipate and dare to even plan for again. The teams becoming good. There's more late window games and night games when that obsidian late fall and winter darkness descends. The shots of the lit up skyline, the stadium on the lake, Flurry's falling. Call me a meatball, remind me of the myth of bears weather, but I get romantic about it. And then I think about what's going to be an anodine domed, perfectly sotted new stadium and how boring and characterless it will feel to watch games play there. I don't want it. I want to see the crappy turf at soldier field. I want to see the Warren Bears logo in the end zone. Field is shaking of the stadium through my TV every time Caleb rips the heart out of the packers. Over the next decade, I want the shots of the skyline. I'm even okay with the interstitial B-roll of deep dish pizza coming out of ovens. I'm rooting for inertia. I'm rooting on Kevin Warren as he writes the book and how to lose friends and not influence people. I'm rooting for soldier field to continue to be the backdrop for my future football memories. Good take. Yeah, you kind of reel me back into soldier field because I've been pretty pro audience and heights. And I live, I mean, we both live here in the city. Yeah, I actually further away if they did go to audience and heights and I was, I've been pretty pro for it. But for me, the biggest problem with soldier field has always just been the getting there and getting out of there. And I do think that because there's not enough, like the seating isn't as big as other stadiums, like the price for nosebleed seats for this organization in most seasons where they've been bad. The prices are bad unless the weather is ridiculous and they're bad. But now that Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams are there, those prices are going to skyrocket even more than they already were when they were bad. You bet. So that's why I've been very pro for them to move into a bigger place. But everything he said, I don't disagree with like, yeah, I wish there was a way they could stay on the lakefront. Yeah, go ahead. That's, that's, I don't mind that take at all, especially once you, you inoculated against response by just saying you don't go to games. It's all about the TD product. And that makes it makes for a nice TD product. And I, I really grew up that too. Like I, I, I, the last two Bears games I've gone to or because I got free tickets. I'm on Sundays. I am a, I have to be on the couch from noon till the last game on Sunday night football. And it's, it's, it's, it's, it's part of like my routine on Sundays in the fall and the winter. It was what it is. You, you, you and most people. Yeah. You and almost everyone, only a tiny fraction of people. And like, I, again, I grew up with season tickets. We went to home games. We, and it was the whole family often, well, some of my sisters just like peace. No deuces out. But it was your whole day. You piled into the Caprice Classic and you got your chemical hand wore. They're not the chemical handwormers. They actually like asbestos lined, you light this, this fuel bar and put it in the hand warmer. And we'd sit in sleeping bags. But that's what we did. You went to games. Yeah. And then our seats moved when they redid the North end zone and the PSL thing came along and all that. But it was always nice to know you could go to the game if you wanted and you'd get rid of the tickets. We'd give them away and, and the friends and all that. But it's, if you, if you, the culture of the people who go is different in the culture of everybody else who watches. Absolutely. Yeah. That's just different. A couple more notes here from folks before we move on to the top 10 list for the week. This is Nick or as I know him as Terry once called him Peca Peca Humdinger who says, "Guys, This Cubs thing is brutal and watching this collapse has me just uninterested in baseball right now. I'm grateful the World Cup is starting So I have a sports distraction. I know you guys aren't really into soccer. It's fine. I love it. I hope it's a fun tournament Having said this You need to be aware of the team that is representative of the island of Kurosawa This is the first time Kurosawa is qualified for the World Cup They are the smallest nation to ever qualify for the World Cup All of this is fun, but you must know their head coach is dick Advocate ADV OCAAT That is a person I wish Terry were here just so I could hear him talk about dick Advocate It is such a B&B name He is the oldest head coach in the World Cup and he's seen a lot I'll be cheering for the USA and the nation of my great-grandparents Belgium I also love watching Spain, but I will be an advocate for Kurosawa in this tournament Thank you for letting us know Nick. Thanks Dick is right about the Cubs thing though too Advocate yeah, he's been Now here's something you didn't expect and I want to close with this Because I think at some point yesterday when we were talking about the Spider-Man movies Oh, yeah, when I mentioned that I liked the the Sam Raimi films in large part because I liked JK Simmons's portrayal of Jay Jonah Jameson And I thought that was just you know every time he was on the screen. It was just automatic laughs automatic awesomeness Mm-hmm, and this is from Joel heard that and Joel said hey, Dan. I heard you mentioned JK Simmons You should know this two weeks ago I was in Pittsburgh to see the Cubs break their 10-game losing streak JK Simmons was at the game to throw out the first pitch After the game I was walking back across the Clemente bridge to my hotel And I look and I find myself walking right next to JK Simmons He was genuinely one of the nicest people I have ever met He and I just walked and chatted for a few minutes about the game and his tour of all the MLB stadiums this summer Just an absolute joy to speak with and he took time for everyone who wanted to say hi Such a great guy Not surprised I've heard that before from people in the biz Almost you know unanimously people who've worked with him same thing Same thing just it just a prince of a guy And I love hearing stories like that Love to hear Joel hear us talk about it out of nowhere and then it like come full circle Yep for his experience. So yeah, very very cool to hear yeah That's what I love doing this stuff. That's one of the reasons I love Fridays is because we always circle back with some of these connections And and I always remind you I read every email that comes into my mailbox. I read I try to respond to every one of them and I even you know I always fill up the the the FFF folder here even if I don't get to all of them I thank you and thank you for telling you a lot of these take time and a lot of thought and you most importantly That I respect about the way we do this you put your name on it Yeah, this is we're not dealing with social media. We're not dealing with with bots and sock puppets and avatars That you are who you say you are I am who I say I am and we're having an actual Exchange here between what we know are people. It's not just it's not just comments on a board somewhere or you're or Sturing up trouble or trolling or anything like that. So thank you for that. I have enjoyed Replying to a few of the cubs ones that have come to all three of us. So yeah, and and my family knows if I'm sitting on the couch downstairs Sometimes if there's a game on and I'm they see me looking at my phone and laughing They don't even have to ask because they know I'm they know I'm reading emails Yeah, they know I'm taking the whatever it is the hour or so out of my day to do all this and it's a pleasure It's a joy. I look forward to it and The you know sometimes I'll look while I'm out fishing or something and I'll look and I'll see in that little red circle in the corner of the icon says You know 36 I'm like who gonna be a long one tonight, but I Love it and I do appreciate it and it is it to me It's really it's a really important part of the connective tissue of three one two sports where if for all the shows and for you know Our giant staff that we have here of of Matt and Cody and me for everybody that's involved in this Sometimes gay from yeah, and occasionally my kid that yeah, no he reads it. You know if you want to send me I don't think he's in the in our email system though, but I don't think so no we should probably get him like Jason a three one two sports I come we should probably get that if we I'm gonna I'm gonna see if we can add it um But it is a It it's important to me at the end of every day to get your reactions and get your responses and I've really learned How how important it is and how it's so much better than what I used to have to experience with that god-awful Radio station text line that just brings out the worst in people and I think too often brings out the worst in in the people who react to it. 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I just thought it would be fun And that is because we saw Braden month Braden Montgomery in a memorable Tuesday night Make his major league debut And I started thinking back about Major league debuts between the cubs and the socks that I've experienced I can't speak to the ones for you know ron santo in 1960 or whenever it was these are ones that I wrote of the of the ones that I remember Whether as a talk show host reporter Or a fan I've decided to rank these and there's some explanations as to why they are where they are based on the excitement over the prospect The excitement of about the debut itself wow this person is finally here Where they generally were in their development cycle and how well they did And then trying to kind of make it independent of where the rest of the career was because some of these debuts had nothing to do some of their bad players And some are good players and some are in between So for honorable mentions I have two And one they're both white socks in the honorable mentions one is Zach Remelard Who came into a game on June 17th of 2023 came into the bottom of the fourth inning replacing Tim Anderson And if you remember Zach Remelard had three hits a walk in a game winning RBI People never seen it before Walked out of the field who's this guy Who is it well his name is Zach Remelard he's in the game for the white socks he's gonna go win the game for you So that's an honorable mention the other honorable mention because it technically was not his debut And it's only on a technicality otherwise this one would have been way up there on the all-time list And this is April 2nd of 2021 Your mean Mercedes Now your mean Mercedes had one at bat the at the end of 2020 He had one at bat But his debut was actually April 2nd of the next year five for five For RBI and then everything went crazy And I think he went three for three the next game He started eight for eight and it was it was it was a thing And then your mean Mercedes was out of baseball by June off the team and done by June. I remember I remember that he just like it was just like an insane like insanity type run. Yes, it was it was like, what who is this guy? What does he do? Every ball was murdered. Everything was and then there was remember there was the whole Tony LaRusa thing about when he hit the home run against when they were on my like a thousand runs and Larusa disciplined his own got man in his own player and apologized to the other team for his own player, hitting a damn home run. Yeah, and then he yeah, I was like after that, he fell apart. Oh, yeah, he was going to fall apart anyway. Right. It just said it was, you know, post-hoc, air go proctor, hawk fallacy, but it didn't help. And it was it just solidified that how how out of his time and place Tony LaRusa was. And I just I remember that vividly. So those are the honorable mentions number 10 on my list Darrell Boston and his white socks debut was three for five with a triple a stolen base two runs and two driven in. And I'll never forget the triple that he hit. I thought was going to be a home run. It was off of a Charlie Huff knuckleball and we were excited for Darrell Boston. That was a big deal. It was the first round pick and that was like, oh, another one of these white socks, toolsy athletic outfielder type says everybody in the sock system was that and they were almost all bad. Unless, you know, it was Sammy Sosa who eventually was good for other reasons helped along by other reasons. Number nine Cubs pitcher Sean Bosky May 20th 1990 Sean Bosky complete game six strikeouts one earned run in a five one win against Houston. The starting pitcher for Houston was Mike Scott who would want a say young award in 1980s one of the 86. I think one of the greatest ball scuffers ball cutters of all time. That guy could doctor up a baseball and make a dance. But Sean Bosky also went two for four with a double in an RBI in that game. And and he was bad. But when Sean, who's there? Hey, Sean Bosky. It was also a great hairy carry name. Sean Bosky complete game in his debut. He's number nine and number eight showed a him and aga April 1st, 2024 a five nothing win over Colorado six innings pitch. No runs nine strikeouts. No walks. The reason why it's down at number eight is he's 30 years old that I'm going to I'm going to put less weight on a guy who's been a pro. It's it's it's less of a deal for and somebody who is in the little kid who's just showing up for the first time and it's never seen ever played in a building with with the extra set of seats of the extra deck and the con courses and as to look at all that, you know, they they start putting the extra levels on there. It changes your your eyes and everything else. But show does number eight number seven similarly, Coast G Fuku Dome March 31st. Yeah, 2008. Coast G Fuku Dome three for three, including the game tying three run home run in the ninth inning. He had a single he had a double in the four three loss to Milwaukee. But the energy of that game time three run home run and the camera pans to the bleachers and there's all the racist jamokes with their with their headband and yeah, and doing all of all of their cultural appropriation and all of their their marketed racism Coast G Fuku Dome is you were how old I was in 2008. So I was a junior in high school at the time. Mm hmm. So we're talking 17 years old and to this day I tell people that is my favorite loss I've ever had to endure from the Cubs largely because of that game tying home or it's just one of my favorite opening day moments ever. Okay, well, because that that debut is number seven on my list. Number six is that of Mark prior. Mm hmm. The number two overall pick on May 22nd of 02 six innings pitched 10 strikeouts in a seven four win over Pittsburgh. And I thought I was I was doing this. I was thinking back and writing all this down. I said to Beth, hey, remember when I put Jason in his bouncy seat in front of the TV and she said, no, you didn't. I said, yeah, I did. She said, Jason wasn't born until 04 you dumbass. That was Zoe. That was your daughter. You put your daughter in her bouncy seat and turned it toward the TV and said, you can say you watch Mark prior's first game. And I said, oh, correct. I guess you're right. She was there and Jason wasn't at that time, but I did that. And there was nothing in that game that suggested that we were going to have all the pain and misery that the Mark prior career would bring us and the bad luck. But it was pretty special. Number five, this one was cool for different reasons. Nico Horner was called up to the Cubs on September 9th of 2019. Nico Horner was home. Why was he home? Because he was playing double A baseball in the Cubs organization and the season was over. So he went home and then the Cubs found themselves in need of middle infield help in the middle of a playoff race. So they called Nico Horner up. His season was over until I said, your season's not over anymore. You're being promoted to the big leagues. Three for five, four RBI, including a triple in his big league debut. That's number five. Well, Dr. White sex. There's no white sex out here. Bringsdane. Number four is Craig Wilson. I can't forget Craig Wilson. Nobody can forget Craig Wilson. He had this incredible start. He batted over 400. I think for the season, he batted over 400. He only had like 53 played appearances. But on September 5th of 1998, up came Craig Wilson against the New York Yankees. He was three for four with a home run in two doubles. He had eight total bases in his major league debut. And Craig Wilson, like your mean Mercedes after him had a tear, an absolute tear to start his White Sox career. That's number four. Number three. And I know if you're an old Cubs fan, you've been waiting for this one. You've been waiting for it. And you know what? You're going to get it. Number three. May 31st, 1988. Jeff Pico. Have you ever heard of Jeff Pico, Cody? Does it make me a bad Cubs fan if I haven't? No, but it just it's one of those names. Well, people, if you ever hear, we'll remember Jeff Pico. Yeah, there's before my time, well before my time. Well, Jeff Pico, in his debut, pitched a complete game shut out four hitter. A complete game shut out four hitter in his major league debut. And it was the first complete game shut out major league debut at the time since 1909. Since a guy named King Cole was a married old soul and a married old soul was he? Jeff Pico. Number three. Okay. Number two. Braden Montgomery. I am putting that at number two. Two for five. Three RBI. A walk off to run Homer. Now, part of the reason why I've put that so high on the list of Cubs or socks and LB debuts is how memorable it's going to be. You're never going to forget it because you're going to remember it was that weird acid trip broadcast Bob Costas 80s night. It's going to have it's got a hook. It's sticky. The memory is sticky. The memory will stay with you. And any little kid is going to remember it because little kids remember everything, especially little sports fans. He hit a walk off that photo of teammates waiting for him as he's you see his back as he's headed toward the plate. Everybody that excited to greet him. That kid at a walk off winning home run. But you'll remember how weird it was because Bob Costas called it. Where all the graphics were different and everything looked weird. You're going to remember Braden Montgomery. I also think he's going to be a really good player and that's going to help too. Braden Montgomery number two. And number one, I don't think anybody is going to forget. On May 7th of what was your 2010. There it is. I know what you're talking about. Stalin Castro. Yeah. Stalin Castro in his major league debut hit a home run in his first at bat. He also had a three run triple to go with the three run home run. An MLB record six RBI which I believe is still the MLB record for a major league debut. And Stalin Castro for a while. was on pace for like 3000 hits. Yeah. He was on pace to maybe be the first 3000 hit guy not in the hall of fame. Yeah. But it multiple 200 hit seasons. Yeah. Starland Castro for a for a while was a really productive player. He occasionally would drift away. It is brain would drift and his focus would drift that he'd go to the zoo in his head. And then a ball would go by. I mean, he's chewing on his glove or he's picking flowers and then the didn't playing with dandelions because Starland was kind of a tea ball player in that regard. But that's a hell of a debut. Yeah. So that that that can I give you a honorable mention or maybe absolutely you might want to replace it. Okay. I think I would be surprised if you remember this guy. I feel like a lot of Cubs fans would would be surprised or I think a lot of I would be surprised if a lot of Cubs fans remember him got it well. So this is Ryan O'Malley in 2006. He debuted on August 16th. He has he pitched a career like 12 and a third innings. Okay. In his major league debut. He pitched eight innings gave up five hits. He did walk six, but he struck out to but zero runs in a one to nothing win over the Astros. And he pitched four innings his next outing but and then never pitched it. That was it. Usually baseball ever again. But his major league debut is like okay. I'm him. I just like that's my claim to fame. You know, he pitched for the Cubs major league baseball and you got the best out of him. You ever were ever going to get in that one game in his major league debut. You could for some I don't know what his prospects that or any of that was this is 2006. Sure. But for some reason, I remember Lynn Lynn Casper and Bob and Bob Brentley calling this game and it sticks with me when I think about just random Cubs in their major league debut on a negative side. There's another player. He didn't have like he got hit in the head in his like Adam Greenberg. Yeah, he got hit in the head. Yeah. Adam. Oh, amazing story. Yeah. Incredible story. Every major league baseball again. Yeah. I think that's the negative in the sad. It's a sad story. But it's something that I have never forgotten. Yeah. Oh, Adam Greenberg. I was watching that. I remember. I was all excited about him. You know, it was happy to have a tribe member make the major leagues. But and I think that they some there was a documentary about it that was done. Okay. So we told that story like a moonlight Graham. You know, it's like something from the it's almost seems fictional. But that is your list right there. Enjoy it. Have fun with it. Thought it would be fun. It is time. It is well, you know, before you do that, I want to let you know that we've got picks for you. But the finals are back tonight. Here we go, man. And there's easy money at my bookie if you don't over think it. You don't need a crazy parlay or spreadsheets. You need that team that you trust. So playoff finals basketball is perfect for my bookie clean board. You want to keep it simple? You can. I think the spurs are given five. The latest that I saw in my bookie. A lot of people like the spurs to win that five number. You got to get a lot to think about there. But back the spurs. You can back the nicks because they keep proving everybody wrong. Ride the teams built to win. Let the playoffs do the rest. If you're new to my bookie, you have a made a deposit. Don't sit this one out. Go register, go deposit, use the promo code, DBU, anybody you choose up to 500 bucks is fully covered. 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