Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - 5 On It & Andy Johnson talks Rory McIlroy winning Masters (Hour 3)

Episode Date: April 13, 2026

In the third hour, Leila Rahimi and Marshall Harris discussed a variety of sports topics in the 5 On It segment. After that, Shotgun Start podcast host and Fried Egg Golf founder Andy Johnson joined the show to discuss Rory McIlroy winning the Masters for the second straight year. Later, Rahimi and Harris reacted to the White Sox trading infielder Lenyn Sosa to the Blue Jays.

This hour is sponsored by WinTrust. It's time for five on it. Rahini Harrison Rooney. Bring you five topics on their minds today. On 104-3 to score. I got five on it. Number one. Are the Cubs back?

I had to do. I had to do it. Because what are you doing, Cubs? W-Y-D. How are you not taking two or three against the pirates? And Ray, why is it every time I call them the pirates? I secretly want to call them birates. at least there are only one game below 500.

That's really what this is about. It's like I said, I measure this part of the year, not in your record necessarily and not in a pattern, but in series. You know, just take series against teams. You're supposed to take the series against. I wouldn't even be that critical of you against this stretch with the Phillies and the Dodgers of the Padres.

I wouldn't even be that critical, but at the same time, because you didn't do things like take the Pirate series. I'm a little like, hey, dude, do something. Do something different. Hit more. I don't know that they're back, but I feel a lot better after Michael Bush breaks out of the over-30 slump.

They get the win in the walk-off as opposed to the day before and extras. So they're back enough for me, for now. But I'm watching you, Cubs. I know what you're up to. I know where you guys play. I'm watching you. I want you put the word out there that we back up. See, I don't even know that that is...

I don't know that we can be that declarative yet. Is that too much? I think so. Maybe a little bit. I think we got to wait. I think we got to wait to do the way back up thing. They've won three of their last five games. That's a winning record over the last five, right?

Oh, wait, but you're saying they lost a series to the Pirates, a team that they should probably take care of at home? Yeah, I don't know that I can say they're back. In fact, I'm not going to say they're back. I'm going to say they're right where they were before the series started, just hanging around. That's the goal here. A lot of men make a good living by just hanging around.

Wait, explain that one. You know how it is. Dudes will just be hanging around. Oh, you mean people's lives. In the status of a relationship that maybe isn't even a relationship, but they're just hanging around. Exactly. Okay, yeah, the Cubs are not in a relationship yet.

I can tell you that. They are very much just hanging around. Maybe doing some parking lot pimping as we used to call it back in the day. Explain that one for our audience. AKA, also known as The Let Out. So you've been out all night with you and your boys. Y'all are here trying to see if y'all can find some nice young ladies to talk to, maybe romance at a future date, maybe romance that evening.

And you know what? You just, you haven't cleared anything. No numbers, no nothing. But then got a saving period of time, a period of grace known as the Lettout. And that's when the club shuts down and everybody goes out. outside and all of a sudden you can actually see everybody's faces on what they actually look like. And if you want to make an approach, you got a little more liquid courage than you. She's probably lowered her standards a little bit because of her liquid courage.

Now you make a move. They call that parking lot pippin. Nothing was more insulting than somebody trying to holler at two in the morning. You say that. I'm like, oh, oh, now, now why don't you talk to the tree? It'll be more productive. Tree doesn't talk back. No, see, I disagree.

Keep a move. Here's why. Nothing more insulting. In the club, the music is loud and the conversations are not happening. What? But when you get outside, you could actually have a conversation. You could actually, she might be feeling what you're saying now because she's getting a fuller version of you, as opposed to the version of you trying to two-step with her or if you're more aggressive,

pull up on it, you know? So this is what I'm saying. The Cubs right now, they are parking lot pimping. They're hoping that when the club lets out, they're within strike. hiking distance and they have enough courage to go ahead and win the National League Central. But we're a long ways away from the actual letout of a 162. It is a grind. So no, the Cubs are not back.

They're just hanging around. There is an alternate universe where I face all of these teams in person face to face. And the Bulls are like, what do you mean? I'm the assistant to the regional manager. And then the Cubs are like, what do you mean? I'm heading on girls at 2 a. I mean, hey, I'm just here for processes that work. You said I was Dwight Shrewd.

Well, not really, at some point. We're going to have to start paying a toll for all these examples and analogies and illustrations. And by the way, it's dark outside sometimes. And I'm still six foot. What's good? Nothing more insulting than the 2 a.m. holler. Number two. To you.

Like, go talk to that girl over there. She looks interested. To you. The Cubs needed a Carson Kelly walkoff single to avoid. as sweep and their 7-6 win over the Pirates, they face the Phillies today. And in seven of their next 10 games, with those two series wrapped on three games set with the Mets, what do you think of the Cubs position as a last-place team that's only two games

out of first place? I'm going to quote Dustin William, William, Roots. Oh, okay. Who pointed out this morning that if the Cubs finish the month 500, that's a good month. Given the schedule, given what they were dealing with on their own, as their own main character. I feel like for the Cubs and the respective record,

when you're playing in Philadelphia, as I mentioned, you're playing in, you're at Dodder Stadium, you're at Petco on the West Coast. You do have that series at home against the Mets. Who gave the Cubs some challenges? But Edwin Diaz ain't walking through that door. Juan Soto is still trying to get back. Same time, though, you know these are very talented teams.

They spend a lot of money putting these groups together and they're quality opponents. This might be one of the hardest parts of their schedule given the back-to-back-to-back nature of it all. So one of the, not the hardest, I don't think that's the case. But the point is, I'm good with 500 for the month of April. I agree with Dustin. I think that would be a success.

And I know that it doesn't sound like a high bar, but given the opponents, I think that would be a step in the right direction. So knowing that the Cubs have all these games, which you have so aptly pointed out against higher-level competition. least expensive competition, right? Is that fair? Yes. That is... Like, it gets a little easier in May, you know? They can't be exactly 500 because they have played 15 games in our 7 and 8, and they have

16 games to go, so that puts them at 31. If they're winning a couple of games, three games under, three games under I'm comfortable with. Like, just get, just be hanging around again. At the end of April, if you're hanging around, you're in good shape. Unless, you know, the Brewers win, I don't know, 21 games in a row or something, then you're probably not in good shape at that point. But with the way the National League Central has played out with everybody being where they are and understanding that if you could have just found a way to win two out of three of the Pirates, you would be a half game back of the division lead. I think it's just important to mount up wins, find ways to win by

any means possible. It's a very grindy part of the schedule and Craig Counsel has shown that he can be a grinding manager who's not afraid to take someone out of a lineup. He's not afraid to use all of his position players in any given game. This is the lineup that he's going to have. The players that he has

available to him right now are the players unless somebody gets hurt. That was me knocking on wood. He's got to figure out. This is why Craig Counsel gets paid the very, very big dollars. So I'm looking at this. and feel pretty good about them being a last place team right now that's just a couple of games out of first place.

Five on it. Number three. It's five on it on 104 through the score with Layla Rahimi and Marshall Harris. Here's question number three. What do you make of Grant Taylor throwing a season high 27 pitches and two innings as the opener in the White Sox six five win over the Royals? So I did say I wanted to see Grant Taylor throw two innings and at some point I wanted to see him stretched out.

And until we found out about Noah Schultz coming up, I thought that Grant Taylor is probably the most intriguing pitcher that the White Sox had to try to build on. But I've also seen how he's been deployed recently, and A.J. Persinski brought it up too. It's been too many times in too short of stretches where he's been opening and not being used as a bullpen guy. And I think it, I just wonder at what price does it begin to become detrimental?

And how many uses per week? and how many uses consistently. And no matter how you look at it, using nine pitchers in the game yesterday is going to set you back as far as availability. Jonathan Cannon has to leave the game. We're waiting to get an update on his health. But this could not have been the plan originally.

I think it's something that they've come to see. But I don't know what, if there is an actual plan as far as his long-term progress, Taylor's, and all of this, this feels like what you have to do right now. But at what point do you try to tailor the plan to growing him as a pitcher? Well, Layla, to your point, even when he was first shown to us as an opener, that second turn through the rotation, the rotation had been so bad overall that I could completely understand where the organization was coming from and saying, okay, Grant Taylor needs to be an opener right now for this.

But again, as I pointed out earlier in the show, with the way the White Sox pitching has been the last turn through the rotation, and I'll tell you, you've had three Eric Fetty appearances in which he's given up a total of three earned runs over three appearances. You've had a couple of Sean Burke appearances where he's given up a total of three runs in 11 innings. You've had a couple of Anthony Kay appearances in which he's thrown a total of 10 innings and given up just two earn runs. Now seems like the time where you wouldn't need Grant Taylor to be the opener anymore because the starting rotation has become a little more stable than what it was a couple of weeks ago. And Davis Martin, he's been good. He's giving you 13 innings over his last two starts and only giving up two total earn runs. Now, we know Shane Smith got sent down.

We know that Noah Schultz is up. I don't know how deep Noah Schultz is going to go in that game. Tomorrow, you heard A.J. Bresenski talking about it. he can only go as far as his control will allow him because he goes deep into counts and he loses batters sometimes. But I like to think that Grant Taylor has made the last of his opener starts or opener appearances for a while. Maybe this is when they are now going to put him back in the bullpen and be a guy who

can pitch multiple innings. Man, I don't know. I guess we'll get an update ahead of the next series, but I just, it's a big question mark as far as the whole picture of it all. Yeah. Number four. Did you think Rory McElroy was going to choke on the mastered stage on Sunday? You know what I kept thinking when I was watching Sunday was, well, if Galt didn't just golf.

Here we are on Saturday at Circa asking after Rory's incredible Friday round, is it possible that he can even be caught? You know, here he is just in the zone, had the biggest lead after 36, I think, at Augusta, that it happened one of the biggest in any major. if golf didn't just show me that golf is what it is. And it sounds cliche, but if you know, you know. He was almost caught. How about Scotty Schaeffler just being incredible per usual?

Third and fourth rounds of the Masters, and he didn't have a single bogey. And that hadn't been done since the 1940s. So I definitely thought that there were times where Roy was starting to break down. And we even saw that a little bit on Saturday, guys. If you remember we were watching over at Stadium Swim, and I'm like, did he just bogey? And some short putts being missed.

We saw that too. At one point, CBS didn't know where the ball was yesterday. Did you notice that on one of the final holes? So I definitely didn't think it was safe. Even with like three to play, I wasn't, I didn't think that it was going to happen. And we saw the short putt from Scotty Sheffler. Was he an inch from the hole? That could have forced it to a playoff.

So the fact that he bogeyed. get the 18th hole to make it as dramatic as possible, right? You're thinking, okay, he's got it. It's good. But it wasn't good until it was absolutely over. I thought this quote from Roy McElroy kind of summed up the emotions that he took us all through when he was blowing out the field after Friday and then to go one over part and then one underpar the next two days. Like he was no longer blowing out anyone. He was just trying to hang on for dear life. Here's the quote. I thought it was so difficult to win last year because of trying to win the Masters in the Grand Slam. And then this year, I realized it's just difficult to win the Masters.

I tried to convince myself it was both. Like, think about how golf just messes with people's heads. And you're on the biggest stage in your sport, an individual sport. So, like, never is the focus off of you and what you're doing, because it is an individual sport. You don't have a teammate that you can rely on to, okay, you take this shot. Or maybe my teammate will hit a home run. that's how we'll win this game. Your teammate will usually sink you when your teammate is you.

That's the thing. Yeah. So to understand that this guy became just the fourth golfer in the last 40 years to have a piece of the lead at least in each round of the Masters, it looked easy after two days. It looked really difficult after days three and four. Number five. The Bulls season is over. What's your most positive takeaway from the 2025, 26, campaign which saw the Bulls finish 31 and 51 on the season. I think it's the regime change that you know one is coming in the next year and that the Bulls finally decided after six years that having some direction to start with under the Cardasovus Evergely regime

did not sustain because we didn't really know what the direction was for the last four. So because of that, I think the positive is change because we don't get that very often. and that's the biggest one. Other than that, it's modest Buzellis, racking up the reps, getting significant minutes, just learning who he is in the league.

But those would be my two, but number one is by far change at the top because change needed to happen. So I'm tempted to jump on that bandwagon with you about the regime change. Here's why I can't, because I don't know what's coming next. If I knew what was coming next,

I'd be like, yes, but I, I worry about what's coming next, and I can't say that I'm here thinking everything is good, because I'm not sure. I don't know. I won't know until they make a decision about who's going to be the next head basketball executive in charge, and then who that person's coach is going to be. And the ensuing really the moves.

I mean, we got a game we got to watch is the Portland Trailblazers who have a chance to. Oh, the play-in. Win. And if they win their game, and they get two chances to win, by the way. If they win either of their next two games, because they're playing in that 7-8 game, if they win the first game, they're in the playoffs, the Bulls get their pick.

Yeah, they're playing the Suns. I'm not trying to say this to Wishcast. I actually just, I think the Suns are a better team. But it's pretty even. It should be an interesting game. Depending on which Sun. Not if the Sun's team that showed up when the Bulls. Bulls came to town.

Do you remember when the Bulls beat the Suns in Phoenix? Well, that's the thing. With a bunch of just nobody, not nobody's, but like not their top players. I just can't use the Bulls as a gauge in this. I can't use the Bulls as a gauge in an opponent games, especially in the Western Conference. Okay. That's fair. But I will say this.

For the Bulls, it's modest. and it's Modis's continued development as a guy who is able to make threes who can help defend both as a help defender and gotten a lot better as an on-ball defender. That needed to happen. If you're going to do anything of consequence anytime soon, and when I say anytime soon,

really the next three or four years, modest has got to be a dude. He's got to be a guy who's at, an all-star consideration, if not an actual all-star. And that defense is going to be key. He's got a lot of work to do on offense with his handle specifically. But I like the development that I saw from Modis. That is five on it here on Rahimi Harris and Grotie.

We're going to expand a little bit more on that incredible round we saw yesterday on Sunday at the Masters with Andy Johnson. He is the founder of Friday Golf co-host of the Shotgun Start podcast. So we'll wrap up the Masters next. Rahimi Harris and Grody. We are family here. Midday's 10 to 2 on 104 3, the score. And here we go.

His year again. Rory is a rare repeat winner at Augusta. I just can't believe I waited 17 years to get one green jacket, and I get two in a row. It's just sort of the way. I don't know. I think all of my perseverance at this golf tournament over the years has really started to pay off. It was a tough weekend. I did the bulk of my work on Thursday and Friday, but just so so happy to hang in there and get the job done.

And Rory really did hang in there. He became a back-to-back winner at Augusta. And after an incredible final round of action, we go to our. hotline. That is where we find Andy Johnson. He is Andy TFE on Twitter. He is the founder of Friday Egg Golf and co-host of the Shotgun Start podcast. Thanks for joining us, Andy. Hey, Leila. Thanks for having me on. A longtime fan of the score I used to fall asleep at night to the score as a kid growing up in Chicago. So always a pleasure to come on. Well, hopefully you stay awake, but we are happy to bore you again should you need some Zs. what did you think of the

final round where we were laughing at it on Saturday when we were doing our show from Las Vegas Rory had put together one of the great rounds for the ages in the lead after 36 burning his six of his last to seven holes on Friday only for that lead to be just enough

to Al last a threat from Scotty Sheppler It was an amazing weekend you know after Friday you thought it might be one of those news runaway winners where you don't a lot of action on the weekend, but Rory didn't really have his A game all week. He was driving it pretty wild. Usually, you know, kind of his superpower is his driver, and it was off all week.

You know, it got a little bit better on Sunday. But then it ended up in that kind of classic master's mold where you're coming down the back nine. It seems like there's, you know, three, four players, any one of them, if they go out and just grab it, they can take the win. and I think Rory had a few key shots, you know, namely the iron on 12, a hole that, you know, often is where everything unwinds.

He had just a great approach shot there and kind of took it while everybody else couldn't really make a run. And I'm curious when you saw Rory's ability to stay at the top of that leaderboard for four straight days, we talked about earlier, just the fourth guy to do that. Like how difficult, is that mentally, do you think, on a golfer, even of his caliber, and especially after having broken through last season to get his first green jacket?

Yeah, it's definitely the unique aspect of golf, where, you know, you obviously, it's really, it's not a reactive sport like everything else. It's kind of like, I think the best comparisons are pitching in baseball or, you know, kicking field goals in the NFL, where you, like, really have to, think about every shot. And then you span it out over four days where, you know, you get done with the day, whether it's the morning or the afternoon you're playing, and you have to think about it all night and the next morning. And you get, you know, it just kind of weighs on you. And in doing that over four days, I think it's super hard. And one of the things with Augusta being just such a

demanding golf course where if you hit great shots, you can, you can really score out there. but the second you're just slightly off, it becomes very, very challenging. And with that aspect, it's really hard to play with a lead out there because you're subconsciously kind of, you kind of take your foot off the gas and you play conservatively. And that's the worst thing you can do at Augustin National. You kind of have to keep your foot on the gas. And it's really hard to do when you have the lead out there. We are talking to Andy Johnson, the founder of Freight Egg Golf, co-host of the

Shotgun Start podcast on Rahimi Harrison Grotie. And Andy, I did want to get into a little bit about what we saw in the third and fourth rounds out of Scotty Schaeffler to be one of the first players to go bogey-free since the 1940s. I believe it was 1942. You know, what do you think of just what he was able to in those last two rounds to challenge? Yeah. After the first two days, he kind of got the bad end of the draw where it was really, really

hard on Thursday afternoon. Definitely the players that went off in the afternoon on Thursday got the tougher aspect of the draw, but that's kind of part of golf. And you see them, you know, every tournament, there's this air that kind of hangs over the whole event of when Scotty going to make his run or who's going to beat Scotty. He's been the best player in the world for now going on three years, undeniably the best player in the world. And he keeps stacking more and more accomplishments. And this, this week, you know, he brought probably his beat game the first two rounds, and he's 12 out of the lead,

and then for him to end up one back. It's just astonishing. He's such a great player. I think he's played the best golf since Tiger Woods the last three years. So, you know, he's just a historic player. And I think Rory adding one, adding a major, he gets to Scotties at four. The next five years of golf watching these two kind of go back and forth and seeing where each of them end up with their major count

is going to be just an amazing thing to watch. Andy Johnson is the founder of Friede, Ed Golf and the co-os of the Shotgun Start podcast joining us here on Rahimi Harrison Groding. Andy, just to go back to what you just said. Is this what golf needs at this time is to have this kind of two-man game where

you've got team Scotty Sheffler and you've got Team Rory Macarroy, and now it can elevate the sport itself with two guys who have elevated themselves above the rest? Yeah, obviously with Tiger, Tiger was such a force of nature. You know, Chicago sports fans don't, you know, he's basically the Michael Jordan of golf and took golf to places it had never been. And, you know, in his, I would say, post-playing career at this point, he, you know, golf has always been looking for the next big thing.

And, you know, Scotty's personality is never going to, you know, jump off the page and win stands over, but his dominance does. And Rory, I think, has been, you know, he's the, now, I would say, undeniably the greatest European golfer ever. And it seems like we're in this kind of second run of his career where he's starting to stack majors again. He won his first four majors really early in his career. and then went through an 11-year drought.

And now he's got two in the last five majors. And seemingly is the best version of himself as he's ever been. And Scott, he's as good as we've seen since Tiger. So it really sets up for great storylines. There's a lot of other really good players. But these two have separated themselves out at the top. I think the one thing we haven't really seen from them, we've seen some great duels between Bryson and Rory in recent years.

The one thing we haven't seen is that classic Scotty Rory duel at a major. And obviously, when we look back on this one 10 years from now, you're going to see, oh, Scotty finished one back. But it never really felt like Scotty was going to win the golf tournament. And if we get one of those kind of classic duels between these two, I think it would really kind of set the sport off onto, you know, a whole new trajectory. But, you know, in recent years with obviously Steph Curry's been a golfer forever, but with like LeBron getting into golf, golf is caught kind of more of the public attention than it ever had.

Oh, Andy, I mean, Scotty Schaeffler came so close on that long putty he had where he could have forced a playoff if it had just been an inch to the right. Yeah, yeah. I mean, he made a great run. I'm not discounting it, but I think, you know, from the sense of where he, you know, he never made Rory earlier in the round feel him and put that pressure on. I think, you know, where he probably would go back and feel like he missed some opportunities. You know, Friday, he played a really soft, getable golf course.

He shot over par. And, you know, he was in it, but he never made that kind of run. that put him out in front and made people think about it. You know, Rory was coming down the stretch with the two-shoe. Uh-oh. Did we lose Andy? He broke up and his signal just gave out there. The Gremlins.

Andy, you're back? Yeah, there you are. Thanks. Yeah, we lost you for a second. Yeah, yeah. I was just saying, yeah, Scotty just, I feel like he just, you know, in the middle of the round, he went about 10 holes without a birdie and not making those at the birdies on 13 really felt like kind of the dagger and his chances to win.

Okay, so where do we go from here? I mean, golf schedule is kind of unfolding now after the Masters. We all look forward to this big event, but there's so much more to look at going forward. Where do we go from here with this group of golfers who've kind of declared themselves and made themselves known here with a weekend in Augusta? Yeah, I think, you know, obviously we're, We're only about four weeks away from the next major championship is the PGA championship, Aronimic.

I think it's going to be kind of Rory Fever. And obviously, Scotty's going to be storyline 1B, but it's going to be, you know, last year Rory won the Masters, and then he went into kind of a lowly. He didn't play great golf and the rest of the year. And I think he talked about it a little bit in his press conference. He said, you know,

he kind of thought that the career Grand Slam was the destination. and now he knows that he's got much more in, you know, ahead of them. And so I think I think Rory's going to obviously be a huge storyline and that Rory, Scotty, you know, battle with majors, you know, Rory at 6, Scotty at 4, also Brooks Kepka is back on the PGA tour and really committed to playing golf. He's got five career major championships. And then you also have the emergence of a young player, Cameron Young,

who played with Rory in the final group. He won the players earlier this year and has really kind of elevated his game to where, you know, he's probably the third best player in the world right now. And Andy, I know we asked about what's next, but I do want to spend a little time laughing about Sergio Garcia throwing an absolute temper tantrum. What did you think of Sergio getting a code of conduct warning? I mean, it's been an incredible career of temper tantrums from Sergio. You know, he's 45 at this point, and, you know, he hasn't grown up.

He's been throwing the same temper tantrums as he was 20 years old. Famously, you know, right before he went to the live tour, he was upset with a ruling on the PGA tour, and he was, you know, these people travel week to week together, and he was saying to the rules officials, oh, I can't wait to be out of here, I can't wait to never see you again. and then obviously this week, this week, he smashes his driver on the second hole. He wasn't even in contention. You know, he was so far out of the tournament.

He smashes his driver on the second hole. He has to play with a three with the rest of the day. I found it. I was laughing. I was out there, and I saw, you know, the ninth hole has this big hill, and everybody smashes driver down. It gets you to the slap part. And Sergio there is, you know, 25 yards behind his playing partner,

John Rom. And he's on the downslope of the hill, and I was laughing him. myself. I'm like, I bet he wishes he had his driver. So, you know, Sergio, Sergio, you always say the kids never grow up. Well, Sergio's never matured. And he remains one of kind of golf's most misbehaved golfers. It's, uh, it's kind of comical at this point. Well, he was pretty petulant afterward, too, when he was available for the, for the post game, whatever you want to call that. And then he's your post, post, post, getting the code of conduct. And then he's like, I use my three, what it was fine.

Was it? Like, he didn't sound conciliatory at all. My favorite was when people were asking him about, like, what did the official stadium? And he was like, I'm not going to tell you. I'm not going to tell you that. I mean, he's acted this way for his entire career. It is truly amazing that, like, through marriage, through fatherhood, he has not matured

at all. He's, you know, a 45-year-old man that still acts like a, you know, a 13-year-old at a junior golf tournament. I'd say I find my fair share of those out in the wild, Andy. Thank you so much for coming on with us. Thanks, guys. Huge fan. And talk to you soon. Thank you, Andy. That was Andy Johnson. He is the founder of Fried Egg Golf, and he is the co-host of the Shotgun Star podcast talking Masters with us. I don't think I realize that Sergio Garcia is 45 years old, by the way, that tells you right there, right? Well, unfortunately for me, I'm laughing because I'm like, how can a former champion behave like this?

And then that's when you realize it was 2017. And 2017 was not three years ago. This isn't 2020. It was nine years ago. It's been some time. Yeah, just antics. That's all that was out of Sergio. Coming up next year on Rahimi Harris and Grotie,

a lot has happened for the Chicago Sky since the Angel Reese trade. We have a lot to discuss. The WNBA draft is tonight, and they've put together some really compelling moves. So we will figure out who this team is next. Rahimi Harris and Grody. Bears tight end. Cole Kamet. Cole, welcome to the party, pal. Well, thanks for having me.

I heard it was a big day. So naturally, I dropped everything I had going on today. You've complained a lot through the years about not being able to hear the score on the 670 a.m. dial when you're inevitably cruising around downtown. And now that we have an FM signal, Cole, you can now hear the score all day, all the time, all you want. You can hear all the bear's hot takes you want. Well, that's perfect. I'll make sure I blast that in the locker room.

Beautiful back! Rahimi Harris and Grody, Midday's Tyndal 2 on 1043, The Score. We have some breaking news on the score. Breaking News is sponsored by IDOT. Speeding in a work zone is a no win. Mind the signs, avoid the fines. The White Sox have issued this information. They sent out the info in the last hour.

The Sox have acquired Jordan Rich and a player to be named later or cash. The options are still open doing business with Toronto in exchange for Lenine Sosa. Lenine Sosa batting 212. The slash line is 212, 212, 303, three doubles and three RBI and 12 games a season. His fifth with the White Sox. He led the socks with 22 home runs and 75 RBI in 2025. Most importantly, the spreeze up an infielder, Asosa is traded, who I feel like never got to fully realize his potential with the team. And the SOX's 40-man roster decreases to 39.

The 26-man active roster decreases to 25. So who is this clearing the spot for? Isn't that the million-dollar question? If Schultz is getting the call up, is it the officially the Schultz spot? or does it become the time for friend of the midday show and by friend we mean Russ Dorsey told us about what his scout

but he said about him. Sam Antanachi. We heard not yet but is now yet. What about now? Well, a couple of things. Noah Schultz, I think at last check, was not on the 40-man roster. So that may be the roster move that corresponds.

Yeah, you can always move people around. You know how this goes, especially with a team that's not that good. there's a lot of spots to go around. But for Lenin Sosa, this made sense for a couple of reasons. Number one, for the Blue Jays, they're just hurt, right? Elohimenez is now getting called up and he is a Blue Jay, yes.

Hi, Ma'am. Addison Barger has like an ankle thing for the Blue Jays, so they need help. Lenin Sosa couldn't find a solid everyday place to play in the White Sox lineup. So now you move him out, get a young player in return a prospect plus, as you said, player to be named later, or straight cash, homie, however you want to do it. I like this as

clearing out space so that, yes, the Antinacci thing can happen maybe sooner rather than later. Well, here's my question, though, is if this ended up being a result for Linene Sosa, even in this press release, they tell you, led the socks with 22-home runs

in 75 RBI in 2025. If the concept of trading him was was a possibility. Why not do it when his value was higher last year? You mean like at the end of the season? Because I don't think his value peaked until the second half of the season. Or maybe, yeah, maybe it's too early to say the trade deadline for him, but still.

Yeah, I think, I don't think he... Before this season would have been, if it was a possibility or at least conceived as a possibility. Me trying to understand the Chris Gett's decisions here in the early, season, that's not going to go well because I don't understand a lot of what Chris Gets is trying to do as far as, I mean, we go back to the opener and sending down your opening day starter. There's a lot of questions I have about all those decisions. To be fair, Lenin Sosa was a pick of the, it's the same regime. Gets is an extension of the regime. I'm about to say, who was in charge of Skate? Yeah, that was a, that was a Rickon, Kenny Williams front office at the time

when he came up. And I remember as a rookie, I thought Tony Lewis never really gave him a fair shot. He didn't like rookies. He didn't like rookies playing. It was a playoff team. So I figured in this stage of the game, after the playoffs were no longer a possibility,

that he would find a more everyday role for himself. But it's hard when nobody has a set position like that. Again, last year was the only year where he played, where he had a positive war. Which is why, in hindsight, maybe that was the best time to find a deal. But also,

I don't know that... You guys are funny. Eloy is the player to be named later. Very funny. Oh, no. Very funny. I just... My whole thing with this is

wait and see, really, because I don't know. My honest answers, I do not know. Well, I don't... I think that's kind of their point, too. I mean, we don't even know if they're getting cash or a player to be named later back. That's still being discussed.

So either way, good for Lenin Sosa to find a change of scenery and on a team that, as we've mentioned, spent a ton of money in the offseason to be able to have the opportunities. They wanted to try to make the difference up between winning and losing Game 7 of the World Series and the Jays. So it's a great opportunity for him, at least, to add some depth to their roster. For both him and Eloy at this point in time, they can make some hay on a Blue Jays team that has much higher expectations of how their season's going to go compared to the White Sox. There it is. But at the same time, yeah, at this point, that's what you're asking. It's kind of like with the Luis Robert deal, you know, what's the timing and what's the return based on what could have been the timing and the return on a deal?

That's where I sit with it. And so now we wait to see what the White Sox do on a Tuesday when they're going to have Noah Schultz apparently on the mound as a starter. Can they get some offense? We just know that Lene Sosa will not be providing said offense. Correct. And at least now that that gives another infield spot in the organization that maybe might be upwardly mobile. 7.0.8 just says getting anything for Sosa is a bonus. Also fair.

But I think his stock ended up being higher last year. This is Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 1043 The Score. And coming up next, if you haven't gotten the chance to check out Herb Howard's sit-down interview with Ryan Poles and Ben Johnson from the Biggs Media. He did that at the owner's meetings. It is worth your time. And Ryan Poles addressed the offensive and defensive line concerns ahead of the draft with Herb Howard. We will examine what he had to say next.