Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Full Show — February 2, 2026

Episode Date: February 2, 2026

Marshall Harris and Mark Grote reacted to Bears offensive coordinator Declan Doyle leaving Chicago for the same position with the Baltimore Ravens. They also pondered if the Bulls could trade for Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo.

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You know what's happening here on February 2nd? Us. We're keeping a warm. Yeah, we're excited about our FM debut on 1043 The Score. And soon you will be able to hear Dan on a different frequency. I mean, at FM, I would have sounded a lot better at FF. I don't think you guys can handle it, but I'll still be on once a week. You now get to hear Danny on lower whacker while you're driving every week.

Which honestly is the only thing that's been missing. It's like I'm a little over exposed. So that's the only place people haven't been able to hear me recently. It's low, is low-whacker. Hey, are you guys going to an FM station beginning in early February? Yes, sir. That's us. You would sound great on that FM station, Kevin.

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High fidelity. High fidelity. High-fi. All the time, including in downtown Chicago. High-fi. Boom it away. That is exactly what is... You're going to bring your boombox? This is all just in time for our debut on FM 104.3 FM on Monday. That's right. That's right. That's what the world is waiting for. Flaylorah Rahini, Marshall Harris, Mark Grody.

Midday's 10 a.m. on Chicago Sports Radio 1043, the score. Yeah, it's like we just had another growth spurt. We had a late life, or I'd say, considering the age of the score, kind of a midlife growth spurt. Midlife growth spurt.

Midlife growth spurt. Much better than a midlife crisis. That's true. We're just getting bigger. Bigger and better. We're 104.3, the score, darn it. We are. We're still on 670, too. for people who are listening on 670 and have no idea what we're talking about, today the score, 670 the score, launched its sister, 1043, the score.

So some of you right now are driving through downtown and listening to Rahimi Harrison Grody on 104.3 FM, the score. And we are jamming. We are ready to do this. Yeah, we are. I'm happy to usher this in with you, Mr. Grody, and I feel like this is a pivotal time and moment in our relationship. Really? Because we're crossing over, going from AM to FM.

We're not jumping the broom or anything, but we're doing big things. Things did just get complicated. You're right. It's a little more intimate. Yeah, it was very surface level with you and I for a while. And now that we're FM, I don't really know. There's a manual that we're required to read about FM behavior. So I think that that will send off into the relationship that you and I are working on.

This has all been led up to really by time spent together, those long walks together. They've paid off, Mark. And now we're going from AM to FM. We're on all the radio bands. We are. And so much, by the way. So you may have heard in transition, we've got a great guest list today. Our sports friends are coming through for us.

Col Commet, who's very busy right now? is going to join us in about 20 minutes from right now, 1025. Cole Commet will come on to talk Bears to talk FM. He grew up here. He grew up listening to the score. He knows what it is. His parents know the score, his uncles. The whole Commet crew, man, they got to be thinking that this is a big deal today. Ryan Debster, one of our friends here at the score said, yeah, why not?

I'll come in studio and hang out with you guys. So he'll be in here at one. Ian Hap, as I said, is going to join us. And he was like, yeah, I'm working out, but you know what? I will leave my workouts for you guys. So we'll talk to him because, my goodness, Alex Bregman and the new Cubs editions. Anthony Herron, like I said, will join us at 11. We get big ants.

We are lucky to have him for two segments like we often do during the football season up until the Super Bowl. And by the way, just an update here in the studios. I mean, you should go back and listen when you get an opportunity like after the show, after the score day is over and just listen to the launch of 104-3, The Score with Mully and Haw. They did a great job. The whole marketing team did a great promotion team did a great job. Like I've been literally watching them work. I have done some of the work with them, Ashley Fields at her crew, Mitch Rosen and Ryan Porth

and all the people that put all the work into this. And then Mully and Hall pulling it off perfectly today. There is confetti all over the studio right now. If you are watching on Twitch, which we invite you to do, it is inside the studio. It is outside of the studio. And after Mully and Hall left, just to show you how quickly the party does end and that we have to move on with our lives at some point in time, there is an R2D2 looking vacuum right outside of the studios right now as they are preparing to clean the mess that is the 1043-the-score studios. It is R2D2 looking.

I was like, are they sure they can get all that confetti in that vacuum cleaner? And I guess they will. You like the new signage, don't you? Yeah, I do. I do. I like it all. Is that big enough? Is that thought big enough for you?

Do you remember where you are? Yeah, no, I just, I wanted to also thank Circa at Las Vegas and the partnership and what they have meant to the score through the years as well. Cheers to many trips out there in the very near future as well. So this has been lovely. It is lovely. And, you know, appropriate enough, we do have big news to talk about on day one of FM. Because just when you thought the Bears were going to get through this without being too hurt to taking away from,

we got news after we got off the air on Friday. Dick and Doyle named the offensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens. He will call plays with the Ravens. He did not call plays with the Bears. And one of the first things that I was thinking is how did, of the three, bears positions of authority that have left the bear so far. Eric Beendomy blasts off to be the OC in Kansas City. We know that Ian Cunningham will be the general manager in Atlanta, as we learned that last week. But Declan Doyle, at the age of 30, of the three, has the most distinct and most

defined job of the three in terms of the authority that he has, simply because you know exactly what Declan Doyle will be doing for the Baltimore. His job is to revive, to or even say, keep Lamar Jackson on the right path and getting back to being considered as an MVP, which would probably be a possibility considering the talent of Lamar Jackson. But it's pretty amazing to me because the other two jobs, the gentleman that left Eric the enemy, he's the offensive coordinator in Kansas City. Of course, that's a nice promotion in title, more money, more authority, everything that comes with it, but he's not calling plays in Kansas City.

And I know that Andy Reed from time to time is want to hand off the play calling, but it's like a special occasions thing. And then Ian Cunningham, it's pretty undefined what his exact power and personnel power is under Matt Ryan. So somehow, some way, Declan Doyle, the 29-year-old, who's never called plays so far,

in my eyes, has the best job of the Bears to have left the team. so far this year. It certainly feels like Declan Doyle is on this trajectory that is downright astronomical, right? Because he spends one year as the offensive coordinator in Chicago. Now he takes a similar job in title in Baltimore under Jesse Mentor. And you understand now that he's calling plays, well, anything can happen if they have a great season this year. He could be a head coach as soon as next offseason if we're keeping it a buck. If Jesse Mentor's defense isn't good,

with Baltimore because that's his specialty, he could take over that job. Wow, I didn't even think about it quite in that manner. Who are you, Declan Doyle? Well, the thing is the Ravens aren't in a rebuild. They have a current multiple-time MVP on their roster. They have a future Hall of Fame running back on their roster in Derek Henry. So between Derek Henry and Lamar Jackson, they've got to get to cooking. And it will be interesting to see that Ravens' defense that was affected so much by injuries early,

last season, and the Bears got the brunt of the return of a lot of those players when you look at what happened when the Bears, when they went to Baltimore and lost to a backup quarterback in Snoop Huntley. Snoop. I think he's got the best path forward to do even bigger and better things compared to the other two guys you're talking about, which is GM Ian Cunningham. I mean, if the Falcons are honest, they told us what the role is going to be. The NFL apparently just didn't believe that was enough to give the Bears two third-round

compensatory pitch. Did he be working under Matt Ryan? Well, working under Matt Ryan, but Matt Ryan told you he's going to be their own general manager. He's responsible for the players. And that, to me, it was like, well, that's more responsibility than he had in Chicago, where Ryan Poles is the one who's making the decisions ultimately about the players. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I'm trying to measure to how big a loss this is for the Bears.

And my first instinct is to say not that big of a deal because of the fact that that he didn't call plays. Not that big of a deal because I think most of us would say that the star of the coaching staff is the head coach, Ben Johnson, and it all trickles down from there the plan that he puts forth that he tells Declan Doyle what to do. We know that Declan Doyle in the position that he existed because of his age, because of the opportunity, because of getting the title. There was going to be some grunt work involved.

What I'm not positive of, and we'll ask Cole comment this question. I'm not positive exactly because we only got, as reporters, you only get a glimpse of the practice. And of course, we'd see Declan Doyle out there talking with and talking to working with players. But what specifically was he responsible for in those practices? What specifically was he responsible for during games? Who specifically might he have helped and made better? What may he have made better for Ben Johnson? Those are the things that we don't know.

So right off the top of my head, it's hard. for me to say, like, you're lost without Declan Doyle. And I don't think anybody's actually saying that because Ben Johnson, right? Well, I think this is why I am so adamant. Whenever we talk about NFL head coaching hires, and there were 10 new head coaches that got jobs this offseason. That is almost a third of the league, 10 of the 32 jobs. I am adamant. If you want to have a successful program, your best bet. I'm not saying it can't be done other ways. But your best bet is to hire an offensive-minded head coach over a defensive-minded head coach because guess what? If you're successful, you will lose assistance. I thought the

Bears had the best of all worlds in the fact that they got a defensive coordinator who had head coaching experience and didn't sound like a guy who's itching to get back into a head coaching role when you talk about what happened with the Bears and the way they made their hires. Dennis Allen being that guy who's the defensive coordinator, former head coach of the New Orleans Saints. And now you're seeing it come to fruition. You lose your offensive coordinator. That's, one, a sign of your success as an offense as being one of the top offenses in the NFL, top three rushing offense, and then a passing offense that was on the rise if you look at Caleb Williams' numbers on the back half of the season in year

one of Ben Johnson's offense. But more importantly, you don't have to worry about replacing the play caller every time you have a successful season. The play caller is baked in because he He's the head coach. Every team should lean into that more so than any other organizational flowchart. It can be done the other way. I just think it's a lot easier to do it the way the bears are now doing it, even compared to the last head coach they had in Matt Eber Flues. For all you young coaches out there, take a lesson from Declan Doyle, because one of the

places, maybe the only place where he could get his message out there and sort of interview for the league was during his sessions with us. with the media as once a week we get to speak to all the coordinators and of the three he shined above all of them all of them are good coordinator for the bears was a winning team the reason he shined is because he would give the best answers he was not afraid to take specific questions and give specific answers without you know hurting the team or hurting feelings but he was the most direct he was sounded like sounded like a guy who knew what he was talking about. So I think that that helped him along, and I guess selfishly, I put that message out there too, because we want transparency. We want guys to be honest. We don't want guys to stand up there, like Dennis Allen occasionally would, or actually often, and just not interested in talking about what happened in the last game. I mean, everything has to be game, and maybe Dennis Allen has earned some of that, but good for Declan Doyle to have

gotten the gig. Now the question, Marshall Harris, here on Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 104.3, the score. I'm doing well. We owe money, by the way, if we don't say that right. There are some good in-house candidates for the Chicago Bears. Antoine Randall L. would be one of those in-house candidates to be named offensive coordinator after the work that he has done with the receivers and the work that he does with the whole team, I know, from some of the rousing speeches that he has given. J.T. Barrett, the quarterbacks coach of the Bears, I think, is another good name to potentially promote from within.

Do you like that idea, or what are you thinking about for potential replacements? I like the idea of J.T. Barrett and Antoine and O'Rill getting first, being highly favored, like the preferred interviewees, if you will. Like, you know, you have preferred walk-ons when you talk about college athletes, and, you know, we don't have a scholarship for you but you're going to be a preferred walk on I think because they are already part of this organization which has done well

11 and 6 and Ben Johnson's first season of course Antoine Randallel your assistant head coach if he wants to be the offensive coordinator and if he's organized enough and clearly they've worked together for what five years now four years when he was with Detroit and now one year in Chicago I think Antoine Randallel

should be the leader in the clubhouse if you will first of all, he's already in the clubhouse. He's already part of your team. Players like him a lot too. I can tell you that from just watching reactions out there. And then J.T. Barrett, as the quarterbacks coach, obviously he worked with Caleb Williams very closely.

So that's got to be one of those things. I think it's a tough decision, honestly, that Ben Johnson is going to have to make. And after seeing what has happened, Grody, with the Rooney Rule, and the lack of offensive coordinators of color, and that's where you just heard my rant about why I think you should hire an offensive-minded head coach. I think this is a golden opportunity for either Randall L. or J.T. Barrett to step into that role and maybe give themselves a chance to be a head coach somewhere in the future. I would say of the two, and this is no slight to J.T. Barrett, he'll get his someday.

but I think it's Antoine Randall L, JT. Barrett, while really smart, very quiet. And not that it's a requirement to be extroverted to be a coach, but I just want to make sure he's ready to get through to an entire unit as opposed to being more specialized as he's the quarterback's coach. Did you talk to him at all? A few times. A few times. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I did. If you did, very quiet, very good, like, very smart.

I understand, like, I get it. I understand it. I just don't know if he can command the whole room at this point. I'm not sure. Well, sounds like we're going to find out who Ben Johnson thinks can command a room. Or maybe I'm just saying I think that Antoine Randallel could do it better. But when we return here on what I'm being told is 1043 the score, let's bring in Cole Commet.

What? No, I just love what I'm being told. No, you know what it is. It's FMD. We've been told for quite some time now. 1043 the score. There were secrets. There were times of promotion, and then there's today, and the whole party is going on here.

Yeah, that's right. We're FM. We're 104-3, the score. And Cole Commet of the Bears. I can't wait to hear his thoughts on the FM switch. Oh, yeah, he's going to love it. I think he's going to be excited about it. And we'll ask him about Declan Doyle and the effect of him leaving what that will have on the Bears.

Cole Comette of the Bears is next on Rahimi Harrison Grotie on the score. At number 43 overall, they're going tight end. Our first tight end off the board, and it's from Notre Dame, Cole Commet. Cole Commet, in my opinion, is the best tight end in this draft. He's the most complete tight end. Williams rolling, throwing, open, making the grab touchdown. Cole Commet into the end zone. This time they'll fake it.

I don't talk to her on Packer Week, so we'll find out after the game. Don't talk to her? No, no, I'm kidding. I'll hear you. Commet in motion. Williams, drifting, sprinting for space. With Rahimi-Haris and Grotty, 104 3 the score. Oh man, it sounded so good.

It is Rahimi Harris and Grotie here on Indeed. Our FM debut day, 1043, The Score. Great thanks to our promotion staff who during the break spent their time sweeping and vacuuming confetti. Kyle, Grayson. My friend Riley Goals out there. Shout out to her dad, too. Apparently he's a

P1. Steve. Steve Goals. Thanks for listening. Would he be listening on FM or, oh, yeah, he's hip. I like the people already converted over. Yes, you could still catch us on the other, the AM, but on FM, we're trying to get the migration started, right? That's right, that's right. And that's why we're having big-time people on like our next guest,

joining us now on the Circa Resort and Casino Hotline. He is the Bears Tide end, Cole Kamet, Circa, Las Vegas.com. 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, to be honest. What did you have going on today, Cole? Now I got to know. I had absolutely nothing going on, which is why I'm honest, yes. You got to play us like that, man.

Well, see, now, Cole, because you've complained a lot through the years about not being able to hear the score on the 670 AM 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 Bears hot takes you want. Well, that's perfect. I'll make sure I blast that in the locker room. I'm sure guys will love that. See, why are you trying to get us killed out here, Cole?

Because, you know, we wouldn't get killed right now, but in years past, there may have been some moments where maybe the locker room doesn't like everything coming through our airwaves. Well, as a matter of fact, wait a minute. Cole, you had said that you're not even in charge of them. Who was in charge of the music in the tight ends room or in the offensive side of the of the locker room? In the in the tight end room specifically, it's Stephen Carlson who runs the tunes and he does a pretty good job. Except for, as Grady, I told you last time, except for when he likes to play the weekend. I'm just not a huge fan of that. But everything else I'm good with in the main locker room, Bristker takes that over.

And he's done a good job the past few seasons. I'll say that. So not a weekend guy. Did you watch the Grammys last night? Now I'm curious, since apparently you don't have much going on. I'm going to be honest. So I watched a few hours of,

no, not even a few hours. I watched a little bit of the Grammys. And I passed out early last night. The day before I had a long golf outing out in Orlando with some friends and stayed up a little late. So I decided to get some sleep last night. Well, good for you. We did Marislein.

We were just discussing that we basically did that all weekend, get some sleep. And there's no shame in that. There is no shame in it for, obviously for football players as the adrenaline goes down a little bit after an amazing season. And Cole, you said it, man. I think a lot of players said it. The coaches said it, but I thought you uttered it maybe the best in the locker room postgame after the loss to the Rams.

You know, our theme was, well, hey, it's great, though, because you guys were good and everybody's, you know, you guys could carry this on. And of course you can, but no two seasons are ever the same. And it's happening. Eric B. Enemy is gone. Ian Cunningham is gone and good for them. And that brings us to the latest. Declan Doyle taking the job with Baltimore. What do you think of that?

And what does that loss mean for you guys? Yeah, well, we're super happy for Declan and really anybody this time of year that's able to go out and take advantage of the situation they were in the year prior. And, you know, that's kind of happening with coaching right now and with players that'll come up here soon with three agency and teams kind of getting their roster set. and somewhat ready to go for the upcoming season. You know, it is kind of like a puzzle piece. And, you know, with us being in a salary cap league,

there's pieces of the puzzle that fit well into the next season and pieces of the puzzles that don't. So, you know, I'm sure Ryan and Ben will are going to be all over that this time of year, figuring that out and all those things. But, you know, yeah, it's obviously a big loss for us. Luzon Declan, E.B., two great coaches and guys that provide a lot of value to the offense side of the ball this year. And, you know, I know even though Declan doesn't call the place for us, you know, the amount of work that he did on the offensive side of the football was immense.

And you could see that in day-to-day and practices. And I'm sure it took a lot off of Ben throughout the week for his duties as a head coach. Cole, if you could just humorous and we'll kind of walk us through that because I know at the beginning of the season, Ben Johnson explained how from an organizational role, that was going to be so important, Declan's role, even though, as you said, he doesn't call plays. but so that Ben Johnson could do, you know, head coaching duties because he wasn't an offensive coordinator anymore, but he still remained the play caller. What was Declan Doyle's role as you got through the season? What would you say his day-to-day was like?

Yeah, well, I mean, that would almost be hard for me to even say just because I'm not there in those meetings once we leave the building. But, you know, you can tell with things in terms of getting the scout team correct, getting all those cards ready, dialed up, ready to go, whether it's scripting the practice. I'm sure Declan had a huge say as to what play. we're going to have up and what looks we were going to get throughout the week of practice. And then, you know, on Fridays and Saturdays, when we'd go over our film from Friday's

on Saturday morning, you know, Declan's the guy going over that tape with the whole skill group and then kind of leading us in the walkthrough on Saturday before our main mini walkthrough as before we get to the hotel. So, yeah, Declan was very hands-on with all of us. And that is a big role. And I know I understand and I someone understand what people on the outside. And they say, oh, if you're not calling plays, like really, what are you doing? These guys do a lot of stuff in terms of prepping for the game plan

and getting us ready to go for practice throughout the week that really shows up big time up on Sunday. And then, I mean, another thing Declan was great at is, you know, I'm sure Ben is the head coach, there's a lot of things got to handle on halftime. Declan's the one addressing the offense at halftime, kind of going over the openers. They're going to be coming up in the second half and telling us what we need to do, what they're seeing and how we can make adjustments. So, yeah, Declan was definitely a very valuable piece to us offensively. That's great stuff, man.

I mean, that does add a little bit of extra texture. And you're right. It's always tough when you can't say that you're calling the play as we talk to Chicago Bears tight end. Cole Komet here on 104-3, the score. Rahimi Harris and Grody. And Cole, I mean, like we talk about changes for the teams. Every roster is going to be different going forward.

Do you get nervous thinking about that that anybody can be exposed to potential trade? Like DJ Moore, his name pops up sometimes. Your name from time to time pops up sometimes. Anybody who has value to make other parts better, how much of that do you watch and how much of that do you think is real heading into the next season? Well, it's definitely very real. I know it's real because I've seen it happen. before.

I mean, that's just the nature of the business in this league. So, I mean, maybe, you know, you say nervous or scared. I would say, like, my first two years in the league, you're like, it kind of catches you off guard of just how ruthless this business can be. But I think at this point in my stage of my career, you're kind of accepting of it and understanding that this is just part of the deal. And, you know, especially like a guy like myself or, you know, you're talking about DJ or other guys who have played a little bit and you're on a second deal.

you know, unfortunately, as you age, you get more expensive and you may not fit in that piece of the puzzle that I was talking about. And that's just the nature of the business, you know. So however it works out, it works out. You know, for me personally, I felt like I did a lot of good things this year in the role that I was in and had a lot of fun playing with this team. And, you know, like I said, after the game against the Rams, you know, it is going to be different next year despite who's here, but I think going forward, you know, this is an organization that you want to be part of, and I'm sure they're going to have no problem bringing in the guys they want to bring in for agents-wise and selling them on a Super Bowl run this upcoming year.

I'm curious, Cole. Ben Johnson talked about guys like Caleb, he mentioned by name, but getting away from football after the grind of a season ends. Is that something that he talked to you and the rest of your teammates about as well? And what have you done? Do you get away from it or do you still watch football every Sunday? How do you handle football after getting knocked out of the playoffs? Yeah, it is a long season. I mean, really, you start, for us, we started at the beginning of April and you go all the way till mid-January.

And it's really nonstop. I know we had the buy week in like week four. And so that kind of, you know, really prolonged the season mentally a little bit there. But I like to get away from it. You know, Ben did address us after the game and telling everybody, you know, use this time to get away, reconnect. with your families and reconnect with your loved ones. And, you know, that's what you got to do. You make a commitment from, you know, from start of April all the way through January. And

football comes first. There's a lot of things that come up and there's weddings that are missed. There's family events that are missed. And you just can't be at because the priority is football during that time. And that's the commitment that we make to one another. And it's a good point that Ben had, I think, that for us to, kind of have this time to reconnect with our families and get back to to doing some things outside of football. So, you know, for myself, yeah, I take off, I'll take off really training, hard training up until March. I watch the games. I'm a fan. You know, I was watching the AFCNSC championship games. Those are good games to watch. And obviously, I'll watch Super Bowl coming up here

this week. So, you know, as much football as we play, it's still hard to get away from. It is a great sport to watch. Well, I was talking about this on the score the other day, way back when we were just 670 and we didn't have an FM signal back in the day. This is the first year in a while, Cole, as it pertains to you guys, to the Bears, that while I was watching those title games, I wasn't like longing for, boy, I wish the Bears could do that. I wish they had that player. Of course, there's certain individuals, of course you say that about, but it was the first time where I was like, I am at peace with what the Bears did this past season. Are you at peace with what you guys did this past season in terms of what you accomplished or no?

I think now that being a few weeks removed from it, I can definitely appreciate what we did this year. Obviously, it was not the goal that we had set out coming in in April. And I know the expectations on the outside weren't what we did this year. And I think that's why everyone was so appreciative as to what happened. But at the end of the day, us in the locker room, we expected to go win the Super Bowl this year, and that didn't happen. And so it's hard at first to look at the season as a success

when you don't achieve your ultimate goal. But, you know, as I've done some travel here the past few weeks since the season's been done, it's been really often to interact with Bears fans in the airport or wherever I'm traveling to. And, I mean, really, they just come up to you and say, thank you. And you really realize the impact that,

we had on the city this year. You really felt it come to life, especially on the back half of that season as we kind of made a run and pushed towards the playoffs. And it just really shows you how meaningful the Bears are here in Chicago. At the end of the day, and I grew up a huge Cubs fan and, you know, obviously the Bulls in the 90s, but like at the end of day, this is a Bears town. This is a football town. And you can feel that, you know, as we were winning and going down the stretch there. So, no, I definitely look back on the season. And I'm really, appreciative of it, you know, kind of understanding that we didn't achieve our ultimate goal, but still have a lot of appreciation and respect for the guys in the locker room as to what we were

able to get done this year. I know you didn't reach that ultimate goal, but you have been watching football. Do you have a pick for the Super Bowl? Do you have a team that you think's going to win this thing? Yeah, I'll give you a pick. I think in Seattle. And, you know, I love what New England's done. And obviously, they got a great operation going on over there. I think they play great defense. and, you know, their quarterback has been outstanding the whole season. But, you know, I just watch Seattle on tape, and they're long, they're fast, they're physical, their quarterback's playing really well. And I just think that their depth is probably going to take over for the game on Sunday.

You know, it might be close in that first half, but I think Seattle ends up taking it pretty good. And it's way too soon for the Patriots to be winning Super Bowls again, man. Yeah, right, right. That's probably, he's, you notice how he's already watching tape, though. He's getting ready for next season. Road game at Seattle. I got you, Cole. I picked that up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cole, seriously, man, thank you so much for popping on. I know that you guys cherish your

off-seasons and your alone time and your private time and your workout time. So thank you, man. It really means a lot to us here at 104-3 FM, the score. Thanks so much, Cole. Yep, thanks, guys. Appreciate you. Yep, that is the one and only Cole Commette. I caught that, too. The guy's watching tape. Oh, my goodness. Fedjohn said, get away from

football. It's like, all right, as soon as I watch this AFC and NFC championship game and then I'm going to watch some tape, break it down. You want to talk about this Bulls Miami Heat series that went down? It was a whole series. And it got to like game three

winner take all. Let me tell you something. The Bulls took a beating. A mollywaping. They were down by 54 at one point last night. We had one of those games last night, right? You buried the lead, of course, though.

They made a trade. And they made a trade. Is it a smart? Is it a smart trade, actually? Like, is this the Marshall Harris type of trade? I have a word to describe it. I have a word to describe it, which while I will tell you on the other side. Dario Sharich is coming through, everybody.

So we will talk about that trade and the bulls and the heat and everything bulls coming up next. On Rahimi Harrison Grody on the score. Rahimi Harrison Grody, Midday's Tyndall 2 on Chicago Sports Radio 1043, the score. And we're down to the final. 20 seconds. Jacuchot Jonas will dribble the 0 of the 8 second line. This game, thankfully, is over. As the Miami Heat take care of business on their home floor, they win the season series, 3-1, and the final score here in South Florida, Miami-134, and the Bulls 91. It was a beaten. Welcome back to Rahimi Harrison Grotie on the score.

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Went through the car wash. No static. Didn't miss a word. That's another place where you used to lose the store. score. Yes, those pesky car washes are no longer an issue. From the 815, great interview with my favorite player, Cole Commett. Another one. Cole Comette was a great speaker. You know why? All of this? Because FM. That is why. And to the, and I'll even read the 708. How is it possible for you guys to have interviewed, at least that's how you should have phrased it, Cole Commet, and you didn't ask him about

his fourth down TD catch in the last playoff game. He's been asked about it and asked about it and asked about it and asked about it and asked about it. He wants to move on. We want to move on. We did move on. I'm comfortable with it. Are you, Marshall? We thought there were more current things to ask him about. Absolutely. No regrets whatsoever. Cole Komet was fantastic. The Bulls did make some news too,

beyond the fact that they were down by 54 at one point last night and lost to the heat and faced the heat three straight times, something that hadn't happened in the end. NBA since 1972, quite a thing. And we could kind of hit on some of the games if we want. But the news being the three-team NBA trade that went down that did involve the Bulls. First, the Cleveland Cavaliers traded DeAndre Hunter to the Sacramento Kings for Dennis Schrooter and Keon Ellis.

The deal includes the Bulls acquiring the Kings for Dario Sarshich. Two second round picks as well. The Bulls also needed to waive somebody to make room on the roster. That would be Javon Carter. He was waived by the Bulls. And by the way, those Bulls second round picks, 27 second round pick from Cleveland, 29 second round pick from Sacramento. Marshall Harris, I can't wait to hear your reaction on this Bulls trade.

So when this news came across, you got to understand. Javon Carter had just led the bench scoring in a Bulls win over the heat in which he dropped three-threes, had 11 points and I was like, okay, this is a nice game from the Bulls reserves because there was no Josh Giddy, there was no Kobe White, there was no Nikola Vutrovich, still no Jalen Smith. I was like, this is a great game. And then to go from that to moments later, I mean, I don't even think they were done with the post game press conference and Javon Carter's been waived. And that's Chicago's own Javon Carter, Proviso East star Javon Carter. I was like, oh, that's tough for him. But I know he was a all the way through, he had been out of the rotation instead of...

And he got to play here, too. He did get to play for his hometown team. He did. And he got paid. Yes. He got paid. And somebody will probably pick him up and it'll be on a playoff team, I'm guessing, before the end of this season. Who knows, he may circle back round of the Bulls someday, too.

Yeah. So that, and then I was like, but let me look at this trade real quick. I was like, okay, this is actually a very shrewd and smart trade from Arturich-Karnas-sovis. And I was like, I hope this isn't the extent of what. we're doing for trade season, being the Bulls. But as far as a first appetizer, starter, you know, you get to the table and you're like, oh, I want some food and then you're like, let's order some apps from the table. I love this as an appetizer for the Bulls because they get draft capital, which is something

they need more of. You can never have enough future draft picks. And as you mentioned, this is like spaced out 2027 second round pick from the Cavs, 2029 second round pick from the Kings. And you didn't give up anything except for the last. the two-way deal of Emmanuel Miller sending that to the cast. So I like this deal for the Bulls.

Now they need to do what I've been asking for, which is move out anything that's not nailed down to the floor. All right. Dario Sarish, for people who are not familiar with him or his game, 31-year-old 6-10 power forward slash center from Croatia, who was the 12th overall

pick once upon a time ago in 2014, played in five games for Sacramento this year. seasons early in his career with Philly, but has averaged just over 32 games a year over the last five years of his career. So he's not been really available. What do you think of this player? What's he going to do for the Bulls?

I was in Philly when he was drafted. Yeah? The whole thing, he was a draft and stash, and the whole thing was, is Darry. By the way, really quickly, I want to correct, I think I said nine seasons. Nine season total. Yeah, yes, right. But nice seasons is what I meant to say. Okay, so he played two and a half seasons.

with the Sixers when he finally did come over from Europe. And here's what he is. He is a classic stretch four of the European variety. And offensively, very smart player is going to be able to do, think of like what Vouch does offensively. You know, he can facilitate. He can make all the fundamental plays. He can shoot a little bit, a lifetime 360 shooter from three.

The defense is lacking. The defense is lacking. He is a defensive liability. I knew we were going to get to something at some point in time. There's a reason he's only played five games for a team that's challenging for worst record in the NBA in the Sacramento Kings. Precisely. Can't crack the rotation. No doubt.

But this is more of a salary thing, right? Because he's on an expiring deal as well. They keep him and then maybe he plays a little bit, whatever. But at the end of the year, that's just added to the cap. Like the amount of space that the bulls are going to have to operate under. But again, I like this move, but they need to be thinking about getting rid of Vooch. they need to be thinking about getting rid of Kobe White and others. This hour is sponsored by Almost Free Teeth.com, affordable implants,

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on 104-3 The Score. Hey, it's Rahimi Harrison Grody. Hey. On 104-3 The Score. And we have in the house, in the studio for the next hour, I think he's here for the full hour. He's Anthony Herron. He joins us the Circa Resort and Casino Hotline in studio, Circa-Las Vegas.com. What up, big ants?

What up, Grotes? Your hair's looking good. Marshall's looking like a strapping young lad. We got all the boss man's got the suit and tie going right now, man. FM. We're on the FM dial. Mitch gets to just take deep breaths now because these guys, Mitch and Ryan and Ashley. Kevin Cassidy.

Kevin Cassidy. They've been running around like crazy people. Oh, we got baked goods. Mitch is now passing out donuts. Are you going to shuffle, Mitch? Is it time for the Mitch? Now that the work is done, time to shuffle.

I think you're short-changing Mitch's role here. He's looking at me like I'm a crazy person right now. You've been introduced to the Mitchie shuffle. Yeah, of course. You know what it is? Anytime at any public appearance with Mitch, I am looking out for the Mitch because I want to catch him in the act. And I have a couple of times, but it's always fun to watch.

Does that make us the shuffling crew? Is that what this is? We are the Mitch. Shuffling crew. Shuffle. No, I like that. That can work. What I did notice, though, was Mitch sat this tasty-looking.

pastry. That's fresh. That just came in the studio. That's hot off the lamination. I'm really eager to check it out, but yeah, he's got it on this laminated piece of paperwork. I have no idea whose germs are on this thing. It's Ryan Porth, but he just held the corners of it. He literally brought this in the break before. Right? We could spray out here.

Seems like a guy who's washed his hand, so I'm going to, I don't want to take such things for granted. He tucks his shirt in, so that that looks to be... That's usually a to be... ...that he probably does things like washes. He may even put on a little bit of sanitizers. to go along with it, possibly. I mean, this isn't going to stop me from eating it,

but if my wife happened to be tuning in right now, she would be very concerned. She calls me the host. I'm the guy who brings the germs home, and then they impact the rest of the household in a different way. Contamating the whole ecosystems. Yeah, but I'm definitely going to eat this thing.

I don't know if this is, oh, no, okay. I had one earlier. I was worried it was like a cream-filled kind of thing. It's a straight. It's a straight donut. I scraped, they judged me, because I scraped all the sprinkles off because I'm not a sprinkles Jimmy's guy.

I just, just give me the straight donut, y'all. I feel like you're still like this onion where layers are being peeled off of Marshall Harris. Well, he's letting it loose on FM is what it is. Yeah, FM's different, man. He's all around now. I feel like a different guy.

It's a great FM day, you know? That's what it is. You guys sound really good on FM. Like AM, it was like, eh. But when I switched it, because the whole time I was driving here, I was kind of flipping back and forth between FM and AM. You can hear the difference? AM, I mean, you're suitable.

FM, you got to sound really good. Well, to be very clear about it, too, because I did, I was talking to my central Illinois friends and even our Indiana friends. Are the Hall of Famers? Well, you know, that everybody could be a Hall of Famer. That's true. Not just anybody gets in. Only one Hall of Famer in my house and it ain't me. We know that. We know that that is your wife for sure. But some people like, say, oh, well, I'm not getting 104 here in Granger, Indiana. The way, here's the thing. When I was talking about 670, maybe I misrepresented, that That's where you get the distance on the AM dial. You get the clarity and the bigger sound, if you want, on the FM.

So it is the a.m. that we were bragging about, the distance to which you can hear the score. So that's the way the world works. But it is a grand day here at the score. You've been around here forever. And you know that we went from the score did. Started as 8.20 back on Belmont, became 1160 a.m. Quite the jump from 8.5. I don't know that they wanted that necessarily.

I think it made the radio dial heavier. It went all the way to 1160. That was like too heavy. So let's cut this again. But we did get to move into that building that we could see from our building. And that's the NBC Tower. That's where the score was for years and years and years. NBC.

Yeah, that's right. And then we're like, okay, we got back into the 670 era, which was here at Prudential. And now here we are, 104. The big just keeps on getting bigger. So I see cookies. I see what I assume are glasses of champagne or some sort of out there. I mean, I got to drive home later, so I probably won't.

But I mean, I just like the fact that it's there and available. It makes it look very classy as we've gone over to the FM dial. A number of boxes of all kinds of pastries and baked goods. All kinds of balloons. Like Danny Parkins would be really happy. There's balloons everywhere so we could act like there were some kind of QB1 party going on. There's a lot that's happening here at the station today, which is why I felt it need to come in person.

We appreciate you being here in person. Not because I just enjoy your presence. Well, yeah, clearly. Score history being made today. So I can be here in person, got my, you know, celebration shirt on, let's all celebrate, have a good time. Everybody on Twitch can check that out. Like I think I mentioned this last week.

Marshall's the only person I interact with consistently, who I think has a better collection of T-shirts than I do. But I really felt like the celebration T-shirt was one that really suited the day. That is absolutely appropriate for today and really kind of carries a thing. I like the color of the shirt as well, That could be like a black and white. It's got celebratory type tones to it with the orange and the yellow and the white. Yeah.

I want to ask you because I don't know that anybody's celebrating. I mean, I guess they are celebrating because the sign of a good NFL program, a good organization, is when people move on to bigger and better other places. We've now seen Ian Cummingham become a general manager in Atlanta. We've seen Eric B. Enamee go back to being the offensive coordinator, which is a promotion and title change for him back in Kansas City with Andy. Reed. And now, Declan Doyle, I thought they were going to get through unscathed because he turned down that job, calling plays for what I feel like has got to be a very dysfunctional organization

in Philadelphia based on how this went down. And then the next thing I know, he's being targeted and now is going to be the offensive coordinator for the Ravens with a multiple time MVP in Lamar Jackson. What's a little bit fascinating about it, too, is because Declan Doyle has had a really quick rise in the coaching ranks and then to pull his name out of that situation with the Eagles, one of the most consistent franchises in the

National Football League. We've seen various coaches come in, competing for Super Bowls, winning Super Bowls, various quarterbacks for years now leading the team to playoff runs and division titles. If you want to say who's winning more in the NFL

than any other franchise in football, you want to go towards the top of that list. You look at this century, the Philadelphia Eagles are towards the top of the list of winning its franchises in the sport, regardless of the folks operating at the coach and quarterback positions, the two most important spots to fill on the team. So for Declan Doyle to pull his name out of the Eagles search, but then be willing to go with the Baltimore Ravens also one of these franchises. That is remarkably consistent.

And there's been less turnover at quarterback, I would say, but still, with multiple quarterback since they won the Super Bowl right at the turn of the century, they've had a few different quarterbacks in, but they've still been able to win consistently, you know, in the midst of multiple head coaches. So yes, he got a job and got this opportunity with another consistent franchise, but as those discussions, those interviews take place for a young guy like that to essentially stiff arm the Eagles, kind of mush him in the face, like, no, I'm good. You know, you may want to offer me to get the job, you got to go out and find someone else, but then very quickly to about face and go with the Baltimore.

Ravens. That's where you would hope everyone's an adult in these situations where, oh, you didn't want us. That's fine. You're a professional. You made your choice. But there was no bridge there to be burned, but I do wonder a little bit just Eagles ownership, coaches and executives in place who say, oh, you think they're a better situation than us. And it is a little dicey when coaches do turn down some of these opportunities. You know what I like in it to, guys? It's like when you ask that girl out and she's like, oh, yeah, I think I'm just going to stay in on Friday. I don't, I just see I'm going to

stay in, you know, the weather's a little too cold or whatever. And you're like, all right, cool. And then you go somewhere and you see her there with the dude. That's harsh, man. Or you go somewhere else and see on social media that she actually was out that night. I thought with a dude. I thought you just wouldn't it. I thought you were just going to keep it at.

Well, I thought you were going to keep it there. That was bad enough to me. I'm not interested in hanging out with you tonight. I prefer my couch over you. But that's what he said, when he said, I'm withdrawing, when he said, I'm withdrawing my name, right? The thought was, oh, he wants to spend another year with Ben Johnson at the house. Oh, no. He's like, immediately, I mean, was it three days, maybe four?

I mean, definitely less than a week. And he was back out in them streets and found someone else to hang out with. Who are you, Declan Doyle? Who are you? What are you? Ultimately. I mean, good for him too, like this job specifically, because obviously he gets to work with a future Hall of Fame

already having been an MVP quarterback who ain't done by a long stretch, I don't think. You just call Lamar Jackson a future Hall of Famer? I think so. Okay. I'm pretty comfortable with that. Is that a bold statement? I had to think about it.

I was like, I did, it didn't, when he said it, I didn't say he's a surefire Hall of Fame, but now I'll think about it. I'll probably come up to this. The whole Bill Belichick thing, This is obviously a really sort of subjective conversation. But through my lens, being a two-time MVP solidifies his Hall of Fame status, even beyond if he led a team to two Super Bowls. Like, Eli Manning is not a short-fire Hall of Famer in my mind.

No. Because in the regular season, Eli Manning was never one of the top quarterbacks in the sport. I got Matt Linerd a few weeks ago started talking about Matthew Stafford as a. top five quarterback of all time. That was a preposterous statement to make. He has rarely, he has just entered the space of being consistently viewed as one of the top five quarterbacks in football, let alone an all-time top five great. He's always been productive.

Matt Stafford has rarely been viewed as one of the top five quarterbacks in the NFL at any one given time. So that statement, to me, I'm like, well, yeah, I think he's probably going to be a Hall of Famer. Top five all time is skipping several steps for Matthew Stafford. Your guy Stafford has played 17 years. He's been all pro one time and it was this year. That's why when you really think about it, that's why when you say the Lamar Jackson, I'm sorry, when Grotty said it,

I had to really like think about it, but you're probably right. Well, that's where to me, because to your point, Groves, he's been a two-time MVP. He's been viewed as the best quarterback and the best player in the league multiple times in his career. So that to me is where the Hall of Fame. status of a player is solidified even more so than being a part of the collective, because you guys know how much the collective, those 53 bodies and beyond that, the 90-some bodies and then coaches and personnel, it takes to actually have a team win at all to go to the Super Bowl and make that happen.

So the quarterback is the most important cog in that, but there's so much that goes into a Super Bowl championship that's different than just saying, oh, that was the best player in the entire sport. That individual season, you do that a couple of times. You are 100% right. Lamar Jackson's a Hall of Famer. Stafforda. Stafforda's only got two more pro-ball appearances than Shador Sanders.

Right. That's a great boy. That's a great boy. That's just amazing. That whole story in itself. I am a little worried about the mix there, though. Really? Okay, because that's what I was going to say.

The reason I like it, and I want to hear what you have to say, is because of Lamar Jackson, because of that offense and some of the talent on it, and because it's a good situation for him, because the head coach, Jesse Minter, is a defensive guy. He's not going to have that guy poking around. It's his show. For better or for worse, as Declan Doyle's show. Not only is he getting his first play calling,

Jesse Minter probably, again, as a defensive guy with the Chargers, he's probably going to say, it's yours, man. Make something out of it. Why don't you think it's a great fit? So when you think of the brief time, frankly, that Declan Doyle has been a coach in the National Football League. He's been greatly influenced by Sean Payton and Ben Johnson as the two offensive minds and the schematic minds that have presumably influenced what he is right now as a coach

and what he will become as a play caller being able to implement his own system. So the volume of verbiage and personnel groupings and the things that are on the plate of the quarterback are really expansive. It's really voluminous what both Sean Payton and Ben Johnson task their quarterbacks with. Now we've seen Sean Payton in this second go-around as a head coach in Denver. He's been able to tweak things to kind of help Bo Nicks along a little bit, to not have his egg scrambled so frequently with everything he's tasking him with. And Ben Johnson, that development of Caleb Williams. That development arc, it took some time throughout the season to get to that point

where Caleb was the true field general, where he was able to consume, to diagnose, and to display everything Ben Johnson wanted him to within the Bears' offense. So if that's where Declan Doyle is going to be with his offensive system as a play caller, it's a different circumstance now where he has Lamar Jackson, who has already won two MVPs, probably should have a third MVP, doing it his way, doing it in the way, yeah, multiple offensive play callers, but not within any offensive system that would rival what the quarterback is tasked with verbally and mentally post-snap within,

a Sean Payton offense or the Ben Johnson offense as we know it here. So my impression is either Lamar Jackson will need to sort of, I guess, continue to evolve as a quarterback at this point in his career, or Declan Doyle will have to. And he's a very smart young man and a really accomplished coach for someone who's been doing it for such a short period of time. So I would imagine you don't go into coaching Lamar Jackson thinking that I'm going to do exactly what was done before with quarterbacks who don't rival the skills of Lamar Jackson, but I don't see this exact Bears offense or that exact Broncos offense being

something Declan Doyle just brings to Lamar Jackson and says, here's the playbook, learn it. They're probably going to need to meet in the middle somewhere, but it's not this automatic, you know, square peg in a square hole situation. No, no, I agree with your assessment of it. And I would say that's a healthy thing because I think that's what works is you meet the quarterback that you're coaching. But we would have to assume he'll meet him there because we haven't. seeing him run that sort of system is my point. Does Lamar want to change? And maybe

maybe Declan Doyle was a godsend for Lamar because maybe he unlocked something that will extend to him beyond his athletic years. Yeah, that's my point though, is I think they need to meet each other. And I think they both will be willing to because there's a reason a head coach just got fired, right? There's a reason why you have not gotten as far as you want to go in your career in terms of making it to the Super Bowl for Lamar Jackson. So I'm interested to see that. The other thing I do like is the tight ends thing. Baltimore. has tight ends. They like to use tight ends. Declan Doyle, obviously very familiar with 12 and even 13 personnel. I like the fit for the evolution for both guys, the offensive coordinator, the play

caller in a first-time role, and also the quarterback who is trying to keep his career going in a certain level. Okay, good, because I thought I heard you say that you hated defensive head coaches when I was driving here, girl. So maybe I misunderstood. So it was good. He said that, right? Oh, okay. No, that's me. Point stands, once he does a good job, if that happens, he will be gone. You know both coaches in the Super Bowl are defensive coaches. I sure do. Okay.

And the guy who's not Andy Reid that has won more game since he entered the league that just got fired in Buffalo is the guy who is second in win since he entered the NFL. And he's never been to the Super Bowl. There's a lot of offensive coaches who's never been to the Super Bowl. And there's a reason Andy Reid fired him when he was his defensive coordinator, Sean McDermy. Remember, if it's bills, I'm going to tell you about it. If it's Eagles, I'm going to tell you about it. And Sean McDermy fits both those in the Venn diagram. But the point is he's won a bunch.

is my point. He's won a bunch. There's defensive coaches in this sport. Even John Harbaugh in this sport was not an offensive coach. I am with you, and that's why I said... Mike Tomlin was not an offensive coach. I'm as big a Tomlin as anyone. What I'm saying is in the modern NFL,

you have a better chance of sustained success if you've got that offensive guy because he's not leaving you. Your defensive guy, look at Philadelphia right now. How many offensive coordinators have been through in the last decade? And they keep winning. they do keep winning

I don't want to break time I want to yell at Marshall Can we handle more Anthony Heron? You know what's so funny Marshall? They win it next year I'll tell you that right now I used to The Eagles are suddenly going to stop winning

I used to leave a segment for Anthony Harron when I have him on as a guest just for him to tell us what we've gotten wrong while he's riding around listening to the score just text when you get something wrong

and I'm able to tune in yeah yeah he's like Oh, that guy shouldn't have his jersey retired. This guy's crazy, man. You've got to be kidding me. Marshall's nuts. I am nuts. It's fine.

It's not the topics he wants to tell us where we're wrong. Not even the stuff we want to talk about. Yeah, not necessarily. And it's beautiful. It is. Where Marshall was wrong. I've been wrong plenty, aunt. So if you want to bring us more of those after the break, we will do it.

We'll also dig into more on the Bears and their off season and Ian Cunningham and Eric Bienami and all the different moving parts for the Bears. More with Anthony Heron is next on Rahimi and Harris on 104-3 the score. Did I say my name? Oh, and Grody. Oh, could this vintage store be any cuter? Right? And the best part?

They accept Discover. Except Discover? In a little place like this? I don't think so, Jennifer. Oh, yeah, huh? Discover is accepted where I like to shop. Come on, baby. Get with the times.

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Breakfast, dinner, it's technically midnight, but I'm still hungry. Doesn't matter. There's just something unbeatable about a good steak hitting a hot pan, that immediate sizzle, the smell filling the kitchen, and then topping it with a fried egg where the yolk is deep yellow and just barely runny. Unreal. Pure protein heaven. That's also why I love having Omaha steaks on hand. The steaks are incredibly tender, super flavorful, and cook evenly, whether I'm searing them on the stove top or throwing them on the grill. It's that steakhouse quality bite at home. Omaha Stakes has everything from their fan favorite filet mignon. Yes, the USDA certified tender one to burgers, chicken, pork, seafood, and even fully cooked comfort meals like beef pot roast or meat

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Maybe you're catching us on 104.3 FM right now. the score. They thought they were going to get music, and then they were pleasantly surprised to get music and sports takes. You can't hear that music playing right now? That's music and sports takes. Can you sing J-Rul?

Which song? Hala. What are we looking for? Whatever. Where would I be without you? That one came to that. What would I be? Oh, my break, man.

Well, I don't want to go crazy. Because everything needs a leg. That's really what you want to write? You asked for it. Was that pleasing? Big Aunt, I needed that. Thank you. That was great. As long as that was pleasing to the listeners. I got exactly.

Grody likes it when things are pleasing. I am very pleased. I noticed he didn't try to talk over you when you were singing that because he hates that. No, I do, but I asked for it and you gave it to me. I like the way you sing. I just don't always like it when I'm the one talking on the microphone. That's all. There is a distinction to be made right there.

It shocks me how frequently it throws Speigs off. Because Speaks is accustomed to being on a stage with multiple instruments playing or around him and he's carrying the lyrics and he's working the crowd and there's all that other stuff sometimes when I sing next to Speegs while he's talking. But there's nobody singing in his ear while he's singing for tributosaurus though. Can you imagine that? Background vocals? Yeah, but there's that like directly in his ear.

It's a very, I don't know, man. It's a delicate balance. Yeah, it's a newer type of thing really is what I'm getting to. You guys are wild. By the way, a couple things. Three technique. It's something, it's a newer type of situation. Something for all of us on the text line here. Grody, I just heard the first emergency broadcast on the score FM station.

It sounded glorious. So crisp. Thank you from the 773. FM Marshall is Mars Hall. Is that what they're saying? That's it. That's what they're saying out there. And a texture for Big Ant, oh yeah, the dulcet tones of Aunt Harran.

I imagine, yeah, imagine you sound pretty good in FM too, man. I imagine you think you sound pretty good in FM too. I haven't been in FM since I was at. So I think this predated Ryan Porth being at the Nashville station that I used to do some appearances at when I was living down there. But they were an FM sports talk station in Nashville. So it's been a minute since I've been in FM. But yeah, I would imagine I sound all right in FM too. You, sir, I'm not going to disagree with that.

You're adjusting very well, but I'm actually, I'm very excited to just to stop you from yourself. I'm very excited to hear about a, I love quarterback comps. I love Caleb Williams comps. You have a Caleb Williams comp? Yeah, when you look at the Super Bowl coming up this Sunday, the quarterbacks on display, the career arc of Sam Donald was expected to be more like what we've seen from Drake May, to be the guy who steps into the league, shows signs as a rookie, and then second years in that MVP sort of conversation.

He has those types of physical tools. When you compare both guys are USC quarterback, Sam Donald and Caleb Williams, when you compare their highlights from college, the Sam Donald highlights are eerily similar to what Caleb Williams looked like for much of his run at USC in the Heisman Trophy season. Sam Donald, when I called his games with the Pac-12 network at USC, it called a bunch of his games in college. I described him as an improvisational wizard, where when the play would break down, and he didn't always have a great offensive line in front of him, so the play would frequently break down,

or Sam just liked holding the football. So the play would break down because he just wouldn't cut it loose. But then as he began to run around and improvise, sometimes even the ball would, like, dribble out of his hand, and he'd pick it up and keep running and scrambling to and fro Fran Tarkinson style. But then frequently, it would end up in these amazing plays that he would make during his college career.

The arm strength was there, and beyond the arm strength, the arm talent was showcased as well for a guy who had the arm strength. to hit every blade of grass on the field, but also he could layer his passes. He could turn the nose of the football over in a really rapid manner to get it beyond the linebacker in front of the secondary.

And that was why I thought the physical gifts that whole draft class that came out because when you think about it, like top to bottom where you throw Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, into that class that began with Baker Mayfield and Josh Rosen in that mix as well, a bunch of first round QBs. But Sam Donald was the one who was the most

total package with the skills that he brought to the table. Because his arm didn't have the horsepower of Josh Allen, but he was also super mobile and he did have a really strong arm. But he could pass with more nuance, more touch, more focus to how the football is being delivered, throwing receivers open. And he and Caleb are really evenly yoked in that manner. Caleb has always protected the football at a higher level than Sam Donald, though. So that's why Sam Donald wasn't number one, why he was number three.

a bunch of turnovers in college, and why his NFL career got off to a slow start, part of it being with the Jets, but then getting to the point where he could balance that playmaking ability with more of the mundane aspects of just being a precise and consistent quarterback snap in and snap out. And once he did get around Kyle Shanahan and some of these offensive are Kevin O'Connell. And now this situation he has right now that he's in with Clint Kubiak, he's been in offensive systems that take some of that. load off of him and he's just had an opportunity to evaluate more football because he was also a three and done guy who only started for two years in college and then came to the National Football League. So he's been in the league since 2018, but he's only 28 years old. So there's a lot of similarities between Sam Donald and Caleb Williams and Caleb is already on a much

faster track to his excellence than where we saw Sam Donald early in his career. And Donald is a guy who still, I don't believe, has reached his ceiling and has already led a team to an appearance in the Super Bowl. All I heard is you're taking the Seahawks in the Super Bowl. That's all I heard. Oh, yeah. Seattle all the way. Not only because of Sam Darn.

I think Drake May is going to play much better in the Super Bowl than he has, even though Seahawks are an incredible defense. But Drake May has a lot of those playmaking capabilities also. I just don't, I don't see him having four consecutive bad games, and they've got to find a way to run the football more effectively. Trayvon Henderson didn't get the rock in the AFC championship game. So in a similar fashion where Seattle's offense takes some of the load off Sam Darnold. New England's offense has got to find a way to do that as well and just allow Drake May to find some chunk plays.

So I think Drake May is going to play pretty well on that stage in the Super Bowl. Seahawks are just a better overall team. Yeah, no doubt. I agree with you. I have not made a pick as of yet. But we shall – I mean, I can not get a lot of the lean towards Seattle at this point. I mean, they just are the better team. I can't rule out the Patriots at this point.

But as for Caleb Williams making that count there, what is reasonable to expect him to improve upon this year that wasn't maybe perfect last year? It's the earlier starts for me. The earlier start to the regular season. You would hope there would be more of a jumping off point in just having this offensive system down, having four of his five starters returning on the old line. And so to get off to a faster start, early in the year, not just as a playmaker, because he made plenty of chunk plays early in the season last year, but we got into the month of December before we saw Caleb really executing

the snap-by-snap of quarterback play at a higher level and throwing more consistently with anticipation. Throwing catchable passes, that's the wildest thing about this past season with Caleb. The good weather games earlier in the year were when he's throwing these rockets that can barely be caught, even when they're accurate. You got to 30-and-40-mile-hour winds. you got to below zero temperatures. That's when we saw a version of Caleb

that took some revolutions per minute off the football that was able to throw it in a way that had more touch, more anticipation to it. So I'd love to see him start there, and I believe he will start there earlier in the season next year. And I actually had a buddy of mine who sent me one of the clips from Instagram

where you were asking me about Caleb's accuracy improving by the end of the season, Marshall. I said it's going to really be hard during the regular season for that to show up. I was really impressed because between that conversation, we had in early December in the end of the regular season, his accuracy honestly did improve a lot more

in that final month plus that I even thought it would. Now he's got an offseason to really get into the mechanics of playing quarterback within Ben Johnson's offense. It's not just about getting the playbook down rope memory style. He can combine knowing this offense with footwork and timing and that getting the information from his brain out through his right arm in a really sort of smooth manner as opposed to having to catch up to the play like he did for much of the season last year.

I did want to ask you, do you feel like we're in this post-Runy rule world when you look at the fact that there were 10 head coach jobs open and the results are in and it's not Rooney Rule favorable? I wonder if they're going to scrap it, if they're going to try to do something different, because the path to head coach, as we talked about, and you obviously believe in defensive head coaches can be a thing. Yes, they can be a thing. but do you feel like they're going to have to do something different to encourage these organizations to give minorities a chance?

I love what Maryland head coach, and he's from the DMV, but he was a former Alinae offensive coordinator, Mike Loxley. He back during like in 2020, when everybody was just kind of out of work and sitting around and trying to figure out what to do next basically, Mike Loxley started a minority coaches coalition to try and attack the issue that you're raising here where there's not enough black coaches who are getting opportunities as offensive play callers,

as OCs and offensive play callers as quarterback coaches, because that has more frequently become the path to becoming a head coach in modern football. So the volume of those opportunities, it doesn't feel like are there as much. And so to attack that to make sure that the coffers are as full as they can be, but Mike Oxley was a DB, but he's become thought of as this offensive wizard in college football. Kevin Sumlin, a guy who's on his Maryland staff, was similar in that way, played defense, but became this offensive-minded guy as a college head coach. But for black coaches, there's not as many quarterback coaches, offensive coordinators, offensive play callers, even when they are OCs. And that tends to be where teams want to pluck those opportunities from.

And in the end, just like we're talking about Declan Doyle, he's 29 years old or maybe just became 30 or whatever. And so he's at a space in his career where he was comfortable, passing up on an opportunity from the Eagles. And then another one just came right away. For black coaches, there still is. For a lot of them that to communicate with, still that hesitation to, if I don't take this, is another one going to come? How many of these bites at the apple am I truly going to get? Because you want those interviews, that opportunity to be there to impress folks

and just have that opportunity to at least be in the system for them, to be within if some old owner's got a little black book. All right, let me be in that guy's black book so he knows I'm an option for him. but if there's not the frequency of candidates available, then that's where you've got to have more fertile ground where coaches are being developed into offensive play callers because that's where a lot of the jobs are going. You always make sense somehow, even though you rip Marshall.

I disagree with him on the point I made, and it's okay he has his opinion. I have my, we'll see how it plays out. Defensive coaches versus offensive coaches. You can be a defensive coach. I'm just saying, as he just pointed out, the path to a head coaching job is much easier through the offensive cordon lane.

So if you have an offensive mind of head coach, you don't have to worry about turning over your head coach every year if you are a winning organization, quote-unquote, like the Philadelphia Eagles, who I do not think are going to be headed to anyone's Super Bowl next year. I will believe the Eagles are going to be bad when I see it. It's certainly possible. I don't think they're going to be bad.

If they're 9 and 8, Syriani's gone, right? And they don't make the playoffs or they don't advance in the playoffs. And he should because he will have enough talent on the field that you could say most Sundays, they've got more talent than the other team. Big Aunt, you're awesome. You're welcome to hang out with us for halftown. We're just going to be talking about the Grammys, man.

If you want to, I know you're a music guy. You know what? Yes. If you don't want to. Our feelings won't be hurt, but we'd love to have you hang out with us. Maybe I'll leave like halfway through the segment. That's fine. Whatever. You do what we want to do.

No. You're not, Brody. Not on FM Day. Not on FM Day. You're right. It is FM Day. There was a, there was one of those Grammy moments last night and some good moments, too. I always love.

I love the. Grammys. I love the Grammy moment and there was a good moment. There was good moments. You know what I'm saying? There's been Grammy moments through the years. We know all about them. We'll talk about it next on Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 104.3, the score. Welcome back into Rahimi Harrison Grotie. We started the show. Just acting and being all FM because it's our FM debut here at the score. That's right. We are 1043. The score. You have options. You could listen to us on 104.3 FM. or 6.70 a.m. if you'd like. We've been partying here in the studios. Things have cleaned up. Order has been restored, but a party has been going down here in the potential towers. Great talk with Cole Comette. Bears tight end. That was fun.

We also talked NFL and Bears with the guy who remains in the studio, Anthony Heron. And we've consumed all kinds of germ-riddled pastries as well, which has been a lot of fun. It was tasty. And you just took down like six shots of champagne. I saw you out there. Oh, yeah, I got to go get some more of that. Now, as far as I know, the only person... I think Rich White is going to leave me in it.

I see him out there in the hallway right now. I think, I would say ironically, I suppose, but there is a Vegas-Haw side. David, David Hall is the only one that I saw actually drinking some of the champagne out there. Morning drinker. I knew we had... It's 5 o'clock somewhere, first of all. He put it a whole day already. I knew he had a four-and-a-half-hour show to do, so I was going to just slow-roll it.

It's a nice touch that it's there. It's good to have it available. It classes the set up out there in the hallway. Just a little. Just a little. It's halftime. Yes, sir. The Grammys were last night.

It is one of my favorite productions of the year every year, and I mean that. I've devoured it because one thing, one issue I had last night watching it that I didn't necessarily have in past years, or at least I tolerated the brakes, are just too long, too long in this world in which we live. Got to make that money. I understand. God, God. I'm going to go back on this. I'm this stage.

Shut up. Sucks your mouth. Not on FM day, guys. Well, they picked up the thing, CBS and the Grammys picked up this thing from the NBA on ESPN where they did a thing where commercial break was happening. And then they came back for 10 seconds and they showed the room. They didn't have anyone, Trevor Noah, the host did not speak. They just kind of gave you a live look into the room.

get all the celebrities and then more commercials for like another six minute take care folks it's like if you've walked away to the fridge and you hear the break it came back on you look wait a minute what am i missing as uh late i think i think it's leila who says this and it's perfect it's free for you it's not free for us yeah so that's the way the world works there's a little opportunity cost folks you learn that in economics classes in high school at least that's where i learned that phraseology anyhow the grammies last night all sorts of good stuff i love like the best new artists were awesome last night. Alex Warren.

Olivia Dean, who actually won the award, is unbelievable. What a great talent she is. Trevor Noah hosting, as many people know, Bad Bunny, who sometimes could be a Bad Bunny, he was performing, no, he was not performing last night. He'll be performing at the Super Bowl. So Trevor Noah had this fun little back and forth with Bad Bunny last night because there's a rule that you can't perform before the Super Bowl.

So here's what down between comedian Noah and Bad Bunny. No, I'm like, man, I wish I had, you know, I should have taken more photos like whenever, like of everyone, you know, I should have given more hugs and more kisses whenever I could have, you know. I hope none of these people move away. And like if I get drunk tonight, I just hope somebody helps me. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Is that my song in English? Wait, what? Bro.

Those are, is that what you say? No. Yes. Oh, you say, you say it to me? Sing it to me, then? Hey! No, I don't know, I don't speak Spanish. I don't know, you can't, come on, just a chorus.

I almost, you got me, no, no, he can't, bro. All right, I understand, I understand. I won't, I won't bug you, I won't. But... David to try more photos Decoigne Yeah.

Devi dat more bestos and abrazo the verses that could Oh, that the

my never never Mooden and if I'm embarrassed baby don't me

do make a bad damn bad I'm Bad Bunny Bad Bunny in trouble

Yeah they didn't really trying to mess with his Bad news in trouble, the Puerto Rican superstar. I took a similar approach, gross, because I was in town last night. Our buddy, Luke Canellis, doing his show Sports Sunday on his debut over on NBC 5. Oh, you're doing work there now, huh?

My wife always watches the gram, and she checks it out live, but she's got it on the DVR. Some was already in bed. So I checked out the latter stages of the show. So by the time I got there, it was the kind of the in-memorium portion of things. was an absolutely spectacular. Lauren Hill was on time. Lauren Hill. Well, we don't know if she's on time for sure.

She was on the stage when she was supposed to be. Exactly. There might have been some time to report beforehand that she missed, maybe some sound checks. It didn't go well. It was bad. Oh, no. It was fantastic. But there's just been this frequency over the last, let's call it 15, 20 years

where if you go to a Lauren Hill concert, you got to know Lauren Hill's going to show up late, if at all. And that's been unfortunate because she's got one of the great albums of all time. everybody loves seeing it. At the end of last night during the immemorial White Clef comes out because they were doing a tribute

to Roberta Flack after a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne after a tribute to yeah, DiAngelo was a part of it. You know, just all the artists we've lost here over the past year and so they brought the house down

with killing me softly at then. Like I stood up in my living room once heard White Clef was doing killing me softly I could not get enough of that because that was a song when they said tribute to Roberta Flack and you see Lauren Hill

You know what it is. You know what's coming. So there's just this build up to it throughout. So, yeah, I was ready for that. One more thing from the Grammys worth playing to you. Share. Share. She's classic.

Share's up there. That's my share. Wow. Snap out of it. That's my share from Moonstruck. Snap out of it. That's it. That's all I got.

Share was up there trying to, attempting to. present the award for record of the year. And the Grammy goes to, tell me it was going to be on the promptom. And she forgot that it's in the envelope. Oh, no! No. No, I don't believe Luther is with us.

Luther's no longer with us. On RIP Luther Vandros, it was supposed to go to Kendrick Lamar. Luther, the song. The song, by the great Kendrick Lamar, who was one of the stars of the night. And Siza. And Siza.

Don't forget about Siza. Never forget about Siza. Went to a Luther... Sorry. See, now you got me doing it. Kendrick Lomar. Went to a Kendrick Lamar concert. And you hated it.

I didn't hate it. You love the show, but you didn't need the people. Yeah, there's a lot of people. Kendra Lomar and Siza. And people didn't understand it was Kendrick Lamar and Siza. Not like Siza as a underact. It was just as much Siza as it was Kendrick Lamar, which I love Sizz. So it didn't bother me.

But there were a lot of Kendrick Lamar fans who were like, eyes his, still singing. How many hits does Kendrick Lamar even have? So, I mean, is he really

in a position to do a full show on his own? Kendry's got enough hits to do a full show at his own. He's not new. Like, Kendrick Lamar had hits

even before this blast of Kendrick Lamar. Even before he was beaten Drake down. We're going to be all right, okay? Us three. We're going to be all right.

That's FM Brody right. Yeah, FM Grody. We're going to be all right. We're going to be all right. I wasn't ready for the U. I know. And it would probably blow you away to hear that.

I love that song. Oh, my goodness. I work out to it. Rahimi, Harris, and Grotie, Big Ant. Thank you so much. You can hang out as long as you want. No, I'm good. Okay, get the hell out.

Hey, listen to five on it. You can pick apart our opinions and tell us what we got wrong next time you're on. You will likely get a voice text while I'm grabbing out of here. I already know this. We're going to get a text. It's Rahimi Harris and Grotie on 1043, the score. Could this vintage store be any cuter? Right?

And the best part? They accept Discover. Accept Discover? In a little place like this? I don't think so, Jennifer. Oh, yeah, huh. Discover is accepted where I like to shop. Come on, baby.

Get with the times. Right. So we shouldn't get the parachute pants? These are making a comeback. I think. Discover is accepted at 99% of places that take credit cards nationwide. Based on the February 2025 Nilsen report.

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and I'm just now realizing it's the first annual because this is his first. It was the second year, isn't it? No, this is his debut. No, no, his second year as an announcer. Yeah, okay, so this is the second year of the LFG Awards, the second annual LFG Awards. And so he introduced a new category this year. Best Value Player Award, here's Tom presenting the award.

It's not the LFG most valuable player. It's the LFG best value player. Oh, interesting. All right. Yeah. Who did the most for their team? You got a guy? I got a guy.

Nashan Wright, Corner, Bears. He had a tremendous season. He was an absolute turnover machine. The Bears, they didn't do a great job between the Twins. Okay, the ball was moved a lot. But when it came down to turning the ball over, they were better than every team in the league. And he was a huge reason why intercept and passes, strip sacks, fumbles, fumble recoveries, what he did on a vet minimum contract, something like 1.1.

I don't know, all those little details, you guys are going to go research yourself. But what I saw with my eye test, he is the value player of year. Congratulations. You've earned yourself quite a contract in the future. And shout out in the Sean Wright's agency. You're going to do pretty well too. All right, Tom Brady on Instagram there, presenting the Bears own Nashon Wright with the Best Value Player of the Year award. So according to SpotWreck, projections suggest Wright could earn a contract worth close to $50 million.

On a scale of 1 to 10 on the he gone meter, how would you rate the likelihood that Nashan Wright ends up signing with another NFL team this offseason? And I'm going to say eight. I want to make sure that means it's very unleashed. likely that he would be back with the bears. Is it eight unlikely, right? That's right. Okay, just want to make sure. Yeah, this is, we are rating the likelihood that he's gone.

The likelihood that Nashan Wright is going to go to another team. So if you say an eight, Grotie. That means he's pretty well gone. That's right. And that's the way I feel about it. The bears cannot afford to pay another member of their secondary $50 million with Jalen Johnson already being paid for. I also, and not to mention that Tyreek Stevenson is free and that you have two

safety positions that you have to think about potentially bring. bringing one of those guys back. Oh, and you paid Kyler Gordon another cornerback already. So while who didn't love the Nashan Wright story this year, I think that that's where it stops. It was a great story. You probably man, you probably maxed him out too

as a player. You probably got the most out of Nashan Wright that any other team will have gotten out of him. Has he earned it with another team? Absolutely. I want the best for Nashan Wright. But I don't think he's going to give the bears that kind of production every year. Certainly not worth $50 million.

So, yeah, I put it at 8 for Nashan Wright's chances of returning to the bears, or at least as Ray put the question, going somewhere else. I think you're giving a little too much margin for return. Put him at a 10. Only reason I didn't go 10 is because

he did tell Layla that day and has told us in the past, he loves Chicago, he wants to be here, but he also probably was saying under his brother, else want to be paid by the Bears. I think the need for cashing in on your big opportunity outweighs maybe your comfort in the city or even working with a guy like Al Harris who looks like he's going to be back with the Bears. So I think it's a 10.

I think he's gone. It's just a matter of what are you going to do with that close to $50 million in spending it on other things if you're the Bears because there was never, he was never getting paid that much. They need a guy to fill his spot that makes like one point. million dollars. Do you think another team will pay him $50 million? Does he think other teams will look at him as a top cornerback? It's a tough one. Because, you know, I mean, look, he's still young. He hadn't got his opportunity, but he was

living on practice squads prior to having this burst of a season. Is it real? I think it's real enough that he gets paid. I just, the $50 million. What kind of contract does that look like? How much per year do you want your second cornerback? Because I think he features as a second cornerback on most teams. Neither of us is ready to get $50 million to Nishon right. Next question. Number two. Over the weekend, we got the news that the Cardinals hired Rams offensive coordinator

Mike LaFleur to be Arizona's next head coach. That's the brother of Packers coach, Matt LaFleur. Also, according to reports, Seahawks offensive coordinator, Clint Kubiak, intends to try to work out a deal to become the next head coach of the Raiders, which NFL team won the hiring cycle, and which team ended up being the biggest loser of this hiring cycle?

Hmm. This is a great question because there's 10 jobs, you can really go up and down the list, but I'm going to stick with the guy who is not an offensive-minded head coach as my team that was the biggest winner. That'd be the New York Giants who hired an established guy in John Harbaugh, a true program builder, if you will, if you look at what happened in his time with the Baltimore Ravens.

That's the winner. to me because the Giants have been dysfunctional one way or another for so long post Eli Manning we could say post Tom Coughlin and I think Harbaugh is the right guy to get everything in order he's got a quarterback in Jackson Dart and I think he's going to do a pretty good job there and that's why I think the Eagles might be in trouble in that division especially when you think about Jane Daniels and company coming back as far as the loser I think it's the Pittsburgh Steelers I think they could have made a bigger splash. They could have gone with a younger guy,

and Mike McCarthy has had some bad moments. Yes, he has won a Super Bowl, but he also had one of the greatest players to ever play the position of quarterback and Aaron Rogers at his disposal when he won a Super Bowl. And Dag Prescott is probably one of the top five, six quarterbacks in the NFL.

If you were to look at his time with the Dallas Cowboys, I just think the Steelers could have gone more modern and gotten a better job than 62-year-old Mike McCarthy, and that's not being agist. I'm just saying... A little bit. No, no, I'm just pointing out his age. He's a career winner.

Over 60% of his games, he's won. He's got the Super Bowl title. But he hasn't done anything in the last decade in the postseason, and I just can't see it. I will add for everyone, just to catch everyone up, in case you don't have the full scope of what the head coaches, those vacancies that are filled now look like. Bills, Joe Brady, Steelers, Mike McCarthy,

Ravens Desi Minter, Giants, John Harbaugh, Falcons, Kevin Stefansky, the Dolphins, Jeff Hathley, the Titans, Robert Sala, the Browns, Todd Monkin, the Cardinals, of course, as we said, Mike LaFleur, and the Raiders, as we said, Clint Kubiak, who hasn't, isn't officially

signed on yet for that Las Vegas job, but it's looking like it's going to happen after the Super Bowl. Yeah, I'm with you. I mean, how could John Harbaugh not be the best higher? I mean, how fast did he get that job too. So he goes to the New York Giants. They need it badly. I think it's Harbaugh for sure.

I'm anxious to see if he can steady that franchise a little bit, one which has been good. They've won Super Bowls, but it's been a while for the Giants and for John Harbaugh, for that matter. So I do love that marriage. Like any marriages here that don't look. Oh, by the way, I give some honorable mention to, and I admit there's a bias with Todd Munkin because he's local. and I know that didn't exactly go over great in Cleveland because it doesn't feel inspiring. Again, a guy who is 60-some years old

who's been in the NFL forever and people are turning down the opportunity. But I think, because from what I understand about Todd Munkin, he's a doesn't-take-crap kind of guy, I think that that probably will resonate in Cleveland with their fans. So I'll give a little bit of honorable mention to him. I don't know. I thought like a franchise like the Buffalo Bills with Josh Allen.

and that quarterback, could they have been a little bit more inspired, like go outside the organization, something fresh, but they go with Joe Brady, the youngster, 36 years old. Sounds like more of the same, doesn't it? Kind of, kind of. So my eyes are open for him. Maybe he's good. Maybe he's a revelation.

But I feel like the bills could have gotten a little bit more ambitious. Number three. This is five on it on 104. 3, the score with Marshall Harris and Mark Grody. Here's question number 3 over the weekend. The Bulls announced the team has acquired Center Dario Sharich from the Sacramento Kings, along with 2027 and 29 second round picks in a three-team deal, also involving the Cleveland Cavaliers. Chicago dealt forward Emmanuel Miller to the Cavaliers as part of the trade. In a related move, the team has also waived Guard and Illinois native, Javon Carter. What grade do you?

you give our tourists kind of showvis and company for their pre-February 5th trade deadline transaction? I'll give them a B-minus for this, maybe even getting there just because he did something that may allot something when you talk about the two second round picks that they have in 2027, they have a second round pick from Cleveland, 29, the second round pick for Sacramento. I don't know about Dario Sarich exactly what he is going to. to contribute at this point in his career, but at least B-minus, because we're starting to see the Bulls thinking.

And maybe, I know. They hadn't been thinking before. Maybe it's a precursor to doing more. Maybe they'll surprise us, because to me, it's still going to be a surprise if the Bulls make any sort of discernible move ahead of what is now the Thursday NBA trade deadline. So I go B-minus for the Bulls on that because of the draft picks. You know what? I'm going to stick with the same letter, but I'm going to go a little higher.

I'm going to go B plus. Okay. B plus. Wow, you and you're not an easy bulls grader. I am all yours. Well, here's why. Because this is a move that made sense two teams trying to get a deal. This is what the bull should always be trying to do. When you hear about three teams, three team deals, someone needs to be there for salary relief.

And this is what they need to do going forward. If they don't make a major move before Thursday's deadline, get in on smaller deal or bigger deals and be the third team. They did to take somebody's salary and gets draft picks to go with that. They've got to remain flexible, and they have not been flexible. This is their first big shot to be flexible with getting Nikola Vutrovich off the books this offseason. I'd like to see them move Vooch.

I'd like to see them move Kobe White. I'd like to see them move really everybody. The only reason you're moving I-O is if you get a first rounderback. But if that happens, guess what? Move I-O as well. I like that you stay flexible, too. Yeah, you've got to get in a position where you have a backlog of draft capital to go along with players who are on shorter, team-friendlyer deals that can easily be moved as well. That is the goal here.

So B-plus, because I like this as the first move, I definitely don't like it if it's the last move, though. They need more things done. More players moved. Number four. Got a great baseball question cooked up by Marshall Harris here, which Chicago baseball team has. surprised you more this offseason. So the reason I've been thinking about this is because, of course, the Cubs make the big splash trading for Cabrera and then adding Alex Bregman through free agency.

And you're thinking, okay, the Cubs look like they're ready to take ownership of the National League Central, something that has alluded to them since they stole the manager, Craig Counsel from the Milwaukee Brewers. The brewers continue to stay. stay on top. But then you start looking at what the Chicago White Sox have been doing. And the latest move, they add

a guy like Jordan Hicks, who throws really hard. You used to throw 105. Along with David Sandlin, can you throw it and avoid the... Can you not be a barrel finder with that kind of speed? Because you know what happens when you find the barrel throwing over 100 miles per hour? The ball leaves the part pretty fast.

The way it works. The hard hit rate is high. But you take those moves in. to consideration. And then you start looking at other things that they're doing. They have a closer now in Sir Anthony Dominguez. They trade

Luis Robert Jr. To the Mets. And then they use all that money almost immediately groats. Within a week, they've got Luis Anhele Acuna who can play a big role. And they've got other guys that

have come through as well. Truman Pauley. There's just a lot of movement going on, which makes you think this team might be ready to, I don't know, play 500 baseball. I like the sound of that. If the hitters continue to hit like they were hitting once they got caught up last year, and the pitchers can actually, I don't know, pitch and not be dead last innings pitch for starters, you might be cooking.

16 and 36 in one-run games. They look well more equipped to win more of these one-run games. And if you think 16 and 36, okay, that's 62 of their games. large percentage of their games. If they just go 500 there, that's 31 wins. That's also 15 more wins. And now that's a team that's pushing for 500. In the spirit of the question, which Chicago baseball team has surprised you the most this off season? I was very surprised that the Cubs got Alex Bregman. That was it for me. So you were done at that point. It's not necessarily just discerning the question. It's not who was better.

Cubs or socks. That's a different question. But if you're really asking me, who surprised me the most... That one shot, it did not seem to be moving in an Alex Bregman type of way from everything that was being reported here pertaining to the Cubs. So I go with the Cubs on that. Yes, and Edward Cabrera, no slouch either with the Cubs. So it's almost like quality over quantity with the White Sox, and that's probably degrading it a little bit too much because who knows what

Marikami is. I did like the Sean Nukeb signing. We all know Jordan Hicks. We'll see if Jordan Hicks is good with the White Sox, whether they start him or use him out of the bullpen. They also got Austin Hayes, the outfieler, Luis Anheel, Acuna as well, who Ozzy Gehan was talking up big time. So I agree with you. I like the direction in which the White Sox are heading. But for right now, I do believe it is the Cubs. And just because of the Alex Bregman part of this, that's a prize the hell out of me. Number five.

One of the headlines come out of Sox Fest this weekend. The club will have an alumni home run derby contest in July. So Grody, Marshall, here's the question. Who would be your top four picks for the White Sox alumni home run derby? Well, I think you start with Frank Thomas, of course. I got your back, Frank. I got you, man. You're number one on my.

list, Frank Thomas. I got to go and I am thinking like kind of more recently, recent eras of the clatt, like Paul Connerco, I think, because are we adding in like the popularity factor too? Because Paul Canerco might even be more popular than Frank Thomas in some circles. To my knowledge, there has been no like kind of baseline established for criteria. So it's whatever you want, Grody and Marshall. You set the rules. You set the rules. Mark Grody want to see. I've always had a soft spot for Jose O'Bray. You bring these. bring me back Jose Abraeu, and then, wow, one more to go, man.

Do I throw it out like a classic, like a, hey, Bill Mountain in there, grody. Get me out, get me in there. Do I go on Maglio? You know what? Let me go a little classic. Bring me, Harold Baines. Bring me Harold Baines. He's a Hall of Famer, Marshall.

What? Carlos Lee? I would like guys who can actually hit the ball over the fence still at a high rate. Jim told me. Yeah, that's my guy. You don't even know me, Tome? The fact that you were not going to name Jim Tomey is, I wanted to do something for the boomers.

I want to do something for the fans. How about that? If you pay money to see a home run derby, I want guys who can, I don't know, regularly hit the ball out of the park. Tell you about Joe Creedy. So for me, it's the Big Hurt leading the way. It's Jim Tomey. Tommy.

You don't even know me. It's Jose Abraeu. Okay, all right. I'm glad we agreed on a couple. Yeah, and? And it's Paul Canerco. Yeah, okay. Like, give me the boppers.

Don't mess around with me. How about your guy, Adam Dunn? Wasn't it you that was... You know what? Singing the praises. Take away Paul Connerco. Bring me donkey. Bring me donkey.

That's a good call by you. Thank you. It's donkey. Wow, that means a lot. Take away Conerico. I like that. Because now you got, what, two lefties and two righties. I like that.

That is... I like that. I like it, too. Is that five? Is that five on it? That's it? That's it for five on it. It's our first edition of

5 on it on 104.3, the score, baby, more to come. Better than ever. That's our first FM 5 on it. How do you feel about it? Oh, my God. How would you feel about talking about a certain superstar in the NBA name,

Janice? Janice. Janice. Atenticumpo. He's not currently playing, though, right? He's like sidelined or something. I don't know what's going on, but I'm seeing some betting spots that say,

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Ring Central, voice of your business. Rahini, Harris and Grotie, midday's 10 to 2 on 1043, The Score. 115, 103, 103 in Milwaukee, and this in the second app, you want to round a storyline, it's all about number 34, two-time MVP, Janus. Yanis to the rim up and good. He dove to the cup on a beautiful pass by A.J. Green who led him to the rim. That's the voice of Chuck Swirsky right here on the score. Obviously, Janice and Tentacompo highlight right there.

Bulls Radio Network. It's crazy, man. So right now the betting favorite is per draft kings and Kalshi that Janice stays with the Milwaukee Bucks. But if he doesn't stay with the Milwaukee Bucks, The favorite would be, the favorite at large, at least according to those two sites, R would be the Chicago Bulls. It's crazy because they've got,

draft kings as of this morning, had the Bucks as the primary place that he would play, the odds-on favorite. He'll play in Milwaukee post-trade deadline at plus 110. Next up, the Chicago Bulls at plus 275. Next after that is the Golden Bowl. say Warriors at plus 350 and after that it's the heat at plus 700. I don't understand how the Bulls got to the top of this list. Because if I said what would the Bulls give to the Bucs that the Bucs would actually want,

I can't come up with a package that makes sense for the Bucs. No, none of it makes sense. And if you don't believe us, why don't we bring you some Bulls authority here in the way of Casey Johnson. He was on the score today with Mully and Haw and does not believe the Bulls would make a big splash for Janus.

I don't see them going big game hunting at all. I've not heard that. I don't know where those rumors are coming from. I mean, have they maybe had calls about just kicking the tires or seeing what that would take? I mean, the Yonis situation, personally, this is just my personal opinion.

I think that's going to happen in the offseason rather than this week. I just think it's too big of a deal to push over the finish line. this week and more teams will have more things in play over the summer closer to the draft. That's just my personal feeling. Yeah, I mean, you can put it like that. You can put it any way you want.

It's just not realistic. It's not tenable. It's not what Janus would want. Not that necessarily matters. Why would he want that? You've got to be somewhere where there's enough help to get you, I don't know, in the playoffs. and as a championship contender. Right now, the Bucks are sitting below the Bulls.

I want you to really understand that. The Bucks are below the Bulls in the standings. And even when Yonis came back, they were a 500 team with Yonis. And that tells you where the Bucks are. Yeah. With the likes of Bobby Portis and, you know, remember, they went out and got Miles Turner off of an Eastern Conference champion Pacers team because they thought that would help them get where they want to go.

It has not worked out that way. Janice isn't even healthy, by the way. And it just seems like his time in Milwaukee's coming in. Another thing is doing a deal before the deadline, you might get someone desperate, like the Golden State Warriors, to come after him because the window is running out on Steph Curry right now. Jimmy Butler's out for the year, torn ACL.

If you wait until the off season, you have a better idea of whose picks are where and what's more valuable. And then guys post-trade deadline, you know exactly what you want to build. It's just a clearer picture at that point in a very loaded 2026 NBA draft of what you'd be getting and where you'd be getting it from. While I was watching, and yeah, somehow, some way, I stuck through a 134.91.

Wait, the whole thing? When they were down 39 after three quarters? Here's the truth of it. This is kind of funny, actually. I was out in about I was at my favorite Starbucks, which these days is the Palmer House Hilton. I just like the Starbucks. It's full service. lots of outlets.

Plenty of room. Plenty of room. There's always a table. There's always outlets. So I don't have to think about any of that stuff. And I like the people action at hotels that I find it to be extraordinary and interesting and all of that. So I was there doing my work. And I was listening to Chuck because the game started at 5 p.m.

But then I kind of lost a little bit of interest. I got the game devouring the whole time. I get back home. I put the Bulls game on. I hear Adam Amin. I hear and Stacey talking about not the game. I hear them talking about, Stacey talking about how his parents encouraged him to be a singer. And Adam Amin was waxing poetically about Yuki Kawamura and his background and how he could relate to.

And it was really beautiful. But I was like, to me, I was like, oh, this game's got to be over because they're just talking about stuff. I'm like, oh, no, it's late in the third quarter and they're down 54. That's why these guys are trying to find other topics that are going on. there was a picture or there was a video at one point in time a live shot that they showed of pat riley and alonzo morning just sitting there and i was like oh man gangsters just a couple of gangsters because pat riley always with the slicked hair he's always got that bat and alonzo morning always scared me because he was a mean player man he meant business he was a physical player

and he's just got that look i'm like yottis is going to miami everybody knows it right They're just, they're always, that franchise is always waiting. Always leaving the door open, unlike the Bulls, for the possibility that they get to lure their next dream team into South Florida. So a long way for me to go to say that I bet Miami is the favorite. I don't know what this, this Bulls thing is. It feels like a sham to me. It is a sham. You know what it is?

So the betting market works, as you know, by people betting on things. And that's what moves to the market. I think a lot of people read way too much into the fact that Yon, bought like an apartment building in Chicago and was, I guess... And he likes the Greek restaurants and whatnot. Yes. And like, I think he was seen at a church in Chicago. Like, okay, it's right down the road from Milwaukee.

He's got lots of money. Let's not get carried away. That man can jump on a private plane or just get a private driver to drive him wherever. He can go to New York City for dinner in the off season if he wants. Right. Yeah, just... Of course he loves Chicago. Who wouldn't? Who doesn't?

And what athlete... It's like you, too. When they tour the Midwest, they just stay in Chicago. because they like Chicago. And when I talk about, let's be realistic, because a lot of people just start looking at salaries and putting them through trade machines, what use do the Milwaukee Bucks have for Nikola Vutrovich's salary?

It's expiring, but that's about it. He's not going to get re-signed by the Bucks. Can they lure a star player? Like, they've got to get a young starback. That's why Miami, from a buck standpoint, makes more sense. If they're willing to trade Kala Ware, where is a young beast? I know you saw him.

He had a put-back jam in that game. Can shoot the three? Six man, right? Yes. Couldn't even play in Saturday's game because the Bulls were too fast. Vooch didn't play. But once Vutz was back in there on Sunday,

where it took over? The Bulls, by the way, on Saturday? Talk to me. Were without. You know this. They were without Giddy, Vooch, Kobe White, Jalen Smith,

Trey Jones, and Zach Collins, which meant their starters were Iyo, Bozellis. Give me that starting five. Herder! Kevin Herder! Give me that starting five, Patrick William.

His first start of the year, maybe? For the career? Maybe second or third? I mean... I don't think he's been out there much. I might need a fact checking on that one, but pretty close. And Acorro was the starting. So Iyo, Bezellas, Hurder, Patrick Williams,

and Acoro were your starters. And the Bulls won! That's why they got demolished last night. by the way, because Pat Riley and Spow, Kevin, Eric Spolster, like, eh, eh, not again, you need to get up 54 against the Bulls now. That was their second, that was the second start of the season

for Patrick Williams, by the way, in case you were... Seconds, I wasn't far off. You were curious. Let me tell you, in that game, he was three of six from three. In the next game, he was 0 for seven from three. Oh, wow. In Sunday's game. Wow.

They put it to the Bulls. They came out off the top rope, high-flying, tag team, and just, 72 points in the paint. And so the Bulls, that's why they need to move Vouch, but that's not, they need to dump salary and get prospects back, or at least younger players

that fit that Boozellis and Josh Giddy timeline. And for Yannis, the betting market's going crazy, but he ain't coming to Chicago. Get that out of your head. Yeah. I mean, it would be. It makes no sense whatsoever. Now, I will say this, Grody, if the Bulls can get rid of Vooch and Kobe and get something back in the way of a first round pick or a protected

pick. That's more stuff they could put together in a trade in the off season for Janus. So I think that's the play. Get as nimble and flexible as you can and maybe you make a push for Janus in the off season. But they got work to do. And it doesn't sound like they're going to throw up this white flag on making, you know, the play in their desired destination each and every season for the last three. Here come the heat. Shout out, though, by the way. I mentioned Yuki Kawamura of the two-way contract.

He did get to play. He did get to play. And yesterday, 6-66, 6.6 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists. He didn't just get to play. Did you see the moment in Saturday Night's game in which he had a jump ball? Oh, he won the jump ball. Yes. With Casperis Yakuchunis. Yeah. And what's his height? 5'8 for your boy. I saw 5'7 listed in one place. Oh, okay. A basketball reference has him 5-7.

Give him 5-8. Give him 5-8. So Yuki, well below 6-foot, and Yakutunis, 6-5, and he won the jump ball. And that was the point where I was like, oh, the Bulls are going to win this game. Oh, wow. Kawamara. He wanted it more. There's no doubt.

If you're 5-8, you live for that moment, right? Nobody wanted it more than the heat last night, though. Oh, my gosh. They got punished. They got punished last night. It was a 43 point loss. They were down 54 at one point in time. Brody.

Yeah. It's the 10th worst loss in Bulls franchise history. Oh, my God. The 43 point margin of defeat. That's our record right there. So hopefully the Bulls, when they're at Milwaukee tomorrow, they'll get it together. They miss 26 of their first 28 threes. Oh, my God.

Is that bad? Is that bad? That's horrendous. The Heat set a franchise record for assists in a game with 44. Wow. The Bulls had 18 assists to go with their 18 turnovers in the game. Just demolished. 24 and 26, the heat now, 27 and 24.

Got one more piece of audio. If we needed more to make the point about Janus. And it's, I want to play this because Lou Canellis is, you know, he's broken news. He is, man. Our guy Lou over there at Channel 5. Looking good on NBC 5. Luke Connellis, nice job. I see you got Anthony Heron hanging out over there now.

It's all over at 5 right now. But Luke and Ellis this morning on Mully and Haw was asked if it could happen seeing Janus in a bowl's uniform. You know when it's going to happen? Never. You know what? They're not big game running. You want me to give you a chance? Zero.

And zero's left the building. There just is no interest. And as Casey touched on, it's because AK and Mark Eversley and Billy Donovan and Michael Rinesdorf have decided that this is our opportunity. to rebuild from the ground up and they're full of draft capital and they have modest Bezellis and they have Josh Giddy who actually even at 100 million bucks on his contract it's a friendly contract down there's team friendly and here for Janus he wants to go to a team where he can win a championship in the next three four years he might as well stay in Milwaukee now to follow up on what Doc Rivers said life may not change after the trade that

deadline. Yeah, it was pretty decisive. And the reason that is important to play Lou is because he'd want to give every benefit of the doubt for the possibility of Janus coming here. And he's got the connection there too. So that's an incredibly important voice right there. That man said zero. He didn't say 5%, 1%, he said zero. Zero. Oh, no. And I don't know if that comes from Janus, but sometimes as reporters, we get information and it allows us to speak with authority. sometimes and that might be what's going on with it i don't know that for sure i really don't but sometimes that's the way it works in the reporter world usually people in the circle be chirping and you better be listening and picking up little right crumbs when you hear them it's called background it's

like no i can't let you say it but you can say it say what you will with the information that i allow you to to use so yeah it's fun it's interesting it gets the it makes your adrenaline go up like really quickly and then it's like wait a minute here that's not getting to happen. Frank Thomas is one of the greatest Chicago athletes of all time. He is, again, again, mad

at the Chicago White Sox. When we return, we will tell you why. It is Rahimi Harrison Grody on 104-3, the score. Rahimi Harrison Grody, Midday's tidal-toe on Chicago Sports Radio.

Uh-huh. Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 104-3, the score. Frank Thomas is simply one of the greatest White Sox players ever, maybe the greatest White Sox player ever. Sixteen years with the White Sox, you know all about Frank. He's not really

dirty, Frank, even though that's the song that of course goes through my head. Dirty Frank by Pearl Jam. He's decidedly not dirty. The irony of losing out on a third MVP because of that dirty, filthy Giambi

brother. But Frank Thomas is a classic. He is one of the greatest. He's one of the greatest. That is what a first ballot Hall of Famer looks like. That said, White Sox Twitter, I don't know if you guys saw yesterday, was reflecting upon momentous first for the Sox organization for Black History Month. And for example, some of those. Old Kamiski Park plays host to the first ever East West Negro League's All-Star Game in 1933. Harold Baines in 1977 becomes the second African-American player selected with the number one overall pick in the MLB draft. Baines was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. All sorts of

great momentous options right here. Dick Allen, here is one where in 1972, Dick Allen becomes the first black player in White Sox history to win AL MVP honors. Frank Thomas joined Allen as MVP in 1994. Now, just as there's many more examples, but I just want to give you just a little bit of it. Frank Thomas responded to that White Sox tweet honoring Black History Month by saying, this is Frank Thomas. Quote, I guess the black player who made you rich over there and holds all of your records is forgettable.

Don't worry, I am taking receipts, close quote. That is from Frank Thomas. And before I let you respond, Marshall, because I definitely want to hear what you had to say. and I have some things to say as well. There was a tweet that just came down from, actually just a little while ago, from our guy, Bruce Levine at MLB Bruce Levine on X. He said a little while ago,

I am told the White Sox will continue to promote Black History Month with the emphasis on HOF Frank Thomas and other Chicago Sox favorites. What do you think? Do you think he got slighted? Is Frank Thomas have a, have a point here. There were some names in there that you mentioned.

While they were black and had a sort of historical reference for the White Sox, I think Danny Goodwin was one of the names. Guy that got drafted by the Sox? How many games did he play for the Sox? I don't know. I don't know. There's a reason he don't know. He didn't play any. Okay. Frank Thomas is the greatest

white socks player to ever play for the organization. I'm not pushing back on that. Black, white, purple, whatever. color you want to talk about. He is also, because you mentioned the MVP that was won by Dick Allen, who you know I'm a fan of, and congratulations on him, finally getting his Hall of Fame due. But Frank Thomas, it could have been this simple. This is all they had to do, the White Sox. Frank Thomas is the first black player to ever win back-to-back MVP's list of years. That's how simple it is. Because when I first saw it, I was like, oh, did he not do something that they consider like a black achievement first, whatever?

It took me all of five seconds to come up with that, what I just told you. Yeah. Right, right. And you're, yeah, I guess, yeah, yes, fair enough, fair enough. And so there's other things you could have like come up with for Frank Thomas to be noted in that long list of guys who got noted on that infographic. that went out on social media. And the fact that they didn't do it, yeah, it's a slight. I think Frank Thomas saying something escalates the situation.

But you know what? He's going to do what he wants to do. The White Sox, it's on them to fix this. And I get it. Frank Thomas has never been a not stubborn person. Yeah, he's been hard to manage. Yes, he's been, it's well documented whether you want to talk about him and Kenny going back and forth. if you want to talk about, you know, how his role was viewed when the White Sox won the World Series,

when he was obviously hurt. How about the diminished skills clause back in 2002? It's cool. Listen. You know me as a White Sox fan growing up in Alabama, you do know where he played his college baseball, right? In Birmingham. He played his – well, it's college baseball. He played at Auburn University.

Auburn. Well, yeah. He was a tight-in and a first baseman for Auburn. So, like, I had like – oh, I'm really interested to see what this guy does, and then I follow his career through the Meyer leagues and obviously when he exploded. I don't think I'm over exaggerating when I say he exploded onto the scene as a major league baseball player. I mean, come on man. You know

me. I'm a Cubs fan. I used to go to whatever it was, U.S. Cellular Field, Kermiski 2 to watch Frank Thomas hit his third inning home runs. Can't miss at bats. That's what he had. He was, he wasn't even a home run here. He was in a lion drive hitter, but his line drives went really far. Right.

Here's the thing about Frank Thomas, though. I don't know. Sometimes I think he's insatiable when it comes to, I don't know if he could ever get enough credit in his own mind or enough attention in his own mind. He has been, he obviously is holding on to heavy resentments, which probably don't even deal with the fact that he is a black baseball player. I think most of it are due to those run-ins that you talked about through the years and somehow some way Frank Thomas threw it all, even in the MVP years, thinking that he was slided,

slighted either by, I don't know, by Major League Baseball, maybe because he wasn't getting the attention, I'd say Ken Griffey Jr. did or by the White Sox because of the infighting

and the Kenny Williams'ness of it all, all to say. And I would say this is something that I learned that I use in life when there is a conflict or there is anger or you're holding resentments.

Look at your part in it all. Like, take a look at just, I do this with myself. Like, what is your part in it, Frank Thomas? Like through the years, are there part, and I bet there are.

Paul Canerco. used to get mad at Frank Thomas because of his attitude and his demeanor. I mean, that's heavy stuff. So I would say that while you probably should have found a way to get him on this list, I think the bigger picture is Frank is holding on to some, he's so mad. He's so mad. And he used this as a way to explode on the White Sox because of the anger and the resentments that he holds.

Yeah, I think that's fair for anyone, though. once you feel like an organization, a place you worked for was doing you dirty, everything builds on itself. Right. My point is, they did them, the White Sox, to themselves, by even omitting him. Like, this is a self-check. This is you dribbling down the court and then bouncing the ball off your knee going out of balance.

It's a turnover. It's a bad play. All they had to do is mention the man, and then he can't come at you in the way that he did. and if you're a supporter of the White Sox and you're a supporter of Frank Thomas, how can you not see this as anything but a slight? That's me. That man gave me great years of being a White Sox fan.

But you're also admitting your heavy-duty bias. And I know, like, most socks fans that are listening right now, Frank Thomas is probably their favorite White Sox player. But I'm saying even if I'm not a White Sox fan, even if I'm not a Frank Thomas fan, you look at the guys listed on the infographics, You look at the omission of the guy I say is the best White Sox player in history. And it does not, I think to any rational, unbiased, non-involved party, like if we ask people in New York or L.A., just baseball fans, what do you think of this?

They'd be like, yeah, Frank's got a case. It's a very strong case. But you did have, I mean, like, I don't want to like nitpick, but I guess I am. Dick Allen's the first, right, to get that. And then when you say, you're right, the way to do it would have been the first. black player in White Sox history to win two two MVPs. Not White Sox history, American League history. That's why I was like, let me escalate it. Yeah, the first to do that. I mean, you're not the first to get the MVP,

though, so you are having to press a little bit to get there. That was my five seconds. If you want me to, if I take five minutes, I'll come up with something else for you. No, I understand. I understand the spirit. I'm trying to... You're trying to justify what the White Sox did? I think you should be on there. I'm trying to get in the heads of the white socks, right? Like, I don't think it was egregious on their part. Do you? Like, I don't think that the white socks were like, oh, we're not putting Frank on there because of the stuff that he said and the stuff. I don't think that's it at all. It might have been a mistake, but I don't think it was egregious. I feel like the White Sox and Frank Thomas are not in a good

place, and they probably haven't been in a good place in a long time. Yeah. And this is just another fracture in that relationship. I mean, if it was petty, that's the word I probably should have used instead of egregious. I don't think it was petty on the part of the white socks. Or that's what I'm choosing to believe. Maybe I'm being naive. Okay, okay, that's fair. It was egregious, maybe not petty. It probably is egregious. But, no, it definitely is egregious. My point is this.

If Frank Thomas feels that it's petty, you've got to go in there and do damage control. You can't let that error. It's already been too long. If they haven't contacted Frank Thomas and tried to work it out. Who knows? It's already been too long. We had the Bruce tweet right there too saying that they will focus on HOF. And now he can't come to the home.

Apparently he would not show up for a home run derby. So Canerco's back in. Canerco's back on my. That's right. Paulie, Paulie's our guy. That's right. Although, you know the first guy we both listed was who? Big hurt. Of course. Of course. I identify the White Sox with Frank Thomas. And hey, I covered the 2005 White Sox. I was there in Houston on the field talking to Frank Thomas. But I remember asking him like, hey man, you played in 34 games for the White Sox. And he quickly, before I even really got to the question, he was like, he was like, I played a big part in this. And I was like, hell yeah, you did. Not because 34 games, but because he. because of Frank history and what he meant to the organization. He was all smiles, but it all went downhill after that, unfortunately, for the big day.

The amount of joy I felt watching him destroy baseballs in Toronto, that sums it up for me. He had a 40 homer season with the Blue Jays, yes? Yeah. Yes. Stay out of White Sox business. No, that was Oakland, right, when he did the stay out of White Sox business. I believe so. Because it's A's first, right? He's with the A's and then Toronto.

I do believe. And then Texas? Or am I doing Sammy Sosa now? I think it was Texas. I don't know. Was there a third team? We should know our Frank Thomas history, but we'll look that up at other things.

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The classic on Fox. Bears. Welcome back to Rahimi Harrison Grotie here on 104-3 the score. That's right. We launched FM today. That's the way it's going down. And one of our very first guest today was Cole Commet. And he was awesome. We talked about Chicago and the whole FMness and the whole scorness of the city in which we live. And what is striking Marshall about Cole Commet? And he's always been mature since the day that he walked into Hallis Hall. But he does speak differently now than he did. Obviously in the first two years of his Bear's career, where he was really just trying to get on the field, trying to improve, trying to make a name for himself, trying to be productive. And now he is like this perfect veteran player who succeeds on the field, you know, not necessarily flashy.

There was some flash, obvious flash from Colquomet this year, but he's just a good football player out there. And he knows he understands the league. He understands how the real world works. And it's very interesting hearing him talk about. the way the world works, the way rosters work, the way free agency works, the way the salary cap works. And he is ultra aware of it all. The veteran that he is at the age of 26 is really kind of awesome when you really think about it. Because there's a lot of 26-year-olds that don't

understand their industry the way that Colquemette understands his industry. I know, look, NFL stands for not for long. He is on his second contract, something that. he talked about, but I was not taking it back, but I was impressed by his attitude towards everything as we had that conversation in our first hour. And one of

the parts that he is so realistic about, again, is, you know, not just guys leaving the team like easy free agent exits. There are players that are under contract like Cole Comet, like DJ Moore, whose

names may be popping up in potential trade talks. And here's the question I asked Cole Kometta a little bit earlier. We talked about changes for the teams. Every roster is going to be different going forward. Do you get nervous thinking about that, that anybody can be exposed to potential trade? Like DJ Moore, his name pops up sometimes. Your name from time to time pops up sometimes. Anybody who has value to make other parts better, how much of that do you watch and how much of do you think is real heading into the next season? Well, it's definitely very real.

I know it's real because I've seen it happen before. I mean, that's just the nature of the business in this league. So, I mean, maybe you know, you say nervous or scared. I would say, like, my first two years in the league, you're like, it kind of catches you off guard of just how ruthless this business can be. But I think at this point in my, in stage of my career, you're kind of accepting of it and understanding that this is just part of the deal. And, you know, especially a guy like myself or, you know,

you're talking about DJ or other guys who have played a little bit and you're on a second deal, you know, unfortunately, as you age, you get more expensive and you may not fit in the, you know, that piece of the puzzle that I was talking about. And that's just the nature of the business, you know. So however it works out, it works out. You know, for me personally, I felt like I did a lot of good things this year in the role that I was in and had a lot of fun playing with this team.

You know, like I said, after the game against the Rams, you know, it is going to be different next year, despite who's here. But I think going forward, you know, this is an organization that you want to be part of, and I'm sure they're going to have no problem bringing in the guys they want to bring in for agents-wise and selling them on a Super Bowl run this upcoming year. Sounds like a guy who wants to continue being a Chicago bear, but he gets it if he isn't. And just to be very clear, there is nothing out there. There's nothing like real in terms of any Cole Komet. trade talk right now. The cap hit for 25 and 6 NFL seasons projected to be 11.6 million as part of that four-year, $50 million extension that Colquette signed in 2023. He's considered a potential cap casualty or trade candidate this year,

cutting him would free up significant space while leaving relatively low dead money at $3.2 million. So he's just an example of a player like him, DJ Moore, like Tremaine Edmonds, like others that you have to be realistic about and the money they're making and what it could potentially free up for the team, which has to eventually make difficult decisions. And it really does make you wonder because you talk about his dead cap money with Tremaine Edmonds, if they got rid of him, they'd be left with $2.4 million of dead cap. These are saving significant portions of money. And it's just a matter of how important are these

players to the future plans of the bears, understanding that they're going to have to draft new players eventually anyway, because drafted players, they're cheap. That's the whole point. If you can get a serious rotation of our guys, we're using four or five of these guys from every draft class as real players in our offense and in our defense and beyond just special teams, that's where you get a little freedom. And remember, they're still on the rookie contract of Caleb Williams. When they get to Caleb Williams' second contract, that's when it really becomes a tough proposition to keep all of the playmakers that you want to keep on both sides of the ball.

See Patrick Mahomes. See Patrick Mahomes. See the Kansas City Chiefs. It's such a great example for people who kind of casually listen to us when we talk about that and the value of the quarterback. Like, they maxed it out. They did under what they could afford with Patrick Mahomes, his rookie contract. They've won Super Bowls, but they've hit a wall. Not that they should be able to rise back up, but it's just the way it works.

And that's why we talk about how important it is to get this done while Caleb is still in his rookie contract. While we're at it, if you look at Colston Loveland in his rookie contract, which could be part of what would make Cole Commett expendable. Though if we're really talking about Cole Commet seriously here, Ben Johnson should want that guy, should want that specific type of player in this offense. because that's what he had in Detroit as well, and it worked. I mean, Cole Commet is all you want in a play, like in the more traditional inline, why Tide End who proved he can make some big time catches as well.

Here's why I don't think Cole Comet is at risk. Maybe you restructure his contract in some way, but he's only making $11 million next year. That's not like this giant chunk of money. The cap is going up, as we just heard a couple of days ago. And he's not one of the guys. Like, Tremaine Evans is making $17 million next year. That's a lot of money. That's a good person in a circle.

DJ Moore, $28.5 million next year. That's a lot of money. But he's not, that's a lot of dead cap also. If you, well, you wouldn't just get rid of DJ Moore. You just wouldn't. He's too valuable for what they, their number one goal for the wide receivers. What's that again? The number one goal with this off season.

Do you catch the football? Last I checked, DJ Moore does a pretty good job of catching the football. Right. in a world where the bears weren't very good at catching the football. Yeah. Yeah. So it's more likely that a guy like, I don't know, DeAndre Swift, maybe, because he's a free agent at the end of next season.

There's other places you can do something. But I'm really interested more than the whole will you get cut, traded thing. Whose contracts will be restructured to get you more free cap space right now? Yeah, like who would agree? Would Jalen Johnson agree to doing something like that? I don't know. I mean, that's a proud man who worked his ass off to get to that point. So I don't begrudge any player who's like, no, I don't want to do that. But that's a fair question. Another thing that we spoke to Colcomette about is the fact that, hey, practically breaking news for a lot of people who maybe still haven't heard that Declan Doyle has taken the offensive coordinator job in Baltimore.

He will call plays there. He spent the last year as the Bears OC. where he did not call plays under Ben Johnson. And this was Cole Komet's reaction to Declan Doyle leaving the Bears. Declan Doyle taking the job with Baltimore. What do you think of that? And what does that loss mean for you guys? Yeah, well, we're super happy for Declan and really anybody this time of year that's able to go out and take advantage of the situation they were in the year prior.

And, you know, that's kind of happening with coaching right now and with players that will come up here soon with three agency and teams kind of getting their roster set and somewhat ready to go for the upcoming season. You know, it is kind of like a puzzle piece. And, you know, with us being in a salary cap league, there's pieces of the puzzle that fit well into the next season and pieces of the puzzles that don't. So, you know, I'm sure Ryan and Ben will are going to be all over that this time of year figuring that out and all those things.

But, you know, yeah, it's obviously a big loss for us losing Declan. E.B. Two great coaches and guys that provide a lot of value to the offensive side of the ball this year. I know even though Declan doesn't call the place for us, the amount of work that he did on the offensive side of the football

was immense and you could see that in day-to-day in practices and I'm sure it took a lot off of Ben throughout the week for his duties as a head coach. No doubt about it and that's why it gets a little bit difficult to know exactly and precisely what he's leaving behind. Where

where the bears might be hurting in Declan Doyle's absence. And Marshall went on to ask that question. What was Declan Doyle's role as you got through the season? What would you say his day-to-day was like? Yeah, well, I mean, that almost be hard for me to even say, just because I'm not there in those meetings once we leave the building. But, you know, you can tell with things in terms of getting the scout team correct, getting all those cards ready, dialed up, ready to go, whether it's scripting the practice. I'm sure Declan had a huge say as to what plays we're going to have up and what looks we were going to get

throughout the week of practice. And then on Fridays and Saturdays, when we'd go over our film from Fridays on Saturday morning, you know, Declan's the guy going over that tape with the whole skill group and then kind of leading us in the walkthrough on Saturday before our main mini walkthrough

as before we get to the hotel. So, yeah, Declan was very hands-on with all of us and that is a big role. And I know I understand and I somewhat understand what people on the outside and they say, oh, if you're not calling plays, like really, what are you doing? These guys do a lot of stuff

in terms of prepping for the game plan and getting us ready to go for practice throughout the week that really shows up big time up on Sunday. And then, I mean, another thing Declan was great at is, you know, I'm sure Ben, as the head coach, there's a lot of things you've got to handle on halftime. Declan's the one addressing the offense at halftime

kind of going over the openers. they're going to be coming up in the second half and telling us what we need to do, what they're seeing, and how we can make adjustments. So, yeah, Declan was definitely a very valuable piece to us offensively. Cole Comett earlier on Rahimi Harrison Grotie on the score. You should check out the entire interview. Yeah, of course we still got the Odyssey app.

Yeah, people keep asking if the Odyssey app is in FM. I don't know. That's a good question. The Odyssey app is always crystal clear. It is always crystal clear. It is always crystal clear. It's like 104.3 FM. That's right.

That you can hear. in any country. That is for sure. But I love what he said, Cole come out right there, towards the end of that quote, that he had something to do with addressing the offense at halftime.

That's big, that he's hands on with the players. But there's also the part where he had to handle the cards. He had to handle the tape. That is grunt work, my friend. I think the biggest reason from getting this job is working with Ben Johnson.

Plus, he speaks interestingly, intelligently, and progressively about football. when we ask him questions, when he gets his shot at the lectern once a week at Alice Hall. I think the organizational aspect of this is important in that to work under Ben Johnson, knowing all the duties he had as a first year head coach, mind you, he had to delegate. And when you're delegating on offense, that's his baby. Let's be honest.

I mean, the whole team is his baby, but you get what I'm saying because he's had some of the most explosive offenses in the NFL over the last half decade. And so Declan Doyle's ability to get what Ben Johnson needed him to get and whether that was in the interview process of understanding this is a guy I can work with obviously came highly recommended after having worked with Sean Payton before Ben Johnson. It's going to be interesting to see what he goes for this time around naming an offensive coordinator. It is an important position. I know we downplay it because we're like, oh, he doesn't call plays. but I think it's a very important position.

And Ben Johnson, I trust him to get the right guys. The main reason is, last I looked last year, he had the right guys in the right position as far as coaching staff. Yeah, he did. No doubt about it. And look, yeah, there are in-house candidates in Antoine Randall L. J.T. Barrett as well, one of the intriguing guys on the outside that I think,

if Sean McVeigh would allow Ben Johnson to come to his, tree after all the tree wars that were existing is Nate Schillhouse, the Rams passing game coordinator who is garnering interest. So if teams can come poach the bears, the bears can go poach the Rams. I think that's an interesting guy too. Wait, wait, wait, wait. You're suggesting they go after Nate Schillhaus? Yeah.

Past game coordinator of the Rams? You don't like it? Wasn't he looking at head coaching jobs? Oh, you think he's too good for it, huh? Yeah, I think his next step is probably as a head coach. Okay. Because tell me what... Yeah, you're right.

I see what you're saying. Because he's been doing the job. So it would be a lateral move if the Illini died. He's not calling plays if he comes here. That's a good. That's good. But doesn't McVeigh call the plays? That's true.

Yeah, right. So why would you do it? Yeah. It's colder here. I mean, we got better. Fans are way better here. Do they have fans? Do the Rams have fans in LA?

The Rams have more fans than the Chargers. I can tell you that. That is for sure. And the guy that Declan Doyle will be working for comes from. He got out. That's Jesse Minter. He was the defense coordinator of the Chargers. He got out.

He's now the head coach. So it's a great job. It's a great job for Declan Doyle because he can run the offense and Jesse Minter can take care of the defense. And if it works out, that's going to be great for both of those guys. If the defense sucks, then Declan Doyle is going to take over the NFL and become the head coach of that team. Could happen. Could happen.

Okay. Coming up next. Do we have Ian Hap? I think we've got Ian Hap coming up next. Yes. We've got Happer. Ian Hap, friend of the show, friend of FM radio. We'll talk FM with him because that's kind of why he's coming on.

He's busy, but he said, yeah, I'll come on and hang out with you guys. But we've got questions. We've got Cubs questions to ask. I want to make sure that he's making Alex Bregman comfortable and Tyler Austin and Edward Cabrera and all of the, the new Cubs. Ian Hap next on Rahimi Harrison Grotie on the score. Oh, could this vintage store be any cuter? Right? And the best part? They accept Discover. Except Discover? In a little place like this? I don't think so, Jennifer. Oh, yeah, huh? Discover is

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Cubs All-Star Outfielder. Ian Hap, 23 bombs on the year and hits one right on a button over to left field his head and one hops into the Ivy. Sheets did not think he hit it that hard and it went right over his head. Two out. for Ian Hap, and that is as hard of all as he's hit in the series. Gold Glove Award winner. The Cubs have won the ball game.

They have won the National League wild card series. Battled against San Diego. Not surprisingly, it went right down to the final at back. Host of the compound podcast. We got playoff baseball. We've got end of the year. Where do you want to start? Connect Roaster's coffee enthusiast.

Here's a man that probably has five fresh pots a day. On 104, three, the score. We toast you in Hap. It's coming soon. Good to hear the sounds of baseball. It's February, man. Spring training is like right around the corner. Huge day here at the score, Rahimi Harris and Grotie.

Because we went FM today. We're always AM. We're up there. We're out there. The people can hear crystal clear downtown. If you got buildings, if you're on Lower Wacker, I might go down to lower Wacker just to see, just to see what's good. Absolutely yet, just to see how it all works at FM.

Yes, we are 104-3 the score, and it feels so good. And yeah, one of our friends of the program is Ian Hap. He joins us now on the Circa Resort and Casino Hotline, Circa Las Vegas.com. Circa has a lot to do with what's going on here as well, so we thank them. And we thank you, Ian, for being here on this big day. What's going on, man? Thanks for having me. Glad to do it. Yeah, you sound good. You sound good. Listen to that.

Sound crisp. Yeah. Very good. Ian, I understand you left your workout just a little bit early to come join us, so we appreciate that, first of all. But how's it going for you, man? I mean, are you feeling like, hey, spring training is, it's almost here? Oh, yeah, it's close. I probably got a weeker show before I'm down in Arizona and with the boys. It's an exciting time of the year, and we get the best two months. ever in Arizona.

Yeah, yeah, that's a good time. It's a great lifestyle. I've lived adjacent to it at times and my time covering the Cubs and seeing how that all works. It's really a beautiful thing. Another beautiful thing for the Cubs this year, Ian Hap. I don't know that you've been on the score on Rahimi Harris and Grotie since the Cubs did sign Alex Bregman. Your reaction to having that player on this team, which won a playoff series last year. Yeah, it's an exciting addition for us.

He just, he has such a playoff pedigree, been on winning teams his entire career. Obviously, we've had just similar timeline. The big leagues we were drafted the same year, came up around the same time. And so we've overlapped quite a bit, but he's a competitor and a huge addition for us. It feels very different than when you guys kind of went up against the trade deadline and not much happened for the Cubs. And to understand like the financial restraints that may, or constraints. I should say that maybe we're happening for the Cubs that seem to have now been unlocked in a way

with this free agency signing and the understanding that more could come. Does that have you more optimistic than ever about where this team is? Yeah, I think we had a really good run last year and a great group. And one of the exciting things about when you can keep a group together is just the experience growing together,

you know, getting to watch Pete and Michael. Bush and some of these guys continue to develop and learn how to play a full season. The big league has been really fun to watch. So this group that we've had together for a little bit to continue to add pieces and grow together has been a lot of fun. And our coaching staff too, just consistency of that year every year has been great. Looking at the personality of this team, and you mentioned how that you came up with Bregman at every step.

you guys are together, you know, as I think some would characterize you guys as grinders. Nico Horner is like that as well. Danesby Swanson seems to play like that. Bush, a lot of guys, is that the identity of this team right now? You guys are like the gym rats of baseball, it feels like. I think we have a group that loves playing, loves being at the field and talking baseball and being around it and thinking about the game. That's a really fun thing to be around, especially whenever.

Everybody shares those same characteristics. But, you know, our identity last year was just doing all the little things right. Obviously, we played great defense. You saw that. We won the team Gold Glove, which was a really special award. But the attention to detail on the base running, guys taking extra bases, guys beating out balls in the infield, you know, to the next base to help out their teammate and keep rallies going. Just little things like that and the awareness of the attention to detail of something that counts really cares about. and it's trickled down to the group.

So it's a fun brand of baseball, and it was a lot of fun to be a part of last year. And the council part, since you brought him up, I mean, there has to have been a ramping up period that occurred with Craig Counsel as well. He's going into his third year now with the Cubs. He's got a better hold on things. He's got a better idea of what makes you guys work too. So how much is he responsible, Craig Counsel, for the identity of this team and a team, again, that won a playoff series last year?

Yeah, he does a really good job of setting the tone on expectations and kind of what's important to him and should be important to the group. A lot of that was kind of the base ring that you saw last year and the attention to that. It's one of the most controllable parts of the game, so really caring about that was a big part for counts. But I also think, you know, for anybody coming into an organization the first year, you're trying to get a feel for everything that's going on. And then you saw in his second year just some changes, whether it's staff-wise or identity of the team-wise. So it's been fun to have him get comfortable in Chicago and see his love for Wrigley Field and the fan base. You get to see that for people over the course of a couple of years. It's a pretty special place, and people get to experience it and see that all summer long.

It's really cool. We are celebrating our first day on FM here on 104-3, The Score, with special guest, Gold Glover, Ian Hab. joining Rahimi Harris and Grotie. And Ian, every off-season is different, right? And I know you guys work on some stuff similarly and then some things you really get specific on. Is there something that you really wanted to focus on this off-season for yourself and your development and maintenance?

Yeah, a lot of maintenance. You know, I've been lucky to be pretty healthy through my career. So a lot of reinforcing some of the things that have kept me on the field and kept me available. A lot of running this off-season, a lot of speeds. a lot of running and just working on some form and technique stuff, but getting in the gym to start running earlier. And I think just as you go through your career, there's little things that year and you're out that you want to tweak,

and that was a big one for me this year. How was the fan fest this year? How was the Cubs convention? How to go? You've been doing it. Like you said, you've been around a long time now, man. You've been to a lot of these. How was this year?

It was pretty electric. I was lucky to be in Chicago for the kind of the full week, went to the Bears game. But just the mix between the energy of the city from what the Bears were doing, the 16 team back to celebrate 10 years, and kind of the energy from our season, that was an unbelievable mix, and the fans were so, so excited, and it was really fun to see. Yeah, man. I mean, you've gotten this, being around here as long as you have, nobody has a better sense of what Cubs fans are like

and how much pride they have or the level to which it goes when things are good. You know, the Cubs fans are always there. Bears fans are always there. But that level, Ian, that you didn't even know could exist does exist, right?

And you felt that probably with the Bears game too, didn't you? Yeah, it's just electric. And the city, we're so lucky, though, fan base sits behind us no matter what. But I tell guys all the time, there's nothing like winning here. And when you're in the middle of the summer and you're in first place and you're playing good baseball, you know, it's not only Wrigleyville and Wrigley Field. It's the entire city that's excited, lit up, Cubs, jerseys, Cubs hats all over the city.

People are excited about it. And it doesn't get any better than, you know, middle July, middle of August being in first place and that place jumping. Ian, I know it's a brand new season coming up. I'm just curious what have been maybe the best off-season conversations you've had with your teammates about gearing back up as we get a week plus out from restarting this thing. How much contact do you have outside of, you know, Cubs Convention, obviously, and some of the other things that you guys do, just in personal conversations with your teammates. Yeah, I mean, you keep in touch with a bunch of guys. It's been great to kind of check in on guys throughout the off-season. Pete was around over the holidays,

and we got to work out together and hit together a little bit at Wrigley, which was great. And, you know, just getting to CubsCon and having everybody there and being able to, you know, that's the first time to be able to sit down and really talk baseball with Breglin for a while. So, you know, getting to chat with him, you know, always checking it on Nico and Dan Tweed and Jamison throughout their off-season. So it's been fun.

You know, you get little things, not only baseball things, but things that are going on in people's lives and vacations and those little things that are really fun to just... You're with these guys more than you're with your family throughout the year, so you've got to check on them when you're not with them. It's weird for us. You go 250 days together, and then you don't see them. It's like, guys, where are you?

What are you doing? Right, right. I mean, you guys have to coexist together. And one of the guys that I know that you love playing with is Anthony Rizzo. He's been hanging around for the 10-year thing. Obviously, he's going to do some ambassador work with the Cubs. And now he's going to do the TV thing with Joey Votto. You knew he was going to do his television, right, Ian?

Yeah, that was a layup. You knew he was going to be on TV. It was just a matter of where. He'll be great at it. He's a great personality, and people love listening to him talk. So he's going to be awesome. I look forward to watching him on TV and seeing him and Joey is. That's an electric combo together.

Can you imagine the conversations at first between those two? Oh, my God. I mean, like, I always wanted to know. when watching all those games with the Cubs and Reds, they would chat every single time that they would pull up. I bet you've been in on some pretty nice Joey Votto conversations yourself, though, Happer, right? Oh, yeah, Joey, it was one of my favorites to talk to. He was great, and the best thing about Joey is he would remember.

He'd have a conversation in the first inning, and you'd get back on first and the fifth, and he would pick up the conversation from the first. What? That's a lot of individual conversations. to manage over the course of a game, right? Oh, yeah. He was on it. He would be thinking about and have an answer for you an hour later. That's amazing.

Yeah, and I got to have some good ones with the race when he was with the Yankees. Oh, yeah. It was fun to be able to get over there and hang out with him over there and, you know, talk about where we were going to dinner that night or something. That's hilarious. So, wait a minute. Has Votto been or will he be on the compound podcast? He has been.

Oh, he's been a guest. Oh, okay. Oh, that's fantastic. He was a great guy. We've had both those guys. There you go. We've had Riz probably three or four times now. And yeah, we did get Jovey once, and he was great to talk to.

Oh, that's amazing, man. He's just so entertaining. And I just, I can only imagine what it's going to be like for those guys when they get together. As we get closer to this, I'm just curious, do you feel the buzz? Like, what is your preparation process when you're a week plus out, when you're less than two weeks away from showing up? yeah we do i mean we do a really good job of phasing kind of the workouts um you know over the course of the off season so kind of at the start of the off season you build out your phases of and and you kind of backtrack to all right when am i going to get to spring and and when's the first game of spring and then

you kind of plan it out so um you know the workouts run right into it and then through spring and from a you know moving around standpoint and the actual baseball stuff you know you're throwing more you're hitting more you're getting ready but those first two or three weeks in arizona is when you get all that time on the field to really get as much practices as you need in, which is kind of the best time of the year. It's a little bit more free for us, and you get plenty of exposure to it. So it's just really getting the body ready to get through these next eight months. Yep.

And yeah, man, excited that it's coming soon. We mentioned that the Compound Podcast, ENAP, co-hosts the Compound Podcast, which is now part of Odyssey Sports, actually. New episodes drop each web. Wednesday, Wednesday, with the latest discussion on the Cubs and baseball, download and listen to the Odyssey app, or wherever you get your podcast. He should check that out with Ian Hap. He's got guys like Rizzo and Votto who come on the podcast. What is the latest hap with Connect Roasters?

Connect is great. We had a booth at Cub's convention, and so we were serving coffee to people. I think Jameson made sure that he got a cup of coffee before he was doing his round Saturday morning. So, yeah, we're still doing the Home Run Club. You can subscribe. Coffee will be shipped directly to you every month. So go check that out. And hopefully we'll have a couple of cool things around regularly this year.

That's awesome, man. And it means a lot that you would take the time in your off season. These days are precious and few before this stuff gets real for you. So looking forward to talking to you more, Ian. And thanks for coming on, man. Thanks so much, Ian. Thanks so much, guys. Have a good one.

Yeah, you too. That is Ian Hapty Cubs Gold Glove outfielder. For time, Gold Glover. I mean, I was going to go that direction with him a little bit and just for some reason I didn't, but it really is. What a cool thing with Ian Hap who was like kind of didn't know what he was. He was a center fielder. He played some second base.

I watched him play second base when he came up at the big league level in a couple of games and to have found his place in left field where sometimes you stick guys, but he's done the most with it. So I'm impressed with his gold glove ability. I like that what we're doing next says. at 1.45. It just says Grody at the Wiener Circle. You took a trip, didn't you?

Took a trip. I did it. I went, I've been to Weiner Circle before. They let you behind the counter. With a camera. That's crazy. With a camera. That's next on Rahimi Harrison Grody on the score. Lela Rahimi, Marshall Harris, Mark Grody, Rahimi Harrison Grody on 1043, The Score. I love you got all his bears, stuff around. We don't care.

So, yeah, he talks stuff We went to stores and everything else. Now he's in the process of getting them a shirt made saying, I mean, forget the Packers. Forget you. Go the Seleau route. Rahimi Harrison Grody. Forget you.

I love it. So good. Forget you. That's a better way. That's Pucci. From the Wiener Circle. Friend of the program. Friend of the program, not friend to your ears if you are.

have virgin ears. Yeah, FM does not preclude us from hitting the dump button. Unfortunately, that sticks with us. The power of FM is all powerful, except when you swear. Then we got to let you go. It works that way on AM, and it works that way on FM. Whether you're FM or your AM, you can't outrun the FCC. No, you cannot. They will not let you be. They will not let that happen. Well, it's been great. Like, this is actually, the debut, as we've been talking about, and most of the day today, this is the debut of 104-3, the score FM. You could hear us now on AM and FM.

So it's been a celebratory day today. It has been pulled off beautifully by everybody, starting with Mullian Hall this morning, who launched our FM side earlier today. And obviously, this isn't something that we just started working on. This is something that, from the way I understand it, for the better part of a decade. This has been something that has been on the table,

the idea of, or the desire for an FM signal at 670. The score. So there's been lots of, there's been food here today, just fun confetti earlier. And I also participated in this. I took a trip to the Wiener Circle in Lincoln Park. And live to tell the tale. Live to tell the tale.

Yeah, because they got it up. up on their sign that we're going. FM. They're a great Chicago brand. We're a great Chicago brand. So I did a whole thing. I took a camera into the weiner's circle, and if people don't know, I've got some attitude there.

Good old-fashioned Chicago hot dogs with a lot of attitude. And as you heard, Pucci coming in, a lot of swearing. So you are free to be you, I suppose. Oh, is that what you did? You kept that same energy that they were giving you? I was dispatched. to the Wiener's Circle without a script, but I did have a camera, a camera person taking care of all of that. And here's just a little bit, let me give you a little piece of it right here, and then I'll tell you where you can watch the rest of it.

Here is some of my time at Wieners Circle for 104.3 FM. More Wieners now on FM 1043, the score. That's right. It's not just a rumor anymore. It's happening. The score is going FM. I'm going to go, do I get to yell at people now? There's no better marriage in this world, really,

than the score and the Wiener Circle. We're both pretty feisty. We're never serious about the shit that we talk, but we talk a lot of shit, okay? That's what we do on the daily. We talk shit. I think that's a great motto. 104-3, the score.

Get your ass back here and make some hot dogs. I am so ready to do this. Yes. Welcome to the fucking weeners circle, okay? Oh, man, Evelyn. She is awesome. And I did get to put together a nice Chicago hot dog for myself. I made my own hot dog. She seemed slightly annoyed with you. I'm just going to put that out there. I've seen the video. And if you want to see the video, you can go to the top of our Twitter feed, Rahimi Harris, and it's pinned. So it's right there at the top. Yes. It's on my stories now. If you dare, go to my Instagram page. What's your Instagram again? Mark double underscore grody. Mark double underscore grody. That means you need two underscings.

scores. One is not enough. You'll find it. Look me up. Where are you, by the way, Marshall? People want to find you on the gram, man. You do a lot of stuff on the gram. You want to hear somebody talking bowls? You want the realness about the bulls? It's a bit of a rant lately, yes. It's M. Harris on air. Yeah, give me a follow. M. Harris on air

at all the platforms. That's awesome. By the way, the simulcast, is presented by the official sports book of the score Circus Sports. Derek Stevens and the guys. Sports betting the way it should be with no bet fees. Derek was in here today. All the dignitaries were here this morning.

I know, man. It feels very like after the party right now. Yeah, Coom was in here. Who else was in here? Who else did they have in studio today? Oh, they had John Vincent singing the national anthem. And he held that note like he's been known to do. Yeah.

That was amazing. Yeah, and they had a party in here. There was confetti. They had a confetti gun? Is that what they used? I'm assuming. They did the little pop, pop. How did, was, I know this is a great day, and David Hawa knows it's a great day.

Was he okay with that? I don't think he was okay with that. Right, because he has a history with Benny the Bull who once popped off on him with his little popcorn trick when the man, when Haw was on deadline, trying to work, not playing games. You know, we're not here to play your little Bulls halftime games. We're here to work, right? And he got doused by Benny the Bull. So he resents. He has a resent.

He's like Frank Thomas. He's holding a resentment. Wait, didn't he also get him with the silly string when we were at the game? That happened. So the day of the Court of Dreams last year, you know, we were fortunate enough to go and attend the actual Bulls game after we did our thing on the Court of Dreams Court at the United Center. And, yeah, Benny the Bull came after Haw with the silly string, man. So I just wonder, while Mullen Hall, while loving everything that is going on here, the fact that, well, they're trying to do a radio show getting doused with confetti,

I don't know, man. I give a lot of credit to Haw for playing through it, as he obviously did. Haw is definitely a grin and bear kind of guy. Bears. Well, the thing is, I'm going to give Haw some credit here. You get it. Because David Hall came into this day,

knowing how big it was, that we, it was the first day of 104-3, the score. First day on FM, he had to have known there was some pomp and circumstances that he's going to be going on in a physical form. So I'm going to give it. I think Haw was probably okay with it. I'm going to assume.

Like the attacks by Benny the Bull have been surprises to Haw. and I think that's where Haugh doesn't really like it. You got to keep your head on swivel. If Benny the Bull is in the area, it's funny because he calls me Benny the Bull, but I would never do him dirty like Benny the Bull does him dirty. Put this down for five on it tomorrow. On the scale of 1 to 10, how angry was Hawed during the confessions? No, don't do that.

Speaking of the confetti, another cool moment because of the confetti you made me think of was Derek Stevens. Speaking of Circus Sports was in the house. And he flipped the switch, the literal switch. He switched the flip. That's right. He flipped the switch. Derek Stevens. To get us on FM.

So 104.3 FM. And here we are. You know what? Hoping to see him soon in his neck of the woods, if you know what I'm saying. We need to take a final break here and end the show. Did you have something? I'm sorry. I was just going to remind people in case you were looking forward.

the shows on social media, got a new handle to, at the score Chicago. So if you're on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, at the score of Chicago. I had to correct that because obviously on Twitch, it was one thing, now it's another. So at the score Chicago, if you want to follow it. And again, go see Grody. Mark underscore, underscore Grody, and then I'm M. Harris on air. Yeah. You can see my day at the Wiener Circle.

What I see right now is Matt Spiegel and Lawrence Holmes, who haven't been together for a while because of schedules and Lawrence has been out of town. So can't wait to have that reunion. We will talk to those guys next at Spiegel and Holmes and transition with Rahimi Harrison Grotie next on the score. Thy ticket, Lady Jennifer of Coolidge. Well, many thanks, good sir. Heareth my Discover card. They accept Discover at Renaissance Fares. Yeah, they do hear. Discover is accepted at the places that I love to shop. Get it with the

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