Transition: That Braves-Angels game escalated quickly

0:00Now we're in a transition a little bit. Come on, you're on this world, why don't you? Molly and Ha, 104-3, the score we, of course, broadcast live from the Scores Hyundai studios brought to you by your local Hyundai dealers. Want to thank them, thanks to Jacob Stutz. He gets us twitching away in the morning and thanks to everyone for calling, texting, emailing. Most of all, thank you for listening on this Wednesday. Can you believe it's already getting over that hump? It's staying. I believe there's an afternoon game for the socks and the cubs are at 540. It's great stuff. Early baseball, gotta love it. We've got our guy, we want to thank him. He is back and he is apparently different. He's Mr. Dustin, you can't bother me, Roads. You just cut your list in half. He's FX Roads.

1:00I love it. He brings us along. I love the special effects. Yeah, it's great. And thank you, Brandon Fryer, for reminding us of FX Roads. Here comes Salar. Going after Lopez. They swear up. And Salar and Lopez are brewing hay bakers. They're going after each other. Salar is finally tackled from behind as the angels and braves are all out onto the field. That came up out of nowhere. Salar was upset after a couple of pitches were high and in. After we get another homer off Lopez and a fight broke out just out of thin air. Go for the pitcher. And again. I'll be indebted for fighting. And both clubs are now warned for the rest of the game. A couple of former psychologists. X. Cubs versus X-White socks. They went a little bit goofy. Little goofy. It was pretty intense. Yeah. You don't see that often in a baseball fight. Well, I mean, you don't want to see a pitch or a Ronaldo punched him in the helmet.

2:04I think he was still holding the baseball. Be careful with your hands. Yeah. He lost control. All right. Marshall Harris. He's right there. I try to stay in control when I play. That's always in control. You're almost dustin' like in your mellows. Don't do that to me. Don't do that to me. Laila Rahimi. Hello. Hello. Yeah, I wasn't quite the haymaker that José Batista leveled. But it was Starling Castro's got some length to him. That's some boxer length right there. I mean, Starling Castro. Jorge Soler, sorry. Oh, yeah. He's a big, too big man. I mean, he did not. He did not. It was a big dude. There was not, like, his arms went out like go-go gadget arms. Wow. On rain all though. Yeah. They connected. They landed. I mean, they weren't the best. I mean, Starling Castro was the textbook for landing a punch on a baseball fighter feeling. Fine. They got about that, man. It also escalated quickly. It was out of control. Yeah, I did.

3:04So what do you guys think of? You can talk about, I'm sure, the Michael Reinsdorf performance. Performance. Is that what you're talking about? It's a Zoom press conference. There's a performative aspect to it. Yeah, definitely. That's fair. There's a little bit of a script that he had in many veered off that script. And let us know how he really felt. You've been reviewed. It is a performance. Yeah. You're constantly always being reviewed. We listened to it because it happened right after our show. We were still here. So we were listening to it. And then making faces at Lawrence and Matt through the glass when we were here, stuff. There was much emoting going on. And you know what's interesting is that with the owners of all sports teams, specifically in this town, you just don't hear from them that often. Right. So what do you do? It's like everybody has something that they've been wanting to get off their chest. Or that they feel like they've been yelling into the void, but now they can really redirect it. Yeah. You know, we were talking, we talked quite a bit about it. I think it reminded me of like one of the first times you heard from George McCasky.

4:07I think you don't take into account oftentimes when you are around the sports scene. And you know who the movers and shakers people are. Like David and I knew George for years. And then when he moved into the role he's in, everyone was kind of like, oh, you know, there's a lot of criticism of style over substance. And I think there was an element of that. And we decided this morning as we talked it through that if you were, if you were, I don't care who you are, why would you want to ever have a news conference? Because it was just, it was like some of the worst of humans coming out. Everybody kind of picked in on every element of your personality, of the way you speak, of the way you look. It just seemed way over the top. Because when I listened to it, I was by myself listening to it. And I gave nothing surprised me.

5:07I didn't think it was a shock that an MBA owner would not like tanking and would not talk positively about it. The league is trying to do what it can to stop it these days. And I was a little surprised at some of the vehemence that came back at him from people that maybe hadn't seen him before or understood how he looked at things before. I'm surprised that you're surprised in 2026 and 18. And it comes out of the interwebs. I just forget sometimes that people are shot out of a key. I just think that's an outstanding word, vehemence. Really is. That's a security standing now today. Yeah. That's not of the day. I usually use it as an adverb vehemently. vehemently. The vehemence is just. The vehemence is, yeah. And it's got the ability over there with the vehemence. You know what I mean? How, how then must we handle this today? I don't know that we have, we have vehemence about it. But I, I do ask the question and we will.

6:07Are the bulls preventing themselves from getting the best candidate because of all this criteria? So we are going to ask that question. There is a discussion of tanking because even though you can't say it, maybe there are other ways you can say it. So we'll get into that at 1025. We have to discuss Kate Horton at 1045. Mike Floreo will join us at 11. Shakia Taylor, the staff writer for the athletic covering the NBA will join us to talk bulls in Sky 1125. Five on it, is it noon? Apparently in halftime we have a quintessential question about life. That everybody participates in. So we'll do that. Megan Montemorro who covers the Cubs for the Tribune is at 1225. And Joella Renzi. We want to follow up with him after our conversation last week. He covers the, the NBA and the bulls for the athletic as well. He has some good questions yesterday. He did and he's coming on at one. Good. Have a good show. Thank you.