00:00We have a game five, John.
00:01How about that?
00:02We got one game five.
00:04The game five, nobody wanted to see.
00:06I keep telling everybody this.
00:08These two teams were not amazing in the regular season.
00:13They were five to seven games over 500.
00:16How about division opponents?
00:18And yeah, these are division opponents.
00:20They were in the same division duking it out for the AL Central title,
00:23and they came within one game of each other.
00:25And now it's going to a final game.
00:28If there was any series that was going to go five, it was probably this one.
00:31I just didn't expect it to go 2-0, then 2-2, going back to Cleveland.
00:37So listen, I got to give Cleveland a lot of credit.
00:40They were held to seven hits in two games.
00:43They were down 0-2.
00:44They're going back to Chicago, where Chicago was so excited for this game.
00:49I mean, they haven't had a playoff game like this with that environment in a long time,
00:53five years since 2021 or something like that.
00:55So now the White – and then they scored 18 runs in two nights in Chicago.
01:02And my thing is, like, what if they go back to Cleveland
01:06and they just forget how to hit again?
01:08It feels like Chicago – the White Sox play better on the road.
01:11I don't know how you feel about this White Sox team, but, I mean.
01:16This is the Reinsdorf curse.
01:18Oh, my goodness.
01:19You're right.
01:21This is what he gets.
01:23I am a White Sox fan in my bones, in my DNA.
01:27I'm from the south side of Chicago.
01:30The first actual live sporting event I saw in person was a White Sox game
01:34because my Uncle Harold was the ball boy, okay?
01:37I got stories.
01:39You understand what I'm saying to y'all?
01:40Well, I got stories.
01:42And I'm telling you, Jerry Reinsdorf has cursed this organization,
01:48and by proxy, he's cursed the Chicago Bulls, okay?
01:52And because of this, they will build you up, they'll get you and put some wind
01:57in your sails, and then here come a big old wave of reality.
02:01There ain't no way.
02:02You go up 2-0, and you come back home, and then you get the doors blown off you
02:08all of a sudden, magically?
02:09It's the Reinsdorf curse, man.
02:11The second you believe, the second you really think that this is going to happen,
02:15Chicago, we here, this us.
02:18Nah, never mind.
02:20Your owner's still alive.
02:23It's a cool environment.
02:25You can tell, like, White Sox fans.
02:27How is that place, John?
02:29It's a dump.
02:30Let me be honest.
02:31Okay.
02:33The Bears struggled until Virginia McCaskey departed us.
02:39Look where we at now, okay?
02:42The people who had their thumb on the scales of Chicago sports for my entire life.
02:51Well, here's the thing about the White Sox.
02:53They still have a chance to win this series amidst all this chaos and everything.
02:57Do you think they're going to – so you're kind of out.
02:59You think they're going to lose?
03:01I hope that they win.
03:02Okay.
03:03Because I think the city deserves it.
03:06I think it's owed to the city for the way that they've supported the White Sox after 300 lost seasons
03:10in a row,
03:11where they asked Jerry Reinsdorf, are we going to get into the Otani sweet steaks?
03:15And he laughed in the reporter's face.
03:18And he laughed in the reporter's face.
03:22Remember they had a –
03:25Oh, hold on, hold on, hold on.
03:26It's the same man who hired his friend, Tony La Russa,
03:32and it allowed Tony La Russa to just sleep in the dugout during games, okay?
03:39When I tell y'all the hatred for Jerry Reinsdorf – Michael's okay – for Jerry Reinsdorf runs very deep
03:47for me, okay?
03:48It's equal to my hate of the state of Wisconsin, okay?
03:54I hope, I hope that the Chicago White Sox find their way to go to Cleveland and pull this thing
04:01out.
04:02But if they don't, it's going to be Scrooge's fault.
