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Dakota Mekas

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
256 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Alex Bregman is a Chicago Cub! Plus, The Bears Keep Rolling and the Cubs Make a Splash on the Trade Market | The Compound

All the stuff with Bellinger.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Alex Bregman is a Chicago Cub! Plus, The Bears Keep Rolling and the Cubs Make a Splash on the Trade Market | The Compound

This is my fair thing to talk about, Dakota.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Alex Bregman is a Chicago Cub! Plus, The Bears Keep Rolling and the Cubs Make a Splash on the Trade Market | The Compound

This is the WFAN fan theory of if George Steinbrenner was still alive, if George was alive, Kyle Tucker would have been on the Yankees two months ago.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Alex Bregman is a Chicago Cub! Plus, The Bears Keep Rolling and the Cubs Make a Splash on the Trade Market | The Compound

And there's a subset of New Yorkers that genuinely believe that.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Alex Bregman is a Chicago Cub! Plus, The Bears Keep Rolling and the Cubs Make a Splash on the Trade Market | The Compound

Now, whether or not that's actually true, I don't know.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Alex Bregman is a Chicago Cub! Plus, The Bears Keep Rolling and the Cubs Make a Splash on the Trade Market | The Compound

Because some of that Steinbrenner stuff, it was a little overblown.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Alex Bregman is a Chicago Cub! Plus, The Bears Keep Rolling and the Cubs Make a Splash on the Trade Market | The Compound

And you also have to remember, like,

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Alex Bregman is a Chicago Cub! Plus, The Bears Keep Rolling and the Cubs Make a Splash on the Trade Market | The Compound

There's a long stretch where the Steinbrenner owns the Yankees, the 80s into the mid-90s, where they're terrible.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Alex Bregman is a Chicago Cub! Plus, The Bears Keep Rolling and the Cubs Make a Splash on the Trade Market | The Compound

My dad's favorite player is Don Mattingly.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Alex Bregman is a Chicago Cub! Plus, The Bears Keep Rolling and the Cubs Make a Splash on the Trade Market | The Compound

Don Mattingly didn't win anything.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Alex Bregman is a Chicago Cub! Plus, The Bears Keep Rolling and the Cubs Make a Splash on the Trade Market | The Compound

Was the captain of the Yankees for 15 years, won nothing.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Alex Bregman is a Chicago Cub! Plus, The Bears Keep Rolling and the Cubs Make a Splash on the Trade Market | The Compound

So...

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Alex Bregman is a Chicago Cub! Plus, The Bears Keep Rolling and the Cubs Make a Splash on the Trade Market | The Compound

The Steinbrenner way, you know, he fired Billy Martin five times and then kept reuniting with him.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Alex Bregman is a Chicago Cub! Plus, The Bears Keep Rolling and the Cubs Make a Splash on the Trade Market | The Compound

So, you know, there was also downsides to that as well.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Alex Bregman is a Chicago Cub! Plus, The Bears Keep Rolling and the Cubs Make a Splash on the Trade Market | The Compound

I don't know if the Yankees would have signed Tucker.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Alex Bregman is a Chicago Cub! Plus, The Bears Keep Rolling and the Cubs Make a Splash on the Trade Market | The Compound

The Tucker market is the one I can't figure out.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Alex Bregman is a Chicago Cub! Plus, The Bears Keep Rolling and the Cubs Make a Splash on the Trade Market | The Compound

I have no idea where he's going.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Alex Bregman is a Chicago Cub! Plus, The Bears Keep Rolling and the Cubs Make a Splash on the Trade Market | The Compound

Feels like it's going to be a mystery team to me.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Alex Bregman is a Chicago Cub! Plus, The Bears Keep Rolling and the Cubs Make a Splash on the Trade Market | The Compound

It's going to be like some very random thing and you'll be like, really, there?

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Alex Bregman is a Chicago Cub! Plus, The Bears Keep Rolling and the Cubs Make a Splash on the Trade Market | The Compound

Somebody, you're like, what?