Laurence Holmes

And hello on an early edition of Transition.

With Lawrence Holmes and Matt Spiegel.

Hi, guys.

Welcome to Middays.

Hi, Midday audience.

You've never been here before.

Neither one of you have ever hosted Middays.

Like when we thanked the passage of time, which was Speaker's favorite joke on the show.

It was the double Alabama formation when he was on with Marshall today.

He's right.

I like Chicago more than San Diego, too.

Oh, interesting.

I mean, he also, I think, his whole baseball career spanned some real elite cities when you consider San Diego and Chicago, as we just mentioned.

But, you know, Red Sox, where they were still obviously contending at that time.

at some point acquiring him meant that you were serious about a playoff run which was symbolic and very cool and then also we didn't even mention it but you know he spent time with bruce bochy as well in san francisco i mean you you don't get a much more pretty career than that when you consider san diego chicago boston and san francisco that's very glamorous

I had to –

I had the duty of staying with the morning... I worked overnight.

Shanowski and I did the post-postgame show on NBC Sports Chicago after Captain Holly.

And then I went home, changed, and then went straight to Wrigley to deal with morning show reporters asking me who everybody was.

And can you get out of my shot?