Mark Grote

Good thing that John Shires, the head coach, and not Kevin Welder or all the assistants would have been fired after that.

Fair enough.

You're right.

We have more Illini Talk later in the show, by the way, with Jeremy Warner, one of our favorite guests.

That will be at 1225, so if you want to check that out.

In the meantime, we've got to get to the NFL owners' meetings and talk to Kaylin Kaler, the senior NFL reporter for ESPN.

She will join us on the other side of this brief commercial break because there's already a lot of news coming out regarding possible work stoppages in the NFL that will affect the league and then also the latest from the owners' meetings.

So that's next.

Save big money at Menards.

Ryan, did you have much dialogue at all about Ian Cunningham and the compensatory pits?

Yeah.

I'll see most of you guys at the league meetings and we can talk about that.

I'll leave that alone right now.

What's one encouraging sign and one discouraging sign you took away from Chicago's baseball teams this weekend?

Can we make it like the knighthood meter where he's losing his knighthood and it's rising and falling?

for for ian happ who hopefully will be he will be right ian happ will be a a part of this show he makes his season debut on this very show rahimi harrison grody at 11 25 on 104.3 to score the score tomorrow 11 25 a.m put it in your calendars it's going to be weak a weekly thing

Number two.

Shout out to our program director, Ryan Porth, for submitting this great question here.

Are the Cubs going to regret trading Owen Casey more than they'll regret trading Cam Smith?

I think that was 2016, wasn't it?