Wayne Drehs
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139 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 28 Feb
Wayne Drehs’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's far fewer places to do them now, and I'm grateful that we have a magazine like Chicago that still invests in these long-form stories, and we still can tell them.
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The first question that I asked him going down that path is I asked him, how do you balance the way you play the game, your hair on fire, with sort of this laid-back, let-it-go approach that you have to have in a game where you are going to fail far more than you're going to succeed?
And he looked at me and he was like, I suck at it.
And then that just opened the door to really kind of digging in and talking about that.
You know, he told me that, you know, he would go home at night and toss and turn and not be able to sleep because he's pissed at himself, not because he, you know, went 0 for 4 or struck out or whatever.
because of the way he would slam his helmet and handle those struggles.
And, you know, he goes, I think to myself, I didn't put this in the piece, but he said, no, I think to myself, there are a bunch of kids that are at Wrigley today watching me play that are big fans, and then they're going to go home to, you know, frigging Winnetka or whatever it is in their little league game next week and slam their helmet, you know, and act like a jerk because they think that's okay.
And he's like, I have to figure out how to find this balance.
I thought the line that John Maley said to me, that he calls Pete the Hulk, because Pete's trying to figure out when to be Bruce Banner and when to turn green, I thought that was so spot on.
I mean, I think, you know, if I knew I would be a ballplayer speaks, but I think that it comes with, I think it comes with experience.
I think it comes with having perspective.
You know, I think, you know, Nico and, you know, Ian Happ and Dansby and now Alex Bregman are incredible resources.
And, you know, we saw last year with Pete and Justin Turneau, he kind of globs on to those veterans and tries to learn from them.
You know, I think the first step in this is,
is to understand it's a problem and face it.
And obviously, Pete is aware of that.
And so, you know, the fine line that Craig is trying to manage is look like
You need that energy.
He is in many ways the emotional engine of that team.
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