Chapter 1: What are the five sports topics discussed in the '5 On It' segment?
The Score! I got five on it. It's time for Five on It. Raheem Harrison-Roney. Bring you five topics on their minds today. On 104.3 The Score. I got five on it. Number one.
Special edition of Five Honor today. Layla Rahimi, Mark Grody, and Russell Dorsey, Yahoo Sports National MLB insider, insider and analyst for MLB Network and Friday Night Baseball on Apple TV+. And host of The Relay with Russ Dorsey. Episode one dropped today. Make sure you check it out wherever you get your podcasts. Here's question number one.
Podcast Russ. Podcast Russ.
Podcast Russ. Let's go.
How do we get out of this now?
Okay. Question number one. Can we just stop? Which young player will be in Chicago the longest? The newly paid and minted Cubs outfielder Pete Crow Armstrong, PCA, Bears quarterback Caleb Williams, or Blackhawks center Connor Bedard?
Okay, so here's the thing. These are all careers, at least in baseball and hockey, where you can have a very long, lustrous life. The same can be said for quarterback if you take Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady into consideration when it comes to the length of success of a quarterback. Hell, let's even mention Joe Flacco in that because Joe's out here playing at 40 years old.
You too can be into your 40s and be an NFL quarterback. That's what makes this a challenge. Then I factored in that Chris Chelios had a 26-year season or career in the NHL. 26 seasons he played. Maybe Chris Chelios is the extreme. Chelios is usually the extreme when it comes to career length. But that said, could that be Conor Bedard's length of time in his career in this economy?
I still think it's probably going to be. So I do think that because of that, maybe Conor Bedard has the longest actual career. The only question is, will it be in Chicago the entire time? Because you see where Patrick Kane went off and went to. So I think I'm going to go with, despite all of that, I'm going to say it's probably if things go right.
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Chapter 2: Which young player will be in Chicago the longest: PCA, Caleb Williams, or Connor Bedard?
And you mentioned Patrick Kane. He just left Chicago three years ago and he was with the Hawks for like 15 years. It's a long time, right? I think the thing with Caleb though, if you have a quarterback in the NFL that you like, who is talented, sometimes it's not even about them being a top three quarterback in the NFL.
If you believe that you have a guy that is an above average quarterback, you're going to lock that guy in. Jay Cutler, who at the time, I think people like him a lot more now than they did when he was playing for the Bears. He played for eight seasons in Chicago, girls. And that was he had three seasons in Denver before that.
So my gut says Caleb Williams will be the longest of those three names in Chicago.
Yeah, because the NHL salary cap is so, maybe it changes during the course of Conor Bedard's career, but maybe I, you know, sprout scales and fly. Because I think the two are about as likely. Like when you're a star in the NHL, there's a good chance you're not going to play for your respective team your entire career.
controversial answer i'm going to say pca because as of right this second he is the only one of those three that we know for a fact he's locked in that is locked in and now we know wants to be here long term i'm pretty sure caleb williams wants to be the quarterback of the bears for the next 10 to 15 years i think but we don't know that for a fact.
We know that things can sometimes be a little bit wobbly in Caleb Williams' camp and how much influence his dad might have when contract time comes along. You can't just all of a sudden turn your back on what is going on with his family and the people that represent him. We don't
actually know what caleb's desires are or who will influence him i don't want to scare people but i i because i would like him to be here for the next you know five to ten years as well but and then you know with with conor bedart same thing same thing i think he likes chicago i think he wants to be here but we just don't know that for a fact we do know for a fact now that pca likes chicago and wants to be here long term
How dare you bring facts into this conversation?
There I go again.
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Chapter 3: Are the Cubs making the right choice by opting for Ben Brown over Javier Assad?
No. This will never go away. They wouldn't joke about it like this, either one of them.
There's nothing coming from MJ's side, though.
I'm not saying it's one-sided 100%. Yeah. Scotty is never letting this go. And I'm one of the belief when everybody's 60 years old and old and nobody... Come on, man.
Hey, that's most of our listeners, sir. Watch it.
No, I'm talking about when it comes to beef. And, like, holding on to grudges. Like, Scotty has to. Like, as the years go on, it just looks worse and worse on Scotty.
See, I look at it a little bit differently with this particular one because he's finally leaning into it and being playful about it as opposed to being dead serious and angry and looking bitter and holding on to resentments. He's finally just like, yeah, I'm doing this thing with Jordan. So I thought it was awesome.
I did, too, because he hasn't made jokes about it previously. Right. It was so serious before. I understand you addressing the obvious, which is it has not been in a good place. Let's not even get into who his ex-wife dated. Michael Jordan's son. And also, I will stand on this, by the way. I will stand on this.
If that situation were reversed and it was a man and the younger person in the relationship was a woman, we would think about that a lot differently. So I just want to throw that out there. In the meantime, I think this is him having fun.
Finally.
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Chapter 4: Will the Bears face challenges in paying their wide receivers?
And then it's not just that, but the Cubs offense is not without responsibility in that. Somebody's got to be on base here. The thing that I think where his value becomes even more intangible is I've got to be okay with that concept, right? The for some odd slug. It's that when he's on base, say his mindset becomes more make solid contact, not necessarily golf swing launch angle.
If he's on base, the inning changes. The lineup is more likely to turn over or at least lengthen. where you don't have as many automatic outs because they're so afraid of him as a stolen base threat that that changes how the inning looks from a complexion standpoint. That's where I feel like his value.
So much of what he does is measured in an intangible, which is why it's hard to put a monetary value on a lot of this. That's where I feel like his true value can help. If that's the case, Get on base with extra base hits or figure out how to, once you're on base, try to make an extra base happen with every single opportunity you have.
Yeah, and that's why I think the PCA's ability to get on base is such a big storyline for me. That's something I'll be watching because there's a lot of pressure on his slug. if he doesn't get on base at a high clip. If he is a 310 or less in terms of on-base percentage, to get the value, he's gonna have to be a 500 slug guy.
We think of guys hitting homers, there's not a ton of guys that can hit a 500 slug for an extended period of time that aren't named Raleigh, Judge, Otani, et cetera, Nick Kurtz. That's why his ability to get on base at a more consistent clip. Look, swing and miss is going to always be a part of his game, right? That's baseball. There are a lot of guys who swing and miss.
There are guys who are in the Hall of Fame that don't have a crazy high on base percentage. But he's a better player and the Cubs are a better team if it's a 4% increase. Right. That's that's a lot for a guy. And it puts less pressure on him. Like, hey, man, you got to hit 30. Got to hit 30. Got to hit 30. Because there's probably going to be some regression when it comes to the power.
And we know how Wrigley Field plays. Like, there's a reason there's only been one guy in the history of the team to have 40 homers as a left handed hitter. Like when that season started, everybody's like, oh, PCA is going to hit 40. And then he didn't because it's really hard to do. And it goes to show you just how good of a first half he had.
That's a great point. Russ Dorsey, always great to talk to you. If people want to find your podcast, The Relay with Russ Dorsey, where can they find it?
It's available everywhere, Layla Rahimi. Spotify, Apple. You can watch it on YouTube. Subscribe to the YouTube channel. It's under my name, Russ Dorsey, on YouTube. And yeah, having a good time over there. Episode just dropped this morning. I give you storylines of things that you should think about as a fan throughout the season.
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