Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Which Chicago athlete should be the next to have their jersey retired?
30 Jan 2026
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Chapter 1: Who are the Chicago athletes currently honored with retired jerseys?
Rahimi Harrison-Grody, middays 10 a.m. to 2 on Chicago Sports Radio 670 The Score. Who from the Bulls deserves that honor in your opinion?
Hey, to be totally honest with you, I don't know. I was surprised that I was up next. To be completely honest with you, I saw no championship, no Raptors, no Banner, no nothing. So for me to go up there, I can only imagine who's next.
Mm-hmm. It's Rahimi Harrison-Grody. That is Derrick Rose on the Mully and Haw Show. Yeah, I mean, that's tough because it would have to be, if they're going to retire another jersey, it would probably have to be another player from the 90s, another championship player. You already have Derrick Rose, Michael Jordan, Scotty Pippen, and then going back farther, Jerry Sloan and Bob Love.
are among those that are already in. And we've been, Marshall, we've been threatening to do this topic all week during our pre-show meetings, and finally it felt really good to do it on Friday in the name of Derrick Rose having his jersey number retired at the United Center. Who is, which Chicago athlete will be the next to have their jersey retired? Should be or will be?
That's a good, interesting distinction. Can we do both? Wow, that's... Because here's why.
Whatever you want, I guess. My answer is someone who I don't think he's going to get his jersey retired, but he should.
Try us. By the way, Russell Dorsey is here, too. Oh, yeah, Russell Dorsey. Thanks for playing our little games here, Russ.
Of course. Yahoo National Major League Baseball Insider. You can catch him on various platforms and whatnot because he's always working.
It's all good stuff. It's all on Apple TV. It is good stuff, Russ.
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Chapter 2: Which Chicago athletes are in contention for jersey retirement next?
I know there's a lot of conversation about him being deserving to go to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which he does when you consider the peanut punch is a staple in how to teach defensive players how to knock the ball loose.
That guy did everything you would want as a player, as a representative of a franchise, what he means to the city even now, and he hasn't played for the Bears in over a decade at this point because he had that stint in Carolina with the Panthers. I think that would be a guy, if the Bears didn't have the issue of all the numbers retired, that I would put on the list.
I think the clarification here is for this sport specifically, and because of the backlog we talked about, I don't think you should be jumping line until you are a pro football Hall of Famer. And I think he will get in. I think he will get in eventually. But we're dealing with that this week. We understand the rigors of getting into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Nobody wants to be in this Hall of Fame. It's nasty.
It's nasty work, diabolical, getting in, not getting in, however you want to put it. But I know Mike Ditka was the last guy for the Bears to get his jersey retired. It was 2013. So more recent than I even thought. But that's still been 14 years. Yeah. Or 13 years.
There's three guys that I think are going to get their number retired. I think one is already retired and the other two are active. Uh, the two that are active are Kane and Taves.
Okay. Absolutely. Yeah.
The guy who is most recently retired and will have his number retired one day is Anthony Rizzo on the North side. I think 44 gets retired. I hadn't thought about that, but yeah, he, he is. I think when you think of the gravity of what he was for that franchise, good. I think Anthony Rizzo, um, is going to be in consideration. And I know they have the Cubs Hall of Fame, too.
And I think that helps for guys where you're on that, should we retire the number? Shouldn't we? But that's another guy I think of. I'm like, man, when you talk about a guy that did everything the franchise was looking for at that time, the impact that he had on the World Series championship team, I think 44%.
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Chapter 3: What factors influence the decision to retire a jersey in Chicago sports?
He wasn't necessarily the best player. Pretty close. Though, I mean, you could argue that Chris Bryant in that span, he did. He made a bigger impact offensively and defensively than Chris Bryant. But, and think about it, too. Like, if we are talking about the popularity part of it, and you can't avoid that part.
Chapter 4: Why is Mike Singletary a strong candidate for jersey retirement?
It is in the equation. You know, Rizzo is immensely popular, and he's going to get more popular because he is an ambassador for the Cubs. Like, he's back in the organization. There was no friction. He walked right back in.
Getting that TV money.
Yeah. Getting that TV money. And he's doing a real TV gig. Like, he is going to be out. We're going to get more Rizzo. And, by the way, oh, my God, Rizzo and Votto together. With Kershaw. That is, like, those two, just watching those two have conversations through the years at first base, that'll be fun. But I love it. I didn't have Rizzo on the mind, but he'd probably be.
And we could do a whole topic on who should be the first Cub to get their jersey retired. But I'm down with Rizzo.
What did you guys think of the conversation, which they said there was not going to be a statue, but something else honoring all the members of that World Series team?
Well, I think there will be. I think that's fair. I think it's fair.
Because, like, who are you going to single out? Right. You could probably come up with your top five most impactful guys and do, like... I don't even know if it's fair, like a White Sox thing.
Because I think the hard part is ā I'm not bad. None of those guys are going to the Hall of Fame, right? So it's not like they had the career where it's like, that guy is deserving of a statue. And even in Cubs history ā Like, look at the guys who have statues. You're talking about Hall of Famers. Yes.
Ferguson Jenkins. Rhyno.
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Chapter 5: How does Brian Urlacher's legacy impact jersey retirement discussions?
And it's crazy how we talk about the front half of a guy's career getting him in the Hall. For Kyle Schwarber, if he gets in, it's going to be the back half that gets him in. It's definitely going to be the back half.
Which is crazy to think. Always been Schwarber. It's always, like, we go through these guys because if we did this exercise while it was in progress, we'd be like, Chris Bryant, he's going to walk into the Hall. Javier Baez, with how spectacular this guy is. Absolutely, he's going to be. Anthony Rizzo, maybe even at one point. It's always been Schwarber.
All along, throughout that whole process, all the prospects, it's Schwarber has been the constant. And I will say, when they did non-tender him, I was okay with it because he was having a bad time of it. He was not getting the contact that he usually had. It felt like it was time to move on, but boy, was that wrong in so many different ways.
Yeah, hindsight is 20-20 there. I think I remember that season after, and he was just like, hey, man, they gave me every opportunity. And so when a guy says that, you got to take him as where, like, hey, maybe. Because I don't believe he would be the same player had he stayed. Sometimes you need to change the scenery. That's real.
The ballpark that he's been playing at is conducive for big-time power from left-handed hitters, and Wrigley Field isn't. There's a reason no player beyond Billy Williams has hit 40 home runs there in the season.
It's amazing. I think, all right, ready? The answer to the question, and I know that we wonderfully took it in a slightly different direction. A lot of directions. No, I love it. That's beautiful for a segment like this. Three-man weave out here. Yeah, no, absolutely. Who is going to be the person to have, I think, after this entire discussion that we've just had, how about Jonathan Taves?
Because if they, to your point, and we talked about this during the break, if they're putting Marion Hossa, like they did retire, and Hossa was great. I'm not even saying he doesn't deserve it. But if you put Hossa in, the second Taves calls it and quits and he's done and retires, which could happen, like I feel like any season now, Taves is done, gone, retired. 100%.
No one's arguing that. It's just a matter of time. When is he going to be eligible?
Right, and then Kane and Keith and all those guys because they're all as good as Seabrook. Boy, that is a complicated scenario. Corey Crawford. Corey Crawford, yeah. You've got to give the goalie love. Pretty amazing. All right, we've got one more segment. Is that right? Is that where we are in life? We're at 140 right now. It's our final segment. Oh, honorable mention, Candace Parker.
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