Caller choked up about Alex Cooper's rendition of the 7th-inning stretch

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes took calls about the sanctity of the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field, and one caller got choked up about the dream of performing it himself.

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0:00.0	That is seven-thinning stretch tonight.
0:03.5	We'll be conducted from our booth by Alex Cooper, the creator of Call Her Daddy and CEO of Unwell.
0:11.5	Very popular on the podcast circuit.
0:17.1	Are you a podcaster yourself, Zach?
0:19.6	Not a podcaster, but I listen to a lot of pods.
0:23.4	So I'm going to step aside so they can come in here and get set to conduct the stretch.
0:30.3	Don't forget your smart speakers.
0:33.2	It's never dull at Wrigley Field, Pat. Never dull.
0:38.5	That picture of the Tribune had of poor Pat acting as if the dancers might fall on him, I felt really bad.
0:46.4	So that's our guy.
0:47.6	He seemed terrified.
0:48.7	Yeah.
0:49.5	Sully wrote a great piece about it in Tribune.
0:52.1	Jeff Agress wrote about it in the Sun-Times.
0:54.8	I love what Sully said.
0:56.4	Like, to further the point of the Cubs wanting their cake and wanting to have their
1:02.1	cake and eating it too, there are plenty of people that they should consider inviting
1:05.8	that they haven't.
1:06.9	Steve Stone should do the seventh inning stretch.
1:09.5	He's never had a chance.
1:10.7	And Sully wrote about that. He should have a chance to do the seventh inning stretch. He's never had a chance. And Sully wrote about that.
1:12.1	He should have a chance to do the seventh inning stretch. He means as much to, to Cubs fans, and was
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