Episode 7: Dante the Don
The Stretch
Barstool Sports
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2017
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Here's the thing... You don't get anymore 'inside' than Dante 'The Don', baby! No one is closer to the Cubs, no one is trusted more and no one has better stories of your favorite 2016 World Series Champions than this episode's guest.
Cubs vs. Cardinals & Sox vs. Tigers recap (1:47); New segment, 'You're Killing Me, Smalls' (4:42); Introducing Dante 'The Don', the Chicago Cubs' DJ (15:29); Dante was responsible for Carl working at Barstool... Kind of (16:42); Carl spilled a beer all over Anthony Rizzo at a bar (22:57); Rizzo's friendship with Dante, how he got the DJ gig (29:04); Changes coming to Wrigley (46:18); The art of the walk-up song: Dave and Carl reveal their favorites (55:06); Punking Jon Lester (1:04:27); Dante flew on Rizzo, David Ross & Dexter Fowler's private jet to SNL! (1:08:52)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Redline Radio listeners. You can find us every Thursday on Apple podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. |
| 0:06.9 | Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon music. I can devote now to you guys. Thank you. I appreciate that. I'm just joking. I'm happy to be here. |
| 0:15.3 | Energy is through the roof. We have a really entertaining show for you guys tonight. We're rolling on some new segments and we are going to be talking with Cups DJ, |
| 0:24.2 | Dante, the Don about all things, Rigglyfield atmosphere, walk up music, Riggly renovation, just a lot of the operation behind the scenes. |
| 0:33.0 | A lot of stuff. Yeah, just like a lot of shit. He's been behind the scenes in the rebuild since its infancy. |
| 0:39.5 | And that's what we're going to talk a little bit about today. |
| 0:41.5 | Are we about ton to talk about with Dante? It's tons of stories, playoffs, Anthony Rizzo behind the scenes, just like unbelievable insight from Dante. |
| 0:51.2 | But before we get there, Dave, before we get there, real quick, the Cubs opened up this season with a series went on the road against the archival carnels. |
| 1:01.7 | The two wins were two games historically. The Cubs lose in very embarrassing fashion. We saw John Lester come out. They lose the first game in the season. |
| 1:08.7 | Not really commanding the fastball, but doing what John Lester does and competing his balls off Wilson Contreras. |
| 1:14.7 | Obviously, hitting the huge three run homer to put them back in the game. You win some, you lose them, right? |
| 1:19.7 | But then it bounced back. Area, it just absolutely shoved on the ball. The cartels asked, it's what everybody thinks you're going to see from area at all year. |
| 1:28.9 | That's sion candidate stuff. And then the Cubs today facing a three run deficit. They come back. Schwarber hits a ball to the moon. |
| 1:35.9 | They didn't even know that they win six four. So it's just like it's really encouraging to see after the first game. You're kind of like, fuck. |
| 1:41.9 | And then they come back, went to really close ball games again on the road against the archival. So we're excited to see that we're excited to see the car. |
| 1:49.6 | The cartels get too lost as to start the year. And to be honest, I'd be surprised if the Cubs lost control of the lead over the car. |
| 1:57.6 | No, some here and out on the other side of town. Dave on the other side of town. |
| 2:01.6 | We'll go into this a little bit more in detail today. |
| 2:05.6 | We just have so much to talk about with Dante that we have to kind of rush. I know we do because just trust us. |
| 2:12.6 | Yeah, just trust us that Dante's got stories on stories. But on the other side of town, we got a new segment going season over. |
| 2:18.6 | Get's rained out pushback day. Jose Contana throws the second worst start. He's had in three years. Still want five innings. Five and a third only gave up six runs. So all in all, not like the most abortion of a start ever, but still not Jose Contana was a day. |
| 2:33.6 | But anyways, moving on to today, I didn't get to watch the game. I was watching on the game tracker at work on ESPN or whatever. |
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