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Jason Hammer on half of the Hammer and Nigel afternoon show with this Cub shirt on ready to be disappointed this afternoon.

Oh, oh, I believe it was Barry Manilow that once said, I'm ready to take a chance again.

And listen, did not expect the Cubs to be in the playoffs this year when the season started because the Ricketts family that owns the Cubs.

They run that thing like it's the Pittsburgh Pirates.

They act like they're broke.

They act like they have no money.

Despite the fact they've got their own network, they're selling tickets in the bleachers

for over $100 for a random Tuesday game against the Diamondbacks.

They own part of the area around Wrigleyville, some of the rooftop areas, the bars. They've got everything. Their third in all of baseball and total revenue. But at the beginning of the year, the Ricketts family, when asked why they don't spend more money on free agents, we're just trying to break even. Oh, bull crap. If you would have spent just a little money, you would have had the best record in the league instead of playing in the wild card round. Baseball's kind of ridiculous now. Do they still do the guy on second base and overtime? Not in the playoffs. Oh, okay, so we have real baseball. But you still can only throw over to first base a certain amount of times. There's still a pitch clock. Correct. Because, you know, shaving that 10 minutes is going to make all the difference.

I wasn't, I was not going to watch the game, but now I know it'll be two hours and 48 minutes

and still two hours and 58 minutes.

So I'll definitely, like that's their theory.

That's their working theory.

That's not the Cubs.

They didn't make the role.

They don't say baseball. Like in general, baseball is like 10 minutes. Let's just totally disrupt, you know, 100 plus years of tradition. And let's put all these stupid, wacky, ridiculous rules in because it'll make the game 10 minutes faster.

They're trying to appeal to the folks that probably weren't watching baseball anyway.

Exactly. Right? And guys that love baseball, like I put myself in that category. You're going to watch it anyway. I'm going to watch it anyway, right? And next year, they're going to do what they did in the All-Star game, where you've basically got a couple challenges each game for balls and strikes. Oh, jeez. We're calling this the Angel Hernandez rule.

Because there's a reason you know the name Angel

Hernandez, and it's not because he was a fantastic umpire.

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