Jed Hoyer delivers a beautiful tribute to Ryne Sandberg (Hour 3)

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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4.6 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In the third hour, Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes reacted to the news that NFL Players Association executive director Lloyd Howell and chief strategy officer JC Tretter have resigned. After that, the guys listened and reacted to Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer pay tribute to franchise legend Ryne Sandberg on the Marquee Sports Network broadcast Sunday. Sandberg is battling cancer.

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0:00.0	Sequel and Holmes.
0:01.1	We go through a hot grease now, man.
0:03.0	Afternoons on the score.
0:04.2	Wow.
0:05.2	An epic Super Bowl for an epic season.
0:08.6	Wow.
0:09.2	That was great.
0:10.0	What a moment.
0:15.2	It's weird because, look, most of the time of year, this time of year, we are spending a lot of time looking at football kind of through abstract lenses.
0:30.3	And you're getting ready for your favorite team to get their way back.
0:34.6	By the way, we're only, what, 10 days away from a football game being played?
0:38.9	Hall of Fame game is July 31st. An NFL football game? Yeah, because flag football was big this
0:44.6	weekend. It seemed like it was a lot of fun. They should have done it on Thursday after the All-Star
0:49.5	game, but that's an old other thing. So we got an NFL game coming, and we've got an NFL Players Association in Chaos.
0:57.3	Last week, we brought everybody the story about Lloyd Howl,
1:00.8	and then followed that day after day as it kept getting worse and uglier and worse,
1:05.6	and then he resigned.
1:07.0	Yeah, he resigned because they found out that he was using union money to go to strip clubs.
1:12.2	He resigned because it became apparent that he's not really pro labor.
1:17.8	And I guess that was one of the things that convinced some folks that he should be their guy
1:24.8	because he knows how to walk the walk and talk the talk of the owners, which I still
1:30.5	think is a strange way to think about trying to have someone be a union boss. It's very, very weird.
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