Jon Lester talked negotiating David Ross' contract at 2 a.m. at Bub City

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes listened and reacted to former Cubs ace Jon Lester tell the story of how he helped bring catcher and good friend David Ross to Chicago.

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0:00.0	Spiegel and Holmes.
0:01.3	Just to be clear, like, we love fun.
0:03.1	Afternoons on the score.
0:04.8	You know, we've got some Luke Littles done a really nice job. There's a quoth. I had a bump in the road yesterday, but it's thrown the ball really well for us. Valencia is kind of... Oh, that was rough, man. Valencia was rough. I can't live like that. I mean, I know we can throw 100, but I can't.
0:23.4	When you start seeing the wild Valencia was rough. I can't live like that. I mean, I know we can throw 100, but I can't.
0:23.4	Would you start seeing the wild pitches?
0:25.9	Is the trust still there?
0:28.5	Is it Dan or for us?
0:30.2	Yes, it's Dan.
0:31.3	Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we've got to trust everybody on the team.
0:36.5	At that moment,
0:37.7	what a moment.
0:38.7	David Ross is thinking, why am I talking to this idiot?
0:42.6	Well, why am I doing this?
0:43.9	The thing is, is that Rossi and I had just been, it had just been us, and then my show
0:50.6	combined with the midday show, because remember I was doing Noon 2? Oh, yeah. And then Rossi would, it would just be me and him. So all of a sudden he had to... He had Dan to deal with it. Wow, that was great. What a moment. Yeah, what a moment. Wanted to... Wanted to clarify. Yeah, I wanted to clarify. Who's this? Who's challenging me? Who's telling me that they can't? And why should I care why they can't? It's funny. It's good, good radio. Very, very good radio. It's funny that, first of all, I had forgotten that Luke Little's in the precursor. And that Jose Quas, the former FedEx driver, or UPS driver?
1:29.9	From the Bronx?
1:31.3	Or was he from Brooklyn maybe?
1:32.8	Yeah, I think Brooklyn.
1:33.5	Playing on concrete?
1:34.7	Yeah, yeah, an incredible story.
1:37.4	And a bad pitcher.
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