Remembering the late Cubs manager Lee Elia's epic rant
Spiegel & Holmes Show
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🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I appreciate you having me on, and I will always talk about the Leely or ran anytime I'm |
| 0:05.3 | passed. |
| 0:06.2 | So I'm here for it. |
| 0:07.9 | So thank you for having me on, and rest and peace. |
| 0:15.1 | That was Paul Canerco, former White Sox first baseman. |
| 0:21.1 | This is Spiegel and Holmes on 670 to score and the Odyssey and I Heart Radio apps. |
| 0:27.7 | Rami McLaugh here in for Speeges this afternoon. |
| 0:30.7 | Lawrence in Las Vegas at the NBA Summer League. |
| 0:35.9 | And yeah, Lee Elia passed away today at the age of 87 years old, 50 years in Major League |
| 0:45.0 | Baseball at some level, in some former fashion, starting with, and I didn't know this, |
| 0:50.6 | Lawrence, I don't know about you. |
| 0:52.3 | His debut is a shortstop for the White Sox in April |
| 0:55.7 | 1966 was where he first broke into the major league. |
| 1:01.0 | You did know that. |
| 1:02.9 | Yes, I did. |
| 1:03.9 | And then the thing is that we, |
| 1:05.3 | part of the reason that we play the Canerco talking about less |
| 1:09.7 | is because less, that's proprietary audio that he got. |
| 1:16.0 | Less was the only person that had the audio of Lee Eelia. |
| 1:20.4 | He's literally the only reporter, the only electronic reporter who stayed that classic rant. |
| 1:28.6 | So whenever you talk about Lee Eelia, you kind of have to mention Les Grobstein |
| 1:33.7 | because less is the one that brought all of that sound to us, that great rant, that |
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