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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Remembering the late Cubs manager Lee Elia's epic rant

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Former Cubs manager Lee Elia died earlier this week. After news broke Thursday of his passing, we listened back to his infamous rant in 1983.

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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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