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The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #40: West Side Stories

By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes

Soap opera switches teams: Bulls Window Re-Opened! Blackhawks Window Slams Shut! Plus: Post-Combine Bears; What Kris Bryant's Status Will Tell Us; White Sox Infield By Committee; Dismembering Ricky Renteria; and The Legend Of Theo.

SHOW NOTES

* Gale Sayers.

2:48: Bulls Window Re-Opened!

* Derrick "Gale" Rose?

* Four to six weeks.

* Jason Goff.

* Meniscus.

* Meniscectomy.

* Tom Thibodeau, Coach of the Year.

19:50: Blackhawks Window Slams Shut!

* Sheldon Brookbank.

* Patrick Palmeiro.

34:16: Post-Combine Bears.

* Trading Matt Forte?

* Going Cubs?

40:04: What Kris Bryant's Status Will Tell Us.

* We could all be dead in six years.

* Third base by committee?

45:10: White Sox Infield By Committee.

* Being Steve Stone.

* How 'bout some loyalty to the fans, Reinsdorf!

* Conor Gillaspie.

* Dan Jennings.

* Bourbon County Stout.

* Anti-Hero IPA.

* Lagunitas IPA.

* On the big handles!

* Chris Sale's throwing motion.

* Melky Cabrera.

55:02: Dismembering Ricky Renteria.

* "I think it's going to be a really good experience for us to play with a manager that knows how to win games," said Starlin Castro. "[Renteria] just maybe needs more time to learn more."

56:30 The Legend Of Theo.

* Theo fired his first two managers here in three and has similarly gone through a few batting coaches, in part because he bungled Bill Mueller's situation. Then he hired Manny Ramirez.

* Manny Ramirez Arrested For Battery.

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