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There's a bunch Chicago
Cubs Matt Shaw

did a heroic thing in my
personal opinion.

You know, it's funny
when I was at

Pastor Jackson's church,
a matter of fact,

y'all need to go check
that video out.

Maybe we'll upload it.

I wanted Pastor Jackson
his channel to

get out of use for it,
but I put it in

a community tab of my
speech regarding

Charlie and regarding
Israel at Pastor

Allen Jackson Church to where outreach
Church when I was there.

I could have sworn I saw a
famous golfer there.

When I was looking in
the crowd, I saw

I thought I saw him and
I said, no, that

may not be him.

But anyway, with that
being said,

there's a lot of celebrity
athletes that are

conservative.

They can't openly say it.

They don't project it,
but it is also

good when you see people
that say, I don't

care what you think.

I'm going to stand for
what's right now.

They're going to be going to
make me buy Jersey.

I don't normally wear Jersey with
another man name on my back.

I'm not done living.

I don't got another
man name on my

back, but in the celebrity
or in celebrating

a man with courage.

I like to do you know what?

He probably follow me.

I think he follow me.

All right, let's play the clip.

All the veteran players.

Really?

And then I mean Charlie,
he was, you

know, he was someone that
I met at the

apartments in Arizona where
I lived and

then someone who was one
of the biggest

Cubs fans ever met.

And he texted me after
every game.

We have a great win for
the Cubbies and

he was super super supportive
of us and

obviously someone who's
really faithful.

So we connected on that
front as well.

But yeah, I mean his
wife Erica had

texted me asking me if I
would come to the

funeral and you know,
I felt as though

it was something that was
really important

for me to do.

Are you concerned about
the backlash

because there is a lot
of politics about

this?

Yeah, I mean absolutely.

I'm not concerned at all.

No, you know, my connection with
Charlie was through our faith.

That's something that drives
me every day.

That's the reason why I'm able
to do what I do every day.

And that's something I'm
extremely thankful for.

You know, I know without
my faith and

without the many blessings
I've been

given in my life that
I wouldn't be

here able to talk to you
guys able to help

this team eventually go and
win championships.

So that's something I feel really
really blessed about.

So, you know, whatever backlash
comes is okay.

You know, I feel feel
strong about

my faith and that that
was meant to be

happy.

Now, how do you get backlash
for going

to how do you get backlash
for going to

Charlie Kirk's Memorial?

They didn't say they didn't
talk about number Jesus.

It's of Trump.

You know, he had to do
his own thing.

But everybody else talk about
number Jesus.

Who would be mad at you
for doing that?

Oh, Nick said the commentators.

The commentators mentioned
something about this.

Put them on the show.

In a row, Matt Shaw leads
off for the Cubs.

He had a base in his
first time up.

Shaw had Cubs world in
a tizzy this

weekend when he was not
here for the Cubs

game with the Reds.

And they lost one nothing
and which

is lack of presence was
felt was later

revealed that he had been given

permission to attend Charlie
Kirk's funeral.

And I don't want to talk
about any of

the politics of it, but
the thought of

leaving your team in the
middle of a race.

For any reason other
than a family

emergency really strikes
me as weird.

It's unusual.

I think it's unprecedented at

least from my experience
as a player.

And I think it made it
a little bit

more unusual that it was
not revealed

until after it came to
issue because

he was thought to be in
the dugout and

maybe available and
then was not

when that's how it
was revealed.

So it became weird be more of a

story than it could have
been had a bit

of rest from the beginning.

Shaw strikes out to start
the inning.

Do you think the fact
that he's a

rookie changes the equation
at all?

That makes it more or
less egregious?

As I said, I think that's

something that would certainly
be unusual

during my era.

I but then again, there was
no paternity leave.

There was a bereavement leave
when I played at all.

You showed up and you
know, just

found a way to get through
work, but

that has changed.

Yeah, it has changed.

Well, but I thought
it was telling

that the reason that they
didn't tell

anybody and that they
have to play a

man short was that the
situation did

not qualify for baseball's
bereavement list.

We've been as direct that
would be failing.

So I think that in of
itself gives

you a clue as to how
it was received

by a lot of people.

He Charlie was his
family member

for you dummies when
you're in the

faith.

We are brothers and sisters
in Christ.

So when his brother in Christ

lost his life and he was
asked by his

other family members
in Christ to

go to the funeral and
y'all play

four hundred thousand games.

He a rookie is he the is he
the designated hitter?

He's a star lineup.

Okay, I give him that but man
God that y'all can't win.

You know what y'all lost
by one thing.

Y'all blame now him.

The man in one game y'all pay

four hundred thousand
games in one

game.

He want to go to celebrate the

life of one of the biggest
Christian

martyrs to ever live and y'all
use the word weird.

I put this on everything
that if

somebody did this for
George Floyd,

they would never in their wildest
dreams say is weird.

I promised on everything
if them

commentators had said
it was weird

for somebody to go
attend George

Floyd's funeral as a
black player.

They wouldn't say nothing.

It is they need them.

I believe that they should make
an apology for using so being

insensitive and saying weird

that he was asked by
a family member

which was Charlie's wife to come
attend a memorial service for

Charlie Kurt and y'all used
to wear weird.

No, dude is weird for you
to think is weird.