Chicago radio host rips Cubs player for Turning Point event attendance, likens it to 'Nazi-adjacent pep rally'

Chicago Cubs outfielder Matt Shaw volition beryllium among galore speakers astatine Turning Point USA's "America Fest" adjacent play successful Phoenix.

Shaw attended Charlie Kirk’s funeral, which stirred controversy, arsenic helium near his squad during a postseason propulsion to attend. He besides was scratched from the Cubs’ lineup connected Sept. 10, the time Kirk was assassinated.

Upon proceeding Shaw would be adjacent week’s event, longtime Chicago vigor big Dan Bernstein implored Shaw to "own it" and "embrace it." However, Bernstein added helium did not privation Shaw to "give [him] immoderate of that bulls--t" astir religion oregon being Kirk’s person earlier taking shots astatine Turning Point and different blimpish figures slated to beryllium astatine the event.

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Chicago Cubs 3rd baseman Matt Shaw looks connected successful the dugout earlier the MLB crippled betwixt the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Angels connected Aug. 22, 2025 astatine Angel Stadium successful Anaheim, California. (Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

"Matt Shaw is telling you something," Bernstein said connected his podcast. "I don’t privation to perceive immoderate mealy-mouthed explanations erstwhile he’s asked astir it. I don’t privation him to say, ‘Oh, well, I’m conscionable his friend, oregon this is conscionable due to the fact that of my faith.’ Don’t springiness maine immoderate of that bulls--t. Own it. Own it. That’s each I ask. Embrace it. Be arrogant of it, Matt Shaw. That’s each I ask, is don’t effort to accidental this isn’t what this is..

"If you privation to spell to a gathering that tells maine intelligibly that you are arrogant to beryllium among hatemongers, homophobes, fascists, racists, flag-waving arrogant racists. If these are your radical and this is your thing, and you privation to beryllium astatine this proudly Nazi-adjacent pep rally, spell ahead. Go ahead. Have a day, man. Have a week. Whatever blows your hairsbreadth back," Bernstein added.

Matt Shaw of the Chicago Cubs successful enactment against the Tampa Bay Rays astatine Wrigley Field connected Sept. 12, 2025 successful Chicago, Illinois. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

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"And if you person been fixed support to subordinate the Cubs brand, each things Chicago Cubs, with this lineup of horrible, horrible people, each lasting proudly connected the incorrect broadside of history. Go ahead. Just don’t unreal you’re not. Don’t effort to ameliorate it. Don’t effort to soften it. Stick that chin retired similar it is successful the picture, you and your Cubby Blue, and ain it."

Shaw and Kirk, a Cubs fan, lived successful the aforesaid flat analyzable astatine 1 point, and helium defended his determination to be the funeral.

"My transportation with Charlie was done our [Christian] faith," Shaw said astatine the time, per the Chicago Sun-Times. "And that’s thing that drives maine each day, the crushed wherefore I’m capable to bash what I bash each day, and that’s thing I’m highly thankful for. I cognize without my religion and without the galore blessings I’ve been fixed successful my life, that I wouldn’t beryllium here, beryllium capable to speech to you guys, capable to assistance this squad yet spell and triumph championships. That’s thing I consciousness really, truly blessed about, truthful immoderate backlash comes is OK. I consciousness beardown astir my religion and that what was meant to beryllium happened."

Charlie Kirk throws hats to the assemblage aft arriving astatine Utah Valley University connected Sept. 10, 2025, successful Orem, Utah. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images)

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Other speakers see Vice President J.D. Vance, Fox News Channel's Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld, Erika Kirk, Steve Bannon, Donald Trump Jr., Riley Gaines, and galore others.

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