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Cubs takeaways: As advertised, Kyle Tucker is a star · North Side Territory: A Chicago Cubs Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome into Northside Territory. Foul Territory Networks Cubs Podcast. I'm
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Speaker 1: Sahadev Sharma with my partner Patrick Mooney. We are your
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Speaker 1: Cubs beat writers over at the Athletic, Patrick, the Cubs
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Speaker 1: are above five hundred. They have swept the Athletics in Sacramento.
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Speaker 1: An interesting series that was filled with offense, especially from
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Speaker 1: the Cubs. You know, if not for a disaster on
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Speaker 1: Sunday from the bullpen, I think there'd be a lot
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Speaker 1: of excitement for this team right now. But even with
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Speaker 1: it five and four after the first nine games, feels
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Speaker 1: like a pretty solid, solid place to be. We can
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Speaker 1: talk about the bullpen, you know, how, the confidence in it.
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Speaker 1: We could talk about the competition they're facing. I think
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of storylines right now. I think the
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Speaker 1: first one that pops up to me is you paid
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Speaker 1: big by a trade for a superstar, and nine games
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Speaker 1: into the season, you're getting a superstar in Kyle Tucker.
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Speaker 2: The guy I.
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Speaker 1: Guess, I guess we know spring training doesn't mean anything
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Speaker 1: for veterans. Maybe don't pay attention to that too much
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Speaker 1: for position players, especially because this guy's a stud and
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Speaker 1: almost like I've forgotten what it's like to watch, Like, say,
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Speaker 1: Suzuki is a really.
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Speaker 2: Good player, Ian App's a good player, but.
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Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker is a superstar. It's it's fun to watch
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Speaker 1: him go about business.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's just gonna be fascinating to see
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Speaker 3: kind of the reception at the field he'll get for
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Speaker 3: the home opener and really throughout the season, because I
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Speaker 3: think we're all like looking at this as this huge
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Speaker 3: test case of like, like how good is this guy
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Speaker 3: gonna be? Is there any chance the Cubs are gonna
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Speaker 3: keep him? Like every home run? Like is this price escalating?
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Speaker 3: But like this is the guy they absolutely needed. And
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Speaker 3: I'm seeing a lot less cam Smith on my timeline
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Speaker 3: and stuff like that. Right, Like that was the moment,
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Speaker 3: and cam Smith, I bet will be a really good
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Speaker 3: major league player for a long time. But what did
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Speaker 3: this group need? What do we always talk about the
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Speaker 3: guy who hits a three run homer and gives your
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Speaker 3: bullpens a breathe room.
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Speaker 2: Now it didn't work for you? I think?
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Speaker 3: Was that getaway day in Arizona where he hits the
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Speaker 3: victor and homer story rights itself And then what the
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Speaker 3: Diamondbacks put up all those runs and you know, flip
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Speaker 3: your script while you're trying to rush to Sky Harbor.
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Speaker 3: But over the long haul, like this is this is
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Speaker 3: the guy they needed, right, this is what we've been
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Speaker 3: talking about for like years and he has arrived.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was kind of like, what was it.
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Speaker 1: It's been eight years since they've traded for Jose Quintana,
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Speaker 1: and leading up to that, we talked a lot about
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Speaker 1: you know, just in general. People talked about one of
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Speaker 1: the Cubs need, they need a young starter that you know,
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Speaker 1: can work at the front of the rotation that's under
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Speaker 1: control for cheap like they they've been They've been talking
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Speaker 1: about that for years and ever since the big trade
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Speaker 1: off in twenty twenty one, what have we been talking about?
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Speaker 1: How do they find that superstar bad? How do they
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Speaker 1: get it? They have to pay a lot for it
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Speaker 1: and prospect cost and player cost. I don't I don't
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Speaker 1: think you can dwell on that. This is look at
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Speaker 1: the result. Look at how good this guy is. Look
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Speaker 1: at how he changes the lineup. It's it's it's really
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Speaker 1: impressive to watch him, and just it does change things.
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Speaker 1: It just you know, it really changes the way pitchers
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Speaker 1: approach the lineup. I think it does make the players
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Speaker 1: immediately surrounding him a little bit better, and it just
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Speaker 1: deepens the lineup right like.
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Speaker 2: And you can you can debate whether it improves anyone.
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Speaker 1: All it does is I think Madden used to say
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Speaker 1: a council kind of says it to it. It lengthens
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Speaker 1: the lineup out and and it makes things. It just
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Speaker 1: makes it more difficult to go through guys. You can
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Speaker 1: push guys down a spot, whatever it may be. Kyle
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Speaker 1: Tucker is a superstar and he's changing the way this
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Speaker 1: this offense looks. It's a I don't you know, we'll
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Speaker 1: see it's nine games in. I don't want to I've
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Speaker 1: been I've been confident about this offense in general. I've
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Speaker 1: felt like it was gonna be a better year and
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Speaker 1: I think I think it will be still and nothing
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Speaker 1: that's happened has changed my mind.
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Speaker 2: But it's nine games.
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do a victory lap and said, see,
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Speaker 1: I told you, because it's it doesn't matter.
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Speaker 2: We need to see. They haven't played at Wrigley Field.
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Speaker 1: It's supposed to be rainy, and I don't know how windy,
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Speaker 1: but it's not supposed to be great weather this weekend.
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Speaker 2: Who knows how they do?
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Speaker 1: Right? Can they can they play in those conditions and
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Speaker 1: and still put up six seven runs or can they
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Speaker 1: just outpitch the competition?
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Speaker 2: What do they do? We don't know yet.
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Speaker 1: Uh, but the offense looks really good right now, and
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Speaker 1: it's beyond Kyle Tucker, right and part of what the
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Speaker 1: reason and I felt that ways like you had Tucker,
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Speaker 1: but I felt like Michael Bush would be better this year.
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Speaker 1: And then you just can't be as bad at catcher
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Speaker 1: and in third base as they were to begin last season.
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Speaker 1: Like those were awful starts. And it's not like Mitt
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Speaker 1: matt Shaw's like gotten off to this red hot start,
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Speaker 1: but he's got like an ops at like of like
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Speaker 1: six fifty and that was better than what the Cubs
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Speaker 1: were putting up at third base last year around this
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Speaker 1: time or like even two months into the season. Miguel
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Speaker 1: Amaya has been good. Carson Kelly's been awesome. He hit
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Speaker 1: for the cycle cycle a catcher.
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Speaker 3: A catcher cycle.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So I mean the offense looks good.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to I don't know if that's Sacramento,
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Speaker 1: yeah good, Oakland or Oakland. The Athletics pitching is you know,
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Speaker 1: I think that's a good offense, a good solid team. Uh.
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Speaker 1: But but they did they they beat up on them,
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Speaker 1: and and I think that's a good thing. You want
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Speaker 1: to see that, whether they're whether that athletics team is
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Speaker 1: good or not, that's what you wanted to see.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, Tucker and Council would probably roll their
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Speaker 3: eyes or shake their head at something like this, but
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Speaker 3: just sort of the narrative of the new player getting
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Speaker 3: off to a good or bad start, Like it would
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Speaker 3: be almost impossible for Kyle Tucker to get to like
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Speaker 3: May first and have bad numbers now right, like when
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Speaker 3: you like it just kind of carries you for a while,
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Speaker 3: like those numbers on the Wrigley field board will will
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Speaker 3: look good for a while. And also he is a
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Speaker 3: presence that helps some of these guys while they're struggling,
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Speaker 3: right It takes some of the load off Matt Shaw
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Speaker 3: or Pete Crow Armstrong and just allows them, you know,
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Speaker 3: for Pca to play defense and for Matt Shaw to
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Speaker 3: like learn how to survive in the big leagues. When
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Speaker 3: you have a guy that can carry your offense, it's usual.
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Speaker 2: And even like Saya, like say, he.
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Speaker 3: Has been a very good offensive player. There's been some
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Speaker 3: you know, he would acknowledge some rocky moments over the
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Speaker 3: last couple of years. But like if you have a
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Speaker 3: guy who's just like a superstar and then Saya sort
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Speaker 3: of does this thing all of a sudden, like everything
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Speaker 3: just just pops.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's how they got to win this year. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean the question probably early on that everyone has
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Speaker 1: is is this bullpen any good? Is this bullpen going
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Speaker 1: to cause issues? Is it going to sink the team?
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Speaker 2: Listen? It was.
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Speaker 1: It was ugly on Sunday. That was That's not what
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Speaker 1: you want to see.
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Speaker 2: Uh, it was.
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Speaker 1: It's not really excuses to be made for the performance.
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Speaker 1: I think if you want to debate the usage of
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Speaker 1: those guys, you could say, maybe Colin Ray should have
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Speaker 1: been out there, if that's if that's what you want
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Speaker 1: to go with. Once it was a six to two game,
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Speaker 1: maybe that's Colin Ray time. I don't know how long
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Speaker 1: it takes for him to get warm. That that's a question.
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Speaker 1: The bullpen was limited that day, right, Craig Council used
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Speaker 1: everyone that was available that I think there were four
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Speaker 1: relievers used in all, maybe five. He used everyone that
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Speaker 1: was available Julian Merriweather was down because he had gotten
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Speaker 1: warmed twice twice in two different games over that weekend.
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Speaker 1: He you know, Ryan Presley was down, Porter Hodge was down.
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Speaker 1: It was like it was an ugly situation. It was
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Speaker 1: an ugly game. It didn't look good. Eli Morgan had
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Speaker 1: looked great.
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Speaker 2: In two outings and then looks terrible, you know, in
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Speaker 2: that one.
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Speaker 1: It didn't seem like anything like they weren't missing any
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Speaker 1: any of the pitches that were meatballs, and that's a
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Speaker 1: really good offense. It was game four of seven straight
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Speaker 1: after a weird build up in spring training.
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Speaker 2: So there are excuses you could make.
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Speaker 1: I think fans don't want to hear excuses after the
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Speaker 1: last two seasons the way they begin with the bullpen.
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Speaker 2: So I understand that.
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Speaker 1: And and I think the biggest thing, and this has
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Speaker 1: nothing to do with Sunday, people are jumping on Ryan
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Speaker 1: Presley and and just assuming that this guy's cooked. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if he's as much of a disaster as
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Speaker 1: as some people seem to be suggesting, like everyone has
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Speaker 1: decided that this guy's cooked right after after a couple
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Speaker 1: uh after a couple outings.
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Speaker 2: I don't I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I like his velocity seems like about where, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's not it's not dreadful, it's not dropping, and he's
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Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing is like he's supposed to
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Speaker 1: use his breaking balls more, don't don't use that fastball
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Speaker 1: as much, and he isn't. He's using the breaking balls more.
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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be okay. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: he's the closer. I don't know, Like Porter Hodge looks
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Speaker 1: pretty nasty when he goes out there, but I don't
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Speaker 1: think he's this Like, he's not Hector and Nerris who
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Speaker 1: just got d fad by the way, by the by Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: He's I think he's a high leverage reliever still.
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Speaker 2: But you know, it's.
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Speaker 1: Easy to jump down his throat because he had he
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Speaker 1: has you know, he has looked shaky at times, but
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Speaker 1: it's again, it's nine games into the season. If I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna pump the brakes on on the offense, I think
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Speaker 1: it's it's only fair that we pumped the brakes on
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Speaker 1: any negativity as well. But I also get it's hard. Listen,
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Speaker 1: we probably tried to pump the breaks on Hector and
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Speaker 1: Aris and we were if we did. We were wrong,
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Speaker 1: right he was. He was not good enough last year.
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Speaker 1: I think it's a different situation, uh, with with Ryan Presley.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it also seems like, you know, there are
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Speaker 3: times too where like, yes, Hodge pitched the eighth, but
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Speaker 3: he was going against the other team's best hitters, right Like,
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Speaker 3: there is a matchup element there where it's not like,
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Speaker 3: oh man, you burned Porter Hodge against the bottom of
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Speaker 3: the lineup. And I do think Council's more than given
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Speaker 3: himself some flexibility here, but give Presley the space. I mean,
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Speaker 3: he's been awesome in the postseason. Like I feel like
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Speaker 3: you just can't dismiss that. Like on March twenty whatever,
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Speaker 3: that game was like we hadn't even gotten too April yet.
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Speaker 3: And I do think one takeaway here is just looking
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Speaker 3: at how the season started in Tokyo, Like the Dodgers
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Speaker 3: are going to make a lot of teams look bad,
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Speaker 3: right Yeah. The Tigers, you know, it's kind of sort
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Speaker 3: of the Darlings for part of last October rolling there,
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Speaker 3: they get swept.
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Speaker 2: I mean, the Braves are you know sinking here, you know.
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Speaker 3: Formally one of the most stable franchises, right Like, since
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Speaker 3: since we've started following baseball even as kids. Right, the
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Speaker 3: Braves are good read almost every year, and to see
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Speaker 3: them roll into Dodger Stadium and leave still winless on
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Speaker 3: the season, like didn't need to overreact to Tokyo and
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Speaker 3: let's just see how some of this plays out. But
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Speaker 3: no doubt, like being five and four coming into Rigley
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Speaker 3: Field is better than being you know, two and seven.
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Speaker 3: And I still we have to remember, like when we
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Speaker 3: write our stories, you still have to think of like
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Speaker 3: you know, someone you you know, see at a bar,
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Speaker 3: run to the grocery store, picking up your kids. Like
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Speaker 3: there's still people who are like, hey, the Cubs are playing,
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Speaker 3: Like are I think good this year? Like we can't
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Speaker 3: be so like micro focused on every single like bullpen
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Speaker 3: thing or like oh it's doomed. It's like, look, let's
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Speaker 3: let's just let this play out. And you know, they're
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Speaker 3: certainly like how this team is set up, they're going
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Speaker 3: to give themselves a chance to be really good and
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Speaker 3: play meaningful games all the way till the last regular
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Speaker 3: season game.
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Speaker 2: Field this year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Choda in Monaga will will start the opener, the
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Speaker 1: Wrigley Field opener. He's looked good to start off the season.
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Speaker 1: I mean his his seven innings. That Arizona team is good.
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Speaker 1: They're like we talk about the Dodgers. Arizona's really talented.
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Speaker 1: That offense is obnoxious to face. Like I think I
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Speaker 1: said that a dozen times while we were in Arizona.
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Speaker 2: Uh, just pesky.
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Speaker 1: Really hard to strike out a good team. Uh, when
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Speaker 1: you looking up and down the lineup, if you're not super,
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Speaker 1: if you're only familiar with the big names, you may
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Speaker 1: not notice how good that team is.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: Caatel Marte and Corbyn Carroll are are probably the biggest names.
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Speaker 1: AU Henny Suarez. If you're a Cubs fan, you probably
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Speaker 1: know who he is. Right he kills the Cubs and
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Speaker 1: he did it again. They're they're they're beating up on
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Speaker 1: the Yankees now too, that they're good offense. Uh, and
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Speaker 1: showed a pitch seven strong against them, that that this
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Speaker 1: early in the season.
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Speaker 2: To do that. I was impressed.
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Speaker 1: I've been I've been curious to see how he how
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Speaker 1: he'd do bouncing back after you know, a brilliant rookie
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Speaker 1: season and and you know, two starts in he's looked
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Speaker 1: pretty good. He's walking more guys. But whatever, I have
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Speaker 1: no idea if that's gonna last. I doubt it does.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure he locks in the command soon enough.
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Speaker 2: One little thing. Jameson tie and looked awful in his
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Speaker 2: first start.
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Speaker 1: He looked pretty damn good yesterday against the Athletics. And
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Speaker 1: I looked this up because I was kind of like,
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Speaker 1: what is going on with all the swing and miss?
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Speaker 1: He's throwing this new change up that you know, you know,
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Speaker 1: Sarah's wrote about it at the Athletic that the kick change.
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Speaker 2: Every year we got a new pitch that we got
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Speaker 2: to talk about. Uh.
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Speaker 3: He asked me about that in spring training we sat
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Speaker 3: next to each other at the Cleveland.
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Speaker 2: Is that good year of the facility there? Yes, Like
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Speaker 2: you talked to time with kick change, Like, excuse me,
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Speaker 2: what are you talking about?
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Speaker 1: Like?
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Speaker 3: I was not current on that, but definitely check out
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Speaker 3: you know's piece. Like he does such a good job
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Speaker 3: at like finding stuff out and getting players to talk
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Speaker 3: about stuff and really you know, granular interesting ways, but
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Speaker 3: also explaining it to fans in a very easily digestible way.
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Speaker 3: So definitely check check that out. But it was kind
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Speaker 3: of fun, I'm like, what are you talking about? Like
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Speaker 3: the leading frid Japan in twenty four hours.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what's tell He threw seven of those
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Speaker 1: change ups and got whiffs on four of them. Okay,
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Speaker 1: and he got nineteen whiffs in total. You know, the
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Speaker 1: last time he's gotten nineteen whiffs twenty twenty one, you know,
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Speaker 1: his career high in whiffs twenty He got nineteen whiffs.
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Speaker 1: A guy that was really struggling with with getting swing
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Speaker 1: and miss last year.
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Speaker 2: That's encouraging to me.
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Speaker 1: I have no idea if the A's are going to
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Speaker 1: be like this disaster strikeout team whatever it is. Like,
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Speaker 1: he's like, that's really good for him, and like he
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Speaker 1: that's that's a really good sign after what he did
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Speaker 1: last year. I think his velo is up a tick,
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Speaker 1: maybe half a tick. Let's let's see. His sinker is
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Speaker 1: averaging ninety three three. That's almost a.
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Speaker 2: Full mile per hour higher than last year.
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Speaker 1: And it's four seemers ninety three, you know, zero point
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Speaker 1: seven higher than last year.
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Speaker 2: That's that's great.
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Speaker 1: Early on, especially you usually gain velocity by Maine June.
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Speaker 1: My understanding is he's feeling really good. He made some
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Speaker 1: slight tweaks in between starts that that was a that
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Speaker 1: was a really good start. I think that is encouraging.
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Speaker 1: You have showed him and Aga, James and Tyne. Look
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Speaker 1: justin Steele, I don't know what's up with the home runs.
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Speaker 1: I'd be surprised if that last I was kind of
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Speaker 1: impressed by himself in and going like he looked it
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Speaker 1: looked like he was going to go like three innings,
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Speaker 1: three or four, right, and he ended up going was
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Speaker 1: it six?
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Speaker 2: Uh? Or was it five and two thirds? And I
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Speaker 2: think he remember or was it six and two thirds?
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Speaker 2: It was six and two thirds? Yeah? Yeah, okay, uh.
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Speaker 1: I mean that overall, this is still my concern right
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Speaker 1: the starting pitching and maybe the first time through the
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Speaker 1: rotation it was looking a little shaky. Now like Matthew
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Speaker 1: Boyd looked great against the Diamondbacks, you know, like they
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Speaker 1: Ben Brown has you know, Ben Brown has the stuff
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Speaker 1: that we're that this team is looking for from the starters.
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Speaker 1: It's if if your biggest concern is, like you know,
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Speaker 1: Eli Morgan or something like that, I think you can survive.
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Speaker 1: Uh and and this team could could be pretty good. Well,
17:53
Speaker 1: we'll see that this is not getting any easier. They
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Speaker 1: played the undefeated Padres this weekend, so you know that
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Speaker 1: the tests continue and we'll have a really good barometer
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Speaker 1: of where this team is, right, like, are they I
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Speaker 1: guess we'll know if they're good, right, if they're if
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Speaker 1: they're above five hundred. At the end of this month,
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Speaker 1: we'll be like, Wow, they just went through some of
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Speaker 1: the best teams in baseball.
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Speaker 3: We went through that last April though, I wrote they
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Speaker 3: should trade for Justin Verlander after they swept the you know,
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Speaker 3: the Astros or whatever in April, and our buddy Chandler
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Speaker 3: Rome at the Athletic and on the Felt Territory Network,
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Speaker 3: you know, was pretty much convinced that the Astros were
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Speaker 3: about to collapse, that this was finally the year of
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Speaker 3: catch up to them. And they did, you know, backslide
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Speaker 3: a bit, but they certainly had a good charge to
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Speaker 3: get back into the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: So, you know, definitely.
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Speaker 3: Curious to see how it kind of looks at Wrigley,
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Speaker 3: see what the crowd's like, what the environment's like.
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Speaker 2: It should be it should be a good time.
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Speaker 3: Also, you know, the fireworks display wasn't that last year
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Speaker 3: where Council joked his eyebrows were singed when they were
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Speaker 3: running out of the dugout. They have these little littleworks,
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Speaker 3: So I want to see what the budget for fireworks was,
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Speaker 3: like maybe counsel like driving back and forth to Wisconsin,
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Speaker 3: like did he find like, oh, maybe that's something we
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Speaker 3: could we could ask him, uh this weekend. I'm sure
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Speaker 3: he would a very droll response back.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, he should be in a good mood, right
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Speaker 1: winning streak. Yeah, I totally forgot about the fireworks display
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Speaker 1: that that. Yeah, I hope they have a better, better
19:45
Speaker 1: way to open up the slate at Wrigley.
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Speaker 2: You know one thing I don't doubt like that will
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Speaker 2: show up.
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Speaker 1: Right, it's supposed to be a crappy day tomorrow. Is
19:54
Speaker 1: it supposed to be rainy? Last I checked, it was
19:56
Speaker 1: supposed to be Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Last I checked it was. It has kind of flop
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Speaker 3: by I think Friday and Saturday don't look great. But
20:05
Speaker 3: you can tell like when the Cubs are back, you know, definitely.
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Speaker 3: People treat it as a sort of unofficial holiday, you know,
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Speaker 3: a tradition, and for as cynical as we can be
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Speaker 3: in our jobs, like, it is still awesome to just
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Speaker 3: walk in there and just see it. It is amazing
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Speaker 3: how it is held up over the years, and so yeah,
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Speaker 3: we'll see.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's That's one of the things I try
20:36
Speaker 1: and remind myself every year. It's like, oh, yeah, this
20:39
Speaker 1: is where I work every day. I got to try
20:41
Speaker 1: and remind myself as I'm like cursing whatever it is
20:44
Speaker 1: that we're dealing with that day, or digging into some
20:48
Speaker 1: nonsense story that's frustrating us, or.
20:50
Speaker 2: Or the team is frustrating us.
20:52
Speaker 1: It's like, really, we got to write big picture because
20:54
Speaker 1: they're out of it already at this point of the season.
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Speaker 2: So all right, so five and four Cubs. We'll have
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Speaker 2: more this week.
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Speaker 1: We'll have more on the home opener, we'll have some
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Speaker 1: we'll have some talk and some other things and and
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Speaker 1: then uh and then next week we'll we'll have we'll
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Speaker 1: be in the middle of the Wrigley slate and deeper
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Speaker 1: into April and and you know, more and more information
21:17
Speaker 1: on how this team is doing. All right, Thanks so
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