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Jed Hoyer’s Stupid Press Conference + Playoff Reactions · Monday Morning Cubs Show

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SPEAKER_00: Good morning, good afternoon, and evening, Chicago Cubs fans, and welcome back to a morbid version of the Monday morning cub show.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, today is Monday, October 5th.
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SPEAKER_00: Technically, very early recording in what should be a quick solo episode.
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SPEAKER_00: I say that when I do solos, I actually mean it.
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SPEAKER_00: So thank you very much for tuning in.
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SPEAKER_00: We we have a big plate.
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SPEAKER_00: Our plate is full.
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SPEAKER_00: And I say our, I say mine.
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SPEAKER_00: Me individually, Carl here.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh we have a loaded schedule here.
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SPEAKER_00: So I think historically what we've done is we've broken down in depth Cub season review.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe we've given grades.
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SPEAKER_00: We're gonna do that.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna wait till after the World Series for the full dog and pony show.
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SPEAKER_00: Talk about each player.
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SPEAKER_00: We'll get a bunch of guests on.
0:52
SPEAKER_00: We'll do a full round table.
0:54
SPEAKER_00: Right now, uh, not feeling very good about Jed Hoyer's press conference, and I want to spend today's episode talking about that.
1:02
SPEAKER_00: Obviously, we're gonna get over some stuff with happened with the San Diego Padres.
1:05
SPEAKER_00: And this is our first sit down since we lost that series.
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SPEAKER_00: An absolutely gutless effort.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, so we'll close the book on that.
1:12
SPEAKER_00: Now we'll come back in a couple weeks.
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SPEAKER_00: Me Mahoney, uh, at least CB, I would guess.
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SPEAKER_00: Tui trying to get Joey in uh Joey Molinero in a uh on the episode where we really close the book, but I'm still licking wounds, and I'm really pissed off about this press conference, and it warrants our attention right now.
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SPEAKER_00: Like right now in the middle of the playoffs.
1:36
SPEAKER_00: By the way, congratulations to the White Sox.
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SPEAKER_00: Congratulations to our uh uh those of us who are related to White Sox fans and get to see some joy on their face because their team isn't a bunch of gutless hex.
1:51
SPEAKER_00: That's the easiest way to put it.
1:53
SPEAKER_00: Those guys got put obviously the Astros are a little bit better than the Padres.
1:58
SPEAKER_00: I mean, the Padres are a little bit better than the Astros.
2:02
SPEAKER_00: Uh off the rails here to start.
2:04
SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm so bad about the Jet War press conference.
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SPEAKER_00: We're gonna get to it.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, quick show here, guys.
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SPEAKER_00: I promise you, you will feel enlightened when I get done with this.
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SPEAKER_00: You'd probably be just as mad as I am.
2:19
SPEAKER_00: You'll be just as mad as I am.
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SPEAKER_00: And when we get in the topic, you'll realize this is why.
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SPEAKER_00: Nope, not a good time for us to sit here and laugh and joke around.
2:29
SPEAKER_00: I mean, Jed Hoyer, play your cards a little bit less fucking obvious going into the lockout, buddy.
2:34
SPEAKER_00: Remember the last time we had stoppage, and then the Cubs came out and cleared payroll for years?
2:40
SPEAKER_00: Well, that's because the Cubs need baseball to make money, and if they don't have baseball and we can't make money, we can't spend money.
2:48
SPEAKER_00: So, what do you think is gonna happen?
2:50
SPEAKER_00: People go, Hap will take a hometown deal, but we won't offer it to him.
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SPEAKER_00: We will not offer it to him, and we're gonna get to that.
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SPEAKER_00: First off, though.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh oh, I go, this is gonna be a quick show.
3:07
SPEAKER_00: I'm looking at the outline right now.
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SPEAKER_00: I've got this big chunk in it about how mad I am about Judd just jumped right into it.
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SPEAKER_00: That's actually on the outline, that is point number five, uh, subpoint number four.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm in one topic number one just says, Welcome back.
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SPEAKER_00: Subtopic one, this should be a quick show.
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SPEAKER_00: Subtopic two says, make sure you mention full season review after World Series.
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SPEAKER_00: I want to watch the playoffs.
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SPEAKER_00: I'll have a better understanding, and I know that's selfish.
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SPEAKER_00: We're gonna talk quickly, obviously, how gutless that was.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh okay, let's get into the show a little bit.
7:26
SPEAKER_00: I've got three reasons we lost against the San Diego Padres, and then we're gonna get into some offseason breakdown.
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SPEAKER_00: Because like we lost to the Padres because we're gutless.
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SPEAKER_00: There's the first one because we played like shit, because we gave up the home field advantage in the wild card round.
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SPEAKER_00: Because we have no pitching.
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SPEAKER_00: No, here's reason number one.
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SPEAKER_00: The first and most important reason is the same reason if we did win the series, it would be because of this.
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SPEAKER_00: PC and Bragg Mago all in 15.
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SPEAKER_00: That's why you lose the series.
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SPEAKER_00: PCA and Bragmago seven for 15.
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SPEAKER_00: We are in the series.
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SPEAKER_00: There are multiple opportunities.
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SPEAKER_00: Either one of those guys get hot.
8:02
SPEAKER_00: Both you guys want to have just average games totally fine relative to how good you are.
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SPEAKER_00: One of you guys get hot for one game.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: Is six for 15 do it?
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SPEAKER_00: Does that make the series closer?
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SPEAKER_00: I'll tell you what makes it completely out of touch is when the top two guys in your lineup are 0 for 15, not even close.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's the first reason.
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SPEAKER_00: So when we go, we've we got smacked in the face in the playoffs.
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SPEAKER_00: Why?
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SPEAKER_00: PC of Brecken 1, 0 for 15 should be the first things out of your mouth before we say anything else.
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SPEAKER_00: That's the reason.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, Jed's not gonna say that at the press conference.
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SPEAKER_00: Craig Counsel's not gonna say it because those guys are your one and two hitter for the next four seasons.
8:45
SPEAKER_00: So you're not gonna get up now and then go, well, it's because those guys sucked fat cock, which is okay if you like doing that, guys.
8:54
SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying, you know, I mean it more from the standpoint of like they didn't perform, you know, the cock was too big.
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SPEAKER_00: That's how bad they were.
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SPEAKER_00: 0 for 15.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, counsel can't say it because he manages these guys, and Jed Lawyer can't say it because there is most invaluable, there's most valuable dog and pony.
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SPEAKER_00: So I will say it.
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SPEAKER_00: It is because PCA and Bregman sucked.
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SPEAKER_00: That's why we lost.
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SPEAKER_00: Number one.
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SPEAKER_00: Number two, Matt Boyd's first inning against the Padres.
9:25
SPEAKER_00: Now, I owed you guys an apology because I didn't see Matt Boyd coming.
9:30
SPEAKER_00: I didn't see him pitching in this playoff series in the first two games.
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SPEAKER_00: I thought it was crazy.
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SPEAKER_00: I was wrong.
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SPEAKER_00: He started game one, didn't make it out of the fourth.
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SPEAKER_00: Crooked number in the first.
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SPEAKER_00: Crooked number in the first three hitters.
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SPEAKER_00: Did we predict that?
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SPEAKER_00: Not necessarily, as much as we just said the last thing we want to do is give them any advantage, which would be meat, which would be 93 from the left side, is is what would be bad.
10:01
SPEAKER_00: That would give them an opportunity.
10:04
SPEAKER_00: So why don't we not do that?
10:05
SPEAKER_00: Why don't we not do that?
10:08
SPEAKER_00: Is my first thought.
10:10
SPEAKER_00: Second thought would be uh, you know, is the first guy out of the bullpen, the same guy that we shuttled to triple A five times this season at Javier Assad.
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SPEAKER_00: That's crazy.
10:22
SPEAKER_00: That's insane.
10:24
SPEAKER_00: That would be a reason you lose.
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SPEAKER_00: Matt Boyd's first inning into the third reason.
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SPEAKER_00: It's two, it's a combination.
10:32
SPEAKER_00: All right.
10:33
SPEAKER_00: Javier Assad's not a bad pitcher.
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SPEAKER_00: Javier Sad is if you told me Javier Assad's the first guy out of the bullpen in a playoff series in the first game, that's awful.
10:46
SPEAKER_00: I love Javier Assad.
10:49
SPEAKER_00: We had the whole season and$250 million to spend on the roster.
10:53
SPEAKER_00: We get into a situation we need to get out of the starter into the bullpen.
10:56
SPEAKER_00: We need somebody to get some outs.
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SPEAKER_00: Give us a chance.
11:00
SPEAKER_00: And we go with the guy that we sent to Iowa five times this season.
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SPEAKER_00: That's an indictment.
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SPEAKER_00: That's why you lose the series.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, are we fair on that?
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SPEAKER_00: It's a combination.
11:13
SPEAKER_00: We have it's is it Javier Sas' fault?
11:15
SPEAKER_00: No, he's a good, he is a good utility pitcher.
11:19
SPEAKER_00: He should be on the big league roster the entire season.
11:22
SPEAKER_00: He should pitch in a variety of roles.
11:24
SPEAKER_00: He should be a spot starter.
11:26
SPEAKER_00: He can pitch in the sixth and seventh inning.
11:28
SPEAKER_00: He can do a number of things comfortably as the ninth or tenth pitcher on the roster.
11:35
SPEAKER_00: In no way, in no way can you tell me we're going to give Alex Bregman$35 million.
11:42
SPEAKER_00: Peter Armstrong is going to go be a unanimous MVP candidate.
11:46
SPEAKER_00: We're going to get one of the best outfield seasons from say a Suzuki.
11:49
SPEAKER_00: We're going to get a full Michael Bush is going to lead all major league first baseman and plate appearances, folks, and give you a good first base.
12:06
SPEAKER_00: Third and homers.
12:09
SPEAKER_00: Then we get to the playoffs.
12:10
SPEAKER_00: You tell me we uh we don't our the first guy we call upon is Javier Sad, who I like.
12:18
SPEAKER_00: He's fine, he's good.
12:21
SPEAKER_00: Do you understand the disconnect there?
12:24
SPEAKER_00: So we'll just make this simple.
12:26
SPEAKER_00: We we do not have good enough pitching, and the decision making behind it is even fucking worse.
12:32
SPEAKER_00: So just go to the pitching, just say it's terrible as it is, and the way we use it is awful.
12:40
SPEAKER_00: It would be like a golfer.
12:41
SPEAKER_00: Your swing sucks, and you have no clue what you're doing.
12:45
SPEAKER_00: It's like head up your ass and completely incompetent.
12:50
SPEAKER_00: You know, like you just lack both sides of the equation, you know, like you need the left hand to wash the right, the right washes the left, they both they both wash the base.
12:58
SPEAKER_00: You are hand your hands have been cut off.
13:01
SPEAKER_00: You have nubs, you slap them off your chest.
13:04
SPEAKER_00: You cannot wash your face.
13:06
SPEAKER_00: That's our pitching situation.
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SPEAKER_00: Those are the three reasons that that's why we lost.
13:13
SPEAKER_00: We have awful pitching and worse decision making, worse leadership.
13:19
SPEAKER_00: People go, why that you should do up?
13:21
SPEAKER_00: I I can't go an hour on this.
13:24
SPEAKER_00: I'll be dead.
13:28
SPEAKER_00: So now ultimately we lose the series because we're not good enough, though.
13:33
SPEAKER_00: It's like they just boils down to that.
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SPEAKER_00: PC Bredman, sure.
13:36
SPEAKER_00: You go for 15.
13:37
SPEAKER_00: We don't have the seven guys behind you to back up.
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SPEAKER_00: Didn't happen, just got boat raced.
13:43
SPEAKER_00: All right, Matt Boy in the first inning, that's just crazy.
13:46
SPEAKER_00: That's just crazy Matt Boy pitched the first game.
13:49
SPEAKER_00: Insane to me.
13:52
SPEAKER_00: People are gonna keep their jobs, people will get pay raises in the in Matt Boy's start at game one.
13:57
SPEAKER_00: Oh, think about that when you have a tough day.
13:59
SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry.
14:00
SPEAKER_00: Like, don't think about that because now I might incite violence or a riot.
14:05
SPEAKER_00: Someone's gonna do, I'm not trying to manifest bad behavior.
14:09
SPEAKER_00: Anybody listen to this?
14:10
SPEAKER_00: I'm just saying that's some shit.
14:12
SPEAKER_00: You know, people ask me, you why you go to church every Sunday?
14:16
SPEAKER_00: I go, yeah, I go to church every Sunday and pray to the big man.
14:19
SPEAKER_00: And they go, why?
14:20
SPEAKER_00: And I go, because there are people working for the Cubs Front Office who are gonna get fucking pay raises this year.
14:25
SPEAKER_00: And I I have to go through life.
14:28
SPEAKER_00: I gotta interact with people, I gotta talk to clients.
14:31
SPEAKER_00: How you doing, Mike?
14:32
SPEAKER_00: Good to see you.
14:32
SPEAKER_00: What's up, Carl?
14:34
SPEAKER_00: I can put a smile on my face, and Carter Hawkins is gonna get a pay raise and a parking spot?
14:39
SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's enough to put me over the edge.
14:43
SPEAKER_00: So here's why we're not good enough.
14:44
SPEAKER_00: Here, other than obviously institutional, organizational, complete failure from a leadership standpoint.
14:52
SPEAKER_00: Um, why did we lose?
14:54
SPEAKER_00: There's three good reasons.
14:55
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
14:56
SPEAKER_00: Here's three good reasons why we weren't good enough.
14:58
SPEAKER_00: One, we have no velocity and even less talent.
15:01
SPEAKER_00: We are dead last in Major League Baseball and velocity, however, you want to measure it.
15:06
SPEAKER_00: On the four seam, on the two seam, on the cutter, uh a grow aggregate velocity.
15:13
SPEAKER_00: Most times 100 miles an hour is broken.
15:15
SPEAKER_00: We're dead last.
15:16
SPEAKER_00: In any time frame, you can measure it.
15:18
SPEAKER_00: You want to measure it over six years, do it that for four years, three years.
15:22
SPEAKER_00: You want to say home games, road games, day games, games in a roof, you know, games north of the Mason Dixon line and fucking odd numbered months where the team is coming off a three-game win or lose streak, uh, you know, and attendance is in between 50 and 70 percent.
15:44
SPEAKER_00: And hot dogs, you know, hot dogs are fucking hot dogs are sold above average rate.
15:54
SPEAKER_00: So however many games it is, isolate it, then however many teams fit in that cut, and then give me the sort it by lowest velocity, cubs are at the top of the list.
16:04
SPEAKER_00: I don't however many factors you want to put into your search query, sequel, what's your name?
16:11
SPEAKER_00: You you write code.
16:14
SPEAKER_00: I want you to write a code.
16:15
SPEAKER_00: Here's a search query for you.
16:17
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm talking about?
16:19
SPEAKER_00: When you're working with like big data, you got to mine the data.
16:23
SPEAKER_00: You know, you can't just go to Excel.
16:24
SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about big data, like a credit card company, a bank, somebody, you know, state farm.
16:28
SPEAKER_00: Somebody's got a lot of data.
16:30
SPEAKER_00: I used to do some of it.
16:31
SPEAKER_00: I mean, not some of this.
16:32
SPEAKER_00: I investigated, it's a long story, but I was in my 20s once.
16:36
SPEAKER_00: You know, I had a job in big accounting.
16:40
SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about data.
16:41
SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about data searches, inquiries, and sequels, and conditions and parameters.
16:48
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna give you all the data.
16:49
SPEAKER_00: Here's the data field.
16:51
SPEAKER_00: Every fucking team in Major League Baseball over the last six years, every team and every pitcher who's pitched for every team and all that shit, you just start getting all the data, every pitch that's been thrown.
17:04
SPEAKER_00: The Cubs are the worst.
17:06
SPEAKER_00: We suck, we're the most pathetic.
17:09
SPEAKER_00: And if you measure it against how much money is spent, it's even worse.
17:14
SPEAKER_00: It's just downright the context relative to the resources available, uh you know, the advantages at quite literally at your fingertips, and we stink.
17:27
SPEAKER_00: And the guys who in the guys who do we're hurt, we're not even healthy.
17:33
SPEAKER_00: Is that an excuse?
17:35
SPEAKER_00: But that's why we suck.
17:37
SPEAKER_00: Because now we're dead.
17:38
SPEAKER_00: We can't get any swings and misses.
17:41
SPEAKER_00: We're not there, not one person came in out of the Cubs bullpen and presented any concept of a threat.
17:47
SPEAKER_00: Now watch the rest of playoff baseball.
17:50
SPEAKER_00: All right.
17:51
SPEAKER_00: I mean, Michael King and Nick Pivetta looked looked like Nolan Ryan and Tom fucking Seaver.
18:00
SPEAKER_00: Alright?
18:02
SPEAKER_00: We had no shot against those guys, and the comparison between the two was I mean, like a feel-good high school movie.
18:11
SPEAKER_00: We were the under, we were such the underdog.
18:13
SPEAKER_00: We how?
18:14
SPEAKER_00: How?
18:15
SPEAKER_00: How are we the underdog?
18:16
SPEAKER_00: We spent$275 million last year, according to my calculations.
18:22
SPEAKER_00: How are we the underdog?
18:24
SPEAKER_00: Well, we we were injured.
18:26
SPEAKER_00: We were injured.
18:27
SPEAKER_00: Blow me, please, seriously, wouldn't mind it.
18:31
SPEAKER_00: You know, basically whoever you are.
18:34
SPEAKER_00: Um I I st I cannot wrap my head around how bad the velocity is, how limited the talent is, how atrocious our swing and miss rate is.
18:45
SPEAKER_00: So then this comes back in the next thing.
18:47
SPEAKER_00: Here's another reason why we're not good enough.
18:49
SPEAKER_00: Bad health.
18:49
SPEAKER_00: Okay, one guy goes down, fine.
18:51
SPEAKER_00: Two guys go down, great.
18:53
SPEAKER_00: You know, we looked back at the Carrie Wood Mark Pryor situation, remember, and just laughed at how poorly they were managed.
18:59
SPEAKER_00: In hindsight, can you believe how poorly those guys were managed?
19:02
SPEAKER_00: Uh same thing's going on with everybody else pitching now, and nobody's saying they're poorly managed.
19:08
SPEAKER_00: I haven't seen Justin Steele in years.
19:12
SPEAKER_00: I I for I forgot what Justin Steele looks like.
19:16
SPEAKER_00: You know?
19:17
SPEAKER_00: Ben Brown's finally good.
19:19
SPEAKER_00: Gone.
19:21
SPEAKER_00: This pitching staff was supposed to revolve around Kate Horton.
19:24
SPEAKER_00: I took one look at him in the offseason.
19:26
SPEAKER_00: I go, I hit he needs bigger legs.
19:29
SPEAKER_00: The arm action's way too quick.
19:31
SPEAKER_00: Where why are why are his legs not?
19:33
SPEAKER_00: His legs should be twice as big as they are.
19:35
SPEAKER_00: You may scoff at what I'm saying.
19:36
SPEAKER_00: I don't give a fuck.
19:38
SPEAKER_00: You scoff away, my friend.
19:39
SPEAKER_00: I'm fucking right.
19:42
SPEAKER_00: Alright?
19:43
SPEAKER_00: You look at when you take one look at the horse before it runs a race, you go, I don't I don't know.
19:47
SPEAKER_00: That horse doesn't look where does he finish?
19:51
SPEAKER_00: Last.
19:52
SPEAKER_00: Does not finish.
19:53
SPEAKER_00: DNF.
19:55
SPEAKER_00: Do you get to refund the ticket?
19:57
SPEAKER_00: No, my friend.
19:58
SPEAKER_00: No.
19:58
SPEAKER_00: Throw the ticket out.
20:00
SPEAKER_00: Throw the ticket out.
20:01
SPEAKER_00: Fine.
20:02
SPEAKER_00: You want to scan it anyway, see if it hits.
20:03
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't hit.
20:04
SPEAKER_00: Throw it out.
20:07
SPEAKER_00: These are all lot these are logical things to say about the Chicago Cubs.
20:11
SPEAKER_00: Bad health.
20:12
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
20:13
SPEAKER_00: It's a coincidence.
20:15
SPEAKER_00: No, it's not, my friends.
20:19
SPEAKER_00: Not in a team that's going to generate$551 million with the top line revenue from home games.
20:28
SPEAKER_00: No.
20:29
SPEAKER_00: No.
20:30
SPEAKER_00: We're not doing that.
20:33
SPEAKER_00: You don't get to build that training facility in Arizona.
20:36
SPEAKER_00: Bring the guys down there in Arizona.
20:38
SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you right now, there are guys at the high school level ready to go a full season conditioned.
20:46
SPEAKER_00: So, no, we can't just have everybody be hurt, then just turn around and go, that's part of the game, dude.
20:51
SPEAKER_00: It's part of the game.
20:52
SPEAKER_00: How about part of the game would be you guys do everything you can to not have an unbelievable amount of injuries.
20:59
SPEAKER_00: Not to mention uh Edward Cabrera, he fucking sucked.
21:03
SPEAKER_00: Jamison Tayan, he fucking sucked this year.
21:06
SPEAKER_00: You know, when you look back over the last four, three whatever years, and you go, man, one of the best pitchers the Cubs have had in the last decade is Colin Ray.
21:15
SPEAKER_00: We have major institutional organizational failures.
21:20
SPEAKER_00: When the safety hatch to the backup plan is the best thing you can prove to yourself as any success, clean house immediately.
21:28
SPEAKER_00: All you guys gone, fired.
21:31
SPEAKER_00: I'll put you to work.
21:32
SPEAKER_00: I am actually hiring on a couple jobs.
21:35
SPEAKER_00: And Carter Hawkins, you can send your resume to me.
21:38
SPEAKER_00: Because I still have to take my morning dump and I and I want to wipe my ass with it, buddy.
21:43
SPEAKER_00: But I'm fucking hiring.
21:45
SPEAKER_00: So come right this way, buddy.
21:48
SPEAKER_00: And then finally, here's another good reason why we were not good enough this year.
21:52
SPEAKER_00: Just awful roster decisions.
21:54
SPEAKER_00: All right?
21:55
SPEAKER_00: Awful roster decisions.
21:56
SPEAKER_00: Now we can escape some of these roster decisions, but it does not escape.
22:00
SPEAKER_00: The pain that Hunter Harvey is and Phil Maton is.
22:04
SPEAKER_00: And now I get to look ahead and go, well, Shelby Miller next year.
22:07
SPEAKER_00: Well, Shelby Miller is on a 40-man this year, wasn't he?
22:10
SPEAKER_00: What was he?
22:12
SPEAKER_00: We gave Shelby Miller.
22:14
SPEAKER_00: We could sign anybody last year.
22:15
SPEAKER_00: We gave it to a guy who couldn't pitch.
22:17
SPEAKER_00: All right.
22:18
SPEAKER_00: Fine.
22:19
SPEAKER_00: Caleb Thielbar.
22:21
SPEAKER_00: What did Caleb Tielbar get this year?
22:23
SPEAKER_00: $5 million?
22:24
SPEAKER_00: There's a mutual option.
22:26
SPEAKER_00: Gone.
22:27
SPEAKER_00: Unbelievable.
22:29
SPEAKER_00: Unbelievable.
22:29
SPEAKER_00: The bullpen, unbelievably bad.
22:32
SPEAKER_00: And nobody stepped up.
22:33
SPEAKER_00: And when Daniel Plenty came back, you want to you want to talk about career murder.
22:38
SPEAKER_00: What were they nervous?
22:39
SPEAKER_00: Is he going to be too expensive going into arbitration if he came back and you just used him as a closer?
22:44
SPEAKER_00: Or yeah, are you out of your fucking gourd?
22:48
SPEAKER_00: Oh.
22:48
SPEAKER_00: You know, and now the F words are starting to come out, but it's it's when you think about why we weren't good enough this year and how much has been made available and how obvious it is to solve the problem.
22:59
SPEAKER_00: It's having a leaky roof.
23:00
SPEAKER_00: And you know, every summer it's it rains a lot in the summertime.
23:04
SPEAKER_00: And then there we are in the summertime with the buckets out trying to catch the waters that's leaking through the roof for the sixth summer in a row, and we're going, can't believe it.
23:12
SPEAKER_00: If we fix the roof, no.
23:15
SPEAKER_00: No, we've gotten bigger buckets.
23:17
SPEAKER_00: We tarped it.
23:18
SPEAKER_00: We did everything but fix the roof.
23:20
SPEAKER_00: Why?
23:21
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
23:22
SPEAKER_00: We've landscaped the front yard.
23:25
SPEAKER_00: You know, we trimmed the fucking bushes.
23:27
SPEAKER_00: What did we do?
23:28
SPEAKER_00: We built that shitty addition.
23:30
SPEAKER_00: We rehabbed the kitchen.
23:32
SPEAKER_00: No, but we're sitting around every July going, can't believe it.
23:36
SPEAKER_00: Can't believe how leaky the roof is.
23:41
SPEAKER_00: You know?
23:43
SPEAKER_00: So um, you know, as I'm saying that, some construction work's picking up in the background here, guys.
23:50
SPEAKER_00: So just give I'm just hitting pause for one second, so I close the door.
23:54
SPEAKER_00: Okay, we're back.
23:55
SPEAKER_00: I'm calm down.
23:56
SPEAKER_00: Neighbor's got a jack lift out here in the backyard.
23:59
SPEAKER_00: Looks like he's moving some stuff around.
24:01
SPEAKER_00: Um, all right, this is a good break because I am getting very mad as I'm thinking about here's the good reasons why we're not good enough.
24:08
SPEAKER_00: You know?
24:09
SPEAKER_00: But just the general decision making that there's so much payroll that was not used well this year.
24:17
SPEAKER_00: There's so many gaps from health to poor performance to health, to just complete whiffs on critical infrastructure to winning baseball, to meaningful winning baseball.
24:34
SPEAKER_00: What an indictment to have the number one offense in baseball and finish, what was it, 14 games behind the Brewers?
24:43
SPEAKER_00: Did I do I have that wrong?
24:46
SPEAKER_00: What an indictment.
24:47
SPEAKER_00: You have the number one offense in baseball.
24:50
SPEAKER_00: You paid triple what the Brewers were willing to pay Craig Cowsell.
24:55
SPEAKER_00: And we're 14 games behind him three years later.
24:58
SPEAKER_00: That's why we're not good enough.
25:00
SPEAKER_00: So here's the path forward.
25:01
SPEAKER_00: Here's what I would like to do.
25:02
SPEAKER_00: Okay, we'll just make this as easy as possible.
25:05
SPEAKER_00: If it were up to me, here's what I would do: I would clean house.
25:08
SPEAKER_00: I would get I know Jed Hoyer just signed the extension.
25:12
SPEAKER_00: I would look at it and go, obviously, he's he's it the fact we're talking about pitching talent when we have so much money is insane to me.
25:26
SPEAKER_00: Now it's hard because it's like that's the guy who traded for Pete Carl Armstrong, and that's the guy who extended Pete Carl Armstrong right before Pete Carl Armstrong became, you know, what is he worth 60 million a year?
25:38
SPEAKER_00: So we'll never cross that bridge with Pete.
25:40
SPEAKER_00: He'll wear a Cubs uniform for as long as he's as good as he is.
25:44
SPEAKER_00: It's as simple as that.
25:46
SPEAKER_00: So how much do you want to blame Jen Ware?
25:48
SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, I mean, to be quite frank, that's nice.
25:52
SPEAKER_00: And we've made a lot of traits.
25:53
SPEAKER_00: He hit the jackpot on Peter Armstrong.
25:55
SPEAKER_00: That's great.
25:56
SPEAKER_00: You hit the jackpot on him.
25:57
SPEAKER_00: You didn't think he'd be that good, so don't act like you did.
26:00
SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, that's what that one's pretty simple.
26:06
SPEAKER_00: You know, but do we deep do we need to just clean house?
26:09
SPEAKER_00: Because how hard was it to put together this roster to be, you know, the number one offensive baseball?
26:17
SPEAKER_00: It's like Alex Bregman was the best right-handed hitter in the second half of the National League.
26:21
SPEAKER_00: That's for sure.
26:22
SPEAKER_00: Pete Crow Armstrong was uh, you know, the the third best season ever.
26:29
SPEAKER_00: You know, I think I think Babe Ruth's got like four of them.
26:32
SPEAKER_00: Then Barry Bonds has a couple of them.
26:35
SPEAKER_00: Maybe Rogers Wornsby is one of them.
26:38
SPEAKER_00: You know, and then it's like then Pete Crow Armstrong.
26:41
SPEAKER_00: The guys I just named have 120 plus career wins above replacement.
26:46
SPEAKER_00: You know, guys have over 60.
26:48
SPEAKER_00: We go, they should get in the Hall of Fame.
26:50
SPEAKER_00: We're talking about guys who live two Hall of Fame careers, are the guys that put up a season Pete Crow Armstrong did.
26:56
SPEAKER_00: So do I have to sit here and applaud anybody who's responsible for that other than P.
26:59
SPEAKER_00: Crow Armstrong?
27:00
SPEAKER_00: No, Pete gets all the credit.
27:03
SPEAKER_00: So that that's the that's the viewpoint of Jed Hoyer.
27:07
SPEAKER_00: Congratulations on training for Pete.
27:09
SPEAKER_00: Congratulations for signing him.
27:11
SPEAKER_00: It only makes the fact that you can't build a winner around him even worse, in my opinion.
27:18
SPEAKER_00: You know.
27:20
SPEAKER_00: How do you get in front of the media?
27:22
SPEAKER_00: So let's get into some of this media stuff because here's what I would like to do.
27:24
SPEAKER_00: Again, clean house.
27:26
SPEAKER_00: Carter Hawkins, Carter Hawkins should be nowhere near professional baseball.
27:30
SPEAKER_00: Carter Hawkins should be managing a bowling alley in playing field.
27:33
SPEAKER_00: Carter Hawkins is the fucking worst professional to work in any capacity in Chicago baseball.
27:43
SPEAKER_00: I will take the worst of Rick Hahn on Carter Hack over Carter Hawkins on his busted.
27:49
SPEAKER_00: I hate Carter Hawkins.
27:51
SPEAKER_00: That guy is a cheese head, piece of shit, pussy, slapdick, fake Ivy League.
28:02
SPEAKER_00: Didn't even go to Ivy League.
28:04
SPEAKER_00: Vanderbilt, I got cousins who went to Vanderbilt, alright?
28:07
SPEAKER_00: And I like them.
28:08
SPEAKER_00: One sells steel.
28:09
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm not just trying to like, I got buddies who went to Vanderbilt.
28:12
SPEAKER_00: One works for Stub Hump.
28:14
SPEAKER_00: Alright?
28:15
SPEAKER_00: Don't do this to me.
28:16
SPEAKER_00: Don't make me say Vanderbilt's fine.
28:19
SPEAKER_00: It's fine.
28:20
SPEAKER_00: It's expensive.
28:22
SPEAKER_00: Only campus in America that's that's a national arboretum.
28:25
SPEAKER_00: You know?
28:26
SPEAKER_00: That's a facto.
28:28
SPEAKER_00: It's fine.
28:29
SPEAKER_00: So don't tell me Carter Hawkins is special.
28:31
SPEAKER_00: Carter Hawkins is not special.
28:32
SPEAKER_00: Carter Hawkins hasn't done shit.
28:34
SPEAKER_00: Carter Hawkins.
28:36
SPEAKER_00: Carter Hawkins sucks as far as I'm concerned.
28:39
SPEAKER_00: So that's one.
28:41
SPEAKER_00: I would clean house.
28:43
SPEAKER_00: What we're gonna do is nothing.
28:44
SPEAKER_00: What we're gonna do is we're obviously Judge's keeping his job.
28:46
SPEAKER_00: Obviously, Carter Hawkins isn't going anywhere.
28:49
SPEAKER_00: So the 92-win team, you know, that very easily could have been a 102-win team, but for just remarkable failures in the pitching staff.
29:00
SPEAKER_00: The worst pitching staff in Major League Baseball, not even close.
29:04
SPEAKER_00: Not even close.
29:07
SPEAKER_00: We're probably we're probably not gonna do anything.
29:10
SPEAKER_00: We're probably gonna go hire some people you haven't heard of.
29:13
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
29:14
SPEAKER_00: You know, they're like on the front, they're on the front line.
29:16
SPEAKER_00: How about somebody who's done some shit, won it, championships?
29:20
SPEAKER_00: Do we have any of those people?
29:21
SPEAKER_00: You know, can we go pay can we go overpay for that?
29:24
SPEAKER_00: Or do we have to go, we're gonna go get the guy who got the guy who, you know, the fifth fucking employee from drive line.
29:31
SPEAKER_00: Not the first, not the second.
29:34
SPEAKER_00: No, we're gonna we're gonna get the we're gonna get the cum staying intern, you know, and we're and we're gonna pay this guy half of probably what he's worth, and we're not gonna get shit for it.
29:45
SPEAKER_00: You know?
29:47
SPEAKER_00: He's too busy on Tinder chasing pussy once he gets to Wrigleyville, telling people he works for the Cubs.
29:52
SPEAKER_00: Because we don't have the type of culture where winning matters.
29:55
SPEAKER_00: We have the type of culture where wearing the logo matters, right?
29:59
SPEAKER_00: We're having the parking spot matters.
30:02
SPEAKER_00: We're getting to go to spring training matters.
30:04
SPEAKER_00: We don't have the culture where winning matters, where people give a shit about winning and losing.
30:08
SPEAKER_00: We have the culture where people are happy to be here, and that's why we are at best mediocre.
30:14
SPEAKER_00: All things considered, 92 wins, number one offensive baseball, you know, gutless performance.
30:21
SPEAKER_00: So what do I expect?
30:22
SPEAKER_00: Well, we're not gonna resign Ian Happer, say Suzuki, I'll tell you that.
30:25
SPEAKER_00: And this is where we ran the show.
30:27
SPEAKER_00: You know, Jed probably doesn't want to do anything if you're up to him, but he's got to go up in front of the media, and this is where it breaks me.
30:33
SPEAKER_00: And he's got to talk about pitching and infrastructure and depth, and you know what it does?
30:37
SPEAKER_00: It gives him a reason to turn down all the mutual options we have.
30:42
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so there's about$43 million worth of payroll, it's gonna be walking out the door.
30:46
SPEAKER_00: Now, 13 of that about is Clay Holmes, and that's a player option.
30:51
SPEAKER_00: But Hunter Harvey, no shot.
30:55
SPEAKER_00: No shot are we picking that up?
30:58
SPEAKER_00: Matt Boyd, no shot.
31:01
SPEAKER_00: Now, that's a mutual option.
31:04
SPEAKER_00: He's out the door.
31:06
SPEAKER_00: Clay Holmes, player option, 13 million out.
31:09
SPEAKER_00: Hunter Harvey, 8 million, player option gone.
31:12
SPEAKER_00: Or no, mutual.
31:14
SPEAKER_00: So he's gonna say yes.
31:16
SPEAKER_00: We'll say no.
31:18
SPEAKER_00: Carson Kelly, 7.5.
31:22
SPEAKER_00: I would say we probably do, but then it's like, what's the point with this Owen Ayers kid?
31:28
SPEAKER_00: You know, as Miguel Amaya, no, that's a question.
31:31
SPEAKER_00: I say they're probably gonna get rid of Carson Kelly now that I'm doing this.
31:35
SPEAKER_00: Because we have a catching prospect.
31:37
SPEAKER_00: And they're gonna say Miguel Amaya's enough, and then we're gonna bring up the catching prospect.
31:42
SPEAKER_00: Which, like, whether or not that's logical, the fact we like are just a team, I guarantee you we don't have the set.
31:47
SPEAKER_00: I shouldn't say guarantee, because I guarantee you Matt Boyd wasn't gonna pitch game one that he did.
31:52
SPEAKER_00: But I'm just looking at this and going, okay, seven and a half for Carson Kelly, that one's easy.
31:59
SPEAKER_00: Um now, here's an interesting one.
32:03
SPEAKER_00: I thought there was an option on this.
32:05
SPEAKER_00: It's not.
32:06
SPEAKER_00: It just seems like we just we just oh we just film Matons on our team extra.
32:11
SPEAKER_00: You gotta be kidding me.
32:12
SPEAKER_00: You gotta be kidding me.
32:16
SPEAKER_00: That stinks.
32:18
SPEAKER_00: Alright, here's a good one.
32:19
SPEAKER_00: Caleb Tielbar.
32:22
SPEAKER_00: Six million mutual option.
32:24
SPEAKER_00: Gone.
32:25
SPEAKER_00: Later, buddy.
32:27
SPEAKER_00: Gone.
32:28
SPEAKER_00: Hap.
32:29
SPEAKER_00: Gone.
32:30
SPEAKER_00: Suzuki, gone.
32:32
SPEAKER_00: Now people are going, this adds up, and I'm saying, yes, it does.
32:35
SPEAKER_00: There's a hundred million dollars at least the Chicago Cubs can add a new payroll, but they will not.
32:41
SPEAKER_00: Because we are going to the lockout.
32:43
SPEAKER_00: Likely, very likely.
32:45
SPEAKER_00: Now, whether we do or don't get locked out, they could launch baseball in April.
32:51
SPEAKER_00: We could get through this quickly.
32:53
SPEAKER_00: It may not be as bad as you think.
32:55
SPEAKER_00: It probably will be bad.
32:57
SPEAKER_00: This salary cap situation is stupid.
32:59
SPEAKER_00: I'm against all salary caps.
33:00
SPEAKER_00: I'm against all ownership, everything.
33:02
SPEAKER_00: Those guys can kiss my ass.
33:05
SPEAKER_00: I don't give a I fuck owners.
33:07
SPEAKER_00: I hate owners so much.
33:08
SPEAKER_00: I don't give a shit.
33:09
SPEAKER_00: I'm with the players.
33:10
SPEAKER_00: The players want something, I'm with the players.
33:13
SPEAKER_00: There ain't no such thing as a selfish baseball player.
33:16
SPEAKER_00: There are selfish owners.
33:17
SPEAKER_00: There are bloodsucking, awful people.
33:20
SPEAKER_00: Those are the owners.
33:22
SPEAKER_00: And I hate their guts.
33:24
SPEAKER_00: Now, the owners want a salary cap.
33:27
SPEAKER_00: We're probably going to go to a lockout, etc.
33:30
SPEAKER_00: Whether we do or don't go to a lockout, the mere threat or existence of the lockout thus enables Tom Ricketts to say, we are not spending money this offseason.
33:38
SPEAKER_00: And the reason is because the Cubs finance the entire operation through game day revenue.
33:44
SPEAKER_00: So the fact that we may or may not have that game day revenue next year is enough for Tom Ricketts to go to Crane Kenny, who's the business guy to say, I don't think we are going to spend that much money this year.
33:56
SPEAKER_00: I don't want to add much more money.
33:58
SPEAKER_00: And then in conjunction with that, you're going to hear Jed say stuff like, Well, our pitching velocity isn't there.
34:03
SPEAKER_00: We need to rebuild the infrastructure.
34:05
SPEAKER_00: We need to get guys healthy.
34:07
SPEAKER_00: So then the idea is like, well, we had the number one team, we had the number one offense in baseball.
34:12
SPEAKER_00: Okay, we get rid of Hap and Suzuki, then Pedro Ramirez and Matt Shaw get to go to the outfield.
34:17
SPEAKER_00: Lottie fucking duh.
34:19
SPEAKER_00: We'll wait till Kane Kepler or Ethan Conrad's good enough to, you know, come up and embarrass themselves in left field.
34:24
SPEAKER_00: So we can start bitching about that guy to save the future.
34:28
SPEAKER_00: You know, we'll be lucky if anybody who comes and wears the Cubs uniform over the next five years puts up a career like Ian Happ, run that guy out of town.
34:35
SPEAKER_00: Can't wait to get some 23-year-old in there who doesn't know his head from his ass.
34:40
SPEAKER_00: You know, gotta get that off my chest.
34:42
SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna expect PCA to again be the number one defense and offensive player, you know, top three in each next year.
34:50
SPEAKER_00: Ugh.
34:51
SPEAKER_00: And in the meantime, we're gonna be like, well, if we had Justin Steele and Kate Horton and Ben Brown, if my grandma had balls she'd be my grandpa.
34:57
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna assume that nobody else gets hurt.
35:00
SPEAKER_00: You know, we're gonna ignore Shody Minara gone.
35:04
SPEAKER_00: 23 million, gone.
35:07
SPEAKER_00: You know, what was James and Tam making this year?
35:09
SPEAKER_00: 15, gone.
35:10
SPEAKER_00: Will we replace that?
35:12
SPEAKER_00: No.
35:13
SPEAKER_00: Will we spend that in the market?
35:14
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely listen to me.
35:16
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely not.
35:17
SPEAKER_00: That money will not be spent in free agency this year.
35:19
SPEAKER_00: It may the next season, but it will not be spent this year because the lockout may or may not come, and we may or may not have the money to pay these people for the first season, and we're already paying Alex Bregman through the roof.
35:32
SPEAKER_00: I would be shocked in awe if you saw any notable movements in free agency this winter from the Chicago Cubs to patch up what we know to be is perceived problems.
35:43
SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be behind the scenes bullshit.
35:45
SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be velocity and development.
35:46
SPEAKER_00: You're gonna go sign a whole bunch of guys you'd never heard of.
35:50
SPEAKER_00: You know, we're not gonna give anybody more than a year.
35:53
SPEAKER_00: That's what I think.
35:54
SPEAKER_00: Because when Jed Hoyer gets on the press conference and he's like, it's we need to do better, we need to do better.
36:02
SPEAKER_00: You know, we have the talent.
36:05
SPEAKER_00: I don't see this as a season as a success that ended short.
36:09
SPEAKER_00: I think it was a failure on our end.
36:11
SPEAKER_00: So, like, yeah, they're just gonna rebuild, they're just gonna do a bunch of pitching development bullshit.
36:17
SPEAKER_00: And in the back end, they're just stalling, going like, well, Kay Horton and Justin Seal be healthy next year.
36:25
SPEAKER_00: I just have so I just have so I just have so many problems with just how obvious the path forward is.
36:33
SPEAKER_00: Just go spend money on starting pitching.
36:36
SPEAKER_00: A lot of it.
36:36
SPEAKER_00: I'm good starting pitching.
36:38
SPEAKER_00: Like, don't give guys$13 and$18 million.
36:41
SPEAKER_00: Give the guys$26 million.
36:43
SPEAKER_00: Go find those guys.
36:44
SPEAKER_00: Give the guy the big end guys.
36:46
SPEAKER_00: I want those guys.
36:47
SPEAKER_00: I'm willing to fail on those guys.
36:48
SPEAKER_00: It's like we get Jamison Tang on and we get a good stretch from him for two, and then oh, we're only paying him$15 million.
36:54
SPEAKER_00: Stop bargain hunting.
36:55
SPEAKER_00: We're the Chicago Cubs.
36:57
SPEAKER_00: I don't walk around Wrigley Field looking for a fucking deal.
37:00
SPEAKER_00: I go right up to the beer back guy.
37:01
SPEAKER_00: I go, lay it on me, Bushlight,$38 after tipping tax.
37:05
SPEAKER_00: I don't, I don't hunt a deal.
37:07
SPEAKER_00: I just go right, I go right to the fridge and I and I take and I take the Aquafina out and I go charge me$6.99, Tom.
37:16
SPEAKER_00: Lay it on me.
37:17
SPEAKER_00: I don't give a shit.
37:19
SPEAKER_00: Then ask me if I want to tip artificial intelligence.
37:22
SPEAKER_00: Tip the sky.
37:23
SPEAKER_00: Do you want to tip the camera in the sky that's watching you?
37:25
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, sure.
37:26
SPEAKER_00: Here's 108.
37:27
SPEAKER_00: What is that?
37:28
SPEAKER_00: Perfect.
37:28
SPEAKER_00: Congratulations.
37:29
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
37:30
SPEAKER_00: You're awesome.
37:31
SPEAKER_00: Put that in the tip jar.
37:32
SPEAKER_00: You know, so then you're gonna turn around and then you're gonna say, here's Matt Boyd.
37:37
SPEAKER_00: Fine.
37:37
SPEAKER_00: Bargain hunt me.
37:38
SPEAKER_00: Then start him game one and then do the press conference and say, Well, we don't have enough talent.
37:43
SPEAKER_00: And let's play a game called Why Don't We Have Enough Talent?
37:46
SPEAKER_00: Here's the answer because you don't do enough.
37:49
SPEAKER_00: You don't spend enough money.
37:50
SPEAKER_00: And when you do spend money, you spend it like a moron.
37:54
SPEAKER_00: And you know why you spend it like a moron?
37:56
SPEAKER_00: Because we don't do it.
37:57
SPEAKER_00: So when you do do it, you suck at it.
38:00
SPEAKER_00: Make sense?
38:01
SPEAKER_00: So there's your Monday morning cub show.
38:03
SPEAKER_00: I'm pissed.
38:04
SPEAKER_00: Now I'm mad.
38:05
SPEAKER_00: I thought I'd feel better.
38:06
SPEAKER_00: I'm actually mad about this.
38:08
SPEAKER_00: That press conference was trash.
38:10
SPEAKER_00: Where this organization is headed over the next 12 months.
38:13
SPEAKER_00: Going into the 27, you know, all-star break.
38:16
SPEAKER_00: Like we're supposed to host.
38:18
SPEAKER_00: We're supposed to host.
38:21
SPEAKER_00: And Tom has no leverage over this lockout, folks.
38:25
SPEAKER_00: This is a this will be a Jerry Reinsdorf special.
38:28
SPEAKER_00: He's got everybody's by the ball.
38:29
SPEAKER_00: And he should.
38:31
SPEAKER_00: He's basically built a power structure.
38:34
SPEAKER_00: You know, he's a sharp guy.
38:36
SPEAKER_00: He's sharp motherfucker.
38:37
SPEAKER_00: He's built the power structure.
38:38
SPEAKER_00: That wasn't a true mother F word, Liz.
38:41
SPEAKER_00: Um, that he's built the power structure that allows all this to exist.
38:47
SPEAKER_00: So um, you know, as I'm talking about who has the leverage here, who are the big swinging D owners in Major League Baseball?
38:56
SPEAKER_00: It ain't Tom Ricketts, folks.
38:58
SPEAKER_00: It ain't the guys in law, it ain't the guys in Los Angeles either.
39:01
SPEAKER_00: It certainly aren't the newbies and the angels.
39:03
SPEAKER_00: I can start making my I can go west, I can move east.
39:06
SPEAKER_00: Obviously, not the Manforts.
39:09
SPEAKER_00: Uh who are who the main is it the Manfort?
39:13
SPEAKER_00: Who the Meat, the Meat family.
39:15
SPEAKER_00: The Rockies that own the Rockies.
39:17
SPEAKER_00: Certainly not them.
39:18
SPEAKER_00: Not Fisher.
39:20
SPEAKER_00: Not the group of buddies in in Seattle.
39:23
SPEAKER_00: Uh, not the lady in San Diego.
39:27
SPEAKER_00: Certainly not the lady.
39:31
SPEAKER_00: So she doesn't, she's not moving the needle.
39:35
SPEAKER_00: Who's the guy in the Ken guy from Arizona?
39:38
SPEAKER_00: Nope.
39:39
SPEAKER_00: Rangers?
39:40
SPEAKER_00: Nope.
39:41
SPEAKER_00: Astros?
39:42
SPEAKER_00: Nope.
39:44
SPEAKER_00: I'm just I'm just sizing up who moves the needle in ownership.
39:49
SPEAKER_00: They hate Steve Cohen.
39:52
SPEAKER_00: Steinbrenners, nope.
39:53
SPEAKER_00: Henry's checked out.
39:54
SPEAKER_00: He's just a chess piece manipulated by Jerry Reinstorf ever since he got inserted.
39:58
SPEAKER_00: That's what happens.
39:59
SPEAKER_00: They go, you want to be a major league owner?
40:01
SPEAKER_00: Sure.
40:01
SPEAKER_00: Tiss the ring.
40:02
SPEAKER_00: When Jerry Reinstorf tells you to do something, you have to do it.
40:05
SPEAKER_00: Otherwise, you're not going to be an owner.
40:06
SPEAKER_00: That's how every single one of these guys get put into ownership.
40:09
SPEAKER_00: Save for, you know, Steinbrenner because he inherited it.
40:16
SPEAKER_00: I'll do a whole deep dive.
40:18
SPEAKER_00: What I'm just trying to say is this lockout's coming.
40:20
SPEAKER_00: Like you look at Tom Ricketts a pussy.
40:22
SPEAKER_00: He's in the pocket, in the palm of so many other people.
40:28
SPEAKER_00: And we will take, as Cubs fans, we will be the ones who suffer.
40:33
SPEAKER_00: We will be the ones who have to sit through uh, you know, another season of wasted performance, and they're just gonna force us to shift our blame somewhere else.
40:42
SPEAKER_00: So next year when Pete Carmstrong's just a 10th best player in offense, we're gonna be like, well, you know, Pete didn't really hit our expectations.
40:49
SPEAKER_00: You know, we had a hard time replacing Say Suzuki.
40:52
SPEAKER_00: It was harder than we thought, even though everyone is sitting here in November going, what are we gonna do to replace Say Suzuki?
40:57
SPEAKER_00: The answer is nothing.
40:59
SPEAKER_00: Answer is Matt Shaw, who I happen to like.
41:01
SPEAKER_00: Is Matt Shaw gonna be the sixth best outfielder in baseball next year?
41:05
SPEAKER_00: Or right corner, I should say, corner outfielder in baseball next year?
41:08
SPEAKER_00: No.
41:11
SPEAKER_00: So, you know, we're just working through this stuff.
41:14
SPEAKER_00: That's a big day.
41:15
SPEAKER_00: We have a big week in front of us here.
41:17
SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of stuff going on uh in the Carl House.
41:20
SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna cut you guys loose.
41:22
SPEAKER_00: I just want to say if you get a chance, check out Thirst of a Carroll.
41:26
SPEAKER_00: If you learned anything about the Cubs in today's episode or throughout the season, check out Thirst of Carroll because as we move into offseason stuff, we're still trying to partner or stay partnered with Thirst of the Carol into next baseball season.
41:40
SPEAKER_00: Um, so there aren't lineup previews every day.
41:42
SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to think of what a daily hit is, you know, or how to cover the off-season, etc., to justify you know the sponsorship.
41:51
SPEAKER_00: So in the meantime, while I'm bridging that gap, I'd appreciate it if the maniacs, if you guys could reload, restock, you know, give them a little boost, let them know that we're here, uh, so that we could just keep this party rolling.
42:04
SPEAKER_00: Because that's very important to me, is keeping the party rolling.
42:06
SPEAKER_00: Now, in the meantime, share the show.
42:08
SPEAKER_00: You know, if you get a chance, review the show or don't.
42:11
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's like review it, don't review it.
42:14
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
42:16
SPEAKER_00: You know.
42:17
SPEAKER_00: Would you go for 15?
42:20
SPEAKER_00: That's what I'm saying.
42:22
SPEAKER_00: Like, are you somebody who goes 0 for 15?
42:24
SPEAKER_00: I didn't think so either.
42:25
SPEAKER_00: So in that case, please review the show.
42:27
SPEAKER_00: Um, and then for programming purposes, we're probably we are probably gonna pivot into just Mondays now that the season's over.
42:34
SPEAKER_00: You know, I've been doing the we've been doing twice a week Fridays.
42:37
SPEAKER_00: So I would guess the next time I talk to you guys and sit down and chop up, chop up where we're at.
42:42
SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be is gonna be Sunday night with Mahoney and a wrecking crew of of recurring guests.
42:47
SPEAKER_00: So um, so we'll talk then.
42:50
SPEAKER_00: And until then, I love you guys.
42:52
SPEAKER_00: Go cups.