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The Cubs’ year in review: Top stories from 2024 · North Side Territory: A Chicago Cubs Podcast

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Speaker 1: But it's an absurdly dramatic differences between show. Today is
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Speaker 1: the rest of the one hundred and sixty two game schedule.
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Speaker 2: Welcome into North Side Territory, Fouel Territory Networks Cubs Podcast.
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Speaker 2: I'm Sahad Sharma with my partner Patrick Mooney, were your
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Speaker 2: Cubs beat writers over at the Athletic and Patrick, it
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Speaker 2: is time for our twenty twenty four year interview show.
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Speaker 2: It was a disappointing season ultimately, right, but it's not
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Speaker 2: It wasn't short on news or interesting tidbit. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I think the first first thing that we talk about
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Speaker 2: is it didn't happen in twenty twenty four, but it's
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Speaker 2: part of this season, this year's story, and that's Craig
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Speaker 2: Council hired as Cubs manager. You he was a free agent,
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Speaker 2: but they stole him manager from one of their biggest rivals,
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Speaker 2: the city that often is looked at as like Chicago's
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Speaker 2: little you know, Junior Chicago, whatever you want to call him.
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Speaker 2: They have, you know, a little little brother complex things
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Speaker 2: like that. Yeah, I doubt better than the Cubs for
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Speaker 2: multiple years now, and it was viewed as Craig Council
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Speaker 2: was a big reason why. I think we saw he
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Speaker 2: wasn't the only reason why this season, but that, like
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Speaker 2: you know, in our last episode that we talked about
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Speaker 2: shocking moments, this higher was the most shocking moment I
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Speaker 2: think you and I have covered and it will continue
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Speaker 2: to be a storyline going forward. Cubs winner loose.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is just very very cubby occurrence to have
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Speaker 1: the team finished with eighty three wins under David Ross
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Speaker 1: and under Craig Council, and for the Brewers not lose
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Speaker 1: counts but trade away Corbyn Burns and not have Brandon
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Speaker 1: Woodruff available to pitch and still just boat race the division.
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Speaker 3: It was truly, Ah, just wild to kind of see
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Speaker 3: it unfold.
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Speaker 1: And you know, i'd ask you, son of what were
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Speaker 1: your first impressions of Craig Counsel as a guy to
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Speaker 1: deal with on virtually an everyday basis, from you know,
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Speaker 1: February until the end of September.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, Council was fascinating to cover, different type of humor,
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Speaker 2: different type of You have to kind of feel comfortable
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Speaker 2: that he's not fully judging you with everything, right, because
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Speaker 2: you could very well feel like, oh no, I'm being
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Speaker 2: put on the spot here. Or he's a little mean
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Speaker 2: or things like that. I think has a very dry
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Speaker 2: sense of humor. He doesn't like he'll sometimes ask for
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Speaker 2: more from you with your questions, or he'll challenge you
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Speaker 2: on your questions, and if you don't have a way
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Speaker 2: to fully back it up right away, that's when you're
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Speaker 2: gonna start feeling a little embarrassed. H learned that, you know,
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Speaker 2: I think we all learned that very early on, Like
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Speaker 2: whether we had a way to back up our questions
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Speaker 2: or not. He you know, he's not afraid to put
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Speaker 2: you on the spot, but he also understands what our
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Speaker 2: job is. Like I learned that pretty quickly. Like it's
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Speaker 2: not like he's anti media or he can't give a
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Speaker 2: good answer. I mean, look at the end of the season,
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Speaker 2: the ninety you know, we need to be building ninety
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Speaker 2: win teams. I think shows us that this guy isn't
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Speaker 2: afraid of speaking his mind. Like that's I think the
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Speaker 2: biggest thing, and it's not just us. It go around
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Speaker 2: the clubhouse. He was honest to everyone, and he'd there
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Speaker 2: were things sometimes I think he said early on in
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Speaker 2: spring training that was like is that going to tick
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Speaker 2: that dude off? No, it's because he already told the
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Speaker 2: guy like he's told him, and he's like, I'm and like,
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Speaker 2: if I've told this guy this, I'm going to share
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Speaker 2: it with you. Guys. For the most part right there,
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Speaker 2: you don't say, but I found that interesting? How about you?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, very similar experiences. I would say. Sometimes Craig helped
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Speaker 1: me spit out a question because even I'm like, what
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Speaker 1: are you talking about? What are you getting at? Then
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Speaker 1: there are other times there's just awkward to try to
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Speaker 1: explain your concept while the Marquee camera is going in
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Speaker 1: the rigally interview room and it looks like, you know,
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Speaker 1: arguing or something, but no, it's actually just like he
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Speaker 1: wants to know exactly what you're asking, which goes back
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Speaker 1: to your point of he and he understands our jobs
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Speaker 1: in a very like granular way. The story I'd like
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Speaker 1: to write, and I don't know how he could do
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Speaker 1: it is like you know, lots of people say, and
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Speaker 1: I agree with him that Craig counsels a lot more
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Speaker 1: humorous than you would think than the kind of dour
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Speaker 1: figure you saw and the Brewers dugout. And yet whenever
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Speaker 1: I ask someone for examples for it, it's very hard
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Speaker 1: to articulate. So maybe that is something when we're in
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Speaker 1: MESA next year we can try and get just a
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Speaker 1: couple of different anecdotes like that, because it's hard to
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Speaker 1: you know, if he tells us a funny story while
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Speaker 1: we're kind of chatting in the dugout, that's obviously like
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Speaker 1: not you know enough it is something off the wall.
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Speaker 1: It's more just you know, you know, that's amazing baseball career.
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Speaker 1: So he's like knows all these characters and has been
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Speaker 1: involved in so many big moments. It just doesn't really.
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Speaker 3: Come across.
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Speaker 1: But he's he's direct, he's detailed, he's organized, so like
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Speaker 1: no issues there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no good storyteller when when he's off the record too,
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Speaker 2: or even on the record. I remember someone Jim Leely
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Speaker 2: just got inducted into the Hall of Fame. Yeah yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: any someone asked them about Jim Leland one day, and
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Speaker 2: he had great stories both on and off the record.
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Speaker 2: It was just just great stuff. I mean, you don't
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Speaker 2: see that as often as he used to, I think,
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Speaker 2: and and it was just fun to cover. So the
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Speaker 2: hiring of council, I think did something created dynamic for
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Speaker 2: this organization, right, And that's with the pressure on Jed Hoyer.
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Speaker 2: And guess what. The Cubs didn't deliver this year, like
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Speaker 2: you said, same as last year under our twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: three under ross eighty three wins. So now who does
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Speaker 2: it go to? Doesn't go to Craig Council. He's not
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Speaker 2: feeling the heat. Jed Hoyer in company are feeling the heat.
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Speaker 2: That's that's what that was a big part of, especially
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Speaker 2: with Maine June. Remember we go in that clubhouse after
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Speaker 2: these losses and everyone is like, it's gonna turn, It's
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Speaker 2: gonna turn, and eventually I'll never forget jameson ti On
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Speaker 2: in New Milwaukee saying he's like, you know, we've been
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Speaker 2: talking about how it's going to turn. And it was
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Speaker 2: a week, then it turned into a few weeks. Now
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Speaker 2: it's been two months, and he was just like, well, like,
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Speaker 2: we can't keep talking about it's going to turn, Like
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Speaker 2: we got to get it done. You know, they played better,
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Speaker 2: They didn't end up ten games under five hundred like
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Speaker 2: it was looking like it was going to be, but
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Speaker 2: not good enough, and that puts the pressure on Jed Hoyer,
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Speaker 2: Carter Hawkins and everyone else in that front office.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it immediately flipped the dynamic. It was
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Speaker 1: kind of wild how quickly, you know, the hot seat
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Speaker 1: job security questions flared up. And I think part of
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Speaker 1: that was an organizational issue of how they framed the
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Speaker 1: sell off at twenty twenty one. And you know, you
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Speaker 1: had Tom Ricketts on Marquee essentially saying we're going to
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Speaker 1: go right back out in the market and spend, and
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Speaker 1: you think, oh, maybe they'll just replace those guys with
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Speaker 1: free agents and you know, big time free.
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Speaker 3: Agents and get right back out there. That's not really
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Speaker 3: what happened.
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Speaker 1: And Jed saying, you know, I don't know what the
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Speaker 1: definition of a rebuild is was just an unforced silly
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Speaker 1: everybody created this kind of gray area, right, or this
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Speaker 1: like murkiness of well, what exactly are the Cubs doing?
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Speaker 1: When I think internally they had a pretty clear directive.
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Speaker 3: In terms of what they wanted to do.
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Speaker 1: And I think publicly though, they kind of tried to
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Speaker 1: play both sides of it, and you know, just didn't
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Speaker 1: come out and say certain obvious dynamics within their organization.
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Speaker 1: And so, you know, Jed's deliberateness is certainly a strength.
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Speaker 1: It's why he has three World Series rings. But his cautiousness,
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Speaker 1: which also helped you know, the Red Sox and the
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Speaker 1: Cubs over the years. I think it really stood out
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Speaker 1: this past year. Okay, like you went out and fired
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Speaker 1: David Ross and higher Craig Council, but then it sort
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Speaker 1: of just stopped there in terms.
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Speaker 3: Of like the big wow type of.
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Speaker 4: Moves right right exactly that it was the off season
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Speaker 4: was like a little underwhelming after after council got to
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Speaker 4: give him credit for the moves they didn't.
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Speaker 2: Make though, right like, they made some good moves. Michael
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Speaker 2: Bush was a good acquisition and you know who we're
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Speaker 2: going to talk about right now showed him and now
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Speaker 2: his breakout season. That is a hell of a signing
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Speaker 2: after one year that like first of all, like just
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Speaker 2: dealing with him. Guy doesn't speak English and his opening
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Speaker 2: press conference it like if you like for me to
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Speaker 2: understand how difficult that is to do the you know,
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Speaker 2: the go Cubs go thing. I try and talk in
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Speaker 2: Spanish every once in a while some of these players,
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Speaker 2: and it's really hard and embarrassing, Like that's the biggest thing.
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Speaker 2: Like sometimes I'm just like, oh, I feel like such
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Speaker 2: an idiot, Like these guys are gonna think I'm a moron,
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Speaker 2: but you realize you like you listen to show to
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Speaker 2: do that, and all you can think is like, hey,
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Speaker 2: great job, Like we know how difficult that is. That's
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Speaker 2: incredibly difficult, and you did that in front of cameras,
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Speaker 2: introducing yourself to a whole new country and organization. Very cool,
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Speaker 2: very like great way to start his Coby career. And
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Speaker 2: the performance I mean remember daily, like after every start
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Speaker 2: or we're like is this gonna keep happening? Like I
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Speaker 2: was that Mets series in New York when he like
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Speaker 2: we were surrounding him and there were New York media
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Speaker 2: because they were so impressed. There were so many people
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Speaker 2: there to come talk to him, and he had great
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Speaker 2: lines he talked about like what did you know about
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Speaker 2: New York? Was like I saw it in Spider Man,
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Speaker 2: Like that's that's funny, Like that's he has a great
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Speaker 2: sense of humor and he was great, great picture one
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Speaker 2: of the you know, in a in a disappointing season,
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Speaker 2: a huge bright spot for the Cubs.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt.
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Speaker 1: I mean just I know you're a big you know,
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Speaker 1: Illinois hoopsky college sports fan.
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Speaker 3: What do people talk about like winning the press conference?
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Speaker 2: Right and usually that's like.
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Speaker 3: A bad sign.
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Speaker 1: Like his first moment was this unbelievable introduction to the
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Speaker 1: city in it just came this callback moment for everything
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Speaker 1: he did throughout the year. I mean the comparisons to
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Speaker 1: Fernando Vealezuela, I mean Cy Young Award, I mean Jake
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Speaker 1: Arieta's Cy Young Award campaign, like it was kind of
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Speaker 1: in that stratosphere. I mean a guy who totally like
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Speaker 1: put the Cubs on his back and like kept them
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Speaker 1: afloat for months. I mean off the time I had
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Speaker 1: I can't remember their record in his Star arts and
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Speaker 1: the record the rest of the season, but it's an
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Speaker 1: absurdly dramatic differences between show today's and the rest of
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Speaker 1: the one hundred.
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Speaker 3: And sixty two game schedule. And so I guess now'll
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Speaker 3: be how can he top it? Can he match it?
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Speaker 3: You know what? Will you know? His legacy sort of
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Speaker 3: be as you know, the.
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Speaker 1: Cubs are trying to be a player in the Roki
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Speaker 1: Sazaki sweepstakes and be that destination for other Japanese players
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Speaker 1: on the horizon. But yeah, I mean, realistically, he smashed
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Speaker 1: every best case expectation for his first year on the
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Speaker 1: North Side.
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Speaker 2: And he showed personality on the mound too. Well, yeah
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Speaker 2: that fun to watch, Like, yeah, fun to watch little
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Speaker 2: little like when he didn't get a call. It wasn't
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Speaker 2: fully calling out the hump, but it like little like
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Speaker 2: motions and movements that kind of you know, are enjoyable
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Speaker 2: to watch. Council, we talk about how smart he is
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Speaker 2: on the field, just little things like when to take,
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Speaker 2: when to run to first, went to, like direct, directing defenders,
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Speaker 2: things like that, Like just like a smart guy, fun guy,
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Speaker 2: fun to watch, great player, like a great story. Like
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Speaker 2: thankfully we had that to cover otherwise whoop, it would
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Speaker 2: have been a tough season one other at least in
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Speaker 2: the second half. Really positive story. Peteker Armstrong. He was
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Speaker 2: one of the rare bright spots and I remember thinking, oof,
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Speaker 2: this is a mess when he came up talking to him,
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Speaker 2: and this guy, you know, he has a lot going
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Speaker 2: on in his head, like because he has high expectations
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Speaker 2: for himself and he wants to succeed and he's succeeded
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Speaker 2: a lot in life. It you could tell he was
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Speaker 2: overthinking things and pressing and trying to do too much.
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Speaker 2: Talking to the coaches, talking to Greig Counsel, they all
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Speaker 2: nobody was hiding that he wanted to live up to
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Speaker 2: the hype. There was a point where we came into
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Speaker 2: the season and we probably we probably over like talk
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Speaker 2: too much about the high fastball, because you know what
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Speaker 2: killed him, it was the slider in and I at
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Speaker 2: a certain point I remember turning to Journey to a
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Speaker 2: reporter and saying, like, is he gonna just stop swinging
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Speaker 2: at that pitch? Because if it's like the opposition knows
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Speaker 2: throw a slider down and in and he's swinging, it's
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Speaker 2: an easy out. This has gotten hard to watch. Something clicked,
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Speaker 2: you know, something clicked in Kansas City, he got that
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Speaker 2: leg kick and looked and it was like one eighties
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Speaker 2: different player, and when he is succeeding it just talked
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Speaker 2: about how fun it is to watch showed him Naga.
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure if we've seen any anyone as fun
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Speaker 2: to watch since Sabi Erbaya's at his peak, Like that
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Speaker 2: was some of the most fun I've had watching and
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Speaker 2: covering a baseball player. The things he can do on
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Speaker 2: the field when he's right are freakish and it's fun.
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Speaker 2: It's fun to watch.
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Speaker 1: I mean, absolute havoc is what he can cause out there.
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Speaker 3: And I do think PCA kind of symbolizes a lot
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Speaker 3: of things going on with this team.
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Speaker 1: One it's called back to the twenty twenty one trade deadline,
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Speaker 1: trade and a hobby.
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Speaker 3: It's like, Okay, they.
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Speaker 1: Needed like guys to start showing up from that trade deadline,
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Speaker 1: and he did in a big way. I think you've
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Speaker 1: read about this a lots of hot I have of
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Speaker 1: how they worked with him and kind of the routine
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Speaker 1: he developed, and he obviously deserves the credit for that,
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Speaker 1: but it comes largely keeping a coaching staff intact. I
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Speaker 1: think is a recognition of kind of the development developmental
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Speaker 1: environment they've created, which is big.
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Speaker 3: And then just the like.
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Speaker 1: When you walk into the room of like okay, who's
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Speaker 1: the headliner not And you know PCA is certainly that
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Speaker 1: like a guy who can go viral. And also have
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Speaker 1: to give him credit for being a very like thoughtful,
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Speaker 1: expressive person, like someone who's super young and who's had
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Speaker 1: a lot thrown at him. He handled himself extremely well.
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Speaker 1: We'll give you a good a good quote. Also just
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Speaker 1: kind of carries himself, i'd say, in a different way
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Speaker 1: this past year of just kind of a little more
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Speaker 1: a little calmer, very observant, you know, seeing what Nico
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Speaker 1: hap Dansby all those guys are are doing. So again,
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Speaker 1: see what see if he can top it and continue
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Speaker 1: on this ascent next year. But one of the rare
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Speaker 1: like kind of I don't know, bursts of energy around
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Speaker 1: a team that was just so professional and kind of
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Speaker 1: a little boring.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I don't think you're going too far
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Speaker 2: by saying that at all, Like that's just I mean,
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Speaker 2: I don't think some of them would disagree. They're not
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Speaker 2: looking he's yeah, yeah, but he is an outlier in
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Speaker 2: that group. He also had tremendous respect for that group.
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Speaker 2: Like I think they helped him a lot, like he
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Speaker 2: like you said, like he watched them and I appreciate that,
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Speaker 2: Like you know, learn from those veterans, see their hard work,
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Speaker 2: see that they go through struggles too, and they pushed
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Speaker 2: through and the work that they put in and it's
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Speaker 2: like it's okay, don't let it get you down. Uh,
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Speaker 2: it's okay to sometimes take it hard, but got to
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Speaker 2: move on. You got to push through, continue to work.
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Speaker 2: You're talented enough to figure these things out. I'm very
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Speaker 2: curious to see how good he can be offensively, Like
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Speaker 2: if he's if he'sad last two months, then we're talking
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Speaker 2: about a very special talent. I don't I don't. I
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Speaker 2: think putting that on him is too much. That's unfair. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: but if you can have but if he can have
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Speaker 2: stretches like that, two month stretches here and there, and
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Speaker 2: he can put up even average offensive numbers, you have
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Speaker 2: a very valuable player. Like that's that's that's the reality.
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Speaker 2: So make that the floor and then reach for hire
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Speaker 2: and we'll see where it goes. Patrick. The final story
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Speaker 2: is the story we've been talking about for the past
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Speaker 2: two weeks now, and it is. Yeah, it is the
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Speaker 2: biggest story for the Cubs, I think since the Creig
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Speaker 2: Council hiring. And and so it's fitting that we start
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Speaker 2: with Greig Council and we we're gonna wrap the show
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Speaker 2: up with the Cubs acquired Kyle Tucker. Like this is
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Speaker 2: the biggest move player move that Jed Hoyer has made
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Speaker 2: in charge of the Cubs acquisition that he's made. Like
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Speaker 2: think about it, Like we wrote about this, but his
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Speaker 2: his Cub's career as team president started with the trade
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Speaker 2: with releasing Kyle Schwarber, trading you Darvish six months later,
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Speaker 2: he's trading the key the most loved players of this generation.
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Speaker 2: How could he like? Very hard to rebound from that,
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Speaker 2: Like almost instantly, he was beyond the eight ball as
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Speaker 2: far as fan reaction. Fans aren't going to like that,
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Speaker 2: no matter what it's like, no matter if it's the
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Speaker 2: right moves or not. It's really hard to win over
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Speaker 2: fans when you do that. So finally, there's some positive
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Speaker 2: things that you can point to, a big move that
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Speaker 2: you know you can you can complain about the price
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Speaker 2: if you're if that's what you're focusing on, I'm you know, hey,
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Speaker 2: let's watch some fun baseball, is what I'd say, and
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Speaker 2: maybe they'll win some games, more than eighty three games
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Speaker 2: this year because Kyle Tucker is a difference maker. He's
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Speaker 2: a superstar. He's that type of guy that changes the
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Speaker 2: dynamic of a lineup, and for Jed Hoyer to make
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Speaker 2: this bold move should be a good sign for Cubs fans.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I.
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Speaker 1: Guess there's always a little risk with everything, but this
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Speaker 1: guy seems pretty close to a sure thing. I mean,
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Speaker 1: really good all around skills, like an easy fit into
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Speaker 1: this lineup, someone who will certainly be motivated to play
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Speaker 1: well next.
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Speaker 3: Year and you know, go see what he can get.
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Speaker 1: But I liked I know we both did some reporting
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Speaker 1: on this, but just the idea of like it took
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Speaker 1: years for the Cubs to kind of get to this point,
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Speaker 1: and how all these little moments and you know, behind
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Speaker 1: the scenes people helped push this forward.
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Speaker 3: Whether it was.
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Speaker 1: You know, the deals that led up to this and
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Speaker 1: you know, finding a Christopher Morrell or whatever it was,
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Speaker 1: like you kind of drafting Cam Smith. Like, there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of it's interesting to pull back and see all
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Speaker 1: the things that went into this.
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Speaker 2: It's a sign of a healthy organization, which I think
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Speaker 2: sometimes both of us fall into this trap. Fans certainly
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Speaker 2: fall into this trap. Everyone does that's not inside the org.
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Speaker 2: Even sometimes inside the ORG. Shoot, Like it's very easy
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Speaker 2: to look what's happening at the major league field and
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Speaker 2: say this is a disaster, right, this is not going well,
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Speaker 2: this is really bad. Look they need to win. Like
21:23
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna blow them up and say like, hey,
21:26
Speaker 2: what a great job. They're an amazing organization. They're not
21:29
Speaker 2: there yet, but that is a good sign they're doing there.
21:33
Speaker 2: There there are some things that make me say, okay,
21:35
Speaker 2: you have my attention. I'm interested in what you're doing.
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Speaker 2: Continue on that path, and you know what, win at
21:42
Speaker 2: the major league level, because that's the bottom line, right,
21:44
Speaker 2: that's all where Like at the end of the day,
21:46
Speaker 2: if they're not winning at the major league level, they
21:48
Speaker 2: their jobs. It's going to cost them their jobs, right.
21:51
Speaker 2: But this is a this is a sign that I
21:54
Speaker 2: think when you are able to acquire a guy like
21:57
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker and you didn't destroy your major league roster
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Speaker 2: or your minor league system by doing it and look
22:03
Speaker 2: like frankly a better team. Ah, that's that's a good
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Speaker 2: sign for your organization and and it's what we need
22:10
Speaker 2: to see more of going forward. Like we wrote, you know,
22:14
Speaker 2: find the next camp Smith and then you know what,
22:16
Speaker 2: do more this offseason. And that's you know, that's what
22:18
Speaker 2: we're going to be talking about over the next what
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Speaker 2: is it a month, month and a half before we
22:24
Speaker 2: cheeze Patrick, it's coming close a month and a half
22:28
Speaker 2: from now, we will be heading to Arizona. So you
22:33
Speaker 2: know that that's that's the storyline for the next six weeks.
22:37
Speaker 2: Let's figure out how they get better? What what more
22:39
Speaker 2: are they going to do? What are what's what's the
22:42
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five Year in review going to look like
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Speaker 2: hopefully it's it's not it's not We're not talking about
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Speaker 2: eighty three weeks.
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Speaker 3: That would be so cub though. That would be so
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Speaker 3: cub though, I really.
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Speaker 2: Don't want to talk about it, Patrick.
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Speaker 1: Uh, gotta be like wins or ninety losses, like just
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Speaker 1: some sort of like, you.
23:03
Speaker 2: Know, let's make sure you you mean, Jesse aren't making
23:08
Speaker 2: Kane kun plans for October fourth, or at least we
23:12
Speaker 2: can't do that in August, you know.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it's always We'll definitely get our buddy Jesse Rogers
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Speaker 1: on to break it down in that case. But yeah,
23:23
Speaker 1: it'll be I don't know, I'm appreciative, and I know
23:27
Speaker 1: you are as well. Of like, I don't know, the
23:29
Speaker 1: cups are good, the cups are bad, Like who cares?
23:31
Speaker 1: Like they're always you know, entertaining. Yeah, there's always so
23:36
Speaker 1: much to write about. A lot of it's you know.
23:39
Speaker 3: Barely baseball ad Jason.
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Speaker 1: And it's a privilege to you know, work in a
23:45
Speaker 1: city like this on platforms like this, so very very
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Speaker 1: grateful as we had into twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, that's a great way to wrap it up.
23:54
Speaker 2: And I agree. Thank you for listening, Like truly, you
23:57
Speaker 2: guys have made sure that this podcast is like started
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Speaker 2: We hope for big things in twenty twenty five. Keep subscribing, like,
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