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SPECIAL EPISODE: It's Playoff Clinch Night · Monday Morning Cubs Show

• 0:02
  SPEAKER_03: Good morning, good afternoon, evening, our Cubs fans, and welcome back to the Monday morning Cub Show.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_03: This is an extremely special episode from the depths of my heart.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_03: I get to sit down with three of my closest friends.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_03: Obviously, one of them is Mahoney, and we're gonna sit down and talk about the Chicago Cubs are going to the playoffs for back-to-back seasons.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_03: It's a special episode.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_03: Um, before we get to the special episode, I figure it would be appropriate to tee things off like lightly heartedly.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, there is a guy who was not joining us on this episode.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_03: Mahoney, you're with me right now.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_03: There's any guy not joining us.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_02: It's Joey Milinaro, one of my favorite fans, Joey Milanaro.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_03: Molinaro.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_03: Tue, how do you say his name?
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_03: Molinaro.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_02: He's a maniac, he's a recurring guest, and it's a privilege to have him on the show today, folks.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_03: Well, we don't have him on the show today.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_03: He couldn't join us on the show today because he was at the Cubs Games today.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_03: Reliability.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_03: All right, and we're gonna get into the show.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_03: See, we're gonna find out C B's with us.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_03: Say hello, C B.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_03: Hello, boys.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_03: We're very Molly and C B C B's wife is about to give birth to the second child in the family, third child, tenth child in the family.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_03: We have a busy show to get to.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_03: I thought in the best interest of the community of the maniacs, we the four of us are here.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_03: All right, it's the re reoccurring guest thread from the Monday morning cub show.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_03: It's me, Carl, obviously Mahoney joined in the second chair.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_03: Jake Tui is with us, CB is with us.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_03: This is the heavy rotation.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_03: If you've listened to our guests, this is a month, this is a Monday morning cub show playoff clinch edition.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_03: But there is a fifth member to our group text who's not with us.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_03: And the reason Joey is not with us, what's his last name again, Mahoney?
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_02: Joey Molinaro.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_03: And so the five of us ride through Cub Seasons together on a bizarre group text uh predicated off of this chat.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_03: And I thought it would be most appropriate to say before we even get to the formal show we dropped, here is Joey Molenaro from the Sluggers batting cages with a welcome for all the maniacs, and just a God bless, love you guys.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_03: We're going to the playoffs.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: Carl and boys, Mahoney, the maniac, coming to you live from Sluggers.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: How are we feeling?
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_00: We're feeling pretty good.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: McClinch, we're going to the playoffs.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: The Cubs are going to the playoffs from back to back here.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: Soak it in.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_00: Doesn't happen too often.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: Feeling pretty good about it.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: Feeling pretty good.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_00: Did I have to get shakesh back in regularly for the game?
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: I did.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_00: But you know how we rally.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: It's like this team is gonna rally.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_00: Is it gonna be our closer?
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: Not really sure.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: Not too concerned about it.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: What I do know is that it is the 10-year anniversary of the World Series team.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: What I do know is that we have the MVP on our team on the MVP Carol Armstrong.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: What I do know is that when you get into the playoffs, anything can happen.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_00: And we are in.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: So do I have concerns?
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_00: I do.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: But right now, this weekend?
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: At this moment, am I too concerned about it?
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_00: What I have to say is, I'm stuck in this moment this weekend.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_00: Whether it's in Nor'easter, whether we're playing in Tampa or Milwaukee for the makeup game in Boston.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever it is.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: The message to the Manix is stuck in the moment of having a playoff team back to back here.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_00: We're in it, and let's make it happen.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: Let's rely on our MVP and let's get it done.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: I love you guys.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_00: Go Cubs.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_03: And we're clear! Good morning, good afternoon, and evening, Chicago Cubs fans, and welcome back to the Monday Morning Cub Show.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_02: It is actually a Thursday at this time of recording, Carl, September 24th.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_03: The Cubs are going to the playoffs.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_03: This is a special edition, a special, special edition Monday Morning Cub Show combination of Cubs going to the playoffs, and we have our most recurring guests in show history joining us between CB and the legendary Jake Tui.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_03: Welcome to the show, guys.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_03: Let's start with CB.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_03: You have a baby is about to be born.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_03: Ball or strike, you're more excited for the Cubs playoffs than your baby.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_03: That's strike.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_03: Actually, that's a ball.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_03: My wife wouldn't listen to this.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_03: No, I'm excited for the baby.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, but I am excited to be in on leave during playoff baseball.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_03: So, you know, a little bit.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_02: What a nice, what a nice spot to be in, C.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_01: No, yeah, no doubt about it.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_02: Win-win.
• 5:10
  unknown: Yeah.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_03: Win-win.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_03: That and that that question could have been answered wrong, but I get playoff baseball and a baby.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_03: There's nothing better than both.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_03: So let's go.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_03: Most most important thing right now, off the bat, no disrespect to your baby or to your family.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_03: Actually, I would say quite the opposite.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_03: I would say good good luck to you and your family or whatever you're supposed to say.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_03: I'm struggling.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, here what I'm just what I'm trying to do though is do the voice identification because this is an audio-only podcast.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_03: So that is CB.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, and then our goose tonight is is Jake.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_03: You know, everybody knows Jake too.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_03: He God bless you.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_03: Good to see you, my friend.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_03: Cubs, Cubs diehard.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_01: Thrilled to be here.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_01: Went to the game last night, wasn't able to get it done, but luckily we uh we got there, we got across the first finish line today.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_01: So pumped to be back with you boys.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_01: Happy to be here.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_01: Let's go, Cubs.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_03: I know everybody's excited to see you, Jake.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_03: And then CB, do you want to take that?
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_03: I keep looking at CB.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_03: This is an audio only, but you had this look on your face like you just wildly regret your ball or strike there.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, no, I you know the child, child's children families first, no matter what.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_03: So I do wildly regret that.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_01: When when you have a baby there, especially during a playoff run, hopefully a deep playoff run.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_01: Babies, while they don't sleep that much, they don't run around or talk or distract you or anything.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_01: So really you're in a sweet spot here, hopefully for a nice month-long run to the World Series.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_01: So think about it that way.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_03: You're absolutely right.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_03: It's a second kid.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_03: I I understand that, like, you know, the only thing that sucks is the sleep.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_03: Newborns are easy.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_03: So, you know, no one wants to hear this.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_03: Let's let's let's talk about the Cubs.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_03: Let's talk about the Cubs.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's it's just it's appropriate, though, dude.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_03: It's our show, it's mine and my only show.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_03: You guys are our friends.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_03: You know, we market this our guests.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_03: Here's the reality.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_03: This force them.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_03: How many, how many rounds of golf the four of us?
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_03: Just I'm I'm doing the best I can to keep this professional.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_03: You guys understand there's a big personal part of me that you three know how much the fact the four of us get to sit down and do this playoff show under the fucking banner, rest in peace, Barcel.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_03: You know what I'm saying?
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_03: It's like here we are, boys, talking fucking ball, getting ready for the playoffs.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_03: Mahoney, you're the by far I had established CD in in Tui's voice tracks for the maniacs.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_03: Obviously.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_03: Always.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_03: Always, brother.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_03: Always.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_03: You and I are locks up.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_03: Where are you at, brother?
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_03: We clinched playoffs today.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_03: You're you're you're the heart and soul of everything we do.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, just the uh the epitome, as I like to say, as opposed to epitome every once in a while.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_02: Three tries in the past couple days.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_02: We had an extra inning heartbreaker.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_02: I thought Gaussman was hurt, and we're in, baby.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_02: Back-to-back Octobers on the same day as our Pete Crow Armstrong goes 40-40, the seventh player of all time.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_02: Bid farewell to our sweet Taylor.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, how many times did you guys cry today?
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_02: I cried three.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_03: Don't jump into Taylor because I I was actually gonna ask C B, you're the least horny out of the four of us.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_03: What was your take on Taylor Leaf in the broadcast?
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_03: Well, you know, uh Carl, I know you know me pretty well, but I I think you might be incorrect on that.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_03: But uh, if you really want my take, I I think the only one I think the only man that's really struggling in this in the world is Boog.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_03: I think Boog is gonna just Boog's having a talk.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_03: Boog's boogs boog's not sleeping for weeks.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_03: That's the horniest man for Taylor I've ever seen in my life.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_03: So, you know, prayers are for Boob, you know, good for him.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_03: You know, I hope he's doing well, but to me.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_02: Not knowing his contract situation, CB, I can't imagine you sticking around too much longer.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I know, but I think your wish might be granted.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_03: I I I'm not the biggest boob guy, and I think he's got some ESPN ties, but I I I think he probably put a call as an agent today.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_03: I zoos he heard about Taylor and was like, hey, we got to figure this out, you know.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_03: No, when you say, because we have to set this because we're gonna get into this conversation later with like Craig Council's gonna come up, or you know, Ian Hap is a red-handed hitter, is gonna come up, and CB's gonna do this thing where he goes, you know, I'm not the biggest Craig Council guy, but then you're gonna be fucking be out with CB having a couple beers, and you know, he'll be like, I fucking hate council so much.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_03: So, CB, before we get into it, let's let's do when you say you're not the biggest boog guy, be honest, let it fly a little bit here, my friend.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'll let it fly.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_03: I think Boog is terrible.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I miss Len a lot.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_03: Um I'm a big Len guy.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_03: I uh look give me Chip Carrey, give me anyone.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_01: Boog drives me crazy.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_01: And don't you like it a little bit when he like when he's like, we had a slider there, huh, JD?
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_01: And he's like, splitter.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_01: Does he say that?
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_02: Like JD plays off of him pretty well.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_03: Like J J D is just a pro.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_02: JD is a pro, and like we garland was like, You're hilarious, JD.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Carl Carl really laid it out there, and he's right.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I am right.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_03: I am right.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_03: I know this because it's because CB will do this thing where he comes in all soft, like, well, I'm I haven't made up my mind on council.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_03: We'll say that publicly, you know, and then you'll like sit down with them, and then CB will be like, you know, I got a fucking problem with on June 6th.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I didn't know this could turn a therapy session, but I guess it is.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_03: Anyway, I didn't know Carl's right.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_03: Like, Boog is not my guy.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not a Boog guy.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_03: Like, oh, give me give me someone else.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_03: Like, he like I hope that Taylor will leave him for ESPN, Boog and Chase are around other ballparks and can be a national broadcast.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_03: It'd be great for me.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_02: But you know, starts doing more SEC games like the third-tier Vanderbelt games.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Boog's doing ESPN radio for old Miss Vandy.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_03: He just got Taylor's on the sideline.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_03: He'd love that.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_03: Respectfully, I think like a good qualified person on the panel here to like answer the question.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_03: Here's the question.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_03: This is ballers.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_03: This is not a baller strike, and we have a show to get to.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna do baller strike.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_03: But we have been sitting around waiting for the club cubs to clinch the playoffs.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_03: The cubs to clinch the playoffs so we could sit down and bullshit and do the show.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_03: So now that we're sitting here and we're having a couple thirsty McCarrolls and a pops, I'm I'm interested, Chewy, in your how would you is Taylor McGregor hat?
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_03: How would you describe her to like a stranger?
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_03: Like, do you how beautiful like what's her scale to you?
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_03: I think she's I'm willing to fill in the blank, but I want you to fill in the blank first.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, she's a five-tool player.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: We don't have to dig too deep in this.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: She's like Taylor will be missed.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, let's just say that.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna miss it.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_02: Across the board.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_02: Across the board.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: Whoever is filling her shoes is a lot to live up to.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_03: We are gonna miss her.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we'll just leave it at that.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_03: We'll leave it at that.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_03: Um, we have a great show to get to.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna get to the Cubs playoffs before we do, in conjunction with Taylor McGregor is all by no rattle.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_03: She is she does have a signature spicy finish.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_03: I'll tell you that.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_03: We went to the Wayste Management Open together one year.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_03: What was it, like 22 Mahoney?
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_03: And this girl is out of her fucking mind fun.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and in conjunction in the celebration of her leaving, because I would leave Marquee Network for Espien, even though Espien's blood suckers in a harp.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_03: You leave Marquee Network, you have for your own career.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_02: I mean you're gonna boost your brand.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_03: Just like, just like here's what I'm telling people.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_03: You want to enhance your life the same way Taylor McGregor is doing the right thing for her, she's doing the right thing for her family.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna encourage you guys to do the right thing for your family.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_03: Go to Amazon right now, get a sample of bladder of thirsty vaquero, get three bold flavors, all bite, no rattle, signature spicy finished mahony, your favorite.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna throw it to CB, who's been cutting his grass all summer long.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_03: And when it gets hot, when it gets humid, I know the guys behind this brand are some of your closest friends.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_03: C B, you reach into the cooler, it's an ice cold can of water, it's a thirsty vaquero.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_03: Which one's your favorite flavor?
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_03: I think I go Mango Muerte.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_03: And you know what?
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_03: The thing is, I used to be a watermelon guy, used to totally be a watermelon guy, but if I have to compare Mango Muerte to one player, it's gonna be Alex Bregman.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_03: You know why?
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_03: Because he's not are we giving out awards?
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_03: Are we giving out awards?
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_03: I'm jumping the gun, giving out awards.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_03: Because what happened is like Mango Muerte.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_03: When I first got my first pack of Thirsty Frick Arrow with a vigilante pack, I was like, Mango Muerte is gonna be my favorite.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_03: I took a sip and I wasn't a big fan.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, this isn't really for me, and and and why I compare the Alex Bregman is I was super excited about Bregman.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_03: He came in, had kind of a tough first half, and I was like, what happened to this guy?
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_03: Now I can't live without him because the second half he went crazy.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_03: He went crazy, he got hurt, and now I miss him.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_03: So I want more mango muerte in my life.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_03: And that's Alex Bregman is mango muerte.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_03: Mahoney.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_02: You're not saying, CB, that we're giving out like the vigilantes of the week right now, are you're just it it just resonates with you.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_02: But if you really think about it, for me, I want a mango muerte for breakfast for breakfast, a Lamon Ledron for lunch, and then a gimme of Sande Salvaj at dinner.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_02: It almost works the across the board for every single meal.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_03: Every single meal, all the like like if no, if you're gonna have a ham sandwich at lunch, have a mango morte.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_03: You're having tacos for dinner, mango mortality.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_03: The pair of capabilities.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_03: Well, if you're gonna pair with Mezcal before we do the Monday morning, come show and slur it like you and me, Moni.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_03: I'll slur my way through all the ad reads I want to.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, think about this though, Carl.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_02: We clinched today, dude.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_02: Peak got 40-40.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_02: There was no way I wasn't showing up with a little bit of a buzz tonight.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_03: No kidding, dude.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_03: No, I'm not this ridiculous.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_03: This is absolutely this is ridiculous.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_03: We're off the rails.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_03: Um I'm gonna tell I'm you know what?
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna I'm not gonna point my finger at any man.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_03: I'm just gonna say my watermelon, spicy watermelon week is P.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_03: Crow Armstrong, PCA.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_03: Well, how about this?
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_03: Let me take a step back from 30,000 feet, just encourage I will start uh to to be dead honest with you.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_03: I would be dead without this beverage company.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_03: You understand what I'm saying?
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not saying elixir, I didn't go to the fountain of youth and extend life.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_03: I'm saying it prevented the end of my life.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_03: Do you know what I mean?
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_03: There's a fucking difference between me in that spot Spanish conquistador, you know, who's like waltzing around Florida and slating people.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_03: I am actually trying to not die.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_03: And Thirsty Vicarol is the elixir that prevented that death.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_02: What's real lave?
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_03: It's 100% fruit juice.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_03: Come on.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_03: So if you get a chance, go to Amazon support.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not saying listen, I know your grandma loves the cubs, and maybe she does or doesn't make it but with respect to Thirsty Vaquero, I I'm telling you, it it will uh it will rejuvenate you.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_03: Is that fair?
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_03: It'll give you a boost, it'll make you feel good, it'll you know what do you want me to say, Mahoney?
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_02: Like I I mean it just it tingles your taste buds and it tingles your senses entirely.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_02: There's an eighth cent, I mean there's something else out there that Thirsty Vacero awakens.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_02: It's just a signature spicy finish that does it.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_03: I've never had I've never had someone take take a sip of Thirsty Vacero and and not have a good reaction.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_03: So you got your first you got your first blowjob drinking one of the East Ends, right?
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_03: Or what's the story?
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_01: What the fuck are we talking about here?
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_03: I know dude.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_03: That's a bad joke.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_03: That's a bad I'm just trying to I'm trying to bring all four of us together on the same topic here as we're talking about Thirsty Fakero.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_03: Obviously, you didn't, you know, Thirsty Vicero was dropped years ago.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_02: Um you're still waiting you're still way from we're 15 minutes in and haven't even tossed a single ball or strike.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_02: But guys, this is what you're gonna get when the Cubs clinch a second in a row.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_02: Oh funny birth, baby.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_03: I'm I've never been hampered as it's done.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, there's no cutting.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_03: We're not cutting this thing up.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_03: No, no shot.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_03: So do we have anybody want to take Lamone Ladron?
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_03: Did I miss this?
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: I guess I could take Lamone Ladron.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: The steady Eddie.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: Damn right.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_01: Just a nice 95 mile an hour fastball right on the outer third.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: And if I was going to not, I mean, the Cubs have how many players that could fall under that type of category?
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_01: Nico Horner.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_01: I would you could throw in Ian Hap.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, Nico Horner will hit 280 and make the correct baseball play.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, Jack.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_02: Every time.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_02: I really appreciate that.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_02: And just especially with what he did today as well.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_02: Perfectly said.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_01: But I mean, Ian Hap will produce approximately four war, whether you enjoy watching him do it or not.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_01: Never seen the guy make a comfortable catch in left field.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_01: Michael Bush, Dansby Swanson.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, Dansby Swanson, I mean, you missed the guy for a month.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_01: And I mean, I'm glad we survived.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_03: Well, can I do this then?
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_03: Can I dig into this for a second here?
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_03: Because we all have our we all have our different roles and places and and why we know a lot about the Cubs or baseball or whatever.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm comfortable with the maniacs at this point.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, I've done two hour long solo shows like at three o'clock in the morning, I should be in bed.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_03: So let me just before we get into all this stuff.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_03: Jake, Jake is a very good player.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_03: Uh CB is a very good fan.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_03: And Mahoney is a very good person to go to Wrigleyville with.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_03: I would put Jake is one of the best players I know in my entire life, up there with all the professional guys that I know in the big leagues that I've talked about.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_03: So he owns records at the school I played at.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_03: He was a cat, blah, blah, blah.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_03: I'll suck his dick till I don't give a fuck.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_03: I'm trying to make the point that when I go, does this guy have a good swing?
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_03: Jake has an incredible insight about a player's mechanics, swings, all this shit.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_03: CV has incredible insight about what's going on in message boards, what's going on in text threads, Twitter, what got news released, all this stuff.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_03: He's the first guy to hit the group text on.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_03: And Mahoney is the absolute number one guy you want to be in Wrigleyville with after a tough loss or a big win.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_03: There is no other way to slice the three of us, the three of you guys up.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm kind of a loony bin that touches all of us.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_03: I played with you, Jake.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_03: Mahoney, I obviously resonate strongly with that.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_03: And CB, you and I are just fucking creatures.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_03: So with that, let's get in the playoff baller strike segment.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_03: I've been dying to do.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_03: How's that sound, Mahoney?
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_02: I can't frickin' wait, Carl.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_02: What a great day to get into some baller strikes.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_03: And Mahoney, can you just teach can you just pump us up for a second?
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_03: You had a great tweet before I do this first baller strike.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_03: You had a great tweet.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_03: You go, we're going to back-to-back playoffs for the first time since what what was it?
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_02: We were sponsored absolutely right, Carl.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_02: We are going to back to back postseasons since Thirsty Vicaro has sponsored the Monday morning cub show.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_02: And like Tui has taught me, it's not nothing.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_03: We're going to start with CB here on the first baller strike boys.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_03: We have 30 seconds.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_03: I'm going to pitch clock.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_03: Each of you guys.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_03: We're going to go CB.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_03: Obviously, we're going to start with you because you have a baby on the way, and we are so excited.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_03: That baby's way more important than anything that goes on in the Cubs postseason.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_03: That goes to all expecting fathers and mothers listening to the show.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_03: Baller strike, CB, today was more Cubs clinching the playoffs, is more of a relief than a celebration baller strike.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_03: That's a strike because we've seen what this team is capable of.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_03: And it's been disappointing the last I don't know, 10 days, two weeks.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_03: So that that is definitely a strike because this team is World Series potential, and they have not lived up to it the last couple weeks.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_03: So that is a strike right down the middle.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_03: Because this team has a lot of talent, and we have not shown it.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_03: Baller strike, two we follow up, do we have World Series potential?
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think there's any question that they do.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, the offense is just relentless.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's they can they can face any pitcher in the big leagues and beat them.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_01: It's not like you're you're waiting for, I mean, even though they haven't scored that many runs the last f couple weeks uh outside of a couple games, this team can hit and that's gonna keep you in ball games.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_01: They don't give away a bats.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_01: The bullpen is obviously fucking can be a nightmare.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it's nice to see Daniel Palencia looking good.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_01: But and Rawlison's been really good, but fucking Jacob Webb.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, man.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: Like if they didn't blow as many saves as they have in the last two months, I think it's like 11 or 12 saves.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_03: It's like their strike, like if they if if Jacob Webb doesn't go on a 24 appearance streak, we're not even in the position to entertain his blown saves.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_03: That's also a strike.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_03: So then let's go back to the celebratory tone then with Mahoney ball or strike.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_03: Were you relieved or were you celebrating today?
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_03: I saw videos with you and your toddlers.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, very much a strike for relief, if that makes any sense, dude.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_02: And I mean, only because like you blow the chances to clinch, bases are jammed and extras, like we alluded to in the intro.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_02: You lose again the next night, we're not popping champagne.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_02: We're like, it was very much a um an exuberant exhale for me today.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_02: So that's a straight it was more of a relief for me, but I I still celebrated in the way that I needed to, and it felt great.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_02: It was like finding your car keys after, you know, fucking they're lost for X amount of hours.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, no, or for 20 minutes or for the short period of time you want to find a car key.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_02: It was thank God.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_02: Like, thank God, and I feel good about it.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_03: They're like you're looking for your you're looking for your weed pen on an airplane after it fell out of your pocket while you're taking away.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_02: Or in the morning when I wake up every single day and I'm like, where did I hide that thing last night?
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, son of a bitch, it's not in the three spots.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_02: Go.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, something I'm gonna ask you guys, we're gonna come back to because I know we're we'll let it noodle, but there's gonna be a point at the end of the show I'm gonna ask you guys, what was your favorite moment of the season?
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_03: You don't have to answer it now, but think about it because we're gonna come back.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_03: Because it I didn't plan that.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_03: It just now that I'm thinking about this, I want to talk about that as we as we end the show.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_03: But let's go baller strike here.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna start with again CB.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_03: Because I dude, I know CB, you have so much piss and vinegar, baller strike.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_03: No matter what happens from here, the season has been successful.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_03: Carl, that's a ball big time.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_03: Because, like I said last time, like I've s we we have all seen this team be at their at their peak.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_03: And we've thought this team is a World Series team.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_03: So like if they get swept, whether they're playing the Philly leads, the Padres, the Braves, whatever, you know, it's all Penair.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_03: I know.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_03: If they if they get swept, not a good season.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_03: Like we expected them to win 95-96 games.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_03: Go ahead.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_03: No, it's my it's my fault for interrupting you.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_03: Keep going.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_03: No, it's it's like I expected the team to win more games than they are going to win.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_03: We've we've had a lot of ups and too many downs.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_03: So, in my opinion, that is a that is a ball.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_03: I forget what the initial question was, but well, I mean, it's just a matter of whether or not the 26th season's been a success.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_03: It's a clear ball.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_03: So then I would just pivot to Tui and go, I agree it's a ball.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_03: I think it's way outside, but then Tui, like, who's responsible for the ball being as outside as it is?
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_03: Is it the front office?
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_03: Is it the ball pen?
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_03: Is it the players?
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_03: Is it Craig?
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_03: Like if you had to win one guy.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like it's too early to say anything but ball.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, making the playoffs means you had a good year.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't mean fucking mission accomplished.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_01: Like if we lose two games next week, we're sitting here on October 2nd saying, well, 88 wins, fun season seeing Mesa.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_01: That's not a successful season.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_01: I mean who who is it Ben?
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_01: Why is it a ball?
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I don't think even if they were were the Brewers, do you think the Brewers would say that they've had a successful season right now?
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_01: They would be I think a Brewers fan will be crushed if they don't make it to the World Series.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_03: That's all they know though, Jake.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_03: They lose every time of the playoffs.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I think I'm more interested in like, you know, like no disrespect to the Brewers and Mizerowski.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_03: Like, fuck them.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_03: For us, it's like right now, we move forward, we don't move forward.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_03: We lose it because it honestly at this point, it's still are we?
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_03: I made this joke in the tux threat.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_03: Am I going to Atlanta and facing Chris Hale, or am I sitting at home taking a dump and and and looking at Zach Wheeler?
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_03: You know, those are two completely different fucking things.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_03: And so is it a if we fail, and I agree 100%, dude.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_03: We better win the wild card, we better be in the NLPS.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_03: If you're gonna break the luxury tax and Pete's gonna be the unanimous MVP, and Alex Brugman's gonna be the second half player of the year, and we're gonna get Danz B.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_03: Swanson.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_03: I'm like choking up as I'm doing this because I'm so emotional.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_03: But as we're gonna get Dan's B.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_03: Swanson back healthy after we went through this whole song and dance about whether or not he's good or he's fucking plenty good.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_03: Clay Holmes is playing good.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_03: Matt Boyd's been pitching what we're we're there's this element of like, okay, we have enough steam to get here.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_03: If we don't get there, we agree it's a failure.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_03: We agree.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_03: We agree.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_03: Now, are we willing to go back in time and go we should have like Tui, you're talking about we should have won the division when you bring up Jacob Webb.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_03: Are you willing to point the finger at the front office and go, you guys should have done a better job preparing for the regular season?
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_03: Or are we far enough along now to start pointing the finger at the players in Craig?
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_03: And that's kind of where I guess I want to get a resolution on.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_03: And and Mahoney, I'm gonna turn to you.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_02: And I I only have it as a ball, Carl, because we do these balls or strikes very literal.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_02: And is the season a success or not?
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_02: And it isn't complete.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_02: How and it has been a tough one for me, but it is a ball in regard of the mission is the mission, right?
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_02: These players want to win the World Series.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_02: Making the playoffs has been great, but in the offseason, we signed Bregman, we have the MVP, and we made moves that we could at the deadline, whether they've panned out yet or not.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_02: So, like, it's no longer like we're like back and like here we go to shake things up.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_02: This year's always been about one thing and it's been going all the way, and I don't think like sneaking in and getting eliminated is gonna do it.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_02: So just to maybe just a little bit ahead of if the sea season as a whole is magical with PCA alone, that's where you can look at it as a strike.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_02: Otherwise, that's all I gotta say about that.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_01: And I was perfectly said it's like if Jed hadn't done what he did at the deadline and actually make a good run at it at getting like really upgrading the pitching staff, that's where you could throw the blame that way.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_01: But I mean, after a couple years of being pretty dormant at at the deadline, I was happy with the deadline.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_01: I also think he's had a lot of success in like just getting kind of scrap heap relievers and then them turning into like studs for one year, one or two years.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_01: And this year it's been a little bit more of a struggle.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_03: So well, I think the measurement there, we're gonna get into some more baller strikes about this, but like the met the measurement with me and trying to figure this out is I do agree the trade deadline was successful.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_03: I do like the Kevin Gossman.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_03: Obviously, the Clay Holmes edition's tremendous, and it seems like Zabero Sean is gonna close and they're gonna use Palencia for the most high leverage, which seems like an advanced move where like they're taking what I believe to be their best reliever and gonna use him in flexible situations.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_03: So there's a bunch of different like iterations of the strategy of where things go from where they are.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_03: My question, though, would be more about like, do you do you guys blame Jed for off-season shit now where we are here and we're going, well, Phil Mayton's limping in on crutches?
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_03: Are we mad about that?
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_03: Are we we and we gave him two a multi-year deal?
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_03: We never give multi-year deals to relievers.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_03: Are we mad?
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_03: Are we mad about the fact that we turned down Jesus Lazardo on medicals but said yes to Edward Cabrera and approved his medicals?
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_03: Edward Cabrera, if you take out his first two starts, has almost a seven ERA.
• 32:05
  SPEAKER_03: Almost a seven ERA in it.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_03: If you take out the first two starts, people go, Oh, this guy's awesome.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_03: He's almost a seven fucking ERA in a Chicago Cubs uniform where we're sitting here game planning against Jesus Lazardo if we see him in the wild card, because he's gonna lead the National League in strikeouts per nine innings from a qualified starting pitching.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_03: So it's like, do you guys both because people have that tone where they go, Well, fucking Jed's not up for the job.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_03: So then the question is if we get to the NLDS, we lose in five games or whatever, we move on.
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_03: I think that's kind of where like the needle on the compass starts to really straighten out, and you go, is this success, is this failure, is this this and that, or whatever?
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_03: And you can get really precise and look at some of the stuff Jed's done and gone, I hate this, but to we are you coming back and going, Gossman and Clay Holmes are enough.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I think so.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_01: I I do think so at the deadline.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, don't forget about Peterson too.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_03: I I think I I I side with Jake here that I think it wasn't like w what else was out there?
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_03: Like a I mean the old yeah bullpen's is really so hard to do.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_03: Scooby was like we were never gonna be there.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_03: Scooby was ridiculous.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_03: There's the there's those uh reports that Grom turned the Cubs down.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_03: Like there's a lot of stuff going like I I I think building a bullpen's hard, and Jed tried to do it.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_03: I I don't I really I don't really like the matons like the money he got because I feel like when you get bullpen guys that much money, you never know what's gonna happen.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_03: But like some of the best bullpins ever have been produced by guys that came out of nowhere.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_03: So like I but like you can't build a bullpen and really understand how it's gonna happen.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_03: So I don't blame Jed for that.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_03: I think I think you know we we made some missteps, obviously, but you know, you it's just so hard to predict, and like I I don't blame Jed.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_01: And the one thing that he definitely avoided was what we dealt with last year, where it was like, please God, starter, get me 12 outs in a seven-game series, and then just scratching claw for the other 15 because that was that was rough.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_01: You got guys that can go deep enough in games.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I feel real good about with the starting rotation because last year.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, even if Gossman's ERA I think is inflated, and I think some of the peripherals are like I love him in a game one, I don't care.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, four points.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_03: It's it's it's like when Grover Alexander came in in 1926 for the Cubs, like they they it or the for the Yankees, it didn't matter at that point, you know.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_03: So we'll get we'll get to that later.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_03: How about this for a second?
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_03: I'm I'm gonna go to Mahoney because you and I have been sitting shackling on us for years now.
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_03: And Mahoney, you have like the best perspective on like a lunatic friend about P.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_03: Carmstrong's play to plate discipline and general approach.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_03: And I've talked to you forever about the trade-off he's gonna have between his on base and his slug.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_03: And then he basically just skullfucks me all season long and is like, I'm gonna go, my on-base is gonna go through the roof, and the slug's gonna go up.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_03: So, my question for you, and I'm gonna start with Mahoney, and I want everyone to get a taste of this, although I'm gonna pitch block you guys.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna go Mahoney CB Tui on this one.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_03: This is just this is a straight up ball or strike.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_03: You would rather have ball or strike leading off.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_03: Don't worry about defense, Mahoney.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_03: I'm just saying, ball or strike, you'd rather have Peter Armstrong leading off for the Cubs for the rest of the year than Shohei Otani.
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, that's a strike.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, not worrying about defense.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_02: I just know that PCA is gonna be able to also steal that second base, steal that third base.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_02: Right now, Otani, his knee and leg aren't feeling that great.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_02: So if right now you're asking me that question, it's a strike for PCA, and that's that.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_03: No repercussions.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_03: You just get you can, we can just no, we don't know if it trade pay.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_03: I don't want to hear salary cap tax, none of the translator, CV, show A for PCA, you're making the trade right now, just for the playoffs.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_03: Strike seven times 40-40 in the history of baseball, and PC did it this year.
• 36:46
  SPEAKER_03: That's a strike, no doubt about it.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_02: He's 24 years old.
• 36:51
  SPEAKER_02: He's 24.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_03: I it again, it's not about whether he's 24 or 25, he could be 37.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_03: I'm saying for the next, I'm just saying for the next five weeks, Mahoney.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_03: You know, it's like you're just sneaking in this context here.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_03: That's yes, you're correct.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_03: I apologize.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_03: You know, don't apologize because now you're gonna get the lizard kingdom.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_03: No, no, no, no.
• 37:11
  SPEAKER_03: Here we go.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_02: Here we go.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_02: Come on, let's move it along here.
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_03: You know, it's like it's like would Tully, would you trade PCA for Show A for the playoffs, or do you think PCA is better sincerely in your heart?
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_01: PCA.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_01: Give me PCA.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_01: I give me PCA.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_01: He if like what he can do just from an offensive perspective, he causes chaos.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_01: He can win you a game, a one two-nothing game by himself.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_01: And he's and he's walking like what did I I sent you guys the thing a couple weeks ago.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_01: I think he walked like 21 times last year.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_01: I think he's got like 80 walks this year.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_01: So he's getting on base, and if he wants to get on third, he can get on third.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_03: What do you think is bat to a specifically to a do you think what what are you more impressed with?
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_03: His glove or his bat this year?
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_01: His bat, but that's not taking anything away from his glove.
• 38:13
  SPEAKER_01: He makes everything in center field look so fucking easy.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, he gets to balls that nobody else has a prayer of getting to.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_01: So, but his bat has been one of the best in the history of the game.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_01: So, how do you how do you not say that?
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I'd had this conversation with you because then I'm sorry to isolate my own and CB on this, but like two of you taught me how to keep a bullpine chart.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_03: You taught me how to scout hitters.
• 38:35
  SPEAKER_03: So there's a lot of people listening to the show that that look at me and go, this guy knows what he's talking about.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, well, I'm literally talking to the guy who taught me about this stuff.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_03: So I want to dig in for a second.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_03: If you and I had this conversation on PCA two years ago, would it be different?
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_03: Would you go, would you look at Pete and go, I actually had throw this motherfucker change up away, I'd pound him inside.
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, I think the landscape on how you would approach him as a pitcher has changed drastically.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_03: Of course he's back.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_01: He used to chase everything.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_01: Now when he chases, he actually puts the bat on the ball too and fouls it off.
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_01: So he's not an easy out, no matter where you pitch him.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_01: And like what he what he's done with his discipline at the plate is is unheard of.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I thought I thought he was the biggest target for backfoot sliders forever.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_03: And the point you make about fouling off, there were multiple times today and throughout the Marlin series where he pulled off and fouled off balls like a foot inside backward slider.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_03: That was like it's just crazy test.
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_03: And it's like you could hit 300, you get 350, you could hit 380.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_03: It's like you can also show me clips of Wade Boggs and Tony Gwynn and each row doing the same shit of just like making those unhittable pitches, whatever, fine.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_03: Fucking recalip, recalibrate it.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_03: Let me go to CD and then.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_01: He was hitting it switches.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_03: Will he be the first MVP winner to ever hit nine in an MLB lineup for like 20%?
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_03: Non-pitcher.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_02: Non-pitcher.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_02: Probably, dude.
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_02: Probably.
• 40:17
  SPEAKER_02: Probably.
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_02: Another arbitrary stat for PCA.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_02: Don't call them arbitrary, but they're all firsts of all time.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_02: I love it.
• 40:29
  SPEAKER_03: I forgot.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_03: I was gonna ask C B a question.
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_03: I forgot I forgot what I was gonna add.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_03: C B.
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, you know what?
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_03: How about this, C B?
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_03: I was gonna ask you this.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_03: This is not this is off script here.
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_03: I feel like I feel like CB out of the out of the four of us is probably the biggest Sammy Sosa fan.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_03: So, like, where does this season rank against the Sammy Sosa seashins?
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_03: I I don't know.
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_03: It's hard to compare because you know when you're 12 years old in 1998 and Sosa's hitting 20 bombs in June, and it'll go next door to my my grandparents' house, and my grandpa went to Lane Tech and was like a huge Cubs fan and stopped cheering for the Cubs and started cheering for the socks because the cubs suck so bad and I had to rub under his face that like Sosa was hitting these.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_03: So like that's like just an inside peek to the the life I grew up in and no one really cares about.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_03: But uh um don't say that, don't say that.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_03: I care.
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_03: I I think that but I uh it's weird because I I think last time I was in the pack, as I said, like I can't really remember like every time PCA hit up, was up to the plate, he was hitting a home run.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_03: I felt this year, and I was like, I can't imagine Sosa hitting 20, 25 more bombs that year.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_03: Like, in my opinion, that this is this is cooler because I could really really appreciate it.
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_03: And Sosa was just like every time he was up to the plate, he had a home run, which was awesome as a kid, but it's it's really hard to compare.
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_03: I think that's a perfect segue to what my follow-up question was for Mauni and Tui specifically, because they're just like a shade older than us, just a shape, like a couple years, you know.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_03: Enough for like whatever.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_03: I was a freshman when you were a senior.
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_03: So then the question would be do you guys have enough perspective?
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_03: Because I identify more at CB, where I go, I don't think I was old enough to really appreciate the Celsa stuff.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I look more back, especially when Sammy and 03 hit the game Tyne Homer in game one of the NLCS against the Marlins.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_03: Like, to me, that's a childhood memory.
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_03: Um, so those are a little bit different now as I'm older.
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I really appreciate how good PCA is, especially like, and then as a midpoint to this conversation would be Chris Bryant, where it's like, even I I relative to PCA, I took Chris Bryant for granted.
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_03: So I guess I'd go to I go to Tui first on this question.
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_03: Where would you put PCA relative to the two MVPs we've interacted closely with in our lives between Sosa and obviously KB then?
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I guess me being a couple years older than you makes makes sense that like the Sosa year wasn't like you don't remember it perfectly because that was like the height of my 13 or 14-year-old self when I'm like playing travel baseball, and like he was it was appointment television every single day.
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_01: And it was just like it seems to me without numbers, it seems to me that it's ridiculous that PCA's season is so much better, like his F war is that much better than Sosa's because all Sosa did was hit bombs.
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_01: It was insane.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_01: But I mean Pete's had multiple two home run games, multiple three run three home run games, and he does everything else so much better than everybody in the league.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I mean I told my son the other day he was four years old and is addicted to the Cubs.
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, you're not gonna remember me saying this.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_01: But you're this this season is different than almost every other season ever.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_01: So but it still feels weird.
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_01: It's like that Sammy time.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_01: It was crazy.
• 44:13
  SPEAKER_02: The Sammy time for me, to be honest, it was very much more of a cultural movement than it was beyond just being like the Cubs fan and stuff.
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_02: It was a regular too.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_01: It was put on it.
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_02: They were interrupting NASCAR races to put that shit on.
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_02: It wasn't just like you're watching a baseball game and they're cutting in.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_02: So that was so much different, I think, from a field.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_02: But to be completely straight, as a Cubs fan in TUI, you brought me up on Chris Bryant.
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_02: You told me everything about him before he even laced him up.
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_02: That was more special to me, seeing him win the MVP and us and eventually winning the World Series than anything.
• 44:56
  SPEAKER_02: And then now this with Pete is more magical than that from for like if you're going to single out one player's performance throughout a season.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_02: I can look back at the KB stuff, and I mean that's number one always, but what Pete has done this year has been just a sight to see, and I've been so happy to be able to witness it.
• 45:19
  SPEAKER_02: And I don't know, like the Tammy stuff is like almost on a different level level compared with our KB was like he was like our baby.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_01: It was like he was just the superstar that we knew was coming, it was coming up.
• 45:32
  SPEAKER_01: We couldn't wait for him to get there.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_01: We got Pete Crow Armstrong for fucking one month of hobby bias.
• 45:38
  SPEAKER_01: And it was like he's just gone to the stratosphere out of nowhere.
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_01: But don't you think that plays into it a little bit?
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_01: That it's like KB was just like, can't wait for this.
• 45:48
  SPEAKER_03: Well, we needed KB so bad at the time because we had signed lesser.
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_03: There was the drama about whether or not we were gonna draft a position player.
• 45:57
  SPEAKER_03: Remember Jonathan Gray?
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_03: Was Mark Apollo's in the conversation?
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe he wasn't the year before or after.
• 46:04
  SPEAKER_03: There were a lot of names about it.
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_03: And and KB was the guy they had picked.
• 46:08
  SPEAKER_03: The interesting thing, too, about KB is that he very much did not fit in with that clubhouse culture.
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_03: Now we're gonna do this whole song and dance.
• 46:16
  SPEAKER_03: Come here on November 3rd at the Chicago Theater, the Marquee Network's doing this whole thing.
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_03: Everyone's gonna fly in.
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_03: Rizzo's, you know, taking GLP ones.
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_03: He's gonna host a fucking podcast with Dempster.
• 46:27
  SPEAKER_03: Like, dude, it's so funny to me.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_03: And then we're gonna do this tenure review thing.
• 46:32
  SPEAKER_03: Now, whether KB comes or doesn't come and has a ripple in it or doesn't have a role in it, my suspicion is the personal side of things is like he won't have any role of us, and they won't have him in any side of these inside jokes.
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_03: He's not gonna be on Saturday Night Live.
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_03: And if he is, he's gonna have the smallest role and they're gonna not include him at all.
• 46:47
  SPEAKER_03: And it's because he's not a guy who hangs out with the team, and he wasn't a guy who gave a fuck because he was more interested in hanging out with his wife.
• 46:54
  SPEAKER_03: Now, here's a group of guys who are 40 plus years old, and it's like, does anybody blame KB or like scoff or look at KB the wrong way?
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_03: No, it's like that's exactly how I would do it at this age.
• 47:04
  SPEAKER_03: He's an old soul at some point, and he kind of got ostracized from those guys.
• 47:09
  SPEAKER_03: So pay attention to this shit.
• 47:10
  SPEAKER_03: I would say to maniacs, is they do this this 10-year bullshit reunion, they do all this the song and dances.
• 47:17
  SPEAKER_03: This this whole fucking show they put on.
• 47:20
  SPEAKER_03: They're gonna take KB out of it.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_03: Now you're gonna feel like it's like, well, KB's not available, he plays for the Rockies and all the stuff.
• 47:27
  SPEAKER_03: They didn't make him a part of it, they didn't make they didn't, they didn't they they almost pushed him away from it.
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_03: So I I would come back to this point and then say, obviously, it's fucking crazy to think about this in hindsight, but it's it's more um, and again, that with the 2016 World Series doesn't exist without Chris Bryant.
• 47:47
  SPEAKER_03: Now, if there's a 2026 World Series for the Cubs, is it fair to say we can make the same connection to Pete?
• 47:55
  SPEAKER_03: Like, there's there's absolutely no fucking no chance we even make the playoffs.
• 48:01
  SPEAKER_03: Now, remember though, I say this in '98, Sosa won the MVP, run away, and we got swept by the braids.
• 48:08
  SPEAKER_03: So, like, this is the connection I'm trying to draw.
• 48:10
  SPEAKER_03: Tui, you make the strongest eye contact.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_03: Here I'm looking at you.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_03: And the I mean, the question is what the question is specifically, do you feel more confident in Pete, or would you, if you give him the opportunity, we'll do the same show he exercise.
• 48:29
  SPEAKER_03: Would you take Pete?
• 48:31
  SPEAKER_03: Would you take KB or would you take Souza if you could have one of the three former Cub MVPs?
• 48:36
  SPEAKER_03: Let me be let me sp specify the conversation here.
• 48:39
  SPEAKER_03: This is not a baller strike, this is a pick one of three.
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_01: I think you gotta take Pete.
• 48:44
  SPEAKER_01: And I mean, like, I feel like that might be recency bias a little bit, but like he just changes the game in every single way.
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_01: And KB did too.
• 48:53
  SPEAKER_01: KB was an unbelievable base runner, but I mean, a ball in the gap.
• 48:58
  SPEAKER_01: Do you see Pete today?
• 49:00
  SPEAKER_01: Just was he doesn't hear a short pop-up, a pop-up to center field and it's a lazy throw into the shortstop while he's on second base, and he was like, whoop, gone.
• 49:11
  SPEAKER_01: I'm taking third.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_01: Like the guy just does everything.
• 49:15
  SPEAKER_01: And I don't I'm not nervous about him striking out four times because he isn't seeing spin well for a couple days in a row.
• 49:23
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't know how you don't take him.
• 49:27
  SPEAKER_03: CB, I'm looking at you now.
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_03: I'm going, I feel like you had a strong take here.
• 49:32
  SPEAKER_03: No, I I think I have to go with Jake because like the numbers prove it.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_03: But like I going back to what I said like five minutes ago, like Sosa just was like a god.
• 49:44
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe because I was 12.
• 49:46
  SPEAKER_03: And I think I feel like the thing with KB is like we expected that.
• 49:51
  SPEAKER_03: He's the only guy ever went from college baseball for the year to rookie of the year to MVP.
• 49:57
  SPEAKER_03: Pretty sweet.
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_03: But like, I mean, you really can't go wrong with any of the three, but like recency bias might be a thing.
• 50:04
  SPEAKER_03: But PCA, one of seven guys to go 40-40, that's unbelievable.
• 50:09
  SPEAKER_03: You gotta keep him.
• 50:11
  SPEAKER_03: So then Mahoney, let me baller strike it real quick.
• 50:14
  SPEAKER_03: Do you think baller strike a healthy Alex Bregman is the difference between the Cubs making the playoffs or actually winning the whole fucking thing?
• 50:23
  SPEAKER_03: Like we've done this song and dance now about PCA.
• 50:26
  SPEAKER_03: So, like at the end of the day, if we win or lose in the playoffs, do you think it's a Bregman thing?
• 50:30
  SPEAKER_03: Baller strike?
• 50:31
  SPEAKER_02: Um, no, I think it's a ball, and the only reason being is the fact that the lineup it led baseball and runs before his second half surge ever started.
• 50:41
  SPEAKER_02: So that's one thing, and that's why it's a ball.
• 50:43
  SPEAKER_02: Do I think we need him?
• 50:45
  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely, it's a strike just for offensive continuity.
• 50:48
  SPEAKER_02: But it's a ball for me because like we need Boyd Holmes and Gaussman to give us five innings, and that's the most important thing, other than Braggman being like who he was.
• 51:02
  SPEAKER_03: Christian.
• 51:05
  SPEAKER_03: I think it's a strike.
• 51:06
  SPEAKER_03: I think you need that offense because I uh Mahoney Mahoney kind of I'm gonna disagree.
• 51:12
  SPEAKER_03: He said we need Boyd Boyd uh Gausman and and uh in Holmes for five innings.
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_03: I don't think five innings does the job.
• 51:22
  SPEAKER_03: I I don't think the bullpen's there.
• 51:24
  SPEAKER_03: I don't think the bullpen's there right now.
• 51:27
  SPEAKER_03: And Craig's really kind of bipolar on this.
• 51:30
  SPEAKER_03: He is some guys that will stretch and some guys he won't.
• 51:34
  SPEAKER_03: Seems like he's been stretching Holmes and and uh Gausman a lot more, and I don't know kind of where we go from there, so I kind of disagree with Lahony there.
• 51:46
  SPEAKER_03: I'll turn it to Tui, then the you you have the deciding baller strike here.
• 51:52
  SPEAKER_03: And basically where you're gonna make the decision here is is it Bregman?
• 51:59
  SPEAKER_03: Because we all all agree, let's peace here.
• 52:01
  SPEAKER_03: We just get all we just sucked this dick next to Sammy Sells and Chris Bryant, which honestly, if you told me two years ago, I would have said could would have been impossible.
• 52:10
  SPEAKER_03: But here we are now talking about it.
• 52:12
  SPEAKER_03: Now we're in the second layer.
• 52:13
  SPEAKER_03: Is there a chance here where we're going there's there's it's it's it's Bregman and it's the pitchers that's where it's gonna dictate the success in the playoffs, or do we just go back to Pete?
• 52:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna say it's a strike, and the reason is I just can't, no offense to Michael Conforto, I cannot have him batting leader or having batting and clean up in the playoffs.
• 52:37
  SPEAKER_01: Like Bregman is just such a steady player and a hitter in that spot.
• 52:45
  SPEAKER_01: He's so valuable.
• 52:46
  SPEAKER_01: When I see Michael Conforto come up, it feels like I'm getting punched in the stomach.
• 52:54
  SPEAKER_01: Now, the bullpen also could be a problem, and I do think the starters are gonna need to go deep.
• 52:59
  SPEAKER_01: And I think it's a veteran staff, so stretching those guys out, I'm not that worried about, especially since a couple of them are Reynolds.
• 53:05
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I need Alex and I need him to be able to hit, not just being a psychopath and forcing his way back in because he's a baseball junkie.
• 53:21
  SPEAKER_02: Your mic's cut out.
• 53:23
  SPEAKER_02: Can you guys hear me?
• 53:24
  SPEAKER_02: Now we can, loud and clear.
• 53:26
  SPEAKER_03: All right, I'm not editing that either.
• 53:29
  SPEAKER_03: That's a nice organic moment here.
• 53:31
  SPEAKER_03: Um and I'm not editing any of the interruptions here.
• 53:34
  SPEAKER_03: It's a playoff show.
• 53:36
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna make a judgment here.
• 53:38
  SPEAKER_03: I haven't rendered any any ball or strike judgments here.
• 53:41
  SPEAKER_03: I don't believe so.
• 53:42
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm gonna say it is a strike that Alex Bregman is the difference.
• 53:46
  SPEAKER_03: And the reason is I I think that pitching is predictable.
• 53:48
  SPEAKER_03: And I what I mean by predictable, whether it's great or bad, uh what I mean by predictable, I'm looking at the lineup and going, we need over four runs, we need five plus runs to win playoff games.
• 54:01
  SPEAKER_03: Now that's a healthy order.
• 54:03
  SPEAKER_03: That's that's a tall, big ask.
• 54:06
  SPEAKER_03: But we also have the best position group in Major League Baseball this year by every metric you want to measure it.
• 54:12
  SPEAKER_03: And then you can mix in the fact that we have the best right fielder by DRS, the best center fielder, the best second baseman, maybe not the best second baseman, the best third baseman, you know, top three at every position in in defensive run save, which is why I'm very inclined to go back and say look at the lineup and go, I need a bat.
• 54:30
  SPEAKER_03: I need a I need a bat, I want the bat, I want the right-handed bat.
• 54:34
  SPEAKER_03: The only question is in this a dovetail deep dive.
• 54:38
  SPEAKER_03: Sorry to follow up like this, guys, because it's not on the outline, but like, is Suzuki somebody who could have a monster October that nobody's talking about?
• 54:48
  SPEAKER_03: Tui, I'm gonna start with you.
• 54:50
  SPEAKER_03: Well, let's make this one quick.
• 54:51
  SPEAKER_03: Suzuki, no one's talking about him.
• 54:53
  SPEAKER_03: I feel like as we sit here, we go Bregman and his eye heels.
• 54:57
  SPEAKER_03: Every time I do these lineup previews, I go PCA Suzuki, PCA Suzuki.
• 55:01
  SPEAKER_03: It's starting to become very habitual with me.
• 55:04
  SPEAKER_03: And so my question now here is a follow-up is are we overlooking Suzuki going to the playoffs?
• 55:10
  SPEAKER_03: Do does he deserve more respect?
• 55:12
  SPEAKER_01: He definitely strike, he deserves more respect.
• 55:15
  SPEAKER_01: And when he gets hot, I love seeing him go deep today.
• 55:20
  SPEAKER_01: I'd like to see another one before the end of the season.
• 55:23
  SPEAKER_01: That's a guy, again, just another fucking Lamone Ladron, steady, steady Eddie.
• 55:31
  SPEAKER_01: The guy can hit the shit out of the ball.
• 55:32
  SPEAKER_01: That's all there is to it.
• 55:33
  SPEAKER_01: So I do think that he gets a little uh probably undervalued.
• 55:39
  SPEAKER_03: Mahoney, you you have Japanese neighbors.
• 55:42
  SPEAKER_03: Any word on the street about Suzuki?
• 55:44
  SPEAKER_02: Nope, say Suzuki as his children did go to my neighbor's school, which is too much information.
• 55:51
  SPEAKER_02: But however, I mean he's as much of a dip deputy vigilante as you can get, you know, in the trio and then the bunch.
• 55:58
  SPEAKER_02: He's probably had the most underrated season that we've had the like privilege of talking about.
• 56:04
  SPEAKER_02: Privilege.
• 56:04
  SPEAKER_02: Um dude slogs out of his mind.
• 56:07
  SPEAKER_02: We need him, and and we're gonna need him moving forward.
• 56:10
  SPEAKER_02: We've needed him all year.
• 56:12
  SPEAKER_03: So then let's go to the next baller strike first.
• 56:15
  SPEAKER_03: C B here.
• 56:15
  SPEAKER_03: We have a just a couple quick ones I'm gonna rattle off here.
• 56:18
  SPEAKER_03: But this is this is important at Craig.
• 56:22
  SPEAKER_03: And particularly the last three games, now that we've clinched playoff CB, but the seeding is still undecided.
• 56:34
  SPEAKER_03: So over the next three games, are you more interested in ball or strike?
• 56:41
  SPEAKER_03: You're more interested in the pitching staff being ready versus the seating in which we encounter in the wild card.
• 56:52
  SPEAKER_03: You're more interested in how the pitching staff is lined up and ready.
• 56:55
  SPEAKER_03: So, meaning here's the situation: we have this double header in Boston.
• 57:00
  SPEAKER_03: You go into game two, you go, I don't we use the guy in game one, we can't use him game two, we're gonna use this guy, that guy.
• 57:06
  SPEAKER_03: Do you start to look at and go, we're not using guys so they can be ready for wild card?
• 57:10
  SPEAKER_03: Or are you going, we're managing so ball or strike, you're more interested.
• 57:14
  SPEAKER_03: This is very complicated.
• 57:15
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sorry, CB, but this ultimately comes back to credit counsel, and you have very strong opinions about him.
• 57:20
  SPEAKER_03: So ball or strike getting the pitching staff lined up for playoffs is more important than chasing playoff seating the last weekend of the year, CB.
• 57:33
  SPEAKER_03: Ball or strike.
• 57:35
  SPEAKER_03: I I think that's a strike because I know there's been a lot of stuff behind the scenes where like I I I read I've read a lot of stuff where like the Red Sox were okay with splitting the gate in Wrigley, but like the Phillies and and Padres were not okay.
• 57:52
  SPEAKER_03: They didn't think that was fair.
• 57:53
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know if that anything's true.
• 57:54
  SPEAKER_03: You can read stuff on on Twitter, X, whatever it's called.
• 57:57
  SPEAKER_03: Um, that's a strike in my opinion.
• 58:00
  SPEAKER_03: Because you need to have the pitchers.
• 58:02
  SPEAKER_03: I I'm not really worried about going to San Diego.
• 58:05
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not really worried about going to Philly, like Philly, Philly, maybe a little bit more, but uh, I'd love to have some home games, but I'm like, I I I'm not worried about that.
• 58:15
  SPEAKER_03: We have a better team than both those squads.
• 58:18
  SPEAKER_03: So um Atlanta, maybe not, but we we played Atlanta well this year.
• 58:24
  SPEAKER_03: So that that is that is a I forget, did I say strike?
• 58:27
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's just strike and moving forward, yeah.
• 58:30
  SPEAKER_03: I'll go to Tui if if it comes down to it and they go, hey, we're gonna stretch Palencia and then he's not available game one, or where do where does your head at on this?
• 58:38
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think they do that.
• 58:39
  SPEAKER_01: I do I think it's a ball though.
• 58:41
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to go to Philly.
• 58:42
  SPEAKER_01: I think in order, I want the four, six, five seed.
• 58:47
  SPEAKER_01: I would prefer not to go to Philly.
• 58:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'd be okay with going to San Diego.
• 58:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'd be I'd rather go to Atlanta than go to Philadelphia.
• 58:57
  SPEAKER_03: And and and Tui, let me interrupt you.
• 59:00
  SPEAKER_03: I I I put this on the in the group chat yesterday.
• 59:02
  SPEAKER_03: I'd rather go to Atlanta than San Diego.
• 59:06
  SPEAKER_03: And Carl San Diego's hot.
• 59:08
  SPEAKER_03: Are you fucking kidding me?
• 59:10
  SPEAKER_03: How mad are you guys?
• 59:12
  SPEAKER_03: I you were mad about that, but in my opinion, remember when the Rockies won like 18 of 20 games and made the World Series and just got spaked?
• 59:20
  SPEAKER_03: Like, there's always a team that's super hot, and right now it's the Padres.
• 59:24
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm like, I'd rather and you're and and Carl's argument just to peek behind the curtain was like, if Chris Sales in a three-game series, you're you're losing a game.
• 59:33
  SPEAKER_03: But guess what?
• 59:34
  SPEAKER_03: The Cubs beat Chris, but the Cubs beat Chris Sale this year.
• 59:38
  SPEAKER_03: All right, dude, Chris Sale the other day.
• 59:40
  SPEAKER_03: Chris Sale the other day, did you see the clip?
• 59:43
  SPEAKER_03: Chris Sale the other day, bullpen's washed.
• 59:46
  SPEAKER_03: They're in the race, they're trying to catch the the by.
• 59:50
  SPEAKER_03: Bullpen's washed.
• 59:52
  SPEAKER_03: 38-year-old Chris Sale turns in his best game in like seven years, and told the manager before the game, he was like, just give me the ball, don't worry about it.
• 1:00:03
  SPEAKER_03: I got it today.
• 1:00:04
  SPEAKER_03: Listen, I know Chris goes.
• 1:00:05
  SPEAKER_03: And then what is it?
• 1:00:06
  SPEAKER_03: Walt Weiss, who's their manager, is sitting in, he's like, You guys don't understand.
• 1:00:10
  SPEAKER_03: He told me he was gonna do this, and then he went out and he did it.
• 1:00:14
  SPEAKER_03: That's and where we talk about this as the maniacs, Mahoney's in here nodding along.
• 1:00:19
  SPEAKER_03: We're talking we talk so much about the mental side of shit where it's like, dude, Chris Hale, that's a shutdown guy.
• 1:00:26
  SPEAKER_03: Like, we don't have that clay Holmes Gaussman, and then I would argue in the history of baseball, Chris Hale's on a short list of like 20 names where you go, dude, you see this guy in a big game, and I can guarantee you he's gonna absolutely carve.
• 1:00:41
  SPEAKER_03: Now, if someone's gonna come back and go, what about the wild card game against the Yankees in 2019 when he got his shit rocked?
• 1:00:48
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, I get it.
• 1:00:49
  SPEAKER_03: I get that that that happened.
• 1:00:51
  SPEAKER_03: I'm talking about right now, Chris L.
• 1:00:53
  SPEAKER_03: That's where I go, I can I can I feel like we can manufacture some noise against Christopher Sanchez.
• 1:00:59
  SPEAKER_03: Am I wrong?
• 1:01:01
  SPEAKER_03: No, no, Carl, you're absolutely right about everything you said about Chris Ale.
• 1:01:04
  SPEAKER_03: You're absolutely right.
• 1:01:06
  SPEAKER_03: My my text, and I didn't even want to engage because I'd I'd rather if if you and I were sitting next on a barstool next to each other, I would be telling you this, and you would say you're fucking crazy.
• 1:01:16
  SPEAKER_03: And I'll explain myself.
• 1:01:17
  SPEAKER_03: Over text in a group chat, I'm not gonna do that, but I don't want to play the hottest team in baseball.
• 1:01:23
  SPEAKER_03: The Padres are unstoppable right now.
• 1:01:26
  SPEAKER_03: I don't want to, I don't want to be in San Diego.
• 1:01:29
  SPEAKER_03: That was my thought process behind that text, and that's why I didn't even respond.
• 1:01:33
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, you know, I'll I'll talk to Carl about this in person, but I'm not gonna talk about it now.
• 1:01:38
  SPEAKER_03: Now, are the Braves better than the Cubs or a better?
• 1:01:41
  SPEAKER_03: If you talk to him in person, I'll wait till we're on the Monday morning cub show, and then I'll can I'll confront him.
• 1:01:45
  SPEAKER_03: You can call me.
• 1:01:49
  SPEAKER_03: I should have called you, you could hit record, we could record it.
• 1:01:52
  SPEAKER_03: But I I think I think too, I'm looking at Tui.
• 1:01:54
  SPEAKER_03: I think he knows what I'm saying, and I think everyone here is all knows what I'm saying.
• 1:01:58
  SPEAKER_03: I don't want I just don't want to fuck with the best team in baseball.
• 1:02:02
  SPEAKER_03: Shout out Lizard King.
• 1:02:03
  SPEAKER_03: I just said fuck.
• 1:02:04
  SPEAKER_03: I don't want to fuck with the best team in uh the hottest team in baseball right now.
• 1:02:09
  SPEAKER_03: That right now is the Padres, and that's a good roster.
• 1:02:11
  SPEAKER_03: Two, I'd rather go to Atlanta than San Diego, but I don't mean to open this can of worms, I just do it.
• 1:02:18
  SPEAKER_03: I agree.
• 1:02:19
  SPEAKER_03: It's a the can of worms is open, and Mahoney agrees with you.
• 1:02:24
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, it's a strike.
• 1:02:26
  SPEAKER_02: Now, hosting it Wrigley, I want to host it Wrigley as much as possible, to be quite honest.
• 1:02:31
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but I know I can't burn like Boyd Holmes this weekend.
• 1:02:36
  SPEAKER_01: Well, Boyd just picked, so like he's he's he's lining up for game one.
• 1:02:40
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 1:02:40
  SPEAKER_01: If it's Osman can line up for game one.
• 1:02:43
  SPEAKER_02: Then there you go.
• 1:02:44
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you for correcting me.
• 1:02:45
  SPEAKER_02: But no matter what, if we're the four or the five, the it's the reward's gonna be the same.
• 1:02:51
  SPEAKER_02: It's gonna be the Brewers.
• 1:02:52
  SPEAKER_02: So just line up the staff the way we need to for the playoffs and and see what happens.
• 1:02:59
  SPEAKER_02: I don't think we could do it any other way.
• 1:03:01
  SPEAKER_03: You know, Craig's throwing out aside like four innings, all three of these games, no matter rain or shine in Boston.
• 1:03:07
  SPEAKER_03: It's gonna happen.
• 1:03:07
  SPEAKER_02: That's how I I think that that's exactly right.
• 1:03:09
  SPEAKER_03: Or he's gonna start one.
• 1:03:11
  SPEAKER_01: I figured he'd probably get the one that would be fine too.
• 1:03:14
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, start one day, pitch four a couple days later.
• 1:03:18
  SPEAKER_02: I could do a nor'easter-soaked Boston.
• 1:03:20
  SPEAKER_03: I could do a whole episode about how sad the pitching has been from the names that are had been involved that we've talked about.
• 1:03:28
  SPEAKER_03: If you throw some of the names that have been in the group chat this year, and you lined up against the depth chart of the names that will be taking the field for the Cubs, just how sad it is to think about Justin Seal have nothing to do with this.
• 1:03:42
  SPEAKER_03: You know, how much Ben Brown has been a significant role in the conversation of the Monday morning cub show that he's not even gone, not even Cade Horton forgotten, other than my growing collection.
• 1:03:56
  SPEAKER_03: There's so many great parts of this team that don't exist at all.
• 1:04:01
  SPEAKER_03: And the fact that we're even doing a playoff show to me is special.
• 1:04:06
  SPEAKER_03: You know, they went to the World Series in 1906, 07, and 08.
• 1:04:10
  SPEAKER_03: They lost in 06, they won 07-08.
• 1:04:13
  SPEAKER_03: Then in years following that, they went to the World Series.
• 1:04:18
  SPEAKER_03: I want to say 10 more times until 1945, lost every single time, then didn't go to the playoffs until 84, lost, win 89, lost, win 98, lost, went 03, lost.
• 1:04:34
  SPEAKER_03: Now, what you guys are gonna hear is not back-to-back years.
• 1:04:37
  SPEAKER_03: We went 07-08 when we won the division, didn't win a playoff game.
• 1:04:42
  SPEAKER_03: Then the 15, 16, 17 came and went as easy as it was, and next thing you know, you're in a one-game wild card with the fucking Rockies, you know, cheering for brutal Quentin Barry or who rest in peace.
• 1:04:55
  SPEAKER_03: Who who is Terrence Gore was on this yeah, he was on second base.
• 1:04:59
  SPEAKER_03: I was in center field live.
• 1:05:02
  SPEAKER_02: I felt horrible about that, and I still feel horrible.
• 1:05:04
  SPEAKER_03: So the twin and then you have the fake 2020 season, you've got the David Ross fake season 23, the Craig Council bullpen implosion with the launch of the Monday morning cut show with me and my own in 24.
• 1:05:17
  SPEAKER_03: You know, so like I know last year it didn't end well, we lose game five, but as we kind of crunch ourselves in here for a playoff run, it's like it's very easy for me to just sit here emotionally and be like, how fucking sick is this that I get to sit here at three three of my close muchachos that I know love the cuzz, that we talk about it all the time.
• 1:05:35
  SPEAKER_03: Like, we're going to the playoffs, boys.
• 1:05:37
  SPEAKER_03: We're going to the playoffs.
• 1:05:38
  SPEAKER_02: I'm so happy about it, man.
• 1:05:40
  SPEAKER_02: We're going to the playoffs.
• 1:05:43
  SPEAKER_02: It's so fucking great.
• 1:05:44
  SPEAKER_02: It makes everything.
• 1:05:47
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm going to start with you, Tui.
• 1:05:49
  SPEAKER_03: Um, you know what?
• 1:05:50
  SPEAKER_03: Actually, I'm going to start with CD instead.
• 1:05:52
  SPEAKER_03: Do you have a favorite moment of the season?
• 1:05:54
  SPEAKER_03: I know what Tuies is, and we're going to close the Tuies, but we're absolutely going to close it to But CB, do you have a favorite moment of the season?
• 1:06:04
  SPEAKER_03: I think I think all the walk like there's a couple.
• 1:06:07
  SPEAKER_03: I mean all the walk-offs have been really cool, even like the walk walk-offs where they get you know hit by pitch.
• 1:06:16
  SPEAKER_03: But I think the 40-40 today is pretty special.
• 1:06:19
  SPEAKER_03: Like that that and it might be recency bias, but I was shocked.
• 1:06:25
  SPEAKER_03: I was sitting with one of your former teammates, one of my closest friends, Joey Bonadonna, and he goes, You know how many guys have had 40-40 in their career?
• 1:06:33
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm like, I don't know, probably like 30.
• 1:06:35
  SPEAKER_03: You know, looking back in the early 1900s, there's probably a bunch of guys I've never heard of.
• 1:06:40
  SPEAKER_03: He goes, PCA might be the seventh guy ever to do it.
• 1:06:44
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm like, there's just no way.
• 1:06:45
  SPEAKER_03: And we fact-checked it.
• 1:06:47
  SPEAKER_03: And to have him do that is unbelievable.
• 1:06:50
  SPEAKER_03: All the PCA moments this year.
• 1:06:53
  SPEAKER_03: Like it it that is my favorite moment.
• 1:06:56
  SPEAKER_03: Just watching him blossom into a guy that we traded for one month of Javi Baez, who I also love Javi Baez, but to have that loves Javi Baez, PCA.
• 1:07:06
  SPEAKER_03: PCA does too.
• 1:07:08
  SPEAKER_03: He's happy to be here.
• 1:07:09
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, no, let's just a special season and the cap it off in the 40-40 is unbelievable.
• 1:07:15
  SPEAKER_03: So that's that's number one for me.
• 1:07:19
  SPEAKER_02: I did I mean Ditto for real.
• 1:07:21
  SPEAKER_02: I've never yelled so loud with a yeah with PCA's 40-40.
• 1:07:26
  SPEAKER_02: But to add to the color of the Monday morning Cub Show, Carl, to be completely honest, probably my favorite moment of the season was a game that we lost when we were with New Amsterdam Craig in the booth, having the great day that we always do at least once a year, going to Wrigley, taking it in, meeting maniacs for the first time in like the you know the wild.
• 1:07:53
  SPEAKER_02: It was of such a cool experience for me.
• 1:07:55
  SPEAKER_02: And I know you're a little bit more used to that, but I know how much pride you take in the show, and I know how much pride you took in those moments too.
• 1:08:03
  SPEAKER_02: So it was really going with you, experiencing the game, having an awesome time, and then doing the show for our whole community.
• 1:08:11
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I love you, and that's such a good point.
• 1:08:13
  SPEAKER_03: And I prepared a second at I chambered a second round in case you used the New Hampshire one, because I was gonna say that was mine.
• 1:08:22
  SPEAKER_03: Because that was, I think, the last time I went to Wrigley, but it's harder as we get older to get together with our friends.
• 1:08:27
  SPEAKER_03: So when you pick the days, you do go, hey, we're gonna meet, but then what do we do, Mahoney?
• 1:08:31
  SPEAKER_03: Like, we don't the games at one, like historically, you and I would meet at noon or meet at 12:30.
• 1:08:36
  SPEAKER_03: Like, we meet at 9 a.m.
• 1:08:38
  SPEAKER_03: You know, like we meet like we meet at train and yeah, you know, we make a whole day out of it because we get older.
• 1:08:45
  SPEAKER_03: So I was gonna say that, but you took it, you sniped it from me.
• 1:08:48
  SPEAKER_03: So I'll say the second one, which actually was before the season started.
• 1:08:53
  SPEAKER_03: So I just want to thank the maniacs too as we get in a playoffs.
• 1:08:56
  SPEAKER_03: Like, um, I just there's a lot I would like to say.
• 1:09:00
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not gonna do it now with my buddies, but there's a moment I was in London.
• 1:09:05
  SPEAKER_03: This is the second one.
• 1:09:06
  SPEAKER_03: I was in London, and Mrs.
• 1:09:09
  SPEAKER_03: Carl and I had this big trip planned, and she's been working so hard, she worked so hard, and we have this whole big trip planned.
• 1:09:16
  SPEAKER_03: And it had literally like slit my mind that we do the Monday morning cub show and the money, and I'm gonna be out there.
• 1:09:22
  SPEAKER_03: And I recorded a show, and I remember telling her she's cut she we were coming back from a I don't know, it was like a fucking Tower of London tour, Westminster.
• 1:09:31
  SPEAKER_03: We were doing the tours in central London, and then we come back and we have like an hour in between the time you get back, we're gonna go to some fucking dinner we booked, you know, three months ago.
• 1:09:40
  SPEAKER_03: And I was like, I gotta do this show.
• 1:09:43
  SPEAKER_03: And she's like, You do whatever you gotta do.
• 1:09:45
  SPEAKER_03: And I sat in the lobby of this boutique hotel on my fucking AirPods and talked into the voice memo thing, and I don't even know, I remember what you're talking about was like the free agency shit, but this is such a throwback for me.
• 1:09:58
  SPEAKER_03: My favorite moment that was a breakthrough for me personally because I was I was attached.
• 1:10:04
  SPEAKER_03: That was like an attachment moment after we lost in the playoffs, the world series had just ended.
• 1:10:09
  SPEAKER_03: I'm just thinking about how much does this matter to me?
• 1:10:11
  SPEAKER_03: And it matters so much that I'm telling my fucking wife on this trip that like I can marginally afford at the time, you know.
• 1:10:18
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I gotta I gotta sit down and do this show.
• 1:10:21
  SPEAKER_03: Mahoney, I'm not texting you.
• 1:10:22
  SPEAKER_03: Well, we gotta do this show.
• 1:10:23
  SPEAKER_03: I don't even think anything material happened, but what I'm thinking about in my head is at some point I'm gonna sit down and I want to be able to chop it up with my buddies.
• 1:10:30
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna be going to the playoffs, we got the big show to do.
• 1:10:33
  SPEAKER_03: And if I don't sit down and do the show now, then I can't do the show next week.
• 1:10:37
  SPEAKER_03: And if I can't do the show next week, and Mahoney, you know what I'm talking about, how crazy I am about the concept of like, I made a promise, I'm gonna fucking do it.
• 1:10:47
  SPEAKER_03: You know, so I'm getting a little heavy here, but like that was a breaking point for me personally, not breaking point, a turning point where I was like, I love the show, I love this community, and I'm not gonna let some fucking trip across the pond hold me back, even if I'm alone and I have no and I don't have a I don't have anyone to talk to, I'll talk to myself.
• 1:11:06
  SPEAKER_03: And then that spawned solo shows, which spawned confidence, which allowed it just it just is allowed so much, and I'm so grateful and blessed.
• 1:11:15
  SPEAKER_03: But I'm not I don't do the show without my buddies, which is why I turn it to Jake.
• 1:11:18
  SPEAKER_03: Because I the only reason I know a lot about baseball is because the guy I'm gonna turn it to here.
• 1:11:22
  SPEAKER_03: I talk a lot about swings, hitters, all this shit.
• 1:11:26
  SPEAKER_03: So I'll I'll I'll kick it to I'll kick it to the guy who's took taught me literally.
• 1:11:30
  SPEAKER_03: Every time someone goes, You know so much about how do you know so much?
• 1:11:35
  SPEAKER_03: If only you knew the fucking guy who taught me who I'm about to introduce you to.
• 1:11:39
  SPEAKER_03: Jake, what was your favorite moment of the season?
• 1:11:42
  SPEAKER_01: Well, let me start by saying I feel like you might be giving me a little too much credit, but I appreciate the kind words.
• 1:11:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um my favorite game of the year, you've told the story on Twitter, the uh X the Everything app, and on the show.
• 1:12:00
  SPEAKER_01: But uh my dad passed away over the weekend, early August, and my family was in time, everybody came in from out of town.
• 1:12:10
  SPEAKER_01: My nephew, who they my sister lives in the Virgin Islands, their family comes in.
• 1:12:17
  SPEAKER_01: My nephew's like newly obsessed with the Cubs, and they decide that we're gonna go to the game.
• 1:12:23
  SPEAKER_01: We go to the bleachers, we don't get there early enough, so we're sitting like way up, like right under the scoreboard.
• 1:12:28
  SPEAKER_01: It's hot as hell.
• 1:12:30
  SPEAKER_01: And for the most part, it was a brutal game.
• 1:12:34
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing happened.
• 1:12:35
  SPEAKER_01: I don't even remember how many like hits they had at that point, but they did the wind was blowing in.
• 1:12:40
  SPEAKER_01: We were facing um what's his ass?
• 1:12:45
  SPEAKER_01: Uh villain's decent.
• 1:12:50
  SPEAKER_01: Is just shoving the Cubs can't hit anything.
• 1:12:51
  SPEAKER_01: I think he had 10 strikeouts.
• 1:12:54
  SPEAKER_01: Bragman did almost go deep, uh, even though there was this ridiculous wind blown in.
• 1:13:00
  SPEAKER_01: Uh they're down 2-0 in the ninth inning.
• 1:13:03
  SPEAKER_01: PCA gets on two outs, two strikes.
• 1:13:06
  SPEAKER_01: I actually said to my brother and brother-in-law, I'm like, we need a fucking home run.
• 1:13:12
  SPEAKER_01: And the only ball that gets out of the stadium right now is one that gets that stays under the video board.
• 1:13:19
  SPEAKER_01: And sure enough, two outs, two strikes, and he ripped one just right off of the one of those um whatever, like the advertisement blocks that are out there.
• 1:13:35
  SPEAKER_01: And then in extras, unbelievable extras, like Carson Kelly gets thrown out being this I mean the slowest guy ever.
• 1:13:42
  SPEAKER_01: Love that guy.
• 1:13:42
  SPEAKER_01: But my God, when he is the when he's the the ghost runner on second base in in extra innings, it's rough.
• 1:13:51
  SPEAKER_01: He got hosed at the plate, PCA gets on, steals third base, they throw the ball in the left field, and Pete scores.
• 1:14:02
  SPEAKER_01: And we always we we're like that was dad, man.
• 1:14:06
  SPEAKER_01: My brother, my brother was asking for a little wind change, and wind kind of started blowing out a little like crosswind, and not just straight in from center field.
• 1:14:17
  SPEAKER_01: Uh pretty emotional day.
• 1:14:19
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, and they also when we got to the when we got to the ballpark, we walked in and they handed us dad like number one t-shirts, and we were like, what the fuck is going on here?
• 1:14:29
  SPEAKER_01: Like, truly, like my sister was sobbing, and they were like, Oh, happy Father's Day, this is the makeup day, makeup game from Father's Day.
• 1:14:37
  SPEAKER_01: And we were like, Whoa, like what the fuck is happening here?
• 1:14:43
  SPEAKER_01: So a very emotional day.
• 1:14:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but that that was an easy one for me.
• 1:14:48
  SPEAKER_03: Incredible, honestly, like you know, because I I my first memories, my dad obviously is a White Sox fan as I've talked about as a great midway.
• 1:15:00
  SPEAKER_03: So, like, why do I know that when they throw the ball to first base, you're out?
• 1:15:08
  SPEAKER_03: His my first memories are sitting on my dad's lap and him telling me, well, if they catch the ball at the base, they're out.
• 1:15:15
  SPEAKER_03: Well, he hit the ball in the outfield.
• 1:15:17
  SPEAKER_03: I think all of us remember that moment of saying, Well, he hit the ball far in the outfield.
• 1:15:22
  SPEAKER_03: And who's uh guy is telling our dad, or you know, someone someone's telling us, well, he caught it, so he's out, and you're going, oh, okay.
• 1:15:31
  SPEAKER_03: And you're learning, and as soon as you can learn the game, the sooner you learn the game, you can talk to the guy who's teaching you the game, and that's just a crazy fucking bond in this game.
• 1:15:43
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, definitely.
• 1:15:44
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going through that right now.
• 1:15:45
  SPEAKER_01: My my little guy is obsessed with the Cubs, too.
• 1:15:49
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like he knows most of the rules, but he's still like, why didn't he run to second?
• 1:15:54
  SPEAKER_01: When it's like a pop-up center field.
• 1:15:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, all right, listen, man, this is how this is how this works.
• 1:16:00
  SPEAKER_01: You can't just run to second.
• 1:16:01
  unknown: Okay.
• 1:16:02
  SPEAKER_01: You know, in the meantime, though tagging up, we'll talk tagging up.
• 1:16:05
  SPEAKER_03: You know, like C B grew up in a house where his dad cut an infield into their front line or backyard, or what's that?
• 1:16:13
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, backyard.
• 1:16:14
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 1:16:16
  SPEAKER_03: You know, I'm like Mahoni, Mahony sending us videos of like the kids doing the celebration after the Cubs clinch playoffs, but like going back to CB and the childhood, your dad cutting the fucking grass like that.
• 1:16:27
  SPEAKER_03: Like the sacrifices the dads make so that they can try and get us to care enough about the game, and then we're sitting here talking about the playoffs like a bunch of lunatics.
• 1:16:37
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I you know, like I know my dad's never gonna listen to any of this stuff, but in a sense, I know he's he's proud.
• 1:16:43
  SPEAKER_03: He gave me the Stan Musual fucking record of like Stan Musual's hitting tips, and we had a whole sit down in the garage about how proud he is of me and all that stuff.
• 1:16:51
  SPEAKER_03: We have these weird moments, you know, you have these weird moments where they try to communicate with us, but like Mahony sure watched the Tomamansky video with your dad, you know.
• 1:16:59
  SPEAKER_03: I'm trying to get Craig a motherfucking Craig Counsel for for not for not bunting, and uh we're we're we're all yeah putting shit in perspective.
• 1:17:09
  SPEAKER_03: So, you know.
• 1:17:10
  SPEAKER_03: We're lucky, we're lucky.
• 1:17:12
  SPEAKER_03: Maloney you get the group text from your dad, we're all lucky here, you know.
• 1:17:17
  SPEAKER_02: 1000.
• 1:17:18
  SPEAKER_03: So, guys, this is a Monday morning cup show.
• 1:17:20
  SPEAKER_03: This this is the we're going to the playoffs clinch preview show.
• 1:17:24
  SPEAKER_03: This is a blessing show.
• 1:17:25
  SPEAKER_03: We're so lucky to do the show, and love you guys, love you maniacs.
• 1:17:29
  SPEAKER_03: Hopefully, the message is clear.
• 1:17:31
  SPEAKER_03: You know, we're lucky to be here.
• 1:17:33
  SPEAKER_03: The the the journey's been substantial for a lot of people individually and as a collective, like we're in this together, you know.
• 1:17:40
  SPEAKER_03: But we need the bullpen to show up, baller strike, start review.
• 1:17:47
  SPEAKER_03: In the meantime, guys, hey, we'll be back with full playoff previews when the seatings are are are set.
• 1:17:52
  SPEAKER_03: Me and Mahoney are gonna be here.
• 1:17:53
  SPEAKER_03: We'll bring in some experts, you know.
• 1:17:55
  SPEAKER_03: We'll have Taylor Taylor McGregor is in the green room.
• 1:17:58
  SPEAKER_03: She's she's gonna come on.
• 1:17:59
  SPEAKER_02: She's gonna make this episode.
• 1:18:01
  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna save her for Monday, Carl.
• 1:18:02
  SPEAKER_03: She she's gonna be here Monday, and then just keep your eyes peeled for the Kaplan episode.
• 1:18:06
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, that's just a joke, but I don't know why I said that.
• 1:18:09
  SPEAKER_03: But just just just invite me to the boob one.
• 1:18:11
  SPEAKER_03: I want to be in the boob episode.
• 1:18:15
  SPEAKER_03: This is the Monday morning cub show.
• 1:18:17
  SPEAKER_03: I mean it when I say it.
• 1:18:18
  SPEAKER_03: I love you guys, go cubs.
• 1:18:20
  SPEAKER_03: Love you guys, go cubs.