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The Cubs are suddenly on the brink of elimination · North Side Territory: A Chicago Cubs Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into Northside Territory. Foul Territory Networks Cubs Podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Sahadev Sharma with my partner Patrick Mooney. We are your
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  Speaker 1: Cubs beat writers over at the Athletic Patrick, the Cubs
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  Speaker 1: drop Game two of the Wildcard series to the padres.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know a lot a lot happened in that game.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like and and I think it will be
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  Speaker 2: one at least for some where. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: second guessing of Craig Council. Uh, showed him Anaga did
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  Speaker 2: not start and your Kittridge it comes out as an opener.
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  Speaker 2: He gives up one run and then you see showed
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  Speaker 2: him Anaga come in pitch pretty well. And then probably
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  Speaker 2: the biggest question mark UH like this here. The setup
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  Speaker 2: is he walks Fernando Tatis with one out and Mike
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  Speaker 2: Shild decides to bunt him over with with Louise Luis
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  Speaker 2: Arris and and instead of walking Manny Machado or bringing
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  Speaker 2: in a right handed reliever to face many Matchado, he
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  Speaker 2: has showed him and now I got pitch to him
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  Speaker 2: and Machado unloads and sends two run shot into the
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  Speaker 2: left field bleachers. One run, one nothing game becomes a
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  Speaker 2: three nothing game. And with that Padre's bullpen and the
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  Speaker 2: way Dylan Cees pitched, the game was over. H that's
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  Speaker 2: I think that is the moment that we can focus on.
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  Speaker 2: For me, I think the kid Ridge opener, it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: bother me that much. I thought he pitched fine. I
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  Speaker 2: thought they had really good at bats against him. So
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  Speaker 2: I went back and watched those pitches. They were good pitches.
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  Speaker 2: They just got some hits. The double steal is worse
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  Speaker 2: than the hits.
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  Speaker 1: In my opinion.
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  Speaker 2: And then and then you know that I I still
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  Speaker 2: don't fully get the pitching to Machado.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you're right. That home run, like it
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  Speaker 3: felt like a Grand Slam like it it was only
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  Speaker 3: like only three runs air quotes, It felt like way
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  Speaker 3: more than that. Just the way Wrigley has played, How
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  Speaker 3: good the Padres bullpen is, how that just kind of
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  Speaker 3: flipped things for them.
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  Speaker 2: Ah.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't like love the Kiddrid's decision, to be honest, like,
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  Speaker 3: but as long as it works, it's fine. Right, Like
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  Speaker 3: we were talking after Game one about council, we wrote
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  Speaker 3: it pressed all the right bullpen buttons, I mean, getting
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  Speaker 3: you know, half a perfect game from your bullpen. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: you know they know what they're doing. I guess, at least,
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  Speaker 3: you know, taking it from a cup's perspective, they have
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  Speaker 3: been doing stuff like this all year. It's not like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: they get to the playoffs and they did something totally different.
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  Speaker 3: I think they've sort of laid the groundwork for decision
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  Speaker 3: like that. And I do think that kind of by
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  Speaker 3: bumping showed to back an inning, I think you start
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  Speaker 3: kind of maybe overcompensate in that sense, you know, like
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  Speaker 3: would you rather face Machado in the first inning with
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  Speaker 3: nobody on or in that snare?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I just don't get the Padres obsession with bunting. That's
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  Speaker 3: not just reading our buddy Dennis Lynn's stories, like wait,
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  Speaker 3: like that's just what they do, like more than any
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  Speaker 3: other team by a wide margin.
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  Speaker 1: And so.
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  Speaker 3: This has been a great reminder of just how quickly
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  Speaker 3: things shift within the playoffs. I mean, game one, Craig
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  Speaker 3: counsel genius, this is why you fired David Ross and
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  Speaker 3: sign them to a forty million dollar contract, like less
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  Speaker 3: than twenty four hours later, it's like, oh, they're kind
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  Speaker 3: of getting a little too cute with this, Like you know,
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  Speaker 3: Andrew Kittridge kind of a reliever you picked up at
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  Speaker 3: the trade deadline because you didn't like the cost of
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  Speaker 3: all those closers, the type of pitchers that the Padres
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  Speaker 3: went out and got. And then you know, do you
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  Speaker 3: disrupt showeda just a little bit. I don't know, he
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  Speaker 3: looked pretty good overall, but I think ultimately, and we'll
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  Speaker 3: get into this eventually. The second segment, it's like, you
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  Speaker 3: can't win if you don't score any runs, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's that is that we can't bury that.
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  Speaker 2: And I made sure to put that up near Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: My story, like I just didn't want it to be
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  Speaker 2: the story is Craig Council making a decision that I
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  Speaker 2: and the others disagree with it. It's the offense not scoring.
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  Speaker 2: But I just really ruggle with this decision because it
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  Speaker 2: felt like their obsession with bunting handed you in out
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  Speaker 2: and now an easy decision.
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  Speaker 1: And and when when you go.
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  Speaker 2: Through the thought process of of going with Kittridge, it's
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  Speaker 2: to keep Managa away from Tatise and Machado. Like it's
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  Speaker 2: as simple as that. He's trying to get like limit
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  Speaker 2: the amount of advts. He just gave you a reason
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  Speaker 2: to limit the amount of times and Managa faces Machado,
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  Speaker 2: he gave you an easy out. And and look, Jackson
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  Speaker 2: Merrill is no pushover, but against lefties he is not
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  Speaker 2: the same type of hitter.
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  Speaker 1: He's just not. It's a it's a huge split.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. And and I think I thought it was easy,
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  Speaker 2: just put a four fingers and and and send him
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  Speaker 2: to first base. Soroka was warming. I would have been
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  Speaker 2: fine if he brought in Soroca. That The problem with
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  Speaker 2: bringing Croka to face Machado is if say you walk
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  Speaker 2: him or or he gets like an infield single and
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  Speaker 2: the run doesn't score. Now you have to face Jackson Merrill.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think I think intentionally walking was the
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  Speaker 2: right move. Council said, he thought about it.
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  Speaker 1: This is what I.
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  Speaker 2: Find fans fascinating. Council said, what changed? Like, I guess
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  Speaker 2: it didn't change his mind. But why he's stuck with
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  Speaker 2: Imnaga's because he liked the way he looked.
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  Speaker 1: He liked the ways he looked.
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  Speaker 2: And this is what is what does counsol get, not
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  Speaker 2: just council, but today's game of manager.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all these guys, oh they have everything. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: planned out.
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  Speaker 2: They never stray from they they don't watch the game,
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  Speaker 2: they don't go with their gut, they don't go with
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  Speaker 2: what they're seeing.
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  Speaker 1: He went with what he was seeing, and it was
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  Speaker 1: the wrong move. It was the wrong move. Uh, he
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  Speaker 1: should have gone with the numbers. I think it's as
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  Speaker 1: simple as that.
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  Speaker 2: It's uh, don't I very you know me, I very
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  Speaker 2: rarely think like I think it's important to harp on
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  Speaker 2: a managerial decision, mostly because these are just coin flip decisions,
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  Speaker 2: and these are just things that A. They have so
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  Speaker 2: much more information than us. B. I think fans think
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  Speaker 2: many of us think, not just fans. It shouldn't just
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  Speaker 2: limited fans. Many people think it's just like, well, the
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  Speaker 2: decision that I wanted to make was the right one
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  Speaker 2: when it's like fifty point one percent to forty nine
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  Speaker 2: point nine percent, like or like. These these are very
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  Speaker 2: toss up decisions, and just because it went one way
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean absolutely the other way was the right way
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  Speaker 2: to go. Baseball's crazy like that, and it's really these
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  Speaker 2: decisions are really hard. This one felt like a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more. Uh, he should have gone, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: don't don't let the stars break out in the postseason,
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  Speaker 2: it feels like, don't let them, don't let them shine.
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  Speaker 2: Not that Jackson Merrill is a pushover again, it just
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  Speaker 2: it just felt I felt like he had the decision
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  Speaker 2: handed to him.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Jackson Merrill obviously had a great season last year,
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  Speaker 3: but he is in reading Dennis Lyn's coverage and watching
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  Speaker 3: that bunt in Game one, like he has not been
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  Speaker 3: feeling it. And I still think, you know, Manny Machado
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  Speaker 3: is just one of those names you circle in the
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  Speaker 3: lineup of Machado and Tatis cannot beat us. I think
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  Speaker 3: that's what you go into any of these series thinking.
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  Speaker 3: And it did just feel inconsistent of like, Okay, if
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna go to this sort of extreme even though
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  Speaker 3: they've done it all year. It's very like we discussed
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  Speaker 3: out of character kind of for the Cubs DNA about
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  Speaker 3: how this, you know, kind of franchise was rebuilt into
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  Speaker 3: a championship team obviously a decade ago, why you would
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  Speaker 3: go to that length. But then when Machado rolls around,
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  Speaker 3: not give him that open base. I'm with you, like,
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  Speaker 3: if the Cubs lose Game three, I feel like that
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  Speaker 3: will be blown out of proportion because if the Cups
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  Speaker 3: lose this series. It's probably gonna because their offense just
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  Speaker 3: didn't show up, but it's gonna be It's like, immediately
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  Speaker 3: from showing up to the ballpark today, we knew like
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  Speaker 3: this is going to be an angle a story one
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  Speaker 3: way or the other, going with the opener and kind
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  Speaker 3: of setting off that sequence. But yeah, the Padres won
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  Speaker 3: because their stars, their best players, showed up in a
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  Speaker 3: huge way.
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  Speaker 1: Patrick. The stars for the Padres showed up on on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: Manny Machado obviously we talked about him. Fernando Tatis led
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  Speaker 2: the game off with the single, had a big walk
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  Speaker 2: that set up the Machado home run. Dylan Cees was
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  Speaker 2: really good. It didn't pitch very long, but he did
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  Speaker 2: what he needed to do because he turned it over
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  Speaker 2: to a star laden bullpen that was awesome. Mason Miller
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  Speaker 2: threw a pitch one hundred and four point five miles
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  Speaker 2: per hour and it was ridiculou and he is I think.
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  Speaker 2: I turned to our buddy John Greenberg and said, how
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  Speaker 2: has he allowed and he runs this season? Like, how
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  Speaker 2: has he.
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  Speaker 1: Given up a run? I don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: Really impressive bullpen, really impressive group of stars that showed up.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they didn't pound the Cubs. It wasn't like
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  Speaker 2: some blowout, but the Cub stars haven't shown up. Kyle
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  Speaker 2: Tucker had a nice line drive and then a single.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's the highlight of the the core group there,
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  Speaker 2: says Azuki's hitting, But is anybody else? Nobody else is
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  Speaker 2: a Nico Horner, says Azuki. They've shown up, but Ian
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  Speaker 2: hap over and then of course Pca. Look, these are
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  Speaker 2: bad matchups for him, but he does not. These are
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  Speaker 2: not good at bats. These are bad at bats. He
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  Speaker 2: doesn't look good. I'm curious. I didn't get to at
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  Speaker 2: this point. I haven't read your story yet, and I wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: I went to the to the postgame, you know, cup
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  Speaker 2: press conferences instead of the clubhouse. So I heard what
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  Speaker 2: Craig Counsel had to say. I didn't hear what Peter
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  Speaker 2: Armstrong had to say. Why didn't you let us know?
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  Speaker 3: You could tell Pete was a little edgy after the game.
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  Speaker 3: He's still always great to listen to. It's very professional
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  Speaker 3: and introspective, and he wasn't as kind of expansive as
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  Speaker 3: he normally is, but he sets a pretty high standard
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  Speaker 3: in that regard, and you could just tell like he
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  Speaker 3: kind of looked around and he's like, you guys want
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  Speaker 3: to talk to me. As he was leaving the locker
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  Speaker 3: room area, he kind of threw something in the garbage
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  Speaker 3: can kind of with a little more force. It felt
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  Speaker 3: like I'm reading into some of this stuff. But you
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  Speaker 3: that's why we have clubhouse access, and you know you
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  Speaker 3: saw it all out there on the field when he's
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  Speaker 3: slamming his helmet when he grounds out. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: there was a point this year where the idea of
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  Speaker 3: intentionally walking Carson Kelly to get to Pete crow Armstrong
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  Speaker 3: would have seemed kind of far fetched. It was pretty
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  Speaker 3: quick at bat he got caught in between on the
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  Speaker 3: first pitch.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, tough matchup.
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  Speaker 3: Like no one's gonna look good, as he pointed out,
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  Speaker 3: like if he's throwing one hundred and four with a
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  Speaker 3: nasty slider and you're talking about like the velocity separation
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  Speaker 3: of like fourteen fifteen, sixteen seventeen miles an hour, kind
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  Speaker 3: of like no chance. And I referred to Suarez as
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  Speaker 3: like the padres like change of pace closer because he
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  Speaker 3: throws like one to one. I mean, like good luck
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  Speaker 3: with that. Uh, you got a good quote for me
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  Speaker 3: from from council of just like they're doing a really
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  Speaker 3: good job of exploiting Pete's holes, which probably speaks to
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  Speaker 3: the game planning, the scouting that they're doing on Pete,
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  Speaker 3: and the high level of execution that really almost every
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  Speaker 3: Padres pitcher has done to almost every Cup sitter, And
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  Speaker 3: obviously the Cubs have done the same too. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's obviously one to one, low scoring series thus far.
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  Speaker 3: But this postseason was framed as this could be PA's
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  Speaker 3: sort of coming out party in October, and that still
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  Speaker 3: could happen. I think if you're circling one player on
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  Speaker 3: the Cubs in an elimination game, who might do something
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  Speaker 3: that blows her mind, it's probably Pete. But these first
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  Speaker 3: two games have not looked great. Obviously his defense, I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to like shortchange that, like he does stuff
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  Speaker 3: out there, and that was his point as well, of like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm focused on being a great center fielder, doing my job,
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  Speaker 3: like I'm not gonna ride the ebbs and flows. That's
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  Speaker 3: why I go to the batting cage every day and
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  Speaker 3: follow my routine and put all that work in. But
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  Speaker 3: until he snaps out of it, it's hard to imagine
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  Speaker 3: the Cubs keep playing and playing series after series, postseason
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  Speaker 3: round after postseason round.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think these matchups have just been rough.
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  Speaker 2: In general, these are guys that the starters are guys
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  Speaker 2: that throw really hard up in the zone and then
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  Speaker 2: have nasty breaking balls. Dylan Seats has had a rough
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  Speaker 2: season on the road this year, but they kept it short.
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  Speaker 2: They kept it short because they knew they could just
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  Speaker 2: a shilt is thinking elimination game.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to my best arms as soon as i can.
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  Speaker 2: And they have this type of bullpen that's just nasty.
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  Speaker 2: You darvish, is not you darbish of twenty twenty? This
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  Speaker 2: is not the guy Cubs fans fell in love with.
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  Speaker 2: Great guy, great like. I enjoyed listening to him, and
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  Speaker 2: I think he has a lot to share to the
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  Speaker 2: game and bring like he's he's I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: he's a Hall of Famer, I don't. I'm not one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent sure on that, you know, but it feels
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  Speaker 2: like it as far as people that have covered, he
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  Speaker 2: feels like he's high up there, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty close. If he's not for his ballot, he's kind
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  Speaker 3: of hanging around.
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  Speaker 1: There for Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he should get credit for his career
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  Speaker 2: in Japan and all that stuff, and maybe he gets
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  Speaker 2: in it.
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  Speaker 1: I think they can get to him. I think lefties.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I know he gives up more home runs
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  Speaker 2: for lefties as your just more production against lefties. Lefties
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  Speaker 2: can hit him. The stuff is not as nasty. He's
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  Speaker 2: about you know, from when he was with the Cubs
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  Speaker 2: to now. He's about two miles per hour down on
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  Speaker 2: his fastball. He's coming back from an elbow injury. I
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  Speaker 2: think I don't know if he's you know, you could
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  Speaker 2: probably say he wasn't fully there when he came first
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  Speaker 2: came back.
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  Speaker 1: He's probably fully healthy now.
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  Speaker 2: My guess is he's he's fully healthy, but I think
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  Speaker 2: he's just you know, he's older now, he's not like
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  Speaker 2: he's just not the same guy. They have to get
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  Speaker 2: to him early. I don't know what my shield is
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  Speaker 2: going to do with his bullpen. He didn't rule out
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  Speaker 2: going back to those guys like Marijane and and uh
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  Speaker 2: and Mason Miller. It'd be kind of crazy to go
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  Speaker 2: to Marojone in my opinion, because he's just thrown like
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  Speaker 2: three in a third inning, three four and a third whatever,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's a lot. He's thrown a lot. They all
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  Speaker 2: have like thirty plus pitches over the past two days.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Suarez is probably the only one that has
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  Speaker 2: n't pitched a lot of strata. But look, it's an
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  Speaker 2: elimination game. If he has to, he may throw them
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  Speaker 2: out there. Maybe it's the right move. I just think
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  Speaker 2: these guys can hit you, Darvish, but they just need
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  Speaker 2: to they have to. That's I think that is the key.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: First Threeish innings. You want to see them put some
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: runs on the board.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: I'm sure the Padres feel the same way about jameson
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Tyn of just like and leaving Wrigglely tonight, I was
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: kind of talking to someone and it feels like we
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: haven't had one of those crazy Wrigley games yet, Like
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: it's hard to imagine that it'll be like kind of
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: twenty seven innings of it this sort of like tight
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: and contained and low scoring.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it is.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Maybe the shadows are such that it happens, or just
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: the matchups kind of lend itself to that low scoring environment.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: It just seems like someone is going to break out
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: or some pitcher is going to break down, like like
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: you're saying, and to me, that's where you know. I
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: wrote Pa tonight because he is so magnetic.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: He is the star.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: He's driven this team to another level. But you know,
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: he's only twenty three years old. This is his second year,
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: like he is, this is not a one man show.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: And yeah, I'm curious to see what Kyle Tucker does.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Is this his last game in a Cubs uniform. He's
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: been sort of a non factor. I know he got
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: that that single late, but it didn't really lead to anything.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: And then it's gonna be like who who runs into
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: the home runs? I think that's kind of how most
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: of these postseason games work. And you know, it could
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: it could look a lot different because I don't I'm
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: with you, like Darvish is a magician, just a one
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: of the most interesting kind of guys that we've covered,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: I feel like in our time in Chicago. But that
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: was also a long time ago when we covered him,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: and he already had a very long professional career before
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: everyone showed up in Chicago, and so yeah, got got
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: to get to him early. And you know, you gotta
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: think Shilt's just gonna kind of unload everything they have
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: in that bullpen and worry about tomorrow if.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: There is one.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, the Cubs bullpen is mostly that
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: the big guys are are available. Yeah, you know, no Keller,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Pomerantz or Palencia. Today Kittridge has a rubber arm like
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: he'd be going on three days to ret I mean
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: three days in a row. I don't think it matters
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: for him. It's the playoffs. This guy, this guy doesn't care.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: He's gonna go out there if needed. Uh So, you know,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: I think their bullpen's pretty in pretty good shape.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: They just need to score. They need to get to
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Darbish and I think they can.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: The wind, I don't think is going to be the
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: type of day where it's knocking the ball down.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: It could be kind of a crosswind.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I'm just looking at what the weather is predicting like
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: it predicted to be. It could be kind of a crosswind,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: but it also looks like it's kind of going out.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: So we'll we'll see what it is when we get
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: there and what we.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Don't even know what time the game's gonna be as
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: we're recording, so uh so who knows. Uh it's it,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: you know, win or go home.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: That's that's what it is.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: And uh these moments are fun, but I think fans
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: are going to be stressed. Hopefully they bring the energy too,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: because that's they certainly have that both games. Cubs fans
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: have been into it. Wrigley was electric in Game one.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: They there was no shortage of energy. The Cubs just
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: didn't provide enough reasons to get excited. Uh, So we'll see,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: we'll see who can do some damage. I think they
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: should be able to get to you darbish, but baseball's weird,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: and you darbish is like you said, he's a magician.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: So I'm not going to rule anything out of him,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: like kind of you know, reaching into his bag of
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: trips tricks and pulling off a nice game. All right, Patrick,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: we will be back at it, either wrapping up the
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: season and previewing the off season or talking about what's
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: going to happen against the Breweries.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: One of the two. We'll be talking soon and coming
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: back at you with another episode.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Thanks for so much for listening. This is Northside Territory.
• 23:30
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