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Speaker 1: Welcome into Northside Territory File 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 and Patrick, the

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Speaker 1: Cubs are inching closer and closer to clinching the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: They we just had this discussion before we started recording,

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Speaker 1: what's the what's the magic number? As we record here

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday morning after the win, it was three. I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty sure it's two now, but you know, they're they're

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Speaker 1: likely in all likelihood going to clinch a playoff spot

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Speaker 1: this week. It's that close. Whether they get the top

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Speaker 1: wild card spot or not. That's a little more winning

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Speaker 1: that they need to do to get there. But looks

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Speaker 1: like their playoff bound and I think even Jamison Tyn

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Speaker 1: said I don't want to jinx anything but and and

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Speaker 1: talked about setting themselves up nicely for the playoffs, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's kind of where they're at. The pitching

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Speaker 1: looks good. Figuring out who's going to be in that

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Speaker 1: rotation and in that bullpen, I think is kind of

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Speaker 1: what's on Craig Council's mind as he gets his team

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Speaker 1: prepared for the postseason, which will be the first one

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Speaker 1: in front of fans since twenty eighteen. That's kind of

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Speaker 1: crazy to think, but yeah, and the last time they

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Speaker 1: won a game in the postseason was twenty seventeen. It's

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Speaker 1: been a while.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is a bit of a digression, but

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Speaker 2: it is a little odd how it becomes. We've just

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Speaker 2: been in this place for such a long time now

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Speaker 2: where the playoff odds are like ninety eight ninety nine,

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Speaker 2: ninety nine point nine percent, but the division has been

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Speaker 2: out of reach and it's not a one game wildcard

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Speaker 2: that you're dropped back into. Its should be for them

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Speaker 2: a pretty nice three game series at home. And so

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Speaker 2: it's just been this. The anticipation I think has not

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Speaker 2: quite been there. It'd be interesting to see how they

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Speaker 2: celebrate because this group, as Tayon also said, is very.

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Speaker 3: Focused on their process.

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Speaker 2: It's all about today, and I'm sure they'll let it

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Speaker 2: rip and let it loose a little bit in the clubhouse.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, they're in the spot where they're gonna have

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Speaker 2: the luxury to sort of line things up, make sure

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Speaker 2: pictures are healthy, whether it's giving them an extra day

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Speaker 2: more rest, limiting their innings, pitch counts, whatever it is.

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Speaker 2: This is not a team that's going to be running

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Speaker 2: on fumes by the time the wild card round opens.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we can talk about whether you know Matthew Boyd

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Speaker 1: or showed a Monaga aren't at their peak right now.

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Speaker 1: But you know, James and Tyne looks really good. Kate

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Speaker 1: Horton goes against Paul Skins, and when when you enter

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Speaker 1: a game like that and you feel like, yeah, this

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Speaker 1: is a good matchup, that's that's saying something about the

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Speaker 1: starting picture you have on the mound, because Paul Skins

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Speaker 1: is arguably the best picture with Durik Derek Scooble in baseball.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I'm not sure who what Boyd We're

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Speaker 1: going to get, what Showo we're going to get. I

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Speaker 1: think they especially showed to well, both of them. They

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Speaker 1: have this tendency lately to start off a little shaky,

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Speaker 1: but they find it quickly, which I think is incredibly impressive.

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Speaker 1: Give you give your team a chance, that's all you

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Speaker 1: can really ask. I thought I liked what I saw

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Speaker 1: from Soroka. I think that can be an X factor

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Speaker 1: in a wild card in the playoffs. His performance, he's

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Speaker 1: he you know, these multi inning weapons are So that's

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Speaker 1: the other thing. We haven't covered playoffs in an era

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Speaker 1: where the game has really changed. In October, I remember

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Speaker 1: was at the GM meetings in two thousand and seventeen,

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Speaker 1: whatever it was, it was around that time, and Jed

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Speaker 1: basically saying, we still believe in you know, you want

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Speaker 1: the seven inning starter and all that stuff. The game

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Speaker 1: has completely changed. Jed's philosophy has changed. Even he is

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Speaker 1: accepted like the game is very different. So how we

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Speaker 1: kind of how you and I have to look at

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Speaker 1: this compared to what we were doing last time they

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Speaker 1: were in the playoffs, it's just doesn't that doesn't work

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Speaker 1: anymore so how and Craig Council is known for this.

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Speaker 1: If there are managers that are known for how they

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Speaker 1: And you know, I don't watch every other team regularly.

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Speaker 1: at that. And and Craig councils up there in his ability

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Speaker 1: but when you count Keller, Kittridge, Soroka, the lefties, Pomerants

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Jed sort of laughs when he looks

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Speaker 2: back on that time period with the Cubs last World

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Speaker 2: it's say got to October. It was sort of like,

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Speaker 2: you know, the circle of trust was extremely small back then.

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Speaker 2: But you just can't do that anymore. The game has changed,

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Speaker 2: and Soroka acknowledged that. He said the last five years,

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Speaker 2: for sure, maybe even longer, you've seen these changes in

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Speaker 2: Jamison Tyn, like you said, has looked pretty sharp and

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Speaker 2: he's not a reliever by any stretch of the imagination,

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Speaker 2: but he's an exemplary teammate. And I'm sure he'll be

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Speaker 2: going to go to. And that was the point Council

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Speaker 2: very proactive in terms of managing Picture's workloads. He's very

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Speaker 2: all about your feelings. And part of that just the

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Speaker 2: modern game operates now. But the Cubs in spring training

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Speaker 2: have been communicative, they've been proactive, they've been prepared, not

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Speaker 2: that they were setting everything up for October, but I

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Speaker 2: think it sort of lends itself to this all hands

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Speaker 2: you know in prior episodes, Daniel Palencia had a light

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Speaker 2: throwing session on Monday, scheduled for a full bullpen on Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: all that is very very much in motion now and

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Speaker 2: we don't expect him to come back and automatically be

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Speaker 3: But his vlow is.

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Speaker 2: Looking very good and foretold, so that it seems like

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Speaker 2: they've avoided what looked like a worst case scenario when

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Speaker 2: he walked off the mound with the trainer at Wrigley

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Speaker 2: earlier this month. I think he's added to that mix,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think him being added back. Porter Hodges looked

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Speaker 1: if those are your I don't know, third or fourth,

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Speaker 1: writings I should say out of the bullpen for the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: I think you'll take that. I think that's pretty huge.

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Speaker 1: If you get Soroka looking good over the final whatever

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Speaker 1: we have left twelve games to go, I think you

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Speaker 1: can feel good about your righties and your lefties. I'm

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Speaker 1: liking the way this bullpen has set up. Jeduyer may

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Speaker 1: think Kittridge has turned out to be a great addition,

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Speaker 1: It seems like first game of a road trip that

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Speaker 1: uron Patrick Peek Armstrong will hit a home run. I

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Speaker 2: Pete was in one of those moods where he was

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Speaker 2: He was very sharp last night, and I had kind

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Speaker 2: just asked him this idea of, you know, looking forward

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Speaker 2: than carrying these frustrations that have clearly built up, you know,

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Speaker 2: wanting so bad to do something to help the team

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Speaker 3: On this stretch here for a.

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Speaker 2: While now, and so he's like, yeah, sure, I mean

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Speaker 2: forward to a reset in October. And that was his point,

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Speaker 2: it's all a wash, like the regular season games that

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Speaker 1: All right, it seems like we have a it's not

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Speaker 2: And it's really interesting to see what happens here with Tucker.

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Speaker 2: then revisit it this offseason. He is still one of

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Speaker 2: wonder why we spent so much time talking about this

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Speaker 2: it continues to not get better and we have to

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Speaker 1: All it takes is one one council pregame session where

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Speaker 1: he says today was a good day for Kyle Tucker,

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Speaker 1: and then that eases a ton of concerns until that happens,

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Speaker 1: I think people are gonna be nervous about Kyle Tucker's status.

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Speaker 1: It can quickly change. This is not you know, like

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Speaker 1: a very obvious injury where it's like this takes X

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Speaker 1: amount of time to heal. It could be a week,

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Speaker 1: it could be a day. We just don't know when

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Speaker 1: he's gonna get like, you know, not start, when he's

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Speaker 1: gonna stop feeling whatever he's feeling in his cap. All right, Patrick,

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Speaker 1: We'll be back later this week with another episode that

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Speaker 1: Cobs Got two more, a big one, a fun one

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Speaker 1: tonight Kate Horton versus Paul Skins. By the time people

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Speaker 1: are listening to this, maybe that game has already been played,

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Speaker 1: but should be a fun, exciting game. Always fun when

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Speaker 1: young aces go at it. Thanks so much for listening everyone.

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