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Speaker 1: Welcome into Northside Territory. Foul Territory Networks Cubs Podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Saha Dam Sharma with my partner Patrick Mooney. We are

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Speaker 1: your Cubs beat writers over at the Athletic Patrick. The

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Speaker 1: Cubs are sixteen and ten. They look as good as

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Speaker 1: any David Baseball right now. And I got to say, like,

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Speaker 1: we've seen two games that are about as exciting as

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Speaker 1: they come, both at home, both at Wrigley and and

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Speaker 1: Wrigley Field has been up to the effort there. They

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Speaker 1: are like the fans are packing the ballpark and the

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Speaker 1: energy is back at Wrigley. It's something that I think

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Speaker 1: we've seen in glimpses, right maybe the first packed house

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 2: Home run.

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Speaker 1: We didn't quite get it in twenty three. I feel

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Speaker 1: like there were moments, There were probably moments. There were

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Speaker 1: moments in twenty three when they were hot, and I

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Speaker 1: remember if they would have swept in London, you and

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Speaker 1: I talked about, man, how Wrigly would have been insane,

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Speaker 1: like like them coming back. There were some things that

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Speaker 1: kind of dulled that right, like the weather got weird,

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Speaker 1: the air quality that was the air quality, Yeah, Canadian

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Speaker 1: wildfires rage yeah, yeah, yeah, so but right now, like

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Speaker 1: this is it's been a while. It has been a while,

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Speaker 1: i'd say pre pandemic since it felt like this. The

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Speaker 1: combination of this team is good, like you feel confident

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Speaker 1: that this team is good and the fans are showing up.

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Speaker 1: The weather's kind of nice, like the weather has arrived too.

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Speaker 2: It wrily.

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Speaker 1: It's not quite you know, bright sunny days just yet,

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Speaker 1: but the weather's nice. We don't have the green ivy yet,

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Speaker 1: but it's starting. This This place is fun. It's fun

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Speaker 1: to it's fun to you know, we're not sitting there

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Speaker 1: cheering and and and you know, drinking beers, but it's

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Speaker 1: fun to be in an atmosphere like that. It's fun

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Speaker 1: to like work in an atmosphere like that. It makes

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Speaker 1: it a little easier, uh, to go to work, Like

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Speaker 1: it's easier to write pieces when you feel that energy.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I thought.

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Speaker 3: You outlined it all very well in your most recent

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Speaker 3: piece on the athletic of the Cubs are becoming this

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Speaker 3: must see attraction again, I think across baseball, if you

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Speaker 3: look on social media, like these comebacks have drawn the

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Speaker 3: attention beyond just the Wrigleyville neighborhood. You have Pete crow

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Speaker 3: and like the number one free agent on next Winter's market.

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Speaker 3: Potentially the way in which these games have been unfolded

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Speaker 3: just absolutely bonkers, adding to the entertainment value as well.

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Speaker 3: And I thought you explained it very succinctly of like

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Speaker 3: this city is sort of starving for a winner. I

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Speaker 3: was gonna say, just like basic competency, but I think

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Speaker 3: the cops sort of cleared that bar. But when you

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Speaker 3: when you look at some of the peer franchises in Chicago,

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Speaker 3: it's been pretty bleak, and uh, you know, even Craig

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Speaker 3: And you had followed up with him the next day

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Speaker 3: at Wrigley and he said, look, this is a Tuesday

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Speaker 3: night in April, like look around. And I thought for

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Speaker 3: sure that Craig Council AI, you know, machine would have

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Speaker 3: said something like, look, it's a long season. It's only

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Speaker 3: one game. We got another game tomorrow, another game the

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Speaker 3: day after that. But he said, no, I thinks this

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Speaker 3: build resiliency, and that this is the these are the

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Speaker 3: moments that can carry forward for a team, which is

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Speaker 3: just not at all what I expected. But there is

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Speaker 3: more dimensions to Craig Council, and there is you know,

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Speaker 3: some unique characteristics already emerging about this team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I oh, there was this moment that kind of

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Speaker 1: hit me the other day when he said it postgame Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: I remembered I wrote a column.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it must have been it was twenty twenty one early,

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Speaker 1: it was April, and the team was bad, they were

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Speaker 1: not playing well, and and they were on Sunday Night

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Speaker 1: baseball and it felt dead, and I wrote like this

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Speaker 2: They have all these like they've.

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Speaker 1: Squandered all the you know love they got from twenty

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Speaker 1: And you know, they went on a little mini run

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Speaker 1: point in there, like you know, things happen they need to.

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Speaker 1: This is an imperfect team, but when you're scoring the

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Speaker 1: type of runs, when you're winning the way you win,

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Speaker 1: when you're beating really good teams like these aren't middle

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Speaker 1: talking about probably the two best teams last year and

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Speaker 1: the Padres and the Dodgers that didn't. You know, the

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Speaker 1: Dodgers are probably better talent wise than last year, and

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Speaker 1: the Padres. That team's tough, Like that team's really good.

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Speaker 1: I think the Diamondbacks are really good, like they've faced

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Speaker 1: much of a debate. I don't think I need to

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Speaker 1: convince anyone. But the way they're winning, the way they're playing,

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Speaker 1: it's just pure entertainment, right. It may not be the

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Speaker 1: prettiest sometimes. Yes, I understand the questions about the bullpen.

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Speaker 1: I understand when fans are like what about this or that, Yes,

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Speaker 1: they need to improve. They need to continue to get

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Speaker 1: better in different areas. But man, when when you're scoring runs,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like, you know, a passing game in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. If you're just like like a high flying

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Speaker 1: yards and you're just scoring forty points, that's really fun

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Speaker 1: and entertaining. There may be imperfections in other areas, but

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Speaker 1: how they're gonna give you an entertaining game and every

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Speaker 1: single time out so far, there will be moments. Sunday

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Speaker 1: fully like click. As long as you bounce back like

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Speaker 2: The city just needs it so badly.

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Speaker 1: Like the Bulls just I don't know what they are,

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Speaker 1: but they still haven't won yet, right like we were.

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Speaker 3: Well, there's definitely a Dodgers factor as well. I mean

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Speaker 3: some of this is I guess unconfirmed, but we're on

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Speaker 3: Like in talking to people at Wrigley, like the Dodgers

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Speaker 3: like that's undeniable. Like maybe some of those details are

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Speaker 3: you know, seven games against the Dodgers, the Cubs did

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Speaker 3: not look out of place, did not look overmatched obviously,

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Speaker 3: and it just created this sense of, you know, there'll

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Speaker 3: a long way to go still. Jed Hoyer emphasize that

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Speaker 3: there can't be any sort of exhale. But I think

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Speaker 3: part of the entertainment factor too is the Cubs winning

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Speaker 3: at a time when things aren't going perfectly and we

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Speaker 3: can run down some of the quick bullet points here

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Speaker 3: now Saha, they have of kind of the shape of

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Speaker 3: the roster at this particular moment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's let's get to that.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's take a quick break and we'll get to

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Speaker 1: All right, Patrick, Good, there was some news this week.

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Speaker 1: We got some moves on the roster. Obviously, we talked

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Speaker 2: He looked pretty good. I'm my guess is we're gonna

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Speaker 1: Beyond that cage Workman had a really rough night on

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Speaker 1: But Nicki Lopez is here. Nicki Lopez signed to a

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Speaker 1: solid number when you're clearly the most talented team. Uh

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Speaker 1: in the NL Central where things happen, teams get hot.

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Speaker 1: I think the Reds are tough. I think the Brewers

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Speaker 1: are always going to be tough. We'll see, uh. I

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Speaker 1: think next month you start seeing uh, some of the

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Speaker 1: NL Central. The Cubs will start seeing those teams. So

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Speaker 1: finally get get those games going, and and you know.

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Speaker 2: I'm eager to see that. But right now, you know,

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Speaker 2: great time at Wrigley.

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Speaker 1: I'm expecting the same this weekend against the Phillies. Patrick,

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Speaker 1: We'll see how how fun it is. I think it's

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Speaker 1: supposed to be good weather too, So looking forward to that.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if they can keep it up. The Phillies

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Speaker 1: are struggling right now. You know, there's panic in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: Obviously that you get swept by the Mets things. They're

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Speaker 1: things will not go well for the Philadelphia Phillies fans,

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Speaker 1: but I can't assume that that lasts at regularly. Feel

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Speaker 1: but the Cubs are rowing. We'll see, uh, we'll see

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Speaker 1: what happens is weekend. It'll be a fun one. We'll

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Speaker 1: have one more episode for you guys this week before

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Speaker 1: the Cubs start up with the Phillies.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening. This is Northside Territory.

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