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

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Speaker 1: Sahade Sharma with my partner Patrick Mooney. We are your

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Speaker 1: Cubs beat writers over at the Athletic Patrick. It is

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Speaker 1: the day after Memorial Day when we're recording this. The

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Speaker 1: Cubs are twelve games over five hundred, which I had

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Speaker 1: to triple check this first time. There have been twelve

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Speaker 1: games over five hundred before June since twenty sixteen. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: that's a year Cubs fans love to talk about and

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Speaker 1: remember fondly. The Cubs themselves obviously love that season, the

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Speaker 1: World Series winning team. You know, I don't we don't

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Speaker 1: need to start twenty sixteen comparisons, but obviously it's a

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Speaker 1: great start to the season. This team feels very real.

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Speaker 1: It feels like there are you know, there are things

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Speaker 1: that we can back one in these first two months

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Speaker 1: and say not surprised by that. That's the you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm surprised by this, and I think it can keep up?

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Speaker 1: Can they keep this up? You know, various things going on.

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Speaker 1: I do wonder what the what we believe is real

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Speaker 1: and not I think is probably most important right now.

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Speaker 1: And then what do they need to do. How do

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Speaker 1: they keep this going? What are the moves that need

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Speaker 1: to be made to make this team a legit World

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Speaker 1: Series contender? Which I don't think is a ridiculous thought

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Speaker 1: right now, right when you're twelve games over five hundred,

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Speaker 1: arguably a top five team in baseball, definitely a top

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Speaker 1: ten team in baseball. That's what you need to be

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Speaker 1: thinking about World Series. How do they win a World Series?

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Speaker 1: They have some of the ingredients that make them a

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Speaker 1: team that we can talk about that.

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Speaker 2: With no doubt.

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Speaker 3: You have to play the season in front of you,

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Speaker 3: and you can't sit there and be like, oh, well,

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Speaker 3: they haven't played good teams yet. It's like no, they

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Speaker 3: had the hardest month in baseball, front loaded at the

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Speaker 3: beginning of their schedule.

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Speaker 2: They went toe to toe with the National League West.

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Speaker 3: They've seen the Mets, They've seen the Phillies. You know,

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Speaker 3: no one can look at this easier stretch and be like, oh, well,

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Speaker 3: they're only playing the Rockies.

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Speaker 2: Like, this is what you have to do, This is

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Speaker 2: what good teams do.

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Speaker 3: You were always more optimistic about the offense, and it

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Speaker 3: is coming in waves. They're winning in different ways. Different

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Speaker 3: guys are getting hot for weeks at a time. We've

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Speaker 3: gone almost three minutes without mentioning Pete Crow Armstrong, which

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Speaker 3: may be a new recent record for this show. But

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Speaker 3: like it's we want to, oh, are they going to

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Speaker 3: have a star? And it's like they've had multiple guys

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Speaker 3: performing like stars. And I think you nailed it in

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Speaker 3: your story on the Athletic of like this is a

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Speaker 3: dangerous team and it's going to be.

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Speaker 2: A fun summer in Wrigleyville. That's kind of the bottom

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Speaker 2: line right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And Pek Armstrong is the most fun aspect about

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Speaker 1: this team. I don't think there's any debate about that.

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Speaker 1: What he did over the weekend was incredibly fun in Cincinnati,

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Speaker 1: was it? I was? I had a baseball tournament all weekend,

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Speaker 1: so I I I'm losing track of the days, but

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Speaker 1: I believe it was Friday that he had the two

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Speaker 1: homer game, correct, right, Yeah? Yeah? And I mean that

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Speaker 1: type of stuff is I mean, I I literally it

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Speaker 1: was the first thing I told my son after the game,

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Speaker 1: because these are the things that you know, parents tell

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Speaker 1: their kids like about like PCAs that type of player,

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Speaker 1: Like he's already become my son's favorite player. My assumption

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Speaker 1: is that's true across you know, the city and maybe

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Speaker 1: the country with with Hubs fans, kids have fallen in

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Speaker 1: love with this guy. He's very easy to like. He

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Speaker 1: is a superstar now. I think, you know, I want

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Speaker 1: to hesitate before saying things like that. I want to

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Speaker 1: give it time. But I think it's happened. It's happened

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Speaker 1: very quickly. We watched him just turn flip a switch

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Speaker 1: and become this star I and I and he has

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Speaker 1: me believing where usually I want to say, like, let's

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Speaker 1: see a full season. I think he can compete for

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Speaker 1: an MVP all season long. I you know, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: he'll hit a slump. I'm sure there will be a

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Speaker 1: down moment, but he's kind of shown us that. You know,

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Speaker 1: those moments, he doesn't let them get in his head.

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Speaker 1: You know, they may frustrate him in the moment. You know, Monday,

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Speaker 1: he hit a ball that should have been a home run,

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Speaker 1: the wind knocked it down. He was clearly frustrated, but

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Speaker 1: he moves on. He's he's going to I'm sure he'll

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Speaker 1: that's that's kind of what you want to see a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's not like this was a guy who

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Speaker 3: was sort of under scouted or overlooked on the prospect rankings,

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Speaker 2: Grew up in southern California that you know, kind of

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Speaker 3: HOTBD Harvard Westlake, which is a factory for big time

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Speaker 3: future major league players.

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Speaker 2: So I just didn't see the timeline happening this, Like,

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Speaker 2: this is the player I thought like he could be.

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Speaker 3: He could have a season like this before he reaches

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Speaker 3: free agency. But being there in the middle of April

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Speaker 3: at Dodger Stadium when his numbers, you know, were.

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Speaker 2: Offensively, we're kind of in the tank.

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Speaker 3: We had the contract extension stuff leak out. Did not

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Speaker 3: see this, like you said, a flip that was just

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Speaker 3: this season and what you think could be possible for

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Speaker 3: this team.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And and with Pete, of course, is Kyle Tucker. I

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Speaker 1: think Tucker is almost getting overlooked now after such a

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Speaker 1: hot start. At times, I hope not, but maybe maybe

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Speaker 1: it's just because Pete is, you know, such a gravitational force.

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Speaker 1: He has earned all those headlines. But Tucker, I mean Monday,

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Speaker 1: I think is a really nice example of you know,

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Speaker 1: you don't need to be slugging home runs. He hit

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Speaker 1: a sack fly, he had a single up the middle,

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Speaker 1: drove in two runs in a you know, three to

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Speaker 1: one victory where the winds blowing in and the offense

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Speaker 1: going to happen, especially in October. If they continue to

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Speaker 1: play like this and may postseason, they will be facing

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Speaker 1: good pitching, not not. You know, it was the Rockies.

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Speaker 1: Any pitcher can have a good day. This I think

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Speaker 1: this kid is actually a legit prospect. It had a

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Speaker 1: good game against the Cubs and benefited from the the weather.

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Speaker 1: But you know, you need to win games like that too,

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Speaker 1: and it's something that council has hammered all season long.

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Speaker 1: In the spring. That's why they have been aggressive with

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Speaker 1: ways to win around Wrigley, and they haven't. They haven't

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Speaker 1: allowed it to get in their heads, they haven't allowed

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Speaker 1: it to sink their early portion of their season, They've

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Speaker 1: done a really good job of winning games in different ways.

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Speaker 1: There's I mean, Tucker does the little things yesterday offensively,

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Speaker 1: I am even surprised by, particularly match off coming coming

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Speaker 1: up and doing what he's doing. This is you talk

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, at that point, I believe Tyrone still

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Speaker 3: had a perfect game going, and you saw Tyron react

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Speaker 3: going to be the play? Mostly just because the Rockies

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Speaker 3: are so terrible. I'm sure they're going to get no

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Speaker 3: hit a couple of times this year. Obviously, the perfect

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Speaker 2: But if he can stabilize that.

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Speaker 3: Position, which is one of the league wide, one of

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Speaker 3: You're not asking him to be like Brooks Robinson or

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Speaker 3: Alex Bregman or Chris Bryant MVP level over there, just

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Speaker 3: to be passable offensively, to make the routine plays and

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Speaker 3: maybe an occasional spectacular play on defense as you're eight

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Speaker 3: to nine hitter, whatever it winds up kind of being

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Speaker 2: Course of the season.

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Speaker 3: The Cubs can take that because they're getting contributions from

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Speaker 3: all over. I mean, we haven't gotten into something you've

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Speaker 3: written about at lengths to how they have like Carson

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Speaker 3: Kelly being like Barry Bonds, Dansby Swanson is on pace

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Speaker 3: for like thirty homer, ninety RBI, one hundred runs score,

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Speaker 3: twenty stolen base type season while playing gold Club defense

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Speaker 3: And even as guys struggle, we don't really have that

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Speaker 3: much to talk about in terms of their performances because

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Speaker 3: the offense as a whole has functioned so well. And

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Speaker 3: I think Kyle Turner, sorry Kyle Tucker to me, sort

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Speaker 3: of turns the page on this era of Cubs baseball

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Speaker 3: where it was the disappointment post twenty sixteen, our offense

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Speaker 3: guys like Ian Hap, Nico Horner or Dancy Swanson kind

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Speaker 1: Since he's come back, match Shaw has a one sixty

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Speaker 1: seven games. But he hasn't had a stretch like that

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Speaker 1: some changes, has five doubles. My gut, I haven't. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to guess this. Do you think that the third

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. Like I can't. I don't think

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Speaker 1: they got to be happy about that. Let's take a

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Speaker 1: All right, Patrick, the starting rotation has lost to three starters.

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Speaker 1: lot of times, you know, it just takes a little while.

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Speaker 1: Baseball's weird, position players at bat, it's just just weird

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Speaker 1: like that. It just can take you ten days off

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Speaker 1: and suddenly you're timing right when he looked like he

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Speaker 1: hope the injuries don't pile up. Well, we should get

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Speaker 1: more info on a Maya on Tuesday that we're recording

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Speaker 1: on a Tuesday, we should get more info on him.

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Speaker 1: Hodge is basically in a holding pattern. Not great, that's yeah,

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Speaker 1: not terrible news. Not you wanted to hear. Oh he's

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Speaker 1: throwing it and he's pass He's he's you know, he's

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Speaker 1: on the same plan Ian happens. It's harder to do

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Speaker 1: that as a pitcher with these opleaques. They're they're really obnoxious.

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Speaker 1: So I agree with you this. If this thing goes

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Speaker 1: off the rails, I I asked, I asked consol about

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Speaker 1: the offense. If he you know, if he believes in it,

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Speaker 1: if like he's at the point now where he's not

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Speaker 1: worried about it. And you know, his answer was basically

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Speaker 1: like last year. And I pointed this out to him,

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Speaker 1: I think in Milwaukee, how like last year that the

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Speaker 1: April numbers were propped up by insanely good numbers with

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Speaker 1: runners in scoring position. That's not repeatable. Uh, this feels different,

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Speaker 1: and he agrees, this feels different. This is you know,

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Speaker 1: this is just good all around. And his point, I

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Speaker 1: really like his point of like, you can overcome two

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Speaker 1: week slumps of players, like players having two weeks slumps,

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Speaker 1: that's not sinking the team. Dansby Swanson was awful for

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Speaker 1: a while. You know, Ian Happy isn't isn't playing well

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Speaker 1: right now now they're they're winning. Kyle Tucker wasn't great

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Speaker 1: for a while, and that's when Peak Armstrom became a superstar.

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Speaker 1: So you can handle all these things, you can. You

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Speaker 1: don't want Miguel Amaya on the I l that catching

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Speaker 1: due is so good, but they're overcoming it. It's the

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Speaker 1: offense feels legit, but the pitching you just it's getting

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Speaker 1: to the point for me where you don't want to

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Speaker 1: waste this offense. You don't want to look back on

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Speaker 1: the season and say, you know, if you lose, if

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Speaker 1: you go out and get pitching and you lose in

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Speaker 1: the NLCS or whatever, you go and make a run.

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Speaker 1: I would would you don't want to happen to say

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Speaker 1: like they didn't make They weren't aggressive at the deadline,

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Speaker 1: they didn't go out and there was so it was

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Speaker 1: obvious how good this offense was. It can do damage

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Speaker 1: in October. Go make the moves to make things interesting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, clearly you're in Council's head.

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Speaker 3: That's what I got from Yester from Monday's pregame session

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Speaker 3: of it. I think you had said it last year

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Speaker 3: and I said, all right, you got them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll keep trying. I'll try that inception, uh, work

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Speaker 1: more often, see if it can work in our favor

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Speaker 1: in any way. Uh, all right, Patrick. They took the

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Speaker 1: first three with the Rockies, two more with the Rockies.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back after that series and then the weekend

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Speaker 1: home series against the Reds. I believe the Reds are pesky.

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Speaker 1: They seem to no matter what the record is, be

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Speaker 1: it thorn in the cub side. So we'll see how

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Speaker 1: this weekend goes, how the rest of this Rocky series,

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Speaker 1: it goes as well. You obviously want to sweep the Rockies,

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Speaker 1: but also baseball is weird and you never know what happens,

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Speaker 1: so you can't assume anything. We'll see how the pitching looks,

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Speaker 1: how the if the offense can get going in a

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Speaker 1: annoyingly windy in coming in Wrigley windy, especially for us,

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Speaker 1: that's annoying with the windows open. Yeah, uh yeah, bring

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Speaker 1: your coats to Wrigley Field everyone, Yeahlori, yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: five degrees. Don't don't. Don't look at the weather and

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Speaker 1: assume Wriggley Field is going to be beautiful. It's it's

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Speaker 1: a little it's windy. It's actually rainy. I think this

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Speaker 1: is this week too, so hopefully we get games in.

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Speaker 1: Let's not I'm not going to drink it. No rain

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Speaker 1: talk all right. Thanks for listening to everyone. Is Northside Territory.

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