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Speaker 1: Welcome into Northside Territory. Foul Territory Networks Cubs podcast. I'm Sahad,

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Speaker 1: a starmer. 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: everyone's favorite type of episode, mailbag episode where the fans

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Speaker 1: get to sound off, uh not. You know, it's optimism time, right,

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Speaker 1: So spring training is often so not a lot of

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Speaker 1: anger or frustration. We're past the Alex Bregman sadness, I think,

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Speaker 1: and and just kind of looking for the positives from

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Speaker 1: the fans and and you know the best time of

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Speaker 1: the year for that. So let's get to it. This one,

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Speaker 1: I guess isn't super positive since, yeah, what is the plan.

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Speaker 2: What Craik Counsel would call the injury rabbit hole?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, what is the plan for second and third base?

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Speaker 1: If Nico and Shaw are unavailable for the Japan series?

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Speaker 1: So I'll give you a quick update on what we know.

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Speaker 1: So Nico looks really good. Nico. We've seen him throw

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Speaker 1: to him quite a bit. He feels good, not gonna

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Speaker 1: make it make it to Japan, just to make it

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Speaker 1: to Japan. But like I was saying last episode, they

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Speaker 1: may not have to put him on the IL because

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Speaker 1: there's this little bit of a loophole where you can

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Speaker 1: just have your thirty one guys that you bring and

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Speaker 1: then activate twenty six of them and nobody needs to

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Speaker 1: be sent down. Nobody needs to be put on the IL,

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Speaker 1: So he could be part of that five man group

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Speaker 1: if you want to avoid nil stint. But it sounds

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Speaker 1: like everything's on track, no setbacks there. Japan is not

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Speaker 1: the goal. It doesn't sound like Arizona is, which is

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Speaker 1: where they open the US portion of the season. Right

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Speaker 1: with Shaw, it's you know, it sounds I would think

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Speaker 1: they want to get him in games, right. He is

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Speaker 1: doing a lot of he's through for the first time.

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Speaker 1: When I say through for the first time, I mean

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Speaker 1: he took grounders and through to bases on Monday. He

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Speaker 1: took Tuesday off and the plan is Wednesday. More of that.

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Speaker 1: I saw him like fielding and all that on on

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Speaker 1: one of the fields Tuesday. He likes to hit in

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Speaker 1: the cage. That's where he does his cage like his hitting.

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Speaker 1: So we haven't seen him out there but that's not abnormal.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of what he likes to do, is what

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Speaker 1: I was told, Like whether he was healthy, like one

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Speaker 3: Isn't he a little bit young to be dictating his

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Speaker 3: routine with that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Kyle Tucker, I get it, Kyle Tucker. His routine

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Speaker 2: is so simple. You're never going to see him. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he's like one of the best hitters in the game.

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Speaker 1: Right, And well that's the thing. It's not he's not

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Speaker 1: going to ducate that. But no, But I mean you're

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Speaker 1: you're you're not wrong in that, Like this isn't remember

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Speaker 1: I think it was last year Hap was hurt, right,

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Speaker 1: had the hamstring and and he barely played any games,

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Speaker 1: and we're like, well, he's not going to have the

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Speaker 1: runway to get it to start the season. Is he

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Speaker 1: starting the season on the il? And we were like

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Speaker 1: bandying this about, like wondering, how's he how's he going

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Speaker 1: to have enough time? Well, he's a veteran. He doesn't need,

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Speaker 1: you know, two weeks of games. He just needs to

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Speaker 1: make sure he's healthy, get out there and go play.

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Speaker 1: That's not going to be the like they want to

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Speaker 1: make sure he has a little bit of a runway

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Speaker 1: Matt Shaw. So right now we're looking at a Japan

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Speaker 1: series that may not have Matt Shaw. Nico Horner. I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's the end of the world. It's two

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Speaker 1: games you need. You want to win all the games

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Speaker 1: you can. You gotta take it seriously, right, But everyone's

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Speaker 1: kind of in this spot. The Dodgers are already talking

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Speaker 1: like Council loves to say this, right, you don't want

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Speaker 3: I thought the answer was going to be that they're

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Speaker 3: going to clone John Birdie to play both positions. In money,

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Speaker 3: because Baseball Operations has sort of run out resources.

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Speaker 2: But that's interesting. I would imagine Bertie would be in

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Speaker 1: So I think right now we're talking about forty man

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Speaker 1: and the others are all already on the forty man.

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Speaker 1: hitting in spring. I'm not going to take too much

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Speaker 1: think like you can't. You can't say it's you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's gonna be pretty uh.

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Speaker 3: but it's gonna be it's gonna be pretty dramatic if

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Speaker 3: even though Matt Shaw is unproven, he's still like a

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Speaker 2: Well, well, we'll see when you get.

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Speaker 1: There side right right, Yeah, exactly, you know what, And

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Speaker 1: All Contra is a legit prospect. Though, what do you

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Speaker 1: see as best worst case scenario for Kevin o'contra this season?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? So, uh best? And you know, here's what I

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Speaker 1: He's been asked about al Contra quite a few times

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Speaker 1: that's not good for his development. But does he need

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Speaker 1: and he in all likelihood when he's up, he's like

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Speaker 1: So he's going to help this team in some fashion

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Speaker 1: But he's starting, it's starting to come together. So yes,

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Speaker 1: an exciting talent. I'm not predicting that he you know,

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Speaker 1: we've talked a lot. Yeah, Yeah, we've talked a lot

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Speaker 1: about the budget and re signing Kyle Tucker. The more

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Speaker 3: That's It's kind of how I see this year unfolding

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Speaker 1: Right, all right, let's end it on a fun one.

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, I wrote about that, dude. But but

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Speaker 1: new and everything. So you're just happy to be back

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Speaker 1: this year, so I won't I won't rub that. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: so we'll keep that going. We got we got eighty

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Speaker 1: five again on Wednesday, so so I'll make sure the

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Speaker 1: day two of shorts, I'll stop talking about the weather.

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Speaker 1: I know, I'm irritating far too many people, although I

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Speaker 1: hear it's kind of nice in Chicago right now, at

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Speaker 1: least compared to what it was.

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Speaker 3: Yeah today, Yeah, well on Tuesday, Tuesday was nice. You

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Speaker 3: it was classic you would appreciated this of like it's

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Speaker 3: like T shirt and shorts. Oh absolutely, like you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm guessing, you know what I mean. People are watching

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Speaker 1: That, and then that happens here and we're like bundled

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Speaker 1: up and like what the hell is going on? Even

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter that we're from Chicago, we still complain

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Speaker 1: if it's sixty here, like why is this? Why is

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Speaker 1: it so cold? All right? Thanks? Thanks for all the questions. Guys.

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Speaker 1: It's it's always fun to do those mail bags. We'll

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Speaker 1: make sure do that again soon because we get so

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Speaker 1: many good questions. Thanks so much for listening. Make sure

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Speaker 1: and I will be on top of all things cubs.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening to everyone. Take you know,

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Speaker 1: my way

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Speaker 3: Lived