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Speaker 1: Welcome into North Side Territory. Foul Territory Networks Cubs Podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Sahadev 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 have won a game. They are on the board

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Speaker 1: with the wh we can we can settle down. No

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Speaker 1: need panic about Well, you'll be a disasterous start, I'm not.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's for the next first pitches in a couple hours,

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Speaker 2: right yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeh, so so let let the fanic be delayed

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Speaker 1: at least a few, you know, twenty four hours. Uh.

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Speaker 1: It was a really well played game for the most

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Speaker 1: part by the Cubs. A lot of especially offensively and defensively.

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Speaker 1: I think what stood out the number one thing for me, uh,

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Speaker 1: one of the biggest talking points after the game, even

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Speaker 1: during the game. Someone a di'mond back to reporter commented

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Speaker 1: on it. It was the base running by the Cubs. This

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Speaker 1: team has a lot more speed, but just in general

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Speaker 1: they seemed to be It's it's been an emphasis. It's

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Speaker 1: something that this team worked on in the in spring

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Speaker 1: and and focus on with their coaching staff. Like if

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Speaker 1: you remember, I mean we you and I wrote about

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Speaker 1: this when once there were openings and we kind of

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Speaker 1: dug into the coaching staff, what are they looking for, Well,

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Speaker 1: they're looking for a base running expert, and they got

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Speaker 1: two of them in in their third base coach Quentin

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Speaker 1: Berry and first base coach. Oh my god, Jose Javier,

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Speaker 1: Jose Javier. I just wanted to be I was like,

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Speaker 1: oh jeez, I wanted to call him Javier. And I'm like,

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Speaker 1: that's all right. Uh, both both who got shout outs

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Speaker 1: in post game for the work that they're doing. And

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Speaker 1: and it was like there were little things. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we know PCAs fast, right, but he beat out this

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Speaker 1: grounder in the fifth inning. I have this, I have

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Speaker 1: my boss scored just in case in the fifth inning,

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Speaker 1: sixth inning. I'm looking at the Diamondbacks fifth inning and

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Speaker 1: with two outs he beat out a. He beat out

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Speaker 1: a groundball to set like he was on first base,

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Speaker 1: He was fired up. Miguelmaya comes up to out basis

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Speaker 1: clearing double. In the ninth inning, I believe Nico Horner

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Speaker 1: beat out a grounder as well. That led to two

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Speaker 1: more runs, scoring just insurance for the team that put

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Speaker 1: him from eight to five to ten to five. This

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Speaker 1: is these are little things that could make a huge difference.

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Speaker 1: I mean that that essentially led to five runs. You're

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Speaker 1: keeping innings going, you're changing, you're putting pressure on the defense.

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Speaker 1: Like my my thought process is you set this as

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Speaker 1: an example. Now you're gonna start rushing defenses like infielders

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Speaker 1: are gonna know, we gotta move. We like these guys

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Speaker 1: are aggressive, they get big secondary leads, they hustle, they're

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Speaker 1: never taking a playoff, and they have speed. I mean

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Speaker 1: there's three guys that have plus plus you know, arguably

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Speaker 1: Tutter is an elite base runner. Like you have these

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Speaker 1: guys that know how to run the bases. They're a

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Speaker 1: smart base running team. They went from pretty bad base

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Speaker 1: running team. And I know it's one game that we

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Speaker 1: saw it, but like this looks like something that I mean,

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Speaker 1: council said it and the players all said it. They

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, I mean our buddy John Greenberg was there

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Speaker 2: with you, and I think he'd called it not quite

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Speaker 2: a must win game, but if there is a must

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Speaker 2: win game, and in the third game of this season

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Speaker 2: it is this and so I looked pretty good on TV.

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Speaker 1: I mean, a huge, huge crowd there.

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Speaker 2: The Divondbacks are a terrific team and been a nemesis

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Speaker 2: I was tuning into the game, tuning in and out

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Speaker 2: of March madness, I thought of you, Sahadev, of looking

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Speaker 2: at that bottom half or bottom third of the lineup

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Speaker 2: coming through the little things that you mentioned. What does

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Speaker 2: Jed Hoyer always say good teams blow other teams out

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Speaker 2: and getting those tack on runs and giving the bullpen

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Speaker 2: I was curious, like, I don't know, walking out of

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Speaker 2: check for the people in Chicago who may not have

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Speaker 2: stayed up late watching every every single pitch.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I appreciated how after Japan Dansby Swanson

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Speaker 1: for one game. Nobody was panicking, nobody was freaking out.

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Speaker 1: I think a week and like Jed kind of said it,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's absolutely true. You're not used to

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Speaker 1: in baseball. So when that happens, I think it's very

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Speaker 1: easy for people to stew over a couple of bad games.

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Speaker 1: When it's in reality, you know, you got to take

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Speaker 1: it all seriously. It's one hundred and sixty two games,

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Speaker 1: and March games matter as much as August games. But uh,

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Speaker 1: you you know, you don't want to overreact to two games.

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Speaker 1: But they I think they were eager to get back

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're playing too really they're starting the season off.

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Speaker 1: We've talked about this, We're going to continue to talk

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Speaker 1: about it because it's a really tough schedule, but they're

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Speaker 1: playing two really difficult teams to start the season. Arizona's

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Speaker 2: Looking looking at the lineups, you know, just kind of

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Speaker 2: because you're right like that that was like a an

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, like you talk about blowing teams out,

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Speaker 1: You're you're gonna be able to do that. If if

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Speaker 1: He's not batting fifth right, and the council kind of admitted,

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Speaker 2: Panicked and overreacted because Jesse Rodgers was not he he

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Speaker 1: that Nico Horner's back. I'm curious what the lineup looks

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Speaker 1: Migalamaya is hitting like this, we're talking about a very

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Speaker 1: good offense. Right, Like ten runs. They made Zach Gallon

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Speaker 1: it's a new year, it's a new season. We don't

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Speaker 1: but the Diamondbacks are a really good offense. They don't

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Speaker 1: that that's not an excuse. Justin Steele is supposed to

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Speaker 2: But right right right if situation Uh still, I'm glad

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Speaker 2: The Cubs slipped in this roster transaction as part of

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Speaker 1: Why does that name ring a bell? That is the

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Speaker 1: the Cody Bellinger trade look like a salary dump. Right

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Speaker 1: We need to realcate those funds. We need to realocate

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Speaker 1: Why get rid of him? They obviously see something. Whoever

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Speaker 1: where it becomes like, this is this is a bad look.

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Speaker 1: You can't do that. You can't They're twenty five million

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Speaker 1: when you dfa the guy you traded who had the

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Speaker 1: big salary. Yeah, I mean if you wind up moving him.

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Speaker 2: And then obviously they made a strong bid for Tanner Scott,

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Speaker 2: they tried for Alex Bregman all those other things, but

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Speaker 2: they just did not kind of backfill the way you

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Speaker 2: a big time injuries. A guy who can be in

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Speaker 2: everyday DH, can play first, can play all three outfield positions,

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Speaker 2: left handed hitter, well rounded player, good bass runner, all

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Speaker 2: those things. I have feeling he's probably gonna have a

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Speaker 2: pretty big big year at Yankee Stadium. That's not really

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Speaker 2: going out on a limb. So yeah, once again, this

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Speaker 2: is just have to make it work. If they win,

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Speaker 2: no one cares what Cam Smith does, No one cares

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Speaker 2: what Cody Bellinger does. But if they win eighty three

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Speaker 2: games again and missed the playoffs by you know, one

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Speaker 2: or two games, it's that's the type of stuff that

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Speaker 2: people are going to rightly point to.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, and you know you got a long way

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Speaker 1: to go to get there. Yeah yeah, but it's yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's easy to point to those things and and and

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Speaker 1: complain about them. Like frankly, like like I said, like,

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Speaker 1: it's it's the it's it's what you're spending overall is

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Speaker 1: the biggest issue. Like if you don't, you don't reallocate

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Speaker 1: those funds. They did reallocate those funds, but it was

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Speaker 1: it was because they had to move it just just

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Speaker 1: so they could make any moves, not like fully, uh

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Speaker 1: not to spend what they were spending last year. It's

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Speaker 1: it's mind boggling. But that's that's where they are. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well we'll get into that later. Yeah, yeah, all right, Patrick, Uh,

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Speaker 1: that's it for this week. Comes up three more against

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Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks. By the time we talk to you again.

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Speaker 1: Those games will have been played. We'll have a you know,

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Speaker 1: a little more information about how the Cubs are doing

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Speaker 1: early on in this season. Thanks so much for listening

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