September 29, 2025 ā¢ 54 mins
Postseason baseball is here, and the Chicago Cubs are back in October! Episode 184 of Dingers is all about the Wild Card showdown with the Padres. We dig into: š¹ Who takes the ball for the Cubs in Game One š¹ The tough news of Cade Horton being OUT for the Wild Card series š¹ Which arms could step up in the rotation when it matters most š¹ Is the offense firing on all cylinders at just the right time? š¹ Our final playoff roster projection and what it means for this series Itās time to get excited, Cubs fans ā postseason baseball is here, and weāve got it covered from every angle. Letās talk October, letās talk matchups, and letās talk Cubs baseball. Subscribe: Ā Ā Ā /Ā @dingersachicagocubsfanpodc824Ā Ā Talk #Cubs baseball on our facebook group: Ā Ā /Ā 188995809182063Ā Ā @dingercubs is presented by ā ā ā ā ā OnTapSportsNet.comā ā ā ā ā , your go-to source for Cubs newsā ā ā ā ā , analysis, and updates. Follow us on social media: ā ā ā ā ā @Diingercubsā ā ā ā ā | ā ā ā ā ā @OnTapSportsNetā ā ā ā ā Panelists: ā ā ā ā ā @dingercubs | ā ā ā | @wycoffjd23 | Follow us on Twitter: @dingercubs Follow us on Instagram: @dingercubs TikTok: @dingercubs Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dingercubs
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to The Dinger's Podcast, presented to you by
Sports Network with your host Mitch, Jeff and Kevin. You're
ready to talk to the Cubs.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
All I need is a.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Y'all.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Look, The Dingers Podcast is on the air. I'm your host, Mitch.
I'm here with my boys, Jeff and Kevin. We're in
the postseason. Baby, we get to talk a little postseason
Cubs baseball. Tonight Cubs are taking on the Padres at
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two o'clock tomorrow on ABC. Does that seem weird? They're
on ABC?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Butt, just be Gladys on Fox on a Saturday or
a Sunday because they probably lose that.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
And we've we've looked forward to like postseason baseball. You
wait one hundred and sixty two. We've waited since twenty twenty,
which really didn't count to twenty eighteen for postseason Cubs baseball.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
And then they.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Put us at two o'clock? Did they not know that
people have jobs and can't go to the game. But
like I just told my seventh and eighth that were classes, guys.
The next three days we're watching the Cubs game. So
welckle your seat belts and get ready. Like put the
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homework away. We ain't students during seventh and eighth period.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
The next couple of days, I think you're meant the
next two days.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Oh, so they're gonna sweep. They're gonna sweep the potteries,
that's what you're calling it.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Why not let's get off to a hot start, quick
kicking around?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Who's optimistic, Jeff?
Speaker 6 (01:50):
And let's go all right? Well, I can turn the
page here for real quick.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
You can flip flop.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
There is no pressure on us to win.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
There isn't If you look at the way our season
has gone, we've been without our either one A or
one B ace however you want to clarify or categorize
justin Steele, we've missed Shoda for how many weeks at
the beginning of the season. Now the best picture in
baseball since the All Star break will be without him.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So we have literally duc taped this our Our all
Star MVP that we traded for has been injured down
the stretch. In yeah, we don't know what we're getting
out of him.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
We are literally limping into the playoffs now.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
If we get past the Podres, I think our chances
against the Brewers are very good. Because all the pressure
is on them because they won the Central Division? How
many years in a row? They just set a franchise
record for ninety seven wins. They don't have Brandon Woodriff.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Let's go got me fired up, Jeffrey, Like, how many
World Scheries have you won? Brewers? How many World Series
have you won?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Who's egg?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
That's right?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, you got me? You got me kind of excited,
jeff That a way to start the podcast. Uh, Hubs
have Matthew Boyd going in Game one, and I don't know,
did you hear his little press conference from today. I'm
gonna play you at the clip because like it is awesome.
Have you guys heard it?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I have not, I have not.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Oh, this is fun about I think about a career.
Think about what.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
You gonna cry? There's no crying in baseball, Mitch.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
This is this is cool because it's cool for so
many different reasons. It's cool because you never know when
the opportunity presents itself. Some you know, I waited my
first eight years to get the chance of a postseason.
Didn't really get to be a part of it. I
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mean on the field, you know, I only threw one out.
You never know when the opportunity is gonna come again
to do it with with the Cubs, to do it
with this group. It will never be like this again.
I mean we come back here, the personnel will not
be the same. You know, it's a special group. It's
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a good group of guys, and it's unique to this moment.
And that's it. To get to think that I would
have got this opportunity, know when everything about like grandfather
growed up here, it would be the.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Cub It's cool.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, head, it's cool stuff.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
He would be extremely happy. Man.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I you only one for making me cry up your
now because it's like I felt like I was bowling
the China shop up until this, so you know, you
got me going on that. But that's that's the cool stuff.
My grandfather grew up in Chicago. We grew up a
Cubs fan. I think twenty sixteen was one of the
happiest days of his life. I get to be a
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Cub now, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That's awesome, Like how many of us are because our
grandparents grew up washing cubs. Wah like mm hmm, yeah,
childhood was washing cubs on wh Like there's Matt and
that's what's the cool thing about Yes, yes, yeah, you
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can cry and during the game, like the beauty of
it's it's like I cried when it comes around the
World Series get to the field during Matthew Boyd like
talk about it like it gets you, like it gets
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you passionate, it gets you pumped, and you're like, there's
nobody that I would rather hand the ball to on
Game one of the wild Card right now. After hearing that,
then then Matthew Boyd because you know he wants it
and like his grandpa's looking down and super happy that
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he's pitching Game one of the wild Card versus the
Padres and getting ready to shove it down their throat
like this is this is fun stuff, exciting, fun stuff.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Do you disagree?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Do you do you like he shouldn't have been crying, Jeff,
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
I just put up more a different front.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
If I cry, it's in my house and there's nobody here.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
He's a big softy folks, folks, we all know this.
He's a big softie cream field guy.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
I'm just holdy, gonna.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Be too amped up on that mound and like.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
You too, you remember, like Hayden Winnipe hockey, you know
how he's just always overthrow, it seems like, and not
find the strike.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Soon.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
I hope it'll get that.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah, we're throwing up callbacks to Hayden went Ski just
ah before we get into Cubs talk like I just
want to like pause and second, Like it is awesome
and really good for baseball that the one hundred and
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sixty two games, that game mattered so much this year.
Like you had Mets who metted really really well, like
they did the met thing and pissed it down their
leg and let the Reds and both of them lost
on the final day and still the Red Suit weakend.
You have the Cleveland Guardians who were like sixteen games
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back a month and a half ago, now took the
Central and be and now are playing at home versus
the Tigers. You add Yankees and Blue Jays battling it
out for the winner of that division. Like that, There's
so much going on in the final day of baseball
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like that, it was it was fun and great. It's
great for baseball, Like you can play one hundred and
sixty two and and still there's a lot of games
that matter and things aren't settled. That's what's what's crazy.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
That's what.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And I think it's it's led for me. It's led
to three of the four wild card series. I'm really
excited to see, Like, you've got Yankees, Red Sox. You know,
we've got our series. I don't know that the Reds
are gonna put up much of a resistance against Gosh,
I don't remember the Dodgers, you know, because that's a
Dodgers juggernaut. But you know who's the fourth? One American
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league always gets gets by me? But yeah, I'll have
to look that up. Totally blanket at the moment, But
I was who was what was the second?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Okay, yeah, but don't I don't think the Mariners play
the wild card?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
No, so it's Yankees, Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
And then who's the other wild card?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Detroit? Detroit and the Guardians.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That's so yeah, there's a lot of good series.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Did Detroit fold there at the end? Weren't they?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Like they were sixteen games up with a month and
a half left?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
So yeah, So my foreman is a he's a Cleveland
Guardians fan. He loves all the Cleveland sports teams. I
don't know why he grew up in a small town
of Kelly Iowa, but whatever, and he he said something,
it is either Thursday or Friday.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Goes.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Well, Cleveland's record in the last tennis nine and one
in Detroit's like one.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Yeah, that's an eighteen game, that's what that is.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, it was crazy, but it's just cool. It's cool
to see. But like, here's the thing about postseason baseball,
and I want to get this out before we get
into the rest of it, is everything that you did
in the regular season is out the window. Yeah, the
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slump that you had. The Matt Seaw had the slump
the whole first half and went through a little stretch
and then can't stunk towards the end of the year.
Guess what his batting average is? The big zero Right now,
he's gonna look on the scoreboard, and Peter Ark is
gonna look up in the scoreboard tomorrow and you know,
on my home runs he's gonna see for a stat
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zero because everything gets leveled out to zero now the playoffs.
And that's the great thing is heroes get made in
the playoffs and the unlikely heroes anybody could get hot here.
I remember watching I don't remember when Andrew Jones first
bust on the scene when was he a rookie when
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the Braves went to the run. I remember not hearing
about Andrew Jones the whole season, and then like the
first three playoff games, he just goes off and center
fielders like, who the heck is this kid? Like yeah,
but you're like he made himself a great player because
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he went off in the playoffs. And it's like, that's
what I'm looking forward to. Who's gonna be the guy
for the Cubs that makes it known and and and
does the big thing here in this first series.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
You're gonna need it.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
You're in need either Michael Bush, You're in need PCA
to steal a bag and and they overthrow and he
scores from second on the overthrow, Like you're gonna need
something like that to happen, and hopefully we can manufacture
some runs and and and get a win, because like,
that's that's what I'm looking forward to. Is is is
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finding out who is it gonna be for the for
the Cups. Who's the who's the guy gonna be? Who
do you who do you think it is? Who do
you think is gonna be the one that like is
built for it?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I think it's pc A. He he gets so much
energy from the crowd already, and then he's gonna be
home at Wrigley. The crowd is gonna be buzzing and
going bonkers. And like you said, looking up to the
scoreboard and seeing zeros and seeing that it's a blank slate,
that he can go out there and just do some stuff.
I think he will. He will just gain so much
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energy from the club, club or the I can't even
speak tonight, the crowd chanting pc A. You know that's
gonna happen the first at bat probably then every at
bat that that there's a big moment somebody on base
ahead of him or beginning of the inning to rally
him around. I think PCA is gonna be huge.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Who thinks is gonna be the guy, the guy, the
guy that does a big thing.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Who do you want it to be?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Is it gonna be your lasagna?
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Have you?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Have you made your lasagna yet?
Speaker 6 (13:18):
I'm not making lasagna.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
That takes too long, jeff Jeffrey. We need the lasagna.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
You're staying home from work tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
You're making lasagna for those are new listeners telling them
about the lit leazagna.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
So I just happened during the twenty sixteen playoffs. When
they started, I made this big panel lasagna, and they
won the first series. And then I started the second
series not with bothout any of Lasagna. So I freaked
out and I made another panel lasagnya, and they won
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that series.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
Uh so, uh I didn't.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I didn't make it that at the start of the
world series, and then I got nervous again, so I
made another pane in lasagna and we ended up playing that.
So I put on like fifteen pounds in about three
and a half weeks.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
You did work for this team, Jeff, I did well.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
If they get down, if they lose Game one, you
want to need you to make a pane of Lazamnia.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
I'm wondering if like the Stofer's frozen stuff.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
It doesn't count.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
It's not zac count. I've heard you described this lasagna.
It is one of a kind, Jeff, it is.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
It's a pretty fan Scott.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
He says, I gotta make garlic bread for you.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Yeah, I honestly, I wish I had a better scale,
so I weigh the pan because when you pick it
up to put it in the oven and take it
out of the oven, I grunt like it, But who
do I want it? I'd really like to be somebody
like one of her infielders. You're like Nico Horner or
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Matt Shaw, Like, how great would it be for Matt
Shaw if he did some big things?
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
For me, I I'm with Matt Shaw. I would love
for Matt Shaw to like make himself a name for himself,
like especially with us, like trading away cam Smith like
and getting Tucker like.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
It would be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
If if Matt Shaw hits a home run tomorrow. Uh,
play is an amazing third base. The only question I
have is will he even be the starting third baseman tomorrow?
Because you know who has the best batting average verse
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who's sending you a pitch? I can't remember Pavetta, Provetta,
you know is the best batting average against Pavetta.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
And guess Willie Castro.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Nope, jut Justin Tucker.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Justin Turner, which he has the Justin Turner has the
best batting versus all of Padre's pitching. Because no, but
like Pavetta, he is like eight four nine versus Pavetta
in his career. Oh m, and you're like, start Justin
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Turner and then bring Matt Shaw off the bench like
you gotta kind of like and usually Justin Turner is
only hitting and lefties. Well, Pavetta's alrighty, I.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Don't know, like.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Sounds like Turner should be the first off the bench,
first off the bench, or like, oh maybe like you
know how you do like an opener like it comes
might do an open for game two, You do an
opener at third base where you just get just Hern
one at bat, like one at bat versus Pavetta, and
then you and Shaw. I don't know, because here's.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
The thing, because he can't play the field with his calf.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Yes, but here's here's the thing why you need Why
I would do to start the game and then bring
Sean is because the Cubs were sixty six and eighteen
this year when they scored first in in playoffs. You
need to score first, and especially you need to get
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up early. Versus this San Diego team who has the
bullpen arms to shut you down seven eight nine, where
you aren't going to score after the seventh inning. They
just like they're they're.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Ridiculous. Kind of I kind of like that idea that
get Turner in there right away because he's also got
the leadership to to take that quality at bat in
a big playoff game.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, he's been there, he's been through it. One world
sies and Scott says, Mitch sounds, let's turn the lead
off then after one at bat out Sean not necessarily,
but meye, one time through the batting order, and then
put Shaw out there. I don't know, I'm just like
the thing is, like playoff baseball, you can just get funky.
Sometimes teams do weird things. I don't know, Like you
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gotta do whatever you need to do to get the W.
Like that's my thing, Like because I think back, like
the last time the Cubs were in the in the
playoffs and they played the Marlins, it was just some
stale baseball that the Cubs played, just tried to do
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what they were doing the whole time in the regular season.
They just squeaked into the playoffs and and produced to
tune out. And I don't want to do that. Like
that's where I like Greg Council a little bit more
in the playoffs because he's gonna do a little bit
of funky things. He's not afraid, I don't think, to
like take some risks and do a starter like a
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or like a bullpen starter or an opener like which
he's talked about doing. Which what are your thoughts on this?
Here's here's my thought. Game two, you start, oh, there's
a picture of the lasagna. Now switch to someone else.
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What are your thoughts about this? Game two? You start
Daniel Palencia as a starter.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
That's wild, huh. I would not have picked him to
be the guy to start with.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
You want to know why because you're gonna face Machado
and Tatis, and that's the guy who you want to
face them, So why not the first at bat firing
up there with with Palencia and then you still have
Keller for the ninth inning. But like then you bring
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in Showda after that where you look at you look
at the Potter's lineup and so with with.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
What is it? Who is there? What's her name?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Loreano? With Ramono, Loreano going down with the finger injury
the last week, broke his finger, so he was a righty.
The the potteris only have like Loreano, they have Machado,
and they have Tattis and like one other guys that
are rightys. Their lineup was made up of a lot
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of lefty eight bats. You take Loreano out and you
throw in O'Hearn and he's another left handed bats. They
have seven left handed bats, you have matthew Boy, and
you have Showda pitching against in game one, Game two,
where if they have at the top of their order,
if they have Machado and they have uh Tatis at
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the top of the order, why not give Plencia one
time with just them early in the game. It takes
away one at bat basically from them in the game.
What are your thoughts?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Mm hmmm, I love it. It's right in that funky
stuff that council likes to do. It's the funky stuff
that teams do in the in the playoffs. It reminds
me of Madden. Just it. It makes me think the
whole point of that is to get those three guys
off their off their comfort out of their comfort zone
for that first at bat, and then they're gonna go
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into their second at bat against Shota and already beyond
kind of weak knees, not feeling good. What do you got, Jeffy?
Speaker 6 (21:45):
How long did Mitch stay it awake? Like scheming this idea?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
This is just the start, that's game two. He's already scheming.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
If there's gonna be anybody at this roundtable that doesn't
get a wink of sleep tonight.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
It's gonna be.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yeah, I'm pumped, and I can already tell right now
he's gonna be laying in bed with a ball glove
on his hand and on the other one.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I feel since it, don't you think like why not
why not do some things that you're not like used
to doing, like.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
At least for the first series to get through it.
And then.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I will say this, like going into Saturday, when the
news broke of Kate Horton.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I was like low.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I was like, I was low, man, I was like
not not confident. You're like, you look forward to playoff
baseball and then you hear that news and you're like, man,
I just want to watch uh a night game in
the playoffs with my kids and then actually get it,
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like get baseball. Like in twenty twenty it was day games. Yeah,
in twenty twenty, the two games versus the Marlins were
day games, and twenty eighteen they're too young to like understand,
and it's like, I just want to watch a playoff
game with my my kids where they get baseball and
it's a night game. Where they can actually watch it,
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and you're like.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
It's nothing better than nighttime playoff basketball.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah, and so it's like I was pretty low, like, oh,
that ain't gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
They ain't even get by the potteris.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
But now i'm i'm i'm, I'm I'm trusting. I'm trusting them.
I'm trusting the Cubs. They're gonna do it.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
I'd have to. I do love night baseball.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Here's some other I'll throw some other stats at you.
San Diego Padres versus left handed pitching this year is
batting two forty four a third a three, sixteen OBP
seven or thirty seventy five slug and ninety six WRC plus.
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So it's not great against the left handed batters or
against left handed pitchers. And they aren't a home run
hitting team. M hm, I don't even know if they have.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Is that because their ballpark is so huge.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Their ballpark is pretty big, but like, don't.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Use a bullpen car to take the left and center
fielder out to their positions at the end of the ending.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
So here's their home run. Manny Machado has twenty seven
home runs for now. Tatis has twenty five Gavin chethas nineteen,
Jackson Merrill is sixteen, and the Bogarts has eleven and
Jake Cronworth has eleven. Not a lot of pop they're
in that line up. They do a lot of bunting.
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They do a lot of like small ball stuff, but
they don't have guys that put the ball in play
a ton besides Luisa Rise. So the Potters are weird, man,
They're weird. What what they do well is they pitch it.
They had good starting pitching and they have all absolute
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fire bullpen and so they win low scoring games and ugly.
But I don't want to discredit Cubs pitching because Cubs
pitching has been great all year too.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
So yeah, our bullpen has really been.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
It's kind of a patchwork, ragtag unit for a team
with the injuries that we've had, but they they pitched
very well.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
It's a roster.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
They haven't announced the playoff roster.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
No, he's he he can't be.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
He's in the minor leagues.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
You know who you know who would be surprised. Here,
here's gonna be my surprise playoff roster spot. Billy Hamilton.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Did you see that?
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Picked up?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Billy Hamilton?
Speaker 6 (26:21):
You remember.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
The smester.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
They picked him up and put and he played for
the I would comes the last week of the season
and just just ran basis that's all he did.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Will they throw him on and make him on the
playoff roader he qualifies.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
I don't think they will, but that'd be crazy. Another thing.
At least Diaz, the ket for the Padres, has been
hurt and he will not be on the wild card roster.
He has caught Paveta every single game this season, and
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Paveta is only pitched less than an inning with any
other catcher named Diaz this year, So he's gonna be
pitching to a catcher that's not familiar with him. Wow,
does that play a factor? What are your thoughts?
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Yes, it does.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
There's gonna be some communication issues and probably some strategy
issues where.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
One's gonna want to do this and the other one's
gonna want to throw this.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I could see them maybe using an extra extra mounds
visitor too, because of how loud the confines are gonna
be this go around, and already not being necessarily familiar
with your catcher could play a big could have a
big impact in a small way that makes sense. You know,
it's not like a it's not something you may a
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lay person may notice watching baseball, but if you're if
you pay attention, you see them having to kind of
take extra break, the catcher throwing his hands up, like oh,
time out, you know, and running out to the mound
before they get like a ball called, and stuff like that.
I think it could be a big deal. And the
other reason I'm glad, another.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Reason why I think the Cubs are gonna win tomorrow.
You know who's throwing out the first pitch?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Is it Bill Murray?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
No, Jake Arietta throwing out the first pitch?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Really, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
And you know who's singing the seventh inning stretch? Eddie Vedder,
Eddie Vedder, You're right it is Eddie Vedder. Was that
a guess or did you know?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
No, that was a guess. I just I had to.
I was like, who are the guys you always see
around the Cubs. They're in the playoffs? Bill Murray, Eddie Vedder.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Yeah, yep, I.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Bet we're gonna have. I bet Bill Murray's down in
the Bowl again like he was all the home games
in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Ooh, Scott has a good question. The biggest question is
the wind blowing in out tomorrow. Ah, if the wind's
blowing in, I think the Cubs will win easy. If
the wind's blowing out to toss up.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
That's what I saw earlier, a couple of days ago,
before we knew, when we were for sure home and
somebody said, hey, do you think the Cubs will wait
to announce their starting pitcher until they know the wind
conditions of Game one? And if the wind was blowing
in showed his pitch was blowing out, it would have
been Boyd. But they've already announced a boid obviously, maybe
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they know a little more weather than that.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
But yeah, and your other questions, Scott as Mitch changes
lesson planned, Yeah, yes we were. There is no lesson plans.
We're watching the Cubs game at two o'clock. Here's one thing.
We're going through a principal change right now because my
principal got hired with a different school for a superintendent,
and so we have an interim principal there, and she's
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a Cubs fan, and so hopefully she just understands. She
may show up, Yeah, she may like join me and
and like, hey, this is what we're doing.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
We're in school, and the teacher pushed in like the
TV car with the VCR like in the morning, like,
oh she got hammered last time.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I mean, I remember my soul Studies teacher always pulling,
Like I remember when it was like NCAA basketball while
I was in high school and we had a kid
standing on the roof with an antenna trying to get
the picture for Channel two CBS, and we had him
stand up there with the antenna to be able to
watch the tournament games. Look how far we've come we've
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had We could went from that antenna getting getting TV
it to now we're streaming it on the internet.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yeah, I wonder, I wonder where I can stream a
b C to figure it out?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
The school doesn't they have cable?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I'm sure they have. Yep, we'll get it figured out.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Do you if they go Imanaga game two?
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Are you going ty own game three?
Speaker 6 (31:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I heard some I was looking at some chatter on
whether or not he would be ready yet, whether he
would be ready yet for game three.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I'm not putting that one up there because.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
A little too political charge. Yeah, I don't know if
it would be that or if they would, if they
would throw out, would they piece together kind of a
bullpen day with like Colin Ray and Soroka and kind
of do an inning or two a couple piece.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Or would you start commerants and then go ty own,
like go lofty righty and then just junk it up.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Yeah? I saw some some people were kind of wondering why, man,
I am losing my mind today, who pitched the other aside?
Wondering why a side went so many pitches the other day?
And I just.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Imagine he's gonna make a playoff roster, right.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
I don't think there's a reason he should, because he
should be down for this whole three days. I bet
he'll be in the dugout. You know a lot of
those guys that don't make the roster be in the dugout.
And I have a feeling he's on the divisional series
plan more than likely. But yeah, yeah, I think Game
three will be interesting. I'm not I'm not sure what
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we'll go with that, but I don't think we're gonna
need it because Cubs in too.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
I like it all right.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
We're gonna go a little bit of wild card Cubs
baseball trivia because we could we can keep talking about
all this stuff and it's like we're just excited. But
it's it's fun to look back and see how much
we remember from games. So twenty eighteen, the Cubs were
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in a wild card game.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Verse, do you remember.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
Who Washington Nationals?
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Nope?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Twenty eighteen? Uh was it the Pirates?
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Nope?
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Somebody from our own division?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
There was a one game plan?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Oh the Brewers, no playing man.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
You're never gonna guess the rock Keys.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
Do you remember this game?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
No? Not at all?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Okay, So the Rockies got up one nothing early and
it was one nothing all the way to the eighth inning,
and that's when, Uh, the Cubs got a base hit
by Anthony Rizzo and they placed this guy as a
pinch runner. Do you remember who the pinch runner was?
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All he did was run. It wasn't Billy Hamilton.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I'm just gonna say, was it Billy Hamilton?
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Was it?
Speaker 6 (34:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Was this too long ago to be Campana?
Speaker 6 (34:36):
No it wasn't.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
Yes, it wasn't camp.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
He did get in at bat in this game, and
it was ugly.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Last I started with like a g it dead and
he is He's an African American? Right, Yes, I could
picture his face, but I cannot think of his damn name.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Terrence Go.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Yes, guy ran, and so he stole second. And then
Hobby Bias hit a line drive ground her up the
middle and scored him for a second and went extra
innings and it actually ended up going into the thirteenth inning,
and that's when.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Do you remember who started that game?
Speaker 6 (35:24):
No?
Speaker 4 (35:24):
But did they make an appearance in the outfield so
they could go back in and pitch some more?
Speaker 6 (35:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
So John Lester started that game.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I was just gonna say, probably pitched six innings.
Speaker 6 (35:37):
Did he pitch it?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
No? Okay, And you will not believe who got the loss?
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Who pitched for the Rock?
Speaker 1 (35:54):
So the Cubs lost to one? Oh so John Muster started.
Then Jesse Chavez came in, Randy Rosario, Steve she Scheck,
Pedro Strop pitched one inning, Cole Hammels, Justin Wilson.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
You want to know who took the loss? Kyle Hendricks.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
In one third innings and gave up a run and
we took.
Speaker 6 (36:27):
The l.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Do you remember that game?
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Is that like?
Speaker 1 (36:31):
I like that game out Remember that I remember staying
up super late for that game. We'll go back. Here
we go.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Let me pull it up.
Speaker 6 (36:50):
It's hard to believe that in twenty eighteen, at.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
This time, I worked for the city for like a
year and like four months. Yeah, perspective, perspective.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
All right, old twenty fifteen wild card. This is also
one game plan. You've already said, this team, who they
play pirates? Pirates? Who started that game?
Speaker 6 (37:22):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Was that Arieta?
Speaker 1 (37:25):
That was Jake Arietta?
Speaker 5 (37:27):
Good Year.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
Made that bold statement?
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Or was it?
Speaker 5 (37:33):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Yeah, Okay, if you can tell me who started at
third base for this game, I will give you. I
will give you my Matthew Boyd signed baseball. If you
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could tell me who started at third base for this game, Clearly.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
It's not Chris Bryant.
Speaker 6 (38:02):
Nope, he was the next year in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
No, Chris Bryant did start this game, but he played
a different position in this game.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Yeah he was. He was rookie of the Year in fifteen.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
He was.
Speaker 6 (38:17):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Who was Ramira Nod?
Speaker 6 (38:25):
His last name short was a C.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Is it Chris Coglin?
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Chris Coglin.
Speaker 5 (38:32):
No, okay, let's just.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Fucking just tell us Tommy at Lostella oh Man, so
Brian back then, Chris Bryant actually started in left field
and got moved when Austin Jackson pinch hit for Lostella.
Do you know who started right field?
Speaker 3 (39:01):
Not?
Speaker 2 (39:06):
No, and they signed They signed Heyward the next year.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
So it was one.
Speaker 6 (39:13):
Hundred and eighty eight million dollars A double.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Plays right oh man? Who would have been right field? Back?
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Then he hit a bomb in the Allegheny Mm hmm.
Kyle Schwarber off right scher started Jared he started in
right field. Do you know who uh started at second base?
Speaker 3 (39:48):
That?
Speaker 7 (39:49):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Was that bias?
Speaker 5 (39:55):
Bias was yet it wasn't Russell.
Speaker 6 (39:59):
It wasn't no As Russell. I think we traded for him.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Oh was that Starlin Castro Castro?
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Yeah, yep, Castro and Asson Russell was up playing short.
Who is the starting catcher?
Speaker 4 (40:18):
Well in twenty fifteen, well, who wait, who's the starting
picture Jack Arietta. So it probably wasn't Grandpa Rossi then nope,
was it Henry Hank White?
Speaker 5 (40:31):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (40:33):
No, people, I don't remember who because it was Gail Montero.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Oh, I that's the guy I was trying to think of.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Yeah, okay, there's one other guy that got some pullo
rizzle at first, Dexter father. There's one other guy that
got playing time. He will never remember this name, Christophia.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
Do you remember kristin Orphia?
Speaker 7 (41:00):
Yeah nope, did any Do you know who the who
pitched for the Cubs in the in.
Speaker 6 (41:13):
This game.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Besides Arieta?
Speaker 5 (41:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (41:18):
Did Jason Graham?
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Oh that's a throwback.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Uh, nobody did. It was just Jake Arietta.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Oh that's right. He threw a complete games.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Complete game. All right, we're gonna go back. We're gonna
go back to twenty at twenty this is the last
time the Cubs were in a wild card versus the Marlins.
Can you tell me where is it? Can you tell
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me who started this game? We're here, let's let's go.
Just where's Game one?
Speaker 5 (42:05):
I need to get my games?
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 5 (42:10):
Game one?
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Can you tell me who who pitched Game one? Who
pitched Game two?
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Cheapers Game one? Let's see, was it Kyle Hendricks?
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Kyle Hendricks did pitch Game one and took the loss,
comes lost five to one. Can you tell me pitch
Game two?
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Pitched Game two?
Speaker 1 (42:49):
He was he was pitched right in this game, gave
up one long ball.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
I'm not even sure who else was on.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
He gave up a long ball to a former Cub,
short lived Cub, but still a Cub. It was it was.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
Nice, Scott, Yeah, you should know the answer I was
trying when he got traded.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Wouldn't it be great if the Cubs base you, Darvish?
Speaker 5 (43:30):
In Game three?
Speaker 1 (43:32):
And that's who we have to beat after he was
the last pitcher for the Cubs that pitched the wild
card for the Cubs. Brad Boxberger. Burger also got to
win in that game. And he's another former Cub hm hm,
so a lot of former Who was the.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Former Cub that got the hit the dinger? Off you?
Speaker 5 (43:55):
Garrett Cooper? Remember him? He played first base like a
couple of years ago. Lived.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
Can you tell me the lineup? Can you guys together
make the lineup for the twenty twenty the last game
the Cubs were in the playoffs, So as you, Darvish, Hey,
so let's let's go. Let's go on start? Who started
in left field?
Speaker 3 (44:19):
Hap?
Speaker 5 (44:20):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Oh nope?
Speaker 3 (44:24):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Was that a Schwarber?
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Year Schwarber in left field? Center field? That was happy
app good job happened? Center Who started in right field?
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Hayward?
Speaker 5 (44:36):
Hayward?
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Okay, who started at third base. Brian Brian Bryant shortstop, bias, bias,
second base, Nope.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
Noules, God, oh this was Nico.
Speaker 5 (44:54):
Nope.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
No, I thought that was the year he got pulled
off the couch. Oh gosh, no, that that.
Speaker 5 (45:03):
Wouldn't be right. It wasn't overs Nope, I don't know, Scott.
Do you know.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Got two hits of that game?
Speaker 1 (45:22):
Body?
Speaker 2 (45:24):
Oh, that's right. First the one what's his name? The
guy got traded with you?
Speaker 6 (45:38):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Oh, played for the Brewers for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
Victor Kartini.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
There we go, yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
That was the last last game, comes playing and both
of them are at Wrigley.
Speaker 6 (45:57):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
I forgot. We had smoked in Wriggly too for it.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Okay, we'll do this game one. Do you know who
started at second base in game one of that series? See,
Scott can get this one.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
When did Nico get called called?
Speaker 5 (46:16):
It wasn't Nico.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
Yeah, I'm trying to remember what season it was the
where Nico did get the call from his couch. He
was literally like a home let's see, so, David Body.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
He just played with the Cubs this season shortened twenty
twenty season he played US against US in the twenty
sixteen World Series. Jason Kipness, Oh is that right? I
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forgot about that, And I will say in that game,
our friend Billy Hamilton did get some playing time as
a picture runner and played center field for one inning.
That's right, So full circle. The last time that comes
in the World we're in the wildcard, Billy Hamilton was
on the roster. Maybe he might be on the roster again.
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Him and Happle would be the only returning guys that
played in both the wild cards.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Yeah, that's wild to think about. My god, Oh.
Speaker 6 (47:36):
Nice talking about some stompers. That are those are some
good questions.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Blast in the past.
Speaker 6 (47:43):
And maybe it's because in twenty twenty I just I
kind of zoned out a little bit of that.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Yeah, I mean I black like because the thing that
was the year that we started the podcast. Yeah, I
remember watching every game. I remember even like the I
remember being into the playoffs like we were back to school.
I remember like watching but there's no people in the stands.
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It was a weird, weird season.
Speaker 2 (48:14):
It was because that was when we would go sit
out in the bleachers during practice.
Speaker 4 (48:20):
Yeah, and also like our early season content was we
all picked a Korean baseball.
Speaker 6 (48:25):
Team to follow.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6 (48:29):
Yeah, and how many.
Speaker 4 (48:33):
Did we do an episode where we used like movie
like characters from movies to form a baseball roster.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
Yeah that's right, that's right.
Speaker 5 (48:43):
Yeah, good old days.
Speaker 6 (48:44):
But yeah, uh five years, half a decade? Holy shit? Yep?
Speaker 1 (48:49):
Well man, I am.
Speaker 5 (48:53):
I'm excited for tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
I want us to get out on top. Like I'm
happy that say got hot towards the end, Michael Bush
was getting hot.
Speaker 5 (49:06):
We need them to keep rolling.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
And if we could get anything out of Kyle Tucker,
I think I think we can win, win when tomorrow
and then keeps stacking good days. And so I want
to watch a playoff baseball game with my kids, and
so that's why I'm more looking forward to and the
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fact that it's against the Djens from upcountry.
Speaker 5 (49:31):
If we make it is even better because.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
There will be nothing, nothing better than knocking the Brewers.
Speaker 5 (49:39):
Of the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (49:41):
I can't wait to see their stadium filled with Cubs fans.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
Yeah that should be boom Scott. I was thinking that
same exact thing, the same thing Dustin Steele makes his
comeback and the World Series m.
Speaker 5 (50:01):
Who says no yep, he did.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
He did. He can pitch all the bullpen. He can
pitch all the bull just sings. Let's not that would
be so fire, Oh.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
Would be cool, would be cool, and would be another
story of a Cubs player coming back just for the
World Series after like a season ending injury.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
I will I would do say that. Both Jeff and
I are wearing Ryan Sandberg shirts. We we didn't plan it,
we didn't play nice, but we know Rhino is looking
down on the.
Speaker 5 (50:38):
Cubs, so I'll you what.
Speaker 4 (50:42):
I also thought Cabin would pop onto the podcast wearing
a T shirt with a transurs on it.
Speaker 2 (50:52):
I don't own any dinosaur T shirts.
Speaker 1 (50:55):
Whatever it might have been, like a terodactyl.
Speaker 3 (51:01):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
I don't own any dinosaur T shirts. Trying to think,
all right.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
Here you go, give it. Give your score prediction for tomorrow.
Go for two three two. Cubs, who don't do that
to me?
Speaker 2 (51:16):
I don't think I can.
Speaker 1 (51:17):
I don't know if I can handle three to two
going into the ninth inning.
Speaker 6 (51:21):
I'm not gonna say fourteen to one.
Speaker 1 (51:22):
I would have to buckle like six or seven seat
belts for that.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
One, right, Yeah, I'm saying four to one Cubs one.
Speaker 4 (51:32):
What's the over under on critical turning point of the games.
Speaker 1 (51:36):
Yeah, I'm gonna say five two Cubs. Michael Bush is
gonna have a home run and Matt Shaw is gonna
have a home run.
Speaker 2 (51:48):
Oh interesting, no, Sam, he's been on fire.
Speaker 1 (51:52):
So Matt Shaw is gonna have a two home run.
Bush is gonna have a solo home run, and Kyle
Pucker will have RBI like double to score a run.
Speaker 2 (52:08):
Look it, I like it. Let's do it. Eight seven
wind blowing out comes win with the PCA home run nights. Nice,
Scott like it. I don't like all those seven runs.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
There's one run games. I don't like that. Oh yeah,
Cubs on tap. Yes, make sure you stick around for
Cubs on tap right after us. They can start before
us or before we end. That's okay, we love them.
They can start. Uh, But Scott, I don't know if
I can handle eight seven wind blowing out with I mean,
(52:44):
I'll take the win, but one run games is gonna
be like I do it. I I need to not
have the students.
Speaker 5 (52:54):
Hear me like being on matge myself words.
Speaker 1 (53:00):
Yeah, so all right, well we'll end, so it comes
on tap can start. But Yeah, make sure you go
check out comes on Tap and Tap Sports Network, where
you can find all the best in Chicago baseball and
Chicago sports news. Bears getting a win this week, let's go.
Speaker 5 (53:19):
Yeah that Bears.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
And what the Packers do? They just kiss their sister
with a tie. What's what's up that?
Speaker 6 (53:29):
Apparently I watched one score.
Speaker 4 (53:33):
I watched the first sound and then I went to bed,
and when I woke up, I guess I didn't check
the score until I get over to the gym this
morning and I looked atim, like forty to forty?
Speaker 6 (53:42):
What's this horse shit?
Speaker 5 (53:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (53:45):
My friend who my friend who works out with me
is a huge Packer fan, and he usually goes aboud
at like nine o'clock. He's like, I stayed up watch
the Packers game. It edited a freaking tie. It's like
worse than kissing your sister.
Speaker 5 (53:58):
It's like.
Speaker 4 (54:01):
Somewhere there is a movie quote and it's like, yeah,
you know, we didn't lose, we tied, Like you know.
Speaker 6 (54:07):
It's a really hot stepsister, so it's not bad. I
remember it's from But.
Speaker 4 (54:18):
Why is there a rule that you can't end the
game and a tie, like just slug it out?
Speaker 6 (54:24):
Till somebody wins.
Speaker 1 (54:25):
Yeah, baseball's figured out.
Speaker 5 (54:26):
Put a guy.
Speaker 1 (54:27):
It's like a base BA football. You can't figure something
out like not ending a tie. This is ridiculous, all right. Anyway,
we have playoff baseball to watch tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (54:35):
Go Cubs.
Speaker 1 (54:36):
Hopefully they keep winning so we can do another podcast
because I want the Cubs keep winning. So go Cubs.
Get good night sleep tonight. Because we have playoff baseball
to watch tomorrow, let's go listening and go Cubs.
Speaker 6 (54:54):
It's gotta
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
All I need is a.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Y'all.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Look, The Dingers Podcast is on the air. I'm your host, Mitch.
I'm here with my boys, Jeff and Kevin. We're in
the postseason. Baby, we get to talk a little postseason
Cubs baseball. Tonight Cubs are taking on the Padres at
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two o'clock tomorrow on ABC. Does that seem weird? They're
on ABC?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Butt, just be Gladys on Fox on a Saturday or
a Sunday because they probably lose that.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
And we've we've looked forward to like postseason baseball. You
wait one hundred and sixty two. We've waited since twenty twenty,
which really didn't count to twenty eighteen for postseason Cubs baseball.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
And then they.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Put us at two o'clock? Did they not know that
people have jobs and can't go to the game. But
like I just told my seventh and eighth that were classes, guys.
The next three days we're watching the Cubs game. So
welckle your seat belts and get ready. Like put the
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homework away. We ain't students during seventh and eighth period.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
The next couple of days, I think you're meant the
next two days.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Oh, so they're gonna sweep. They're gonna sweep the potteries,
that's what you're calling it.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Why not let's get off to a hot start, quick
kicking around?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Who's optimistic, Jeff?
Speaker 6 (01:50):
And let's go all right? Well, I can turn the
page here for real quick.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
You can flip flop.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
There is no pressure on us to win.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
There isn't If you look at the way our season
has gone, we've been without our either one A or
one B ace however you want to clarify or categorize
justin Steele, we've missed Shoda for how many weeks at
the beginning of the season. Now the best picture in
baseball since the All Star break will be without him.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So we have literally duc taped this our Our all
Star MVP that we traded for has been injured down
the stretch. In yeah, we don't know what we're getting
out of him.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
We are literally limping into the playoffs now.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
If we get past the Podres, I think our chances
against the Brewers are very good. Because all the pressure
is on them because they won the Central Division? How
many years in a row? They just set a franchise
record for ninety seven wins. They don't have Brandon Woodriff.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Let's go got me fired up, Jeffrey, Like, how many
World Scheries have you won? Brewers? How many World Series
have you won?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Who's egg?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
That's right?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, you got me? You got me kind of excited,
jeff That a way to start the podcast. Uh, Hubs
have Matthew Boyd going in Game one, and I don't know,
did you hear his little press conference from today. I'm
gonna play you at the clip because like it is awesome.
Have you guys heard it?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I have not, I have not.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Oh, this is fun about I think about a career.
Think about what.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
You gonna cry? There's no crying in baseball, Mitch.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
This is this is cool because it's cool for so
many different reasons. It's cool because you never know when
the opportunity presents itself. Some you know, I waited my
first eight years to get the chance of a postseason.
Didn't really get to be a part of it. I
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mean on the field, you know, I only threw one out.
You never know when the opportunity is gonna come again
to do it with with the Cubs, to do it
with this group. It will never be like this again.
I mean we come back here, the personnel will not
be the same. You know, it's a special group. It's
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a good group of guys, and it's unique to this moment.
And that's it. To get to think that I would
have got this opportunity, know when everything about like grandfather
growed up here, it would be the.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Cub It's cool.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, head, it's cool stuff.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
He would be extremely happy. Man.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I you only one for making me cry up your
now because it's like I felt like I was bowling
the China shop up until this, so you know, you
got me going on that. But that's that's the cool stuff.
My grandfather grew up in Chicago. We grew up a
Cubs fan. I think twenty sixteen was one of the
happiest days of his life. I get to be a
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Cub now, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That's awesome, Like how many of us are because our
grandparents grew up washing cubs. Wah like mm hmm, yeah,
childhood was washing cubs on wh Like there's Matt and
that's what's the cool thing about Yes, yes, yeah, you
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can cry and during the game, like the beauty of
it's it's like I cried when it comes around the
World Series get to the field during Matthew Boyd like
talk about it like it gets you, like it gets
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you passionate, it gets you pumped, and you're like, there's
nobody that I would rather hand the ball to on
Game one of the wild Card right now. After hearing that,
then then Matthew Boyd because you know he wants it
and like his grandpa's looking down and super happy that
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he's pitching Game one of the wild Card versus the
Padres and getting ready to shove it down their throat
like this is this is fun stuff, exciting, fun stuff.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Do you disagree?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Do you do you like he shouldn't have been crying, Jeff,
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
I just put up more a different front.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
If I cry, it's in my house and there's nobody here.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
He's a big softy folks, folks, we all know this.
He's a big softie cream field guy.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
I'm just holdy, gonna.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Be too amped up on that mound and like.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
You too, you remember, like Hayden Winnipe hockey, you know
how he's just always overthrow, it seems like, and not
find the strike.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Soon.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
I hope it'll get that.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah, we're throwing up callbacks to Hayden went Ski just
ah before we get into Cubs talk like I just
want to like pause and second, Like it is awesome
and really good for baseball that the one hundred and
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sixty two games, that game mattered so much this year.
Like you had Mets who metted really really well, like
they did the met thing and pissed it down their
leg and let the Reds and both of them lost
on the final day and still the Red Suit weakend.
You have the Cleveland Guardians who were like sixteen games
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back a month and a half ago, now took the
Central and be and now are playing at home versus
the Tigers. You add Yankees and Blue Jays battling it
out for the winner of that division. Like that, There's
so much going on in the final day of baseball
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like that, it was it was fun and great. It's
great for baseball, Like you can play one hundred and
sixty two and and still there's a lot of games
that matter and things aren't settled. That's what's what's crazy.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
That's what.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And I think it's it's led for me. It's led
to three of the four wild card series. I'm really
excited to see, Like, you've got Yankees, Red Sox. You know,
we've got our series. I don't know that the Reds
are gonna put up much of a resistance against Gosh,
I don't remember the Dodgers, you know, because that's a
Dodgers juggernaut. But you know who's the fourth? One American
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league always gets gets by me? But yeah, I'll have
to look that up. Totally blanket at the moment, But
I was who was what was the second?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Okay, yeah, but don't I don't think the Mariners play
the wild card?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
No, so it's Yankees, Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
And then who's the other wild card?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Detroit? Detroit and the Guardians.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That's so yeah, there's a lot of good series.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Did Detroit fold there at the end? Weren't they?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Like they were sixteen games up with a month and
a half left?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
So yeah, So my foreman is a he's a Cleveland
Guardians fan. He loves all the Cleveland sports teams. I
don't know why he grew up in a small town
of Kelly Iowa, but whatever, and he he said something,
it is either Thursday or Friday.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Goes.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Well, Cleveland's record in the last tennis nine and one
in Detroit's like one.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Yeah, that's an eighteen game, that's what that is.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, it was crazy, but it's just cool. It's cool
to see. But like, here's the thing about postseason baseball,
and I want to get this out before we get
into the rest of it, is everything that you did
in the regular season is out the window. Yeah, the
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slump that you had. The Matt Seaw had the slump
the whole first half and went through a little stretch
and then can't stunk towards the end of the year.
Guess what his batting average is? The big zero Right now,
he's gonna look on the scoreboard, and Peter Ark is
gonna look up in the scoreboard tomorrow and you know,
on my home runs he's gonna see for a stat
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zero because everything gets leveled out to zero now the playoffs.
And that's the great thing is heroes get made in
the playoffs and the unlikely heroes anybody could get hot here.
I remember watching I don't remember when Andrew Jones first
bust on the scene when was he a rookie when
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the Braves went to the run. I remember not hearing
about Andrew Jones the whole season, and then like the
first three playoff games, he just goes off and center
fielders like, who the heck is this kid? Like yeah,
but you're like he made himself a great player because
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he went off in the playoffs. And it's like, that's
what I'm looking forward to. Who's gonna be the guy
for the Cubs that makes it known and and and
does the big thing here in this first series.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
You're gonna need it.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
You're in need either Michael Bush, You're in need PCA
to steal a bag and and they overthrow and he
scores from second on the overthrow, Like you're gonna need
something like that to happen, and hopefully we can manufacture
some runs and and and get a win, because like,
that's that's what I'm looking forward to. Is is is
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finding out who is it gonna be for the for
the Cups. Who's the who's the guy gonna be? Who
do you who do you think it is? Who do
you think is gonna be the one that like is
built for it?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I think it's pc A. He he gets so much
energy from the crowd already, and then he's gonna be
home at Wrigley. The crowd is gonna be buzzing and
going bonkers. And like you said, looking up to the
scoreboard and seeing zeros and seeing that it's a blank slate,
that he can go out there and just do some stuff.
I think he will. He will just gain so much
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energy from the club, club or the I can't even
speak tonight, the crowd chanting pc A. You know that's
gonna happen the first at bat probably then every at
bat that that there's a big moment somebody on base
ahead of him or beginning of the inning to rally
him around. I think PCA is gonna be huge.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Who thinks is gonna be the guy, the guy, the
guy that does a big thing.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Who do you want it to be?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Is it gonna be your lasagna?
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Have you?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Have you made your lasagna yet?
Speaker 6 (13:18):
I'm not making lasagna.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
That takes too long, jeff Jeffrey. We need the lasagna.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
You're staying home from work tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
You're making lasagna for those are new listeners telling them
about the lit leazagna.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
So I just happened during the twenty sixteen playoffs. When
they started, I made this big panel lasagna, and they
won the first series. And then I started the second
series not with bothout any of Lasagna. So I freaked
out and I made another panel lasagnya, and they won
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that series.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
Uh so, uh I didn't.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I didn't make it that at the start of the
world series, and then I got nervous again, so I
made another pane in lasagna and we ended up playing that.
So I put on like fifteen pounds in about three
and a half weeks.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
You did work for this team, Jeff, I did well.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
If they get down, if they lose Game one, you
want to need you to make a pane of Lazamnia.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
I'm wondering if like the Stofer's frozen stuff.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
It doesn't count.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
It's not zac count. I've heard you described this lasagna.
It is one of a kind, Jeff, it is.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
It's a pretty fan Scott.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
He says, I gotta make garlic bread for you.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Yeah, I honestly, I wish I had a better scale,
so I weigh the pan because when you pick it
up to put it in the oven and take it
out of the oven, I grunt like it, But who
do I want it? I'd really like to be somebody
like one of her infielders. You're like Nico Horner or
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Matt Shaw, Like, how great would it be for Matt
Shaw if he did some big things?
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
For me, I I'm with Matt Shaw. I would love
for Matt Shaw to like make himself a name for himself,
like especially with us, like trading away cam Smith like
and getting Tucker like.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
It would be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
If if Matt Shaw hits a home run tomorrow. Uh,
play is an amazing third base. The only question I
have is will he even be the starting third baseman tomorrow?
Because you know who has the best batting average verse
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who's sending you a pitch? I can't remember Pavetta, Provetta,
you know is the best batting average against Pavetta.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
And guess Willie Castro.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Nope, jut Justin Tucker.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Justin Turner, which he has the Justin Turner has the
best batting versus all of Padre's pitching. Because no, but
like Pavetta, he is like eight four nine versus Pavetta
in his career. Oh m, and you're like, start Justin
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Turner and then bring Matt Shaw off the bench like
you gotta kind of like and usually Justin Turner is
only hitting and lefties. Well, Pavetta's alrighty, I.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Don't know, like.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Sounds like Turner should be the first off the bench,
first off the bench, or like, oh maybe like you
know how you do like an opener like it comes
might do an open for game two, You do an
opener at third base where you just get just Hern
one at bat, like one at bat versus Pavetta, and
then you and Shaw. I don't know, because here's.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
The thing, because he can't play the field with his calf.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Yes, but here's here's the thing why you need Why
I would do to start the game and then bring
Sean is because the Cubs were sixty six and eighteen
this year when they scored first in in playoffs. You
need to score first, and especially you need to get
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up early. Versus this San Diego team who has the
bullpen arms to shut you down seven eight nine, where
you aren't going to score after the seventh inning. They
just like they're they're.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Ridiculous. Kind of I kind of like that idea that
get Turner in there right away because he's also got
the leadership to to take that quality at bat in
a big playoff game.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, he's been there, he's been through it. One world
sies and Scott says, Mitch sounds, let's turn the lead
off then after one at bat out Sean not necessarily,
but meye, one time through the batting order, and then
put Shaw out there. I don't know, I'm just like
the thing is, like playoff baseball, you can just get funky.
Sometimes teams do weird things. I don't know, Like you
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gotta do whatever you need to do to get the W.
Like that's my thing, Like because I think back, like
the last time the Cubs were in the in the
playoffs and they played the Marlins, it was just some
stale baseball that the Cubs played, just tried to do
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what they were doing the whole time in the regular season.
They just squeaked into the playoffs and and produced to
tune out. And I don't want to do that. Like
that's where I like Greg Council a little bit more
in the playoffs because he's gonna do a little bit
of funky things. He's not afraid, I don't think, to
like take some risks and do a starter like a
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or like a bullpen starter or an opener like which
he's talked about doing. Which what are your thoughts on this?
Here's here's my thought. Game two, you start, oh, there's
a picture of the lasagna. Now switch to someone else.
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What are your thoughts about this? Game two? You start
Daniel Palencia as a starter.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
That's wild, huh. I would not have picked him to
be the guy to start with.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
You want to know why because you're gonna face Machado
and Tatis, and that's the guy who you want to
face them, So why not the first at bat firing
up there with with Palencia and then you still have
Keller for the ninth inning. But like then you bring
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in Showda after that where you look at you look
at the Potter's lineup and so with with.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
What is it? Who is there? What's her name?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Loreano? With Ramono, Loreano going down with the finger injury
the last week, broke his finger, so he was a righty.
The the potteris only have like Loreano, they have Machado,
and they have Tattis and like one other guys that
are rightys. Their lineup was made up of a lot
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of lefty eight bats. You take Loreano out and you
throw in O'Hearn and he's another left handed bats. They
have seven left handed bats, you have matthew Boy, and
you have Showda pitching against in game one, Game two,
where if they have at the top of their order,
if they have Machado and they have uh Tatis at
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the top of the order, why not give Plencia one
time with just them early in the game. It takes
away one at bat basically from them in the game.
What are your thoughts?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Mm hmmm, I love it. It's right in that funky
stuff that council likes to do. It's the funky stuff
that teams do in the in the playoffs. It reminds
me of Madden. Just it. It makes me think the
whole point of that is to get those three guys
off their off their comfort out of their comfort zone
for that first at bat, and then they're gonna go
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into their second at bat against Shota and already beyond
kind of weak knees, not feeling good. What do you got, Jeffy?
Speaker 6 (21:45):
How long did Mitch stay it awake? Like scheming this idea?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
This is just the start, that's game two. He's already scheming.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
If there's gonna be anybody at this roundtable that doesn't
get a wink of sleep tonight.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
It's gonna be.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yeah, I'm pumped, and I can already tell right now
he's gonna be laying in bed with a ball glove
on his hand and on the other one.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I feel since it, don't you think like why not
why not do some things that you're not like used
to doing, like.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
At least for the first series to get through it.
And then.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I will say this, like going into Saturday, when the
news broke of Kate Horton.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I was like low.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I was like, I was low, man, I was like
not not confident. You're like, you look forward to playoff
baseball and then you hear that news and you're like, man,
I just want to watch uh a night game in
the playoffs with my kids and then actually get it,
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like get baseball. Like in twenty twenty it was day games. Yeah,
in twenty twenty, the two games versus the Marlins were
day games, and twenty eighteen they're too young to like understand,
and it's like, I just want to watch a playoff
game with my my kids where they get baseball and
it's a night game. Where they can actually watch it,
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and you're like.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
It's nothing better than nighttime playoff basketball.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah, and so it's like I was pretty low, like, oh,
that ain't gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
They ain't even get by the potteris.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
But now i'm i'm i'm, I'm I'm trusting. I'm trusting them.
I'm trusting the Cubs. They're gonna do it.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
I'd have to. I do love night baseball.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Here's some other I'll throw some other stats at you.
San Diego Padres versus left handed pitching this year is
batting two forty four a third a three, sixteen OBP
seven or thirty seventy five slug and ninety six WRC plus.
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So it's not great against the left handed batters or
against left handed pitchers. And they aren't a home run
hitting team. M hm, I don't even know if they have.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Is that because their ballpark is so huge.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Their ballpark is pretty big, but like, don't.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Use a bullpen car to take the left and center
fielder out to their positions at the end of the ending.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
So here's their home run. Manny Machado has twenty seven
home runs for now. Tatis has twenty five Gavin chethas nineteen,
Jackson Merrill is sixteen, and the Bogarts has eleven and
Jake Cronworth has eleven. Not a lot of pop they're
in that line up. They do a lot of bunting.
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They do a lot of like small ball stuff, but
they don't have guys that put the ball in play
a ton besides Luisa Rise. So the Potters are weird, man,
They're weird. What what they do well is they pitch it.
They had good starting pitching and they have all absolute
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fire bullpen and so they win low scoring games and ugly.
But I don't want to discredit Cubs pitching because Cubs
pitching has been great all year too.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
So yeah, our bullpen has really been.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
It's kind of a patchwork, ragtag unit for a team
with the injuries that we've had, but they they pitched
very well.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
It's a roster.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
They haven't announced the playoff roster.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
No, he's he he can't be.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
He's in the minor leagues.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
You know who you know who would be surprised. Here,
here's gonna be my surprise playoff roster spot. Billy Hamilton.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Did you see that?
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Picked up?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Billy Hamilton?
Speaker 6 (26:21):
You remember.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
The smester.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
They picked him up and put and he played for
the I would comes the last week of the season
and just just ran basis that's all he did.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Will they throw him on and make him on the
playoff roader he qualifies.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
I don't think they will, but that'd be crazy. Another thing.
At least Diaz, the ket for the Padres, has been
hurt and he will not be on the wild card roster.
He has caught Paveta every single game this season, and
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Paveta is only pitched less than an inning with any
other catcher named Diaz this year, So he's gonna be
pitching to a catcher that's not familiar with him. Wow,
does that play a factor? What are your thoughts?
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Yes, it does.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
There's gonna be some communication issues and probably some strategy
issues where.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
One's gonna want to do this and the other one's
gonna want to throw this.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I could see them maybe using an extra extra mounds
visitor too, because of how loud the confines are gonna
be this go around, and already not being necessarily familiar
with your catcher could play a big could have a
big impact in a small way that makes sense. You know,
it's not like a it's not something you may a
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lay person may notice watching baseball, but if you're if
you pay attention, you see them having to kind of
take extra break, the catcher throwing his hands up, like oh,
time out, you know, and running out to the mound
before they get like a ball called, and stuff like that.
I think it could be a big deal. And the
other reason I'm glad, another.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Reason why I think the Cubs are gonna win tomorrow.
You know who's throwing out the first pitch?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Is it Bill Murray?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
No, Jake Arietta throwing out the first pitch?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Really, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
And you know who's singing the seventh inning stretch? Eddie Vedder,
Eddie Vedder, You're right it is Eddie Vedder. Was that
a guess or did you know?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
No, that was a guess. I just I had to.
I was like, who are the guys you always see
around the Cubs. They're in the playoffs? Bill Murray, Eddie Vedder.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Yeah, yep, I.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Bet we're gonna have. I bet Bill Murray's down in
the Bowl again like he was all the home games
in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Ooh, Scott has a good question. The biggest question is
the wind blowing in out tomorrow. Ah, if the wind's
blowing in, I think the Cubs will win easy. If
the wind's blowing out to toss up.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
That's what I saw earlier, a couple of days ago,
before we knew, when we were for sure home and
somebody said, hey, do you think the Cubs will wait
to announce their starting pitcher until they know the wind
conditions of Game one? And if the wind was blowing
in showed his pitch was blowing out, it would have
been Boyd. But they've already announced a boid obviously, maybe
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they know a little more weather than that.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
But yeah, and your other questions, Scott as Mitch changes
lesson planned, Yeah, yes we were. There is no lesson plans.
We're watching the Cubs game at two o'clock. Here's one thing.
We're going through a principal change right now because my
principal got hired with a different school for a superintendent,
and so we have an interim principal there, and she's
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a Cubs fan, and so hopefully she just understands. She
may show up, Yeah, she may like join me and
and like, hey, this is what we're doing.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
We're in school, and the teacher pushed in like the
TV car with the VCR like in the morning, like,
oh she got hammered last time.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I mean, I remember my soul Studies teacher always pulling,
Like I remember when it was like NCAA basketball while
I was in high school and we had a kid
standing on the roof with an antenna trying to get
the picture for Channel two CBS, and we had him
stand up there with the antenna to be able to
watch the tournament games. Look how far we've come we've
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had We could went from that antenna getting getting TV
it to now we're streaming it on the internet.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yeah, I wonder, I wonder where I can stream a
b C to figure it out?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
The school doesn't they have cable?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I'm sure they have. Yep, we'll get it figured out.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Do you if they go Imanaga game two?
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Are you going ty own game three?
Speaker 6 (31:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I heard some I was looking at some chatter on
whether or not he would be ready yet, whether he
would be ready yet for game three.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I'm not putting that one up there because.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
A little too political charge. Yeah, I don't know if
it would be that or if they would, if they
would throw out, would they piece together kind of a
bullpen day with like Colin Ray and Soroka and kind
of do an inning or two a couple piece.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Or would you start commerants and then go ty own,
like go lofty righty and then just junk it up.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Yeah? I saw some some people were kind of wondering why, man,
I am losing my mind today, who pitched the other aside?
Wondering why a side went so many pitches the other day?
And I just.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Imagine he's gonna make a playoff roster, right.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
I don't think there's a reason he should, because he
should be down for this whole three days. I bet
he'll be in the dugout. You know a lot of
those guys that don't make the roster be in the dugout.
And I have a feeling he's on the divisional series
plan more than likely. But yeah, yeah, I think Game
three will be interesting. I'm not I'm not sure what
(32:56):
we'll go with that, but I don't think we're gonna
need it because Cubs in too.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
I like it all right.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
We're gonna go a little bit of wild card Cubs
baseball trivia because we could we can keep talking about
all this stuff and it's like we're just excited. But
it's it's fun to look back and see how much
we remember from games. So twenty eighteen, the Cubs were
(33:29):
in a wild card game.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Verse, do you remember.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
Who Washington Nationals?
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Nope?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Twenty eighteen? Uh was it the Pirates?
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Nope?
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Somebody from our own division?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
There was a one game plan?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Oh the Brewers, no playing man.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
You're never gonna guess the rock Keys.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
Do you remember this game?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
No? Not at all?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Okay, So the Rockies got up one nothing early and
it was one nothing all the way to the eighth inning,
and that's when, Uh, the Cubs got a base hit
by Anthony Rizzo and they placed this guy as a
pinch runner. Do you remember who the pinch runner was?
(34:26):
All he did was run. It wasn't Billy Hamilton.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I'm just gonna say, was it Billy Hamilton?
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Was it?
Speaker 6 (34:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Was this too long ago to be Campana?
Speaker 6 (34:36):
No it wasn't.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
Yes, it wasn't camp.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
He did get in at bat in this game, and
it was ugly.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Last I started with like a g it dead and
he is He's an African American? Right, Yes, I could
picture his face, but I cannot think of his damn name.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Terrence Go.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Yes, guy ran, and so he stole second. And then
Hobby Bias hit a line drive ground her up the
middle and scored him for a second and went extra
innings and it actually ended up going into the thirteenth inning,
and that's when.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Do you remember who started that game?
Speaker 6 (35:24):
No?
Speaker 4 (35:24):
But did they make an appearance in the outfield so
they could go back in and pitch some more?
Speaker 6 (35:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
So John Lester started that game.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I was just gonna say, probably pitched six innings.
Speaker 6 (35:37):
Did he pitch it?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
No? Okay, And you will not believe who got the loss?
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Who pitched for the Rock?
Speaker 1 (35:54):
So the Cubs lost to one? Oh so John Muster started.
Then Jesse Chavez came in, Randy Rosario, Steve she Scheck,
Pedro Strop pitched one inning, Cole Hammels, Justin Wilson.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
You want to know who took the loss? Kyle Hendricks.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
In one third innings and gave up a run and
we took.
Speaker 6 (36:27):
The l.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Do you remember that game?
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Is that like?
Speaker 1 (36:31):
I like that game out Remember that I remember staying
up super late for that game. We'll go back. Here
we go.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Let me pull it up.
Speaker 6 (36:50):
It's hard to believe that in twenty eighteen, at.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
This time, I worked for the city for like a
year and like four months. Yeah, perspective, perspective.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
All right, old twenty fifteen wild card. This is also
one game plan. You've already said, this team, who they
play pirates? Pirates? Who started that game?
Speaker 6 (37:22):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Was that Arieta?
Speaker 1 (37:25):
That was Jake Arietta?
Speaker 5 (37:27):
Good Year.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
Made that bold statement?
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Or was it?
Speaker 5 (37:33):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Yeah, Okay, if you can tell me who started at
third base for this game, I will give you. I
will give you my Matthew Boyd signed baseball. If you
(37:55):
could tell me who started at third base for this game, Clearly.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
It's not Chris Bryant.
Speaker 6 (38:02):
Nope, he was the next year in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
No, Chris Bryant did start this game, but he played
a different position in this game.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Yeah he was. He was rookie of the Year in fifteen.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
He was.
Speaker 6 (38:17):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Who was Ramira Nod?
Speaker 6 (38:25):
His last name short was a C.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Is it Chris Coglin?
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Chris Coglin.
Speaker 5 (38:32):
No, okay, let's just.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Fucking just tell us Tommy at Lostella oh Man, so
Brian back then, Chris Bryant actually started in left field
and got moved when Austin Jackson pinch hit for Lostella.
Do you know who started right field?
Speaker 3 (39:01):
Not?
Speaker 2 (39:06):
No, and they signed They signed Heyward the next year.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
So it was one.
Speaker 6 (39:13):
Hundred and eighty eight million dollars A double.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Plays right oh man? Who would have been right field? Back?
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Then he hit a bomb in the Allegheny Mm hmm.
Kyle Schwarber off right scher started Jared he started in
right field. Do you know who uh started at second base?
Speaker 3 (39:48):
That?
Speaker 7 (39:49):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Was that bias?
Speaker 5 (39:55):
Bias was yet it wasn't Russell.
Speaker 6 (39:59):
It wasn't no As Russell. I think we traded for him.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Oh was that Starlin Castro Castro?
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Yeah, yep, Castro and Asson Russell was up playing short.
Who is the starting catcher?
Speaker 4 (40:18):
Well in twenty fifteen, well, who wait, who's the starting
picture Jack Arietta. So it probably wasn't Grandpa Rossi then nope,
was it Henry Hank White?
Speaker 5 (40:31):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (40:33):
No, people, I don't remember who because it was Gail Montero.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Oh, I that's the guy I was trying to think of.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Yeah, okay, there's one other guy that got some pullo
rizzle at first, Dexter father. There's one other guy that
got playing time. He will never remember this name, Christophia.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
Do you remember kristin Orphia?
Speaker 7 (41:00):
Yeah nope, did any Do you know who the who
pitched for the Cubs in the in.
Speaker 6 (41:13):
This game.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Besides Arieta?
Speaker 5 (41:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (41:18):
Did Jason Graham?
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Oh that's a throwback.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Uh, nobody did. It was just Jake Arietta.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Oh that's right. He threw a complete games.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Complete game. All right, we're gonna go back. We're gonna
go back to twenty at twenty this is the last
time the Cubs were in a wild card versus the Marlins.
Can you tell me where is it? Can you tell
(41:58):
me who started this game? We're here, let's let's go.
Just where's Game one?
Speaker 5 (42:05):
I need to get my games?
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 5 (42:10):
Game one?
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Can you tell me who who pitched Game one? Who
pitched Game two?
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Cheapers Game one? Let's see, was it Kyle Hendricks?
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Kyle Hendricks did pitch Game one and took the loss,
comes lost five to one. Can you tell me pitch
Game two?
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Pitched Game two?
Speaker 1 (42:49):
He was he was pitched right in this game, gave
up one long ball.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
I'm not even sure who else was on.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
He gave up a long ball to a former Cub,
short lived Cub, but still a Cub. It was it was.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
Nice, Scott, Yeah, you should know the answer I was
trying when he got traded.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Wouldn't it be great if the Cubs base you, Darvish?
Speaker 5 (43:30):
In Game three?
Speaker 1 (43:32):
And that's who we have to beat after he was
the last pitcher for the Cubs that pitched the wild
card for the Cubs. Brad Boxberger. Burger also got to
win in that game. And he's another former Cub hm hm,
so a lot of former Who was the.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Former Cub that got the hit the dinger? Off you?
Speaker 5 (43:55):
Garrett Cooper? Remember him? He played first base like a
couple of years ago. Lived.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
Can you tell me the lineup? Can you guys together
make the lineup for the twenty twenty the last game
the Cubs were in the playoffs, So as you, Darvish, Hey,
so let's let's go. Let's go on start? Who started
in left field?
Speaker 3 (44:19):
Hap?
Speaker 5 (44:20):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Oh nope?
Speaker 3 (44:24):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Was that a Schwarber?
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Year Schwarber in left field? Center field? That was happy
app good job happened? Center Who started in right field?
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Hayward?
Speaker 5 (44:36):
Hayward?
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Okay, who started at third base. Brian Brian Bryant shortstop, bias, bias,
second base, Nope.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
Noules, God, oh this was Nico.
Speaker 5 (44:54):
Nope.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
No, I thought that was the year he got pulled
off the couch. Oh gosh, no, that that.
Speaker 5 (45:03):
Wouldn't be right. It wasn't overs Nope, I don't know, Scott.
Do you know.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Got two hits of that game?
Speaker 1 (45:22):
Body?
Speaker 2 (45:24):
Oh, that's right. First the one what's his name? The
guy got traded with you?
Speaker 6 (45:38):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Oh, played for the Brewers for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
Victor Kartini.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
There we go, yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
That was the last last game, comes playing and both
of them are at Wrigley.
Speaker 6 (45:57):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
I forgot. We had smoked in Wriggly too for it.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Okay, we'll do this game one. Do you know who
started at second base in game one of that series? See,
Scott can get this one.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
When did Nico get called called?
Speaker 5 (46:16):
It wasn't Nico.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
Yeah, I'm trying to remember what season it was the
where Nico did get the call from his couch. He
was literally like a home let's see, so, David Body.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
He just played with the Cubs this season shortened twenty
twenty season he played US against US in the twenty
sixteen World Series. Jason Kipness, Oh is that right? I
(46:56):
forgot about that, And I will say in that game,
our friend Billy Hamilton did get some playing time as
a picture runner and played center field for one inning.
That's right, So full circle. The last time that comes
in the World we're in the wildcard, Billy Hamilton was
on the roster. Maybe he might be on the roster again.
(47:20):
Him and Happle would be the only returning guys that
played in both the wild cards.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Yeah, that's wild to think about. My god, Oh.
Speaker 6 (47:36):
Nice talking about some stompers. That are those are some
good questions.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Blast in the past.
Speaker 6 (47:43):
And maybe it's because in twenty twenty I just I
kind of zoned out a little bit of that.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Yeah, I mean I black like because the thing that
was the year that we started the podcast. Yeah, I
remember watching every game. I remember even like the I
remember being into the playoffs like we were back to school.
I remember like watching but there's no people in the stands.
(48:10):
It was a weird, weird season.
Speaker 2 (48:14):
It was because that was when we would go sit
out in the bleachers during practice.
Speaker 4 (48:20):
Yeah, and also like our early season content was we
all picked a Korean baseball.
Speaker 6 (48:25):
Team to follow.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6 (48:29):
Yeah, and how many.
Speaker 4 (48:33):
Did we do an episode where we used like movie
like characters from movies to form a baseball roster.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
Yeah that's right, that's right.
Speaker 5 (48:43):
Yeah, good old days.
Speaker 6 (48:44):
But yeah, uh five years, half a decade? Holy shit? Yep?
Speaker 1 (48:49):
Well man, I am.
Speaker 5 (48:53):
I'm excited for tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
I want us to get out on top. Like I'm
happy that say got hot towards the end, Michael Bush
was getting hot.
Speaker 5 (49:06):
We need them to keep rolling.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
And if we could get anything out of Kyle Tucker,
I think I think we can win, win when tomorrow
and then keeps stacking good days. And so I want
to watch a playoff baseball game with my kids, and
so that's why I'm more looking forward to and the
(49:29):
fact that it's against the Djens from upcountry.
Speaker 5 (49:31):
If we make it is even better because.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
There will be nothing, nothing better than knocking the Brewers.
Speaker 5 (49:39):
Of the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (49:41):
I can't wait to see their stadium filled with Cubs fans.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
Yeah that should be boom Scott. I was thinking that
same exact thing, the same thing Dustin Steele makes his
comeback and the World Series m.
Speaker 5 (50:01):
Who says no yep, he did.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
He did. He can pitch all the bullpen. He can
pitch all the bull just sings. Let's not that would
be so fire, Oh.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
Would be cool, would be cool, and would be another
story of a Cubs player coming back just for the
World Series after like a season ending injury.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
I will I would do say that. Both Jeff and
I are wearing Ryan Sandberg shirts. We we didn't plan it,
we didn't play nice, but we know Rhino is looking
down on the.
Speaker 5 (50:38):
Cubs, so I'll you what.
Speaker 4 (50:42):
I also thought Cabin would pop onto the podcast wearing
a T shirt with a transurs on it.
Speaker 2 (50:52):
I don't own any dinosaur T shirts.
Speaker 1 (50:55):
Whatever it might have been, like a terodactyl.
Speaker 3 (51:01):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
I don't own any dinosaur T shirts. Trying to think,
all right.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
Here you go, give it. Give your score prediction for tomorrow.
Go for two three two. Cubs, who don't do that
to me?
Speaker 2 (51:16):
I don't think I can.
Speaker 1 (51:17):
I don't know if I can handle three to two
going into the ninth inning.
Speaker 6 (51:21):
I'm not gonna say fourteen to one.
Speaker 1 (51:22):
I would have to buckle like six or seven seat
belts for that.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
One, right, Yeah, I'm saying four to one Cubs one.
Speaker 4 (51:32):
What's the over under on critical turning point of the games.
Speaker 1 (51:36):
Yeah, I'm gonna say five two Cubs. Michael Bush is
gonna have a home run and Matt Shaw is gonna
have a home run.
Speaker 2 (51:48):
Oh interesting, no, Sam, he's been on fire.
Speaker 1 (51:52):
So Matt Shaw is gonna have a two home run.
Bush is gonna have a solo home run, and Kyle
Pucker will have RBI like double to score a run.
Speaker 2 (52:08):
Look it, I like it. Let's do it. Eight seven
wind blowing out comes win with the PCA home run nights. Nice,
Scott like it. I don't like all those seven runs.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
There's one run games. I don't like that. Oh yeah,
Cubs on tap. Yes, make sure you stick around for
Cubs on tap right after us. They can start before
us or before we end. That's okay, we love them.
They can start. Uh, But Scott, I don't know if
I can handle eight seven wind blowing out with I mean,
(52:44):
I'll take the win, but one run games is gonna
be like I do it. I I need to not
have the students.
Speaker 5 (52:54):
Hear me like being on matge myself words.
Speaker 1 (53:00):
Yeah, so all right, well we'll end, so it comes
on tap can start. But Yeah, make sure you go
check out comes on Tap and Tap Sports Network, where
you can find all the best in Chicago baseball and
Chicago sports news. Bears getting a win this week, let's go.
Speaker 5 (53:19):
Yeah that Bears.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
And what the Packers do? They just kiss their sister
with a tie. What's what's up that?
Speaker 6 (53:29):
Apparently I watched one score.
Speaker 4 (53:33):
I watched the first sound and then I went to bed,
and when I woke up, I guess I didn't check
the score until I get over to the gym this
morning and I looked atim, like forty to forty?
Speaker 6 (53:42):
What's this horse shit?
Speaker 5 (53:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (53:45):
My friend who my friend who works out with me
is a huge Packer fan, and he usually goes aboud
at like nine o'clock. He's like, I stayed up watch
the Packers game. It edited a freaking tie. It's like
worse than kissing your sister.
Speaker 5 (53:58):
It's like.
Speaker 4 (54:01):
Somewhere there is a movie quote and it's like, yeah,
you know, we didn't lose, we tied, Like you know.
Speaker 6 (54:07):
It's a really hot stepsister, so it's not bad. I
remember it's from But.
Speaker 4 (54:18):
Why is there a rule that you can't end the
game and a tie, like just slug it out?
Speaker 6 (54:24):
Till somebody wins.
Speaker 1 (54:25):
Yeah, baseball's figured out.
Speaker 5 (54:26):
Put a guy.
Speaker 1 (54:27):
It's like a base BA football. You can't figure something
out like not ending a tie. This is ridiculous, all right. Anyway,
we have playoff baseball to watch tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (54:35):
Go Cubs.
Speaker 1 (54:36):
Hopefully they keep winning so we can do another podcast
because I want the Cubs keep winning. So go Cubs.
Get good night sleep tonight. Because we have playoff baseball
to watch tomorrow, let's go listening and go Cubs.
Speaker 6 (54:54):
It's gotta
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