April 7, 2025 • 31 mins
In Episode 179 of the Dingers Podcast, we break down the Cubs' series win over the Padres — and yes, Kyle Tucker is HIM. We celebrate Ian Happ reaching the 1,000 career game milestone, but also vent some well-earned frustration after the bullpen coughed up another W on Sunday. Walks, lack of command, and the ongoing search for a true shut-down closer remain major concerns. Plus: we look ahead to a tough matchup as the Cubs head into a series with the Rangers. What needs to happen to keep the momentum rolling? Tune in for all that and more from your favorite Cubs crew. Subscribe: / @dingersachicagocubsfanpodc824 Talk #Cubs baseball on our facebook group: / 188995809182063 @dingercubs is presented by OnTapSportsNet.com, your go-to source for Cubs news, analysis, and updates. Follow us on social media: @Diingercubs | @OnTapSportsNet Panelists: @dingercubs | @baseball_buj | @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
on Tap Sports Network with your host Mitch, jeff and Kevist.
Get ready to talk to some of the Cubs. D
Dingers podcast is on the air. I'm your host, Mitch.
I'm here with the Legend from Nevado, Jeffrey Kevin from Nevada.
(00:26):
How are you guys tonight?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Oh, just dandy. We've survived Monday.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
That's twenty percent of the week, so you know we
deserve a metal or.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
A nap or possibly both.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
I take both. I take both.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I'm take a nap.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I'm feeling pretty tired watching these Cubbies just running around
the base paths tonight. Just disrespect the night catcher left
and right. That's just had the ugliest steal I think
I've seen.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
And Kyle Tucker's base hit. We're recording live Oh Place
scores and the ball hits him in the butt. We
are recording Monday night as the Cubs are taking on
the Rangers. They're currently the sixth inning that are up
six nothing on These Rangers got Evaldi out of there.
(01:15):
Just key at bats from Michael Busch. Michael Bush is
having a really good game. But every single time we're
getting a guy at first, he's taken second for sure.
Kyle Tucker just missed one earlier, gets a base at here,
hap just dressing a run. I'm just getting production up
and down the order. And that's kind of the theme
of even if you go back to our last recording
(01:35):
last Monday when they took on the as, the offense
has kind of exploded. The offense has been hot all
the way from last Monday and that game. What do
we put up that that night? You know me runs
put up Monday.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
The seven or nine.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
No, that Monday night was eighteen, then the next night
was seven. Then and then we want a three to
one ballgame versus the Padres on Friday, a seven to
one game on Saturday, and then put up another seventh
spot and the bullpen just gave it away. So, uh,
(02:13):
the offense has been hot. We've seen Cayle Pucker, who
won NL Player of the Week this week. Congratulations Kyle Pucker.
We'll get into more about Kyle in his contract possibly
with the Cubs, but uh, with Cal Tucker leading this offense,
what have you noticed so far the difference in being
(02:36):
with the Cubs offense this year so far? What what
have you? What do you? What are like two things
that you you notice so far with this offense, Kevin,
we have an offense.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
We have an offense.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I have to say, patients had to play from some
some guys and they're making pitchers pitch to them. There's
not so many guys that are trying to extend the
zone and get their bat way out over the plate.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
This is working better at bats, better at bats.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah, yeah, I'd say the thing I've noticed is where
they're placing him in the lineup. It's weird how just
adding one star in this lineup really extends how everybody
else is doing. I mean, I feel like we're getting
to our seventh batter before I'm really thinking about a
guy who's going to strike out in an ugly fashion
(03:25):
every so often. Like he seems to be just that
stabilizing presence whenever he comes up to bat and there's
a runner on base, even though when they're on first,
you know something big is going to happen.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, and he just works such like Tucker works great
at bats, Like he's not going to go outside the zone,
he's not going to try to do too much with
it and it's like the prettiest wing. I love watching
Kyle Tucker work at bats and his bomb yesterday was fun.
First one at Wrigley Saturday, they broke out the new
(03:59):
Cubs Unius, what are your initial thoughts.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I like them. I like the fact that they didn't
go with matching powder blue pants. They were with white
with the stripe. I think that's that's great.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, yeah, I think they look clean.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I would have gone with the with the baby blue
hat like instead of the blue the Royal blue panel
out of capt baby blue. But I don't know, just
because I wanted to buy a hat and I just
didn't want another Royal blue hats. I feel like I
have like twenty Royal Blue hats, Like I want something different.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
But yeah, that's what Jeff had said in our in
our Dinger chat about how they look like the Astros
or the old Yeah, and I was kind of like, yeah,
I totally see that. They're not expos yeah, but yeah,
they look good. They look good.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
So the Brigleyville ones are retired?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Did they retire them? They're not bringing those back any Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
So I was just to the little interview in the
bottom half of an Inning and Ken, Yeah with Crane Kenny,
and he said every three years, teams are encouraged to
change out their alternate uniform. So the wrigleyvill Ones are done,
and these will probably be the alternates for at least
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two seasons, maybe three.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Did you hear that they sold more jerseys in this
week of these new ones than they did it in
a whole year of the Wrigleyville ones.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
And here's a little.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Thing that I have that'll pay some bills.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I'm getting frustrated. And I don't like to talk bad
about other podcasts in other like Cubs News, but I
am getting sick of like you know, of other I
won't say specifics, but like news like that, Like I
saw at least two podcasts or two like Cubs News places.
(06:03):
They're like, and I guess what, They're not going to
use that money to go get Kyle Tucker or extend
Kyle Tucker. It's like every single time they use information
or use stuff to like bring that up, and it's
like I'm overhearing that. Like it's great, we're making money,
it's a cool jersey, it's can you give them a
(06:24):
congratulations that they did a really good job designing a jersey,
working with the players and working with people from in
the community to make a cool jersey that everybody wants
in that people bottom like that they were successful. They
did something good like tip their cap. Anyway, let's get
back to baseball, not necessarily a fashion. The thing that
I noticed about this lineup is, and I kind of
(06:46):
said a little bit last week, the depth of this lineup.
You have Danzby Swanson swinging a good stick. You have
Michael Bush swinging a good stick, like you have one
through Evan or eight like that are solid. Like it's
been like one guy usually that's had a bad game,
but like Amaya has been swinging the bat. They they've
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had contributions from from everybody. And and that's what what
you need to be successful with this team is. And
and Tucker kind of provides that. He provides it to
be a little bit longer, even Carson Kelle coming and
filling in for Amaya, like big game on Saturday, like
(07:31):
and he had on Monday.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
He was the first Cubs player in thirty two years
hit for the cycle.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah, that's more production in those two games. Plus what
a Maya's done so far in all of last year
out of the catcher spot, and so like when you're
seeing those things like that, that makes this lineup so
good and and we're gonna need to score runs because
we never know when we get in the seven, eight
and nine of the ball game if we're gonna have
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enough runs to hold with this bullpen. And that's guy,
Like the downer of of this is you feel like
you should have had three a back to back sweep
of series, and we let one go away yesterday. It
kind of felt like once Merrill hit that home run
(08:21):
and what was it would be seven.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Six?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Do you make it a seven to six ball game?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
That sounds right? I think?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
So it just felt like that game was gonna slip away,
like did it not?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Like like any we were even gifted a lot of
those runs with the balls and like so it's just
like it felt like we were we could have stolen
and then it got stolen back from us.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Yeah, I totally agree. And and kind of something we
maybe we talked about or maybe you had brought up,
like what is with are relievers walking the lead off batter?
It's like almost every single inning ninth YEP like, that's
what was the best you had yesterday?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Jeff about walks, like it was like four four other
runs walks.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, it's pretty pretty insane.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Like I started watching the game first pitch and I thought, oh,
so we're gonna go to the bullpen early because Ben
Brown doesn't have it today. He gives up three the
first two runs were a walk, and then he plunks somebody.
But then he gets out of it and then we're
gifted with their a shaky start by their pitcher and
gets the lead back and we add on in the
(09:42):
second and then we never played it another run after that.
But yeah, too many, too many walks by the relievers
was the difference in yesterday's game.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
And like, at what point do you call down to
Iowa and at Plncia you get Luke Little like Theobar.
Every outing he's come out, it's it's at least one.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Or two walks.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
He isn't I don't know if he's he probably doesn't
have any more options. But it's like we have Luke
Little down there, we have Plincia down there, we have
other guys that we have seene in major league time.
How how much more time do you give them or
do you call up David Robertson, like there's other guys available,
because right now our bullpen, like Nate Pearson, don't trust Theobar,
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don't trust They obviously don't trust Colin Ray because they
haven't given him much shot. Eli Morgan hasn't really got much.
Like Meriweather had a good inning. Yeah he looked great,
but even Porter Hodge like he's he's struggled in escape
jams in both of his like he had he had
(10:57):
a lead off walk yesterday and then got he gave
up a run. I think he gave up the tying run.
And so it's like, at what point do we do
we go down to the minors and call up one
of those guys because it's it's getting getting kind of
old with this already. And then we haven't even talked
about Presley. That that is the big thing. That's like
(11:24):
Ryan Pressley is dim sharp on Friday, Like I was
waiting for that game to be given away because what
they have guys on second third with whoouts?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Yep, that's it. I don't think he's looked sharp yet
this season.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
He has not had a clean, clean inning, and you
know what what what sucked is you look over at
the padres in twenty percent of their bullpen came from us.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I saw that. I was like, I recognize that name.
I recognize that name.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
He kept pulling people out and they shoved, and then
they had a closer that went broad on what do
you do with our best three hitters?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Fan fan fan man.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
I what's unfortunate is before yesterday's game, I put down
in my little my little notes, I was taken that
I thought we should switch Hodge in Presley. But then
Hodge came out and didn't look has kind of looked
a little shaky too. I don't know we gain anything necessarily.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
He's looked sharper and he but he can strike guys out.
Ryan Presley like this stuff, just like they know that
he has the shark breaking ball, and it's like, all right,
we're just not gonna swing at that because he can't
get it over right now because he's throwing a low
We're just gonna set as fastball and see his curveball up.
But if his curveball is up, we're gonna bang it.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
We're gonna hammer it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I guess that's kind of what I was looking at
and kind of going like it'd be. I would like
to see Hodge put in the ninth, especially, like maybe
even trying a low leverage game just to see how
it is. I know he's in the circle of trust,
so I don't think he's gonna get a low leverage
spot right now, but i'd like to see him in
the ninth because unless we're gonna go down to Iowa
(13:18):
and pull up somebody, the only issue there is Valencia
has given up a few runs down in Iowa. I
was just checking out. I mean, their season's not been
very long yet either. He's been in three games and
he's given up two runs, one earned. Luke Little looks
like he's had good go of it so far, though.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I mean you have Jack Neely down there. He's got
some time with the Cubs. He throws pretty good, like yeah,
oh yeah, you bring up Jordan Wicks, like I know
there they have came stretching out to be a starter.
Corton's had a good day, but he's starter, so like,
I don't know it. The thing is like, how has
has this organization not been able to develop any bullpen
(14:03):
arms that's worth anything? And then when we have and
we've let them go to other teams, then they figure
it out and unlock the player and get him to
their true potential. That's a problem. Jen's gonna have to
look in the mirror, and if he gets fired at
the end of this year, you have to look in
the mirror, and that be one of the big downfalls
(14:26):
of him of not being able to like hire the
right coach or hire somebody or get the right guys
in place to be able to unlock a better bullpen
or be able to develop a bullpen, because we've went
out and signed all these guys, but even that they
haven't gotten better.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
That's what they towed this pitch lab or they really
have talked it up for the last couple of years.
But have we seen a lot from it?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Not really, not from the bullpen anyway. Do you guys
just see the graphic they put up about Rangers.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Yeah, twenty one run.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
The rest of the days.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Well, I'm Monday and they have zero, so let's hope
that the next two days they don't unload.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
So it's talking about runs given up. Yeah, Screwtings game today. Yeah,
I don't know if there's a lot to like about
this team right now, but the bullpen is really the
like sticking point. That's yeah, what's nice. And we talked
about a little bit already, but there is a fight
(15:33):
and a relentlessness in this team. Like even getting down
that the three runs Ben Brown gave up. You know,
a year like last year, I would have been like, well,
that's the game we're gonna we might lose three to
two like that.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
It's almost like I needed to change my mentality issue
because I was I was there, I was listening to
the radio and working in the yard and they got
gave those three runs, Like, oh jeez, I was looking
forward to like this afternoon's kind of like working, doing
some hard work and listen to the cups and now
I gotta listen to this, and they got out of
it and then we quickly scored like three final runs.
(16:07):
I was like, oh, okay, all right, now I can
listen to this.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeah yeah, I probably would have changed the channel after
watching three spot up last year.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Not this year. This year, I have to like stay tuned,
cause like the offense can put up runs, like we've
put up runs every single game, Like besides the Dodger
series in Japan, this team has been able to hit
and so in our starting pitching's ben solid. Matthew Boyd
was absolutely lights out. So like this team, Like, there's
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three parts to a team to be able to be
a good playoff team. It's being able to have a
good offense or four can you play good defense? Can
you have good starting pitching? And then your bullpen? And
right now we're good out of three out of four.
Of those three out of four, Like, that's gonna get
us in the playoffs, but that ain't gonna get a
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deep run in the playoffs, and you need a bullpen
in the playoffs. It's gonna like right now, you look
at the rest of the division, three out of four
is gonna win this division? Having three out of four like,
is getting win you a lot of games, barring any
injury from our starting pitching.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Three out of four.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Mathematician night there, we don't need Jake.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I wear my glasses.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Oh man, I was just looking looking up some random
stats because we're talking about thinking about something. Walks. The
only batter from what I'm seeing right here on fangrafts,
the only batter who has got to walk rate below
ten is Pete crol Armstrong. Everybody else is walking at
such a high clip right now.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, I would like to see the yeah walk a
little bit more, but I think just game on the
base path, like more, but I mean but yeah, kind
of have tip your captain. Justin Siler's putting up a
stat today. Seven innings, three hits, zero runs, eight strikeouts,
two walks, Like that's a good day. Yeah, out of steel, Yeah,
(18:21):
like efficient working through like that.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Thirty eight of those came in the first two innings.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Like, that's what you need out of it. Yeah, so
you need out of your number one. That's what you
need out of your number one. Who's pitching tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Is it to be tie On?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I think yeah, because then.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
They shame, Oh.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Nope, Ray, Colin Ray's getting started tomorrow. No, he's in
right now. He's in right now. Yes, ty Own versus
Corbin and then I Minaga versus Maylee. Sorry, So those
are the next two. And and you look at the
(19:10):
the schedule here coming up with the Rangers, a good
solid team. If you can take two or three, then
you go out to LA with the Dodgers. We go
back to nine o'clock games with the Dodgers and the Padres,
and then we and play the d Backs again and
then we have a two game set with the Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Like well, like we said, if we can get through
this month at being five hundred ball, we would take that, right, Yeah,
we said it.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
That's what we said. Now you look already, now we're
above five hundred. If we can keep this, let's say
our winning percentages at like six hundred, Let's say we
finished this month, what was it, twenty six games, we
finish with like seventeen wins, seventeen ten, seventeen, eleven somewhere
(20:08):
around there. Like that has to get you feeling really good.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
To be a couple couple of games up in the
division probably at that point.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
So I've going into May we would be able to
really a little bit of barrier between us and everybody else.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
So I've heard too, during two different broadcasts that the
CUB schedule in April is the toughest of all the
other major League teams. For the month of April and May,
we have the easiest schedule of all the teams in
Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, in that in May, we have the Marlins, the
White Sox, the Reds, the Marlins, the Rockies, the Reds,
the Brewers, and the Mats.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
So kind of kind of interested to see how Tucker
bats in Cincinnati. I think he's going to hit a
lot of dingers. If we were doing those picks, he'd
be the guy to pick him in half.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Speaking of Kyle Tucker, last night, Vlad Guerrero gets a
massive contract. Was it five hundred million or fourteen years?
He will be forty when the contract ends. What does
(21:23):
that do for Kyle Tucker in.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
The Chicao Cup? It makes them really expensive?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, I don't see. The thing is like if you
if you lower the years, let's say you give him
like nine eight, what is that contract gonna do? Like,
what what's a realistic number there that you could see
(21:51):
the Cubs doing. I don't think. I don't think they're
gonna get him for anything less than seven years. I
think he's a at least seven eight, nine years, right,
maybe ten, And the Cubs hate giving those long term deals.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Thanks a lot, Jason Hayward.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
But like, at least he's proven it. Like I don't
think his swing in his like what he does is
gonna drop off in the next five years. I think
that is a sustainable like putting him out in the
right field. If anything, he could slide into first base
like he could slide there and just rake like he
has a swing that's gonna like stay per consistence.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
And even if he gave him like a ten year
contractor if the last two years of that he even
went to dhing most of the time, that's a guy
you could build like like, we have a lot of pieces,
a lot of young talent coming up, but that's a
veteran you can have in your clubhouse for a decade.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Like I I still I really think that the Cubs
are going to extend him. I think that they see
what he's doing to this offense and just you heard
you heard in the off season at the winter meetings
(23:13):
people talking about the Cubs are going to go for
it and they're ready to spend. I think they see
a little bit of a window of like, Okay, you
have Hap, you have Dan Spy, your PCA, you have
Owen Casey that place, say uh, these guys who are
gonna be here for at least a while, and like
why not get this because if as soon as Cal
(23:37):
Tucker leaves, this offense goes back to being what it
was two years ago, Like you Goetna, if he leaves,
you're gonna have to replace it with somebody as somebody
valuable and there's not anybody out there that's as valuable.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Right, and when he leaves, like I think, is it
happened Horner? Both their contracts are up next year? Yeah,
right as of right now, so if he walks, you
have one more year of those two guys, Like, I
would rather we sign Tucker to a nice long contract, which.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I could see them keeping hap in, letting Horner go
and filling that in with Treanto's or whoever comes up,
Like yeah, So that's just where we need to see
that happen. I want to see them extend, extend.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Tucker.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Let's end with some fun. So, Jeff, I shared this
with you because I thought it was funny.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Well, yeah, it's some good, lighthearted shenanigans.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
So what's too far?
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Like Nolan as a kid younger playing sports, you know,
somebody pisses you off on your team to put a
little icy hot.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
In this jock strap?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Did you say that you once taped somebody's butt cheeks?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
No, I didn't, That wasn't me, that's it.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I don't know. That's a pretty ornery grin right there.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I don't know, are you sure it wasn't you allegedly?
All right, we'll check out no more, check this out.
This is a news report I heard total.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
So that is an eis here.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
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a way.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
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Speaker 8 (25:29):
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Speaker 9 (25:34):
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Speaker 7 (26:03):
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are a terminating involved in this prime will face severe
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(26:45):
are aware and are collaborating with the police investigation. You
have to give it up a little bit for the
news broadcaster to have to deliver that whole thing with
a straight face. I don't know if I would have
(27:05):
been able to do it.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
No, yeah, yeah, oh Shenanigan's I mean you're playing JV baseball?
Speaker 1 (27:13):
What else do you do?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
And they were a little bored.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Were they the relief pictures that did this? What positions?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
That definitely seems like a picture that would would end
up do that.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Or maybe a starter who just got blue up and
he just ticked.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
My thing is like was it like water tugs or
was it like the big like gatorade coolers? Yeah, and
they were left out and you're like look at them,
You're like, gross, gatorade is yellow? My p is I
(27:52):
don't know. Oh boy, I remember one of the best
pranks that I pulled was I took a trip to
see one of my buddies at Iowa State University and
one of my other buddies had just gotten married and
moved into a house, and I was staying at my
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friend's dorm and we walked outside of his dorm and
it was in the fall and all of Iowa State
University now Iowa State University. If you've been there, it's
a beautiful place. It's beautiful. It's got a lot of
cool trees. I think it got a land grant to
like plant so many like different types of trees on
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their prop or on the campus. But they had bagged
all the leaves but the whole campus and put them
right outside of my friend's dorm. There was like eighty bags.
And so we decided to get like three of my
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buddy's trucks and we took all those bags leaves and
we took them to our friend's house and we put
all those leaves in that friend's yard. Oh boy, it
was like five foot deep of just leaves that covered
his whole yard. Nice and it's kind of like that
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you like walk out, You're like, okay, Like there's all
these leaves here, Like, God, what wants us to do this?
And that's probably what happened to those players walked out
and saw the water jugs sitting there, They're like, all right,
we gotta do something and we can't just leave it right.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
It's say, a golden opportunity presented itself.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Oh, there was one Halloween where we filled our principal's
car with wet leaves that were sitting out in people's yards.
So he left his sunroof open, so if you can
imagine dumping leaves to his sunroof and then jumping through
there to pack the leaves, so like when you open
the door, no leaves fell out.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
It was just solid.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
We were there for like an hour, just pack and leaves. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Uh, I like it. Any party words or else, we're
gonna call this a night and say, go cubs and
pick up another w tonight.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
I love it, enjoy the winds. Don't get too disgrumpled
when we lose.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Love it the bullpen, Go cubs, Let's get the bullpen fixed.
Fix it can't be dealing with us anymore.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
In the late innings.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I need to be able to rest and go go
to bed. Early some nights and trust their bullpen. I
will not watch handle start.
Speaker 6 (30:50):
Yeah, I can't do it, all right, good night and
go Cubs Go, Cubs Go,
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I'm here with the Legend from Nevado, Jeffrey Kevin from Nevada.
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How are you guys tonight?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Oh, just dandy. We've survived Monday.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
That's twenty percent of the week, so you know we
deserve a metal or.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
A nap or possibly both.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
I take both. I take both.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I'm take a nap.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I'm feeling pretty tired watching these Cubbies just running around
the base paths tonight. Just disrespect the night catcher left
and right. That's just had the ugliest steal I think
I've seen.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
And Kyle Tucker's base hit. We're recording live Oh Place
scores and the ball hits him in the butt. We
are recording Monday night as the Cubs are taking on
the Rangers. They're currently the sixth inning that are up
six nothing on These Rangers got Evaldi out of there.
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Just key at bats from Michael Busch. Michael Bush is
having a really good game. But every single time we're
getting a guy at first, he's taken second for sure.
Kyle Tucker just missed one earlier, gets a base at here,
hap just dressing a run. I'm just getting production up
and down the order. And that's kind of the theme
of even if you go back to our last recording
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last Monday when they took on the as, the offense
has kind of exploded. The offense has been hot all
the way from last Monday and that game. What do
we put up that that night? You know me runs
put up Monday.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
The seven or nine.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
No, that Monday night was eighteen, then the next night
was seven. Then and then we want a three to
one ballgame versus the Padres on Friday, a seven to
one game on Saturday, and then put up another seventh
spot and the bullpen just gave it away. So, uh,
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the offense has been hot. We've seen Cayle Pucker, who
won NL Player of the Week this week. Congratulations Kyle Pucker.
We'll get into more about Kyle in his contract possibly
with the Cubs, but uh, with Cal Tucker leading this offense,
what have you noticed so far the difference in being
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with the Cubs offense this year so far? What what
have you? What do you? What are like two things
that you you notice so far with this offense, Kevin,
we have an offense.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
We have an offense.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I have to say, patients had to play from some
some guys and they're making pitchers pitch to them. There's
not so many guys that are trying to extend the
zone and get their bat way out over the plate.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
This is working better at bats, better at bats.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah, yeah, I'd say the thing I've noticed is where
they're placing him in the lineup. It's weird how just
adding one star in this lineup really extends how everybody
else is doing. I mean, I feel like we're getting
to our seventh batter before I'm really thinking about a
guy who's going to strike out in an ugly fashion
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every so often. Like he seems to be just that
stabilizing presence whenever he comes up to bat and there's
a runner on base, even though when they're on first,
you know something big is going to happen.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, and he just works such like Tucker works great
at bats, Like he's not going to go outside the zone,
he's not going to try to do too much with
it and it's like the prettiest wing. I love watching
Kyle Tucker work at bats and his bomb yesterday was fun.
First one at Wrigley Saturday, they broke out the new
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Cubs Unius, what are your initial thoughts.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I like them. I like the fact that they didn't
go with matching powder blue pants. They were with white
with the stripe. I think that's that's great.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, yeah, I think they look clean.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I would have gone with the with the baby blue
hat like instead of the blue the Royal blue panel
out of capt baby blue. But I don't know, just
because I wanted to buy a hat and I just
didn't want another Royal blue hats. I feel like I
have like twenty Royal Blue hats, Like I want something different.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
But yeah, that's what Jeff had said in our in
our Dinger chat about how they look like the Astros
or the old Yeah, and I was kind of like, yeah,
I totally see that. They're not expos yeah, but yeah,
they look good. They look good.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
So the Brigleyville ones are retired?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Did they retire them? They're not bringing those back any Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
So I was just to the little interview in the
bottom half of an Inning and Ken, Yeah with Crane Kenny,
and he said every three years, teams are encouraged to
change out their alternate uniform. So the wrigleyvill Ones are done,
and these will probably be the alternates for at least
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two seasons, maybe three.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Did you hear that they sold more jerseys in this
week of these new ones than they did it in
a whole year of the Wrigleyville ones.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
And here's a little.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Thing that I have that'll pay some bills.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I'm getting frustrated. And I don't like to talk bad
about other podcasts in other like Cubs News, but I
am getting sick of like you know, of other I
won't say specifics, but like news like that, Like I
saw at least two podcasts or two like Cubs News places.
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They're like, and I guess what, They're not going to
use that money to go get Kyle Tucker or extend
Kyle Tucker. It's like every single time they use information
or use stuff to like bring that up, and it's
like I'm overhearing that. Like it's great, we're making money,
it's a cool jersey, it's can you give them a
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congratulations that they did a really good job designing a jersey,
working with the players and working with people from in
the community to make a cool jersey that everybody wants
in that people bottom like that they were successful. They
did something good like tip their cap. Anyway, let's get
back to baseball, not necessarily a fashion. The thing that
I noticed about this lineup is, and I kind of
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said a little bit last week, the depth of this lineup.
You have Danzby Swanson swinging a good stick. You have
Michael Bush swinging a good stick, like you have one
through Evan or eight like that are solid. Like it's
been like one guy usually that's had a bad game,
but like Amaya has been swinging the bat. They they've
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had contributions from from everybody. And and that's what what
you need to be successful with this team is. And
and Tucker kind of provides that. He provides it to
be a little bit longer, even Carson Kelle coming and
filling in for Amaya, like big game on Saturday, like
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and he had on Monday.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
He was the first Cubs player in thirty two years
hit for the cycle.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah, that's more production in those two games. Plus what
a Maya's done so far in all of last year
out of the catcher spot, and so like when you're
seeing those things like that, that makes this lineup so
good and and we're gonna need to score runs because
we never know when we get in the seven, eight
and nine of the ball game if we're gonna have
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enough runs to hold with this bullpen. And that's guy,
Like the downer of of this is you feel like
you should have had three a back to back sweep
of series, and we let one go away yesterday. It
kind of felt like once Merrill hit that home run
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and what was it would be seven.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Six?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Do you make it a seven to six ball game?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
That sounds right? I think?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
So it just felt like that game was gonna slip away,
like did it not?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Like like any we were even gifted a lot of
those runs with the balls and like so it's just
like it felt like we were we could have stolen
and then it got stolen back from us.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Yeah, I totally agree. And and kind of something we
maybe we talked about or maybe you had brought up,
like what is with are relievers walking the lead off batter?
It's like almost every single inning ninth YEP like, that's
what was the best you had yesterday?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Jeff about walks, like it was like four four other
runs walks.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, it's pretty pretty insane.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Like I started watching the game first pitch and I thought, oh,
so we're gonna go to the bullpen early because Ben
Brown doesn't have it today. He gives up three the
first two runs were a walk, and then he plunks somebody.
But then he gets out of it and then we're
gifted with their a shaky start by their pitcher and
gets the lead back and we add on in the
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second and then we never played it another run after that.
But yeah, too many, too many walks by the relievers
was the difference in yesterday's game.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
And like, at what point do you call down to
Iowa and at Plncia you get Luke Little like Theobar.
Every outing he's come out, it's it's at least one.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Or two walks.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
He isn't I don't know if he's he probably doesn't
have any more options. But it's like we have Luke
Little down there, we have Plincia down there, we have
other guys that we have seene in major league time.
How how much more time do you give them or
do you call up David Robertson, like there's other guys available,
because right now our bullpen, like Nate Pearson, don't trust Theobar,
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don't trust They obviously don't trust Colin Ray because they
haven't given him much shot. Eli Morgan hasn't really got much.
Like Meriweather had a good inning. Yeah he looked great,
but even Porter Hodge like he's he's struggled in escape
jams in both of his like he had he had
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a lead off walk yesterday and then got he gave
up a run. I think he gave up the tying run.
And so it's like, at what point do we do
we go down to the minors and call up one
of those guys because it's it's getting getting kind of
old with this already. And then we haven't even talked
about Presley. That that is the big thing. That's like
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Ryan Pressley is dim sharp on Friday, Like I was
waiting for that game to be given away because what
they have guys on second third with whoouts?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Yep, that's it. I don't think he's looked sharp yet
this season.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
He has not had a clean, clean inning, and you
know what what what sucked is you look over at
the padres in twenty percent of their bullpen came from us.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I saw that. I was like, I recognize that name.
I recognize that name.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
He kept pulling people out and they shoved, and then
they had a closer that went broad on what do
you do with our best three hitters?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Fan fan fan man.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
I what's unfortunate is before yesterday's game, I put down
in my little my little notes, I was taken that
I thought we should switch Hodge in Presley. But then
Hodge came out and didn't look has kind of looked
a little shaky too. I don't know we gain anything necessarily.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
He's looked sharper and he but he can strike guys out.
Ryan Presley like this stuff, just like they know that
he has the shark breaking ball, and it's like, all right,
we're just not gonna swing at that because he can't
get it over right now because he's throwing a low
We're just gonna set as fastball and see his curveball up.
But if his curveball is up, we're gonna bang it.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
We're gonna hammer it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I guess that's kind of what I was looking at
and kind of going like it'd be. I would like
to see Hodge put in the ninth, especially, like maybe
even trying a low leverage game just to see how
it is. I know he's in the circle of trust,
so I don't think he's gonna get a low leverage
spot right now, but i'd like to see him in
the ninth because unless we're gonna go down to Iowa
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and pull up somebody, the only issue there is Valencia
has given up a few runs down in Iowa. I
was just checking out. I mean, their season's not been
very long yet either. He's been in three games and
he's given up two runs, one earned. Luke Little looks
like he's had good go of it so far, though.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I mean you have Jack Neely down there. He's got
some time with the Cubs. He throws pretty good, like yeah,
oh yeah, you bring up Jordan Wicks, like I know
there they have came stretching out to be a starter.
Corton's had a good day, but he's starter, so like,
I don't know it. The thing is like, how has
has this organization not been able to develop any bullpen
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arms that's worth anything? And then when we have and
we've let them go to other teams, then they figure
it out and unlock the player and get him to
their true potential. That's a problem. Jen's gonna have to
look in the mirror, and if he gets fired at
the end of this year, you have to look in
the mirror, and that be one of the big downfalls
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of him of not being able to like hire the
right coach or hire somebody or get the right guys
in place to be able to unlock a better bullpen
or be able to develop a bullpen, because we've went
out and signed all these guys, but even that they
haven't gotten better.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
That's what they towed this pitch lab or they really
have talked it up for the last couple of years.
But have we seen a lot from it?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Not really, not from the bullpen anyway. Do you guys
just see the graphic they put up about Rangers.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Yeah, twenty one run.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
The rest of the days.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Well, I'm Monday and they have zero, so let's hope
that the next two days they don't unload.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
So it's talking about runs given up. Yeah, Screwtings game today. Yeah,
I don't know if there's a lot to like about
this team right now, but the bullpen is really the
like sticking point. That's yeah, what's nice. And we talked
about a little bit already, but there is a fight
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and a relentlessness in this team. Like even getting down
that the three runs Ben Brown gave up. You know,
a year like last year, I would have been like, well,
that's the game we're gonna we might lose three to
two like that.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
It's almost like I needed to change my mentality issue
because I was I was there, I was listening to
the radio and working in the yard and they got
gave those three runs, Like, oh jeez, I was looking
forward to like this afternoon's kind of like working, doing
some hard work and listen to the cups and now
I gotta listen to this, and they got out of
it and then we quickly scored like three final runs.
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I was like, oh, okay, all right, now I can
listen to this.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeah yeah, I probably would have changed the channel after
watching three spot up last year.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Not this year. This year, I have to like stay tuned,
cause like the offense can put up runs, like we've
put up runs every single game, Like besides the Dodger
series in Japan, this team has been able to hit
and so in our starting pitching's ben solid. Matthew Boyd
was absolutely lights out. So like this team, Like, there's
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three parts to a team to be able to be
a good playoff team. It's being able to have a
good offense or four can you play good defense? Can
you have good starting pitching? And then your bullpen? And
right now we're good out of three out of four.
Of those three out of four, Like, that's gonna get
us in the playoffs, but that ain't gonna get a
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deep run in the playoffs, and you need a bullpen
in the playoffs. It's gonna like right now, you look
at the rest of the division, three out of four
is gonna win this division? Having three out of four like,
is getting win you a lot of games, barring any
injury from our starting pitching.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Three out of four.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Mathematician night there, we don't need Jake.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I wear my glasses.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Oh man, I was just looking looking up some random
stats because we're talking about thinking about something. Walks. The
only batter from what I'm seeing right here on fangrafts,
the only batter who has got to walk rate below
ten is Pete crol Armstrong. Everybody else is walking at
such a high clip right now.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, I would like to see the yeah walk a
little bit more, but I think just game on the
base path, like more, but I mean but yeah, kind
of have tip your captain. Justin Siler's putting up a
stat today. Seven innings, three hits, zero runs, eight strikeouts,
two walks, Like that's a good day. Yeah, out of steel, Yeah,
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like efficient working through like that.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Thirty eight of those came in the first two innings.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Like, that's what you need out of it. Yeah, so
you need out of your number one. That's what you
need out of your number one. Who's pitching tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Is it to be tie On?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I think yeah, because then.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
They shame, Oh.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Nope, Ray, Colin Ray's getting started tomorrow. No, he's in
right now. He's in right now. Yes, ty Own versus
Corbin and then I Minaga versus Maylee. Sorry, So those
are the next two. And and you look at the
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the schedule here coming up with the Rangers, a good
solid team. If you can take two or three, then
you go out to LA with the Dodgers. We go
back to nine o'clock games with the Dodgers and the Padres,
and then we and play the d Backs again and
then we have a two game set with the Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Like well, like we said, if we can get through
this month at being five hundred ball, we would take that, right, Yeah,
we said it.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
That's what we said. Now you look already, now we're
above five hundred. If we can keep this, let's say
our winning percentages at like six hundred, Let's say we
finished this month, what was it, twenty six games, we
finish with like seventeen wins, seventeen ten, seventeen, eleven somewhere
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around there. Like that has to get you feeling really good.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
To be a couple couple of games up in the
division probably at that point.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
So I've going into May we would be able to
really a little bit of barrier between us and everybody else.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
So I've heard too, during two different broadcasts that the
CUB schedule in April is the toughest of all the
other major League teams. For the month of April and May,
we have the easiest schedule of all the teams in
Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, in that in May, we have the Marlins, the
White Sox, the Reds, the Marlins, the Rockies, the Reds,
the Brewers, and the Mats.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
So kind of kind of interested to see how Tucker
bats in Cincinnati. I think he's going to hit a
lot of dingers. If we were doing those picks, he'd
be the guy to pick him in half.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Speaking of Kyle Tucker, last night, Vlad Guerrero gets a
massive contract. Was it five hundred million or fourteen years?
He will be forty when the contract ends. What does
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that do for Kyle Tucker in.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
The Chicao Cup? It makes them really expensive?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, I don't see. The thing is like if you
if you lower the years, let's say you give him
like nine eight, what is that contract gonna do? Like,
what what's a realistic number there that you could see
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the Cubs doing. I don't think. I don't think they're
gonna get him for anything less than seven years. I
think he's a at least seven eight, nine years, right,
maybe ten, And the Cubs hate giving those long term deals.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Thanks a lot, Jason Hayward.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
But like, at least he's proven it. Like I don't
think his swing in his like what he does is
gonna drop off in the next five years. I think
that is a sustainable like putting him out in the
right field. If anything, he could slide into first base
like he could slide there and just rake like he
has a swing that's gonna like stay per consistence.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
And even if he gave him like a ten year
contractor if the last two years of that he even
went to dhing most of the time, that's a guy
you could build like like, we have a lot of pieces,
a lot of young talent coming up, but that's a
veteran you can have in your clubhouse for a decade.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Like I I still I really think that the Cubs
are going to extend him. I think that they see
what he's doing to this offense and just you heard
you heard in the off season at the winter meetings
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people talking about the Cubs are going to go for
it and they're ready to spend. I think they see
a little bit of a window of like, Okay, you
have Hap, you have Dan Spy, your PCA, you have
Owen Casey that place, say uh, these guys who are
gonna be here for at least a while, and like
why not get this because if as soon as Cal
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Tucker leaves, this offense goes back to being what it
was two years ago, Like you Goetna, if he leaves,
you're gonna have to replace it with somebody as somebody
valuable and there's not anybody out there that's as valuable.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Right, and when he leaves, like I think, is it
happened Horner? Both their contracts are up next year? Yeah,
right as of right now, so if he walks, you
have one more year of those two guys, Like, I
would rather we sign Tucker to a nice long contract, which.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I could see them keeping hap in, letting Horner go
and filling that in with Treanto's or whoever comes up,
Like yeah, So that's just where we need to see
that happen. I want to see them extend, extend.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Tucker.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Let's end with some fun. So, Jeff, I shared this
with you because I thought it was funny.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Well, yeah, it's some good, lighthearted shenanigans.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
So what's too far?
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Like Nolan as a kid younger playing sports, you know,
somebody pisses you off on your team to put a
little icy hot.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
In this jock strap?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Did you say that you once taped somebody's butt cheeks?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
No, I didn't, That wasn't me, that's it.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I don't know. That's a pretty ornery grin right there.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I don't know, are you sure it wasn't you allegedly?
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you look away for families to consult with their any
school school nurses and any ABF and the make about
this ongoing investigation persons for both organizations. Tootal is they
(26:45):
are aware and are collaborating with the police investigation. You
have to give it up a little bit for the
news broadcaster to have to deliver that whole thing with
a straight face. I don't know if I would have
(27:05):
been able to do it.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
No, yeah, yeah, oh Shenanigan's I mean you're playing JV baseball?
Speaker 1 (27:13):
What else do you do?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
And they were a little bored.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Were they the relief pictures that did this? What positions?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
That definitely seems like a picture that would would end
up do that.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Or maybe a starter who just got blue up and
he just ticked.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
My thing is like was it like water tugs or
was it like the big like gatorade coolers? Yeah, and
they were left out and you're like look at them,
You're like, gross, gatorade is yellow? My p is I
(27:52):
don't know. Oh boy, I remember one of the best
pranks that I pulled was I took a trip to
see one of my buddies at Iowa State University and
one of my other buddies had just gotten married and
moved into a house, and I was staying at my
(28:14):
friend's dorm and we walked outside of his dorm and
it was in the fall and all of Iowa State
University now Iowa State University. If you've been there, it's
a beautiful place. It's beautiful. It's got a lot of
cool trees. I think it got a land grant to
like plant so many like different types of trees on
(28:35):
their prop or on the campus. But they had bagged
all the leaves but the whole campus and put them
right outside of my friend's dorm. There was like eighty bags.
And so we decided to get like three of my
(28:57):
buddy's trucks and we took all those bags leaves and
we took them to our friend's house and we put
all those leaves in that friend's yard. Oh boy, it
was like five foot deep of just leaves that covered
his whole yard. Nice and it's kind of like that
(29:19):
you like walk out, You're like, okay, Like there's all
these leaves here, Like, God, what wants us to do this?
And that's probably what happened to those players walked out
and saw the water jugs sitting there, They're like, all right,
we gotta do something and we can't just leave it right.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
It's say, a golden opportunity presented itself.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Oh, there was one Halloween where we filled our principal's
car with wet leaves that were sitting out in people's yards.
So he left his sunroof open, so if you can
imagine dumping leaves to his sunroof and then jumping through
there to pack the leaves, so like when you open
the door, no leaves fell out.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
It was just solid.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
We were there for like an hour, just pack and leaves. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Uh, I like it. Any party words or else, we're
gonna call this a night and say, go cubs and
pick up another w tonight.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
I love it, enjoy the winds. Don't get too disgrumpled
when we lose.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Love it the bullpen, Go cubs, Let's get the bullpen fixed.
Fix it can't be dealing with us anymore.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
In the late innings.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I need to be able to rest and go go
to bed. Early some nights and trust their bullpen. I
will not watch handle start.
Speaker 6 (30:50):
Yeah, I can't do it, all right, good night and
go Cubs Go, Cubs Go,
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