Ian Happ

And the city, we're so lucky, though.

Fan base sits behind us no matter what.

But I tell guys all the time, there's nothing like winning here.

And when you're in the middle of the summer and you're in first place and you're playing good baseball, it's not only Wrigleyville and Wrigley Field.

It's the entire city that's excited, lit up.

Cubs jerseys, Cubs hats all over the city.

People are excited about it.

And it doesn't get any better than...

middle of July, middle of August, being in first place and that place jumping.

Yeah, I mean, you keep in touch with a bunch of guys.

It's been great to kind of check in on guys throughout the offseason.

Pete was around over the holidays, and we got to work out together and hit together a little bit at Wrigley, which was great.

And, you know, just getting to CubsCon and having everybody there and being able to, you know, that's the first time being able to sit down and really talk baseball with Bregman for a while.

So, yeah.

Getting to chat with him, always checking in on Nico and Dan Sweet and Jamison throughout their off-season.

It's been fun.

You get little things, not only baseball things, but things that are going on in people's lives and vacations and those little things that are really fun.

You're with these guys more than you're with your family throughout the year, so you've got to check on them when you're not with them.

It's weird for us.

You go 250 days together and then you don't see them.