Layla Grote
speaker
128 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6 May
Layla Grote’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 1.
Appearances
Okay.
Layla, when you look at the Cubs and you understand how they are built...
built to have an offense that should be one of the best in baseball all season if they stay healthy.
And maybe even if they don't stay healthy because of the depth that they have put together here and the ability to put together different lineups for different purposes for different types of weather because it is Wrigley Field and we're still in May and it's still a little breezy outside and still a little chillier than I would like it to be as we head towards Memorial Day weekend.
But in that same vein, understanding that they've had the pitching setbacks that they've had both in their starting rotation and in their bullpen...
The ability to just believe you're going to win, in my mind, carries a lot of weight.
And I think if you ask the Cubs themselves, players, and at this point, coaching staff, the belief is doing a fair share of the lifting of, hey, we're down.
Let's lift ourselves up by the bootstraps, proverbially speaking.
And they've been able to do that more times than not.
I mean, 17-3 stretch is like you've won 85% of your games for what amounts to an eighth of the season.
They know they're good because they can just look at their record and know 24-12 is something that not many other teams have been able to do.
There's a lot of teams that are within shouting distance of 500, whether on the positive side or the small side.
The reality is after being under 500 for a time, you can go back to the last time they were under 500, and that was when they lost –
in a three-game set to the Philadelphia Phillies on April 13th.
They were 7-9.
They were two games under .500.
And then they went 17-3.
And the confidence is well-earned because it's one thing to come up with a walk-off win like they did two nights ago.
It's another thing to do it back-to-back days on a team that's hot on your trail and you know is a good team because they're above .500.
Your whole division's above .500.
Showing 21–40 of 128 · page 2 of 7
← Previous
Next →