Layla Rahimi

with always something brewing, whether they have lost their ace, Freddy Peralta, or not.

And we'll get to the Brewers and their decisive win over the White Sox momentarily.

But what I'm saying is...

This was a disappointing start of the season, and I know it is just one game out of 162, but I think you can acknowledge that this is very much a disappointing way to start the season because it leads off a schedule that, from the outside looking in, is a soft schedule compared to what we saw a year ago when they were starting overseas against a Dodgers team that would go on to repeat as World Series champions.

That's a very...

Different situation than starting at your place, albeit on a very cold and not weather-ideal day because it's Chicago in March.

But to drop the game in the manner in which they did, it's just not good.

But there was good news, Layla.

There was good news.

I want to say that the news of Nico Horner's extension outshines anything that happened on the field on opening day.

And maybe more so than I even thought.

Because I was expecting, you know, somewhere between three to five year extension.

Probably four years sounded right to me.

A breezy extension.

But when you hear six years, this is the team saying, not only do we want to keep you around, we believe you should be a Cub for the entirety of your career.

We don't know the exact terms of the contract, but at six years, and this man obviously is going to get a raise of some kind after a three-year, $35 million deal, you would guess that it's either a six-figure contract or right around six figures, right?

And if it is... You mean nine figures?

I meant nine, yes.

If it is nine figures, now you're talking about a team that all of a sudden would have four different players on nine-figure contracts, and that looks...

more like what I guess I have expected the Cubs to have on their payroll when you're earnestly trying to contend for a World Series.