Mark Carman

I've been to Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota.

Lebo, I'm doing great.

You know, what is it, the French Open out there?

Look at you, just ready to step in, moment's notice, get it done.

I appreciate you having me.

Well, a lot of things happened.

I mean, one, the pitching staff is, you know, massively injured, and that's been a, you know, major, major problem for the Cubs.

But in the last 10 games you're talking about, they just did not hit, especially didn't hit with runners in scoring position.

Games where they went 0 for 9, 0 for 11.

Guys who have been, you know, at least fairly consistent throughout their careers, Ian Happ, Ansley Swanson, not doing anything.

So, Pete Carr-Armstrong,

having a moment with a fan on the Cubs' White Sox series, which I think impacted his play for a couple of days.

So whatever could go wrong did.

It was a little surprising, but I wasn't completely stunned, Levo, because when you lose half your pitching staff, at some point there's going to be an impact.

So I actually saw the Sox beat the Royals whenever that was a couple of weeks ago when they were in town and I was

in their locker room afterwards.

And a lot of energy on that team, Levo.

This is a young, fun team.

I mean, if you went to the Sox clubhouse the last three, four years, you would have more, you know, a library was more alive than what you would experience in there.

And now they actually have some juice going on.