Mark Grote

You heard Marshall Harris earlier.

This is Rahimi Harris and Grody on 104.3 The Score.

And the vibes were high, in the words of Matt Spiegel, after that Piqua Armstrong interview, making it official.

We saw the news about Nico being made officially official before the game.

on Sunday and I thought for sure, you know, Cubs and Nationals, great way to ease everybody in, great way to start the season.

You know, you're not facing the Dodgers in Japan, for example, to begin the year.

You're not facing the buzzsaw that is the NL West this time around.

Good way to really gauge some things and not a good way to begin when you're dropping a series like this to the Nationals to start.

Mark's face says it all.

You're in consternation right now.

Look, I said it when we did the remote from Sluggers the other day, that you have to take advantage of the early average schedule to this season with the Angels incoming.

I'm looking forward to seeing Edward Cabrera get his first start in a Cubs uniform tonight in the first night game out at Wrigley Field.

And I guess this is also my annual reminder to people that you can watch

and take seriously whatever you want to take seriously early in a baseball season because there's too many people pointing their fingers and telling everybody, it's too early to be taking this stuff seriously.

It doesn't matter.

Don't take it so seriously.

You can watch baseball how you want to watch baseball.

If you don't take the first 30 games of the season seriously, then why do we even cover baseball for the first 30 games of the season?

We should just wait until then and just talk Bears for the first 30 days if nobody cares about the start of a baseball season.

So watch baseball how you want.