Mark Grote

The grody distraction meter?

Yes, we can.

Because it's basically a Friday show for us on a Thursday with Cubs baseball.

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And we can have fun because, once again, the Cubs were fun.

Had the two runs in the ninth, thanks to the Pete Crow Armstrong home run, and he looked about as fired up as anybody's ever been.

And then we see what happens with the walk-off walk in the 10th inning.

At what point after the Reds scored four in the ninth with not the greatest outing for old Hobie Miller and Corbin Martin.

Yeah, so I didn't love bringing Hobie on after he got out of the ninth inning, bringing him back on for the plate appearance in the tenth, where then a base runner's on.

That was not my favorite managerial move.

But what I didn't think was going to happen next was Trent Thornton, who just got here.

Craig Council's like, uh, extra innings.

You know, you've got two men on.

No outs.

Trent Thornton, try to get this done.

And then he did.

Yeah, in fact, I was watching the postgame and I think Craig Council may have blacked out when he made that decision.

He was asked about it after the game.

So that was the smooth, condensed version, but Craig definitely had a pause, and he smiled, and he was like, uh, yeah.

You could tell that was not typical for him, and you could tell he had a laugh about it, either to himself or amongst others.