Mark Grote

The kids learned from the adults.

Because the Cubs are kind of like the adults, right?

Yeah.

Very veteran team.

They're very much older than the White Sox, yes.

Leaving all these runners on base.

What did you think was going to happen to the White Sox?

No, no, no.

You're right in that respect.

Look, you can just reset yourself and understand you lost a series on the road, which they're used to.

Haven't won a series since the first week of May on the road.

So understanding that and understanding this is a bad situation, but play hard, try hard.

Maybe you win today.

Even if you lose, flush it, flush it.

It's one series against the Yankees, but I'm glad it's happened.

And maybe I'm glad it's happened at the time it has, because I don't think these White Sox were getting a little high on their horse, like thinking that they're putting themselves on a pedestal.

But if they were, if that thought had crept into anyone's mind, you are right back off that pedestal because you now know what the measuring stick in the American League is.

And that's just it.

And that's why this is disappointing.

I mean, you have a very rational attitude about it.