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Ryan Dempster

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Ryan Dempster talks Tom Ricketts' high expectations for Cubs

And I think that's where he got to towards the end of the season and, you know, and in September.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Ryan Dempster talks Tom Ricketts' high expectations for Cubs

And, you know, like, listen, you're not going to hit 50.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Ryan Dempster talks Tom Ricketts' high expectations for Cubs

Just because you have 30 at the break doesn't mean you're hitting 50.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Ryan Dempster talks Tom Ricketts' high expectations for Cubs

And it's about good quality at-bats.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Ryan Dempster talks Tom Ricketts' high expectations for Cubs

And Pete learned all this stuff.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Ryan Dempster talks Tom Ricketts' high expectations for Cubs

And talking with him, I know he's determined to just be the best version of himself.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Ryan Dempster talks Tom Ricketts' high expectations for Cubs

And when we see that, he is a bad ball hitter.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Ryan Dempster talks Tom Ricketts' high expectations for Cubs

And that's fine.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Ryan Dempster talks Tom Ricketts' high expectations for Cubs

When you're locked in, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., bad ball hitter.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Ryan Dempster talks Tom Ricketts' high expectations for Cubs

Like, I threw a slider in the dirt that bounced in the other batter's box, and he pulled it for a base hit in the hole in the Olympic Stadium.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Ryan Dempster talks Tom Ricketts' high expectations for Cubs

So, like, you can be a bad ball hitter and be successful, but when you're struggling, that's where you have to get back.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Ryan Dempster talks Tom Ricketts' high expectations for Cubs

And I just think, you know...

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Ryan Dempster talks Tom Ricketts' high expectations for Cubs

This is a kid who put so much work in, and he's going to be perfectly fine this year, and I expect him to be back in center field at the All-Star game and having that kind of quality season again.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Ryan Dempster talks Tom Ricketts' high expectations for Cubs

The Stade Olympique.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Ryan Dempster talks Tom Ricketts' high expectations for Cubs

That's what they would always say when you take that train out there to a boisterous crowd of 800 people.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Ryan Dempster talks Tom Ricketts' high expectations for Cubs

What do you call it?

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Ryan Dempster talks Tom Ricketts' high expectations for Cubs

Upazelas and Yuppie trying to distract us while we're playing.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Ryan Dempster talks Tom Ricketts' high expectations for Cubs

I know the name, yeah.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Ryan Dempster talks Tom Ricketts' high expectations for Cubs

I remember, by the way, that stadium back in my early years with the Marlins, I went in there and I was running laps after a start and I'm running the outfield and every time I get to center field, I'd hear this like a club, like boom, boom, like music going, like house music.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Ryan Dempster talks Tom Ricketts' high expectations for Cubs

And I'm like,