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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What are the Cubs' chances of avoiding last place in the NL Central?
How confident are you that the Cubs won't spend time in the cellar in the NL Central? That they won't spend time. That they will not, Grody.
I actually am pretty confident that the Cubs will not end up in the cellar. They're two or two and a half games from the cellar right now.
They are two games up on the Cincinnati Reds. Under .500 now at 31-33 after losing four straight, getting swept over the weekend. So the Cubs, they're seven and a half games back of the Brewers. The Reds are nine and a half games back of the Brewers.
Chapter 3: Why are the Bears considering a move to Hammond, Indiana?
It's impossible right now to think about, visualize the Chicago Cubs snapping out of their funk right now. It just looks like they are stuck in the mud. But I know that that's not the case. That eventually... eventually the Chicago Cubs will start to score runs. They're going to have, believe it or not, there is a 5-7 run inning around the corner for the Chicago Cubs. It's going to happen.
There is evidence of real-ass offense with the evidence being two 10-game winning streaks, which we can't just take off the table. We have seen this team be good. Will the Cubs end up actually being a playoff team this year?
Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Bears' stadium development plans?
Will they streak their way out of the playoffs? That is open for possibilities. But the idea that the actual bottom is going to drop out and the Cubs are going to have this free fall and end up 10 games under .500 and have just an absolute bust of the season and sell, I think is silly. So I don't see the Cubs.
I am very confident the Cubs will not end up in last place or visit last place any time.
Okay, that's cool and all. I hear you. Heard. At the same time, if they don't win two out of three in Colorado, they're going to end up, I think, in last place, even if it's only for a day. Here's why.
Chapter 5: How do Micah Parsons' comments impact Caleb Williams and the Bears?
Colorado has the worst team ERA in the majors. You're playing in Colorado. If you can't get the offense untracked in Colorado... It feels like you've missed your window to make a surge. And if you're not surging, you're falling. And if you're falling... That's what they always say. Let me put it in a different way for you, Grody. Isn't it easier to envision them...
falling to the bottom of the division than it is seeing them climbing to the top of the division?
Believe it or not, no.
Chapter 6: What recent performance trends are affecting the Cubs' playoff hopes?
What?
I'm not saying the top, but they're in fourth place right now, leapfrogging a team. But the question is not, are they going to end up in first place? The question is, are they going to visit last place? Yes. And I'm saying that as horrid and rancid and just bad, fill in your word, as it looks right now, they're not this bad. They're not last place bad. Not even visit last place bad.
They're not. They're not last place bad in most divisions, but in a division in which...
Chapter 7: How does the Cubs' run differential compare to other teams?
The team with the worst record has a better last place record than any other division in baseball. I think they can be and find themselves in last place. I think that's the issue. Now, Ryan Porth. You can do it. Ryan Porth, or Parth as you like to call him. That's his Reds. He says they're not visiting last place because the Reds are just so bad. Oh, yeah. And he might have a point.
Chapter 8: What strategies do the Cubs need to implement to improve their performance?
They have the worst run differential in the National League Central at minus 51. By the way, the Cubs getting dangerously close to having a negative run differential. Their run differential is down to plus three.
I believe that. man remember when we're talking and that's another thing too where you can lament how horrible there was a time when the cubs run differential this season was really good i swear to god it happened somebody print it up for me somebody print up when the cubs were really well i swear that happened But the problem is... We were comping them to the 2016 Cubs at one point this year.
I had to put the slowdown on that. But that, there was, believe it or not, there was a time in the year of our Lord, 2026, when the Cubs were really good.
I don't disagree that the Cubs are going to start scoring runs at some point. Yeah. My quick retort to that is, are you sure they're going to stop giving up runs?
No, I'm not. And like I said, when this thing stops spinning, I don't know where it... It's conceivable that the Cubs are not a postseason team this year, but they're also not a horrible bottom-drops-out joke of a season.
It's not the 2004... A joke of a team to be a last-place team in the National League Central, I think, is my overall point. I'm confident you're not. We'll revisit this when they're in last place.
By the way, you consider that confidence that the Cubs are going to be in last place. I like it.
At some point...
Number two. Which team will win more games this week, the Cubs or the White Sox?
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