5 On It: Are the Cubs back?
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It's time for Five On It. Rahimi Harrison-Roney. Bring you five topics on their minds today. On 104.3 The Score.
Number one. Are the Cubs back?
I had to do. I had to do it. Because what are you doing, Cubs? W-Y-D. How are you not taking two or three against the Pirates? And Ray, why is it every time I call them the Pirates, I secretly want to call them Pirates? At least they're only one game below 500. That's really what this is about.
Are the Cubs back in contention this season?
It's like I said, I measure this part of the year not in your record necessarily and not in a pattern, but in series. You know, just take series against teams you're supposed to take the series against. I wouldn't even be that critical of you against this stretch with the Phillies and the Dodgers and the Padres. I wouldn't even be that critical, but at the same time, because you didn't do things like take the Pirates series, I'm a little like, hey... Dude, do something. Do something different. Hit more. I don't know that they're back, but I feel a lot better after Michael Bush breaks out of the over 30 slump. They get the win in the walk-off as opposed to the day before in extras. So they're back enough for me for now.
But I'm watching you, Cubs. I know what you're up to. I know where you guys play. I'm watching you. I want you to put the word out there. See, I don't even know that that is, I don't know that we can be that declarative yet. You know, is that too much?
I think so. Maybe a little bit.
I think we got to wait. I think we got to wait to do the way back up thing.
They've won three of their last five games. That's a winning record over the last five, right? Oh, wait, but you're saying they lost a series to the pirates, a team that they should probably take care of at home. Yeah, I don't know that I can say they're back. In fact, I'm not going to say they're back. I'm going to say they're right where they were before the series started, which is hanging around. That's the goal here.
A lot of men make a good living by just hanging around.
Explain that one.
You know how it is. Dudes will just be hanging around.
Oh, you mean in the status of a relationship that maybe isn't even a relationship, but they're just hanging around? Okay, yeah, the Cubs are not in a relationship yet.
How significant is the Cubs' series against the Pirates?
I can tell you that. They are very much just hanging around. Maybe doing some parking lot pimping, as we used to call it back in the day.
Explain that one for our audience.
AKA, also known as the let out. So you've been out all night with you and your boys. Y'all here trying to see if y'all can find some nice young ladies to talk to. Maybe romance at a future date. Maybe romance that evening. And you know what? You just, you haven't cleared anything. No numbers, no nothing. But then got a saving period of time, a period of grace known as the let out. And that's when the club shuts down and everybody goes outside and all of a sudden you can actually see everybody's faces and what they actually look like. And if you want to make an approach, you got a little more liquid courage in you. She's probably lowered her standards a little bit because of her liquid courage. Now you make a move.
They call that parking lot pimpin'.
Nothing was more insulting than somebody trying to holler at me at 2 in the morning.
What are the Cubs' recent performance metrics?
You say that. I'm like, oh, now why don't you talk to the tree? It'll be more productive. Tree doesn't talk back.
No, see, I disagree. Keep it moving. Here's why.
Nothing more insulting.
In the club, the music is loud and the conversations are not happening. What? But when you get outside, you can actually have a conversation. She might be feeling what you're saying now because she's getting a fuller version of you as opposed to the version of you trying to two-step with her or if you're more aggressive, pull up on it. You know? So this is what I'm saying. The Cubs right now, they are parking lot pimping. They're hoping that when the club lets out, they're within striking distance and they have enough courage to go ahead and win the National League Central.
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