5 On It & Craig Counsell talks aftermath of Matthew Boyd's meniscus injury (Hour 3)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Number one.
Which of the Cubs' three walk-off wins over the Reds has been your favorite?
I think it might be last night because really exciting things happened in the game, but then the way they won was like, we won? We won! Play the song! Wait, what happened? Yeah, that's right. Oh, we walked it off this time with a walk. Got it! 7-6, Cubs win! 15 straight at Wrigley, let's go! So, I love a very baseball-y, anticlimactic thing that happens to have you win the game.
What were the highlights of the Cubs' recent walk-off wins?
It's like a walk-off ABS challenge, or like I said, perhaps a walk-off balk. All these are possibilities. So there was a lot of there was there were dramatic things that happened. There were high tents, high leverage moments. There were mound visits. There was the PCA home run where the place just erupted. And then there was the hey, wait, I was supposed to challenge that. No, you don't get the challenge. Well, Craig Council says I can get the challenge. No, that was a walk, though. Cubs win. What?
It's like these games have undercards to the greatness. Like you just mentioned, the PCA home run.
Right.
To tie the game. And we're not even talking about that as much as we're talking about the Michael Bush walk-off walk. In the game the other day, you had the same thing. Michael Bush with the game tying home run for that drama as the undercard. And then he gets the game-winning hit. I'm going to go, though. I'm going with the Monday game, the 5-4-1, the Edward Cabrera game, because Michael Conforto gets up there and gets the game-winning home run.
Unbelievable.
And I say that because usually it's guys like that, the Michael Confortos of your team, the guys that are not going to play a ton, but when they make a contribution, it just feels even better. where you have everybody contributing and you have to have those guys on your team. Apparently, Michael Conforto, the way I'm reading it and understanding it, very popular in the clubhouse with everybody. So to have those guys and those moments from unexpected players. Michael Conforto, a guy who I didn't even know was going to make the team. And if he was going to make the team, he was going to get sent down after... Say a Suzuki was ready to play right field, and here he is contributing with big hits. So for me, and that was the first one of his career, right?
The first walk-off of his life.
Walk-off home run, I think. Oh, really? Yeah, that's what I thought it was.
Oh, I thought it was on any level of his life. I thought Conforto had not had a walk-off. But the point still stands to get contributions from guys like that. Those are the seasons in which you win. So I'm going Conforto and the Cubs Monday game is my magical moment. Number two.
The news broke Wednesday that Cubs left-hander Matthew Boyd has a meniscus issue in his left knee and will likely need surgery. Who do you think is the most likely candidate to start in his place when his spot in the starting rotation comes up tomorrow?
Okay, so he got surgery. That happened this morning, according to multiple reports. So he's now on the mend. I'm skeptical at the month recovery time. I feel like that's optimistic. Great if it happens on time, but don't be surprised if it takes longer. So because of that, I feel like Javier Assad is the most likely next man up. It was Assad or Ray, the discussion when... when we had Kate Horton go down. So I feel like next it's got to be Javier Assad. Now, I know that might deplete the bullpen somewhat, but I feel like they're already playing with that kind of mindset. You know, they're managing the roster with that kind of mindset. We saw Corbin Martin reportedly get DFA'd this morning. So I know it's going to be just a shuffling of the bullpen.
You just don't want that to be... You're going to have to do some of it throughout the course of the season, but you don't want it to be as high stress, I think, into perpetuity. But I don't know what they think they are built for. And like we saw last year, they didn't want to give up the price for a lot of the going rate for pitchers.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–0:52
2
What were the highlights of the Cubs' recent walk-off wins?
0:52–7:18
3
How do unexpected players contribute to a team's success?
7:18–9:52
4
What injury did Matthew Boyd sustain and what is the expected recovery time?
9:52–10:02
5
Who is likely to replace Matthew Boyd in the Cubs' starting rotation?
10:02–29:13
Speakers
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