5 On It: Did Kyle Schwarber's 2 homers or Miguel Amaya playing 1st base hurt more?
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Number one. What hurt more from watching last night's Cubs and Phillies game? Former Cub Kyle Schwarber going yard twice against Javier Assad or Miguel Amaya playing first base?
What hurt more in the Cubs vs. Phillies game?
It's a great question. You guys know that I've always got a little bit of a side eye when it comes to Javier Assad. I get a little nervous watching him, but the answer is the Schwarber. the Kyle Schwarber, the two home runs that just got things off to a crooked start against Javier Saad and the Cubs, especially that first home run that he hit that Ian Happ even pointed it out where he was essentially off balance, landed on his back leg, yet somehow he does Schwarber things, and that gets everybody emotional, including yours truly.
How did Kyle Schwarber's performance impact the game?
And I feel like I've had a pretty level head about Kyle Schwarber through the years because... when he was non-tender because things were not going well for him, nor were they going well for the Cubs offense at the time. But I feel like I'm starting to lose that argument in my own head that the Cubs should have projected better than I was projecting at the time for Kyle Schwarber. So it is Schwarber for my answer. So, to me, I understand why there are two options because you had to have something to put up against Kyle Schwarber, but nothing was more painful than watching Kyle Schwarber get out here and if you throw me a pitch and I swing at it, I'm going to drill it. The one time he didn't do that, he popped up on the left side of the infield.
But other than that, it was like, I'm going to get on base, and if it's by my own power, I'm going to take my time jogging around the bases. Remember, in one of his at-bats last night, he went up there and saw four straight balls, like nothing over the plate, and took his walk. In another at-bat, he saw one pitch, and it hit him. I think the approach with Cal Schwarber should be this. Don't pitch to Kyle Schwarber. It's very simple. Unless you have overpowering stuff and get him off balance, once he's in a hitter's count, you're pitching around him. And I know Bryce Harper's right there behind him. But come on, man. I believe that Kyle Schwarber, there's a curse with Kyle Schwarber. You just avoid him at all costs.
The Schwarber curse has been born. They didn't want him. He went away. He hit bombs for the next team and was an all-star. So in our lifetime, we're not sniffing another World Series in our lifetime. That's not what I'm saying. Again. There's a curse. Well, I don't know what the curse means. The curse means don't pitch to him. Avoid the curse. Avoid the end result. I told you about his over 900 OPS against the Cubs. Career-wise. Can I throw a 1A question to the first question? Oh, sure. What you got? And that is, do you think that Charlie Barnes hit him on purpose when he came up in the sixth inning after two homers and a walk? Do you think that Charlie Barnes, who hadn't thrown a major league pitch for probably a year plus, comes into the game, a recent call, but people are like, who's who?
30-year-old Charlie Barnes called up by the Cubs on April 12th. Hits Schwarber. I do not believe that Charlie Barnes is averse to hitting Kyle Schwarber. Because he was excused during the broadcast, and I kind of went with it. But I don't know. Was he excused? By the broadcast. By the Phillies broadcast? No, I don't know about the Phillies broadcast. Well, there you go. There you go. I think that would be a very different reaction. Because logically, it would not necessarily have made sense for a guy first-time pitching. He just wants to come out there and be good and be effective and earn his way back into the bigs and all this stuff. Yeah. Then he hits him. I got to believe he might have taken one for the team.
Mr. Grota. Grota. Am I saying that right? Grota. That's good. I got to say it with anger, too. The growl. Yeah, I don't know why. Grota. Grota. I can tell you about a time. Nine, nine. Can we harken back to a time in which Major League Baseball had managers who went to the phone, called the bullpen, and gave very explicit instructions to what the reliever was supposed to come in and do?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–0:14
2
What hurt more in the Cubs vs. Phillies game?
0:14–0:52
3
How did Kyle Schwarber's performance impact the game?
0:52–7:02
4
What does the Schwarber curse mean for the Cubs?
7:02–12:42
5
What are the expectations for Noah Schultz's MLB debut?
12:42–19:16
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