5 On It: How important is this series for the Cubs?
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I got five. It's time for Five On It. Rahimi Harrison-Roney. Bring you five topics on their minds today. On 104.3 The Score.
I got five on it. Number one. We are broadcasting live from Circa Resort and Casino in Las Vegas today until Cubs Radio at 1245. and Saturday from 11 to 1245. Circa will have special food and beverage deals for the golf tournament with every angle of the tournament being shown at Stadium Swim on these giant screens. It's awesome. Here's question number one. The Cubs host the Pirates at Wrigley Field this weekend for the first time this season and have the fortune of not having to face Pittsburgh ace Paul Skeens. Does that make this a must-sweep series for the Northsiders?
Okay, I don't think we're at the point yet where it's got to be a must sweep. But I do want you to win the series. Win the series. Keep that same energy. I know the Pirates were a sexy pick by a lot of people to, like, come up. As I like to call it, it was a hipster pick. Like Anthony Kastrovitz of MLB is out here saying the Pirates are going to win the Central. He said that a few weeks ago. I don't think that's going to happen. I think it's a non-Cubs team. It's going to be Milwaukee because that's life, and we have to deal with it. But in the meantime, there's a lot you can do here when it comes to building on the series you had against Tampa, building on the performances we saw in the doubleheader on Sunday against the Guardians.
Shota Imanaga, I'm looking at you. So I don't need you to take three out of three, but I need you to take two out of three and continue with the offense. Like you said, Mark, a little station-to-station baseball never hurt nobody. Crooked number inning for you, not just a one. Put up a two, a three, or a four in an inning, and I'll be a happy girl.
Understanding. Understanding. where the Cubs are in the standings, and there's a team directly in front of you that you can affect by winning three in a row, it would be nice to get a sweep, but we are nowhere near must-sweep territory. The goal is simple. Win the game. Win the series. If you win three games in a row, you do...
What are the Cubs' chances in the upcoming series against the Pirates?
sweep a series but if you went two out of three that's pretty good that projects out to winning 108 games in a season and most teams don't do that it's very rare when that happens that is uh you know what what's the Dodgers number for Pocota wasn't it 104 and a half or something and it was like a wildly high outrageous number you just went even higher than that
Yeah, still not even. So that's my point, though. Just win series after series. You'd like to get a few sweeps in there. So if they swept them, and without Paul Skeens, let's be honest, this is as good a chance as they'll have to sweep the Pirates because you don't see Paul Skeens. Although, they did hit very well against Paul Skeens a season ago. They did. The Cubs did. You're right about that. That being said, look at it this way. If the Cubs offense can just play to the back of their baseball cards, they should be able to take two out of three.
Man, evergreen statement, but you know, the variance is the deal here.
As Joe Maddon used to say, two out of three ain't bad, which was a meatloaf song. So as we would get onto the plane, Joe would high-five everybody and say that meatloaf, two out of three ain't bad. But guess what else is cool and what the Cubs are going to need, I think, this year if they do want to win the division and finally overtake the Milwaukee Brewers. They're going to need – I could go for a couple of eight-game winning streaks. You know what I'm saying? Like a couple of those. Just two? Yeah. They don't go out of stuff. That ain't bad either.
The way you just dialed that up, Mark. Yeah. Eight-gamer. Not five. Not six. You went full snowman on these ones.
Why don't you just go Milwaukee, 21?
Absolutely. Look, that's what winning teams – teams that win the World Series. You could probably go back and find multiple seven- to nine-game wins. winning streaks throughout a season.
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