5 On It & Jeremy Werner talks Illinois' berth in Final Four (Hour 3)
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What encouraging signs emerged from Chicago's baseball teams this weekend?
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What's one encouraging sign and one discouraging sign you took away from Chicago's baseball teams this weekend?
encouraging Cade Horton and the Cubs just general production on Saturday. I thought that that was great to see. And then Craig Council doubled down after the game and said, he's stretched out. He's ready to go. Go throw 100 pitches if you need to, Cade Horton. I love it. I want to see what you can do. So that was encouraging. And then honorable mention encouraging goes to Munataka Murakami for hitting three home runs, despite... All the other outcomes of the White Sox. So that was my discouraging was all the other outcomes for the White Sox. When Ozzie Guillen on the postgame show on CHSN says, Throw the ball around the plate. I lost it.
How did Cade Horton perform in the Cubs' recent game?
I lost it. Because he and Chuck were in midseason form. And I felt bad for them. Also discouraging was... Losing two out of three to the Nationals. You're not supposed to be doing that. I don't care that it's early. Okay, so you lost two out of three to the Nationals early. That's not good either. I love the self-made sound effect there. Okay, so if we're talking about encouraging, for the White Sox, it's very simple. Monitaka, Murakami. I have power. Yes, you do. And it's on display.
What challenges are the White Sox facing early in the season?
That excerpt from an interview before the season started with Chuck Garfine, where he was very, yeah, I don't know English. I know enough to tell you this. I have power. I mean, call him He-Man at this point. Because Prince Adam ain't walking down the street. He ain't walking out of that sock stuck out. Understand this. She-Ra really was a big deal. Well, yeah. Look, He-Man's twin sister, She-Ra, separated at birth, also a big deal. We don't need to get into all that right this particular second, but I'm glad that you noted that She-Ra and He-Man were a thing back in the day. All right, so look at it like this. For Mune to come out and hit three home runs, one in each game, to become one of four players in Major League history to start their careers like that is a big deal.
And I talked about this a little bit over the weekend. The blank gun. Were you guys familiar with the term blank gun? No. This is a term that Japanese ball followers use. Use, you'll love it once you hear it, blank gun. It's a home run that is hit when a team is far behind and don't really have a chance of coming back.
How did Illinois advance to the Final Four after 21 years?
A blank gun. Yeah, that works. A couple of blank guns from our boy Mune in games one and two of the series. They were outscored 20-3. He had two of the runs. You remember the first one. Chase Midroth. Got all of that when he did. Yes. And then things went very badly against Jacob Mizorowski. So most encouraging thing is definitely him. For the Cubs, same thing. Alex Bregman. Hey, what's up, man? Two home runs in the first weekend.
What insights did Jeremy Werner share about Illinois basketball's journey?
I'll take that. You're off and running. We're not worried about what kind of start you're going to get off to, as Grody alluded to earlier in the show. Most discouraging? It's very simple for me. For the Sox... How could it not be Sir Anthony Dominguez? You went out and got a closer because you said, we're not losing games in that manner anymore. Then you blow a 7-2 lead as we watched Dominguez in combination with Chris Murphy give up six runs. Christian Yelich hits a pinch-hit home run for the first time in his career? A three-run bomb? I mean, no doubt about it. In the career? In the career! And that's why they're 0-3, although Mounier does have three home runs.
What are the implications of Illinois' recent successes in college basketball?
And then the most discouraging thing for the Cubs... It's got to be the fact that you dropped two of three to a very bad Washington Nationals team. Maybe the Nats play 500 ball this year. I don't know. It's early. But you should win series at home. You should win two out of three games that you play at home. That's how you get to the 90-plus wins that all three of us predicted at the start of the season.
Yeah.
Most encouraging for the White Sox and discouraging for the White Sox. For me, it happened in the same game. It was a sports tragedy for the White Sox yesterday, the way they blew that game.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What encouraging signs emerged from Chicago's baseball teams this weekend?
0:01–1:04
2
How did Cade Horton perform in the Cubs' recent game?
1:04–1:43
3
What challenges are the White Sox facing early in the season?
1:43–2:52
4
How did Illinois advance to the Final Four after 21 years?
2:52–3:18
5
What insights did Jeremy Werner share about Illinois basketball's journey?
3:18–3:58
6
What are the implications of Illinois' recent successes in college basketball?
3:58–5:14
7
What issues did Bears coach Ben Johnson highlight about receiver performance?
5:14–5:30
8
How is the Bears' coaching staff addressing receiver drop issues?
5:30–39:34
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