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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This hour is being brought to you by Vasectomy Clinics of Chicago. 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?
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 Schwab.
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, landing on his back leg, yet somehow he does Schwarber things, and that gets everybody emotional. including yours truly.
Chapter 2: What were the highlights from last night's Cubs and Phillies game?
And I feel like I've had a pretty level head about Kyle Schwarber through the years 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, 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.
Chapter 3: How did Kyle Schwarber's performance impact the game?
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. To 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? Yeah. You think that was part of it? I'm not going to say it was. I'm just telling you, I remember times like that, and I don't think those times really went out of style.
Well, and then Miguel Amaya got hit. No funny stuff, like Schwarber was cool when he got hit, but it might have been on purpose. And Miguel Amaya was cool when he got hit. Take your base. You know why? Because they needed base runners because they needed runs. Yeah, we'll take that. Number two.
Top White Sox pitching prospect Noah Schultz is set to make his highly anticipated MLB debut tonight against the Rays at Rate Field. How many innings do you expect to see out of Schultz? Hey, Ray, what's the name of this segment again? Five on it.
Five on it.
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Chapter 4: What are the expectations for Noah Schultz's MLB debut?
needing a win. And I think that by drafting Gabriela Jacquez, that that is a win for them. I don't know if it's so much a win with the... And we'll talk to Julia Poe coming up in just a little bit, as a matter of fact, about some of these other players. Leticia Lattimore out of Ole Miss. Uh, Joni Morgan, the guard out of Kentucky as well.
I don't know what sort of, what they will add immediately, but anything, anything to get this franchise, which apparently has been a joke in the right direction is good to me. Number five. And just a quick note on Gabriela Jaquez and her brother, Jaime Jaquez, that plays for the Heat. That's the first Mexican-American brother and sister duo to play in the NBA and WNBA. So shout out to them.
Let's go. Hell yeah. It's five on it at 104.3 the score. Here's our final question. Have you ever had a medical issue that made you feel like Pacers star Tyrese Halliburton sounded talking about his bout with shingles? I've lost, like, part of my eyebrow.
My eye is always, like, swollen from itching it. I have good days and bad days, but for the most part, it's bad days. So it has not been any fun. I'm still honestly dealing with it. I've been taking, you know... unbelievable amounts of medication to try to get rid of it. It hasn't worked. It's obviously caused me to like gain weight and look a little bigger.
And so that's been a topic of conversation through social media and stuff. But what can you do? But yeah, no, it's not been fun. And hopefully it goes away here pretty soon. You know, just the It's hard to really tell, like nerve pain. I've been having nerve pain now for two months, and in the world of nerve pain, for people who've had that before, it's not very long.
So I hope it goes away soon, but there's no way to really know.
Pacers star Tyrese Halliburton talking about his bout with shingles. Have you guys ever experienced anything to the level of that in terms of medical issues? Well, I'm really glad that I finally let my doctor talk me into getting that shingle shot. Which I do like every year. I don't need that.
I'm glad that I got because anybody you ever hear who has had shingles just says it's like the greatest nightmare ever. The answer is no. When I was a young child, poor little Mark, poor little boy Mark had something called rheumatic fever. I got heart murmur. And for like a couple of weeks, I couldn't walk properly. Yeah, it was really weird that I had this. How old were you?
I was probably like fourth grade, something like that. Yeah, it was weird, and I should probably be more alarmed about it, but I couldn't walk, and it was very sad and very scary, but I'm okay. I'm here now. Clearly. Clearly. I'm here.
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Chapter 5: What does Julia Poe think about Gabriela Jaquez's selection by the Sky?
And how did you react to the news that I showed you? Check this out. What did you ask me? Do you want me to say it? I'm going to say it. I show him this. It's his White Sox. This guy's a diehard White Sox fan growing up in Alabama. Loves the Sox. Watches more than we do. Consumes every inning, even in 100 lost seasons.
And I show him the news that Noah Schultz has come up and he looks at me and goes, can he hit? That's not even what I said. That is what you said. I said, where's he going to hit? Where's he going to hit? And I was like, what? What is Noah Schultz? They brought him up. He's like, Grody, I don't care because he doesn't hit. And the White Sox need hitting right now.
The context here is that the White Sox had just lost their second straight game by a 2-0 count. No offense. At that point, they didn't have a single hit with runners in scoring position in the series. And I'm looking at all these guys. Let me ask you a question, Mr. Grody. I'll try to give you a snotty answer. Because they won Sunday, right?
And they actually earned a series split with the Royals, which isn't something that they have been doing in recent years, winning games against the Royals. And they got a whole four-game series split. Yeah, remember that Toronto series at the beginning of the year? Of the qualified hitters, so that's hitters who have averaged 3.1 plate appearances per team game played.
Of the qualified hitters, how many would you guess on the White Sox are hitting over the Mendoza line? Hmm. 200. How many would you guess? On the entire roster. Well, the way you're setting this up, my answer is not many. What about you, Ray? You have an answer? I'm going to go not many. Okay, I'll give you an actual number, but it's not going to be very many. I'm going to go with two.
What about you, Tyler? How many would you guess? I'll go one over. I'll go three. You'll go three. And Russell, is that your answer? Two in the back? I'm going to say one. You're going to say one? You're all wrong, and you all overbid. It's zero? What? Colson Montgomery is hitting 200. Of the qualified hitters, he has the highest batting average on this team. Oh, no! Sorry about Sam Antonacci.
Next up, Chase Mydroth at a cool 196 after that. You remember that guy they traded? To the Mets, Luis Robert Jr. How's he doing? Do you remember the guy that got back? Luis Angel Acuna? You know, the other Acuna? He's hitting 196 as well. He's not a switch hitter, right? Not a switch hitter. Can we clarify that? We haven't gotten that clarified. Miguel Vargas, 180, and Munitaka. Murakami.
Your guy. A cool 157. He's got power, but you gotta make contact to use the power. That was my assumed one of my two. And so that's why I am excited for Noah Schultz. Don't get me wrong. And Russell Dorsey will talk to us about Noah Schultz coming up in the next hour and all that. But... Can we get some people on base and across the plate? Can we score some runs on a consistent level?
A somewhat consistent level? I thought the offense would be a lot better than what it has been. And I know they don't have Kyle Till. But I just... I need more, Grody. I guess so. I need more. You are one greedy guy. Greedy? No one's hitting over 200, and I'm greedy. We've been talking about these three guys. Noah Schultz, Hagen Smith, and Tanner McDougal all the time.
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