5 On It: Which Cubs starter would you give the ball to for Game 1 of the postseason?
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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The hours brought to you by Jewel Osko. It's time for five on it. Rahimi and Crooney bring you five topics on their minds today. On 104-3D score.
Number one. Rank the Cubs losses on this West Coast road trip in order of disappointment level. Here are your options. Tuesday's five four loss to the Diamondbacks, Saturday's five four loss to the Mariners, or Friday's six five loss to the Mariners.
Oh my goodness. So am I starting with least worst as in three two one? I want the worst. You want the worst first? First, okay. Okay.
Okay,
worse to least, worse. Well, they're all bad, but I am gonna go with the Cubs Saturday game against the Seattle Mariners. That what for for myriad reasons.
What were the most disappointing Cubs losses on the West Coast road trip?
It's a 5-4 loss to Seattle. It's the game where Randy Arroz Arena pull the PCA, starts the game with a home run, ends the game with uh with a home run, but it's also the game in which the Cubs We're up 4-2 in the ninth, and there were two outs, still 4-2. There we are. We're all watching. We're enjoying. Maybe you're walking. Maybe you're listening to the game on the radio. It's 4-2. All you need is one more out. And then it doesn't happen with Jacob Webb on the mound with two outs. The Seattle Mariners stunned the Chicago Cubs with Randy O'Roe's Arena. He would overcome the parade of Kate Anderson making his triumphant day. Debut, you'd you'd hit home runs, you'd hit back-to-back home runs against him. So that sucked.
Um, I would go number two. I'm gonna stay in Seattle. As bad as last night was, I'm staying in Seattle because I I say this: you can't lose the game where Alex Bregman has two home runs, where he has the like the Cubs had the dramatics in that game. They had Alex Bregman tying. That game in the ninth inning. You then cannot lose that game. That's also a game where Pete Carr Armstrong led off the game with a home run. It's also the game where you were one for 16 with runners in scoring position. That sucks because that's just trauma from the earlier in the season when Risp was everything.
Why do the hosts rank the Seattle loss as the worst game?
Still is. Still is. So it still is. Still is. Still is. Then the Leo Rivas game winning hit off of old Zephyrjohn and the Cubs lose. So that's number two. Last night. Tonight was awful as well, blowing the the four run lead, the Daniel Palencianness of it all, the Jacob Webbness of it all. But that is my rankings for those Cubs losses. I think the Cubs need a win tonight.
I do also think that they need a win tonight today. Uh actually it's today on the score. Yes. Did you know that? I keep forgetting it
but truth.
Yes, it's on the Northwestern Medicine Cubs Radio Network. This afternoon that road trip concludes against the Diamondbacks. Pre game coverage begins at two oh five. First pitches at two forty in crystal clear FM quality on one oh four three and the sec and the score in the Northwestern Medicine Cubs. Wait for it. Radio network. I'm not gonna do the super dramatic pause like Lawrence. I can't
Lawrence makes me uncomfortable. Yeah, it makes me uncomfortable. He does? Lawrence, you're very dangerous.
You are with the pause. He is dangerous.
He's dangerous. Next thing you
know, he's gonna end up in Vegas.
My radio sensibilities. Say something.
Yeah, we we hate dead air. It's true.
That's why I say bears all the time.
D the way you say bears though, nothing was better than when Ozzie told you and Tom Chayer to hold on.
That's the great example.
And then you were like bears.
I couldn't handle the silence. Somebody needed to say something.
I was walking and I think I nearly tripped w when you said that.
Hilarious.
Uh okay, so for me the most disappointing is stupid ass yesterday. Okay. Like Can I say that on the air? Yes. I'm swearing too much. I'm pulling your punch.
You're you're F C C compliant. They'll let you be. Yeah.
Y and yes, they maybe, maybe they'll let me be. No, it was yesterday. I think it was yesterday because theoretically, as I've said before, you were you were so close to getting out of that inning. And then it just couldn't happen. And poor Daniel Palencia is very rattled. I mentioned this before. It's pretty obvious to anybody who's watched him in a 75-degree environment at Chase Field.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:52
2
What were the most disappointing Cubs losses on the West Coast road trip?
0:52–2:11
3
Why do the hosts rank the Seattle loss as the worst game?
2:11–18:47
4
Which Cubs starter do they trust for Game 1 of the postseason and why?
18:47–19:05
5
What are the arguments for choosing Clay Holmes over Kevin Gossman?
19:05–20:48
Speakers
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