5 On It: Who had the more disappointing loss, the Cubs or the White Sox? Plus baseball nihilism and How Many Bears? (HOUR 3)

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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

Rahimi Harrison 0:02

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.

Vinny Rotino 0:14

And now with our special guest, it's his last day with us as a show. Next, you go to the afternoon show, and I don't know what the heck happens on the afternoon show. So, Peter Jurich, you're in studio. You're going to ask the questions.

Peter Jurich (Intern) 0:28

Peter!

Vinny Rotino 0:29

Take it away.

Peter Jurich (Intern) 0:30

Thank you. Starting off, whose one run loss yesterday was more disappointing, the Cubs or the White Sox?

Vinny Rotino 0:36

Now, I want you guys to know, as part of his internship, Peter had to come up with these questions himself. And I think he's done a good job. Good.

Mark Grote 0:43

Great job.

Vinny Rotino 0:44

Do you know who I think did not do a good job? The Cubs and the White Sox yesterday. These are both one run losses that bothered me. The problem with the White Sox is they disappointed all series long when it came to not producing offensively. We talked about it. Only two runs total. They only produced singles in this series. The Red Sox pitching, which is very good, mowed them down. It wasn't as upsetting as the Cubs, as I mentioned earlier in the show, losing the game on the details to the Orioles. Defensive plays that happened. The aggressive send of Pete Alonso. An aggressive send that didn't work out for the Cubs. Then you had the bag and the interference when it came to Nico Horner in the ninth inning and the call being that he was out caught stealing when we know that that's not how the rule is usually applied.

Whose one-run loss was more disappointing: Cubs or White Sox?

Vinny Rotino 1:32

So... It's the Cubs still just because that could have been a sweep. And they lost due to a lot of tiny circumstances adding up. Grotz?

Mark Grote 1:44

I'm with you. I'm going Cubs. And you can't lose the game. where Seiya Suzuki, we haven't even mentioned him. What a great day he had played yesterday.

Vinny Rotino 1:55

He carried the offense yesterday.

Mark Grote 1:56

You can't lose the game where, fill in the blank, and in this case it's Seiya Suzuki, gets an RBI double late in the game in the eighth inning. The storms are starting to roll in. The rain is making its way. You get the RBI double. It's 2-1 Cubs at that point. You can't have that. You can't have your bullpen guys hitting back. to back batters and they were both uh they weren't questionable because they both got hit but they were both just nicked in those in those cases and you're right on the details and there was one detail that i talked about earlier and i'll mention again here on the on the jeremiah jackson to run double yeah because the polar bear was running pete alonzo was running i i think it

Mark Grote 2:42

caught the Cubs defense off guard that he tried to come home, which he did, and it was a close play at the plate. But if you watch Nico Horner, his first instinct is to throw to third because he's thinking the polar bear is going to land on third.

Vinny Rotino 2:57

That's likely the scouting report as well.

Mark Grote 2:59

I get it. I do. But if we're talking about fine line, one run game details, those are the thing. So yeah, for me, it is the Cubs as well. The White Sox situation has just been not scoring runs in the series. So one run game, five run game, whatever it was, because it was a five run game on Wednesday. I wasn't as irritated with the White Sox one run loss as I was with the Cubs.

Vinny Rotino 3:23

Well, there was an 8-1 adventure on Tuesday. I was there. Yeah, that wasn't great either. But that was mostly a ninth inning snafu where the wheels fell off. Also, I'm going to take this time to play the audio from the storms rolling in since Mark mentioned it. We have actual audio of the storms rolling in as Zach Zaidman's doing the postgame.

Why did Cubs' late-game details and calls cost them the series sweep?

Zach Zaidman 3:43

The next game preview, that's next from Baltimore, where the Orioles rally to beat the Cubs 3-2 on the score in the Northwestern Medicine Cubs Radio Network.

Mark Grote 3:51

It was in the ninth. It was humming down.

Vinny Rotino 3:54

Oh, it absolutely was. Yeah, you saw the ricocheting off the batting helmets. You could tell how strong that rain was. And then there's also the Tyler remix of this, if the ASMR of the thunder wasn't enough for you.

Zach Zaidman 4:06

The next game preview, that's next from Baltimore, where the Orioles rally to beat the Cubs 3-2 on the score in the Northwestern Medicine Cubs Radio Network.