After a rocky start, are the Cubs now ready to launch?
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What roller coaster analogy do the hosts use for the Cubs' season?
You know what we do on Rahimi Harris and Grody and welcome in on 104.3 The Score along with Marshall Harris. I am Mark Grody. We, for better or for worse. Ride the roller coaster of 162 baseball games in a Cubs season. Some of us, me, Ray, we like to sit in the front car. And we want all the loops and the corkscrews. Put your hands up. Put your hands up, y'all. Oh, and Tyler admits to riding the roller coaster and the roller coaster of consternation and elation. Wow, that sounded neat coming out of my mouth. I don't know about you, Marshall. I feel like you do to a certain point, but you're a little more reserved. You'll wait in the full line. Well, we got the fast pass to the roller coaster of 162 games because sometimes I do hear it's early coming out of your mouth.
Well, sometimes it's actually just early. How about that, Grody? And I'll say this. I like to be in the middle of the pack and I don't raise up my hands because what happens is when you raise your hands up, sometimes... Cubs fans get a little delusional and they think that they're getting excited by raising their hands on the way down when really they're just being stuck up and everything's being robbed from them. All the joy and the entitlement they feel like they have to the playoffs. I think that's what Gabe Ramirez was talking about is Cubs fans are so entitled to a base level of success. Hello.
Yo, I have been saying this for a while, probably since the 2016 season in the midst of it. I think entitlement is an okay feeling for Cubs fans to have because guess what? It took a long time to get to the point where Cubs fans feel a greed for winning, an entitlement for winning, because previous to the 2016 season, it was the losers' lament. And look at how cute our organization is because we haven't won a World Series. cubbies that in 1984 we celebrated it was 39 years since the cubs won a damn division and wow this is the greatest thing we're losers and then they win the world series after all of that time and now you're right that it's in the dna and i like it and maybe it goes a little too far but greed is good as we learned from wall street years ago
Yes, if you want to follow that specific example, greed, it is good. But rather than being good or bad, greed, just understand this. Greed is expected. Because what do we always talk about, Mark? It's never going to be enough. It's never going to be enough.
It's a drug, man.
The Cubs could win the World Series this year, and guess what? for a large portion of people, after that initial wave, after those endorphins are released and the excitement is just completely within reason of how excited you are, that drug's gonna wear off. And when that drug wears off, Same fans who celebrated a World Series title will find reasons to complain about, well, what are they going to do to repeat? And that is the cycle. I'm not saying it's good or bad. I'm just saying any team and its fan base which has experienced any degree of success, they want to know the one thing that you're always talking about when we talk about those other sets of Bears in town, the actual Chicago Bears, is it sustainable?
Like you win a World Series this year. Will the Dodgers still have the biggest payroll in baseball? Is it sustainable? I already know what's coming, and because I know what's coming, it allows me to enjoy the rollercoaster that you speak of a little bit more patiently and a little bit more pragmatically than the people who just get lost in the sauce every time the rollercoaster goes up and down.
Well, I would also say that greed, entitlement, how about this? This is a little bit more digestible way to put it. There's a higher standard. There's a higher standard for them. Thank God. Thank God. Because a lot of us who have been following, like I've been following the Cubs since the 1980s, a big reason that I am a sports fan today and I'm sitting in front of a microphone is because of, yes, even before Bears, it was the Chicago Cubs for me and they were fantastic. Freaking losers for so many years of horrible things happening.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What roller coaster analogy do the hosts use for the Cubs' season?
0:00–4:34
2
How do Cubs fans feel about their team's entitlement to success?
4:34–8:16
3
What recent performance improvements have the Cubs shown?
8:16–11:34
4
Are the Cubs ready to take off in the NL Central standings?
11:34–14:35
5
What are the expectations for Nico Horner's performance this season?
14:35–14:40
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