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Chapter 1: What was the significance of the Cubs' comeback win over the Athletics?
In the air.
Fall in. Fall in. Oh, my goodness.
And the Cubs walk it off. Look at this place. I needed this.
That was courtesy of the Cubs. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grote on 104.3 The Score. That was Marquee.
Chapter 2: How did breaking the home-losing streak impact the Cubs' morale?
And now we go to our hotline. That is where we are joined by the multi-year veteran, 17 seasons of service time, Marquee Sports Network analyst and the president of the Cliff Lloyd Foundation. Cliff Lloyd saw the game front and center last night on Marquee. Cliff, how are you?
Good. How y'all feeling?
I mean, we're good. I think you know this, too, just watching last night. You've never been afraid to yap with us when it came to watching a Cubs game or two. They needed that in the worst way.
Chapter 3: What does Cliff Floyd say about the 'weird' feeling in a struggling team?
How do you feel like that affects them, just breaking the home-losing streak and moving forward?
Yeah, you need some momentum, you know. You need something, right? Whatever is going to boost the morale of the clubhouse team If you listen to some of what the dudes have been talking about, one in particular, Nico, goes, well, the clubhouse is a little quiet. That's never good. You know, when you still have 100 games left, well, 99, 90, whatever it is, you still have a lot of season left.
And when you're struggling, things do get quiet. And internally, you just kind of kind of feel out the situation, kind of feel out, you it starts to get weird.
Chapter 4: How can a walk-off win affect a team's momentum going forward?
And you never want to get weird during the season, especially when you believe you still have a shot to do something special. And whether you do or not, you still want to grind it out and stay away from having those crazy thoughts of, you know, not being able to play late into the season and hopefully into the postseason.
So when you say weird, as a player, how do you describe that? When the air gets let out of the tires. We talked yesterday, Cliff, about wanting to see fight in the team. And it's one thing to show up behind the scenes, but sometimes you want to see it during the game. How do you feel about it all?
Well, I think, you know, the outside world, including me, one is never forget. For me, it's never forget game is really hard. The human side plays a big part.
Chapter 5: What critical mistakes occurred during the game, like PCA losing the ball?
Like, you know, they're human. They have feelings. They hurt. You know, you have so many emotions along with the daily part of living at home and dealing with family and dealing with, you know, real-life situations. And so when you get into situations where it gets very uncomfortable and you know, things change in the mind. Things change.
And I'm not going deep into mindsets, but I do have a feeling of when I, you know, a rollercoaster of a season when you're really high. I mean, you can't wait to get to the ballpark. And when it's low, you kind of look at the clock going, do I really have to go right now?
Chapter 6: What was the impact of Nico Horner's decision to steal second base?
You know what I'm saying? So I think the boys, you know, there's something to be said about a walk-off win as opposed to just beating the team and moving on to the next season. Walk-offs, just everything is so much better. And the way they play that ninth inning, I mean, this is something that can propel you, hopefully, into getting on a roll again.
See, that's what I wanted to ask you about, Cliff, because a lot of us would be much more settled with a very boring 8-2 win or something like that where you feel good about showing it. But I think there's some real value to what you just talked about when you say a walk-off win. They've done it seven times now.
Do you feel like they have to play a certain way in this next game because of what just happened? And they can't squander what I guess is momentum. And some people believe in momentum.
Chapter 7: How do players handle pressure situations with runners in scoring position?
Some people don't.
Well, if you don't believe in momentum, of course I don't. I do believe in it. I believe in it my whole career. I believe when you get on a roll, you know, something special happens that they can, you know, leap you into doing something different about the energy. The energy is...
is contagious and when everybody is starting to feel it you don't want to be the oddball in the clubhouse you want to feel that same effect and it definitely can carry you i do believe that and especially in certain wins can as well you know when you look at this stretch uh you know that they're on right now you have they're in the midst of you know 22 games
of playing things that's under the sub-500. Don't mean no sub-500 teams, you know, ain't going to come get you a fight like we just saw with the A's. But this is an opportunity.
Chapter 8: What reflections did Cliff Floyd share about his career and experiences in baseball?
And that's why I'm saying last night win can put you in a position where you take advantage of these, you know, these games you have ahead of you.
No doubt about it. Cliff, I want to ask you a couple of in-game philosophical questions and keeping in mind the theme that you mentioned, that these guys are human. Should anything have been done or could have been done differently on the PCA losing the ball in the lights? And I say that I mean by PCA, by the other outfielders around them. How did you take that in from a critical standpoint?
So I've been there before, right? And I, I'm telling you the absolute truth. I looked up prior to that ball going up on, I can't see crap.
Like I literally, cause I was doing the game in the booth for who, you know, I don't know who heard it or who, who saw, but I looked up and from the, from the view I had, I was like, man, what a, you know, what, what, what a night to kind of have this twilight type of look of, you know, balls going up and,
As soon as I said it to myself, and I didn't say it to Boog, it was just a routine fly ball. He looked like he was camped under like he normally does, but I was like, oh, boy, when he put his hands down, it immediately took me back to times. I've been there numerous times, and you are helpless. You're on the island by yourself.
Nothing could be done to ask you to direct nothing because if you happen or come forward, you're thinking, oh, this is what he normally does until he shrugs. He's like, oh, I don't even see this thing. And you're looking everywhere as a player. You're looking everywhere up. You're looking right, left. You have no idea what it is. And you're kind of hoping the ball don't hit you in the face.
Now, you know, I mean, it's just what it is. And it's a hopeless feeling. He said it at the game, and it really is. There's nothing you can do about it in that situation. It was just unfortunate. And, you know, and I said it on air, you know, When it rains, it pours, and everything that could go wrong in that game, yes, they start to go wrong until the ninth inning.
Yeah, it's funny you say that. I did think about that. PCA is looking up, is that ball going to fall on his head? I was kind of worried about PCA because the ball was up there for so long. The other question I had was, in the ninth inning, there's one out, runners on first and third. It's a 6-4 score. Nico Horner gets thrown out trying to steal second base.
What did you make of that play by Horner? Do you have to know you're going to steal the base if you're going to attempt to steal the base on that spot?
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