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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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I appreciate it. Thanks for having me.
I think I want to start with that, just your funny aside about Ben Johnson. That is not the first time I have heard a wide receiver use the term evil when it comes to Ben Johnson. I feel like you say it with love, but at the same time, there's a bit of fear to it.
Scary, scary, man. Definitely. You know what his expectation is, and it's very high. Ben Johnson is a coach who's going to hold you accountable to the standard in which you should hold yourself, and that bar doesn't change or waver at any point in time.
Get comfortable being uncomfortable. His competitive edge for you was the top line on his scouting report. How do you kind of describe what you experienced in the time that you had there just watching that sort of competitive edge be something that could create, I guess, a vibe?
I specifically remember against the Seattle Seahawks. We were playing them at home and they brought a blitz zero and we hit Jamison Williams across the middle for like a 65 or 70 yard touchdown and fired up as up. understatement for how Ben Johnson was demanding that they bring a blitz like that on us again. Do you want someone to stop you? Because no one's going to.
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Chapter 2: What recent performance has made the Cubs the hottest team in baseball?
Okay. Yeah, it was. I swear everybody in the city was at that game, and one of our guests, Jake Mintz, obsessed with his family barbecue, was at that game. We'll talk to him at one. He also avoided a challenge that is on his mind, and I think it's worthy of discussing that as well, so join us for that. But in the meantime... I remember I was watching this game going, OK, this is a show today.
Here's what you're going to have to do. But then to see them come away with a two to nothing win. You had about every you had you had three different outcomes that are very that are very understandable outcomes. And you won them all in this series. The six to five win where things got too close for comfort. The two to nothing win where Shota and Ian Happ and the gang saw you through.
And then you have the game where they won eight to four. And that's what makes this also, I think, so encouraging on this Monday. Marshall is just the combination of how they were able to win all those games and showed just as reliable as we had seen him be this season.
Answers yet again and is able to throw a scoreless outing and help hold the Diamondbacks to only four hits as a team throughout that game.
And on the show to tip, seven starts now. In five of the seven starts, he's given up one run or fewer. I mean, come on. Exactly. So... They're doing things that I don't know that I expect them to win. I expect the offense to be a little bit better and a little more consistent with Bregman instead of Tucker, but maybe not as good as Nico Horner has been.
You already know how I feel about Moises Ballesteros. I expected him to do this when he was in the lineup, but guess what, Layla? Now he's an everyday player.
I was not as confident as you were. I just wasn't. I wanted to see what he could do. He had a good September, but I wasn't going to rely on him as much as other players like a Nico, for example.
But when people start asking questions, well, why are they so much better than maybe people even expected them to be? I think one of the names that we have come to take for granted, which is ridiculous, by the way, come to take for granted and why they've been so good, specifically offensively, right, is a guy who before he was on the Cubs, never had a season in which he hit over .245.
And that would be Carson Kelly. He had two RBI in the game yesterday. This dude is quietly, and I say quietly because we're talking about all these other players, he's quietly out here catching, handling a staff, and handling a bunch of relievers who are being thrust into more high leverage situations than they probably thought they would be in for this Cubs team.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the Cubs' offensive performance?
I think in these jobs, I think that sort of being self-critical and I think probably take that to an extreme at times, you know, but like, I think that, you know, whether it's a trade, free agent signing, an injury, like you've got to always be, you know, looking at, you know, what can we do better and what can we change? And that's certainly no different here.
And if we find anything that, that, that led to this, then, you know, certainly we'll, we'll address it, but we'll, we'll keep doing it. And, You know, in a weird way, I hope we find something. Otherwise, this is randomness and I hope we figure something out. But I do feel like it has been a lot of different body parts and things like that.
And that's that's probably the part for me that's the most confusing is that it doesn't feel like the injuries are similar. You know, they've been I mean, you know, in one, you know, we had, you know, Teal Bar hurt his hamstring and. I mean, Riley hurt his flexor in 20 minutes. You know, it's like that was, you know, those kind of things, you know, sometimes when it rains, it pours.
Let's go over the injuries, shall we?
I mean, do we have time? That's a long list you want to go through.
I'll try very quickly. Caleb Theobar, left hamstring strain. Justin Steele, left elbow scared. Ethan Roberts, right middle finger laceration. Jordan Wicks, left forearm. Radial nerve irritation. Yes. Riley Martin, left elbow inflammation. I scrolled too quickly. Jackson Wiggins, right elbow inflammation. Porter Hodge, right flexor strain. Kate Horton, damaged UCL and right elbow.
Tyler Austin, right knee. Shelby Miller, right elbow surgery. That one we knew about.
Is that all of them?
That's the current injured list group.
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