Cubs break out of offensive slump to avoid getting swept by Pirates
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What were the Cubs' struggles before their comeback against the Pirates?
this is rahimi harrison grody on 104.3 the score we are back from vegas and with you on this monday thank you for joining us and i think we have to begin where we ended kind of like the hangover but in reverse except maybe i was a little hungover when i embarked on my flight yesterday
Oh, you stayed out later than me on Saturday, right?
Evergreen. I stayed out later than you.
Well, everybody stays out later than me, to be fair.
You don't even need the words in Vegas. You don't even need Saturday. That's just how it goes. We had a great time. We had a lot of fun. Went to see Mantis. Grody got to see the Mantis. Like I said, Ray nearly got captured by a woman with a feather boa and not much else on.
That happened.
We saved Ray. It was like a lifetime movie. But in the meantime, we were all trying to figure out how to consume the Cubs game on the score, of course, and pregame on a Sunday game when you're trying to salvage this series against the Pirates when you lost the first two games. The discussion surrounding Michael Bush, because as we know, the Cubs team wasn't hitting, but it was in the ways that we saw them not hit successfully. Runners in scoring position numbers for the entire city. Both the White Sox and the Cubs were atrocious over the weekend. And that's just another indication. You talked about it a lot, Marshall, in the two days that we had on air, Friday and Saturday. And it was proving us correct in that heartbreaker of a game in extras on Saturday afternoon.
So as I'm leaving Vegas, absorbing... The atmosphere and a woman who is listening to a woman in a bathroom having a much worse morning than I could ever have. There's a lot of coughing, violent coughing. You could hear her? In the airport, in the concourse.
I thought you meant at the hotel, but you're at the airport.
No, no, no. But that's the point is you could hear it. Like I was sitting at a gate and this guy was sitting next to me. We were cackling.
That's unfortunate.
It was really like we were, we were to the point where we were just cackling and people kept looking over at me and I was like, Oh, don't look at me. That's not me doing this. I'm trying to listen to the Cubs pregame. And that's when I heard this exchange between intrepid reporter, Elise Miniker and Craig council, who had decided to give Michael Bush initially a day off because he was over 30.
We talked to Michael Bush before the game, um, obviously he's been struggling at the plate, just your decision to give him a day off and what you're looking for, you know, for him to get out of it.
Yeah. I mean, this is, uh, just trying to give a reset to a player. That's, um, a really good hitter. That's probably just a mental break a little bit. Um, you know, there there's, he's just got, got, got stuck a little bit and, you know, is not having any success and not getting any results. And, I think sometimes just a day where you're not in the lineup and you can go in the cage and work and not prepare for a game that day, but prepare to kind of make things better here is helpful and puts you at ease. He's available to play, and there's a good chance that you're going to see him later in the game.
How do you decide the timing of those? You're usually pretty good about it.
Well, he's 0 for 30.
It's also early, there's a righty, and you can choose a different... I don't know, I'm just asking like how.
And I'm telling you, he's old for 30. Simple as that. I mean, it's just a... You can see there's a lot of line drives in there, but you get to a place of playing every day for a week and not producing, not having any results, and it wears on you. just it wears on you mentally as much as anything this swing has been kind of low maintenance he's been so consistent with it i mean is there anything you're seeing within his at bats or anything that stands out or i mean nothing stands out i mean i think you got you get into like some i think what i've seen is that when you go into their bats and you they feel mechanical that's when you need a break you know what i mean and that's what
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