Cubs investing in Pete-Crow Armstrong is intelligent spending (Hour 1)
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What does the Cubs' extension of Pete Crow-Armstrong signify?
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Rahimi Harrison-Grody.
10-2 on 104.3 The Score. We all here on this show conspired to put together the best of the audio, and there was some very entertaining stuff. I would like to start, though. This was the in-game Lauren Shahadi interview with the head coach for Villanova, Kevin Willard. Take a listen, please.
Coach, 16 paid points for Utah State. How do you keep them out?
No wink, no smile, just a scowl. Obviously, he didn't fire them in-game, but he was pissed. I think the main difference between me and Donald Trump is that I get no pleasure out of saying the words, you're fired. You're fired. You're fired. He just makes people sad. The best part about that is they went and watched him, and they were like, oh, is he going to fire them or not? Because obviously they're not going to have him during the game. He's like, okay, looks like they made it through the timeout. Yeah, he's getting fired. Because he's doing the interview as he's going back to the bench where the assistants and the players are.
Nobody's walking off the court.
It was funny, but also a little cringe, but the cringe kind of made it more funny. I just, I cringe when you talk. Here's Willard being questioned about it in the postgame. Yeah, I'm probably going to have to make some changes to my staff just because of how bad we were. You gave an interview during the game. It went viral. You're being criticized pretty heavily online. I don't care. It's a joke. Welcome to my life. I like that he actually clarified that it was a joke. Because let me tell you something. In the post-game interview, Mark, it did not sound like a joke. I don't know. I don't think it was a joke.
I think he was pissed at his staff. No, I mean, it was a joke that he was going to fight. I think he was angry with his staff, though. I'm going to walk away.
I'm going to walk away. Stop doing that. I'm kidding around. Wow. Relax, everybody. It's just a joke. It's fine. I'm going to fire my staff. Not now. Yeah, I am.
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Layla Rahimi, Marshall Harris, Mark Grody. Middays 10 a.m. to 2 on Chicago Sports Radio 104.3 The Score.
Props to Lauren Shahadi. She was right. It wasn't now. There you go, Lauren. This is Rahimi Harris and Grody. It is Mark Grody and Layla Rahimi with you on this Tuesday, a midday here on 104.3 The Score. And you know what did happen now? Relatively now, within the last 12 hours, Mark Grody was asleep because he's getting 10 hours over here. Your beauty rust. While you were sleeping, maybe not anybody else, PCA with the big extension. And the Cubs have set a direction with this. This is a big deal for many reasons. So you woke up to this news.
Sorry, not sorry. Yes, I put in the work last night, watched every drop of the Bulls game as we all did. You, me, and Marshall, we were all chatting it up about that Bulls game. And then I have discovered sleep over the last five days. I went right to bed. I have to tell you, though, there is nothing like that Christmas Day feeling if you are a sports fan and you're not aware of what went on and you turn on your phone and then the PCA stuff is popping all over the place that the Cubs have reportedly do have a deal in place with with PCAs through a little bit vague on the details right now, Layla, but through maybe 2032 for about $100 million or so. It has happened. Pete Kroll Armstrong will be here into the future.
Well, and this was a debate that we had a lot last year on Rahimi Harrison-Grody. And at this time last year, not exactly this time, But I would say probably in May, when you really felt good about the Cubs, last year when they had gone through the NL West with really high success, faced the toughest division in baseball, they had proven to you the offense was good at the time.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What does the Cubs' extension of Pete Crow-Armstrong signify?
0:01–5:04
2
How does the price of offensive production affect MLB contracts?
5:04–11:49
3
What are the implications of PCA's performance on his contract?
11:49–18:15
4
How did PCA's first half compare to his second half performance?
18:15–23:26
5
What adjustments does PCA need to make for future success?
23:26–30:38
6
What historical context is important for PCA's contract extension?
30:38–37:37
7
How does PCA's extension reflect the Cubs' long-term strategy?
37:37–41:54
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