Cubs place Ben Brown on injured list with neck strain
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Of course I follow Mark Cody on Twitter. I love you guys, and I'm thrilled to be here. I've been listening to the score for many, many, many years.
What news did the Cubs announce about Ben Brown?
The Cubs just announced moments ago that Ben Brown has been placed on the IEL with a neck strain. Again, that just came down moments ago. Ben Brown to the IEL with the Cubs with a neck strain. We're in a rough spot.
Yeah, what did Craig Council say before we got that news? That was Judson Richards as part of our pregame on the Northwestern Medicine Cubs radio network. We had just gotten off the air on Rahimi Harris and Grody. And Mark and I were actually, Marshall, talking in the hallway. And then Mitch comes down because there's the lobby outside of our elevator bank in our building. And he's like, did you see the news? And we're like, what? And then he goes, another pitcher. And we're like, oh, yeah, Edward Cabrera. And then he goes, no, Ben Brown. And we're like, no.
I had to read the text and then I went out, got back in. I was like, wait, is this real?
Like we crumbled in. How many more of these have to happen? Ben Brown, 15-day injured list due to a left neck strain. And it's important that we note the neck part of this because Bruce Levine had this nugget and I immediately thought of it as well. He tweeted, Cubs Ben Brown missed a good portion of 2024 with a benign mass in his neck. So that's a good thing. It wasn't anything worse. did not pitch again after June 8 of 2024. neck area of pain for brown has prompted the Cubs to send brown for an exam by doctors in Chicago. So that is that is significant when you consider how all of this comes together. I'm one of those people, man, I thought maybe this this problem had been had been solved.
What was Craig Council's reaction to Ben Brown's injury?
It had been a couple of years. But I see why they would have to watch this and monitor and make sure his health is of the utmost importance here.
Wasn't even thinking about Ben Brown except for the context of, man, I can't wait until Friday when Ben Brown takes on Jacob Mizorowski in that opener in Milwaukee. That's all I was thinking about when I thought of Ben Brown. Or the fact that, I don't know, he's got a 1.85 ERA over 20 appearances, including a 1.70 ERA in eight starts.
A couple good games against the Brewers, too. He seems to face them well, yes. And we were like, oh, thank God for Ben Brown because obviously Edward Cabrera does the splits. He's back on the injured list. Was this across my mind at all before I heard the news yesterday? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. And then I realized, is it correlated to a phrase I am no longer allowed to say because every time I've said it on this station this year, something else bad has happened to one of the pitchers? You know what phrase it is. I'll let Fat Joe say it because I'm not going to say it anymore.
Yesterday's price.
It's not today's price. Am I allowed to say it, Ray? I feel like ojo is attached to me saying this phrase now. Sports ojo, which is different from like general evil-eyed life ojo. Ojo is I in Spanish.
Is it bad that I went DJ Khaled with that? And it's like, and another one.
Oh.
Hey, well, DJ Khaled and Fadjo are friends and label mates, so that makes sense.
And another one. We need some DJ Khaled angels to fix this.
Every time, Layla, there is a... that there's a press release with the injury or you go on and you see the roster moves and you're like, Oh, I didn't see that roster move coming. You wonder like, how are they going to fix this? Now you've been talking about yesterday's price is not today's price, but we do know the price of getting another starter now because the Cubs went out and got another starter. Another one.
They did, and from what we understand, it's likely that he's going to be pitching in the Brewer Series. It is Mets lefty David Peterson, who was rocking a 6.09 ERA, but he was an all-star last season, had a 4.22 ERA, 3.1 war over 30 starts last season, and his first half ERA was 3.06. The second half ERA was 6.34 ERA. But at least they got somebody, and they traded a pretty valuable prospect to do so.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:09
2
What news did the Cubs announce about Ben Brown?
0:09–1:54
3
What was Craig Council's reaction to Ben Brown's injury?
1:54–4:50
4
How serious is Ben Brown's neck strain injury?
4:50–7:51
5
What impact does Ben Brown's injury have on the Cubs' pitching staff?
7:51–13:00
Speakers
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