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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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The views and opinions of Layla Rahimi, Marshall Harris, and Mark Grody should not be taken too seriously. Especially when they give advice. Do not take Marshall's analogies literally. Especially when it comes to Russell Dorsey. The sports thoughts of Rahimi, Harris, and Grody may change at any time. It's just sports. Okay, thanks, bye.
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Emery Hunt also has a few airport opinions here and there. Emery, always good to talk to you.
It's great to be on the show. I'm glad those airport opinions stuck. That's how you know I only bring the truth.
Merry Christmas to you, too.
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Chapter 2: How are the Cubs and White Sox performing as May begins?
airports turn people into such the the idea being there are no rules at airports ever correct correct there are no rules based on how people eat how they walk around with no shoes on all that stuff like it's crazy like there are no rules in the airport some of the animals i see like i was in the airport the other day right i'm sitting there waiting for my flight just hate my life in this watching this watching this lady she's eating egg mcmuffins like plural they just threw like three of them
Right down her throat like a pelican. Just like right down her pellet.
And when she was done, she wiped her face with a bag. Even to the point where sometimes, you know, how they load the plane up and say, you know, military vets or whatnot. And I'm like, all right, cool. Let those guys go. Then I noticed, I'm like, wait a minute. The map didn't check out. This guy had on a World War I hat. Like, no. You'd be 148 years old. But they usually get on the plane early.
So I'm on to their game.
You know what they say.
Yeah.
Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice, strike three.
Emory, I'm curious as to what you thought of the Bears draft overall, because there are a lot of players that some people think were reaches in this draft, specifically in the third round.
Where we at? We got airports, we got mock drafts, we got speaker phones, consensus boards. They flying up the list. The consensus is that there is no consensus.
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Chapter 3: What factors contributed to the Cubs' recent 10-game winning streak?
You won't want to miss that. And then 1025, we have a big question about the Bears season. And in the meantime, this is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. Dan Wiederer is in. And how do you feel about superstitions and curses and jinxes?
I can go, I'm not big into them, but I can be talked into them.
Okay, how many times do you want me to say that Ildemar Vargas has a 23-game hit streak?
That's fine. You can say that every day until it ends.
Hey guys, Ildemar Vargas has a 23-game hit streak. It is time for the second longest to start the season since 1940. Isn't that interesting? We should talk about the hit streak. By the way, I don't know if you guys noticed, but I did not talk to Ian Happ because he had had a consecutive on-base streak going. And I was like, I'm not going to bring this up.
I think it's one thing to just talk about it is one thing to talk about it to the person.
Yeah, and different players have different opinions about it. Some don't mind. Others do. And that's probably because they might not see it again. I don't know where Ian Happ sits on it. He's had those before. So I don't feel as dangerous, but I just wasn't going to bring it up to him. Vargas is 34.
And I feel like I'm watching Eugenio Suarez part two when I'm talking about the Diamondbacks and another guy who has a career resurgence. and then he's rattling off this amazing set of performance and games to start the year. He still even got a hit when the Diamondbacks lost 13-1 to the Brewers.
Yeah. That's consistency, and that's what you're looking for. And again, it's, I don't want to say baby steps, but it's building blocks, right, for a team that's really trying to go in a direction that it hasn't been going in a while.
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Chapter 4: How can the Cubs maintain momentum against upcoming opponents?
But either way, I just feel like I'm in a good place when if you're watching a baseball team in town this weekend on May 1st, You have a reason for optimism.
What did you make of the Cubs' W-10, that 10-game winning streak after they got off to a bumpy start? And look, you never want to panic in the middle of April, but I think there was a little bit of anxiety in the city of like, man, is this team going to figure out a way to win games they should win, a couple losses to Pittsburgh at home that shouldn't have happened?
And you felt a little edgy, and then the next thing you know, you turn around, they've won 10 in a row, and they've put themselves exactly where they needed to be.
well even the 10 game or not the 10 game even the series loss to start the year against the nationals where i'm frustrated on a monday coming in here yelling at grody and marshall and saying i am talking about joey weimer way too much this this monday like i should be talking about the cubs and their performances as hitters yeah that's a little frustrating like you don't want the nationals to get the best of you right the pirates that's been competitive now for years that's how i
Just the way they lost. You know, there was an extra inning game and you've got everybody on and you can't get anybody.
Yeah.
And you're just like, take care of business.
And the repetitive use of a reliever who's 39. Yeah. You know, and it's not like it's the repetitive use of a reliever in a series who's 39. It's that last year, you knew how many times you used Caleb Thielbar. And I'm big on the every other year reliever management thing. Like, it's a roll of the dice, especially at that age. And that's what made that so frustrating.
I was like, they're going to go to him again? And in my opinion, that first Friday game, he struggled to find the strike zone. So that was, yeah, that was frustrating. But, you know, I mean, we saw what happened when the Brewers rattled off the 14-gamer last year. It was life-changing for that season.
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Chapter 5: What are the expectations for the White Sox as they face the Padres?
Now, all of a sudden, that window of competition and competing for the biggest prizes opens wide.
Well, and I said this earlier in the week, I don't know how I still feel like I'm still not measuring the difference a head coach can make positively and negatively on the team. And I know that sounds weird.
No, it's muscle memory.
But think about how many times we've heard guys like Tom Brady talk about how much the coaching mattered in his quarterback development. Like that as the head coach matters way more than even we talk about in the NFL. And I know that sounds crazy given how much we talk about it, but that is the difference that Ben Johnson can make here.
And that is the difference that we can see in Caleb Williams. And I do think it is enough to at least, you know, when the game's 35 to 33, that's the problem is, is how do you quantify it on a scoreboard, but it can make that much of a difference coming up this season.
Well, and you can play defense with offense, too, by the way, that you're able to do some things that put strain on an opponent. It was interesting because last week, Caleb spoke at the start of the offseason program as all the players were back in the building the Monday before the draft.
And I sort of asked him about kind of his request when Ben got here of like, I really want to be coached hard. And then Ben saying, OK, watch this. And then Caleb being willing to talk. To respond to that, even through some bumps. Obviously, Caleb was honest at the end of last season in saying the relationship felt fragile at times.
He didn't know if Ben liked him because he wasn't meeting the standard.
We didn't know.
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