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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Rahimi Harrison-Grody, 10-2 on 104.3 The Score. I feel like mock drafts have been changing every single day. Like, it's especially like what is going to happen with picks two through six. One seems like a lot, which, by the way, I know you used to gamble. You don't do it anymore. Why don't I take you somewhere else you've never been? Where's that?
Vegas?
Vegas.
For a day.
Don't you think you better pay back that money before you go and lose it?
I'm not going to lose it. I'm going to gamble it. A.J. DeBont is minus 375 to be the number one pick in the draft. I'm sorry. But if I had $375,000 liquid and I just wanted to make an extra hundred grand. You bet that man. A hundred percent. I just don't understand why the odds are not longer. Who else is going to leapfrog him to be the number one pick? Please tell me.
If Darren Peterson fell to number four for the Bulls, you would be Ecstatic's not even the right word to describe your level of excitement.
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Chapter 2: What are the key insights about Pete Crow Armstrong's performance?
I'm saying Lil Baby, Gilbert Arenas. Lil T-Mu, baby. If people are going to call Caleb Wilson, Kevin Garnett, then I get to call Darren Peterson, Lil Baby, Gilbert Arenas.
Kevin Garnett is the ceiling. Unless you're Jeremiah Green, then he's the floor.
I actually think Caleb Wilson, Kevin Garnett could be his floor. No disrespect to KG. KG's probably...
top three power four we've ever seen in our lifetime the type of talent i actually think his floor is kevin garner many times basketball executives have disagreed with my opinion i said you probably shouldn't give patrick williams based on what he's done a five-year that executive no longer has a job i'm not gonna talk about hypotheticals
Layla Rahimi, Marshall Harris, Mark Grody. Middays 10 a.m. to 2 on Chicago Sports Radio 104.3 The Score.
That's right, Rahimi, Harris, and Grody is absolutely live on 104.3 The Score. It is great to have you with us after a beautiful weekend in the great, big, beautiful city of Chicago. Except for maybe yesterday, I suppose, I was supposed to go to that game. I know a lot of you guys listening were probably supposed to go to that game yesterday. I got the Marshall.
A buddy calls me, my buddy Carm, says, not only do I have tickets, it was a good seats ticket call. Not just a, hey, you want to go to the game? I got tickets. You want to go to the game? I got good seats. I'm like, hell yeah. And then the game gets banged before we even had a chance, which is good because I didn't get my butt on the red line and go out there for the festivities at all.
Listen, Mark. I'm hearing. Sometimes disappointment finds us in our moment of excitement. You got overly excited yesterday because your reaction in the group chat when you found out the game was canceled, you were beside yourself like you'd never been to a Cubs game before. Like you weren't a guy who, I don't know, owns a World Series ring from covering the Cubs.
I was like, Mark, I think you're being a little over the top right now. Because I had committed to that as my plan. Your mindset. Yeah, I was like, this is perfect. Everything, my whole day got up a little bit earlier so I could get some prep done in the name of doing the shows this week. I was all excited. I was mapping it out.
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Chapter 3: How did the White Sox perform over the weekend?
Are you a believer? Well, yeah. And really quick here. We do have a little bit of breaking news before we get to that. And that is, this is good breaking news. The breaking news on the score is sponsored by IDOT. If there's a car pulled over to the side of the road, move over. And this affects us and the Chicago Bulls.
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Airing all regular season and postseason games, listeners can tune in to broadcast via the station's digital stream on the Odyssey app and the SCORE website. Big time on you. Chuck and Bill ain't going anywhere. And that goes for you too, Bergamini. Yeah. Alyssa's on there too. I mean, look, they do a great job. It's been a fun ride.
The only thing we need now is more Chicago Bulls wins during the regular season and then more postseason games. Hey, man. And it's all new. It's all happening. It's all Tiago splittering for the Chicago Bulls. So hopefully we'll keep that momentum going. The draft is tomorrow. We'll talk about that a little bit later on. But yeah, Cubs-Blue Jays postponed yesterday. Makeup date August 6th at 120.
But again, in those two Cubs games over the weekend, one was a party, 16-2 over Toronto. The other was an absolute dud as the Jays come back from a 5-1 deficit. Was it a 5-0 maybe? to beat the Cubs by a final of 8-6 as the bullpen broke down. And we'll zero in on some of that stuff later on in the program. But Pete Crow Armstrong, two games against Toronto. Again, 5-7, three RBIs, three walks.
That always needs to be stressed in this new PCA regime. Two strikeouts. That should be stressed as well in the two games. Just two strikeouts. He also had the two-run jack on Saturday. So your up-to-date refresh slash line right now for Pete Crowe or Armstrong? A .286 average, .363 on base, .521 slug. That's all tremendous. His OPS, if you would like, through 77 games is at .884.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is near elite on the elite meter. That is knocking at the door of elite. And then the other side, can't forget, can't put away, You could table it. Can't put away, though, what PCA did or didn't do in April when he, through April, hit .222, had a .567 OPS. His K rate was right around 30%. He was striking out left and right.
And so I ask you, based on last year, we can go through the ups and downs of PCA's last year's season. You know what it was. It was near elite in the first half of the season, and then it faded so badly in the second half of the season that we all asked the question all offseason long, who is this guy? And I am finding myself right now, although I am caught up in PCA mania because he is unique.
A lot of players get hot, and the streaks are fun, but a PCA hot streak is louder, more interesting, more exciting, more unprecedented, typically, had the cycle, for example, than other people's hot streaks, to the point where you're seduced. You are in it. You want to give high plaudits, like this guy's going to be an MVP candidate, but I still...
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the upcoming NBA Draft?
He's the dude that you thought at the beginning of the season might be the best hitter on the roster. I don't know if that's going to be the case.
the case knowing what we know now about munataka murakami colson montgomery proving that last year was no fluke and then miguel vargas in his breakout season but to have that type of presence behind the plate in your clubhouse and now leading this team not a better time to call him up than today Ray, we blew this. We completely blew this breaking news with Kyle Teal being announced.
Because when Ray Diaz... We'll take you behind the curtain here. Ray Diaz came in here, walked into the studio, heel-toe, heel-toe. He's all walking. There's Ray walking in here, opening the door. And he says, hey, man, Kyle Teal just got... They just brought him up. This guy... Marshall Harris jumps out of his chair, did some sort of Kyle Teal dance right here in the studio, pumping his fist.
Let's not get carried away. Raising his voice. And now I say to him, and he's like, oh, yeah, Kyle Teal's here. It's going to be great. I needed you at a 10. I'm sorry. You dipped to a 7. I'm a 7 now?
Yeah, you dipped to a 7.
Well, 7's still above average, right? No, it's very good. But, man, I would have loved for that reaction to have been captured.
And then you marched around the desk. He did a march.
There's a Kyle Teal march.
That's right.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the White Sox being swept by the Tigers?
I remember him more playing later in his career with Atlanta, I want to say. Jerome Walton seemed to just fade away. But I could be wrong. That's just the memory off the top of my head. Are you a war guy? Like wins above replacement? I talk about my love of good war. Yeah, 2.3 for Dwight Smith that year, 1.9 for Jerome Walton that year. Interesting. Okay, well, that's neck and neck.
And Dwight had better numbers in a career, as you said. Career-wise. Okay, that's kind of what I figured. That is going to do it. We have other stuff, but we'll get to all that other stuff at another time. Actually, there is some stuff with the Cubs and the potential monument, which we'll get to. We've got to mention that. Maybe we'll do that.
We'll mention that next, actually, before we do five on it, which is happening on Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. This hour is being brought to you by Menards. Save big money at Menards.
Chapter 6: What is the significance of the Cubs' potential monument?
Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. We are going to do five on it momentarily, but there is some breaking news. Breaking news on The Score is sponsored by IDOT. If there is a car pulled to the side of the road, move over. Here it is from Chicago Cubs Twitter. At Cubs on X, it reads the following. Introducing Champions Gate.
Created as a tribute to the Chicago Cubs World Series Championships, the monument honors the players and managers behind the franchise's greatest achievements while commemorating the historic titles of 1907, 1908, and 2016. Champions Gates also creates space for the next generation of Cubs champions to be recognized like that.
It will be dedicated on July 18th in recognition of the 10th anniversary of the Cubs 26 World Series championship. Again, dedication on July 18th. So that is what the Cubs are doing. I mean, I'd invite you to go on X and look at the rendition, the picture, and that they put up on Twitter to show what Champions Gate will look like. But Crane Kenny had the Cubs president of business operations.
It kind of indicated to Rahimi Harrison-Grody out at Gallagher Way, and actually it was inside the clubhouse with Bruce Levine as well, that this is what we might be seeing. And I like the idea of why not honor everybody while we're at it and leave room for more. So that looks pretty cool, man.
On a scale of 1 to 10 on the disappointment meter, trademark, where would you rate the White Sox being swept at the hands of the Tigers?
It's a 9, and the only reason I didn't give it a 10, it's not like the White Sox got blown out in any of the games. The largest marketer We'll be right back. But not like that, man. Not coming from the momentum of the wins over Atlanta, the wins over the Dodgers.
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Chapter 7: How does the White Sox bullpen situation impact their performance?
I know you lost two out of three to the Yankees, but the final win of that series was nice. You're supposed to act accordingly, and that is to be a competitive potential playoff team. The White Sox did not comport themselves that way this weekend. Starting with what happened yesterday, man. If you're a good team, your bullpen's got to be a whole lot better than that. You had a real chance.
You should have won the Tariq Skubal game. Junior Perez hitting a home run. You've got to win the game where Junior Perez hits a home run. You've got to win the game where Marshall's guy Sam Antonacci hits a home run on Saturday, and it just wasn't to be. It's jarring that the White Sox were swept by Detroit. Nine. Nine seems low. I'm going to go 9.8. Okay.
I'm going to leave the point, too, because I don't think there were any major injuries. I'm too tired to fight you. But look, 9.8 because the difference in losing two out of three and being swept is so big when you look at the standings. It's like, okay, this team gained a game on us because we dropped two out of three. But when you get swept, the team gains three games on you.
That's how big that one game makes a difference. And the fact that the White Sox couldn't hold on to the lead in either game, Saturday or Sunday, in which they had the lead late. You had Davis Martin on the hill doing his job, and then your bullpen couldn't come through. It is highly disappointing that now the Tigers may believe that they've got a shot to come back.
And what you don't need is a crowded field of teams thinking that they're still vying for the AL Central title. And unfortunately, the Tigers, because of the sweep, now just five games out of a playoff spot. And we're talking about Minnesota being hot, winning seven of their last ten and two in a row.
Listen, Minnesota right there as well, and understanding that the whole goal was to make this a two-team race as quickly as possible. Guess who's one game out of a wild-card spot? the Minnesota Twins. That tells you where you are. And the White Sox better stay above 500-1 because as long as you're above 500 right now, you have a wild card spot in the American League.
But if you want to win the division, you got to get moving right now.
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Chapter 8: What are the expectations for the upcoming Cubs vs. Mets series?
And they moved in the wrong direction over the weekend, 9.8 out of 10 on the old disappointment meter. Number two. Who is your pick to click for the White Sox series that begins tonight against the Guardians? I can't believe you're asking this question. You already know the answer. Kyle Teal. He's here, by the way. Edgar Carroll sent down. Kyle Teal has been called up.
Edgar Carroll has been sent down. And Kyle Teal giving you just a little taste of what you can expect from here on out. And when I say a little taste, it's going to be all the goodness in the world. I'm ecstatic to see Kyle Teal. It's weird to be saying this 70-plus games into the season. He's making his season debut tonight when he's put in the lineup.
And that tells you how bad things have been for the White Sox. If you want me to explain to you why I'm excited about Kyle Teal. Yes, please. In his little rehab stint in AAA, 8 for 16 with a home run, 4 RBI, and 5 runs scored. Oh, Friday, he had a little 5-game hit at Buffalo. Five hits in one game? This man's been... Five for six. Chopping at the proverbial bit. He's ready.
He's cooked like he was in there at 450. Just took it out of the oven. The smoke is still coming up. Gotta let it cool off a little bit? Just a little bit. You gotta let it... What do you let a steak do? You let it simmer. Well, it's sizzling when you take it out of the... I think there's a good steak word that I can't think of. Steak word? Steak dinner boom. Steak dinner boom. Let it rest.
I just don't want the fresh chocolate chip cookies to fall apart as I try to pick them up because I didn't let them cool off. Oh, yeah, right. There is a little bit of strategy involved. So Kyle Teal. is absolutely your guy. Who you got? I'm going to go with an old trick of mine, and I've done this on a few occasions where these questions are asked. No. No. Sir. You need a day off or two.
Or at least somebody else in the ninth inning. It's just, it's got to stop. That's the number one concern. I talked to my buddy Dorfman. You know, he's like, he's a watch every game, go to 25 games a year. And all he could do was, Sarah Anthony, no more. I can't, no more Sarah Anthony.
I was like, didn't you feel bad on that third out that looked like he was saved and they had to do the, no, no, no. I don't feel bad for him. Get rid of Sarah Anthony. My answer is no. Anthony Kaye. I'm going to make it real simple. Start the series off right. You just got swept by Detroit. Anthony Kaye is in there.
He was hit up a little bit by the Yankees, and the Phillies recently pitched well again. I need the Dodgers' Anthony Kaye when he pitched against the Dodgers and was very good. So important because guess what? I think the White Sox can get to Gavin Williams, who allowed seven against Milwaukee last time.
Moreover, Williams has allowed six home runs in 15-plus innings recently over three starts in June. So Williams right now, Gavin Williams, decent pitcher, pretty good pitcher. He is hittable. So if Anthony Kaye does his job, and they are missing, as we've talked about it, Jose Ramirez, Angel Martinez, and Chase DeLauder out as well, The Sox will win tonight.
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