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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Rahimi Harrison-Grody. 10 to 2 on 104.3 The Score.
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A holiday touchdown, a Bears love story coming this Christmas. The ones for fans and everybody who rides with us in Bear Nation. My wife Jessica and I will definitely be tuning in for this one.
That man has football on his mind.
I wonder what he was doing immediately before.
Maybe it's time he knows the real meaning of Christmas.
Did you get a good Christmas gift? No! It was Christmas.
Who gets the most FaceTime in this? Like, Colston Loveland already being a part of it is pretty great.
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Chapter 2: What are the Cubs' recent performance highlights?
Because he's only made five starts at the major league level all season long. But the fact that he was able to go out there and give you four and two thirds scoreless, most important part of that isn't the length. It's the fact that he didn't give up any runs. And when you don't give up any runs, your team has a fighting chance.
Yeah, and we estimated it was probably going to be somewhere in the neighborhood of four innings. Now, the four free passes wasn't great, the four walks, but he's just getting back. I'm not as concerned about that in the first game where he's coming back off injury. If that remains a pattern, then we have a discussion. But then we also saw the bullpen stressing us out a little bit. Hobie Milner.
gives up the long ball. We see Phil Maton give up the long ball. So that was not great to watch them come in, especially when Milner had come in the day before and had also given up a hard-hit ball. So that's pretty frustrating.
Where are you right now with this bullpen and your expectation level? See, that's the thing. I've kind of thrown the expectations to the side, and I say, can you just get... through some innings and give up minimal damage. And when I say minimal damage, hey, if a guy gives up a run or even two runs, your offense has got to be able to answer the call.
That's it. This is triage for me right now, where you're just going to have to address the thing, the problem that is bleeding the most, and that's starting pitching. I would love to be able to worry about the bullpen at the trade deadline, but they're not in a position right now to be able to do so.
Now, that doesn't mean the market might not dictate somebody be available more likely in a bullpen than a starting scenario. But the starting pitching staff is so depleted. I have to understand that you're just basically trying to figure out where you can take your hits. You know that Phil Maton has not been consistent. You know that Hobie Milner has not been consistent. Caleb Thielbar. Okay.
So if that's the case, where can you withstand a possible mistake that you might see coming?
At least Caleb Thielbar pitched a scoreless inning and struck out two people. Phil Maton and his over six ERA. Man, like it's like where you need him, but where do you put him at this point?
That's the frustrating part about this is that the big acquisitions haven't come through in a way that has made you happy with the acquisition. Like Alex Bregman is underperforming. Phil Maton is underperforming. That's what makes this partially so frustrating is the guys, Edward Cabrera hasn't been the guy you've wanted him to be and now he's injured.
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Chapter 3: How do injuries affect the Cubs' pitching staff?
Yeah, it's really bad.
But then watching last night, I was like, oh, they might be the worst defense I've seen in a long time. Like, no, seriously, because Freddie Peralta was doing his job, and they were just like, we're going to give you free outs.
It is a truth that Marcus Simeon is prone to error. But to have the Francisco Lindor piece of it result in more errors, that's the surprising part. You know, we also missed an opportunity, Marshall, for a little fun with words.
What you got?
Because it was like, oh, yeah, the Cubs traded for a pitcher for the Mets. No, it wasn't Freddy Peralta. It was David Peterson.
Oh, well, there's still time to trade for Freddy Peralta.
Remember when Freddy Peralta was a possibility? When you fire the manager, does that mean you're sellers at the trade deadline?
Oh my goodness, they've been sellers before this series.
Well, look at the Phillies, though. They fired their manager and they're not sellers.
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Chapter 4: What voting trends are impacting MLB All-Star selections?
You know what's funny? Last year, that man had 3.1 million votes. This year, he barely clears a million and finishes 10th. And you need to finish in the top six to advance to phase two of the voting. PCA was the hot new stuff last year. And stuff is the word I'm using because, you know, FCC and whatnot. But he was. And the hotness and the newness wore off quick.
Largely because of the second half that he had last year when we were talking about him as a legitimate MVP candidate this time last year. Just like we're doing right now. He's a legit MVP candidate this year. And if you look at the people that are above him, I don't have a lot of issues because I understand the Braves are the Braves, right?
They had the best record in baseball for most of the year. They currently do not. They're behind both the Brewers and the Phillies as of today.
Not the Phillies.
I meant the Dodgers.
Dodgers. Still a very good team, though.
Yeah, still a very good team, right? And to see a couple of Braves up there, Ronald Acuna Jr., not arguing his deservingness to be in phase two. And then Michael Harris, not arguing his deservingness also. James Wood didn't even make the top six. You can argue he has just as good a case as PCA of moving on to phase two. Andy Pius has been fantastic. He led all outfielders.
Brandon Marsh of the Phillies has that Philly backing.
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Chapter 5: Who are the key players to watch in the upcoming Cubs-Brewers series?
He's had a pretty good first year. What really hurts when you see it Kyle Tucker got more votes than BCA at outfield.
That's kind of ridiculous. But again, it becomes people voting for teams who are winning. And that's that straight Dodgers ticket, if you will. And that's what happened. Because we've seen what Kyle Tucker's done lately. Not because of the bat. He got moved down in the lineup.
And so I'll say this, Pete Crow Armstrong deserves to be an all-star. He doesn't deserve to be an all-star starter because the parameters of all-star starter is the voters vote you in, the fans vote you in. He didn't do well enough when voting started on June 3rd to be...
highly ticketed on anyone's ballot that's the bottom line here and then by the time he got hot it was too late he was in too deep of a hole to dig out of well look at what the cubs did all-star wise last year they had three starters they were a team that was sitting at the top of their division that's what this becomes it's about what team you're on and then the role you play but it's still for whatever reason very team reflective and not necessarily individual
Number three.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of cash considerations in the NBA draft?
It's five on it at 104.3. The score with Layla Rahimi and Marshall Harris. Here's question number three. Who is your pick to click for the White Sox series against the Royals?
I would like to take this time to point out that not Sal Perez should be my pick to click. I don't know how many times I have to say this, but every single Royal series, they get the harebrained idea to keep throwing fastballs. And he's just, he's just grinning at the plate. It's not even grinning because grinning implies that your smile is closed mouth. He's going to be cheesing.
He cheeses at the plate when he faces the White Sox and his smile is infectious. And I hate it. I think it's got to be, I think I got to go Miguel Vargas again, right? It's either Sam Antonacci or Miguel Vargas.
Chapter 7: How does confidence affect player performance in baseball?
And Sam Antonacci was my series MVP against the Guardians because of what he did in the second game. Can't be mad at that. But no, I'm going to go Miguel Vargas. I think he's got the greatest chance here for some pop and extra base hits. So I'm just, for the sake of mojo and the Miguel Vargas awareness, I'm picking Miguel Vargas from pick to click.
Miguel Vargas, that's a good pick. I go back and forth on this because I'm wondering who do I genuinely want to have a good series. I think because of the situations he's going to be put in, I'm going to go Sir Anthony Dominguez. Don't hit me. Don't shoot me.
Wait, what inning Sir Anthony Dominguez? I need to know.
I think he should be in the 7th, but I think he's going to pitch the 8th. I think he should be in the seventh, but I think he's going to pitch the eighth.
What if it's ninth inning, Sir Anthony Dominguez?
Are you out? Then Will Venable and I are going to have to have a discussion.
But eighth inning or seventh inning, Sir Anthony Dominguez is your pick to click.
Yeah, just him in general. He just needs to pitch well whenever they call upon him.
See, now we're doing the thing where instead of you picking who you predict to have a good series, we're doing the, I need this guy to have a good series.
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