Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Now he's just out here hobnobbing with celebrities. Danny Parkins, first things first on Fox Sports 1. Hey, Danny, how are you?
I'm not going to be in your way, honey. I'm going to be too busy hobnobbing with my buddy. Are you hobnobbing if they're just responding to your tweets and dunking on you for bad takes? I don't know if that's hobnobbing. Oh, no.
You are so close to hobnobbing. I thoroughly enjoyed it. No, you're hobnobbing on the internet. You're communicating. I bet there's a lot of people who Ben Stiller hasn't texted back. You got him to end his tweet, his subtweet to you and sign it Focker. That is amazing. Brody, that was my favorite part of it too. Oh, beautiful.
If I go down, Greg, I need to know someone will be responsible for the whole Burns clan. So I ask you, Greg, are you prepared to be the God Focker? The Godfucker. The Godfucker. It was very cool. I'm thrilled for Ben Stiller and all Knicks fans. New York is just jumping right now. It's a basketball town, first and foremost. So it's been pretty exciting out here.
It turns out Ben Stiller is awesome and a fun sports fan. This is as good as it gets. What is this? A center for ants?
What is this? A center for ants? What? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read if they can't even fit inside the building?
I mean, the guy's got one of the all-time filmographies and is a genuine Knicks fan and genuinely thinks I'm an idiot.
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Chapter 2: What are the Cubs' recent performance highlights?
Last April, Chicago batters saw breaking balls on 28% of pitches. This April, it's 32%. And in May, it was 37%. Now, Mark, this to me speaks to the concept of when you have similar hitters, And when we talk about the idea of making contact but having modest pop, then it stands to reason that the scouting reports are going to start to repeat themselves.
That what you're seeing out of pitchers is going to have to repeat itself. It's up to the pitcher to still make the pitch. You can't hang a curveball. You know, your breaking ball has to be on point. You have to hit your spots. But when you do, it seems like you can almost ensure that this lineup will struggle and
The good news, I can give you the bright side of this as we go on in this article, is that he points out that the April Cubs, remember the April Cubs? The April Cubs, as he writes. Are you meaning the 20 and 3 Cubs?
Yes.
Yeah, the one that was capable of firing off a what? A 10-game winning streak or two. So he does write here at the end of the article, the April Cubs were actually quite good against breaking balls, rating fifth in run value, plus nine against them. I like calling them April Cubs, by the way. Yeah, the April Cubs were so good. Yeah, I really liked April Cubs. May Cubs, I'm not a fan.
Let me ask you a question. What do you like better, April Cubs or Bears 2? Bears 2 is our concept that Cincinnati, if they did not get enough money to renovate their stadium, was going to have to come to Chicago where we had stadium thoughts plenty. They can play at Soldier Field. And that Bears 2 in Cincinnati was all about the spreadsheets and they didn't care about the scores.
And maybe it's kind of like the XFL where you get fun jersey names and cheerleaders date players or something. All the XFL rules. Might the Bears be playing at Soldier Field still in seven years? Good question. Bears, too, was going to have cheerleaders. Yeah, absolute. The Honey Bears are coming back.
I feel like April Cubs was still more true to form than Bears 2, but both are worth discussion. Yeah. I mean, there's a certain magic about Bears 2 that really I don't think anybody can overcome. He does right here after that, too. The thing is that they were elite against fastballs. Posting, here's the slash, 294, 391, 497 was the line. That was the best in April in run value, plus 30.
and was in fact one of the best fastball marks in any month by any team over the last three years. So I only point that out to show that there is evidence that the Cubs can adjust to the breaking ball, and they can be good against the breaking ball.
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Chapter 3: How are the Cubs and Cardinals performing this season?
Good to hear from you, and thanks for having me on.
And I am to understand that Gavin is graduating from something today. He's not that old.
We're not that old. No, it's only eighth grade, but we still have to make it a big deal. Yes, he's going to high school, and I'm sorry, but we have to get dressed up, and it's an occasion, I guess.
Well, congratulations to Gavin, and I refuse to believe he's that old because that means we're older and I'm not okay with it.
I know. I agree. It doesn't make it easier on us, for sure.
Just so you know, I have been to back-to-back Wednesday 8th grade graduations, and you're right. You've got to do the little song and dance. Everybody's wearing their gowns. We've got to go out to dinner. We've got to watch them walk across the stage. Everybody gets a trophy.
Mark, it's amazing. It's a different world out there, and yes, we have to get dressed up. We call it a promotion out here in California, not
I love that. I love that. I feel like that's come up as well. Yeah, promotion is the new thing. So congrats on Gavin and you all to get the promotion.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
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Chapter 4: What are the expectations for the Cubs moving forward?
Completion percentage is something that we're going to emphasize. And so what did they get when they came into the offensive meeting today? They got the chart of – What was our completion percentage yesterday? Who had drops? What did our scramble drill look like when those naturally occurred? And so that's really our first objective is just drawing more attention to it.
Those guys are really critical of themselves in drill settings, routes on air, where the ball placement is. We want to give these pass catchers, we have so many talented ones, opportunities to run after the catch. And so we're being very critical on where we're putting that football with them, and that's something that we grade every day.
I love that he's not backing off any of that, Layla. It makes it make sense. Yeah, and it's going to be ugly. But you know what? You know who's the biggest opponent to your team, your favorite team? The other team who plays them every day. I just talked about the league knows what to throw Cubs hitters. I'm not going to back off of acknowledging it.
And Ben Johnson, as the head coach, isn't going to back off of trying to beat every team he sees on a weekly basis. And he thinks this is out.
There's been a lot of people who have made excuses for the 58.1% completion percentage, which actually got worse from his rookie year, saying that since he is a different kind of quarterback because of the scrambles, because of the unpredictability, you shouldn't look at the completion percentage. Guess what? Your all-star head coach continues to lead the way. He's not backing off on any of it.
He's got charts. He's got ball placement charts. He's got scramble drill charts. Ben Johnson walking through the hallways just passing out charts to everybody. Sounds like a lot of manouche to me. Oh, man. Way too much manouche. But that's where the details are. Exactly. And that's the point here.
Are you going to say Ben Johnson's negative about the Bears because he's calling out what they need to work on? No.
Exactly.
That's what they do. That's their whole job.
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Chapter 5: What humorous moments are shared about baseball and football seasons?
So, Bruce, I'm sorry that you had to endure Jim Deshaies telling us about John Mangum of the Mangum family. This is baseball season. It's my season. Oh, are you mad because football got injected into your baseball game? Yes, I am. I love the idea of it being Bruce season.
It is Bruce season.
This isn't even baseball season. It is Bruce season.
This is baseball season. It's my season.
It's all about you, Bruce. Do you remember when Iggy Azalea had Iggy season? And we now found out about the manufactured nature of Iggy Azalea. But you know what? Bruce is authentic. So I am into this being Bruce season. Bruce deserves it. Inside the clubhouse tomorrow. Yes. David Hall will return after his big birthday weekend of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
You know what else is this weekend, by the way? You know what's after Inside the Clubhouse? Gabe.
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Chapter 6: What insights are given about the Cubs' performance against the Pirates?
Oh, yeah. Gabe Ramirez joined the score of White Eagle, Auto Body, and Oswego. You can be there tomorrow. Gabe Ramirez is broadcasting live from 11 to 2 p.m. White Eagle Auto Body won the score big for your business contest brought to you by People's Bank. That's tomorrow from 11 to 2 with Gabe Ramirez at White Eagle Auto Body after Inside the Clubhouse in Oswego. I'll be on too, by the way.
I was just booked. I'm going to talk Bears tomorrow at 1 o'clock with Gabe Ramirez. So if you need more Bears, and I know you do, 1 o'clock tomorrow right here on The Score. I back it up. I back that stuff up. The look you're giving right now is the same look you gave me yesterday when I said that. Yeah. Head tilted. Purse lips.
You look good when you bag that stuff up.
Just don't say the part about being a big fine woman. Use a big, fine woman? No, don't, don't, no. Can't do that.
Chapter 7: How do the hosts evaluate the Bears' OTAs and player performances?
There's certain words that Layla doesn't like that I say. No, I just, I think like it's a good, Grady Jarrett's going to be like, you called me a lizard. And then he's going to be like, and you quoted the Cash Money Crew wrong. I'd be like, I'm sorry, Grady Jarrett.
It's on you.
I didn't call you a lizard. I said you were like me. I just can't wait for that inevitable discussion. Yeah, he's going to see me like, did you know this Layla? What girl's out here calling me a lizard? Well, it's the we're lizards, but not really. Because you got a tough skin, man. You got a thick skin.
That's what it is, Grady.
No, it's that we don't like cold weather. I don't want to move in it. I just sit there and try to conserve energy. When it's too cold in here, I just sit here like this with my arms glued to my body. I love the visual of you at the bottom of a tree just laying there alive. I will sit on a rock or concrete or whatever and just sit there and soak up sunshine. Like a lizard.
Because they know what to do. Yo, okay. Layla's new nickname. She's the lizard.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of potential trades involving Tarek Skubal?
Is that like Lisa from The Simpsons when she's the lizard queen after going to Duff World or whatever? Oh, yeah. Not the lizard king. Yeah. I am the lizard queen.
so if you text Layla for now on just be like if you are addressing it to Layla instead of saying instead of and by the way L-E-I-L-A there's no Y and I know you've given up on that yeah it doesn't bother me okay that's good that's good because I get a lot of G-R-O-D-Y's as well I like the polar spelling Ronji I thought that was cool yeah but you will address her as Lizard for now on going forth but wait a second what about Bucket that's also my nickname because Steve-O and the Bucket that's right yeah Bucket is still an accepted nickname Bernstein was Steve-O
Yes. Okay. You're the bucket. And we had hot sports takes and wore white-stitched jeans and dressed like Guy Fieri. Because, you know, radio.
Horns going off.
Bells ringing. The whole thing. Yep. Or just, what is it? Weedy in the butt? Is that the one on Family Guy? That was the Family Guy. Weedy in the butt. Yep. The bucket. Yeah, all acceptable nicknames. I mean, I don't know if I'll remember them all, but let's try. Weenie in the butt. Weenie in the butt is my favorite, yeah. You said it again. Five on it is next.
We will talk White Sox in Five on it and with Scott Mergen coming up at 1225. Poor Scott, if he's heard any of this, maybe he'll laugh at us as well. This hour is sponsored by Black Lung Brewing.
Number one.
On a scale of one to ten on the impress me meter, trademark, where would you rate the Cubs performance against Pirates ace Paul Skeens in yesterday's 7-2 win over Pittsburgh?
Seven. They were impressive. Can I sound any more like Jim Rome there? That was not intentional. Seven. On the impress me meter. No, wait. On the impress me meter, I give it a seven. I got to work on my Jim Rome. I don't really know how to do that well because he's got bass in his voice.
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