Harris believes White Sox will reach 91 wins

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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

Vinny Rotino 0:00

This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score on this Friday. Congratulations. You made it through the All-Star break. We got baseball tonight. Marshall Harris and Layla Rahimi are with you on this Friday. And I think this was inspired by social media, you know, on the internets, Marshall. The very viral, very popular concept of the Sunday reset, you know, where you're resetting your life for the week you clean your house and all this and then they got really performative and aesthetic the videos the next thing you know people are cleaning their houses uh performatively you know performatively for social media i know nothing's more performative than the cleaning of the hotel rooms but now i'm hearing that that is something that people do recommend when hotel cleaning staffs don't always have time to get the job done because they are under the clock

Vinny Rotino 0:52

Meanwhile, we decided, and Marshall was the one to suggest this in our pre-show meeting, the baseball post-All-Star break reset. I actually think this is a really good idea and it's not performative. And it's a bit of a cleansing. You said we have two chances, two last chances to reassess our predictions.

What is the idea behind an 'All‑Star break reset' for baseball predictions?

Vinny Rotino 1:13

And I think that that is a good idea because I am pretty sure I said the White Sox were going to win 69 games. Nice, but they're on pace to win far more than that. That was my fault. And then I also thought that the Cubs were a 91 team and that's when everybody was healthy. So I confess, I need a reset. I need this all-star reset before we get back to baseball. But couldn't the Cubs still win the 90 games? I just don't know if it's going to be the same. 90 wins, again, wins you the division most likely. You're going to have to at least hope for it when you're facing off with the Brewers. They've set that standard. But with an unhealthy rotation, as we've seen, I think that it's more like in the 80, probably like 85 range for me.

Vinny Rotino 2:00

85 to 90.

Marshall Harris 2:02

Let me give you this.

Vinny Rotino 2:03

Maybe they still do it, but I just don't feel the same confident level about it. I think they make the playoffs, but that's my assessment of the reset.

Marshall Harris 2:11

The Cubs have played 96 games. That means they have 66 games left. The Cubs have won 54 games. To get to 90, that means they would need 36 more wins.

Vinny Rotino 2:25

Right?

Marshall Harris 2:26

36 plus 54.

Vinny Rotino 2:27

Well, when you put it that way.

Marshall Harris 2:28

Excuse me. Not even 36. Wait, am I looking at this right?

Vinny Rotino 2:32

I don't know. I have to use a calculator.

Marshall Harris 2:34

No, it's... Actually, yeah.

Vinny Rotino 2:36

Mental math is not my strong suit.

Marshall Harris 2:38

It is 36. Usually my math is on point. 90. That's why they called me Marshall Mathers in the meeting.

Vinny Rotino 2:45

We did call you Marshall Mathers.

Marshall Harris 2:47

Marshall Mathers.

Vinny Rotino 2:48

His face was mathing. Yeah, he was locked in, man. You can tell with Marshalls, he was like, and then got zoned in.

Marshall Harris 2:54

Wait, what was I like again? I was like, why is Marshall looking at me like this? And then I realized it was like calculator. Literally, I wasn't even looking at you, Ray.

Vinny Rotino 3:02

I was just looking into the... So now you're saying I shouldn't even reset my reset?

3:07

Yeah.

Marshall Harris 3:07

No, no, no. What I'm saying is, I'm trying to walk you through this. They're 54-42 right now. They're 12 games over .500. That means with 66 games left, if they just go 36-30... That gets them to 90-72. Do you believe in their last 66 games the Cubs can play six games over .500?

Vinny Rotino 3:31

Marshall, I believe now that I think about it, I said at Sluggers that they would win 93 games.

Marshall Harris 3:37

Oh, that changes the math.

Vinny Rotino 3:39

No, because I said that they were one better than the 92-win team of last year based on their acquisitions. I need the reset. Why am I confessing to this?

Marshall Harris 3:50

Moves now because you said that. 39 and 27. So now it's a little bit more difficult.

Vinny Rotino 3:57

I think the thing is, if you just look at it on its face, right? If you look at it and you know how hurt the rotation is, you're probably not thinking this is a 90 win team, but they're still making the playoffs. So that's why I was like, okay, maybe 88, you know, 85 is too low. So maybe it's like 88 to 90, but I still need to reset because of what happened based on my original prediction.

Marshall Harris 4:19

No, no, no. Back to the original question, though.