Ian Happ discusses his hot start, Nico Hoerner's contract extension
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What insights does Ian Happ share about his hot start to the season?
The talent that's here and the talent that is continuing to develop here. We obviously have some mainstay guys like Ian Happ. Ian Happ. Cubs all-star outfielder.
Fly ball deep left field off the bat of Happ. This ball's got a chance. Gone. Ian Happ goes to the opposite field. His third of the year, Cubs lead 4-0.
Gold Glove Award winner.
Yeah, I don't really know where the hug came from there. Ball was dancing in the wind a little bit. You know, Pete, he really likes to back up. So, you know, he's going to run a couple hundred feet to come be next to you and a nice embrace after that one. Host of the Compound Podcast.
See a little clip of me finishing with two hands, maybe hitting a homer 500 feet. I don't want to freak you out, but I've been doing it a little bit in practice.
Connect Roasters coffee enthusiast. Here's a man that... Probably has five fresh pots a day. On 104.3 The Score. We toast you, Ian Happ. That's right, Ian Happ joining us live here on Rahimi Harris and Grody Marshall Harris alongside Russell Dorsey welcoming in the Cubs gold glove outfielder. He's also the co-host of the Compound Podcast, which is now part of Odyssey Sports. New episodes of that podcast dropping each Wednesday with the latest discussion on the Cubs and baseball. Download and listen on the Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. Good morning, Ian. First things first, we... We playing baseball tonight?
I think we're going to have a window. I think there's going to be around 7 o'clock. We might get a little window to play. We're going to see. The temperature's going to drop. It's going to be a little bit of a cooler one tonight, but hopefully we can get it in.
I am guessing that you really, really, really want to play baseball tonight because when you're playing the way that you're playing with the power stroke coming the way that it's coming right now, home runs in three straight games for a fourth time in your career, you don't want anything stopping the momentum, right?
uh yeah i mean i'm feeling good taking some good swings and and making some good decisions so um yeah it'd be great to play tonight i think it's just it's tough we get that off day on thursday i think the angels are flying back to anaheim for their opener um and you don't want to be in a situation you know where you have to make up a game in the middle of the year so if we can get these two in the next couple days that'd be great
Ian, when you leave spring training, obviously there's a lot of fanfare with opening day and then you get into the batter's box. You never really know how you're going to start, but is there something that you have where you feel like, okay, my swing is exactly where I want it to be for this time of year?
Um, yeah, I mean, to be honest, the spring training, it's just, it's different. You go through spring, you don't play every single day. You're kind of every other, you're working on stuff. Um, And left-handed, I never quite got it right during spring training. It never quite felt like it clicked. And then you're trying to get those back-to-back games and you're trying to just see the ball and make good decisions and get to a point where you feel like you're in a good position to hit. So that's kind of part of the first week is getting back in that rhythm of playing baseball every day, going to the park every day, going through your routine and getting that feeling like it's supposed to be.
So you've homered in three straight games, which I know is something you've done before. Everyone out here is saying it should be four home runs in four games. Is the ball that ends up being an out where the wind knocks it down by approximately 113 feet, is that the best ball that you've hit this season? And were you surprised at all that it got knocked down the way it did?
I was not surprised at all. I've done that enough times at Wrigley Field to know that as soon as it came off the bat, it wasn't going to go. But I think the one I hit the next day, the ready one, I think it was like 111 and a half.
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