Ian Happ talks Cubs' 9-game losing streak, getting a 2-day mental break
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What insights does Ian Happ provide about the Cubs' current losing streak?
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. And I've seen a lot of guys play the outfield, but I think he's the best left fielder that we've ever seen in a Cub uniform. And I've been here 31 years. When all is said and done, he's going to be one of those guys that Cub fans are going to look back and say, man, he was... he's a really good player good solid big league player gold glove award winner here's a swing and a smash fair inside third down the left field line bouncing off the sidewall ran hefo going for two and he's gonna be out at second base he and half a good throw i was surprised that Ren Hefo tried to stretch it into a double. He is out 7-4.
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.
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And we don't get to say this very often, but live from his hometown, it is Ian Happ. Ian Happ joins us every week here on 104.3 The Score. And he co-hosts the Compound Podcast, which is now part of Odyssey Sports. New episodes drop every Wednesday with the latest discussion on the Cubs and baseball. Download and listen on the Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. Ian, how are you?
Doing all right. How are you guys?
We are good. So we don't need to tell you, of course, about what's going on just with the streak you guys are on. Streaks seem to be the name of the game so far this season. What is the mindset? How are you feeling right now just understanding what's ahead of you? You're in Pittsburgh. You've got two more games in this series and you're trying to come off the slide as a team.
Yeah. I think it's just getting everybody back to basics and Um, when you're on that kind of a skid, you know, it just feels like a lot of things have gone wrong in the last nine games. So, um, whether that's, you know, not hitting one day or, you know, the, you know, like having a good pitching performance and just not getting the bats going or it feels like every little thing. So, um, You know, that's what happens when it's just like we needed some good luck to win 10 straight, need some bad luck to lose 9 straight. And so I think just right in the ship and getting out and not pressing, letting everybody kind of relax and go get a win.
Well, and I think that's been the hardest part as an observer is, you know, this is a veteran. I always say like a good veteran who's been in the league for a long time is going to he's going to have shorter slumps than somebody who is a rookie. You know, I know that's an adage, for example. And I kind of extend that to the rest of the team. And that's why it's so surprising because I. The lineup, in a good way, acted like one hitter when you had the 2-10 game win streaks. And I almost feel like it's that way now in this losing scheme.
Yeah, I mean, we have a pretty similar group this year that we did last year. And I think last year the most we won was five. And I don't know if we lost more than three or four in a row for the whole season. So there wasn't a lot of this, you know, streakiness. You know, it doesn't make sense why it happens. You can rack your brain and try to explain it, but it's baseball season. It's such a crazy thing, especially what we've been through, obviously, in the first quarter. you know 50 some games this year so um you can't really explain it but i do think our lineup um and the players that we have um you know to have a situation where a number of us are struggling at the same time is i think it's going to be pretty rare for this season
The only thing I thought of was I joked about this. You guys are too much of a team, you know? They always say, like, you got to be together in one band, one sound, so to speak, from drumline, you know, that idea.
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