Ian Happ talks heated exchange between Cubs, Merrill Kelly & D-Backs

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Why is Ian Happ considered the best left fielder in Cubs history?

Leila Rahimi 0:00

The talent that's here

Ian Happ 0:02

and the talent that is continuing to develop here. We obviously have some mainstay guys like Ian Happ.

Pat Hughes 0:07

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

Boog Sciambi 0:17

years. When all is said and done, he's going to be one of those guys that Cub fans are going to look back

Unknown 0:22

and

Boog Sciambi 0:22

say, man, he was...

Unknown 0:23

He's a really good player. Longest tenured Chicago athlete, you know, so there's a lot of respect for that guy. Gold Glove Award winner.

Pat Hughes 0:30

Six punch-outs in the game. Carroll hits a fly ball to left, sliding and making a very nice catch as half.

Unknown 0:37

The 1-2. Drill, right field, if it's there, it's gone, and that one is gone! Off the pole, grand slam, Ian Happ!

Ian Happ 0:46

Host of the Compound Podcast. You 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.

Leila Rahimi 0:53

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.

Mark Grote 1:03

Kiss

Leila Rahimi 1:03

the

Mark Grote 1:03

light. I'm having a cup right now. I needed a little boost and it's doing the job.

How did the Cubs secure the 7‑0 win over Arizona and what was Happ’s role?

Mark Grote 1:09

It's Rahimi and Grody on 104.3 The Score. You betcha it's Ian Happ time and we get to talk about what was just a really good win for the Cubs last night. 7-0 over Arizona. Ian Happ was 2-5 with a run and an RBI double in the 7th that made it 6-0 Cubs. That game had to feel real good last night, didn't it Ian Happ? How are you buddy?

Ian Happ 1:33

Good. Yeah, that was a really clean win all the way around. I think offensively, good job of getting run on the board early, but then continuing to add on throughout that game. And Goss was just fantastic.

Vinny Rotino 1:47

Yeah, I was joking, Ian, about, well, we know. We know how Jed Hoyer feels about him, but I feel like he was the pitcher that Hoyer described that he had been after for so many years in that start.

Ian Happ 1:58

Yeah, I mean, his fastball command was just ridiculous yesterday. You know, putting it wherever he wanted, and I think when he's doing that and playing it off the splitter, it's pretty impressive. You don't get to see the exact locations from left field, but it just felt like... He'd throw a splitter down and away and then immediately just punch a fastball right in that same location. It was pretty elite last night.

Mark Grote 2:22

It was great to see that. We needed to see it after the whole thing in the White Sox game with the cramping and then obviously he had a rough one against Washington. That was among the things that were great about the game. And I also loved that you guys got under the skins of the collective Arizona Diamondbacks last night in the fifth inning. You guys are up two zip. Arizona bench coach Jeff Bannister. barking at your third base coach Quinton Berry Ryan Flaherty the your bench coach he's he's yelling back and there's there's there's sign stealing going on take us through that from from your perspective and whatever fallout there was from that moment last night

Ian Happ 3:08

uh yeah it's just a heated moment in the game you know everybody's competing and trying to get every advantage they can and

What was the heated exchange between Arizona bench coach Jeff Bannister and the Cubs staff?

Ian Happ 3:14

You know, when you're on something and you're doing it as a team, you know, I understand when teams take exception to it, but, you know, just trying to gain an advantage.

Vinny Rotino 3:27

Well, and I think that's part of it is I know you've got to protect your people, but we do know that athletes, if given an opportunity to work in the space they're given, will try to take every advantage they can. It is the competitive spirit of the job, is it not?

Ian Happ 3:46

Yeah, we've certainly been on the other end of it. We've had times when our guys are given something and it feels like the other team has one of the pitches and it's coming from, I think, I don't know if everybody saw it, but against the Yankees, there was just a minute there where they knew their first base coach had one of Shota's pitches and you know what's going on and it's on us to help clean him up and get it right. What

Mark Grote 4:16

did you think about, I don't know if you caught it or not, but Merrill Kelly saying that it was BS that Quentin Barry, that a coach would be in on it.