Mark Grote shares a Bears report & Ian Happ talks Cubs' struggles (Hour 4)
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What updates did Mark Grody provide from the Bears mandatory minicamp?
Mark Grody, covering the Bears for 670 The Score.
Can I get a couple minutes with you here, man?
I ain't talking today, man. I'm sorry. Okay. I'm going next to Mark Grody. Are you from The Score? How gratifying is it when you win that battle and get the football thrown to you? What? Host of the Take the North podcast. I'm sorry, guys. What was I talking about? Kind of shaking your head at God for a second, though. Mark Grody. My hair does look good today. With Rahimi Harrison-Grody on The Score. He's an apartment complex, this guy.
We go to Hallis Hall. That is where we find the third man of our show, Mark Grody. We're called Rahimi Harrison Grody, and that means Mark, who is at the hall for the mandatory minicamp that is going on in Lake Forest. And, Groats, I hear you have a weather report for us additionally.
I mean, it's hot. That's the weather report. It is high sea hot. Out here, it's a, I would say a minimum, and I am going with, just for people at home who wonder, I'm going with the 30 Heiss. It's Heiss. Heiss means hot. So I decided to say Heiss-y, hot. What language is this?
Is this downstate? Tell me the origin of Heiss-y.
Okay, I think, if I am not mistaken, isn't Heiss hot in German? If I am... I may or may not be right about that. Why I added the E onto it, I don't know. Why do I add the E onto everything when I talk?
I mean, your last name has an E. That's true.
It's a long E, which many people that don't know me will call me Grote. Grote? Grotta is it. But yeah, heist, I think. Have you guys been able to look that up?
Yes, Tyler Buterbaugh confirms. We just looked this up. It is hot in German? Heist, yes. Go ahead and play that off that computer, Buterbaugh.
Here's something you guys don't know about me. I grew up, when I was growing up as a young lad, my grandmother... spoke German most of the time.
How is Ben Johnson preparing Caleb Williams for the upcoming season?
So there's a lot of German words that I picked up as a child. So occasionally they'll just come out. So congratulations to you guys. You guys got to hear me use a German word.
And we're educated now. We're more educated. See, you don't just educate us on the bears. You educate us on foreign languages as well. Guten tag.
See? See, it's it's it's what I do. But no, it is. Yeah. The reason that I'm in particular so hot is because I'm hot. But the other part is, is I am the I am looking at my fellow reporters. I got to keep my distance a little.
Oh, no.
That's that's what we get. Does the equipment not handle the heist? Questioning the the elements. Everett Hallis.
Is it too high for his equipment to work? Is that what's going on?
See, the problem is heise also sounds like ice.
That's why I was so confused because he said heise. I was like, did you mean icy hot? Like, what are we doing?
Heise. Ecto-cooler.
Oh, Ecto Cooler.
What challenges are the Cubs facing as they head into a new series?
That's a... What's my man's name?
Did I just take you back? Slimer?
Slimer. Slimer on the front of the Ecto Cooler. I didn't really like Ecto Cooler as much as like Orange or Fruit Punch, but yeah.
Red. I was red.
You know what's funny? I had one of those juice boxes recently. I forgot how little there is in there as an adult, and I just took like one sip and it was gone.
Also like the jukebox, jukebox, juice box. You think it's a reasonable size when you're a kid. Yes. But then you're like, what? This is the tiniest thing ever.
But it might be a victim of shrinkflation is what I was thinking.
Yeah.
Maybe they were bigger when I was a child.
They probably were.
What are Ian Happ's thoughts on the Cubs' recent struggles?
Sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar, processed sugar in a box.
Ah, Mark is back. Mark is back from the hall. Hi, Mark. What happened? You questioned the elements and then they just cut you off?
I don't know. I think it's because I keep getting farther and farther away, kind of in no man's land. Like I said, I don't want to be a – I am a rule breaker in general in life, but I'm just not in the mood for breaking the rules today. So I'm actually inching closer to the haven that is the Walter Payton Center right now as we are speaking.
What can you tell us is going on at the hall for mandatory minicamp? Mandatory?
Well, I can't give too many details because that's just the way it works.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What updates did Mark Grody provide from the Bears mandatory minicamp?
0:02–2:02
2
How is Ben Johnson preparing Caleb Williams for the upcoming season?
2:02–3:01
3
What challenges are the Cubs facing as they head into a new series?
3:01–3:37
4
What are Ian Happ's thoughts on the Cubs' recent struggles?
3:37–4:40
5
How does Ian Happ reflect on his 1,000th career hit?
4:40–6:33
6
What does Ian Happ say about the team's performance expectations?
6:33–7:56
7
What insights does Ian Happ provide about the upcoming series against the Rockies?
7:56–9:05
8
How does Ian Happ feel about the Cubs' potential to turn the season around?
9:05–38:54
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