Nico Hoerner talks Cubs' hot-hitting August
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What’s the story behind Nico Hoerner’s love for football and the Raiders?
Rahimi and Grody, midday, 10 a.m. to two on the score. 2-2 now. That's trailed left field. This ball's got a chance. That ball is gone. Nico Horner, back to back. His eighth of the year, and it is 3-0.
This hour is brought to you by Visectomy Clinics of Chicago. This is Rahimi and Grody on 1043, the score live from Wildfire, but it is Matt Spiegel in from our grody today. And Nico Horner is our special guest host. So we're happy to have him in front of a wonderful crowd here and great food at Wildfire. We were talking to you about some of the fun aspects too. Nico is is one of my favorites on Cub's social media when it comes to asking him questions. That are not baseball questions. And one of them is your life as a football fan, having grown up in the Bay Area. Because all they did was ask you what your what your football team was growing up and then your reaction was a it was like agony and then confusion and then well you you can tell it better than I can, but it's not a typical answer.
Yeah, well I mean it Oakland Sports has gone through a tough run of you know, lost all three teams in a short span. But uh yeah, I was a Raiders fan. Um They didn't there wasn't a lot of uh positivity in that stretch and then but the games were really fun. And but then they you know, they moved, so I'm out on that. And then
hold on though, you at a Raiders game, did you ever paint your face and have a No,
no, no, I wasn't I I can't claim that level of of fandom. Um did you go near
them? Did you walk near that?
Adjacent, yeah.
Okay.
Um And then uh you know, spend a good enough time in Chicago and then the team gets slowly better and you naturally become a bandwagon fan and then go to the playoffs and feel like you are a real fan and then you go from there. So
Caleb Williams goes to your games too. Yeah.
It's fun. I feel like there's a little bit of, you know, team to team appreciation that's kinda growing as as there's a lot of positivity in Chicago sports right now, so that's a cool thing.
Yeah, it's pretty well Pete and Caleb have like it what seems like a a friendship, like an actual relationship. Has Caleb been in your uh your clubhouse?
Uh yeah, yeah. He's he's come by. I don't I don't know him personally, but yeah, him him and Pete are are actually friends, which is pretty cool. It's pretty cool. Um
it w how was it having the Cubs one fifty in your clubhouse?
Oh I mean that's that's crazy. Um Who'd
you talk to?
Um I talked to d I mean, I talked to Dempster a lot, just kind of reflecting on it. Um but it's nice it's been really great having Riz back around more this year. Um, he's got a cool gig just broadcasting here and there and being around the game and um But the Cubs do a great job of of keeping people around in in general, so I feel like there's a a pretty good sense of of community in that way and there was a nice little like cocktail hour after the game and would have been nice to hang out in the suite with all the guys during the game, you know, that would have been maybe a good one to take off and double suite. Yeah. They had the two suites open. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
How did the Cubs celebrate the historic “Cubs 150” roster and who made the list?
So they could hang out and mingle together.
Yeah, so I mean it's a crazy thing to be I feel like I'm you know, just kinda getting started in the middle of my career and um to be acknowledged alongside guys with, you know, twenty years of Hall of Fame production is kind of ridiculous and uh an incredible honor. So yeah, it was really cool. That's
cool.
Well, and I read the report about Sammy Sosa, you know, you're you're getting batting practice. PCA talked about taking B P in front of Sammy and then there's the conversation of how many home runs was he gonna hit in the game and then it's three. I can't imagine what that feeling is like being surrounded by guys like that and then and then going about your job.
Yeah, and I it just to have the common uh the common connection of just of playing at Wrigley, of of of playing in front of the fans and obviously, you know, you do it with different teammates and coaches and generations of fans, but there's that kind of shared experience that um ties everyone together and so it was cool to have a a celebratory day like that.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What’s the story behind Nico Hoerner’s love for football and the Raiders?
0:00–2:56
2
How did the Cubs celebrate the historic “Cubs 150” roster and who made the list?
2:56–7:54
3
Why is Pete Cruz’s swing considered “second‑to‑none” and how has it evolved?
7:54–13:03
4
What record‑breaking home‑run feat did the Cubs achieve in August 2024?
13:03–13:33
Speakers
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