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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Rahimi Harris and Grody. We are family here. We are family. Middays 10 to 2 on 104.3 The Score. Pete made the all-star team a year ago. Trying to get a hold of him on the pitch. Swing and a drive. Left center field. Pretty deep back toward the wall. That ball is gone. That ball is gone. It's a tie game.
Chapter 2: What is the significance of Pete Crow-Armstrong's all-star selection?
Can you believe it? Pete Crowe Armstrong, an opposite alley home run. This ball game is back to even. Tied at six. It's almost like a dream.
Yeah, you can say that for sure because it was. Once again, the Cubs come back. Thanks in large part, as we mentioned, 7-6 the final. That is Pat Hughes on the Northwestern Medicine Cubs radio network. 7-6 the final in 10 innings. And a big reason why, partially, is thanks to one PCA. The homer, his fourth of the season. He was absolutely thrilled when he hit it.
You could tell everybody wanted to know, would it tie the ball game? And at six, yes, it did. It did.
Oppo for PCA. And I love Pat Hughes's description right there. He calls it a dream. Last year at about the same time, he called it like being in a movie watching Pete Crow Armstrong. So he emits those sort of platitudes and responses, as has this entire Cubs team with all the walk-offs. Three straight and what, up to six on the season altogether, I believe?
Yeah, it's incredible. Like, what way are they going to walk it off today?
Walk-off balk? Sweep.
What's next?
Yeah.
So since April 21st, 15-game stretch, PCA is batting .375. That's six for 16 with one home run and four RBI against left-handed pitchers, too. So that's notable. His chase rate, as we know, is something he will have to manage. Last year, his chase rate was 41% on strikes outside of the zone. This year, that's up to 43%. That part of it, I don't love.
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Chapter 3: How did Pete Crow-Armstrong's recent performance impact the Cubs' game?
The phrase shooter shoot comes to mind with PCA. If PCA's in the NBA, he's attempting like 40 shots a game.
Well, Layla, he's also gotten away with it for his entire career, including the torrid pace of the first half of last year where you can go back and look at those at-bats and see how many bad balls he swung out and hit the ball out of the park on.
Yeah, you know, it's great to be a bad ball hitter, but the problem is you end up expanding your strike zone, as we discussed, and your chase rate is ridiculous. But here's what Craig Council had to say about what he's doing right now.
I told Flash before the at-bat, like, you just don't know what's going to happen when Pete comes up, you know. It's just, you know, it's not supposed to happen, but then it happens, and that's kind of Pete, you know. So, you know, I can't explain a lot of his at-bats personally. That's great.
That's the most human... That's what we're looking for from Craig. Just a human, actual, involuntary reaction to a question that is being asked of him. And he's like all of us. Like some of it you just can't get that deeply into. It's like... I don't know how this guy just did that. I don't know.
Your shrug is everything in this demonstration. Are you still thinking about the afternoon show interviews with Craig? Is that what you're thinking about when you said that?
I think so, yeah. A response like that would be perfect.
That's it. We're going to commandeer Craig for Rahimi Harrison Grody just one day out of the season. And we're going to just pepper him with ridiculous stuff and see if we crack him. Or do we crack?
I mean, it's like, how can you not present? I mean, that's probably the response from most managers when it comes to PCA. Yeah, there's stuff that will frustrate the hell out of you, but then he'll get up there and do it. He looked bad in part of that at-bat, too. He swung and missed at one where it's like, oh, boy, I'm not sure.
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Chapter 4: What adjustments does Pete Crow-Armstrong need to make in his batting approach?
Yeah, it's a fair comp. I mean, Javier Baez had that unbelievable season where he was runner-up To Christian Yellett, 2018. Oh, Yelly. Oh, Yelly got him that year. And I don't think he was ever as good then, but man, what an entertaining, terrific ballplayer Javier Baez was with the Cubs.
And the snagging tag, he too, also just fantastic defensively.
Yeah, absolutely terrific at it. But yeah, I do love... As frustrating as PCA can be sometimes in some of his at-bats, still, every single time he comes up to the plate, I'm like, what's going to happen here? You know what I mean? Like, you just, like... Like no other player on the Cubs, the options are just lengthy when it comes to what might happen with PC. Even if he walks.
I remember getting hit by a pitch earlier and he was pissed. And he was like, you knew he was going to steal on the first pitch just because he was angry. And he did. He did.
Every at-bat is a movie, basically.
Every at-bat is a movie with PCA.
Wait, wasn't that the Pat Hughes call we always play? It's a movie starring Pete Grom.
He said in this call coming into the thing that it's a dream. Last year it was a movie, but the possibilities, he's still the guy. No matter what has gone on this year with some terrific Cubs hitting and Nico Horner and everybody in that lineup, it's still PCA that I am most glued to when he's in that batter's box.
Because you also love chaos. You love it. You're a junkie. You like all the different outcomes.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Craig Council provide about PCA's at-bats?
Yeah, so that's not going to work. Ambassador, though. He could be like Anthony Rizzo's assistant.
Yeah, basically, it's like Jim Tomey.
Yeah, that's a good comment.
Everybody loves Jim Tomey.
Yeah, nice guy, Jim. Nice guy, Matt.
Yes, indeed. And in the meantime, PCA, vibes.
Vibes.
I don't know what it ends. Let's just keep riding the wave until it crashes.
I don't think it ever ends with PCA. His entire career will be vibes with the Cubs.
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