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Chapter 1: What humorous observations do the hosts make about sports personalities?
This guy ran like he had two left feet. I mean, big dumb animal in the best way possible.
There were a lot of pieces of sound that I feel like may come back later in the hour that Clay was here. That was a dangerous hour for us all.
We know one clip that's coming back for sure.
I don't know what you're talking about. Thanks to our guests, Clay Harbor, Danny Parkins, Carrie Pinkowski. Thanks to Grant Leader, Tyler Buterbaugh, Brandon Fryer, Cody Westerlin, Connor O'Donnell, Jacob Stutz, Max Curtis. Our transition is brought to you by Torque Coatings. High performance coatings for your home or business. TorqueCoatings.com.
And now we bring in the two men of the afternoon show, Lawrence Holmes and Matt Spiegel. Hello, guys.
That was a lot of people. Takes a village to do middays as well as you guys do. Damn. We're just hanging out. You got Jacob and Max and Connor and producers and everybody.
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Chapter 2: Who are the special guests featured in this episode?
And Grant. And Grant. Absolutely. Props, Grant. Good to see you. Thank you. And... Wait, wait, why was that such a regal thank you? Dynamite drop in there, Grant. Come on, do another one. Thank you? Sorry. It's all good.
You are the leader of Grants. Thank you, Greg. Yep.
Grant's been awesome the last couple days.
Shout out to Ray Diaz.
Chapter 3: What insights do the hosts share about broadcasting challenges?
Hope Ray's feeling better. We've been missing Ray the last couple days. Hopefully he will be back with us tomorrow when we are at the way. We will be at Gallagher Way.
Yes, we're back at home tomorrow. Our home, Gallagher Way.
Unless, of course. Oh, no, it's a real possibility. Yeah. It is.
Maybe we won't be out there. Yeah, the forecast is forecasting. Yes.
I have Gallagher Way broadcast envy. I like broadcasting.
Well, we were supposed to do the one, but then there was weather. That was like wind, right? Not rain? Right. It was mostly wind, but it was also a fear.
I was outside when you guys were broadcasting inside and there was rain. So for the record, I felt it.
Grody doesn't care about the rain. They broadcast it straight.
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Chapter 4: How do the hosts discuss the impact of weather on outdoor broadcasts?
straight through it, right, Groats? Can't stop the rain. Yeah, no, absolutely. When it starts to fall. I mean, I have to accept that I'm going to get wet because I just refuse to have an umbrella whenever it rains. I am hitting about 150 or so while walking in the city and having an umbrella. I never have the umbrella when it rains.
I don't think it's 150. It's probably lower. You're the Dansby Swanson of walking with an umbrella. Oh, yeah. Thank you very much, everybody. Good night, everybody. That means we're going to put you in the sixth hole tonight. You're going to get elevated. Whatever you want.
Alex Bregman.
Whatever you think. Try to get me going.
Hey, Spiegel, they wasted a Michael Bush 12-pitch at-bat RBI triple last night. You can't have that.
That's why he should lead. off it's an interesting moment last night when cliff floyd says you know i don't like to say a game in june is a must win but this one kind of feels like a must win and boog was silent and i know that goes against boog's entire sense of philosophy but cliff is talking to you as a player
Like, you're up 4-2 in that thing, and then it's 4-4, and you're home, and you're like, we better win this thing. And Cliff knows what it's like to go down in the freaking well psychologically. And I thought that was compelling.
You make a good play. They try to run themselves out of an inning. And then you don't hit again. Yeah.
And again. And again. And their bullpen. Amen. Caleb Fieldbar is not supposed to be like your eighth inning guy against lefties and righties.
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Chapter 5: What are the hosts' thoughts on player performances and team dynamics?
Yeah. I mean, they'll probably figure it out because they're really good at that. With bullpens, they are really good at figuring it out on the fly. But there was a moment last night where you just needed to get to Palencia, and they could not.
I heard you guys talking on the drive-in, and I thought Grody made an excellent point. I know that we are coming up on the anniversary of the proclamation by Grody. But the idea that this happened so quickly... where you blink, and they're six and a half games out of first place. That's wild.
May 8th, they were three and a half up in first place. Aren't they eight back in the loss column also?
Yeah. And you start going back, and you kind of forensically go through, and you go, okay. The weekend series against the White Sox, you get your heart broken on that Sunday, and that starts you on a trajectory towards, oh, well, here are the bleeping Brewers.
Yet again, and they turn your lights out for you, and then you think you're getting a reprieve with the Astros, and the Astros outplay you. Since then, it's just been a slog. There hasn't been that same feeling that you had in the first month where you felt like the Cubs were going to come through.
Now, there's a softening of the schedule, but as you guys pointed out, people might be looking at the Cubs now and be like, hey, there's a softening in the schedule.
Isn't that sad how they were well above everybody else except for, I don't know, the Braves for a while there? And now you're looking at they are just in a big heap themselves of mediocrity.
The worst part is there's no clear answer that's been given. It's just now it's a wake-up call. We're not playing well enough. Okay.
solutions michael we've seen them the lineup get shuffled a little bit we've seen a couple guys get days off here and there but i brought this up earlier do we all remember when david ross platoon to say a suzuki for a while like do you have to take some sort of drastic approach like that to be able to to get somebody right with who i did but that's the point and then when you ask yourself well who's available in the lineup you know that's the other flip side of this
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Chapter 6: How do the hosts analyze the current state of the Cubs?
Sam's my guy. How about that? Yeah, Sam, your guy. You love watching the man play, right? How can you not? Yeah, it's fun. Four for four? He's nuts. And he's like, oh, I still do the hit by pitch thing.
Yeah, yeah. And then he plays with his hair on fire. Like, I don't think that he actually plays a particularly good left field, but... It's active. It's very... It's very active. He was out there. He was doing something. And he hustles. He gets there. And I'm like, could you get there easier? Nope. Yes, but no. Exactly. And I like that. That's all right.
You need some of that, too.
Max effort.
Nishida plays like that, too. He does. That's why I call him Japan Tanachi. Is that okay? I feel like we told you no. Yeah, no, you told me not to. I don't know if that's the one. What do you think, Groats? Is that cancelable?
I mean, I don't think it's cancelable. I think it's borderline. I will accept it as borderline.
You get an email with the top line of, see me, not good. See me.
And your little friend Grody, too. Yeah, nothing good. Is that what the top line would look like? Well, no, usually we get a text from the boss that says, see me, nothing bad. Because he wants you to relax. Before you go in. Right. So we like to pretend that one day we're going to get, see me, nothing good.
Not good. See me, it's over.
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Chapter 7: What notable statistics do the hosts share about players' achievements?
So we'll do that, but...
we're going to start talking about the cubs and the conversation about the cubs is how are we going to talk about the cubs well i think there's a way today we have to admit something that's lacking something that is not present seemingly at least publicly in the organization and that might be by design by the way when you start looking at some things so we will do that all after tanny's open which you know is must listen radio