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Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show

Transition: How do we define the streaky Cubs?

28 May 2026

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Chapter 1: What are the initial thoughts on the Cubs' performance?

1.668 - 3.592 Leila Rahimi

I back it up. I back that stuff up.

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6.157 - 13.351 Laurence Holmes

Thanks to our guests in this order, Danny Parkins and Chris Emma. We were very scored today on our guests.

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14.012 - 16.116 Leila Rahimi

Yeah, they were both great. They were both great.

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16.45 - 34.333 Laurence Holmes

Thanks to Ray Diaz, Tyler Buterbaugh, Brandon Fryer, Connor O'Donnell, Jacob Stutz, Max Curtis, and Cody Westerlund. And our transition is brought to you by Torque Coatings. High-performance coatings for your home or business. TorqueCoatings.com. Now time to bring in Lawrence Holmes and Matt Spiegel. Hello, guys.

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34.393 - 45.754 Matt Spiegel

What up, good people? It's over. You called it at the end of 10. 10 was enough. My wife was like, that's just symmetry. Two tens up, one ten down, and bing, bang, boom, there it was.

45.834 - 56.981 Laurence Holmes

They're too consistent. You mean good and bad? Yes. They act as one. They fail as one. They win as one. It's too much.

57.342 - 68.942 Matt Spiegel

So is it a real thing? It is a real thing, right? When like women's cycles line up for their pheromones. Like, is this what you're saying? The Cubs as a ball club, they line up together. They cycle together.

69.002 - 77.197 Laurence Holmes

They're in sync. They're in sync. I mean, I made the joke with Ian Happ because I was like, you guys are too much of a team. You know, you're winning and losing.

Chapter 2: How do the Cubs' players exhibit team synchronization?

77.378 - 86.896 Laurence Holmes

And he laughed because he was like, yes, we are suffering together. And I'm like, well, one of you be selfish. And then maybe the others will follow was my thought. That was not communicated.

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87.197 - 92.086 Matt Spiegel

Maybe it's Bregman that stopped being. Maybe Bregman's going to be selfish. That man's hitting the ball.

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92.206 - 95.571 Leila Rahimi

Yeah, but he didn't hit the ball with the bases loaded and nobody out in the first inning yesterday.

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95.771 - 100.478 Laurence Holmes

Gruntz and I still had some bones to pick, but they did score 10 runs to break the 10-game streak.

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101.56 - 104.424 Mark Grote

Really hitting it hard. He's just kind of hitting it.

104.684 - 111.534 Matt Spiegel

Did you just bitch about a risk situation when they scored 10 runs? I did because... Hey, listen here, Jed Hoyer.

111.554 - 112.575 Laurence Holmes

He saw what he saw.

112.655 - 120.083 Matt Spiegel

Hold on, man. Hold on. Ian Happ had a big wrist pit. No doubt. That felt like a big clutch hit in inning number one.

120.103 - 123.787 Leila Rahimi

It felt like a clutch hit in the first inning. Let me explain myself.

Chapter 3: What critical moments impacted the Cubs' recent game?

216.888 - 233.431 Leila Rahimi

It's been a traumatic couple of weeks in the Cubs world. They're facing Paul Skeets tonight. I was out with family last night, and until that home run was hit, it was very tense among the family. Should we talk about the Cubs? No, let's not ruin dinner, Mark.

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233.531 - 251.725 Matt Spiegel

There's so many ways to ruin dinner. We're going to talk about this later on. Ian Happ, after the game last night, said, it's like it never happened. We've been talking about this, but now it's totally irrelevant. Everything that's gone before. And that Jamison Tyone last night said, yeah, those 10 losses in a row are still raw.

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251.705 - 276.717 Leila Rahimi

well they should they should because you can't i mean jed was even talking about how unprecedented this all feels and how there weren't the the highs and the lows last year that this year has been the antithesis so you have you do have to review it study it and decide if something needs to change on your team because of you just went through or we can just pretend like it never happened and then the next time they lose eight in a row we could all go through the same thing again that

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276.697 - 297.664 Laurence Holmes

And that's why when he even said, oh, it's pretty much the same team from last year. No, it is not. Like, say Suzuki led baseball and RBIs at the half, you know, at the All-Star break. You had Kyle Tucker. You had Bonafide. I know who my number four hitter is, Slug, in your lineup. You had PCA hitting a whole bunch of home runs. PCA was tearing the cover off the ball. So, no, it was not the same.

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298.065 - 301.411 Laurence Holmes

Like, it wasn't. And the results showed that at the time.

301.451 - 321.167 Matt Spiegel

We have an opportunity to ask Craig Council at 2.30 on this radio show, what does he think of his team? Like, what kind of team? They're not as bad as what they just came through. They're not as good as the 20-3. The way Alex put it, 20-3 versus what, 2-14? Yeah. Those two stretches, they're not either of those, so what are they?

322.348 - 337.045 Leila Rahimi

Are they the team that had 10 come-from-behind wins up until April or May 7th? The team that had four walk-off wins that seemed like no lead was insurmountable? That's just it? Who are they? Who are they? Who are they? Who are you? I'm Batman.

337.205 - 347.321 Laurence Holmes

What if they're nothing now? They just start over even-Steven, like that Seinfeld episode? You know he threw the 20 on the street and then he found a 20 because everything was coming up even, Stephen.

347.341 - 352.832 Matt Spiegel

Oh, yeah, that's right. What other Seinfeld did he reference? Oh, no.

Chapter 4: How do fans react to the Cubs' performance during tense moments?

413.705 - 422.977 Matt Spiegel

As we do. Well, remember when they got their ass beat two straight games in Atlanta, and then they beat Chris Sale 2-0 in Game 3? Baseball is a funny game.

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422.997 - 432.67 Leila Rahimi

It is. And there's still a lot of games left to play. He beat Skeens twice last year. That's right. Don't be afraid. He's been very good against the Cubs in general, but they have gotten to him before.

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432.97 - 438.537 Matt Spiegel

Do you know how many games against the Pirates Ian Happ has reached base consecutively? 40.

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438.557 - 439.959 Leila Rahimi

45. Literally 40.

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439.979 - 442.202 Matt Spiegel

40 games in a row.

442.382 - 445.708 Leila Rahimi

Hometown. Are they going to sign him next year to a three-year deal?

445.808 - 447.812 Matt Spiegel

Or the Reds. He kills the Reds, too.

447.832 - 448.273 Leila Rahimi

Oh, yeah.

448.373 - 455.626 Matt Spiegel

Put like a 300 lifetime batting average and on base 40 games in a row. That's bananas. Likes playing there.

Chapter 5: What are the implications of the Cubs' losing streak?

503.06 - 526.679 Mark Grote

Ben Johnson spoke. We will talk about the things that interested us as a show. The Bulls are looking for coaches. What type of coach they're looking for is interesting. There's something going on in Minnesota that we have been tracking for a while now. And we are going to spend some more time tracking what's going on with 9. Because that's a whole thing. We are going to talk with Craig Council.

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526.759 - 533.507 Mark Grote

That's at 2.30 today. And when we come back, we will live in the win for the Cubs.

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533.527 - 535.189 Matt Spiegel

Also, we're playing categories later on.

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535.229 - 548.637 Mark Grote

That's right. And we'll figure out when we're doing that. It's kind of like... You don't know. We don't know because we have some White Sox stuff that we want to do once the game is over, and maybe they will win a series for the first time since playing the Cubs.

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548.677 - 549.299 Matt Spiegel

Looking like it.

549.459 - 556.757 Mark Grote

So we will talk about all of that after Tanny's open, which you know is must-listen radio. It's next here on The Score.

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