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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
March 31 of 2025. I'll raise my hand. I forgot about it. You forgot about that? I forgot about Carson.
That was a pretty big moment because it's like, oh, this Cubs offense is not playing around.
Chapter 2: What significant moments from the Cubs' offense are highlighted?
I'm 50, dude. I forgot about the Carson Kelly thing from last year. The cycle.
It's fair. There's a lot of offense going on in West Sacramento.
Yeah, there was. There was a cycle last night, too. PCA. A little bit of news here. The Saints are bringing back one of their franchise greats, the report from Ian Rappaport, as eight-time Pro Bowl defensive end Cam Jordan is set to return. Sources say you could cross him right off the Bears' list.
I believe that qualifies as breaking news, right? Breaking news on the score, sponsored by IDOT. If there's a car pulled to the side of the road, move over.
Fair enough. Thank you to our producers today. The Tylers! We got the two Tyler formation today. We have a Buterbaugh of the Tylers, and we have a Ferengul of the Tylers. He's baby T. Thanks to Ray Diaz, too. He is off, but we know that he has been pulling some strings from behind the scenes, so thanks to Ray. Hope he's enjoying his time off.
Video producers Connor O'Donnell, Jacob Stutz, and Max Curtis. Our guests were plentiful today. Casey Holdall, from trailblazers.com. Manu Raju, our guy from CNN who's thrown out the first pitch of the Cubs game tonight. Meredith Morakowicz for the YES Network.
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Chapter 3: What breaking news about Cam Jordan impacts the Bears?
Yes. She talked about the Yankees. And we had Ian Happ on a little bit earlier who said that the Cubs will start hitting with runners in scoring position. Transition Now is being brought to you by Torque Coatings, high-performance coatings for your home or business. TorqueCoatings.com. It's Matt and Lawrence of Spiegel and Holmes. Hello, gentlemen. What's going on?
You guys are in 12 personnel today.
Yes, and you're in NECO formation today.
We are. We're in NECO formation. You guys are in 12 personnel. It sounds like the world is in a good place.
The double team. It's such a great place that I don't know if you guys heard. Ian Half said he might come up with a different blend. He's going to call it 10 for 10 with runners in scoring position.
Do we have, let's find that audio, guys, so we can play it.
To change up the coffee blend.
We had a moment, because you guys had a similar moment with Craig Council recently, where at the end of the interview, I think it was two interviews ago. It was the last one. Was it the last? Yeah. Where at the end, without you guys really asking much about it, he was just throwing, we're going to be fine, guys. We're going to be okay. Yeah. We're going to get through this. Check this out.
We had a similar experience at the end of our talk with Ian Happ today. What is the latest with Connect Roasters?
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Chapter 4: What insights do Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes share about the Cubs' hitting strategy?
He should change?
Of course.
The reason I ask is because he's on pace to hit 36 home runs, right? But he's also on pace to strike out 215 times.
With runners in scoring position, you should change. For some reason, it's gotten to be a thing where it's okay to swing for the fences, even with a dude on second or a dude on third and less than two outs. And that's not a good progression for the game. It's not just about him. It's about people all around baseball. It makes me crazy. You should change.
But the one thing he did say is with runners in scoring position, it's more about bat forward and pushing the ball forward. So I guess technically, yes, there is a change in his approach with runners in scoring position.
It hasn't paid off, though. Look, I know better than every hitter in MLB.
I don't doubt that. That's been made clear.
I don't doubt that. What else do you want, Lawrence? Do you want some more wisdom? Sure. I'm going to spit bars all afternoon. I like it.
I have a question. Are you with me on my thing about why is Alex Bregman batting second in this lineup?
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Chapter 5: How does Ian Happ's performance affect the Cubs' scoring opportunities?
It's been great, like six weeks ago. Bregman's better than he has been. If Craig believes putting him in the two-hole will give him a little more confidence, a little more oomph to maybe shorten up a little bit like he did last night, I'm good with it.
Maybe he doesn't want to, because ideally the person that you would put back there is Bushy, and maybe he doesn't want to go too lefty, so you split him up with Bregman.
It's our guy Nico who has no business at the top of the order right now.
But he hasn't really been at the top of the order.
He should be the two-hitter. But he's not himself right now.
If he was normal Nico, then he should be bat leadoff and PCA should bat second, and there would be a whole lot of fireworks going on.
But that's not where we are. The Cubs have just taken in this good conversation that we're having here right now. It makes me realize the Cubs have reached Bears status, where even in a win, there's so much bad that happened during the course of the game, leaving men on base. The Phil Maton game. Walking a guy with the bases loaded.
Caleb Fielbar being treated like he had the magic pill that he had last year. He's not that guy anymore. And why he's left in. You can't go four outs with Palencia.
Right. No, he says he won't do that. He's like, I'm not pitching him. Didn't he say multiple innings or back-to-back days?
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Chapter 6: What changes in player approach are discussed regarding runners in scoring position?
So that's going to happen at 4 o'clock. We need to talk about what the White Sox are walking into today.
Like the Muppets, the White Sox take Manhattan. Let's go.
They're walking into pre-parade New York where people will have an opportunity to come see them and say things and scream stuff and bing-bong their way through a baseball game. They cover y'all. That sounds bad. Yeah, and we're going to talk with Nico Horner in about 20 minutes. Oh, yeah, that's right. I got the cup. That was what Nico asked for, so he's got him a cup.
I'm going to taunt him on the Zoom with the cup. And then you're going to remove him from the two-spot in the line.
Craig already did. Yeah, I know. All of those things are coming up after Tanny's Open, which you know is must-listen radio. It's next here on The Score.
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