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Chapter 1: What recent struggles have the Cubs faced against the Giants?
Rahimi Harris and Grody. Middays 10 to 2. On 104.3 The Score. And now the next offering. Drilled in the air. Deep left field. This is going to leave the yard. A long home run from Matt Chapman. He now has eight runs batted in in the game. And that's got to be close to a career high for him. He had a grand slam, a sack fly, and now a three-run homer. And he's up to 31 RBIs for the year.
Chapter 2: How did Matt Chapman perform in the recent game?
My God, that was a nightmare that day. Welcome back into Rahimi Harrison-Grody on the score. Pat Hughes right here on 670 the score. Every once in a while I like to throw in a 670 the score here too. But that game on Friday, San Francisco beats the Cubs. 18-3.
The Giants hit seven home runs, and this was after the triumphant 7-6 win over the A's from the day before, where it's supposed to be the, now you're on the right track, let's get you going, and along comes an 18-3 win for San Francisco over the Cubs. By the way, that is the day, by the way, that my mother decided to suspend viewing of
of all cubs games for the next week and while she was at it she said i'm sorry but if you guys are going to talk about that stadium all that i i can't take any more stadium talk i'm going to turn you right off so we'll have to make sure that we warn my mom in advance but she has suspended the cubs interviewing and taking in of game did you take her seriously when she said it Yes. Oh, yeah.
No, my mom's being dead serious. So on the good side. She's not like me. She doesn't have jokes.
She didn't have to witness what happened last night on the bad side. What a game to miss on Saturday.
Well, I haven't talked to her, so we'll see if we stuck to it. I drove with them on Saturday to a graduation party. My mom would not put the game on the radio. Are you serious? I am dead serious. My dad's up there going, she's not going to do it. We were listening to US 99 the whole time. My mom was just rocking out modern country because she has suspended all listening to and viewing.
For one week, she has made this decision. Like I said, she is serious about it. My dad and I were just like, I don't know what we're going to do here. I had the phone, of course.
You know what's crazy is that I'm sitting here watching that game on Friday, and I'm like, wait a minute. What happened to Matt Chapman? Why is he batting seventh in the lineup? If he's going to be out here... hitting home runs, and driving it eight runs in a game, and then watching last night's game, who came up with the game-winning hit, I was like, did I miss Matt Chapman's fall-off?
Because he looked very much like the Matt Chapman I remember in this series.
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Chapter 3: What impact did PCA have on the Cubs' performance?
But, you know, as far as Hoyer goes and the rest of the squad, I mean... Hoyer sounds like a broken record, and it's time for him to go. He's no Theo Epstein. God bless Theo Epstein for giving us our World Series in 2016, because otherwise it'd be 200 years before we've seen a title in Chicago for the Cubs, man.
Junior, appreciate the call. Junior sounds a bit defeated. Hey, he's been a Sox fan. He's been a Cubs fan. This man has seen it all. Come on home, Junior. Bad things. Come on home. Remember the Dennis Hopper? Bad things. Bad things. I've seen some bad things, man. That's what's going on. Traumatization is real. I can't.
sit here in front of this microphone and be genuine and honest and be like, yeah, I agree with you. Hoyer should be gone. When we were all celebrating, like there's been a lot of celebration of Jed Hoyer. We all picked the Cubs to win the division walking away this year because of the talent that Jed Hoyer had assembled, we thought, relative to the rest of the division.
We all celebrated Jed Hoyer when he gave the extensions to Nico Horner and Pete Crow Armstrong. I'm not saying that you can't criticize Jed Hoyer, but I have not conceded this Cubs offense. I have not decided that the problem is chronic. Maybe it's going to be too late, but I don't think that this group of players is actually this bad or poor chemistry. We know they have good chemistry.
I think it's a well-assembled team, but I'm not ready to completely give up.
Mark, I'm good with the Cubs offense coming back around. I think they will improve. I think that they will have plenty of opportunities to be better on offense. Here's why I don't think that's necessarily going to matter. You still got to pitch. And every time I look up and see who's out there in the probables for any given series...
A lot of times, if I said pick a crew, you'd pick the opposing team's starting pitching crew.
Sorry to interrupt, but up until maybe the last two or three weeks, the pitching has been pretty amazing relative to the injuries. They have held up, but we've all kind of had this looking out of our peripheral vision, looking behind us. When's it going to happen? When is... The truth going to happen with the Cubs staff because of the injuries. And the truth is beginning to occur.
And even the guys that you depend on, Shota and Edward Cabrera, suddenly struggling. So you're right. It's happening. But it's only recently that it's happening.
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