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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
You're listening to Rahimi Harrison-Grody on Sports Radio 104.3, The Score. Doors closing. 5-2 Colorado. Here's the 2-2. Bregman pops it up on the infield right side. The first baseman, Rumfield, drifting back on the dirt and makes the catch for out number three as the Cubs hear it from the crowd. Rockies win 5-2 to even up this series at a game apiece.
We've got to take advantage of the opportunities. We've got to score. We've got to get hits in those spots. We've got to do something better offensively.
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We just weren't good enough.
How do the Cubs follow up the PCA cycle game? The walk-off walk, their ninth walk-off of the season, I really feel, from Monday, the 5-4 win over Colorado. They lose to the Rockies by a final 5-2 last night. As you heard right here on 104.3, the score, that was the voice of the skipper, Craig Council, the breakout star.
There was a breakout star last night for the Cubs, and his name is Jason Kipnis, who you know as a Cleveland Indian, because I don't know if he was a Guardian. And you know him from almost hitting a home run in the World Series, but where you should start to get to know him from is telling truths about the Cubs and being really good in his analysis as a whole of the team.
We played a little bit from him. earlier in the show questioning the overall hitting philosophy organizationally, saying that there needs to be a team meeting, just really good stuff from Jason Kipnis. And now we want to present a little bit more from him because he was asking the question, who needs to be the voice of this Cubs team?
This is Jason Kipnis on the Marquee Sports Network postgame show last night asking this question to Cole Wright. Who's the leader on this team? Who would you say?
I guess it really depends. Justin Steele is. He's going to be back with the team for the next couple of days. However, he's not playing, absolutely. So who would you say the leader is? That's the thing. Who's going to have a team meeting? Tenure-wise, you would think it would be the longest-tenured Chicago athlete. Doesn't have to be. That would be Ian Happ. Ian Happ's not a talk, not a vocal guy.
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Chapter 2: Who needs to be the vocal leader for the Cubs team?
PCA is different. He is more outward. He is more talkative. He is more exuberant. He is that personality for sure. The problem I have with that, though, is PCA still needs a lot of leadership it feels like in his day-to-day baseball life.
I hear everything Jason Kipnis is saying, and I feel like I was probably anybody who was watching that last night that has followed the Cubs through this tough time and nodding along at everything that these two, Cole Wright and Jason Kipnis, were saying. But it's hard to be the leader when you're out here getting picked off.
first base in a situation where you really can't afford to be picked off first base.
Made some, ironically, because he's a Gold Glover, has had some of the worst defensive moments of the year, too, this year.
And I heard Jason Kipnis when he said, line change. I also heard him when he said, who cares? Like, there's something to be said about that, where if someone's going to be upset that a team meeting is called, well, you didn't call the team meeting, so somebody had to do it. And I feel like, again, the Cubs offense is going to be better.
I don't know if it's going to regress to the mean that Ian Hatt believes it's going to regress to, but it will be better. The question is, will it be good enough and will it even matter by the time it's better?
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Chapter 3: What insights does Jason Kipnis provide about team leadership?
And everybody is saying it. And when it comes from somebody with the credibility of Jason Kipnis, that yes, something needs to be done. It's not just... It's not just the things that they are doing. And Craig Council, he's out here trying, man. He is trying different things, even though you can't get Bregman.
He's not trying enough different things to my liking.
And we don't know all the things that go on backstage or in the clubhouse. He said line change. He said mix it up. Look, put Matt Shaw in the two-hole tonight. Love seeing him steal home last night. That was an exciting moment. That's the type of spark that they need.
I'm sorry.
You're right. He might be the perfect. That might be a perfect name, actually.
Three of the last four games, what has PCA done in his first at-bat leading off?
He's hit a home run like he did last night on a one-two count.
The man's got seven home runs in 14 June games. He's doing his part. He's doing more than everybody else on that offense. But I don't know that I want to put that on a guy playing the brand of baseball he's playing to also have to be this super vocal. He's already trying to drag them with him on the field and in the field of play.
I don't know that I'm comfortable with asking Pete Crow Armstrong to drag them verbally in a locker room team meeting setting.
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