Who needs to be the vocal leader for this Cubs team?
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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. He's not. You've been a teammate of his before. I would have to say if a guy that wants to lead by example, even though he's a young player, right now it would have to be Pete.
And I think Pete might command the clubhouse the most. And again, I'm rooting for you guys. That's why I'm kind of bothered by this. I'm sure many fans are bothered by watching the same thing over and over. But I think what's going on is if nobody's having success and you're looking for someone to call a team meeting or to be like... Can we start being some bulldogs out there and fight a little bit more? I think some of the old veterans, the Bregmans, the guys, the Dansby, the guys who would normally be that guy, I think because they're struggling, they're so in their own head about trying to get out of their own slump is that they kind of don't. I've been there before. I've had slumps too, so I understand how this feels where it's just like you don't feel like you can speak up anymore.
Because you're like, you're only hitting 175. You're not doing your part where you're like, well, no one's like, because you speak up and be like, well, you're not doing good well either. And you're just like, that's not what a leader is. A leader, even if you're doing well, if you're doing bad, doesn't matter. Get the team in there. Start talking. You're not wasting a season. I don't care about your feelings anymore. And same thing kind of with Craig a little bit where it's just like. You're watching the same thing too. Are we going to have a line change? Why can't we get Conforto? Why can't we get just a bunch of different hitters in there, give every starter a day off just to be in the cages or just to give them a mental break?
Mix something up because you see the same thing over and over and you just want someone to change something. But if the guys who would change something are so consumed by their own stuff right now because they're slumping,
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