Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Cubs' losing streak reaches 10 games ... when will it end? (Hour 1)

Episode Date: May 27, 2026

Leila Rahimi and Mark Grote opened their show by reacting to the Cubs' losing streak stretching to 10 games with their ugly 12-1 setback to the Pirates on Tuesday. Later, they discussed the White Sox's 5-3 loss to the Twins in 11 innings.

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Gay thanks. Bye. Rahimi Harrison Grotie. 10 to 2 on 1043. The score. What I think Craig should do, here's what I feel. Like, if this keeps going on, let's say they lose again today. Let's say they get swept by the pirates.

Here is what I think Craig Counsel should do. He should demand that all, well, laps, pushups. Everybody runs laps. Burpees. Yeah, we're bringing in Tyson-Bajun. Guys, I'll turn the team over to Tyson-Bajun. Let's go, guys. Burpees.

One mile burpee bra jump. Hour and seven minutes. Let's go. Burpee brawl jump. Burpee brawl jump. One mile. Wait, can it be his dad? Oh, man.

And he's just like making them too callous things. It's Mr. Bejant and Tyson are here to whip the cubs in the shape. And there is Daddy Bejant, the arm wrestling king. He's an electric cat. I love this idea. Guys, we brought in a new coach. We're going to arm wrestle all your asses. First of all, I've ever done this before.

No. Perfect. I'll take over from here. I can actually keep this if you don't mind. That's what we're going to do. It sounds like a bad episode of a saved-by-the-bell type of sitcom. Listen, the rest of these people, they've been calling me, Travis. You can call me daddy.

Yes, sir. Michael Bush coming up to the plate is just exhausted and sweating from all the burpees. It's not even his fault. Some aggregator is going to get a hold of this, and we are going to have some hell to pay. I'm just trying to get a good pitch to hit and drive a baseball. Left it a little over the middle of the plate. I was too busy grinding my absolute face-off. Lela Rahimi, Marshall Harris,

Mark Grody, midday's 10 a.m. to 2 on Chicago Sports Radio 104-3, the score. You okay, kid? Man, between that and Abnera Reba's triple chop, I don't know what's going on today. It's going on. The burpees didn't work. Now what?

You know, I will say this. Calisthenics are underrated. You can get in shape to it. those. Oh, big time. Burpees are for real. Yeah. Burpees in a broad jump. That's a, for Tyson, it's a more broad jump than it is for me. I'll say that. I don't have the ups like that. I can box jump okay, but that's about it. The burpees are good for everything. They are. Cardio, building some muscle, some core. Like, there is not, it's kind of a perfect exercise, actually. Welcome to Burpee Talk. This is Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 104.3, the score. And the sad part is,

even that probably feels better than this stupid 10 game losing streak. It reached 10. Double digits. This is a significant day. 10 straight losses. That negates, by the way, in my brain, I was talking about this last night. I was out. I said this negates one of the 10 game winning streaks.

You still have one that is left, but this takes it away. It is neutralized one of the two 10 game winning streaks. I mean, that's it. Is that the congratulations, the money in the bank. has run dry. And you're right. That's kind of how we have to look at it. Now, the last team to do something like this have the 10-game win streak, the 10-game losing streak,

was the 2017 Dodgers who, yada, yada, yada, maybe if the Astros hadn't banged on some trash cans, won a World Series. You know, another one. They won the pennant that year. The Dodgers did, and they lost to the cheating Astros. Was the great World Series, but the point is that doesn't really help us in this state of things right now.

The other part is, unfortunately, Mark, You and I did the thing that I think all of us do when we're trying to find answers to why a team is struggling, whether it's asking for your backup quarterback at times or asking for a different left tackle candidate or it's asking for perhaps a different guy to come off of the bench. You know, maybe your six man should start at a various position. We ask, what of Jordan Wicks? And in the first inning, he let you know. Unfortunately, Jordan Hicks had to wear that one. Wicks. Five runs allowed to the pirates in the bottom of the first inning. Welcome back to the big leagues.

Now, he did settle down after that. And I give him credit because I feel like as much as we, Mark, had been waiting to see him, he had probably been waiting for this moment to get back to get another opportunity. 10fold, 20-fold, 100-fold. but unfortunately when things are bad it just felt like at that point it was going from bad to worse he walked the first batter on four pitches here i am kind of excited to see a first round pick who has just been lost whether through injury or ineffectiveness the cubs scraping the bottom of the but we need you kid we need you first batter four straight pitches he walks they get men on

Then you get the Brian Reynolds two run double to left and the whole thing is on. The Valdez home run comes on a two-two count with two outs. You're on the verge of getting out of it and that could change the entire complexion of the game. Ten straight losses and they give up, they lost the game in the first inning last night. There was no sign of life from the Chicago Cups. There is no sign that they are on the verge or close to. to snapping out of what is now a 10-game losing streak. Well, and the frustrating part is, and Mark, you and I talked about this,

I'm pretty sure it was off the mic yesterday. When you and I were saying to ourselves, even when it was one to nothing, the game before last game in Pittsburgh, to start the series when it was one to nothing, I felt like that was a frustrating amount of a lead to have to overcome. I'm not even kidding. I'm not trying to exaggerate here.

It's just when your team, is playing like this, when nobody is hitting, when you can't get guys around, when they're on third base, when the last win was May 15th, it starts to add up for all of us who are watching in a way that can be incredibly frustrating. That's why I prominently mentioned the Brian Reynolds to run double, because once that was cracked, it was like, okay, good luck. And then, like, we have to cherish the Cubs runs. Like the E and Hap with an RBI double after Alex Bregman. By the way, Alex Bregman, two hits last night.

These are the things where I was listening to the radio pregame yesterday. And Zach, of course, has to do a segment where it's the who's hot and who's cold. Really tough to do that segment right now. And he said what I probably would have done as well. And that was Alex Bregman's on a five-game winning streak, I guess, or a hitting streak. So I guess he's hot right now. It's up to six. And then basically the cold...

He's hotter than any other Cubs hitter. Well, that's it. Zach Zan went on and said the rest of the team is cold, essentially, and, you know, proceeded to fire off a bunch of really horrible statistics of really cold players because that's it. That's what we're clinging to. I'm clinging to Alex Bregman going two for four with a run. Carson Kelly, two for four.

He got two hits. Dansby Swanson, though, O for three with a walk. He's hitting 183 right now. Say, Suzuki, another 0 for three. Moises Bios Starros. Happy birthday, Marshall Harris, but I'm sorry. Moises Biosteros was 0 for 4 and he continues

to struggle. It's funny, Lela. David Haw left this here. For you. He has a lineup here. And he has Moises Biosteros catching and leading off today. Thank you, David Haw. I mean, why not? Why not? David Haw doodles and I think

David Haw also, just like the rest of us, has to get stuff out of his system. but David Haas sarcastically refers to Moises-Biastero's catching. We, at the Midday Show, handicapped it. We decided... Oh, he's not being serious about this? I don't know, because we were trying to figure out whether or not... We said the overrunner for Moises-Biastero's catching would be 13 games, and I said 15.

And my own-paced stat was looking pretty solid. Leading off, I can't condone this. I can't condone this behavior. This losing streak is tearing us apart. Yeah, you're right. it's going to be like politics eventually. We're just not going to be able to talk about the Cubs as a society. When you go to your parties, you go on your dates, do not talk about the Chicago Cubs.

It's going to break up families. Well, and that's not what you want. And you know what else I thought about was we were talking about notable 10 game losing streaks in recent Cubs history. And I was thinking, oh, like the one who, the one that blew up the team, that blew up the core of the team who won the world. series where you saw the fire sale where Kimbrel gets traded, Baez gets traded for PCA, Brian gets traded away to the Giants and Rizzo goes to the Yankees, that one? Yeah, you should have a losing streak after that.

Like, that's just a demoralized team at that point. So that's a good catch by you. 847 says 312644, 67 is our number. 847 says saying Wicks settled down after a five run first is like asking, other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you? you like the play? Kind of. Listen, it could have been worse, okay?

Like, when I'm calling somebody up for the minor leagues who hasn't gotten a chance and we've been asking for him and clearly there's been reasons they kept him where he was, I get it. Like, I get that part of it. The best thing you can do after what happened in the first inning is settle down and start to throw strikes and adjust and that happened. But the problem is I have zero faith in the team to back him up with any sort of run support.

And it only got worse from there. This was a 12 to one ball game. It's not like it was five to nothing. Right. And to your point, Layla, about the settling down. Like, he did somehow, after a five run first, he did pitch into the fifth inning, albeit not eight runs charged to him. I know that a reliever came in and gave up one of those runs, but that was his guy.

He did give the Cubs 80 pitches and they needed all of them. They're going to need James and Tyone to go deep tonight. But you're right. The offense, again, littered with examples. throughout the day. In the fourth inning, they had first and second with nobody out. Ian Hap hits it sharp right to second base, but an easy double play in that spot. In the fifth inning, two on for Nico Horner, who strikes out. We don't see that from Nico, this much failure from Nico Horner. Sixth inning, they had the bases loaded and did nothing with it. And for the

most part, those were examples when the game was still in hand before it got out of hand. So this was, this is one of the worst losses along the way because you combined horrible, timely hitting, non-timely hitting, with horrible starting pitching. Well, in bad defense, too, at times. You know, that's the other part of this, PCA failing to hit the cutoff man.

Like, man, Howard, I get it. I get that there were signs of life at the plate and he's still remaining at lead off. Hitting it hard, working some good counts. But at the same time, I can't have you guys as defense fail too. then it's a multi-system organ failure, is it not?

Can I tell you a text that I just got? 312-644-67, except this one was to Mark Grody's personal text line. You love it. I'm sorry to just jump into this, but... No, it's good. This is from Brett Boone. This is from our friend. This is my guy.

Booty just vent about baseball to Mark. It is my favorite wholesome thing. It's my favorite friendship because it's like two surprising texts a year I get from him. Like just random wanting to talk baseball. or life or whatever. I love that for you too. It's an interesting friendship we have. He said, oh man, maybe I spoke too soon with the Cubs.

Yikes. And he's as optimistic as they come. Oh, he wanted to come on the radio and talk about how good our teams were when he came on with us. I mean, he had a reason to. He was happy about it. How about that? We've disappointed Brett Boone.

We have let Booner down. So let's count the list. Number one, I never want to hear anybody referred to as the Open did Tyson Baygeon or Mr. Bayesian ever again. I love Tyson. Big Daddy? That's fine. Gross.

Daddy. You don't like that word just in general. Barf. Daddy. Where's Chris Ranji? Working. Oh, yeah. Bear dads.

Bear dads. Wow. That could also be unstable. Number two, not only, we've offended Coombe. We've offended Coom. Okay. Who else? Number three, we, I'm pretty.

pretty sure Craig is perturbed at least, and that's as emotional as he'll get. The Cubs have let Boone down. You don't let Brett Boone down or any of the boons. Brett Boone is disappointed. Yeah. Who else? Alex Bregman is straight upset. Alex Coon is probably upset as well. No, I don't know. Alex Coon is pretty, I don't know, he's very calm. He is very calm. You're right. And he's, that's needed around here. The Cubs lost on Pat Hughes' birthday. And Marshall Harris's birthday. No, no, wait. Today's Pat Hughes's birthday. Oh, God. Oh, wait, Marshall and Pat Hughes are the same birthday? That's awesome.

Isn't it? It's very fabulous. When did you get in? Don't lose on Pat Hughes' birthday, Cubs. You lose some weight? And then poor Jordan Wicks is taking the responsibility and carrying the weight of the world, and he just got here. Poor Jordan Wicks. He didn't even go here.

I'm sorry. His ERA is 16.62. I love doing that unfair ERA to pitchers when they come in, start once, give up eight runs, and their ERA is 16.62. It's usually more fun when you'd be, like, mocking a member of the Pirates. or something, the Rockies. And you're like, hey, here's this guy from Colorado Springs. The ZRA is 25. I did think about that.

The symbolism of the pirates pounce, like the, they haven't had a winning season since 2018, 2017, 2018. Now, granted, there's a lot of baseball hipsters who picked the pirates for the sexy pick. No, they did. You know, to win the central. Because they signed Marcelo Zuna and they thought, they at least gave the appearance that they were interested in signing Kyle Schwaber, which I guess. I believe since he's from the area.

That's more than the Cubs did. And you know who could use him right now? You know who would make this lineup make a hell of a lot of sense. Oh, no, I've done it. To whom? Kyle Schwerver. Oh, Kyle Schwerver. Does he lead the whole league?

Is he still leading the league in home runs right now? Actually, after last night, Muna Taka Morcomi. Yeah. Let's see. Homer. I think that was 19 for Morikami last night, two run Homer in the eighth inning to tie it. Schwerber's leading with 21 and Mune is right behind him with 19.

What a game for the sock goes last night. At least there's the socks who lost, by the way. But it was a fun loss and not fun bad. It was just, it was a hard fought loss. Like school announcements when you'd hear about your team losing a hard fought game. And it wasn't. It would be like 45 to nothing. Right.

But this time it was an actual hard fault loss. It was. The socks were at the very least, highly entertaining in the late innings last night. That is for sure. Yeah. I mean, I worry that Sam Antanachi out hustled himself. Oh, my goodness. But we'll get to that at 1045.

In the meantime, unfortunately, the problem child is getting all the attention here. But that's the point, is that at no point during this losing streak, Mark, have I said to myself, this seems like something they can overcome? And my respective stats and measuring sticks and everything that I see have seen. even farther and farther away. Where's the lineup when the bases are loaded? Who's hitting in the lineup when, I don't know, you have two outs and there's two men on?

And that's the part of this that has seemed so fruitless, bleak, et cetera? It's happened so fast, too, Leila. I was going through some earlier notes from the season, and up until May 6th, the Cubs had had. Do you remember all the comeback? wins, the comeback win era of this season? I was joking that the Cubs game started to feel like Bears games to me.

Spot on. They had 10 comeback wins. They had up until May 6th. They had four walkoff wins. Everything was looking beautiful. And remember, like, there was a time where it felt like it's so opposite now. Where when the Cubs were, say, down 3-1 in a game early in the season, like you just knew they were coming back.

And it happened a lot. Like, obviously I just said it, 10 comeback wins. You knew they would get timely hits? You knew they were going, you felt like, because they just felt so confident and dominant, which should give you a little hope that there is that with this Cubs lineup. And now it's the opposite, as we were talking about. As you said, when they score one run, you're like, oh boy, can the Cubs overcome this? And it's a fair feeling to have.

Brian Reynolds ropes a two run double to left. It's two to nothing. And I'm like, that's it. Good night Cubs. Good luck. Do you know what their numbers were with runners in scoring position? as if you just need that because what do you need to know in a 12 to 1 loss? Rispy.

One for 13. Jesus. Is that the worst of like all of the games? Like, because that's probably pretty close. No, because they had a two for 15 or against the socks. Yeah. They had that O for Niner against, I think the, yeah, the first game of the Astro series left

11 on, O for nine with runners in scoring position. There was a Rangers game too, the six to nothing. Rangers lost. I feel like that was also the Rangers series. Very failed rispy. And again, For me, it's not the, you're facing 2021 edition of Jacob deGrom. Like, that's not the loss that bothered me.

That will happen in life. It's an Ashcraft. It's the six to nothing before that. And then it's the mess you've gotten yourselves into. And it's the sweep by two teams and home. Do not, folks, do not talk Cubs baseball with your friends or family. It's just, Lail and I are professionals. We can do this.

But we don't suggest it to the rest of you. Enough. Enough. Enough of us doing this. We got some anger we're going to talk about here, Leila. It's enough to hear from us. Whatever, you guys talk crap about us all the time. And we don't know anything about baseball.

And I don't even know why on this radio station. Don't give them time of day. No, no, you know what? No, you've heard it for me enough. We'll listen to everybody else who makes you feel even worse. Ron Coomer. Like, what about him? Alex Brugman, as I've mentioned.

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Well, we're just us. We have no service time. I mean, Mark has a Cubs ring, and that's pretty cool. But that's the closest we are. Let's hear from the baseball people next. Rahimi Harris and Grody. I'm not a fan of any team. I'm just a fan of being right.

Middays 10 to 2 on 1043, the score. The 1-1. Driven towards center playable. Garcia's going to make the catch. And the pirates make it two in a row, and the Cubs have lost. 10 consecutive games. The final tonight, Pirates, 12, Cubs won.

On the Northwestern Medicine, Cubs, Radio Network. It's not the same. I'm sorry. It's not the same when they've lost 10. I know. It hurts. This is Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 104-3, the score.

And you know what that song is called that Tyler Bueberbaugh brought us back with? Mark. Everybody mad. Everybody mad? Everybody, man. It's true. The problem is O.T. Genesis was getting too much money, and that is not the case here. I feel like people are losing money by the day.

We're keeping track. We're taking receipts on who the Cubs have angered, otherwise mild-mannered humans like Ron Coomer and Brett Boone texting me. We got the national folks converging on Chicago trying to get answers from us. So we're keeping a list here. This is upsetting families all over Chicago land. Yeah, it's one thing if I get mad. Like, that's going to happen.

But it's another Wednesday it's, it's Craig counsel getting ejected and then Ron Cumer gets in the mix. Now, Kevin Alcantra got an at bat in the game. And I would also like to see a bore of that out of Kevin Alcantra. And I get it. They ease guys in. They ease them in. Yeah. I don't know that that's the, nothing is the best practice anymore is how I feel about it.

So Alcantra gets in. And I see why he wanted to get his money's worth, so to speak, or at least get what he felt like. wasn't honest A-B. But listen to what happened during the game when the Cubs were down 12 to 1, and this occurs. Santana Reddy and the 3-2 on the way. Strike three, call, and now the batter. Al-Contra wants that pitch to be looked at again.

And Al-Contra. Now, wait a minute. I'm going to say he didn't challenge in time, I think. Counts is not going to accept this. No, that's not right. No, he did it right away. that's not acceptable.

Yeah, he's going to throw out of the game. Greg's going to go out and get his money's worth. I don't blame him. This is just bad. They just didn't like the young kid challenging to call in a blowout game. That's all it is.

And that's just wrong. Yeah, he's got to still play the game. Just what we were talking out, and now we've got the umpires not doing that. That's just not good. The pitch is in for a strike. He goes right away, taps his helmet.

He didn't even make the call yet for strike three. And then they did not give him a chance. That's just, that's terrible umpiring. And, you know, there should be a penalty for the umpires when they do stuff like that. Because that's just them being upset that a young kid challenged it. And that's just, that's just, that's just bad. And, you know, and they should have, they should have some issue with that. the league should because that's just terrible baseball by the umpire dan marzel

nico horn of the batter won away first and second 12 to one pirate's lead here in the ninth inning that's embarrassing wow i mean you don't hear ron kumer call out umpires by name like that very often and let me just set this up a little bit because i heard it both ways i heard that walking home last night i was listening to them and i'm trying to catch up on what's going on. I get home. I put the game on my DVR. I'll go right to that first. I want to see what exactly happened. It should be pointed out that it was a three-two count. Alconra gets called out, but Al-Contra sort of emphatically, that should be pointed out because apparently got under the umpire's skin, sort of emphatically goes to the helmet. Like, pats it like three times.

Like, you've got to challenge that. The first base umpire, who is, as Coom said, Dan Merzel, also emphatically when the ruling came and we all saw it, it was a strike, there was no doubt about it, emphatically then calls him out, like gets the fist up, he's like staring him in the eyes. So that needs to be pointed out just the visual of everything that was going on. And I guess that's what happened. Because I still don't know exactly. I think Ron Coomer is right that the umpires were butt hurt over that, that they were mad that a rookie was challenging at 3-2.

They mocked his, I feel like it was a mock of his movement. because he hit his head like three times. And then Dansby, Dansby looks at him because Danesby's at first base and he's got his hands up. Like what was that? Yeah. Like you see him turn toward him and ask like what happened here? Yeah, relax, man. What's up with that?

So that, yeah, counsel had to get ejected, had to come out and fight that. And word for word, Ron Kumar was spot on. Screw the umps in that case. And you see Kevin Alcontory yell clutching his bat. Oh my God. Yes. That was pretty obvious. he's like, what the heck happened here?

Yes. And, you know, the famous phrase, oh, do they have a dinner reservation? Do the umpires have a dinner reservation? But I'm sorry, this is not an unwritten rule that he crossed. He's a guy trying to get his big league at bat and he's trying to do what he can. And at times where you and I may have been like, oh, we're down 12 to 1, he has the right to do that in that moment. And get on Craig Counsel for defending him too, because as a rookie, I think that that's a pretty good sign of of backup. Big time. And when Dan Sby Swanson

gestures to the first base umpire, whose name I shouldn't have to know, Dan Merzel. We see. Hello, Marzell. Yeah. Well, and the only other, on television, they were, the conclusion they came to on television, they were surmising that the, that the first base ump was saying that Alcantra had swung, because it was like a check swing on three two, and clearly he hadn't, but that, but you have to appeal. The umpire, the first base ump can't, I don't think he could just call a guy out without an appeal.

Right, that never changed. You know, that never changed. First base hump is definitely still the one who also looks at the check swing. Yeah, but I don't think it can a first, this is a question. I don't know the answer to. Can the first base ump impose his will on a check swing or does he have to be appealed to before he makes that call? Yeah, that's a good detailed question. Yeah, I think, I think it has to be an appeal.

I always assume there's a conference of some sort. Right. The point down to the umpire. I don't think he can act alone. I don't think, but I'm not sure. I don't know. Maybe we could look that up. Well, vagueness is how they operate at times. And it just was unnecessary.

Like that in that moment was unnecessary. The guy's trying to do what he can. How many times did we criticize people for not fighting until the very end? And he's doing that. And in those moments, it's just not necessary. No, you're right. That's a good way to put it. This isn't personal, Dan.

Dan, Dan. He's just trying to get his at bat, which he's fought hard to get that opportunity. Dan made the list. This isn't about you, Dan. Yeah, write that name down. You're keeping a list of angry people throughout the process and people who have been angered. Dan Marzell just made a list. Like, heaven forbid you do your job, Dan.

Dan. Here's what Craig Counsel had to say. It feels like kind of left saying the same stuff after the last few games just with how the offense is what just. Yeah, look, I mean, someone's just got to step up and get hits in those spots. I mean, I don't, there's, there's not much more to say than that. You know, you got to conduct a big league at bat. It's the, it's the at-bats you want. Those are the at-bats you want to have during the course of a game.

And you've got to deliver. That's, you know, that's the name of the game. You know, we're kind of having the same inning over and over again. And it's about delivering in those situations. And until we do, we're going to be talking about the same thing. Do you feel like guys are pressing offensive? It doesn't matter what they're doing. Your job is to deliver, you know, it's not, you don't deliver every time,

but we got to have some level of production. Pressing, I don't know. Like, I don't know. I'm not sure what the answer is to that. I think the answer is it's a big league bat with men on base. It's the bat you want in the game. It's the bat you can make a difference for your team. is the bat you can flip the score of a game, flip the course of a game.

And, you know, it's time for us to deliver. I love that. Now, that is a step up in Craig Counsel. I wasn't hearing it yesterday. I know in the meeting it felt like people were trying to talk us into. Oh, listen to Craig. Now, that's a little different tone. That is, I will go with that same inning over and over again.

And then he's like, it cuts off the reporter. It doesn't matter about that. We have to be better. Montemarro. Good question and a great answer, quite frankly. And direct. Yes. Direct out of Craig Counsel. Yeah. Now that's a, that's a different sound. That's a different sound. Well, he wasn't the only one. Let's add Alex Bregman to everybody mad. You look in the mirror and change something. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is definition of insanity.

So if you keep getting beat the same way, without changing anything, it's on you. So you gotta fix, we gotta fix where the holes are in our game. And I'll need to look in the mirror and figure that out. When you say fix it and it's not the page, and what does that entail? What does that look like? Looks like getting the job done.

done and yeah that simple get it done it doesn't matter how just get the job done what do you think I'm into this point is preventing that you got a lot of good ball players in this room yeah I don't know you got to be you got to make adjustments can't keep trying the same things they're not working so try something else yeah yeah communication between you guys because we always see you guys work and helping each other, you know, what that looks like right now. That's the message. Change something.

Somebody to do it. These are way better answers than we've been getting, quite frankly. It's better than the, with all due respect to Carson Kelly, that's better than the, we have 110 games left, because there is a problem on this team right now, and if it doesn't get better, they're going to lose everything. And I get what Carson Kelly was trying to say. It's a game of chance, and maybe he thought he was sticking up

teammates there because he got two hits yesterday. You know, Carson Kelly. Mr. Big Schmachat with the two hits. I mean, but he, yeah, we, we got to take him where we can get him at this point. Alex Brayman, oh, look at you fancy two for four. But Jed Hoyer had comments that we're going to get into with Russ Doris here on a o'clock hour, which I think very much speak to this being a top-down thing. Like it starts, you know, fish rots from the head for a lack of a better term and it just goes

from there. but the same inning, the same lineup, the same production, no matter how you switch the parts. And in reality, as I've said before, the same hitter. You know, Mark, there was a time where I heard Theo Epstein, Jed Hoyer, and Jed say it too, that they wanted to diversify the lineup. They didn't want the same type of hitter. They wanted to contact.

Not just contact. What kind of hitter? Hitters for a slug. Hitter is where you know. Say, for example, You have a clear-cut answer as to who your cleanup batter is, who your 3-4 is. We don't have that. Not right now.

You did have that. You don't have that right now. But even then, I don't know that it was as clear-cut as it was last year when, yes, there were frustrating behaviors, especially in the second half of the season out of Kyle Tucker. But you know that Sayas Suzuki was his best self when he was next to him and then Tucker would at least come in and get the job done. Tucker was a bopper. He was a superstar.

He was a superstar and played like a superstar until the injuries. Kyle Tucker. That's what makes a lot of this frustrating when you put it all together in this way is I get it. We're all seeing the same things, but it's just a matter of how it's being put all together. Yeah. Yeah, there is, it's really, I was talking about this last night too. It's like there is no, there's nothing redeeming happening right now. I guess the Ben Brown has like been a nice story.

throughout the struggle, but there's very little redeeming things that have come out of any of these games at any of these times where you're like, okay, well, at least we have that. Ben Brown, yes, but that's it. Well, there's also the concept of overperforming and underperforming expectations,

and that is something that the Cubs have discussed. And right now you're seeing a bunch of people underperform. Yeah, and hey, you know, we joke about my prediction last year the Cubs are going to win the division and never look back. Most people pick the Cubs to win this division this year.

I would say 95% of those who are credible and who we ask these questions too because we value their opinions pick the Cubs to win the division this year. Pocoda had them as a 90 plus win team. Yeah. And they might still win the division, but it's really hard to see out of this right now. If I told you that the Brewers got rid of Freddie Peralta. Well, it didn't work with any of their other starting pitchers throughout the years that they got rid of and that still.

and stars and Willie Domases and all those guys. You just cut an arm off a starfish and it grows right back. Ooh, starfish. Yeah. Yep. Worms. I'm trying to think of other animals that you can cut. That regenerate?

Don't worms regenerate? Yeah, I think so. Yes. Are worms meat, by the way? Is that meat? Like if a bird eats a worm, is that, is that, I know it's protein, but is that, is that meat? Is that meat? Is that meat?

Somebody asked me that the other day. Not to me. Who asked you this? It might have been one of my, I don't remember exactly who. I could look back in my text messages. This feels like a possible niece question. Maybe. For some reason, we were having a conversation about worms.

And I, yeah, I referred to it as meat, and they challenged me on that. There's the worms aren't, and I said, huh, maybe they aren't. You know what they are? The Milwaukee Brewer's arms. Sorry to bring the show to a halt. Put that, I'm sorry, that should be in half time. I'm sorry. Nah, this is a more productive conversation.

Our worms meet. Are they meat? I guarantee you somebody probably knows. Probably. I'm sure somebody on the 312, 644. There's also that whole internet concept. Yeah. Maybe they know the internets.

There's no way to know. Their new segment, worms are meat. Our worms meet. All of this, you could argue, is more productive than having watched the 12 to one ball game last night. In the meantime, the socks were productive. they just didn't get the win. But it truly was competitive.

And I think we are seeing some emergence out of, I think, some key players. So let's examine and discuss next. We are the best show in this town to have the coach and or quarterback sit right here. Because we're here for a good time. We are here for a good time. We're fun. We're funny. We're serious sometimes.

Sometimes we cry. Sometimes we laugh. Like this is perfect. If you wanted a high chance of a drink spilled all over the studio, we are definitely repeating. Middays 10 to 2. Maybe we're the show for you. On 104 3, the score.

This is Rahimi Harrison Grody on 1043, the score. And enough, enough about being mad. Can we go back to, I think, some progress still, Mark? A loss that was a win kind of thing for the White Sox? I don't know. I want to say that. That's insulting to the White Sox. It is.

It lost that was entertaining. It was it. Just like middle school and high school announcements, it was actually a hard fought loss. It was. Five to three, the final, Minnesota Twins do beat the White Sox, but it took 11 innings to do so. And by God, the Sox came back in this.

Joe Ryan, who I still have no clue as to why he wasn't traded by the twins last year when they decided to just absolutely fire sale the thing, is still with the twins. And he pitched yesterday, and he proved to be a problem. Somebody who, if I'm a general manager, I might want to trade for. looks in the direction of people I know. Seven and two-thirds innings for Ryan. Two earned runs.

You know what the two earned runs were? Don't look now, but a friend entered the chat. Mune with his 19th home run of the season. How are we doing? Eighth inning, battling. Guess what happens? You lose somebody in there, even if it's Joe Ryan, even if he gets that seven next to his IP innings pitch.

We see what happens. So I think that that's what happens. And you know what else? else was look who got on base. Riku Nishita with his second major league hit. And Mune brings him home. Nishita was some excellent defense yet again in this game. And it ends up going to extras.

Twins take it with three runs scored in the 11th. But at least you continue to like what you're seeing out of the White Sox. Yeah. And like you, they are like what we were talking about, the Cubs earlier in the season when the Cubs had had those 10 comeback wins. If a game is close, you do feel like it was worth watching the White Sox. Sox, even though they were down because you're like, oh, okay, Mootakamorkami coming up here with a runner on ties up the game.

And quite frankly, as entertaining as it was, I did get greedy. Once they tied it up, you probably should have won that game for the White Sox. You had an opportunity in that eighth inning still to win the game. And then you had that wild occurrence in the 10th inning. Don't call it. I know what you wanted to call it. I know what you wanted to call it. it.

What did I want to call it? Did you want to call it a cubby occurrence even though it wasn't the cubby? No, I did not want to say that. Again, I would not have disrespected the White Sox like that. White Sox fans don't want to hear

Cubs lingo associated with the White Sox. It was a weird occurrence, though. It was. It was not, no. A cubby occurrence, three runs would have scored in addition to what we're talking about

here in the 10th inning. And that was a, you had Sam Antanachi on first base. I don't know who the batter was off the top of my head. He hits a low line drive to first base. Antonacci thought the ball was caught, but the ball was, in fact, short hopped, one hopped.

And so Antonacci thinking it was caught. It was Mooney. Because he goes to first base. There you go. Mooney, a scaldor. Antinacci thinks it's caught so he gets back to the base. Then the first baseman is tagging Antonacci, who is backing up, like, backpedaling. So the guy on, was it second or third that he was allowing them time to score?

but it turns out to be a double play because Mutataka Morcomi then arrives at first. Both guys get tagged out. Double play inning over devastating in the moment. Yeah, it was Luis Angelucunya at third base. And if you're scoring at home, it was three unassisted double play. Ooh, good. Yeah, which is a weird one. I was trying to think in my head.

Did you come up with that yourself? No, I'm looking at MLB.com. I was going to say, I was like, I can't do the numbers on this. Now, I would have if I were still hosting White Talks pre and post game. Yeah, I probably would have made a comment about it, you know, and I do keep score, and that's how I host a post-game show. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, it was officially scored as such.

Munataka Murakami grounds into an unassisted double play. First baseman, Josh Bell, Sam Antanachi out at second, even though he wasn't out at second. Yeah, right, right. Mutataka Murakami out at first. The funniest part was how he backpedaled. Yeah, I mean, pretty fast, too. That was a fast back pedal. Do you know what he did?

He, Caleb Williams, a judge. rejected the pocket. He pulled to Caleb Williams against the ramps. Like, sir, the base path is that away to your right, not behind you. But I feel like that's what happened. Then he put his hands off. It's a good back pedal too. I thought it was strong.

Let's listen. 2-2 pitch. We're coming. It is gloved by Bell. And now trying to tag Antanachi, he steps out of the baseline. He is out. And that's going to do it for this 10th inning. Will Venable.

Mike can't challenge this one, he tells. He played umpire just to wait one moment. You can hear it in the background. And he says, play on. Player. That was 100% something. And then Brooks Lee with the three-run double off Tyler Davis and the 11th in the game was essentially over. The base is clearing double, no less.

The bases were loaded. Like that was, yeah. So that was courtesy of CHSN. Let's also play the other fun part. The, the, uh, Nikita, got another assist, another outfield assist and took down Cody Clemens at home plate. Two-two pitch. That is popped in the right field. Nishita. He's going to come up throwing the test him again. Nishita. Back to back, Gabe, throws out the runner at the... I just, I like the

the bell there, the bell tolling. But if there's one thing I love, it's an outfield assist like that, man. I love a good outfield assist. Somebody gets doubled off. Like, you have, you've got the laser at a home that it just makes me happy. Steve Stone wondered out loud. Is that unprecedented? Your first two games in Major League Baseball, you have assists. I'm guessing it's probably happened with all the years of Major League Baseball that have existed. But that's pretty good, though.

I'd imagine there's not too many players who have begun their career with assists from right field and super. I mean, he was a dead duck at the play, too. That was on time. Oh, yeah. He got him by several steps. Yeah. And not to be outdone. Sean Burke had a nice outing.

He also got a seven next to his name, seven innings, two earned runs, only three hits, eight strikeouts, eight. That's how you get it done. And David Sandlin going tonight, he is the, their skit. Would that be his debut? Is that his major league debut? He could throw a hondo. So it would be interesting to see what the White Sox get out. And they'll probably get something great out of it because that's just the way it works with the White Sox this year.

Bring in guys that you didn't expect to that Derek guy, you know, obviously. Derek Lee? No, who's the guy, the pinched home run guy? Yes. Derek Lee? Derek Hill. Derek Lee is Derek Lee. Sorry.

You don't know who he is. It's that Derek guy. It's a lot easier. Hey, be nice to me. I was also reading the nugget about how David's saying. I was like, why do I know that name? Why don't I know that name? Because he pitched with Kate Horton at OU.

Oh, really? There it is. Low key. Good stuff. Also, you've got to let the people know that there's been a ruling on our worms meat. Oh, it would appear, I guess according to, or text line. Ray and Tyler that it, yeah, and the text line.

The text line always beats everybody. Yes, it would appear that worms are meat. Yes. So just in case you needed that wrapped up. Yeah. And a nice gross bow. But it seems like a lot of people driving around right now listening to Rahimi Harrison Grotie knew that. So we won't ask Mike Florio. We will ask Mike Florio about an NFL case that is going to have to be made public.

And in doing so, I think we're going to be. to learn a lot about the league. That's next.