Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Full Show — May 7, 2026

Episode Date: May 7, 2026

Leila Rahimi and Mark Grote discussed the red-hot Cubs, who have won eight straight games overall and 14 in a row at Wrigley Field.

Rahimi Harrison Grody 10 to 2 on 1043 The Score I think I asked for an impossible favor on fans and I'm sorry that I said no fights for crosstown. I don't think it's happening. Based on a very small sample size in our text chat and our text line,

I regret that. White, have you prepared your statement of regret? I have. Let's hear it. I state my regret. You couldn't memorize that? I could not because I do not feel it. I've already worried about the energy for next weekend.

In the best way possible. So you're either a believer of one of these two theories, right? When it comes to Cross Town and the idea of fighting, right? Yes. You're a believer that one fan base would want to fight because the team is terrible. They need something to do in the game. The games will blowout, whatever, right? And the other theory is, if both teams are good, that raises the chances of a fight

because there's more talking of feces and whatnot. Why is she picking up? I've read about this before. It's like fun with feces. and you're going with feces. You know what I'm saying? Like that's... You're synonyms for...

How are they worse than the actual swear word? I can't say what type of talking you would normally say because... There was a song a couple years ago. The title of the song was... Type stuff. Only it's not stuff. This and the other thing he says sounds so much worse. What, defecation?

This is the defecation free store. That's the kind of feature you dream about. No defigating. You're in it. Later, welcome. But if you are a defecator or planning on defecating anytime soon,

don't come down here. This is not your place. Is that the thing you're talking about? I didn't think on the Wednesday, 10 days before the first cross-town game that I would be here mentally. I did not see that coming, sir. Lila Rahini,

Marshall Harris, Mark Grody, Midday's 10 a.m. to 2 on Chicago Sports Radio 1043. The score. You know, I'm going to pick up where Michael Rinesdorf left off and start my show with an apology. People of Chicago, I am sorry. You're probably fighting across town next week. Who am I to kid myself?

If you do, fight responsibly with honor. Passion. This is Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 1043, The Score. On this Thursday, we are getting you ready for a day game, the finale of the Cubs and Red series. How are they going to win today? Soda. It's show time. Walk off bulk? Like, what's next, people? That's the voice of Mark Grody. And I think, Mark, we have to pick up where we left off yesterday,

not just with Michael Reinsdorf, where I thought that that was great, by the way, introducing Bryson Graham. But also with, yet again, no lead is safe. And bears. Bears. My Cubs games are starting to feel like the Bears games, which are starting to feel like the Cubs games, which are starting to feel like the Bears games. And I don't know that I can take this. There's 162 of these. I think the difference is, and I love the analogy,

the only difference to me is because it was a revelation this year with Caleb Williams, I know the Cubs are coming back in these games. I don't know for sure during the bear season that they're going to come back and have that singular magic in every single game, or a lot of games. And the Bears did. But I knew last night that the Cubs were going to come back and eventually win that game. It's getting harder and harder to know that.

But I knew that last night again. It's showtime. It's showtime at Wrigley Field. I hope people are getting down with this. Yeah, again, I'm going to keep saying it. I think it was after the game against the Pirates, Mark, when we were in Vegas, where I was like, Shoda, I hear you an apology. You're just going out here and shoving.

And then he had one bloop, like one blip on the radar. against the Dodgers. And then things have come back to what he has had, which is normal so far to start the season. So yet again, Shoda, I was at your last start at Wrigley on Saturday. Make me tell you I'm sorry again, because my goodness,

that was such an excellent performance he had to help his team win a 2-0 ball game against the Diamondbacks. Go out and do it again. Seven shutout innings in that contest. Shoda enters today with a 2-0-0-0-0 ball game with a 240 ERA, his counterpart today, because we're all greedy right now, man.

We're all looking for the ninth straight win overall. The 15th straight win. And Wrigley Field. But are you, or at this point, are you, like, driving the, are you like Seinfeld where they're driving the car on empty? And you're like, yeah, maybe not. Yeah. If they lose, is it okay today?

It's, of course, it's okay. But I do feel this sense of, again, I'll say it again. I've been saying this since 2015. A sense of entitlement. It's okay. Get greedy. Go after Rhett Louder today, who has an ERA above five. And of course, our program director, Ryan Pardt, who is a Reds fan, couldn't be more negative and cynical about his ball club, who he fully expects to be swept in four games by the Chicago baseball team today.

Yeah, we had suffering talk this morning in our pre-show meeting. My apartment faces east. And they have the heat on. and it's 44 degrees outside and yet somehow 82 in my apartment and I have the heat off in my personal apartment It's a built-in steam room you should take advantage of that

just sit there and sweat man It sucks so bad and I have the window open I'm doing all the things because I only have one window and that's kind of the problem here so before you give me the unsolicited advice trust me I've tried

and then Ryan's like or you could have the Red's worst pitcher on the mound today and I'm like these are your choices be a reds fan or have it be 82 degrees because your apartment faces east and your building has the heat on and it's 90 degrees in the hallway. I need you to explain something to me that you brought up the end of our meeting yesterday. The Cubs win last night, 7-6 over the Reds in 10 innings, if you don't know. Michael Bush with the walk-off walk, one of the best Cubs walk off walks since Todd Walker against the White Sox on I believe a Sunday night back in the day when Todd Walker was roaming Wrigley Field.

But you said that there is a name for a walk-off win. And you said that that name is shrimp. Yes. Shrimp. And I looked at Layla and I said, I don't believe you. Guys, Ray, you can back me up on this. Tyler, baby tea in the house here today. Tyler of the Farangles is here.

I accuse Layla of making something up. And I'll be damned if she was not making something up. Yeah, if there's one thing I know, it's that sometimes my bald knowledge will be dismissed. But what you didn't expect was MLB.com. Boom. Not just any old website here. This is a DJ booth.com or Illinois mushroom or whatever that was called that we looked up that one day. A mushroom is a hit by pitch walkoff. Yeah, I mean, we've got to come up with more names. This is MLB.com April 12, 2020, the internet slaying baseball dictionary. I know it was six years ago. But I still call a walk-off walk shrimp. That's a thing. And what is the reason?

Just looking at me like I'm not even speaking English. I know. This is just, I saw you put it in the text thread last. I saw you put in capital letters. Shrimp like we were all supposed to know. I guess I'm not as hipster as I thought I was. I don't know that it's hipster. This is six years old.

Oh, okay. Shrimp alert used to celebrate a walk off walk. This is usually accompanied by a gif of a shrimp in a tank, running on a treadmill and or the shrimp emoji. There is even a Twitter account that is solely dedicated to the shrimp. I don't know that that Twitter account is actually. anymore. Oh, at Shrimp Alert. Its last tweet was on the, oh, 91923. But there is an actual video of a shrimp on a treadmill. Why the shrimp is on a treadmill? I don't know. But it represents us all.

So eight straight wins, 14 straight wins at Wrigley Field, three straight walk-offs and a shrimp. That's what your order is. It's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp. Yes, sir. Coconut shrimp. Oh, yeah. Pepper shrimp. I do enjoy shrimp, so I'm cool with it, whether it be The food kind, which is great during Lent on a Friday, by the way. Yeah. Or, or, you know, just any time. And then also the baseball.

Shrimp scampy or shrimp cocktail, if you had to choose right this second. Shrimp cocktail. Yeah. Pretty good, man. Yeah. Yeah, that's always a good. And get your own, right? Don't share it because it's only like four shrimp, right?

Yeah. I mean, I share because sharing is caring. And if you have to get another one, I guess you just get another one. That's true. They're usually like 30 bucks, though. everything is expensive. Everything's about 30 bucks to start. That's like a baseline for everything.

You're right. Like minimum $30 for that item. City living. But nice to see the shrimp last night. And then I don't, I didn't mean to bears the Cubs, but it's kind of hard not to. In fact, on our group throughout last night, Baby T is here, Tyler Faringle. And I was like, Baby T. Simon Time.

How many of these Caleb-like comebacks have the Cubs had? since Caleb was at the game. And? That was last Friday, right? Last Friday. But it was only the Reds. Only the Reds. Only the Reds.

Only the Reds. Only the one and only Cincinnati. Wow, this is not working. But to be fair, the Cubs have won six in a row since Caleb Williams was at the game. So he is accounted for 75% of the Cubs current win streak. Wow. He was wearing a Misfits hoodie. the band misfits.

And Modis Bozellis had the fleece cubs blanket on as a cape. I was thinking about modest bozellis. There's a vulnerability there to the club, to the Caleb club, the way Bryson Graham was talking yesterday, everybody must go, it sounds like.

I don't know. He's attached to Modis Bezellis or Josh Giddy or anybody. So, do you know there's an acronym with Bryson Graham, slap. Slapy. No. Oh, slap.

Just slap. There's no why. It is size, athleticism, length, and physicality. Oh, okay, Phil. Phil. Yeah, I thought Phil was the P.

I always missed the P. I got it. Phil Jackson? Like, who's the Phil? Yeah, it could be Phil. It's an Ode to Phil. And Phil Jackson. Since Bryson Graham does love the Bulls.

So then Marshall's like, well, who's the Bulls point guard? And then I start going through the short point guards who are not sized, like Yuki Karamura and Tray Jones. No offense, Yuki. Shrimp. Hey, not the same time. Oh, is that the same shrimp, okay. Poor Margrody. The DGM is already.

I'd say it's like a six. Do you think so? Can we get that? The Grady Distraction meter? Can we get that to a 10 by the end of the show? Yes, we can't. Because it's basically a Friday show for us on a Thursday with Cubs baseball. This is Rahimi Harrison Crotie on 1043, the score.

And we can have fun because once again, the Cubs were fun. Had the two runs in the ninth thanks to the Peacrow Armstrong home run, and he looked about as fired up as anybody's ever been. And then we see what happens with the walk-off walk in the 10th inning. And at what point, after, the red scored four in the ninth with not the greatest outing for old Hobie Miller and Corby Martin. Yeah, both were not on.

Yeah, so I didn't love bringing Hobie on after he got out of the 10th or after he got out of the ninth inning bringing him back on for the plate appearance in the 10th, where then a base runner's on that was not my favorite managerial move. But what I didn't think was going to happen next was Trent Thornton, who just got here, Kurt counsel's like, uh, extra things. You know, you've got two men on. No outs. Trent Thornton.

Try to get this done. And then he did. Oh, and the, the yell he let out after that because this is a guy, man. I mean, it fits in perfectly with the Cubs. He's essentially coming off an injury. He hadn't pitched since July 31st when he had an Achilles tendon injury. So this is his first performance in ever.

He comes in, does that. And then he lets out like this. this primal scream, which was beautiful to see. That, I mean, that's how you know things are going right when you're getting, like, they drop Trent Thornton in there. Boom, he contributes right away because guys have to contribute right away, and he sure did. Yeah, in fact, I was watching the post game, and I think Craig Counsel may have blacked out when he made that decision.

He was asked about it after the game. A guy comes to your team for his first appearance. It's not generally recommended you put them in extra innings or you try to let them, you know, get a little softer landing. But Trent's a kid that's, he's got that in him. And so he came in and, you know, that was great. And that's not easy to do. And hats off to him for doing a heck of a job. So that was the smooth condensed version.

definitely had a pause and he smiled and he was like, uh, yeah. Like, you could tell that was not, not typical for him. And he had a, you could tell he was, he had a laugh about it either to himself or amongst others, but just the fact that he said, it's not generally recommended that when a guy gets called up, you put him in in one of the biggest early season scenarios of the year. And Craig, as we know, speaks in subtleties. Yes. So for him to be like, yeah, that's, that's not.

usually what we do. I think that's his way of knowing he was living on the edge. Living on the edge, and this is the way Craig Counsel has been living on the day-to-day basis. He won't admit it, like when I've heard him here on this station, like in terms of, of course he won't. He just won't play with those guys. It is verbal judo with Craig Counsel in the afternoon show. Would you please humor Lawrence and Matt, please? Would you please just humor them? I kind of like that he doesn't actually. It actually does come across. because it's like it's like a challenge how can we get him to answer our questions well you know and I'm like well I know what question I'm asking Craig counsel if he ever if we're if he's ever on the

midday show or something oh you do yeah dear Craig are you a vampire he's no gray hair oh yeah full head of hair doesn't age yeah I'm like what right I think you have a stressful job yeah yeah yeah and yet I used to to think, vampire. He looks so good that I used to think he's got to color his hair, right? Is there some fake hair? I mean, I color my hair and it's not that good. I had gray hair starting at 29. Yeah. I had gray hair starting at 29. Am I a baseball manager? No. No, but I think you probably could be. You could probably be a pitching coach. I can see you strolling out there. No, the point is like, I'm not in some high-stress job. I talk about sports. Like, we're making bears and fart jokes and stuff. We're live,

but we're live. That's stress in itself. Live is stress. No, I'm just like, crap. is a vampire. Craigers. So I just need him to answer that question for me. And then after that, like, baseball talk, sure. But, you know, beginning, vampire. He is a vampire. Baseball vampire.

Did you think that the, so what were you thinking yesterday when you see L.A. Dela Cruz get that the sack fly, that, like, devastating feeling when two runners score on a sack fly. It's like, this has got to be over at this point. Well, and yes, because at that point you're thinking, well, this is a baseball anomaly. And usually in a game, the baseball anomaly is an indication that the team who has it is going to win when it's positive. This is from Ryan Spader. L.A. Dela Cruz is the first Reds player to tally three RBI without a single base since Dave, base hit, since Dave Concepcion on September 24th, 1980.

Oh, my goodness, Dave, Concepcion of the big red machine. Machine. I will say that that... Wait, there's more. Oh, yes. Prior to that, you've got to go back to July 24th, 1910, when Dode Paskert was 0 for 3 with 3 RBI of his own. So at that point, you're like, okay, maybe, maybe we've hit empty on the gas tank.

Dode Pasker sets up to the play, Doty Paskert. Maybe this is, the magic is finally subsided. And you've got to refill the tank. you can't be you can't be like out here risking life but no no we got PCA

going up for PCA hits the home run Ian Hap has another great game and another great day at the plate and then the next thing you know shrimp walk off walk shrimp yo I will say

Sayas Suzuki kind of misplayed the ball I know they said on the broadcast that it was a good play by Sayas Suzuki and I guess on the overall it was a nice catch but Sayas Suzuki didn't realize how far away from the wall he was. I think he had intended

to fall into the wall. I think he thought he had enough wall space where he could just gently fall into the wall and get himself together and allow the one run to score. Instead he falls on his butt, flips the ball, the PCA, I think it was PCA, to try to get it in and then the second run score. So I thought that that, dirty little secret,

I thought that was on Sayas Suzuki. Oh, man. Yeah, sorry. Sorry, everybody. Sorry to go negative on you. But I think that could have been prevented and that would have been a louder point today if the Cubs hadn't won. Also, I just want to point these things out. There were some excellent mound visits by the Cubs, and especially early, the pitching change,

Jacob Webb for Colin Ray. The defense stepped up behind him yet again, but especially after Colin Ray leaves and good outing by Colin Ray, once again, just coming through as much as he can. You know, this is in the sixth inning. Will Benson grounds out. Jacob Webb comes on, and then Jose Trevino grounds out, and that ended the threat, which I thought was pretty good.

Like I just, I can't say it off. And there was, I should have logged it properly, but there was another mound visit that ended up, I think, resulting in a double play and just some really strong, I think, good in-game mound visits that happened. Because the next thing you want to do after that is throw a strike. And I feel like the Cubs were able to do that well as well. Tommy Hadovy has a good walk to the mound, too.

It's very direct. It's very serious and he looks good going out there. So I just want to add that to the Tommy-ness. I like it. And he's a guest on the score. Exactly. Yes. He's a regular on Moline Haugh. That is true. So this is Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 104. The score. That is Mark Grody. I'm Laila Rahimi. We're in with you on this Thursday, getting you ready for the fourth and final game against the Reds at Wrigley. Can they make it 15 in a row? Can they? Can they?

Why not? Exactly. We broadcast live from the Scores Hyundai Studios brought to you by your local Hyundai dealers. When we have breaking news on the score, it is sponsored by IDON. speeding in a work zone is a no win. Mind the signs. Avoid the fines. Our producers are Ray Diaz. Tyler Ferengel is in today.

Baby T is in for Tyler Beterbaugh. I like that we replaced a Tyler with the Tyler. No choice. We are a Tyler show. We are Tyler centric. I was like we like Tyler. No, I didn't mean it like that. No, I mean like baby tea.

We like Tyler's in general. We're positionally deep at Tyler. Yeah. Brandon Friar helps us out as well. You can call and text us 312, 644, 67, and you can join us on Twitch. Twitch.tv.tv slash the score Chicago. YouTube, The Score, Chicago as well. Our Twitch mob is up and chatting.

Connor O'Donnell, Jacob Stutz, and Max Curtis are our video team along with Cody Westerland. Mark, I'm glad you're here because you were there. A lot of 2016 references being thrown around. And I actually want to talk about the lineup in a way that I think you can speak to from that season because it's something I recall. I feel like we're seeing it now. Maybe not the entire season.

Not saying World Series here. But there's stuff to get into, so I want to do that with you next. Rahimi Harrison Grody. 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 repeated. Midday's 10 to 2. Maybe we're the show for you. On 104, 3, the score.

Base is noted, two down, bottom of the 10th inning. The atmosphere is incredible. And the pitch on the way. Inside, Cubs win the ball game. The Cubs have won another one. Listen to this crowd. In the series against Cincinnati. Yeah, we love to hear Pat Hughes and Ron Cumer on the call.

Grady's jamming out. That is courtesy of the Northwestern Medicine Cubs. Radio Network. Do we bring it back? I feel like we haven't done it this season. That's the Lawrence Holmes special. Lawrence is out of town. Yeah, so yeah, we'll work on it.

Maybe we do an armed signal and then we do it together. We could try it right now. Okay, so Northwestern Medicine Cubs. Radio Network. That was nice. Little act you guys doing here. I like it. That is Mark Grady.

I'm Laylorimi. We are here getting you ready for day baseball. Cubs and Reds at 120 at Wrigley. It is sunny. Can they make it 15 in a row? And the game had a lot of twists and turns last night. 312, 644, 67. 67 is our number.

Derek joins us from Bowling Brook. Hi, Derek. Hello there, Derek. Is he here? How's it going? There he is. Hey. What's going to do you?

Hey, man. What's happening? Nothing. Hey, I want to do. I was calling it because I wanted to give great counsel his flowers, man, because if you remember, it was a basically loaded and Bush was up, pitch where, you know, Bush wanted to challenge, right? Yes.

But they didn't give him the challenge. And it was a 3-1 count at the time that it happened. And that's when counsel came out, and he argued as well. I wanted to give counsel his flowers because they argued that he did through that picture all. because that very next pitch that the pitcher through, damn near hit Bush. That won the game. You know what? I think you're on to something, Derek, because as we mentioned earlier,

I think there have been some very good bullpen decisions that Craig Counsel has made, especially in this past homestand. We talked about him. But, yeah, he comes out there because the argument at that very last at bat in the 10th inning was that, and I think, you know, to add to that, the crowd was on 10. And then Bush wanted the challenge. the timing wasn't there as we saw and we could see it play out in real time.

The beauty is now that the umpires have the opportunity to go out and look at that video themselves and see and double check Ian Hap talked to us about that the other day even after the game. And then Bush goes out there and then Craig goes out there too and you could tell that Craig didn't want to get ejected in that moment

but there was a come on man type of discussion that was going on right before it and even if it disrupted the timing a little bit it was enough at that point to help the Cubs win because the bases were loaded. Yeah, I don't know if I buy that Brock Burke, the pitcher, that caused him to be more rattled in that spot because-

I thought he was coaching Illinois State football. Oh, yeah, no, that's a different Brock. That is Brock of the Spack. We still got to talk about that championship game a little bit. That was not his finest hour. I got emotionally attached to that game, which I was sad. Which is very moving to me, by the way, as an ISU alumnus. Hey, I'm a public school girl, okay?

I go with the state institutions. Linae, Illinois State. Hell yeah. Let's go. We're all about it. But yeah, I think actually in that spot, a guy in obviously the highest of leverage situation, Brock Burke, to be able to take a couple of deep breaths in that scenario, I think actually probably was more helpful to him or in theory should have been. But one way or another, Brock Burke was rattled throughout that at bat for some reason.

Terry Francona rolling the dice just a little bit to load the bases, like in that. spot. Like it's always a weird thing, but I get what he was doing with a matchup with Michael Bush. I probably would have done the same thing, but it was a terrific at bat for Michael Bush to take those bad pitches. Well, and don't forget the call was 3-0, you know, goes to 3-1 on that strike that was argued. And then, no, sure, sure thing. Right is right, in another ball, walk-off, walk, shrimp. In the heat of the moment, did you think that Michael Bush had been decisive in his move to ask for the replay? Because I didn't. I didn't. I thought he looked hesitant.

Okay. But maybe it's because I was biased. You know? Like I'm like, well, that was enough time to ask for that right there. Right. But I also had the count in mind. You know, of course, of course you're going to ask that question when the counts three. Right.

It should be a no-brainer. I think it's just tough for like guys are still getting confident in knowing where they should do it and where they shouldn't, when they should and when they shouldn't. So I think there's always like PCA the other day. Yeah. Had a hilarious moment with the umpire. where he starts to do it and that hovers it over his head and the umpire kind of looks at him,

are you doing this or not? And PCA starts laughing. And PCA throughout that entire bat was smiling because of that moment with the umpire. I'm just glad they're able at this point to have fun with it because as we know previously, it wasn't fun to begin with. And everybody's like,

well, we don't want to be embarrassed and all this stuff. And then Ian Hav gave us some really good insight. I think we should get into it tomorrow a little bit. I know we got the shorty today. Beat Ian Hap talked about. how it's just depersonalizing a lot of this. You can go to the tape. And then it's like, oh, yeah, maybe I was off there a little bit,

but everybody gets to adjust. Not just batters, not just pitchers, not just catchers, but the umpires get to as well. So they also get the benefit of being able to adjust to what they're seeing. And maybe they were underestimating their power in this a little bit or their ability to be able to do so. Amen to that. And like one thing that I never have liked about baseball is,

Like every single caught-looking strike, except for the absolute no-doubters, you'll get the player making comments to the umpire or staring at the umpire, or you get the chirping from the dugouts and all of that stuff at the very least has been quelled, if not eliminated. Well, and I'm sorry, but it just makes it more inaccurate when you can't measure the emotion that you've got and everybody's fired up. Do you love it? Yes.

But you also want a well-called consistent, most importantly, strikes on. What's going on, right? Well, to Grotie's point about the kind of like dying down now of like the whole like argument thing because of ABS, the chirping, less chirping, chirp, chirp, chirp, is. It's impossible to not say. There's still like a mini, a mini version that goes on and it's very interesting because when it's early in a game, I've noticed particularly listening to Pat and Ron here on 104 through the score that there's been descriptions of Cubs players and opposing team hitters kind of when it's. early in a game, they might shoot a look at an ump. Like, I'm not going to use this challenge right now, but I'm looking at you. Right.

I didn't like that call. Well, then if you're the ump, you're just like, challenge it then, man. Go ahead, hot shot. So it's like, you don't like my call. You can stare at, don't stare at me. Go ahead. Hit your little ABS system, pal. That's right.

So it's like a new little version of like mini-game gamesmanship. You know, I think. Go ahead. Why do I have the feeling that that at bat would end in a strikeout swinging for Mark Mark Grady? Oh, like they would appeal to the first place umpire to the third base umpire. Let's just get this over with. Mark's back goes forward by a half an inch and it's like strikeout swinging. I wouldn't be the guy chirping. I respect the umpire. Oh, you'd be the ump though. You

would be the um. Grody would be the um. Come on. Bring it. I don't want to, there is no cloud outside and you're going to get a struck by lightning today. Why would I want to stir up trouble? That's not my thing. I don't, I don't like doing that. Did you, I'm going to pretend like I didn't hear that. I'm just going to strike it from the record. I'm saving all fights until crossed down next week. Oh yeah. You are really anticipating a, this is something, barely go down. I made the dumb mistake of asking people to not fight.

And then we just got a slew of text messages that were essentially like, no, we're starting fights. And I'm like, well, I was way off here. Sampsonite. I was way off. Sorry, guys. Go on. Forgive me forever even attempting to ask.

Who am I to control hundreds of people, huh? Huh? Who am I to control myself at times, frankly? So sorry y'all. Get yourself together, woman. My bad friends. Okay, so going back to what I wanted to talk to you about. Yes, yes.

I just, and this is not scientifically collected evidence at all. This is me observing what I remember about one of the things I like the most about the 2016 team. Oh, please, yes. So the best 36 game starts. This is before last night's game. This is after the one, the night before last. The Cubs began at 24 and 12 this year. the best 36 game start was 2016 at 27 and 9

and they continued that the entire season as we know. They ran away with the division. They won the division, what with three weeks to spare or something insane in the regular season. But what I liked about that team a lot was not just how they found ways to win, that was established. But the two out hitting that happened a lot in the bottom of the lineup. You know, Addison Russell, I felt like had a pretty good year

when it came to that particularly. But I wanted to get your thoughts on it because during this stretch, just this stretch of 15th, straight wins at Wrigley, seeing what they've done. When all the 2016 discussion is aligning with this, that's what I remembered and just wanted to bounce off of you because you were there. Yeah, no, the two-out hits was a real thing. I think another thing that in 2016 was a very real thing was the add-on runs,

which turned into a year of dominant, dominant run differential. The Cubs had in baseball from the beginning, the best run differential. The difference is is the Cubs were blowing teams out. back then. There was, they didn't need the delayed heroics. As a matter of fact, the Cubs that year had a 252 run differential.

808 runs allowed. Jesus. 252 run. I remember it being big, but that is, that's disturbing. It was, it was massive.

So I'm a little careful not to do the, the exact comp to that. And the Cubs have had some nice add-on run moments, but the stretch that they are existing in, now is pretty unique. I thought about, because it came up last night, that the 14th straight win at Wrigley Field, that's the first, they've matched what they did in the year 2008 under Lou Panella. Lu Panella's second trip to the playoffs where you had DeRosa and Di Lee and Alfonso Soriano,

my guy, Ramos Ramirez, Giovanni Soto was on that team. Koske Fukadomei, your guy, Ryan Tario. Oh, yes, the riots. Lofantino was on that team. as well, and they were pretty relentless with a nice mix of contact and power on that team. So I probably lean a little bit more towards the 2008 Cubs, which was an excellent, dominant baseball team for Lou Pinell and the Cubs. And, of course, ended poorly against the Dodgers, just like it had the previous year

against Arizona. I am not embittered by it by any stretch of the imagination that the Cubs didn't win a playoff game in two years in 07 and 08. I don't think about that anymore. I don't blame you for still being upset about that. That makes perfect sense. I just think in the meantime, when I was seeing the 2016 numbers that were coming up,

I was like, ah, you know what that team did? That reminds me of this. Well, the record for sure. For sure. I don't know. The Matt Boyd thing. I know we didn't. It happened after our show.

It happened during your show yesterday that you were on with Russ Dorsey. I don't know how much more. Like, at some point you get to critical mass. You're talking about one, two, and three outside of Edward Cabrera. like one, two, like, poor Edward Cabrero, like I said, wrap that man a bubble wrap. Well, the Cubs are going to have to keep scoring seven runs a game. You know what I mean?

If they're like, honestly, unless there's some magic where every button push this year just works and there are seasons like that. Knock on wood. Knock on the wood behind you. Here we go. On the wood right there. But right now, it's just a fog because really the only solution that anybody can come up with right this second is Javier Assad.

That's it. Well, Javier Assad was part of an original plan, so I don't hate the idea. No, of course. That's the first guy. Of course. It's Javier Assad. You should be the first man up. You should fill in for Matthew Boyd. But they do have to continue to look for more solutions in starting pitching, whether eventually making a trade or hoping that you can get somebody from the minor league system to come up and do things. But there just aren't a lot of healthy arms right now. I was laughing at 847's text during the Mully and Hossow that came down an hour ago. I was at a Little League game when the Boyd News came across, and the seven dads around me all had different ideas on what a meniscus actually is. It's just a threat.

A meniscus is a threat. Anytime your knee hurts is like, oh, you better hope it's not the meniscus. You don't even know it's torn until days later. It's a knee. It's a left knee, right? That's what the – it is interesting how we have gotten to the point where we just assume that everybody knows exactly what a meniscus is instead of saying that it's meniscus on his left knee. but I was doing it yesterday. If only there was a tool

where we could look things up and find answers and information. Tell me more. Oh, yes. It's my vast collection of Encyclopedia Britannicas. I bet you had those books growing up on yourself at home?

We had the world book growing up. Oh, that huge, massive... It took up a wall at the house. Yeah. Remember those books at the library they used to have? Like just all those books on the table. Libraries are still a thing.

And you can check out books electronically. It's fantastic. I don't think about it. I haven't walked into a library in decades. You should. I always like that, but you can't get a cough. Can you get a coffee at a library? You can bring it in.

Really? Your microphone is quit this segment. We got to go. We got to talk about the White Sox coming up next. You had a conversation with John Paul Morosi that I think is worth everybody's time when it comes to the outlook for Yee White Sox. Even though last night was a bummer yesterday, we'll discuss it next. You're listening to Rahimi Harris.

and Grody on sports radio 1043 to score. Doors closing. Romo in the air to left, Teodosio, back pedals. And that'll do it. White Sox won game one of this series, but they lost last night and we'll lose in the finale here today, 8 to 2 against the Angel. Oh, no. The White Sox are now three games below 500.

I'm happy I'm talking about this in this way in the month of May. This is Rahimi Harrison Grotie. I'm 104.3. The score they are now 17 and 20 after that loss, 8 to 2 to the Angels. That courtesy of CHSN, John Cherfin, on the call. White Sox are off today. They begin a homestand that includes crosstown. It's three games against the Mariners a day off, three games against the Royals,

and then they've got the Cubs to close out that homestand. But I'm sorry they didn't get to win the series again. the Angels and the series against the Padres. But I'm okay with it because they still won a series against the Angels previously. And they're 17 and 20 and I'm still happy with them being ahead of my personal schedule. Yeah. Amen. Like they're still overachieving. It's disheartening that they did have the opportunity to get back to 500 at one point in this series.

That was the game that really, I was like, oh, I could have sent them on a different path. But the disappointment last night was Noah Schultz or yesterday. It was a day game while we were on the air. A three and two-thirds, seven run, seven hits, did strike out three, walked four in that game. And this was his worst performance since, quite frankly, his debut in which he did walk four in that game. Schultz got himself together in his debut. But Schultz has been his ERA balloons, by the way, to 468, not a particularly good performance. Travis Darno, with his first home run of the season for the Angels, a three-run blast off of Schultz

in that game, but it's going to happen. It is going to happen. I'm not concerned. I feel like at this point in time, it's, for Noah Schultz, it's like the Dunkin' Donuts commercial, make the donuts. Go out there. Every day you're supposed to go out there. Your batches are not going to all be the same, but that's okay. You know, this is building a body of work here. You're in the big leagues. You're trying to adjust to people adjusting to you. You're going to have clunkers to start. That's what this season is all about for him. It's just about the growth.

We're still talking about only five games to his name total. So I'm good with it. Yeah, I mean, I remember watching very closely and intently when Garrett Crochet first came up. And he had the same thing. Like, he had some really nice performances. And then he'd have like a dud here or there. And then he got great. And now he's going to end up being an elite pitcher in Richard League Baseball.

Oh, yeah. I mean, he's one of the Cy Young finalists injured right now. But every year, he's a perennial Saoyang discussion when it comes to either him or Terrick scubal. The only thing I'm a little surprised about Schultz is that he's not getting as much swing and miss as I thought he would get. He's not like the strikeout numbers aren't necessarily gaudy if you go through his record, his game log. So I'm imagining that that will come in time, but I did think there would be a little bit more whiff with Schultz. I understand that.

His highest strikeout game was against the nationals. He had eight. Eight, okay. And then he had sixth the game before against Sacramento. know. But outside of that, four in his debut, then he had two against the Padres. But the Padres are an excellent team, as we have discussed. And hey, look, Washington has Joey Weamer. I mean, you can't really deal with a team that has Joey Weamer on it, can you? How about the fact that the socks helped silence that mess?

That was so frustrating. I knew you laughed at that after the first series of the year. I'm like, why am I talking about Joey Weamer? Hey, man, if you really want to trace Joey Weamer back, he is the one that set Matthew Boyd off on this really unfortunate season because Matthew Boyd looked horrible against Weimar and the Nationals and then gets hurt a week after that. And now he's hurt again. You know what? All I heard you just say is that Matthew Weimer or Joey Weimer tore Matt Boyd's meniscus. That's what I just heard you say. You know what? Let's go with that because we need some. It's a sports talk radio. We need somebody to blame for the unfortunate occurrences of the cubbies. And we can't blame Matthew Boyd's children.

No, we can't. Because he, according to reports, he was just doing dad things, which builds on the joke here that Matthew Boyd is the dad who stepped up. And, you know, he taught our listeners how to tie ties and told them not to leave the lights on when you leave the house. You better not air-conditioned the rest of the outdoors there, shut the door. Can I tell you something? In the moment, when we heard that yesterday that it was the children, I was like, this is

the first time. I said it on the air. absolutely believe him. A lot of times when there are these wacky injuries, you don't believe it. Like, sneezing and you get back spasms? Exactly, exactly. But then today I was like, remember how they handled the whole Kyle Tucker injury thing last year and how sort of non-transparent they were? So I got to thinking, hmm, should I just, should I just be that naive to believe what they're saying about Matthew Boyd? Yes. Oh, sorry. Sorry, is this personal? No, I just, I think Matthew Boyd is,

yeah. Don't you remember how adorable the pictures were of him and his daughter at All-Star? That, yeah. Has he given you

any reason? He's just a ray of sunshine. Well, has he given you any reason to not believe him? I'm not saying Matthew Boyd would do. I'm saying the Cubs might set it up. Here's what we're going to do.

We are going to, you're a family man. So you've got yourself hurt, play with one of your kids. Would PR optics? What do you do it over here? I'm just like, I was like, wait a minute,

wait a minute. Wait a minute. Do we need to rethink it? but no, I know. Matthew Boyd probably would not go along with a conspiracy like that. This isn't scandal. Like, you're out here like Olivia Pope. It's handled. I just needed to say that. I just needed to make sure that that was out there. Well, and I remember I fully believed it that Jake Burger retore his gillies walking in his backyard.

I believe that. I mean, that guy was just a walking injury for the first five years of his career. Literally walked and had the injury. Yes, yes. Old Jake Berger. still love Jake Berger. Is he still with like the Marlins or something, Texas? Yeah. I wonder if he'll be, I wonder if Jake Burger will see the rate. He was, I think he went back to the Meyer League.

Did he got a check? I remember when every homer he hit was hurtful for a while. Yeah, and then he got traded and then he was walking things off from Miami. Walk it off. If you get traded from Chicago, you're going to have a walk off for the Marlins. It's just a thing. Yeah. Owen Casey, Jake Berger.

Oh, man. Yeah. How's that one Casey doing? We got check on him too. Is he hurt too? I don't know. Keep listening for your chance. to qualify for the score sweet stakes when you hear this cue to call.

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Danny Parkins on 1043, the score. Wait. No, we're not waiting. We wanted to talk to Danny today. And now, and we're going to do that. He is at Danny Parkins on X. You can check him out on the newly expanded first thing's first OT from 4 to 5 on Fox Sports 1.

And we have the Cubsburg Cure Radiothon coming up in just over two weeks. Danny Parkins, joining us on our hot. hotline and on Twitch, twitch.tv.tv.tv.tv. slash the score Chicago. Danny, how are you? I'm great. And technically, just under two weeks. Oh, yeah. This is Thursday. Yeah. Yeah, two weeks from an hour ago. It'll begin.

So I have some news for you. Yeah, we had one of our texters to our text line. He sent us a message saying, how can I sponsor part of the Radiothon? So I gave him the email account, 1043 Radiothon at gmail.com, if you guys are interested. So even the text line coming through for the big Radiothon. Great. Yeah. I hope I haven't, I got to check the email address this morning. I haven't checked it today.

So I hope that that comes through. Listen, we've got, oh, my good. Excuse me. What the hell is going on? Jesus. Get yourself together, man. This is a 50,000 watt radio station, pal. I don't know what you think you're doing.

I think it's even more. now with the FM. We're 100,000-watt radio station, Parkins. Get this guy a handkerchief or something. You're a lot of watts, grody. I don't know what's happening. Somebody spray him down over there. I thought you had people.

Homes him down. Yeah, Robbie is slacking on his duties as producer. Did you just wake up? Look at you, man. Your eyes are half shut. You're wearing a sloppy t-shirt. You look like me for crying out loud. You have no make.

That's it. You look tired because you don't have makeup on. Dude, I look tired because the NBA playoffs are brutal. Oh, is that what it is? No, they are awesome, Leila. That is true. But my God, these NBA games end at one in the morning every single day on the East Coast. It's crazy.

And then I wake up with the kids every day. You know, it's very hard being me. So I am tired. I have no idea what just happened with my throat. I got to get that figured out because I'm about to broadcast for 24 hours. with you guys. Trierno! Take care of this guy! You know what? Put Triano on.

Enough of this hit. Enough. Yeah, I get it. I get it. But honestly, maybe I'm not going to have to start waking up anymore because of Matthew Boyd. Maybe I'm not going to have to play with my kids anymore. Wow. Yeah. You know what I mean? I can just send that story to Steph and be like, listen, honey, these takes, they're paying the bills. I got to get a break from playing with these kids. It's dangerous out here.

It could cause you to miss work. That's real. That's, you know, maybe it'll get me out of life. Little League on Sunday. Are you saying? Can tear your meniscus. Are you not buying, are you not buying that, Danny? Is that what you're saying? No, no, I'm buying.

I'm buying it. I'm just saying it's like a whole new excuse for parents everywhere. It's good. Yeah, I'd be like, I don't know. It's dangerous. Grody has, he has no children. He has a furry cat and he's out here trying to belittle the physical nature of playing with kids.

No, and I'll ask you like, Danny, when I heard it yesterday, it was the one time that I believe. believed a player that he got hurt doing something odd, like playing with your kids. Usually I'm like, okay, you're making this up. It's too ridiculous. But I believed it with Matthew Boyd. But I did wake up today and say it was weird how the Cubs handled the whole Kyle Tucker thing last year and how they weren't transparent and they didn't communicate particularly well.

So I just needed to go through it with myself a little bit to make sure I wasn't being naive. I believe Matthew Boyd, but I think that we have to do our due diligence just to give it a little bit more airtime, I suppose. Sure, you guys are Big J journalists. No, I would say it's pretty obvious that that is what happened. And, you know, I feel terrible for him. The team is snake bit, but they keep winning. Is the consensus now that counsel can manage? You guys are there on the ground.

What's happening? Oh, yeah. He's great again? Okay, great. Okay, I wanted to be sure. I think, I mean, you know, it's a day-by-day basis. Sometimes you agree with people's decisions and sometimes you don't. And I feel like that's not just Craig counsel, but I have liked how he has,

there have been some effective mound visits. He's done what he can with the bullpen. Trent Thornton basically came in off the street yesterday and got the saves. So you can't hate on it too much. I was going to get the win, actually. Eight different guys with saves this year. Yeah, Trent Thorne got the win. Yeah.

And then we found out Corbyn Martin, according to reports, has been DFAed. The point is he's doing what he can with the guys he has. So there's that. He's doing amazing. They're doing amazing. What it was 18 of 21? Yes. Another crazy long winning streak with, I think it's 10 guys who started, you know, 10 injuries to pitchers or they were in AAA at one point this year have made appearances of the big club. It's, uh, it feels unsustainable, but like, who cares? It is such a crazy ride and so many teams are flawed always and they're going to make significant reinforcements at the deadline, which is still a ways away.

but like a belief that you will always figure out a way to win, that is a really, really valuable team or thing in a team. So yeah, they are playing unbelievable baseball and overcoming a crazy amount of adversity. Like I think we talked about it before the year, right? Like biggest strengths of the team were probably defense and organizational depth. And organizational depth has been like the biggest story of the year so far for the Cups. It's been crazy.

No, I think you're right. Like the fact that they have been able to withstand this. And we were talking the other day, Danny, about how we've all witnessed games where if a team is up two to nothing, given how inconsistent a lineup can be, or you're watching worse teams, you're going, oh, I don't know that they can come back from that. And I feel like this is taking on Bears' comebacks at this point with how they're winning, especially in the last few games. Bears. Yeah, Bears. Yeah, maybe Caleb Williams can pitch. I bet he could, actually.

Yeah, he's got a great, though I really, that's one that I would never forget. give counsel for. Could you imagine? Oh, yeah. If they're like, you know, we need another arm. We're going to sign, we're going to sign Caleb, and then he got hurt. Like, it's bad. The Cubs pitching injuries is bad, but we have to protect the most important arm in Chicago. And that is very much Caleb Williams. Most important arm, I feel like, is a good title for Caleb. What is it? Most important arm.

Oh. Yeah, he can also be most important person, but most important arm as well. Arm person. All of the above. He's pretty. What he is. guys as he's precious. And you know, Danny, there is a rookie minicamp going on this weekend on Friday and Saturday. You've been hearing about all that?

I don't know if that made it to your show that we're going to see Dylan Thineman and Logan Jones and Sam Rosh and Xavieron Thomas all doing their thing out there and Ben Johnson Part 2.

How good, by the way, do you feel? Because I haven't talked to you in a little while about the bears. As usual. You're pretty happy with this rookie class that the Bears have put together here as far as the draft picks are concerned? I think it's okay. I think, you know, Thineman made sense for value. And if you can get a day one starter at the 25th pick in the draft, that is obviously significant because a lot of teams are not going to be able to get a plug-in-play starter at the end of the first round. It's not a premium position. I think everybody would have preferred edge or front seven just based on positional value. But you have to trust that they stayed true to their board.

And, you know, listen, it's not a very exciting offseason. Like, that's the truth. The bears were back to back to back offseason champs. They had a three-peat for the offseason, and, you know, you got to give up the banner. But that's actually what's supposed to happen when you are a good team. So, you know, they tried to trade for Max Crosby reportedly, missed out. They're not a perfect roster, but the key, I think, to this upcoming year is very simple. We'll talk about it 100 times between now and then, is how big of a step forward does Caleb Williams take? Like, is it incremental? Then I think some of the problems and flaws with the roster will be there. But if he takes the leap that we've seen truly great quarterback prospects and talents take when

they've been in the second year of great offensive systems, and he's an MVP candidate this year, then I don't think it's going to really matter much. And the Bears' can be a top five offense in the game, and that'll overcome a lot of problems that may or may not exist on their defense. Well, Danny, I feel like the first round magically somehow of the draft worked out for most GMs. The teams that wanted to take the big risks, like the Rams and the Vikings did so, and then teams that needed exactly who they may have wanted, even at 25, like the Bears did, got who they got. But the second round may be a good indication of a challenge now that's new for this team in this front

offense. Once you have the later picks, you may not get your guys. We see the run on defensive linemen. We see the run on edge rushers right before practically two picks. Akis goes to New England. So that may be the new challenge. You know that second round and just how you manage your board becomes very crucial in the years where your team is better. Well, listen, yeah, it's a high class problem. You'd rather be picking. It would be great for us if draft season was not as interesting. Right? Like, that would, that would be great. Yes. It would make it harder to do sports radio in Chicago in March and April, because those polls position segments had a lot of juice to them. Your who's your guy would have a lot of juice to them when they were picking one, when they were

picking nine, you know, that's that sort of thing. But when you're picking 25 or later, it's just, it's not, it's not going to be as fun. You're like, well, we could take the number one safety or the number seven edge rusher. Like it's just not as, but that's good. Like that's one of them good problems. So yeah, hopefully that's the new reality for the Bears. And you know, hopefully they don't pick in the top 10 again

for a very, very long time. Talking to our guy, Danny Parkins, the former score host, the host now of First things first. And Danny yesterday, it happened again. A new basketball boss was introduced in Chicago.

Bryson Graham is here. thoughts? Listen, I think that I'm glad it wasn't the person that everybody said it was going to be, because at least that represents some sort of outside of the box thinking. I think that's good. But no matter who it was going to be, because the Bulls were not going to have an unlimited budget, they weren't going to give Bob Myers $20 million a year to run the front office. because, you know, Sam Presti's not leaving Oklahoma City.

Like, it was going to be someone who's getting his first chance at the big job. It's very similar to Arturis, Carnitius and Mark Eversley. Like, when our tourists and Eversely were hired, there were, they came from successful organizations and a bunch of people sung their praises. That's exactly what this is. Like, we don't know until he's in the big seat, how he's going to do. and if the Bulls have some lottery luck on Sunday, he's probably going to get off to a great start.

And if they don't have lottery luck, they're probably going to be a pretty bad team. No, they'll probably be a bad team regardless. But I think it's hard to have a huge, strong opinion on a guy that we're just, we're taking everyone else's word for it, Autumn. Seem smart, thought he came across well in the press conference, glowing endorsements from people who had worked with them, but that's exactly what the last group of guys were.

Maybe not as much with the press conference thing, but that was a little bit more of a language barrier, frankly, for our tourists. So, you know, unless the Bulls were going to really swing for the fences, I think it's tough to get too excited or too down on this one way or the other. Other than, like I said, I was glad that it wasn't just conventional wisdom, and it was a little bit more outside the box. Yeah, Danny, I think that that's important because people forget that AK and Eversley, were a complete, complete departure from what we knew to be the case.

And John Paxton had stepped away. I don't know how much he was involved in that choice versus getting Bryson Graham. And I thought the same thing you did. I thought Matt Lloyd made a lot of sense because he was one of the only candidates. I thought who would be okay with Billy Donovan still being the head coach, just having worked with the Bulls for so long. But this is different. And we've seen them go different before.

But how far off the conventional path? It seems like this isn't the case. You know, Bryson Graham is really credited with, with acquiring players of talent in different ways. So maybe that helps them get there a little bit. Two-way contracts, they say are a big, you know, feather in his cap,

Jose Alvarado, of course. So there's others there. Yeah, but I mean, but again, but Mark Eversley had big ones in Toronto and Arturis had guys that he claimed success for in Denver. So like that just, that stuff, you know,

like when the Bears hired Matt Nagy, it was like, any cold plays for, Randy Reed. And it's like, no, he didn't. It was just like something that was set at the time when he was hired, you know? So, like, he's going to sink or swim based on his merits of what he does here. Like, Jose Alvarado is not going to save them. It's going to be what he does here. And unfortunately, we were just talking draft for the Bears. Like, you know, unfortunately, Sunday's a big day for the Bulls. Like, Sunday's a really big day for the Bulls, because this is a historic draft. You could get the

fourth pick and still get an all-star. There's a ton of talent here. And so you need some ping pong ball help. And that will have him off to a great start. And if it doesn't go the Bulls way, maybe they can still find a great player, right? Janus wasn't the number one pick. Steph Curry wasn't the number one pick.

Obviously it happens. But given how big of a draft this is, Sunday is probably the biggest day for the Bulls franchise for the last couple of years going backwards and the last couple of years going forward because you get an AJ DeBansta or a Darren Peterson or Caleb Wilson. Like those types of guys have ceilings that can be franchise changing players. And so, you know, I really do think Sunday is the biggest day for the Bulls in a couple of years.

Absolutely. And we want you to save the date. We mentioned it earlier. The Cubs 4A Cure 24-hour Radiothon. It takes place from May 21st to May 22nd right here on 104-3, the score. Learn more and donate now at cubs.com forward slash Cubs for a Cure. If you want to get involved with the Cubs for a Cure Radiothon, email 1043 Radiothon at gmail.com. And I know you have some updates for us, Danny. Yeah, so I got some donation incentives. I'll tell you guys about in a second. But I just want to say a thank you to Arbor Investments, the great Cubs fans, friends of the score, close friends of the Ricketts family and Crane.

Kenny, Greg Purcell, founder and chairman. They're on board again. this year. We have Fox Sports on board. John Gavin, Doug and Stacey Meyer, Jeffrey Lamort Salons, Russ Armstrong, the Chicago window guy, on and on, Mr. Duck Cleaning. So many. We got over a dozen sponsors already on board. Donation incentives. How about a house in Sedona for a week that can sleep up to 12 people? We've got sweet tickets. every Bears game this year in the Skyline Club. That's the premier suite at Soldier Field.

My guy, Cole Comet, came through and donated some signed memorabilia and his personal Bears tickets to a game this year. We got 1914 club tickets. We got Wrigley Field experiences. We got Cubs memorabilia. The Friday after the Radiothon, Cubs Cardinals, in St. Louis, row one, their version of the 1914 club. So you can be in enemy territory.

There's a Jordan Davis concert after the game. So go to a Friday Cubs Cardinals game in St. Louis, rep the Cubs gear, then watch a concert after the fact. Speaking of concerts, we got tickets to some Wrigley Field concerts. We got tickets to John Mullaney at Wrigley Field. The incentives are going to be absolutely insane this year. So all of it goes to charity, all of it goes to cancer research, 100%. there's no overhead with the event.

DM me, get involved if you've got a prize that you want to donate, you got tickets you want to donate, you got a restaurant experience you want to donate, get on board with the biggest broadcast charity event in Chicago. We did 750K last year. Unbelievable. Going to try to top it this year. Danny, and I want to thank you for going on CHGO.

I heard your hilarious hits with Carmen the Boys and revealing or reminding us of the revelation that occurred, with Lesser's special addiction, I will just say. The Grobber's special addiction, which was revealed on the overnights. I just want people to know that you never know what's going to be revealed during a Danny Parkins 24-hour radiothon, especially when I'm on with him from 6 to midnight. Listen, I mean, that's right. We had a middle of the night Jason Goff appearance last year.

I think I've set up another former score host to appear during the middle of the night. We don't have local overnights anymore, except for the Radiothons. So after some late Bears games. So we got local programming. Benetti calls in late usually, and he'll donate Tigers Cubs tickets and a meet and greet with him. Adam Amin's been known to call him late. Oh, I haven't even asked him yet, but I'm sure he will.

Jeff Passon breaks his ESPN rule and comes on every year for the Radiothon, so we'll get Passon on. We're going to have Rizzo on. We're going to have tie on. We're going to have Eddie O's going to be back on. Some other big sports surprises that I'll save for the day of. Huge names are going to be on this year that have never been on before. Been working on it for months, guys.

It's going to be a big broadcast. Well, we're excited for it, and we will see you in just under two weeks. Again, the email address, 1043 Radiothon at gmail.com. Danny, thanks again. Yeah, reach out. DMs are open as well. Thanks, guys. Bye, Danny.

Bears. Bears. Bye, my. by Lila. Aw. He's just a baby. He is. Yeah.

That is Danny Parkins. Young dad, Danny Parkins out here. Save your meniscuses, people. Coming up next year on Rahimi Harrison Brody as we get you ready for Cubs baseball. Peaker Armstrong is going through a streak right now again. And the way he described it is in a way that only he can't.

So we will examine what he's doing at the plate. And hopefully, how far can it go? Next. Rahimi Harris and Grotie. We are family here. Midday's 10 to 2 on 104 to score. Pete made the all-star team a year ago. Trying to get a hold of him on the pitch.

Swinging a drive, left center field, pretty deep back toward the wall. That ball is gone. That butt is gone. It's a tie game. Can you believe it? Big. Pro, Armstrong, an opposite alley. home run. This ball game is back to even. Tied at six. It's almost like a dream.

Yeah, you can say that for sure, because it was once again the Cubs come back. Thanks in large part, as we mentioned, 7 to 6 the final. That is Pat Hughes on the Northwestern Medicine Cubs Radio Network, 7 to 6 the final in 10 innings. And a big reason why partially is thanks to 1 PCA, Homer, his fourth of the season. He was absolutely thrilled when he hit it. You could tell everybody wanted to know, would it tie the ball game? And at six, yes, it did. Appo for PCA, and I love Pat Hughes's description right there.

He calls it a dream. Last year at about the same time, he called it like being in a movie watching Pete Crowe Armstrong. So he emits those sort of platitudes and responses, as has this entire Cubs team with all the walkoffs, three straight and what up to? six on the season altogether, I believe. Yeah, it's incredible. Like, what way are they going to walk it off today? Walk off balk?

Sweet. What's next? Yeah. So since April 21st, 15 games stretch, PCA is batting 375. That's 6 for 16 with one home run and 4 RBI against left-handed pitchers, too. So that's notable. His chase rate, as we know, is something he will have to manage. Last year, his chase rate was 41%.

on strikes outside of the zone. This year that's up to 43. This is that part of it I don't love. And I wondered how that was going to be managed. What were the adjustments that he was going to make? Or have we just reached the point of his career where there might be some self-acceptance going on? I was going to say, there is, I mean, maybe not this early,

but there is a he is what he is factor that maybe we're seeing, but there's still plenty. Plenty of room for him to expand out of that. Expans a bad word, though. It is. In this case, it really is. The phrase shooter shoot comes to mind with PCA. Yeah.

Like, if he's in the NBA, he's attempting like 40 shots a game. Well, Lail, he's also gotten away with it for his entire career, including the torrid pace of the first half of last year, where you can go back and look at those at bats and see how many bad balls he swung out and hit the ball out of the park on. Yeah, you know, it's great to be a bad ball hitter, but the problem is you end up expanding your strike zone, as we discuss, and your chase rate is ridiculous. But here's what Craig Counsel had to say about what he's doing right now. I told Flash before the at bat, like, you just don't know what's going to happen when Pete comes up, you know.

It's just, you know, it's not supposed to happen, but then it happens, and that's kind of Pete, you know. So, you know, I can't explain a lot of his at-bats personally. That's great. That's the most human. That's what we're looking for from Craig. Just a human, actual involuntary reaction to a question that is being asked of him. And he's like all of us. Like some of it, you just can't get that deeply into.

It's like, I don't know how this guy just did that. I don't know. Your shrug is everything in this, in this demonstration. Yeah. I think you're, are you still thinking about the afternoon show interviews with Craig? Is that what you're thinking about when you said that? I think so. Yeah.

A response like that would be perfect. We're going to commandeer Craig for Rahimi Harrison Grotie just one day out of the season. And we're going to just pepper him with ridiculous stuff and see if we crack him. Yeah. Or do we crack? I mean, it's like how can you not present?

I mean, that's probably the response from most managers when it comes to PCA. Yeah, there's stuff that will frustrate the hell out of you. But then he'll get up there and do what. He looked bad and part of that at bat too. He swung and missed at one where it's like, oh boy. The timing is really bad when he's off. Yeah. Like it's like you know what he's swinging for and that's okay. I could accept that he was swinging for a home run and he was and then somehow

some way he hits the ball out of the park going opposite field and it's just a beautiful sometimes inexplicable thing when it comes to PCA. I just don't want all of it to be touch and feel. I want some of it to have a basis and an approach. I agree. Some of it. I'm not asking for all of it. I just need some of it too. Like, what are you hunting for besides vibes? Yeah. Yeah, well, and I said it, I don't remember what I said, probably

the off season this year with, what do you, 34 home runs last year? 31, 31, 34, somewhere between 31 and 34 home runs last year. Once you know you can do that, you're going to be wanting to swing to hit the ball out of the park. And I'm not so sure that PCA has stopped doing

that. We've seen him shorten up and bunth a little bit more this year. And it is being confirmed to me now, through my source, Lailah Rahimi, that he hit 31 home runs last year. I just double-checked online, yes. But no, you're right. Bush at 34.

I feel like he does bump, though. That was something that he did last year, too. Yeah, and successfully some this year, too. I don't know if he has been doing it as much recently, but he has been, he was successful early this year. I just don't want him to think that that's the only way he's getting on first base if he's not hitting a

home run. I'm okay, though. That's what I don't want. I think it's okay for any batter, but we'll just use PCA, when you feel like you're just overmatched at the plate. Or you're trying to get on base somehow. Or you're just trying to get on base to set the team. But you see that with players. Like if they just know that a pitcher has their number and they're just like, screw it.

I am overmatched here. I'm going to lay down a bun and see what happens. Yeah. Unfortunately, there's bunting is a lost art in the league, as we know. It is. Now, he talks a lot to, PCA talked a lot to Pat McAfee about how he managed. is that aggression in the plate discipline? That's always been the hardest thing for me, really.

I mean, I love to swing the bat. I love to try and make stuff happen with the bat. So, you know, I think the plate discipline is actually a little bit better, like I would say a little over a week ago, and before that. But, you know, when I start feeling sexier and I do start putting more balls in play, more balls in the air to the pull side, like I do end up swinging more. So I'm inevitably going to chase more. And that's just, I think that just,

that's something I got to accept about myself, but I'm not going to walk that much, man. But when the bat's feeling good, then I got to let it rip sometimes. Vives. Yeah, man. When I start feeling sexier. That is a thing.

You will have batters feel sexy at the plate. Frank Thomas always talked about that on White Sox pre and post game. I believe that used to come up with Joe Madden in the 2016 Cubs and Javier Baez and whatnot. Yeah, you got to feel. good, got to feel sexy. You can't escape the Javier Bias comps with PCA. Can't.

Yeah, that, it's, it's a fair comp. I mean, Javier Bias had that, that unbelievable season where he was runner up or Christian Yellett, 2018. Oh, Yelly. Oh, Yelly got him that year.

And I don't think he was ever as good then, but man, like what an entertaining, terrific ball player, Javier Bayez was with the Cubs. And the snagging tag, he too, also just fantastic defensive. Yeah, absolutely terrific at it. But yeah, I do love, as frustrating as PCA can be sometimes and some of his at-bats, still, every single time he comes up to the plate,

I'm like, what's going to happen here? You know what I mean? Like, you just, like, no other player on the Cubs, the options are just lengthy when it comes to what might happen with PC. Even if he walks. I remember getting hit by a pitch earlier. And he was pissed. And he was like, you knew he was going to steal on the first pitch just because he was angry.

And he did. He did. Every ad bat is a movie. Every ad bad is a movie with PCA. Wait, wasn't that the Pat Hughes call? We always play. It's a movie starring Pete Graham's. He said in this call coming into the thing that it's a dream.

Last year it was a movie. But the possibilities, he's still the guy. No matter what has gone on this year with some terrific Cubs hitting and Nico Horner, everybody in that lineup. It's still PCA that I am most glued to when he's in that batters box. Because you also love chaos. Like you love it. You're junkie.

You like all the different outcomes. I do. I do. And he presents that. He presents every single possible outcome, including stealing every base when he gets on. And I'm out here just appreciating old Matt Boyd, the dad who stood up. And here he is just playing with his kids. Should we send him some flowers or something?

Barengold, get on the phone. Let's get some flowers out to Matthew Boyd immediately. He'll probably just dedicate him to his wife because Mother Day is on Sunday. Oh, my God, you're right. He'll put him in a nice vase. Man, this guy. I know. Oh, Matt, boy. I hope, you know what? I hope when it's all said and done, Matthew Boyd stays with the Cubs organization in some way, shape, or form.

Or is he too nice to stay with the Cubs organization? Wait, what? Because you got to have, you got to be a little. This is a hot take. Because you got to be real with guys. Like, he would be too nice to everybody. If he was, like, in a position of authority, you know, he would. Is Matt Boyd too nice for the Cubs?

Light him off. 3-1-2-44, 67. I don't think he'd get critical enough with guys. So you're saying he's the manager who, like, if he fired you, you wouldn't necessarily know you were fired. Yeah, you'd feel worse for him for having to do it than you would feel for yourself. I'd be like, man, hey, I'm sorry about this. Yeah, I can't.

I deserve it. I can't imagine. I can't imagine Matt Boyd, hiring somebody, no. Yeah, so that's not going to work. Ambassador, though. He could be like Anthony Rizzo's assistant. Yeah, basically, it's like Jim Tomey, you know?

Yeah, that's a good comment. Like, everybody loves Jim Tomey. Yeah, nice guy, Jim, nice guy Matt. Yes, indeed. And in the meantime, PCA, vibes. Vibes. I don't know what it ends. Let's just keep riding the wave until it crashes.

I don't think it ever ends with PCA. Like, his entire career will be vibes with the Cubs. And the words of Robert Earl Key, and the road goes on forever and the party never ends. I like that. Coming up next at his halftime, and I said I had a radio story for you all, except there's no radio.

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with Chuck and Ozzie. Get started today at, subscribe.c.c.com. Chicago Sports Network, full stream ahead. What time is it? This is Rahimi Harrison Brody, and this is halftime. We began our show. It is Mark and Leela today talking about how, once again,

no lead is safe with the Cubs. And it's starting to feel very bears, not just because Mark is here. There's. But because they're coming back in ways that are unbelievable. Then we talked about shrimp, the walk-off wall. Then we got into a bit of the historical context because a lot of 2016 comparisons have come up. We talked about the White Sox.

Danny Parkins was on. Don't forget the Radiothon. Cubsburg Here Radiothon is on the 21st. You can get involved. 1043 Radiothon at gmail.com. And PCA says he's feeling sexy on Pat McAfee. Let it rip. So I told you, Mark, that I had a radio story, except it's not about an actual radio.

Hmm. So a woman thought she was hearing faint voices. in her kitchen. Women are crazy. That's what I was thinking. Maybe it's your time of the month. Maybe all the times your time of the month. No.

It was coming from her dishwasher. And when she opened it up, things only got more weird. A Tennessee woman went viral after she documented hearing voices coming from her dishwasher. Well, in science frequency, hell, I didn't know this was a thing.

she said that she passed through the kitchen and she heard a talk radio station very clearly coming out of her dishwasher. How you doing, everybody? What talk radio, I wonder? I'm up here with the glasses or the plates. What's going on, everybody? Be careful, make sure you point those knives straight down.

She said she tore apart her kitchen thinking there was a radio somewhere and even checked to see if someone was living in her crawl space. Jesus. What radio station would somebody be listening to? living in your crawl space. That sounds like a UFO podcast. Art Bell, anyone? Art Bell, yes.

Hell yeah. Even I had to run the overnight board for Art Bell every now. Really? Where did he broadcast from a camper in a desert in Vegas? In your heart. In your heart, yeah. R. IP. Art Bell was, I think he was a bit before his time, was he not?

Like, what would Art Bell say about all the UFOs finally being acknowledged? Oh, it would be hours and hours and hours. And you all thought our bell was crazy, just like you thought this woman thought she was crazy with the voices coming from her dishwasher. No, apparently she found out the dishwasher was picking up a radio station. Wow. So somebody message her on TikTok, engineer here. If the power cord or internal wiring length is equal to the harmonic of the radio frequency, it will act as an antenna. Oh my goodness.

So that's a Hertz, right? So that you're talking, and harmonic would be like dividing a string in half. So then therefore, the string would have to be the half the length of the harmonic of the Hertz. That's. Yes. So they said most diswashers these days have a small speaker to ding or chime when complete, which is probably what is broadcasting the radio. Ding, ding.

A little dink. I'm just like, what show was it? I'm so curious. Was it? overnight? Oh, yeah. Could have been Delilah saying nice,

nice, nice things to people. What if it's just like one of the random radio stations when you're driving across the country, like you're going to hell radio?

Don't you act like you don't know what I'm talking about? Say more. Say a little more. Okay, maybe it's just... Oh, Christian radio is what you're saying. Yeah, the wages of sin is death radio essentially. Oh, yeah, of course.

Yeah, yeah. When you flip through, like, you get like deep into Indiana, it's like every other station is Christian or country. That's it. Yeah. Sometimes Disney, I feel like, comes up as well.

Disney AM Radio. Yeah. The comments are added, you might try having someone make sure the dishwasher is properly grounded and install a small fair eye choke on the power cord. This is where I lose it because I don't know what those things are. Seems like a YouTube video. This would most likely block the frequency.

You probably live close to the radio station, which is why the signal is so strong. It's a good clean signal. Get it? Warsher. Now here's Mark Grady, live from the dishwasher. Yeah, 312, 644, 67,

if you do your dishes and you hear 1043 the score or 670 the score, text in. I don't know what a sound from a dishwasher. Sorry, I was trying, I don't know what it would sound like we were broadcasting from inside a dishwasher.

I'd need some water sound effects. Now we're getting a bunch of suggestions as to what the show would be. And people are talking about making Pluto a planet again. Thank you, 312. That's good to know. Pluto's not a planet. I don't care what anybody says, KMA.

Grotty tries to talk and then the microphone falls down. Are you going to fix this for me during the break? I'll fix it. Okay. Somebody. I have basic some, I have some basic physical engineering understanding. I'm not even going to say knowledge. And I don't know why.

I'm handy. But yeah, so I want to kind of figure this out now. I want to see if there's a way to do it. I love it. To get your, I wonder if you could tune in the score. So it had to be 104.3. So then you have to know that I think we can do this. Just how powerful is our FM signal?

Yes, we can find out if you really love us, you'll make your dishwasher listen to the score. I'm going to tell you something about dishwashers, though. There is no better, for me anyway, for napping, white noise dishwasher. sound. Oh, really? Yeah. I thought you were going to say just listening to our show puts people to sleep. No, not at all. No, I am at attention. On the days that I'm not here and listening to you and Marshall, I'm at attention. But if I lay down on that couch and I got the dishwasher going, that is exquisite sleep right there. Okay, so there's more to this. British writer and science communicator Zion Lights, who runs the YouTube channel Science with Zai, looks like I need to

look into this, took to the platform to explain what happened in an April 7th short. She explained objects such as appliances can occasionally pick up radio frequencies, especially strong AM signals. Hello. Yay! We got one of those. The phenomenon known as radio frequency interference is caused by ungrounded or loosely grounded wires or metal or breakdown of internal shielding or filtering in a machine's components. And then the parts will act like antennas and receive signals and then generate sound waves audible to humans. I want to try this now.

I do too. Not with my dishwasher because I rent. The power, Layla, I don't care what anybody says. I also refuse to use my dishwasher. I hand rush everything. What's up with that? So you have a dishwasher and you don't use it. It's not as good as me.

Really? I mean, it's like it runs for an hour with blazing hot water and detergent. How could that not be better? Because friction with soap is what gets stuff off. Not necessary. Like hot water, yes, but it doesn't have to be blazing hot. You using soap and water yourself and then friction rubs off dirt and oil and grime better than some dishwasher.

I want life to be easier for you. The machines are not better than me. You're living in 84 degrees temperatures. I don't want you having to wash stuff during that in hot water. You need to put that in the dishwasher, young lady. No, that'll just make my apartment more hot. Oh, man. I'm not doing that.

Shout out to 630 on the text line. My dishwasher keeps referring to someone named Bob. What are here? And another 630. picked up on Mark's Silence of the Lamb's reference. Oh, wait. What did they say? Ah.

I'm not saying it. I'm not doing it. I'm not saying it. You're lying. Oh, wait. Knowing your personnel is a real strength in the business. Is a great big fat person? In the meantime, I will try to fix Mark Grotty's microphone.

Five on it is next. You ever find that guy? Freeze! This hour is brought to you by Vasectomy Clinics of Chicago. It's time for five on it. Rahini Harrison Rooney. Bring you five topics on their minds today. On 104-3 to score.

Number one. Which of the Cubs three walk-off wins over the Reds has been your favorite? I think it might be last night because really exciting things happened in the game, but then the way they won was like, we won? We won! Play the song! Wait, what happened? Yeah, that's right. Oh, we walked it off this time with a walk.

Got it. 7 to 6, Cubs win. 15 straight of Wrigley, let's go. So I love a very basebally, anti-climactic thing that happens to have you win the game. Yeah. It's like a walk-off ABS challenge or, like I said, perhaps a walk-off balk. All these are possibilities. So there was a lot of, there were dramatic things that happened.

There were high tense, high leverage. moments. There were mound visits. There was the PCA home run where the place just erupted. And then there was the, hey, wait, I was supposed to challenge that. No, you don't get the challenge. Well, Craig Counsel says I can get the challenge. No. That was a walk though. Cubs win. What? It's like these games have undercards to the greatness. Like you just mentioned, the PCA home run. Right. To tie the game. And we're not even talking about that as much as we're talking about the Michael Bush walk off walk. So you have in the game the other day, you had the same thing. Michael Bush with the game tying home run

for that drama as the undercard and then he gets the game winning hit. I'm going to go though. I'm going with game the Monday game, the 541 the Edward Cabrera game because Michael Confordo gets up there and

gets the game winning home run. Up it in, Op-o. Unbelievable. And I say that because usually it's guys like that, the Michael Confordo's of your team. The guys that are not going to play a ton, but when they make a contribution, it just feels even better where you have everybody contributing and you have to have those guys in your team.

Apparently, Michael Conforto, the way I'm reading and understanding it, very popular in the clubhouse with everybody. So to have those guys and those moments from unexpected players, Michael Conforto, a guy who I didn't even know he was going to make the team. And if he was going to make the team, he was going to get sent down after, say, Suzuki was ready to play right field and here he is contributing with big hits so for me and that was the first

one of his career right? The first walk off of his life. Walk off home run. Walk off home run I think. Oh really? Yeah that's what I thought it was. Oh I thought it was on any level of his life. I thought Conforto had not had a walkoff but the point still stands to get contributions from guys like that

those are the seasons in which you win so I'm going Conforto and the Cubs Monday game is my magical moment. Number two. The news broke Wednesday that Cubs left-handed Matthew Boyd has a meniscus issue in his left knee and will likely need surgery. Who do you think is the most likely candidate to start in his place when his spot in the starting rotation comes up tomorrow? Okay, so he got surgery. That happened this morning, according to multiple reports.

So he's now on the mend. I'm skeptical at the month recovery time. I feel like that's optimistic. Great if it happens on time, but don't be surprised if it takes longer. So because of that, I feel like Javier Assad is the most likely next man up. It was Assad or Ray, the discussion when we had Kate Horton go down. So I feel like next it's got to be Javier Assad. Now, I know that might deplete the bullpen somewhat, but I feel like they're already playing with that kind of mindset.

You know, they're managing the roster with that kind of mindset. We saw Corbyn Martin reportedly get DFA this morning. So I know it's going to be just a shuffling of the bullpen. You just don't want that to be, you're going to have to do some of it throughout the course of the season, but you don't want it to be as high stress, I think, into perpetuity. But I don't know what they think they are built for. And like we saw, you know, last year, they didn't want to give up the price for a lot of the going rate for pitchers. They ended up with Michael Soroka, and that didn't end well for them at all.

So it's hard to figure out how this goes, moving forward with the chain of reaction of events that could happen. You take Assad out of the bullpen and that's another reliable arm. Javier Assad is the, unfortunately, the only answer to this question at this very moment. And hopefully you continue to get success from Colin Ray, who just like all of a sudden now, it's not like, oh, Colin can do anything. No, you have to start and you have to be good at starting. Same thing with Javier Assad, who, and I know, like, Javier Assad has been fine.

I am just never He's very hitable But he's absolutely the answer And then there just aren't like at the moment There aren't other answers that we know of in the minor leagues We talked about Jordan Wicks earlier And I've got it down here I kind of was guessing

He gave up Did Jordan Wicks in his last rehab start He had a left forearm injury He gave up six runs over three and two thirds the other day And his most recent rehab started His last two have not been very good. Jackson Wiggins, people always asking about him. He was

injured. He's now in a throwing program. So not even pitching to live batters at this point. So he's a little ways off. He's your top pitching prospect for people who don't know. So I'm just trying to explain why the only answer right now unfortunately is have your shot. And I

guarantee it, Leila, somebody will come up that none of us has heard of and he'll pitch three or four innings whether it's a guy that was a perceived bullpen dude. Somebody will come because they know more than we do, but the obvious names aren't there right now. Well, I mean, that's how we got Kel Palm Flex, as I like to refer to it. That was the Brad Keller, Drew Pomerant's Chris Flexen combination.

Yes, like that has to come for them to survive, and eventually the Cubs, they'll have no choice but to trade for a pitcher. And we all know that ain't happening this early in the season. Number three. This is five on it on 104.3, the score with Lela Rahimi and Mark Grotie. Here's question number three. the most disappointing aspect of the White Sox series loss to the Angels. It wasn't yesterday, no. Yesterday. It was the 4-3 loss.

It was the 4-3 loss, the one-run game where they could have taken the series from the Angels where, unfortunately, we thought that Minotaka Murakami had the day off. He ended up coming in and pinch hitting and playing at first base, and then you've got to ask yourself, well, if you end up playing him because you were down only a run, and you thought, you thought it was a winnable game, then maybe next time you just have to, you have to roll the dice and either sit him entirely or play him and give him a higher spot in the batting order. Because the more at bats, Mune gets, the more likely he is to make something positive happen, especially when you consider a one-run game.

So that's probably it, but that's hard to gauge. You have to manage. That's part of managing. Is managing somebody's workload and figuring out whether or not they need a day off and how? I'm with you. That was the game for me, for all those reasons. And that was also the game that if you win, your record reads 500. Oh, yeah.

And that's, to me, that's so important for the White Sox to get to that point this season. I think that they will. Will they sustain it? I have no idea. But that would have felt really good. And in that game, the White Sox head built. They were up in that game. It was 2-0 early.

Randall Gritchick, who just joined the White Sox. Gritchick, the old Redbird. Oh, I remember you, Randall Gritchick. Manning the Outfield. Yeah, he was one of those guys, one of those annoying cardinals back in the day. So I see you, Randall Gritchick. But they built up the two-run lead. You had to chase Midroth home run in that game.

Not the greatest day for Eric Fetty on the mound, but that too. And I did feel, I think I texted to you guys in the group chat. I felt ripped off having to stay up late and watch that game and not have Munitaka-Mor. Tommy in the lineup. The least the socks can do for these 840 starts is have full entertainment for everybody watching and observing. Well, good news, Mark Grody. They're at home. Cliff Levingston's here. Good news. They're at home for the next three series. And one of the series has Emo Night. Did you know about this? I did not know about Emo Night. I want to know what happens on Emo Night. It's on a Thursday night. They play the Kansas City Royals. Is it like Emo

Jimmy Butler? Does everybody wear like heavy black eyeliner? Do they play nothing but my chemical romance. Am I invited? I got dinner plans that night. I'll have to time delay the socks game. If you got invited, you would augment for emo. I don't know. The dinner invitation was really good.

Is it? Joe's. Oh, yeah, you can't really pass that. I've been to Joe's in a long time. We do, we call it the lunch bunch, me and my buddies, and we try to do a dinner meeting at Joe's once every quarter. When you're not hanging out at Gibson's, you're hanging out at Joe's. You're hanging out at Joe's.

I love your high bra lifestyle. Once a quarter. Yeah. my highbrow lifestyle. I'm wearing hand wash every dish because I don't believe in my dishwasher. And my apartment right 82 degrees today, even though I had the heater off and I have apparatus is under my door to prevent the air from coming in. Yes, I am highbrow. Is there a Pope night on the South Side this year? Yeah. There's a Pope Hat giveaway. There is a Pope Hat giveaway. How about that? Is Chuck going to be at the door? Here's a

hat. Here's a hat. Here's a Pope. Here's a hat. Maybe he's there for Emo Night instead. Oh, yeah, he'd be good. Oh, can I, yeah. Let's see Chuck Swirsky, Steve Stone, some of the, some of our favorite broadcasters in Emo. Stoney sweeps like deep side parts, sweeps all of his hair to the side. Oh, man. They'll go very well on the north side too.

I'm looking this up because it has been mocking me on the calendar for quite some time. Are you mocking me? It really, oh, Bravo night is happening on Friday. What night? Bravo Summer House Night where the party. vibes move from Montauk to the south side. Catch the action as they welcome. It's sold out, by the way, just

in case you were wondering. The Bravo Knights for Major League teams got a lot of flack on the social media from places like Twitter, aka the Sad Boy Network. Well, lookie here. Bravo Night made some money. Maybe you should try it sometime. Calling all emo's young and elder,

the White Sox are hosting their first ever emo night at the ballpark. Each ticket purchased includes a T-shirt to the game and the t-shirt is very emo. Plus, a limited available pre-game patio party will get you access to a 30-minute performance from local Chicago band

Knuckle puck. Can I say that on the end? Knuckle puck. Knuckle punch. They also have reggaeton night on Friday the 29th. Okay, I'm going to stop reading the Sox calendar now. Emo Night. Ebo Night has been staring at me.

I'm like, what is it? Elvis Night is a great night at the ball Park. Everybody knows that. Yeah. All right. Question number four. Bears Rookie Mini Camp begins Friday, and Coach Ben Johnson will meet the media. What's at the top of your list of topics?

You'd like to hear from Johnson while he addresses the media during his press conference. Yes, Layla Rahimi, go ahead. Hi, yeah, Layla Rahimi. I just complain a lot on the radio and stuff. Who were you with? Nate didn't state your place.

I am with the Mark Grody Bears Score Bears Network Bears. Thank you. You've lost all your credibility, but go ahead. Yes, I never had it. So, Ben, with all these tight ends that you want for infinity times a million, what the hell formations do you want to run here? Also, who's rushing the passer? And for the love of everything, holy, which Achilles did Dio Odenbo Terran in 2021?

Remains at the top of your legs. I don't know if I want that question answered. How could you give $5 million to a deck of Aramu? Wait, that's Seinfeld. Yeah, no, seriously though. When it comes to, I think Sam Roush, I understand why they wanted him. they think he's the best blocking tight-in in the draft. Additionally, though, what are you all going to do?

How do you want to use this? Are you putting him on the left side? Because we don't know who's a left tackle right now because it's kind of dicey. What's the idea? Pre-snap motion? I like all those questions. I want this question asked frequently this year before the season starts. And I guess we'll see it play out.

Is Logan Jones going to have a chance to start at center for the Chicago Bears from game one of the season? Is that a real possibility? Or is it Garrett Bradbury and you let Logan Jones learn? And maybe as the season goes on, he gets in there. Some, obviously if there's an injury, he would have to be employed. But I want to know if Logan Jones' second round pick out of the University of Iowa has an opportunity to actually be the starting center for the Chicago Bears. year. I think we also, and maybe this is a topic you and I do later on, I don't think we under,

I think we somehow, even though we gave it a lot of attention, underestimated the waves of effects that the Drew Dalman retirement had on the Cubs, on the Cubs, on the Bears plan for the off season. You know? That's a great point. Because think about how much they devoted to trying to fix it. And they did a good shot like, we don't know yet for sure, but on paper. It feels like a kind of disastrous situation, really, sports disaster. When maybe the most important part of your offense, certainly the offensive line and Drew Dalman, retires, and then they were able to fix it with these two guys, Garrett Bradbury and Logan Jones.

Number five. This is five on it at 104. The score, here's our final question. According to the athletics, John Greenberg, the day before Bulls president and CEO, Michael Reinsurf, and then executive vice president candidate, Bryson Graham, sat down for their official interview, the pairhead dinner at Classic Chicago Steakhouse Erie Cafe. So here's the question. Where would you want a prospective employer to take you to dinner?

Emo Night! Yes. What are you getting on the menu? Yeah, so I love this. And who doesn't love Erie Cafe? Erie Cafe is a staple. It's almost patio season. The Erie Cafe patio is quite the thing.

You just say you used to live on the Erie Cafe patio? No, no, no, no, no, no. I used to live on Erie. Yes, I did. I was East Side, though. Oh, you were? Yeah, I was East Erie. Yeah, do you know who else you might be able to see every now and then?

Passing time at Erie Cafe, if you're lucky. Oh, yeah. The Coombeye. I was going to say, that's a Coom spot. Yes, it is. The Erie Cafe bar, if you know, you know. So I think that's fantastic. So you're going, okay.

So you're an emo night for sure. I. Wait. Wait, do I not get to say which actual restaurant? Oh, go ahead. Layla. Oh, I thought that was it. We were going to interview you at Emo Night and I'll be like, so we lost it all. Nothing less forever.

I'm sorry. I can't be perfect. What's your actual restaurant, Leila? You can't narrow it down to one, can you? It's hard. I actually think that we wanted to know what you think because Mark Grody receives gifts. That's true. Like everybody wines and dines Mark Grody. We are accepting gifts.

now. Whatever he tells me about his dinners with Mitch, they're always at highfalutin places. Like I love a good Chicago steakhouse. I love a good Chicago high-end establishment. I got to check out Bartuto. That's the new Joe Flam spot, but that's every day and a little more accessible. Artuto. Well, I would say Gibson's, but I'd fear I might run into you there and your crew, and that intimidates me. I got shooters. We got investigators all over town. We spot people out and about in the streets. I'm going to keep it simple because this is a place that is near me now that I did not have honestly like shame on me I didn't have a lot of experience at this place but it's been kind of a go-to hangout now when I've got people hanging out or I went there with my niece recently and that is devil dogs baby devil dogs in the South Loop particularly it's just so casual I don't need like if I'm being whined and dine and we're having business man I don't need all the formalities I don't need the guy coming with a little scraper to clean up my crumbs at the plate. You know what I mean? Like, I don't need that. I just need to get up to that computer, get myself a dog and some fries, and they do have the best

shake. So in a shocker, I'm going with devil dogs. We have offended a texter. Uh-oh. Again? 815 says, Simple Plan is pop punk, not emo. Well. Nice going, Leila. Was that you? Was that you? Get out of here. Go on. Get out of here. You know what you did. Do yourself a favor. Go listen to my chemical romance, the black parade, and it's not my problem. And that's, so seriously, my chemical romance is considered emo?

If it's not, what is? I mean, I don't know. I was like literally asking. I was thought that was pop. I did think that that was pop punk. Well, I think there's like a cross. This is a text. I'm sure a texter will say I'm wrong as well, but I think there's some crossover here. There's a Venn diagram

situation going with some of these I don't have all the answers. Maybe in 2008, that was an applicable battle. to fight, but I fear in 2026 the effect might be lost. It does sound cooler to call it emo than pop punk. I'm sure that the blink 182s of the world probably don't

like being called pop punk even though that's what they are. I was going to say, aren't they? Yeah. Green Day, same thing. They're pop punk. Which is fine. Very good bands, but that's what they are. I like it. I feel like we sprayed to all fields today. We're getting you ready for cup baseball on this Thursday, so let's do a little

game. Craig Counsel and more next. Rahimi Harrison Grody. Oh, sorry, but watch your own profanity. You said pop of the mind. No, no. I do you know what? You got to let it flow. Our poor producer Ray spilled his coffee. So thanks for christening our studio

over here. No, no, it's okay. Middays 10 to 2 on 1043, the score. This is Rahimi Harrison Grody. We are getting you ready for Cubs baseball here on 104-3 the score. In fact, they take on the Reds at Wrigley. Pre-game begins next at 1245 with first pitch at 120 and crystal clear FM quality on 104-3

the score and the Northwestern Medicine Cubs radio network. Then at 6 p.m. it is the next edition of the Scores championship summer as we replay the top 16 games of the Cubs 2016 season. Tonight you will hear the Cubs dramatic walk-off win against the Nationals. on Mother's Day in 2016. I remember. I was there. We were both there. That's awesome.

That's right here on the score and the Odyssey app. I was late for Mother's Day that day. The flowers I had in the car went bad. That's why I remember that. I went right to my parents after that game. That game went into many innings, and I recall it being very long.

Yeah. It's the Baez game, right? The Baez game winner with the pink bat, I believe. That was the one when we were all waiting for. It's like, let us go. It's Mother's Day. Well, sorry, Gene.

Yeah. But you're going to see her for Mother's Day. I am. I'm going to see my parents. I'm doing a whole Mother's Day special this weekend. The Mark Reddy, Mother's Day special. Yeah. On the score. The most important Mother's Day special you'll ever, ever attend.

Awesome. In the meantime, Craig Counsel spoke before the game. He gave us an update on Matthew Boyd. What more did you guys learn about the potential timeline for him? Yeah, I mean, I think it's, uh, It's kind of the minor meniscus surgery. So, you know, we know he's going to miss the month, six weeks. You know, it's probably closer to six weeks.

I think that's with getting him ramp back up. That's what we're hopeful for. Obviously, we see how it all goes. And, you know, I think the important thing is how much time do we miss of, like, throwing. That's probably the biggest thing right here. The knee's going to recover. pretty quickly, but how much throwing down time do we have to take? What's it called?

Something. John, I wasn't talking to you. John? Menisectomy. Yeah. There you go. That's what it is. That's what it's called. Don't ask me any more questions about that.

Or names. No, I don't, yeah, it was, you know, the minor thing where they just have to clip it and then it should be good. Craig, what consideration, if any, are you giving to moving from into the road page? Or is he too valuable? I think just covering the innings here is kind of what we're thinking about. So, yeah, that's one of the things we've talked about, absolutely. When you do that, you have to now have kind of avoid using him in one inning's distance.

then, like, when you use him, I mean, I know you, I think it's only been one, one innings. Yeah. It's going to have to be, like, two plus as you're carrying this out. Yeah, I mean, I think overall, I mean, that's really my goal with Ben, period, is to keep him in bigger, bigger outings. Just because I think he's capable of kind of, kind of, like, carrying that innings load. And I think it's a good contrast to the other guys we had in the bullpen. But, you know, really, like I said, we're just trying to think about the innings puzzle moving forward here.

And then you're also just trying to think about, like, we've just got to consider, like, what's next? You know, you have to play that game. You know, unfortunately, we always have to play that game. You just have to, what do we do if something else happens, you know what I mean? So we just have to make sure we're covered there. when you talk about that you foresee having to build in

semi bullpen days for starting games out knowing you have to continue to build a side yeah I mean I don't think we have anybody like completely stretched out as a starter right now so you know that means we're gonna

that's what I'm talking about the puzzle like we're just going to have to put that together it's hard so for that spot in the near future you're just always going to have to Yeah, we'll just see what we get there on that day and what that means. Just a day off for safe. Yeah, yeah. You guys get injured all the time, but when it's a freak injury like this,

that make it more harder for you or injury? No, I mean, look, look, we, you know, these things happen. This is how a lot of meniscus injuries, I said that, yes, this is how a lot of meniscus injuries happen. It's not necessarily like, you know, when you're pitching, it happens on a kind of a bad, you take a bad step in normal life, and it happens. So, you know, I feel, I actually think this is more normal than it, it sounds not normal, but it is, it can be, you know, so it's part of this thing when you're, when you're using,

you know, your body to make a living, you're at risk. That is Craig Counsel, live from Wrigley Field. This is 100, this is 1043, the score. I was going to say it? I don't know. What are you laughing about? I was going to be great. This is 104.

100. 100.4.3 point. Like, after all that, we're going to change it to 100. From the dishwasher, Grody. This is live from the dishwasher on the score. We're 104.4.3 from the dishwasher. I am a dishwasher. What the heck?

You are a dishwasher. You know what your new name is? Cascade. That's a nice name. Cascade is also a very successful DJ. Oh, yeah? You've heard the songs. I'll play them for you later.

You know I love DJs. ever since that one day at Gallagher Way last year when What's His Name was there. John Summit was there. And it was a musical moment. You loved the DJ at Circa, too. I did. Yeah. I did.

Yeah, he was great. You were there, Grody? Yeah, man. Oh, in Vegas? Yeah, they let me go to Circa. Can you believe that? I was there. Baby T. By the way.

Yes in Vegas. Can I just throw something at you here really quick with Baby T? Yeah. Baby T. do, if you can really quickly, do your impersonation of me impersonating you. Okay, here it goes, hey, Grody, what's up? Yes.

Yeah. That's, are you aware that he keeps trying to take you under his wing, whether or not you want to go? I'm fully aware. You're on board, baby team. I'm on board. Are you giving your consent, baby, too. I need you to know that you don't have to do it.

I am always recruiting meatballs. That's what it is. Like, that is what I once was. You got a big old meatball right here. Yeah, I know. Like, he was, you were talking in the pre-show about Aaron Rogers being like the person that you hate most in your life.

And you have the luxury of that at this point, that you don't hate anybody more than somebody you don't know. Baby T's blood boils over Aaron Rogers. Yeah. That's more like it. In the meantime, a couple notes from Craig Castle here. Yes, please, please. Thank you.

Sayas Suzuki has the day off. You think that had to do with the old two-out, the two-run sacrifice flight? Oh, yeah. You've lost depth perception. We need you to go ahead. You like sitting down. We know that. Oh, man.

Man. He didn't deserve that for me. He didn't. No, he's been hitting really well. And then Craig counsel is saying that nobody is stretched out right now. So they'll address it when they can. I kept just calling it a puzzle. It's a puzzle.

It's a puzzle. We've got to put together. But I don't know who we're putting in the puzzle. We're missing pieces to the puzzle. Nothing was as perturbed as when he answered. I think it was the answer to a backup outfielder question, and he replied with coin flip. But why do I feel like he hasn't been able to address the situation of who will be stretched out to start?

She doesn't know. The good news out of all of that, though, and I did, I mean, it is, I guess, not the worst-case scenario saying that it could be the six-week variety as opposed to the end-of-season variety. So that is good news that we probably will see Matthew Boyd pitching again with the Chicago Cubs this year. Knock on wood. Knock on wood right now. There you go. So Conforto starting in right field today.

Yeah, what's the rest of the lineup you got there? I can give it to you right now, Leila, as I put on my old man readers. Adico Horner leading off and playing second base. Marshall would love this. Moises by Astero's is batting second and he is the DH. Yeah, Alex Bregman, batting third and playing third. Ian Hap, Appo home run last night. Easy to forget that and all the hyperactivity at the end.

Reds killer. But he is a Reds Killer, man. He talks about that with us last time he was on. Ian Hap is the cleanup hitter and playing left field like he does. Michael Bush batting fifth and playing first. There he is. Michael Conforto, batting sixth and playing right field with Sayas Suzuki, as Layla mentioned, getting the day off today.

Dansby is batting seventh and playing Chartstop. Pete Crow. Armstrong is your number eight hitter and playing center field and Miguel Amaya getting the catching assignment for the Cubs. Shota Imanaga, the starting pitcher for the Chicago Cubs with his two-something ERA and hopefully he continues to be the 2024 Shota that he has been here in 2026. Yeah, three and two, two 40 ERA with 43 strikeouts. And the Imanaga, Miguel Amaya pairing is hype. Like they, I think they really enjoy working with each other. Yeah, I like that. I like that for both of them. And I like the Cubs catching situation is nice. It really is. Like Carson

Kelly, Miguel Amaya, have two really competent catchers. He's a good thing. And Moises by Asteros is at least doing some stuff. He's there. So there's that. He's doing some stuff. Yep. He caught a game with Matthew Boyd pitching. Don't know if we want to see it again, but he's doing some stuff. Thanks, Ray Diaz. Thanks, Tyler Farengel. Thank you to Brandon Friar. Thanks to Carter, Donald, Jacob Stutz, Max Curtis, Cody Westerland, and Danny Parkins were coming on the show today. That's Danny. That was a live look at Danny Parkins. Cubs baseball is next.