Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - No lead is safe when it comes to the red-hot Cubs!

Episode Date: May 7, 2026

Leila Rahimi and Mark Grote discussed the Cubs' come-from-behind 7-6 walk-off win over the Reds in 10 innings Wednesday at Wrigley Field.

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 Reds series. How are they going to win today? Shoda! It's showtime. Rock 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

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 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 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 Pardth, 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 at 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 Reds 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, seven, six over the reds

and ten 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 Laila 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.net or Illinois mushroom or whatever that was called that we looked at that one day. A mushroom is a hit by pitch walk off. 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 for it? You're 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 active 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. Spineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, yes, sir. Coconut shrimp, 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, or, you know, just any time. And then also the baseball kind. Shrimp, scampy or shrimp cocktail, if you had to choose right. this second. Shrim cocktail. Yeah. Pretty good, man. Yeah.

Yeah, it'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'd just get another one. That's true. They're usually like 30 bucks, though. Everything is expensive.

Everything's about 30 bucks to start. Yeah. 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 bear.

the Cubs, but it's kind of hard not to. In fact, on our group thread last night, Baby T is here, Tyler Ferengal. And I was like, Baby T, assignment 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. I mean, that's the Reds. Only the Reds. Only the one and only. Cincinnati. Well, 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 Mottis Buzellis had the fleece Cubs blanket on as a cape. I was thinking about Modis Bozellis. There's a vulnerability there to the club, to the Caleb Club, the way Bryson Graham was talking yesterday. Everybody must go. sounds like.

I don't sound like he's attached to modest 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. And Phil. Phil. Yeah, I thought Phil was the P. I always missed the P. I got it. Phil Jackson? Like, who's the Phil?

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 size. like Yuki Karamura and Trey Jones. No offense, Yuki.

Shrimp. Hey, not the same time. Oh, is that the same shrimp? Okay. Poor Mark Grody. 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 Harris and Crotie on 1043 of 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 uh with not the greatest outing for old hobie miller and corbin martin yeah both were not on yeah so i and 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,

Kirk 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 him perfectly with the Cubs.

He's essentially coming off an injury. pitch 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 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 him in extra innings. You try to let him, 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, but Craig definitely had a pause and he smiled and he was like, uh, yeah. Like you could tell that was not typical for him. And he had a,

you could tell he was he had to 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 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 doesn'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. It actually does come across his editor because 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 he's ever on the midday show or something like that. Oh, you do. Yeah. Dear Craig, are you a vampire? He has no gray hair Oh yeah

Full head of hair He doesn't age Yeah He hasn't gained away I'm like what Right I think it was You have a stressful job

Yeah And yet I used 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 a 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.

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

Baseball vampire. Did you think that the, so we're, 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 three RBI of his own. So at that point you're like, okay, maybe, maybe we've hit empty on the gas tank. Dode Pasker steps up to the play, Doty Pasker. Maybe this is, the magic is finally subsided. And you've got to refill the tank. You know, you can't be, you can't be like out here risking life. But no, no.

We got PCA going up. 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. strip, 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 to PCA, I think it was PCA to try to get it in and then the second run score. So I thought that that would dirty little secret. I thought that was on say of 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 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 strong. 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. Well, exactly. Yes, he's a regular on Moline Hall. That is true. So this is Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 104.

That is Mark Grody. I'm Laila Roeimie. 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.

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