Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - No lead is safe when it comes to the red-hot Cubs! (Hour 1)

Episode Date: May 7, 2026

Leila Rahimi and Mark Grote opened their show by breaking down the Cubs' come-from-behind 7-6 walk-off win over the Reds in 10 innings Wednesday at Wrigley Field. After that, they discussed the Cubs�� 14-game home winning streak. Later, they discussed the White Sox's 8-2 loss to the Angels on Wednesday.

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 the... I can't say what type of talking you would normally say because... FTC... 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. Muridators, 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 Reds series. How are they going to win today? Shoda. 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, Shodah, 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 ball game against. 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 entominy. 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 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 can 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 you're a part. Carbon 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, my, 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 up 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-walk shrimp. That's a thing. 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. Pineapple 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. Yeah. 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 thrott last night, Baby T is here, Tyler Ferengal. And I was like, Baby T. Simon time. How many of these Caleb Lake 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 a whole. 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 Modis 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 Trey Jones. No offense, Yuki. Shrimp. Hey, not the same kind. 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 corbin martin yeah both were not on yeah so i and i didn't love bringing hobie on after he got out of the tenth or after he got out of the ninth inning bringing him back on for the plate appearance

in the tenth 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 Strings, you know, you've got two men on. No outs. Trent Thornton. Try to get this done. And then he did. Oh, and 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. 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 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, 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. Like, he just doesn'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 his editor 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 he's ever on the midday show or something like that. Oh, 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. I'm like, what? Right. How, you have a stressful job. Yeah.

And yet, I used to think. Vampire. 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. We're live, but we're live. That's stress in itself. Live is stress. No, I'm just like Craig is a vampire.

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 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. 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... 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 a 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 Sayah Suzuki. Oh, man. Yeah, sorry. 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 enough. 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. Well, exactly. Yes, he's a regular on Moline Haugh. That is true. So this is Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 104-3, 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 IDOT. 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. 6767 and you can join us on Twitch.tv slash the score Chicago YouTube the score Chicago as well our Twitch mob is up and chatting. Cotter 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. I'm 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 leader, Peter. 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.

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, 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 Grotie. I'm Laylorie. We are here getting you ready for day baseball. 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 is our number. Derek joins us from Bowling Brook.

Hi, Derek. Hello there, Derek. Is he here? How's it going? Good, man. What's it going on, guys? Hey, man. Yeah, what's happening?

Nothing. Hey, I was calling 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 threw that pitcher off because that very next pitch that the picture threw, damn near hit Bush. And that won the game. you know what I think 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 we could see it play out in real time the beauty is now that the umpire 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. That's a different Brock. That is Brock of the SPAC.

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 is very moving to me, by the way, as an ISU alumnus. Hey, I'm a public school girl. I know. 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 a 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. 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? I'm like, well, that was enough time to ask for that right there. Right. But I also, 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 Hap gave us some really good insight. I think we should get into it tomorrow a little bit. I know we got the shorty today. But 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 of 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, strike zone. 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. I didn't like that call. And then if you're the Yompeer's like, go out, challenge it there, 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. Hitch your little ABS system, pal. That's right. So it's like a new little version of like mini-gamemanship. You know, I think. Go ahead. Why do I have the feeling that at bat would end in a strikeout swinging for Mark Grady?

Oh, like they would appeal to the first place on prior to the third base on-part. 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. You'd be the ump though. You would be the um.

You would be the um. Come on. Bring it. 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 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 something. and 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. Samsonite. 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 15 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 the Cubs were blowing teams out back then. They didn't need the late 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 massive.

So I'm a little careful not to do the exact comp to that. And the Cubs have had some nice add-on run moments, but the stretch that they are existing in right 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 Penella's second trip to the playoffs where you had DeRosa and Di Lee and Alfonso Soriano, my guy, Ramis Ramirez, Giovanni Soto was on that team. Koske Fukudomei, your guy, Ryan Tarrio. Oh, yes, the riots. Lofontano 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 26th, number

that were coming up. I was like, ah, you know 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. Yeah. Then you were on with Russ Dorsey. 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 and like, poor Edward Cabrera. 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 A4-7's text during the Mully and Haas show that came down an hour ago. Yes. 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. Oh, God. 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 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 haven't walked into a library in decades. You should. I always liked that, but you can't get a call. Can you get a coffee at a library?

You can bring it in. Really? Oh. 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 Ye white Sox. Even though last night was a bummer yesterday, we'll discuss it next.

You're listening to Rahimi Harrison Grody on Sports Radio 1043, The Score. Doors closing. Romo in the air to left, DiDosio, 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 Brody. I'm 104.3. The score there is now 17-9. and 20 after that loss, 8 to 2 to the Angels, that courtesy of CHSN, John Triffon, 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 against 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 runs, 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, you know, Schultz has been, his ERA balloons, by the way, to 468, not a particularly good performance. Travis Darnot, 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, 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. 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 close. 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 Ritchel League Baseball. Oh, yeah, I mean, he's one of the Siong finalists

injured right now, but every year he's a perennial Saoyang discussion when it comes to either him or Tarek Scoubel. 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 with Schultz.

I understand that. His highest strikeout game was against the Nationals. He had eight. Eight, okay. So, and then he had sixth the game before against Sacramento. 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 is Joey Weimer. 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 Weimer back, he is the one that set Matthew Boyd off on this really unfortunate season

because Matthew Boyd looked horrible against Weemer and the Nationals and then gets hurt a week after that. he's heard 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.

And you better not air-condition 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. I absolutely believe him. A lot of times when there are these wacky injuries, you don't believe it. I was like, I believe. 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. Don't you remember how adorable the pictures were of him and his daughters at All-Star? That, yeah. Has he given you any reason? He's just a ray of sunshine. Has it 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 are you doing over here? I'm just like, I was like, 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. Where is he? 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. I got to 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 to check on him too. Is he hurt too?

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