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Dan Bernstein Unfiltered
SERIES RECAP: PCA and Chicago Cubs SWEPT AND EMBARRASSED by Brewers at Wrigley Field
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Narrator
Everybody talked about it since I first moved to Oregon. The big one. The earthquake that trashed the whole West Coast. Total destruction.
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Dan Bernstein
Officially calling it the largest natural disaster in American history.
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Narrator
I just didn't know what would help me next. So I took it all. Even the gun. It was time.
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Matt Abaticoa
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Dan Bernstein
A chicago cubs podcast with dan bernstein, matt abaticoa and cody delmendo on 312 sports.
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Matt Abaticoa
Good times on off the ivy here on 312 Sports. We cover the Chicago Cubs for you and we're brought to you by Russ Armstrong and Chicago window guys, 847-302-9171. Check out the five star reviews@chicagowindowguys.com well, we thought that they were at the bottom and could stop digging and begin moving upward. But they kept digging. It got worse with that performance last night that this we are we have not. Maybe can we now put a bottom in? Is this the bottom for whatever this, this particular nadir is at this point in the season?
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, I think the day off couldn't have come off, come up at a, at a better time for this team right now who's lost five in a row. They have lost nine of their last 11 and they have dropped a game and a half behind Milwaukee. They're still 29 and 21. Yeah, I guess, you know, that game yesterday with two hits and three errors kind of sums it up that. Yep, they got worse. Still not performing at the plate. You still have your production guys not producing regardless of where they bat in the batting order. So I don't want to do that again. But yesterday got uglier and I didn't think it could. And you have a spectacular performance from Kyle Harrison who went seven innings and struck out 11, gave up two hits. He, he looked absolutely amazing.
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Cody Delmendo
Yeah, two hits against a shitty team.
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Dan Bernstein
It helps too. Shitty hitting team right now, right?
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Cody Delmendo
Yeah. Zero runs, two hits, three errors on the, on the box score. If you want to be old school, that just, you know, if that doesn't tell you, then, you know, I won't sit here and rant and yell today because I would just say the exact same thing again. But I'll just say that for me last night's performance was as pathetic as I've seen in three and a half to four years. And last night I found myself thinking about a game from 2022 and you know, before I go further, obviously that team didn't have expectations, that team was rebuilding and me and Matt were probably on our couches complaining about how ownership wouldn't spend any money and we traded the entire core way and we didn't know where we're headed. So the context is very important. But when it comes to just on field like the, the effort and what we were given, it reminded me of this game. I had to go on Baseball Reference and find it From I believe June 15th of 2022 the Cubs lost the Padres 19 to 5 is and it was part of a four game sweep at home at Wrigley Field I believe and the Cubs led early in that game and then ended up giving up nine runs over the next two innings and like I said, losing 19 to 5. And I again I know context of that team is completely different with this one so I could understand why no one really gets it. But I just remember that day and coming away from that day thinking like this fan base, us people talking about this team deserves so much better than this. And that's how I felt last night. Just an absolute pathetic performance from top to bottom. There was not one good thing that came out of this game. You had your starting pitcher leave the game. So another injury, even if it is just a blister and it probably won't be that long, it still just like twists the knife. We don't even have to talk about runners in scoring position in, in this game because we couldn't get any runners on because one of the two hits came from the very first batter of the game for the Cubs in which he got thrown out at third base in a play that honestly I, I, I didn't hate that they were trying to get aggressive considering how bad the offense has been, but it just, when it rains it pours like that's, that's what this game felt like. And I hope, I genuinely hope that this is the bottom, like the worst of the worst for the entire year because losing a series to the brewers, fine. But getting swept at home like that, like this in a season where you have high expectations. I know majority of baseball fans feel like the Dodgers are just going to three peat or whatever, but when it comes to competing in the National League for the pennant or whatever, the Cubs entering the season were considered One of the top three teams that were going to compete with the Dodgers. And it's not just this series. It's the last 1112 games since they went on the road to Texas and they had a 15 game home winning streak and to come home and lose three in a row like this is embarrassing, empathetic and I don't really know how to change, how to how things are going to get changed. But you know, my last point would be that, you know, you face the lefty last night and I felt like yesterday would have been a good day to get Matt Shaw in there because they barely been using him and Pete probably could have used the day based off hindsight and just everything that's happened this week. You, I wouldn't mind if, if you, if you sat Happ or Bregman either. It just, and I know you got to get those guys in there but at the same time like why, what's what, what's what could hurt right now considering how this team is hitting. So I'm a little disappointed that, that we didn't see match. I'll start last night and yeah, that's where I'm at. I'm just incredibly disappointed with, with this entire organization right now.
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Matt Abaticoa
What I would do today. And this is a time where, and I'm not saying that I miss Joe Madden, but this is a time where sometimes a manager can release the pressure a little bit. And I don't know what the Cubs plan is today, whether there are workouts scheduled or not. I would tell all these guys, put your baseball bag away for a day and don't come to work. Go, go do something. Go be with, take care of your kids or go swim in the lake or go hang gliding, whatever your contract allows you. They, everybody needs to find some mental break today before you get back at it tomorrow and dissociate completely. I don't care what you got to do. I don't, I don't care if you want to sit on your back porch and sip tequila all day and read a book. But that, that would be my assignment. That would be whatever I would communicate to the team right now. I don't want to see you all day. I, I will, will, will, will reconvene when it's time to play baseball again. Don't even think about baseball today.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, I would agree with that. And just enjoy the day off. Take the day off of baseball. Come back tomorrow. Yeah, it has been an ugly stretch. I will say this though about professional baseball players. They are mentally tougher than we could ever expect to be playing a game like that. They get it. This is going to course correct because here's what's going to happen. You look at the guys that aren't producing for you that you expect to produce in Ian Hap, Alex Bregman, say Suzuki, Michael Busch, right now, they're. The four of those guys are in the top seven of runners left on base in the season. Hap is number one, Bregman's three, Suzuki six. And he's played 12 to 14 games less than the other regulars. Michael Bush is seven. So 1, 3, 6 and 7. And men left on base, your four production guys. I can't read the future. I don't know how the season's going to play out. I know there's 112 games left in this year.
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Cody Delmendo
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. I know there are some fans that say, oh, the season's over. The Cubs suck. They lost the lead. They've given up so many games in A division. There's 112 games to go there, eight games over.500. I don't believe that all four of these guys are going to have shitty seasons. Is it possible that one guy has a shitty year? Yeah, it's very possible that one guy severely underperforms his averages for this season. All four guys are not going to do that. Okay. That would be historic. One guy probably can. Maybe that happens. I'm going to think the other side of it, that these four guys will course correct and they will play above their averages for a stretch of time, which will make a significant difference in the standings and also in the stats. Okay. We can't sit here and say Ian Hap can't play baseball anymore. Alex Bregman was a bad signing. Seizuki, to me, is the most troubling because again, he's 12 to 14 games less than the other guys. All right. And his numbers are just as bad. Michael Bush just as bad. They're leaving a lot of guys on base and it's not like they need to go 20 for 20 to course correct. It's just a few hits here and there with guys on base. That's all it is. This team, they're. They've dropped out of the top 10 in average.
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Matt Abaticoa
It's home runs.
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Dan Bernstein
It's definitely home runs.
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Matt Abaticoa
It's slugging.
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Dan Bernstein
That's what I'm getting to. On base percentage. They're second. They're slugging their ninth. They're still ninth in baseball and they're slugging. And they're far underperforming as A team, they're fifth and ops, they're still a very good offensive team. Even with this stretch, there's still eight games over.500. They're a game and a half out now. Yeah, it's about expectations. That's what you said, Cody. It's about expectations. And the expectations were for the Cubs to win this division. Last time I checked, the season's not over, the division's not done. There's 112 games to go. This is a good baseball team. It's a very good defensive team. You talk about Pete Crow, Armstrong. Yeah. He had two errors yesterday, looked terrible or in the last couple days, and that one was awful yesterday. And even said after the game, yeah, you know, about his errors. He said it's. Oh, it's laughable. Yeah, it is laughable. For the way that that guy can perform at a regular basis, a regular level, being the best outfielder, defender in the game to have those errors. It is laughable. But what he said was key. He said. He said I was trying too hard to make up for the lack of production at the plate. He didn't say at the plate, but he said lack of production. So he sees that ball coming to him in the outfield. He sees a guy going around third, going home. I'm going to get this guy out. I'm going to get this guy out to make up for what I'm not doing at the plate. And that's what happens. And we talked about that yesterday. When you try harder in baseball, you get out of your rhythm, you get out of your mechanics, and that kind of happens. You just can't do it. This day off couldn't have come at a better time. It's ugly. It's terrible. They're 2 and 9 in their last 11, and it's just. It's. It's not going to stay this way for all the players. It can't. Can one guy have a bad year, Absolutely. Underperform his averages? Absolutely. Not all four guys, not the entire team. It's just. It's a really pathetic, awful deep stretch they're in right now. And all it needs is just a few hits here and there to course correct. We saw with Nico Horner, he was one of the best players in the game to start the season off in all of baseball. And I said that we knew the Nico crash was going to come because that's not who he is as a player. He's not. He's not. He's not a top five player in this game. He's not There was going to be a course correction and then he'll start hitting the ball again. That's just how the game goes. We just, we can't get all these, all these, you know, these statements of, oh, doom and gloom and everything's done. They're never going to get the division lead back again. They might not even make the playoffs. We, we can't think that way in a 162 game season.
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Matt Abaticoa
Oh, there, there's people already out there benching Pete Crowe, Armstrong for the rest of the year.
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Dan Bernstein
I, actually firing Craig Counsel, like putting
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Matt Abaticoa
Matt Shaw full time in center field like this, there, there's a lot of stupid out there right now.
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Dan Bernstein
He's still a 2.2 War player. 2.2.
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Matt Abaticoa
While the concern is real, the concern is obviously real with the team. They're playing badly. It sucks to watch. You're never as good as you are during the good times. You're never as bad as you are during the bad times. Everything will moderate back to where it's supposed to be and probably within all of the reasonable season projections.
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Cody Delmendo
Yeah, well, like I said, I've with how PCA has played since Sunday because if you go back to our Monday episode, I believe me and Matt kind of said, you know, why not move Pete up in the lineup? He's been playing well since that, you know, that, that series in San Diego. Well, it's aged poorly since we said it because I, I, I think in some way, maybe not fully, but I think in some way what happened on Sunday with the White Sox fan has, has mentally been in his head or something. And, and because he just doesn't make errors like that. He doesn't make airs, period.
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Matt Abaticoa
I'm glad you said that. But let me bring, let me give an alternative hypothesis, okay. Based on personal experience, okay. Not with baseball, but just from a mental health perspective. And this, I'm not presuming I'm correct. I'm just offering this as a possibility that rather than presume the whites, the incident with the White Sox fan was causal, let's presume it's correlative that maybe he, his, his short fuse and his response to somebody that he said he regretted is that and, and his issues are part of a larger thing. And this is just coming from personal experience with a reaction to a fan or a reaction to somebody in public and it exposed something. But it wasn't, it wasn't a freestanding occurrence that didn't have other things that were underlying and other things that didn't lead up to it. I Just I hope that. Look, he's young man, he's still a kid. And it may just be that the second half of last year and all of this public attention, the way he's lived his life, he. In the stuff I experience with social media and public pressure and the dopamine outrage cycle, like, I kind of. I'm starting to see a little bit that maybe it. Maybe that his response to that fan indicated there's something else that's a little. A little tightly wound or needs a little bit of help right now.
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Cody Delmendo
Yeah, and I, I think that's actually a better way of, you know, speculating, because that moment on Sunday, I think his regret is just how he worded it, how he said it. You know, if a fan says something to you, the amount of players who have to shake it off and all that, if you talk. If a fan is going to talk to you, they should be able to take it back. All that aside, you know, so when I think about how he's played since Sunday, I think the regret, the national attention that's came from it, and it's just now these two errors, they're like, they're. They're about as embarrassing as the play he had in St. Louis last year where he forgot how many outs there were, you know, and so it doesn't take away. None of it takes away from the fact that he is still the best defensive player in all of baseball. And it's just right now it feels like a domino effect of. Just bad from him. And, and you can tell in his body language, too, like when he let that ball go under his glove and he ran back and got it and threw the ball in. You could just see his body language after he threw it just like really down on himself. You can see it in some of it at the end of his plate appearances last night, too, that he. He is. The confidence is not there. And, and one thing that I've always enjoyed about pca and I think only really Cubs fans feel this way, or maybe you could be, you know, just baseball fans and like certain players. But one thing that I've always loved about the way he plays the game is he plays with a fire. He plays with a confidence that no matter how many times he fails, he. He fi.
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Dan Bernstein
He.
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Cody Delmendo
He always believed that he could do better the next time or make the play the next time. And it just feels like he is in a. In a mental state right now that he just doesn't have that confidence or that fire. And, and it's showing on the field. And that's why, again, I would have been okay if, if Craig sat him yesterday. That way you get two extra day, you get the, the off day today. So you give him two days and, and then try and reset for Friday against the Astros. But, you know, yeah, I think, I
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Dan Bernstein
think he made that decision for several of these players, knowing there was an off day today. Yeah, you're trying to salvage a win in this series against Milwaukee. Your division rivals, Matt Shaw and center. You're not going to sit Ian Happ. You're gonna put those guys out there knowing there's a day off today. And I think with the expectations that we, we've talked about then, you know, I mentioned those, those four guys there. Ian Hap is leading the league with 107 men left on base. Bregman 103, Suzuki 96, Bush 93. Those are four in the top, top seven. Colson Montgomery is fifth on that list. Okay, with 97. But the difference with Colts Montgomery is he has 13 home runs so far in the year. At 1.4 WAR, he has 13 home runs. Ian Happ has 10. Yeah, he's. He's on pace to hit more than he ever has in a season. Bregman has four underperforming. Suzuki has seven. Bush has four. A few more home runs, it doesn't look as bad. Doesn't look quite the same. But you don't have White Sox fans going, oh, this guy's leaving 97 men on base all season long. He needs to sit down and take no. Because he's hitting home runs. The home runs are going to come, okay? And again, they may not. For one of these guys, one of these guys may underperform for the entire season. All four of them will not. This team will not. They're going to have stretches. That's all there is to it. With these expectations. Yeah, it's going to change. But you look at, look at the Cubs plate appearances with runners in scoring position. They're actually two in baseball with.580. They're ten behind Pittsburgh. Milwaukee is fourth at.561. Now your batting average. Pittsburgh.241. The Cubs.233 with runners in scoring position. Milwaukee's.289. That's fourth in baseball behind Atlanta, Tampa Bay and Arizona. Their K rate is 8th, 8th in major league Baseball. With runners in scoring position, striking out 23.1% of the time. They've left 398 runners on base. That's most in baseball. And again, it's not about going 20 for 20 or 30 for 30. It's a few extra hits here and there, and this all looks different.
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Cody Delmendo
Well, Cody's like, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
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Matt Abaticoa
whatever jumps out a window. I mean, come on.
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Dan Bernstein
What.
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Cody Delmendo
I just, I am trying to look at the big picture today compared to yesterday, and you got the Astros coming in this weekend, and I just. I'd like to see some form of fire lit under this team after what just happened. It was an embarrassing loss last night. Embarrassing series, honestly.
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Dan Bernstein
I mean, you're.
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Cody Delmendo
You're supposed to be competing with this team for the division and just. You just got boat raced all three games, really.
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Matt Abaticoa
In the biggest disappointment about yesterday and whether or not this had to do with the blister on his finger or whether or not the blister on his finger has been here long, younger he's been Edwin Cabrera because he started out and we thought, who. Boy, this is nasty stuff, man. I don't know what happened or I don't know why his velocity's down, why his strikeouts are down, whether or not the blister has been bothering him or something else has been bothering him. But if he ends up being a disappointment, it just is a bigger hole for you to make up. Right now they needed a start for. From somebody, a. A team needed to the. The term is stopper. But where somebody's like, look, it's enough losing because I'm on the mound today. All you got to do is hit a little bit. Somebody. Somebody hit a couple over the fence here. I'll handle the rest. That's what you needed yesterday, right?
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Dan Bernstein
And you had. In this series, Dan, you had your. Arguably your three best pitchers going in the series.
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Matt Abaticoa
Yes, yes. And they.
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Dan Bernstein
And it just. It just didn't work out.
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Matt Abaticoa
People spit the bit, man. You've got. You got to have somebody who takes it upon themselves to go out there and maybe they just don't have the talent right now, but he does. That's the thing. Cabrera isn't lacking the talent to be that guy right now, and they've got. They got to get him fixed.
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Cody Delmendo
Yeah, I am looking as savant right now from last night and I am a little, you know, who knows what would have happened if he was able to stay in. But he did throw his four seam fastball more than any pitch, which this, I believe the start before it was. He barely threw it. So I don't know if that it was because of the brewers or what, but it just. It's the first thing that catches my eye when I look at It, I, I will say this as well. Who knows it would have happened if Pete just gets the ball and throws it in and doesn't allow a little league homer. May maybe, you know, maybe, maybe he provides you a, A, you know, a two inning or not two inning, you know, five, six innings of two run ball or something like that. But it just felt like when, when Pete let that ball go by, it just felt like here we, here we go again. And, and, and I will. And the negative for Cabrera too. Too many uncompetitive like pitches.
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Matt Abaticoa
Yes, yes.
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Cody Delmendo
And he. I believe they said on the broadcast, and I didn't realize this, but I believe they said on the broadcast that he is among the league leaders and pitches outside the zone. Like he doesn't.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, he's second in Major league Baseball
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Matt Abaticoa
and people aren't chasing the way they used to chase. Right.
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Dan Bernstein
With abs.
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Matt Abaticoa
Right.
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Cody Delmendo
So you're right, Dan. Like he has to be better and this is just a setback. Now I expect him to at least miss one or two starts. I don't know if he's have to go in the IL for a blister, but just the, the timing couldn't have been worse.
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Dan Bernstein
See, but that's interesting though, Dan, because people aren't chasing because of ABs and he's second in the league in out throwing outside the zone. But yet you have showed up who's deliberately throwing more outside of the zone, getting more chases.
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Matt Abaticoa
It has to do with how it looks to the hitter. Correct. And it may just be that it
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Dan Bernstein
looks very different coming from show than it does coming from Cabrera.
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Matt Abaticoa
And maybe the velocity issue is something else to be discussed here. I don't know if we are looking at one of these inscrutable kinetic chain pitching issues where a little thing at one joint or at one spot in, in the movement becomes larger by the end of it. But they, they need to scrutinize him. I'm not including the pitching infrastructure video wonks in my day off order today. That is merely a, A dugout order.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, I would say no. No baseball today.
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Matt Abaticoa
No, we're crazy. You mean even for them? Even for everybody else?
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Dan Bernstein
No baseball.
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Matt Abaticoa
No baseball for any baseball.
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Dan Bernstein
No baseball.
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Cody Delmendo
The entire organization.
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Dan Bernstein
Take it. Take a day off.
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Matt Abaticoa
Everybody in the organization.
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Dan Bernstein
Come back Friday morning. Yes, come back Friday morning. Go rent a boat on Lake Michigan and do whatever kind of fishing you can do. Or.
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Matt Abaticoa
There you go.
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Dan Bernstein
Drink as much beer as possible and just enjoy the day and not do anything. I wonder too, with Cabrera, this blister when we get more information on it. How long has it been dealing with it? Yep. You know, is it something that just popped up yesterday? Has it been over several starts and we just been managing it and throwing different pitches because of it? And I, I don't know. I'd like to get more information on it. It's not the reason why they lost yesterday. It's just their, their offense is, is on a boat in Lake Michigan somewhere. They need to go find it and bring it back.
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Cody Delmendo
Yeah. Yeah. I think as far as the rotation moving forward, I would expect Assad to be the guy who comes back up and put into the rotation, and that's fine. He can, he's good. He's good enough to give you some innings for a couple times through, but. Yeah, just when it rains, it pours, man.
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Dan Bernstein
I, I just, yeah, but I, I refuse, I refuse to give any breathing room to any stupid thoughts. I, I refuse to do it.
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Matt Abaticoa
Good.
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Dan Bernstein
Not, not in the show. It's, it's, it's not going to happen. We're not going to allow it to happen with our community of listeners because there are 112 games to go and any stupid thoughts, even from people that, that I thought were intelligent, like, you can't have that in a baseball season. You just can't do it. You've got to keep working on your mechanics. You got to keep taking your approach to it and you've got to keep going out there day after day and at bat after at bat and pitch after pitch. Because once, once you start pressing, like PCA said yesterday, I wanted to make up for the production, dude, that's what happens when you try harder and you try to make up for production, for lack of production at the plate. That's the kind of you do. And it affects your and Dan. And I think it's a really good point you make that there, there, there probably is something greater that he needs to deal with and it's not because of the, the fan. No, no.
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Matt Abaticoa
I, I, it's all indication. I think it's all symptomatic of something
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Dan Bernstein
larger and it's probably just pressures on himself and expectations on himself. He signs his contract, he's here. This is what he wanted to do. You know, I wake up every day and I know I'm going to play the, for the Cubs the next several years. You know, I'm sure he's expecting too much of himself. Pull it back, slow it down. Take it one at bat at a time, one out at a time. Out in the field.
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Matt Abaticoa
Yeah, I'm not. I don't want to diagnose him.
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Dan Bernstein
Right. No, no, no. But it's, it's, it's a good, it's a good speculation from personal experience.
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Matt Abaticoa
Yeah. I just, I just know that when the idea of being that thin skinned and being irrational in your responses. I know can come from a place of when, when you're not at your most mentally healthy.
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Dan Bernstein
Sure. Yeah.
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Cody Delmendo
And like I said, I think it's a, it's a better way to maybe try and speculate than just saying, oh, the fan is the reason why he did. Like he sucked. Like, it's.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, that's easier. It's an easier path.
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Cody Delmendo
That's a much easier way. But I just, whatever it is, I hope the Cubs do their part in helping him get on the right path. And it doesn't just start with Pete. Performing is a thing. And doing this in Mental health month, which is in May, like, I hope that the Cubs are or will do something to, you know, help him. And it's not anything that we have to hear about it.
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Dan Bernstein
It's.
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Cody Delmendo
That's an internal organizational thing. So I think it's pretty obvious that it, that it is something related to, you know, his mental health. So, yeah, I, you know, one more thing related to this game too. Phil Maton, I, you know, took a step forward to the other day, takes a step back last night, allows a run, wild pitch, just. I don't know, man.
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Dan Bernstein
But yeah, that game had it all. I mean, you had the error from pca, you had an overthrow from Carson Kelly that gets into second base. You had the wild pitch that brings in a run again, zero runs, two hits and three errors. That's like, all right, well, that's not the Cubs team.
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Matt Abaticoa
That. And you know what else you had that as soon as it was five. Nothing. You had some of the best basketball that's ever been played by human beings on this planet to watch instead of. So I know you, you too, didn't feel that you could allow yourselves to peel away.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, I stayed.
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Matt Abaticoa
I tell you, that was, that was real easy for me last night. I said, oh, on the one hand, I have some of the worst baseball I've seen this team play ever. And then I have some of the best possible basketball.
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Dan Bernstein
So I text me about the game and I was like, I'm almost there. I got one more out to go before I get to.
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Matt Abaticoa
I, I learned to make my own mental health health decisions. And that was. I could, I could hear, I'm frowning and here I'm smiling. I'M gonna go where I'm smiling.
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Cody Delmendo
Fair enough.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, I didn't, I didn't want to pull away and have him come back and win that game, even though I knew in my heart, but I was like, you know what? I'm gonna watch the game still. I'm gonna stay with it.
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Cody Delmendo
I'm just sick and can't not watch, so.
- [30:21]
Matt Abaticoa
Oh, no, you're, you're beyond help. That, that goes without saying.
- [30:25]
Dan Bernstein
You don't have a choice, though, at the fic. You, you, you don't have a choice to leave.
- [30:29]
Matt Abaticoa
Yeah.
- [30:29]
Cody Delmendo
So everything's all right.
- [30:31]
Matt Abaticoa
Every be all right, man.
- [30:33]
Cody Delmendo
All right. Well, I hope that the next time I say that this most pathetic loss in however many years, I hope it's a long time from now because it just, you know, they've had tough, tough roads, tough stretches in 23, 24 and 25 for sure, but man, it just, I don't think there's anything worse than, than this week, at least since, you know, since they were rebuilding when they had no expectations. So if you want to go back to when they had expectations, I think about 2019, September, that nine game losing streak they had at the end of the year, that helped them miss the playoffs, if you want to do that. But just the good news, like you keep saying, Matt, It's May. There's 112 games to go and you look at their record, and if you told us, if you told me on opening day that the record would be 29 and 21 on May 21st going into.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, you would take that. I was, I wasn't gonna throw that at you, buddy. That, hey, if you don't, it's, it's. And if you don't know the. How they got there, it just. All you know is right there, that's where they're at. 29 and 21 on May 21, you'd say, yeah, let's go, let's see, let's see where it's at now. I mean, I would have kept from you the information that they're a game and a half behind and also tied with St. Louis, but they're 29 and 21.
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Matt Abaticoa
So.
- [31:47]
Cody Delmendo
Yeah, but. And to kind of, you know, headbutt with that a little bit is the fact that you take those two ten game winning streaks away, they're like nine and nine.
- [31:58]
Dan Bernstein
What?
- [31:58]
Cody Delmendo
Nine. And you can't.
- [31:59]
Matt Abaticoa
Don't take those away.
- [32:01]
Dan Bernstein
I can also take away the 21 losses and they could be 50 and. Oh, I mean, it's.
- [32:04]
Matt Abaticoa
But yeah, this is A baseball season. The all of these chunks of games ultimately accrue to define how good you are. And they all count. All of it counts. But it's a six month season that will eventually determine what basic odds they have of winning the World Series. And then that whole thing will start.
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Dan Bernstein
Right, and then it starts over again from zero.
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Cody Delmendo
before we end. You mentioned basketball earlier, Dan. One of my best friends is a Spurs fan and he texted me last night saying, or actually he texted me this morning. He said, it's crazy how much we have in common, Cody. Mainly, mainly how much we want to die.
- [34:41]
Dan Bernstein
No, no, no. Geez.
- [34:44]
Matt Abaticoa
That, that's, that turned really dark.
- [34:48]
Cody Delmendo
Yeah, it was sarcasm for sure. But wow.
- [34:51]
Dan Bernstein
Yeah.
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Matt Abaticoa
The injuries to the spurs, the that that injury to Harper is concerning and the injury to Fox is concerning. So I'm with you if you want to go there. But all I know is I don't really have in the fight, even though I prefer that the spurs win. It just gave me something to experience other than awful Cubs baseball.
- [35:11]
Cody Delmendo
Yeah.
- [35:12]
Matt Abaticoa
I took that opportunity.
- [35:13]
Cody Delmendo
Yeah. No smart idea. And given the, given the time of the year and everything. So.
- [35:20]
Dan Bernstein
Yeah. And whether it's, whether it's awful baseball or it's outstanding first place type baseball, we're going to be here for you every day on off the Ivy. We do cover the Coffee Cubs. We talk about them Monday through Friday right here on 312 Sports. Now tomorrow there is no game today so we have opportunity for mailbag questions to come through to Cody. Also have a couple other, you know, baseball bigger picture topics to get into tomorrow as well as we'll preview the first of the weekend series against the Houston Astros for your Chicago Cubs right here on off the ivy. On 312 sports off the ivy, a Chicago Cubs podcast with Dan Bernstein, Matt Abaticoa and Cody Delmendo on 31 2SP.