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1:00Heo comes podcast presented by bet365, where winning is everything, download the bet365 app, and use the code CHTO365 when you sign up. Here we go. Opening day is almost here. Joyker Stopolis and Luke Stuckmire. The chat is already running. Look at Shane Newbanks getting ready for the game. I heard he's going to be at opening day at Wrigley Field, our guy Gary's here, Corey Seacrest in the chat, Craig Brindle says, now extend Nico, that's right, PCA extended. That was the big story. If you haven't seen the breaking news podcast that we did last night, you can check that out as well. We still don't exactly have official word of the way this whole thing is going to be structured. The bottom line is this, the cubs are getting a deal. The cubs are getting PCA extended through multiple years. They're buying out all that arbitration stuff, and we're going to have PCA roaming center field for a good long period of time. You don't have to worry about him becoming a $400 million player right now, even though

2:04he probably will be worth perhaps the $400 million. Yes, you still may get that number, but not right now. Yeah, it's a great deal for everyone, and especially for cubs fans. Thank you so much for joining us. If you did last night with our emergency pod up until about midnight last night, talking about it. Just to reiterate some of the things that we hit on last night, you know, you just mentioned. The most important part about this is one, you know, you want to reward a player that means a lot to this organization right now that you think is on the edge of the precipice of having a huge season. The other part about it too is, as you mentioned, those 27, 28, 29 year deals, those last three years, and we don't know what the annual AAV is going to be for those deals. I think that's what's really important about this contract, where whether it is going to be six, seven, maybe it'll be eight years. We'll see what happens with the options. You would do it's a matter of you. I'm laughing. I'm laughing. I'm laughing. Six seven. I heard it. I laughed at it. And then I ran them. Thunk said, I fell asleep listening to your breaking news podcast. Oh, good.

3:04Well, hopefully we're just as good as the ocean waves at night, bringing you into a kind nice little slumber, dreaming of Luke, but no, look, the problem or maybe the thing that everyone was worried about as a cubs fan was, are we going to have to go through this again where we have an incredibly young, popular player in our uniform, a la, a Chris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo, a hobby bias, whatever it is, go down the list of the cubby core, and are we going to have to do the extension talks? Or is he going to walk during free agency? Should they trade him? Where does everyone stand on this? The cubs being proactive about this and locking PC up now, PCA up now. It's just a huge step, not just for this season, but obviously for the rest of the decade and for years to come. I think it shows that a borderline emerging superstar player wants to be here. Yes. That's something that the cubs need to prove again, right? Like, a wriggly field does sell itself. I get that. But the cubs needed to sort of show this off season to the rest of the league in the

4:07future free agents and all of that stuff. You know what? This is the place to be. Yeah, the 108 thing is over, but this is still, if you want to party all summer long and have a chance to win a championship and be treated like a king, this is where you want to be. That's their slogan. This is where you want to be. And PCA has done that now. He said to him, listen, I'm young. I know I got a big payday coming down the road, but right now this is what I want. I want to be a part of this cubs team, the next great cubs team, and I want to be in center field for a long time at wriggly field. And so that's a, that's a message that will continue on because there were other players around the league that certainly saw Chris Bryant, leave Anthony Rizzo get traded like both guys get traded, how they get traded and ultimately those proved to be the right move. I'm complaining about that. But when it was first happening, the image was more like, how could they let this championship

5:12team not develop anymore and just fall apart? What are they doing wrong? It was at a one time three. And now you have a young star player emerging superstar saying, no, no, we got it right. We got it. We have the right manager. We have the right front office. We have the right fans. We have the right ballpark. And now we have the right players. And this is where I want to be. I think it's a big message long term. Absolutely. When you talk about building blocks, now he's not just a building block. He is the foundation. He's a foundation piece of what you're trying to build with the core moving forward that obviously is going to involve Alex Pregman. And at least Danzby Swanson right for the next three years. Yeah. To further the point that you're making, which I love a whole lot because I think it's important for Cubs fans to also understand that this gets baked into the pilot. So before we know what the numbers are and before we have baseball being played on Thursday, that messaging that you're talking about. I think it goes a long way. And what better to deliver that message than Peacrow Armstrong, just the way that he's talked about being a cub, the way that he's talked about what rigly field feels like

6:14in October. The way that the messaging is going on right now with Peacrow Armstrong, what a better person to lead that narrative and that messaging for years to come. I think Alex Pregman also will do a great job of that. I think Nico Horner has done a great job of that. The guy that played last year in right field, that's the thing is that great baseball player, right? But when you invest hundreds of millions of dollars in these guys, this is just the reality because it's an entertainment business. You want more from them sometimes. And Kyle Tucker never once just said, man, I love the IV or I love the seventh inning stretch or I love playing in rigly because you're right, man. At the end of the day, when it's a dollar amount and it's geography and where am I going to raise my kids and is my wife going to be happy in this town or whatever the situation is, playing at rigly can be that added component in the pros and cons list of free agents making their decisions. I don't think Kyle Tucker went overboard, singing the praises of the rigly experience. Pete Crore Armstrong will do that for years to come. We will love him in turn. And I do think in a subconscious way that can help in the future, if you're looking for

7:18a face of the franchise, you're looking straight at Pete Crore Armstrong. Yeah. Blue hair and all. You're hoping that develops and that this was money well spent and you're not worried about the makeup of the player. Now it's just, will he take that next step from star player, all star to superstar, can he be one of the five best players and it's not that the Cubs haven't done that. I mentioned that, you know, you're trying to show that this can be an organization, but when you lose to the brewers, multiple years in a row, people are wondering why the theme going into this off season, why aren't the Cubs spending? So the Bregman move was another step in that direction. I know Dan's be was, but that's starting to look further and further in the past. Over Tucker and now PCA and some of the trade moves, the Cubs are showing it like to have a FL 100 bears, by the way, in the live YouTube chat here at the all new CHG. Thanks for coming out. It says Joey nailing it like always, appreciate the comment. We're going to be nailing it all season, by the way, because we will have a live watch

8:18along for the first game. We will be here watching the game with you just like we're picking up where we left off in the post season. That's right. We're going to have hot dogs. We're going to have food. We're going to be grilling here, maybe a rally cake. I don't know, but we're going to have stuff and we're going to be watching the game with you. We're going to do a show on Saturday as well. Hopefully there's no rain on Thursday. Please no rain. The Friday one, 20 club will be back again this year. Yes. Okay. We know the first one is the 10th April 10th, versus the Pirates is confirmed. Other events and other fun CHO stuff, TBD that we can't wait to announce very soon, but we will announce it soon. I just want to say this. I'm not going to give it all way, but I'm going to say this, Cubs and Wagyu. Yeah. That's the rumor. I'm here. I don't know what that means. That's just what I've heard. Wagyu. You take that word association. What we've been doing. No, Stucky is not taking the 999 challenge on Thursday. That is not unless that's nine cupcakes.

9:20Shane was also in the bull's chat last night, too, as well asking me to get him unbanned from the discord. I did tell him and promise him I can tell him verbally, I will do everything I can. We set some parameters of what's not going to get him rebanned, but we go work on getting him on. Yeah. Yeah. He's never been banned from this discord. Not to my knowledge. I don't know. I'm newer to the discord. We just did a fantasy draft, too, as well in the discord, too, as well. So I'm going to shout out a bunch of those guys this week as well, little 18 fantasy league with Cory C. Cress set it up. Cory in the chat as well. A little commission. A little commission for our fantasy league. Appreciate you. Gary wants an event in the burbs like two years ago, like Sean Berg from your mouth to God's ears. There. That's all I will say about that. That's right. I'll drive out there. I'll drive out there. It's fine. And then the other one too, as well, a little bit different what we're going to be doing this season, starting every Wednesday when the Cubs have a game on a Wednesday. Yes. Of course, we always do our post game right after the show, but we're going to do something

10:21a little different. Typically, we'll do a watch along from the first inning to the ninth inning. We want to try on Wednesdays. We're going to go live starting the seventh inning, seventh inning, eighth inning, ninth inning. So the most, hopefully, the most important, dramatic, entertaining, chaotic parts of the game. You can come hang out with us, watch the game live, and then then slide right into our post game and watch the show Cubs post game. I believe our guest is getting ready. He said he's ready. He said he's getting close. Sometimes, sometimes when a superstar tries to use the internet and it goes online, it takes a little bit longer because you can't squeeze it all into the cables. You can't get everything into it and then up to this satellite and back. It takes a little extra time to get that type of stuff going. A couple extra logs. That's right. A couple extra logs. Yeah, I got to have a little extra coal put in that train. Sarah, how's it going over there? Do you see him? Do you see him?

11:22Don't see him. All right. Hold on. We're getting there. Anyways, we are excited about Cubs made roster moves before the game again today. So they're trimming it down again, aside to Iowa. Yes. And we'll see how it all unfolds. I mean, you're going to see hobby or aside in the major leagues this year. He's going to play a role on this team. I mean, this isn't like dancing with the stars where they're out and they never come back. Why this team was built this way that yes, like, I know there's some fans Gary in the chat, likes Colin Snyder, likes Corbin Martin. There's hobby or a side fans out there. I promise you, I think all these guys are going to have to play a role. And when their number is called, they're going to have to come up and perform. So I love the fact that this spring training fans are actually upset about who's getting sent down and who's making the team, right? Because that means that there was a competition at play. Nothing was handed to you on the other side of it. And the offensive side, I love the fact that Dylan Carlson, congratulations, you had yourself a great spring. Yes. You're going to travel with the team for opening day.

12:22Still could be on my fantasy team, still possibly auditioning as we speak. And then, of course, the other one is when we talk about a guy that was one of the early signings that garnered an eye role early on when the free agency started Scott Kangri had a good spring. We'll travel with the team. According to Craig Council, he will be on the plane. I think that's also alluding to the haven't made a decision on say a Suzuki, but it looks like he'll join start the season on the aisle and Scott Kangri will be on the opening day. So congratulations to both those players who've been majorly players before. And I figured out a way to get themselves back into the show. It's great to see. And why would you, why would you rush, say it right now? If this is about three or four games, like what are we pointless totally wearing a brace while he's playing catch. It's going to be raining. Then it's going to be freezing cold. Then it's going to be raining. Then it's going to be freezing cold. I'm in no rush to have him run it around there. The same way that you would think about it with Justin Steele, and I hate to pair it to it the way that I'm going to right now is that if the weather is crappy in early May,

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17:30Dan, how you doing, bud? Good, Luke. I can't believe the season is starting already. I got a little bit of a free season taste. I was in Houston for the WBC, called that round it in. I was at the final three days of Miami. That WBC, Luke, I'm telling you, I didn't really buy into this. Maybe the last couple I started to. It's my way into liking the WBC, but Luke, let me tell you something. That thing was on that, that was as close to October baseball as you could get. I could not believe it's the first time I had been there in person covering it. I had always been in the studio and I'm telling you, Luke, that intensity was off the charts. Joey and I were saying that it was, I don't know if it's a perfect plan because it's before the season. But my suggestion was, could you play the first couple rounds in spring training and then have the finalists or the final four teams wait till the All Star weekend and they just

18:31don't take part in All Star weekend or they play the last two days after that. I don't know what it is, but the end result was great. Now would I have like scuba pitching on the last day? Yes, but that's not the reason they didn't win. Right? Pitching wasn't the problem. Listen, I was at the Houston pool and I was the analyst. So I did 12 games in eight days. There was a noon game and a seven o'clock game and even when the U.S. played Great Britain, that was a lot closer than I expected. The Mexico game was a good game and even the game against Canada was a really good game that really Canada could have won. It was mystifying because when you looked at that lineup and you thought, man, like this lineup, the way they put that team together, like they were going to score runs. They just didn't the whole time, Luke. And it caught me by surprise because when they had played a couple of exhibition games in Arizona, they were firing and I thought, man, they're going to run the table.

19:35And I really thought like Mexico worried me. They were really into that thing. And then also Venezuela, Dominican Republic in Japan, those four teams to me stood out. But the US team, they just never hit like we thought they were going to hit. I guess it comes down to makeup, although anything can happen to any lineup in that short a period of time. I think of the 2008 Cubs. It couldn't hit in the playoffs. They hit all year. Then they couldn't hit in the playoffs. Two years in a row, they get swept. They couldn't hit. And you're looking at saying, well, what was that? Were there, do you think it's roster construction? Like would one less home run hitter bend or a different player? I wish Nico Horner was on the team, by the way. Yeah. Torang's not great. I'll tell you what struck me is particularly the Dominican Republic team, the Venezuelan team, and Mexico. I mean, they played this thing, Luke, like this was their world series. We had Danny Polencia on the championship game.

20:36We had him on before the game and said, hey, he had pitched a day before against Japan. And we kind of asked him, hey, are you available tonight? He was available tonight. If they were seven games, I would be available for seven days. And listen, and it wasn't just the US team because talking to the Venezuelan manager before, they were under a lot of restrictions too from the parent clubs. Like, they didn't want their relievers throwing two days a row if they could avoid it. They didn't want the starters, even though it was up to 90 or 95 pitches into the final phase of that WBC, all the parent teams were like, we don't want our guys. Going 90 to 95 pitches. So it turned into a bullpen game. And I'll tell you what, I came out of this and this is probably the right show to be doing. I had, I mean, I knew Danny Polencia was a good reliever. I watched him a lot last year. I admired the fact that he was pitching the eighth and ninth inning. And then towards the end of the season, he had that little setback.

21:37They were using him in the sixth and the seventh when the big part of the lineup came out. Look, this guy's, this guy's got it, man. I mean, he's got, he's got big stones. This guy's would say he throws hard, has a good breaking ball. And this guy is not scared. I mean, he took the mound in the ninth inning. And after the US tied it, and Venezuela took the lead on the walk and the double in the gap. I thought, okay, the right part of the lineup was coming up for the USA. And I'm telling you, I was standing behind home plate. And there was no BS from Danny Plenty. He took his eight warmups. And when that first hitter walked in, Luke, he looked a lot of least Smith, Randy Myers, every great, Rick Aguilari, every great, coverly, or you've ever seen. I was really, his stock, in my opinion, went way up. This guy, I'm telling you, I don't know what kind of year he's going to have, but I will guarantee you this. He is not scared. And this guy gets after it. I was really impressed by him.

22:38Yeah, Dan, well, first of all, man, you're one of my favorite MLB analysts ever. So it's a pleasure. And thank you so much for joining CHGO Cubs. When we talk about Danny Valencia, and I know we're going to start to walk into the PCA extension talks, but let's maybe start at step one with this WBC experience for PCA, for players like Danny Valencia. A lot of people say, yeah, exhibition, nothing counts. But as a former player, that confidence, what do you think these guys, these young players specifically, are taking out of this experience, playing with the type of competition, playing for their country. And how can that lead into a successful major league season this year? I will say this. I think it's going to jumpstart a lot of the young players to get off to a good start. I covered all the games in Houston. And just so, you know, Marm de Rosa was in a tough spot. He was trying to get guys at bats, and it looked like PCA, you know, it was, it was PCA going to play center field, and then it was Byron Bucks in, and they were trying to

23:39get the matchup to get these guys bowl playing time. Peacrow Armstrong played himself into the rotation, the final two games. He really did. And the thing that struck me is I was at all the games at Houston, you know, the one thing that he has to work on, he's so, he gets up there, and he is swinging at the front. He's up there, the first two pitches, he's not up there to walk. And I thought the first few at bats from PCA, one or two pitches in, ground ball, the right side, first base, second base. And the more at bats he got, the more patient he got. And I'm going to tell you some, he's an exciting player. And I'm defensively, I don't know if there's a better defensive player in either league. Byron Bucks in is a terrific defender. But Peacrow Armstrong is every bit the defender byron Bucks in it. He can go back on the ball. He covers both the left and right center field gap. He has an accurate and strong enough throwing arm in center field. And this dude, he plays with a chip on his shoulder.

24:42He comes to play every day. And if there was one guy that would want to play every game, every inning of the WBC, it was PCA. And I think the sky's the limit. I know you take, you break down last year, really good first two and a half months towards the end of the year, the last six to eight weeks, he was very, maybe over aggressive swinging. And that comes with the young player, right? You see that batting average of like 280, you see the home runs go up. And all of a sudden, you're trying to be, all right, I got to find that form back. And sometimes you struggle with being patient and being aggressive. And sometimes I think being over aggressive hurts him a little bit. And I will say this, as that WBC went on, the more at bats he got, the better he was, his pitch selection. And it's all about swinging at strikes for PCA. If he controls, if he controls the strike zone a little bit more, he's going to run into

25:4220 to 25 home runs just because he has that kind of pop. But man, he could steal bases, he plays great defense. What I like the most about him, he plays with a lot of energy and you need guys like that. I mean, it's hard to do it for 162. But when this guy plays, he's all in, and his stock, in my opinion, Daniel Polencia and PCA, as far as the younger guys that I saw talking about, Cub guys, I thought the more the WBC went on, the better they got. And I think it's going to bowl well, both are going to get off to good starts. Yeah, I mean, that's what Cubs fans are hoping for, right? They've been waiting for a closer for a long time. They've been waiting for the next superstar player to come along. They thought maybe it was going to be Kyle Tucker. But then we had this first half last year from PCA and you were like, well, wait a minute. We might have our own guy right here and he's kind of shown that, what, if you were pitching against him, if you were in 18 years in big leagues, you're looking at your own, you know

26:45what here's, I'm going up against PCA, what are you throwing at him and what are you afraid of most that he would learn? OK, I want to slow them down, right? Guys that are fast twitch like PCA, they want to, they want to create action fast. So being a left-handed pitcher, I would say like, OK, I want to throw my first pitch breaking ball and see how he reacts to it. Does he lean forward? Is it a bad breaking ball? Is he lunging? Is he being overly aggressive? And if that's the case, I'm going to continue to stay soft. But if you throw a first pitch curve ball left on left or slider to PCA and he just stands there and he tracks it and it's ball one as a pitcher like, wait a minute, you're supposed to swing at that. The MO on you is, you know, you take that donut off the bat and you're ready to start swinging. I think the more he controls the strike zone and the less aggressive he is early in the count. Now, I get it, there's so much velocity in the game today that sometimes the best pitch

27:46or pitches you're going to see are early. But I think once he gets a better recognition of the strike zone and not afraid to hit with two strikes and put the ball in play, kind of like it's kind of like a Cody Belinger. There was a while there with Cody Belinger where, man, he was as good at two strike hitters. There was a baseball and then all of a sudden he turned into a guy that was like, man, I'm swinging as soon as I get up there. And then with two strikes, he would, he would get himself out. And PCA can limit the odds where he gets himself out where he wild swings. And he just shows some patience. It makes him so much more difficult to attack because the thing you don't want to do with him, this guy can get to a fastball. I'm telling you, Luke, PCA, he can dial that thing up there. You can't throw it too hard that he doesn't like it. But I think when you start seeing a scouting report and a team that can maneuver the ball, change speeds a little bit, he becomes a little bit over anxious. If he can condense that just a little bit and not be afraid to hit with strike one,

28:51he's going to be awfully dangerous. If we could put you in PCA shoes and promise you, you'll enjoy this. If you could imagine signing a $100 million plus deal with the team that obviously, you didn't get drafted by them, but they traded for you in the minors when you were injured. You came up through the system, you made it to the big leagues. There's two sides of the coin on this. The fan and me thinks sometimes without a $100 million comes the great responsibility and great pressure to go out there and perform right away. Or other times, sometimes it is that humbling thing of, I've made it, and now it's time for me to just focus solely on the game. How do you balance that as a player to not maybe let the pressure of that money or that contract bleed onto the field? You see it a lot, guys. Guys signed a long-term deal and all of a sudden they want to justify that $100 million plus and they want to become a better player than what Pico Armstrong has been rewarded or will be rewarded for. What he's done with a look towards the future to, he's 24 years old.

29:54We're talking about a young player. He hasn't come close yet to really figuring the game a baseball out. What he's been able to do at this point is physical skills are exceptional. And when he starts to slow it down and I can tell you from my experience playing for 18 years, it's so hard to slow the game down the first two or three years because when you're a guy like Pico Armstrong or you're a guy that moves through the system fast, you have one thing that all guys do. They have a unique gift either. You have a great fastball, you've got life on it, you have tremendous power, you have something that has been able to get you through the levels of the minor leagues really fast. And then when you start to figure out, when you get a blend of having that and knowing that you have that, but then understanding, hey, this guy starts me off first pitch breakable every time I'm not swinging at it. If the guy happens to throw a first pitch scoreball and strike one as a younger player, you're like, ah, man, you know, I should have been ready to hit as

30:57opposed to saying, you know what, he still has to get two more strikes and it's easier said than done. Same thing with the picture. You signed a big deal and you had a good year last year. You want to have a better year than you had the year before to prove like, hey, I was worth that kind of money. It's so hard to balance like not being over aggressive and being like, okay, I'm the player that I am. I'm going to trust what I am. It's easier said than done. All right, we have to take a quick break here on the CHCO Cubs podcast presented by Bet365. When we come back, I'm going to ask Dan, I'll let him think about it over the break. Who does PCA remind you of that you faced in your career? It's next on the CHCO Cubs podcast. Can you believe we are ready to start baseball season? Hey, but you know what, that doesn't mean that we're exposed to move away from our own goals. He was the perfect solution for high protein, routine, support, busy days, habit building, convenience and control this year. Ready to drink

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35:11Speedy covers both gaps. Lofton with more power. Not that Kenny Lofton didn't have power, but Kenny Lofton in those guardian slash Indians on him was more get on base, you know, steel bases. Great havoc. Didn't look ahead at the home run. Kenny Lofton had some pop, but he didn't have the kind of pop. He'd never had the kind of pop that PCAS. I think when I watch him play, he reminds me of Lofton with more pop. Like a combo of Brady Anderson, Kenny Lofton. Yeah, that's a good. Yeah, something along those lines. Yeah, I mean, look, we're just so excited that he's going to be in a Cubs uniform. Obviously, not just through the arbitration years, but Dan through those 27, 28, 29 years. And what's so funny about it is this comes on the heels or basically on the doorstep of opening day. So we're now lumping this into the Cubs off season. Extending PCA is just as big as some of the other moves that Jed made over the winter. So

36:12if you can, when you when you look back at it all from the Bregrin to the Edward Cabrera to what they did with the bullpen to show to Emma Naga's qualifying offer to now extending PCA, how would you feel overall the Cubs did this off season heading into this year? I thought the Bregrin edition really put them on another level. When I look at the central, you always have to worry about Milwaukee because somehow, somehow, some way there's a method to their madness. But I really thought where they're smoke their spire. And I was so almost certain that Bregrin was going back to the Red Sox that I thought the Cup thing was a pipe dream. I didn't think it would happen. And I was quite frankly caught off guard when they picked up Bregrin. To me, Bregrin, he's a winning player. He's a no nonsense. He plays a really good third base. Cubs defensively on that infield, man. That's just good at infield defense. It's your going to find. And I think that's going to vote well for both the starters and their bullpen. Their outfield,

37:16they catch the ball. I thought the Bregrin edition was huge. And I'm a big Matthew Boyd fan. I know he's going to get the ball on opening day. And I think the guy that gets lost in the shuffle last year. As good as the Cubs were thinking about this, Justin Steele basically was no part of the 2025 Cubs. They're going to get him back at some time. They're more than likely going to slow play him because he seems to me like he he'd want to pitch next week. But you got to protect Justin Steele from himself. I think once this starting rotation gets intact and they get steel back in. And listen, you got to be patient. Like don't judge his first two, three or four starts. He's going to have to go through. He hasn't touched his a bit on a big league mound in over a year. And that's a really difficult thing for a pitcher. You could throw side sessions. You could go down to the minor leagues and throw a minor league camp and throw bolt pints. But there's nothing like being on the corner of Clark and Addison when there's

38:18on pires and there's 35,000 people in the sands. But I think when Justin Steele comes back, he's close to being what he was. All of a sudden I looked at the central. I think a very improved team is the pirates. I don't think they're going to win the central. But when I look at the cubs right now, they're to me a pretty solid pick to win the central. They're better on paper right now than the other teams. I think the reds are an interesting team. But without having hunter green available the first couple of months of season, that's a big loss in their starting rotation. If boy is what he was last year, I think the cubs are going to be hard to stop at the central. I think the two in the naturally, the two teams that I feel the best about winning division are obviously the Dodgers. And I like the cubs the win the central. You know, I was I was trying to think the other day. It's like usually there's something that drives a really good team, whether it's their pitching staff

39:21or their offense. And I think you could go into this season because of what you just said, I think they're better offensively than they were last year because I think they're going to be more consistent. Guys are going to be older. They've been there and done that. And then you look and we'll see how Braggman impacts the team offensively. But when you look at the rotation and the idea of steel coming back and we're not sure if Cabrera will be superstar Cabrera or is he like are they going to find the one thing that he's been missing? Is it going to be the fastball that he'll find fine-tune it and you'll say, wow, this guy, this guy's going to be unbelievable. Or will Cade Horton take that next step and pitch like he did in the second half of the season because I think they would have won the series against the Brewers if Cade Horton was healthy at the end of the season. So when the season hits, let's just say August and when the season hits August, what will drop, what will be the one thing that drives this Cubs team? Will it be the offense or will it be a

40:24pitching staff? Starting pitching because I'm a huge Cade Horton fan and I'm with you Luke. If they would have had Cade Horton late September into the month of October, totally different look. He was their best pitcher. Listen, July, August into the middle part of September. I mean he came so fast and I'm buying it. I'm buying him. I'm buying everything about him. I love his body language. I love his demeanor. He's not afraid to throw the ball to strike zone and I've said this to people think I'm nuts. That box that you see on that TV screen, it has never been more difficult to be a pitcher. Though I know offensive numbers are down, then it is today because most pitches, I'm not saying all, but most umpires will err on if a ball is really close, they'll call it a ball and you'll look and say, ah man, maybe that caught a little bit of part of the plate. The days are gone when you get two, three inches off the outside corner and two, three inches

41:25off the inside corner. These umpires are graded every day. How many pitches they missed? How many that were in the box? I mean, they are under a lot of scrutiny. So you have to throw the ball in the strike zone and that's what I like about Horton. And I'll tell you what I really liked in the WBC, what I saw from Matthew Boyd. There's an uptick in DeVito when Matthew Boyd too. There were a lot of 94s and 95s and I'm a huge Matthew Boyd fan. I think you have to have guys like him on your rotation. I look at this cup starting rotation. I love the lineup, dance beat, Nico Horner. The list goes on and on. But I think what it's all said and done, we're going to look back at the last week of September. If the Cubs win the division, it's because they're starting pitching top to bottom is just better than anybody else in the central. Dan, if we could stick on this starting pitching with a follow up, you got my wheels turning now. So if you can maybe take this into the pitch lab really quick. Yeah, we've been noticing throughout spring, top to bottom

42:29on the Cubs staff. Uh, the Velos been taking up for a lot of different players. How they are side hitting 94 on the gun. So if we can maybe exclude Edward Cabir and Kate Horton with their God gifted ability to throw 98 on the regular from the guys that have to live in the 91 to 94 range on their four seam. And we're talking about Justin Steele. You just name check Matthew Boyd. Show, show to Emma Naga in the past two is some days when he's throwing 91, other days he's throwing 93 94. In your opinion, what is the margin line of difference that you really want to have between, you know, your best day with your four seam and your not so great day. Is it, is it a mile per hour off? Is it 1.5? What can you live within? What do you, what would you like to, as a pitcher? What would you like to live in the range of to stay as effective with all your other stuff? Give me a rotation of guys that could command the fastball. I mean, I'm starting tomorrow. I'm going to be watching 15 games, 30 teams. I'm going to be watching it religiously. You have to be able to

43:32command the strikes of we have become so enamored with that gun on the bottom of the screen is, oh my god, 98 97 ball one, ball two based on balls. As a manager, you go get a guy. Give me. I'm telling you, when you look at the games, best starting pitchers right now and you can throw Otani into there. You can throw Garrett Cole into that mix. Zach Wheeler into that mix. Paul schemes into that mix. Terrick school, when you look at school, and you look at his walks per nine and his strikeouts for nine, not only is his stuff good, but he throws strikes the same with ball schemes, the same with Garrett Cole and the same with Zach Wheeler. Listen, so many young pitchers are chasing spin and velocity. And what has been lost in the game is to be able to maneuver the ball in and out up and down. And listen, I'm so tired of looking at the gun. And sure, you get excited. The guy comes in on the bullpen. He's throwing 101. There are

44:37bolt loaded guys that are going to have ERAs north of five this year that are 98 to 100. But can they throw strikes in crunch time? What I liked about Daniel Polensian, the game against the U.S. Now, it is strike one. It's not 99 neck high ball one slider in the dirt, two and O. And then he throws 100 and it gets smokey and like, how do they hit 100? Well, they're just sitting on first, the first decent looking fastball they're pulling the trigger on. And when you watch Zach Wheeler, Garrett Cole, Paul schemes, the really good pitchers and put school ball into that mix. Not only is there stuff great, but they command the strike zone. And those guys can command as a starting pitcher, you better be able to command two pitchers. You better be able to command your fastball and something off speed, fighters, slitter, curveball, whatever it is. And if you have the third one, you're way ahead of the game and you're a guy that can win 15 to 20 games. And I know

45:38winning games isn't a thing to talk about, but to me, it is. I want a rotation of guys one, listen, stuff plays and I'm not saying that it doesn't. But give me Zach Wheeler, give me Paul schemes, give me school ball, give, I'm even Yamamoto with the Dodgers. This guy I'm telling you has as good as stuff as anybody in baseball. He's just a smaller guy. You're like, yeah, 95, 97, great commander, the fork ball, good curveball. There's a method to the madness. All the good pitchers, you can have a roster of big arms and they're going to be guys walking around with ER, raising the fives. You can't trust them as a manager. Give me, Mac, you boy, give me Kate Horton, guys one that I'm going to walk five per nine. They're going to throw strikes and keep you to game. Those are the kind of guys you need. And I just think right now and I'm not blaming pictures today because Luke in the day and age that it is now, if you want to get drafted and

46:39you want to move up, you better throw 95 to 98. You're better off throwing 95 and hitting the back of the screen that throw to 89 and maneuvering the ball up, down in and out. I'm telling you, it's great. It's becoming, it's becoming epidemic. I call them, it's the kind of the age of the dead brain either. Grab it, rip it and let that thing go. And if you get, you get three strikes, okay, great. But you cannot continue to pitch at the big league level 2 and 0, 2 and 1, unless you can maneuver a breaking ball or a change up. And that's what guys like Garrett Cole, Paul Schien, Derek Schuble, Yamamoto, Zach Wheeler. That's what they do. Even throw Christopher Sanchez in the photo fields. The top pitchers, they can all rely on if they don't have plan A that day, they can go to plan B because they can throw a breaking ball and change or a slitter that appears to be a strike. Do you know what was the hardest you ever threw on one pitch and what happened to that pitch? I don't know the hardest. I know early on in Milwaukee.

47:44This was the old gun. I was 95 to 97 on that ray gun. And a lot of times as a younger pitcher, you know, you're warming up in a bullpen and you're kind of equating the way the balls coming out of your arm and that catchers glove is popping, warming up like, okay, I feel really good. But you find out real quickly that the level of play at the big league level sooner or later, they're going to catch up to the 97 and they're going to catch up to a good fastball. And when you get a get one turned around, the first one I could remember getting turned around Dave Winfield hit a home run off of me in Milwaukee, first pitch fastball. And I mean, I warmed up but I was like, I've got the goods tonight like I've got the goods. They're they're in for a rough go. First pitch fastball the Dave Winfield and he went about 12 rows deep inside the left field foul pole at county stadium. And I mean, he turned that thing around like it was 65 miles an hour. And I didn't take back and go like, oh boy, like, whoa, that was my best bullet. And he just turned

48:45it around like I was a high school pitcher. So it happens to everybody. But I think the beauty of it is as as you acquire an acumen for pitching that you warm up and you realize, okay, I've got the good fastball, but I've got another pitch that I have to use to I have to use a slider and you can't be afraid to throw it. Want to know when the ninth inning with the one run game. And one thing I'm this is like going way back machine. I used to I used to play and warm up in the winter do my throwing and Pete Vukovic who was a side on the ward with with Milwaukee said to me one day, he said, hey, lefty, if you ever thrown a two to fastball to a lefty intentionally misquitted up and away to throw a three to break a ball. And I remember Luke, I said, hell no, who the hell wants to go three to and throw a breaking ball. But at the end of my career, what I'm facing Mo Vaughan and Ken Griffey Jr. and Barry Bonds and Tony Gwynn, you don't know how many times I had a really good hit or two and two. And I know, okay, I'm going to miss

49:51with a fastball up and away. And nine out of 10 times, they're like, okay, he's got to throw a strike and you throw one and you figure out how you can command a breaking ball and throw it three to first strike. And you'll get a called strike three. It doesn't happen all the time. But if you could do that in the sooner, you could learn to think like that and execute that. The better off, that's why when people ask me, why was Greg Maddox so great? Greg Maddox was so far ahead of his time. Greg Maddox, when he signed up at high school on Las Vegas, he had a good arm. He threw mid to lower nineties consistently. You had to, to get drafted, right? He was an eye graphic. I think second round with the cups. But he learned early on, Dick Paul, who was this pitching coach that he revered, to learn to move the ball in and out, sink it, run it, cut it. He brought that, you know, that ball that you throw at a left hand or sip or bring it back. He learned how to do it when he had good stuff. So as his stuff diminished,

50:55the older he got, he didn't have to teach himself how to pitch after playing five or six years. It's hard to do pitching at the Bayley level when you throw 97. And then then you're seven, you're eight, now you're 94, 95. And then you become afraid to throw that. But if you learn to run it, cut it, sink it, change speeds with it when you're 22, 23, then the older you get, the easier it is because you've already learned how to pitch why your stuff was good. And I, listen, I, I told people all the time, Luke, when you're a reliever like I was, I came out, man, your guns and blazing, your hearts beating out of your chest. It was air that thing out, hard slider. And then at the end, I remember so many games being in thinking, man, if I could, if I just had to change it or something, I could get a righty to try to get them to hit the ball on the ground. I didn't have that in my arsenal. And at the end, I did. And I don't know how many days I thought, man, I spent so many sleepless nights blowing games early on because I was afraid. And

52:00I didn't know how to massage, throw a break about, hey, I want to throw this for a strike first pitch. I was scared to adapt to do it because if you say, okay, I'm going to throw a get me over a breaky ball on the first pitch. And the guy hits a double in the gap. Now you've got to run around second to nobody out in the one run lead. And you're like, I'm in a whole lot of trouble. So the only way you know how to go is the way you come up. And that's like you overpower people. But the sooner you learn how to pitch and not grow, the better off you'll be to have a lot better longevity. Luke, can we like FedEx this conversation to Ben Brown? Because everything you're talking this is fine. This is it. This is it for me with a player like Ben Brown. Big time fastball, 12 to 6 curveball, right? But can he command the zone? He's working on a third pitch. And I think he's hopefully maybe in the metamorphosis, right? Of turning it from a thrower to a pitcher. But you know, he's had great outings. He's got his head kicked in at other times. He's got a men's talent. But exactly what you're talking about right now, Dan. I feel like Ben Brown is kind of in that right now. It's hard to trust it when you're used to being driving your

53:04car in fifth gear all the time, right? You get on a highway, you put it in that room and you're going to think off and go. When when you're mo and you're a fast switch guy and you're used to seeing swing and miss and you're used to velocity plays because that's what's gotten you. It's what's gotten you from 12 years old to 15, to high school, to college, to the minors to get drafted. And so you know that works. And it's hard to say, okay, I'm going to go out here and again. And I'm telling you when you have to do it, you have to do it in spring training. You have to incorporate in spring training and say, okay, these games really don't matter. Now that being said, if you're not life and death to make a team, if there are five guys that are going to make the starting rotation and there are seven guys and four of them are in guarantee contracts, you've got three guys battling for one spot. Then it's hard to do that. But if you have the leeway to learn how to hate, you know what I want to do today. I want to learn, I want to teach myself to throw a first pitch curve ball, not the nasty 12 to 6 one that bounces that they swing

54:10at with two strikes. But a good enough one that I can throw first pitch and buy me strike one. Like it's something off speed. And it takes patience. It takes time. And it takes the effort to say, okay, I am no longer going to pitch like I used to pitch. I have to incorporate something else. And it's hard to do that. It's hard to flip a switch from being a power guy to being power and finesse. But that's what the great ones do. That's what Randy Johnson did at the end. I mean, he's still through hard. That's what Kurt Schilling did. Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz, all the really good pitchers that lasted a long time. They were never the same picture at the end as they were at the beginning, but somehow some way they blended power with finesse. And they still had that power in the back pocket if they needed it. But you just can't go to that well all the time because physically as the more innings that you accumulate, you know, your arm angle

55:11change a little bit when you're 24, you can get that arm angle right and you can let that thing eat. Well, then you have, you know, 800 to a thousand innings in your big league. All of a sudden that arm level goes from there to right here. And it doesn't seem like that much to the naked eye, but it's a big difference. I see the live YouTube chat. Everybody has so many questions. We're not going to be able to get to all of them. I saw somebody mentioned, I believe it was Corey talking about Greg Maddox when he gave up a home run on purpose so that in the post season, he could set up the player for that at bat. We only got like five minutes left. I'm curious if you ever went to that degree to set up a player. And like I know, having listened to you over and over and just talking to Cubs pitchers, you, one of the things that kept you in the big leagues for so long wasn't just talent. It was that you were setting people up. You were setting up pitches. You were thinking, you, you still remember matchups and pitches that you threw 20 years ago, right? Some guys can't remember what they did. So did you ever have something where you literally gave somebody

56:14success at the plate so that you could get them later? Okay. One guy that drove me nuts in my career, a lefty David Justice. It seemed like if I came in to get an innings work and it was a five run game. I would throw, I'm just going to throw a first pitch curveball and he'd roll over on it at the second base. But every time I needed to get David just it out, David Justice out, when it really mattered, he didn't swing at that first pitch curveball. Like, so the best way I can put it is this. You have a plan and what I did and I was really probably anal about it. I kept the diary. I still have all 18 of them from 18 years. And after the game was over, I would write down the batter side face and the sequence of pitches that I threw to them. And so I would keep that. And so if we were playing the Indians, now the guardians, and what I did, the gym told me the last time I faced them, I would fastball slider, fastball, fastball slider. And I would put like if he swung, I would put an ass around it like a swing

57:19and a miss. And so the thing is I think as a player. And if you talk to all the great players, you don't have to ask Andre Dawson or Ryan Sandberg or Mark Grace, hey, how they hit off a guy, they remember that that's just part of being a big leader. And I think the sooner as a player, and I am so adamant about this, you need to be your best coach, your best scout, and your best talent of evaluator of yourself. And don't rely on some guy that was watching a game to play golf all afternoon. As the scouts said, hey, this lefty can't hit a lefty curveball. Against the lefty. And yet the day he saw them, it was against the nastiest left-handed curveball that was in the game, right? Like you're not going to say, like, oh, lefty on left, like, oh, Lazardo, you know, he doesn't have a really good curve ball. And he has a great curve ball. And so what you take all that, listen, players get a lot of data. But the best data you can get is your own eyes and watching a guy swing at what you have. And so like what I try to do,

58:25if I was playing a team towards the end of my career, I wanted to see, I would tell the video guy, give me the last-handed bats that Barry Bond's had off the left-handed, off the left-handed picture. And like six of the 10, I could just ex-out because they were sight armors. They were, they were low three-quarter. My arm angle was higher. And I wanted to watch one thing. I wanted to watch the front hip that it opened up and the front shoulder. If they did, I was going to pitch that guy away. And I think that sooner you could take all that info and keep it in store in your brain, the better off you'll be. But to give you an honest answer, Luke, I never threw a pitch in 18 years as I thought was going to be a home run. And I never wanted to throw batting practice for anybody. So I never, I would have never said, hey, I'm going to throw this first pitch fastball and let him hit one in the seats because I'll get him out with a breaking ball. Hell no. I didn't have the confidence to do that, Luke. All right. You're the best. And I don't want to tell you what to do, Dan. But you got a lot of ideas

59:26bouncing around in that head. Why you're not selling the police act diaries and publishing your 15 years as close just published the famous ones. Just publish what you did against bonds and griffy in those guys. We only got like two minutes left. But man, you got a lot of great ideas. But publishing a book of an actual diary of you facing just the Hall of Famers, I guarantee you every baseball fan would go and rush and buy that book. Southpod Diaries, the big blue diaries, or I know what the name, I know what the headline and the conference going to be of the book up it in, down it away. It's two and a half. Now what do I throw? Dan, have a great season. I know you still got a little homework to do because you're always studying. But big baseball season about the start. And we appreciate that you took all this time to hang with us. Well, how about we do it again at some point in the season? I'm like, listen, anytime you want to do it, you have my number. You call me. I'm in. You guys

1:00:28are great. He is the conductor of the big blue train. He is the great one and only. Dan, please, Zach, Dan, thanks. Good to see you, bud. Okay. And closing. Back, big blue train. 90 plus wins. I want 10% of his book sales. That is right. I agree with that. I was going to say forward by Luke Stuckmeyer or forward by Rod back in Mitch Williams or your fricagulara thing with Dan is you could have you could say let's do 15 minutes on a podcast. But his stories. He's the best. You don't even know where they're going. He can go for three hours. That's why I'm saying I want to read the book. Now I want him to send me just one of the diaries here. One. All right. Hey, don't forget the MVP to shirt is in our merch store. You might want to get that good deal. We're back at two o'clock tomorrow. We'll do the overs and unders and all our season picks and our predictions and our bold predictions. Big show tomorrow. Somebody's birthday today. Yes. A quick happy birthday to my mom who turns 40 years old today. Wow.

1:01:29Holy cow. And I'm 42. Make that make sense. I hung out with her on Sunday for her birthday. Happy birthday. I love you very much. We were watching home videos just really quickly. And we threw on a home video. And it was a little game that my mom would tape every single little game that I ever did. Let's see if Joey comes up to the bat. And that's right. I smoked a double to right field the first at bat that I saw. Anyways, happy birthday to my mom. So many great parents and moms that tape all the games go and hang out with their kids. That's what it is all about. So love you mom. Thank you so much. See it to a clock. Happy birthday to your mom. And don't forget fly the W one day till spring. Try and open it. Hey. Water usually wins. It rots wood and tears docks apart. Unless you build with trecks. Trecks marine grade decking is 100% submersible. Built to resist rod and salt and fresh water. Water has met its match. Trecks decking. Visit trecks.com slash docks.

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