Best of the Cubs: Cade Horton is on a roll

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In Best of the Cubs this week, David Haugh and Ruthie Polinsky discussed rookie right-hander Cade Horton’s dominant outing in the club’s much-needed win Wednesday; Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes examined how rookie third baseman Matt Shaw is developing before Spiegel shared what he learned in hosting an event with Shaw recently; and MLB Network insider Jon Morosi joined the Spiegel & Holmes Show to discuss the red-hot Brewers, the NL Central race, the conversations the Cubs had at the trade deadline and more.

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0:00.0	Good Thursday morning, Chicago.
0:01.6	Welcome to the Molley and Haas show on Chicago Sports Radio 670, The Score.
0:06.7	Ruthie Polinsky is in for Mully today.
0:09.4	We are here talking about the Cubs and the socks and the bears,
0:14.0	and we begin welcoming everybody aboard the Cade Horton Express.
0:18.6	Choo-Joo!
0:19.7	What took you so long? Good morning, Ruthie. Good morning. Give me a C. Horton Express. Choo-choo! What took you so long?
0:20.9	Good morning, Ruthie.
0:21.9	Good morning.
0:22.8	Give me a C.
0:25.2	Give me an A.
0:26.4	Well, yeah.
0:28.0	D and an E.
0:30.2	Cade Horton.
0:32.1	Cubs needed that bad.
0:34.0	Cubs needed that very badly.
0:36.6	And Cade Horton has emerged as a stopper because they needed the losing to stop.
0:41.4	You feel much better about things or I think that he prevented you from feeling any worse if you're a Cub fan.
0:47.7	Somewhere in between because the brewers keep winning. The brewers are amazing. Seventy victories now.
0:54.8	I don't know how you can ignore that in Chicago, and I don't know that you can prevent it from happening.
1:00.4	They're just so good.
1:02.4	They're the first team in Major League history.
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