Layla Rahimi, Marshall Harris, Mark Grody, Rahimi, Harrison Grody on 1043, the score.

Kate is going to have surgery, he's going to miss the rest of the year.

So there's damage to the elbow, you know, UCL damage.

The exact surgery is kind of, they'll find out when they do the surgery.

But bad news.

So it's not a full-time job they don't know.

Yeah, it's just, they go in and, you know, they kind of determine the damage when they go in there.

That is, Counsel, a sad Craig counsel from Tampa yesterday.

This is Rahimi Harrison Crotie on 104-3, The Score.

And we continue with our guests today going to our hotline.

She joins us from Tampa. She is the Cubs

beatwriter for the Chicago Tribune. Megan Montemarrow. Megan, thanks for joining us. Yeah, thanks for having

me. That's where we want to start. We knew the news wasn't going to be good. It didn't seem that

way anytime anybody spoke about Kate Horton. Then we get the news

yesterday out for the season. And we've been trying to figure out what's the wins about

replacement here. How does this change the outlook and the expectation for the team?

If you were asked that question, what do you think? How much is this a loss for this team

when it comes to just the win-loss column or the results this year?

I mean, I think it's a loss in the sense of, you know, when you get into October playoff baseball, like, you need some stud arms. When you look at the teams that can make, you know,

those really deep runs, a lot of times that starts with pitching. You look what happened with the Dodgers.

They got their pitchers healthy for the postseason and for the Cubs last year, you know, not having

steel, not having Cade losing him right before the postseason. You could see how that impacted

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