Best of the Cubs: Offense continues to slump

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4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In the Best of the Cubs this week, FS1 host Danny Parkins joined the Rahimi & Harris Show to discuss who deserves the most blame for the Cubs' mediocre play lately; Mike Mulligan and Brad Biggs reacted to Cubs general manager Carter Hawkins' comment that the organization has to keep 2032 in mind while making decisions in the present; and Marshall Harris and Mark Grote discussed their emotions in watching the struggling Cubs these days.

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0:00.0	Danny Parkins.
0:02.1	QB1 party.
0:03.9	All are invited.
0:05.6	Pop your champagne, smoke them if you got them.
0:09.4	Fight Club.
0:11.4	RIP, Louis Anderson.
0:13.0	Jersey number one is going to the Raptors.
0:15.5	I would think long and hard about firing Matt Iberflus to retain Luke Getzzi.
0:20.7	It's a Caleb Williams custom, baby.
0:23.0	I could do Stephen A's job, guys.
0:24.7	It's not that hard.
0:27.4	Somehow when I hear past predictions from Danny Parkins, the former score host,
0:33.2	former host of the afternoon show here on Chicago Sports Radio 670,
0:36.0	the score.
0:36.3	Suddenly, I don't feel so bad about my rancid prediction about the Chicago Cubs and winning
0:42.1	the division in April or whenever I decided the Cubs had won the division.
0:46.8	They're only going to remember what you did lately, Mark.
0:48.9	It's recency bias.
0:50.1	It's killing you right now.
0:51.5	I could use it like five or six wins based on that.
0:55.2	But the reason you just heard that familiar voice of Danny Parkins, who was just on the radio for 24 straight hours.
1:03.8	And now the man wants back on again.
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