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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Best of the Cubs: Plenty of concerns as the playoffs loom

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In the best of the Cubs this week, Mike Mulligan and David Haugh discussed Cubs left-hander Shota Imanaga's struggles as the start of the playoffs loom next week; Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed how left fielder Ian Happ and second baseman Nico Hoerner enjoy hitting next to one another in the Cubs' lineup; and Cubs Radio analyst Ron Coomer joined the Mully & Haugh Show to discuss the team's struggles ahead of the playoffs.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Pick six with Mully and Haw starts now.

0:05.0

How bleak are things for the Cubs after they lost again to the Mets, keeping their magic number at two and seeing Shota Imanaga get knocked around.

0:13.0

Is Imanaga still in line to start a playoff game?

0:17.0

Things are bleak. That's a good word.

0:24.1

But they are in the playoffs.

0:26.6

They are in the playoffs.

0:28.8

Let's not get carried away. And I feel confident that they're going to be at home.

0:32.8

But they're just letting it go way too long.

0:36.3

And it's annoying.

0:37.8

It's just annoying.

0:39.0

Just get it over with, and then you can kind of kick back and wait and start on Tuesday.

0:44.9

You get like the whole restart on Tuesday.

0:48.4

It's Friday.

0:49.6

It's September 26th, and this hasn't been clarified because you've been losing six of the last

0:56.5

seven games? Ridiculous. Unacceptable. Win tonight, today, win today, and let them lose,

1:05.4

and then you're done. It's over. And then we can all have, you know, seashells and balloons and parties and everyone

1:12.4

be happy. But the fact that it's taking this long is just going to annoy you and it's going to

1:18.3

bother you. I didn't like hearing what I heard from Craig Counsel yesterday on Kate Horton.

1:26.4

That, that it didn't sound great to me and the idea that he would have

1:32.5

stayed in the game if it was a playoff game. The question now isn't whether he'd stay in the

1:37.6

game if he started a game. The question now is whether you can start him in a game.

1:42.4

Is he, is there any, now you have more information.

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