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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Callers share their frustrations with the Cubs front office

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes opened up the phone lines to Score callers who shared their frustrations with the Cubs front office.

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0:00.0

Nice choice, baby T.

0:07.2

A lot of people are back in Chicago, and they are feeling it.

0:11.1

And they're not feeling great about the baseball team.

0:13.9

We want to give you an opportunity to call in and talk with us.

0:18.5

You know what you didn't even mention?

0:20.2

What's that, what's that, Lawrence?

0:21.4

We got so lost in talking about the Carter quote.

0:24.8

You didn't even talk about the lineup.

0:27.8

Yeah, I mean, in no world should Matt Shaw still be hitting ninth.

0:32.0

I talked about it yesterday, plenty on hit and run.

0:34.2

You should be playing every day.

0:35.8

Willie Castro can give others a day off, and I like Willie Castro. But Matt Shaw is on hit and run. You should be playing every day. Willie Castro can give others a day off,

0:37.7

and I like Willie Castro, but Matt Shaw is on fire right now, and he should be hitting higher

0:43.1

than nine. At the very least, he should be hitting above Dansby Swanson. Maybe he comes to

0:48.9

bat in that seventh inning after Nico's singles instead of Dansby. It's a double play to end

0:53.5

the inning when Shaw homered last night.

0:56.2

He did get in a bat last night in the ninth, but the Craig Counsel has been aggressive in moving

1:01.4

lineups, moving people around the lineups, and I've applauded it, Justin Turner and the two-old

1:05.8

that one day last week moving Ian Hap down eventually, moving Dansby down when he's been struggling.

1:12.1

Matt Shaw's hitting better than a nine hitter and has been for a while and you need him

1:15.5

higher. Seven, maybe six, depending on the matchups. Move him up. Let's go out to Mount Prospect

1:21.2

and talk with Chuck. Hey, Chuck, you're on the score. Hey, thanks, guys. You know, here's what I don't

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