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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Can the Cubs get back on track?

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes continued to discuss the Cubs’ offensive struggles amid a long stretch of mediocre play. What can the Cubs do to snap out of their funk?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Speakle and Holmes.

0:01.3

Craig Counsel.

0:02.1

When I'm on Sports Talk Radio, I learned that just keep talking, and that's helpful, right?

0:08.4

Could you expound on that?

0:10.4

No, I think that says it all.

0:11.8

Okay, good.

0:12.4

I'm going to go the anti-talk radio stance here.

0:15.6

Afternoons on the score.

0:18.4

Craig, how does not having John Birdie and having the three catchers affect how you

0:23.2

how you manage a game during the course of it? Yeah, I mean, look, we ultimately made a decision

0:30.5

that just the depth of catcher and injuries to current catchers, we didn't want to get in a bind

0:37.4

in that situation.

0:40.6

You know, I think John, you know, he wasn't playing a lot.

0:43.9

And he had a pretty limited role.

0:46.9

And, you know, but we are, we do have to do some things a little bit differently.

0:53.7

It's Craig Counsel on with us earlier.

0:55.9

If you want, you can go check out the rewind function on the Odyssey app and listen to the whole

1:00.9

thing.

1:01.9

It's pretty good for a team that's now eight games back in the National League Central going

1:07.4

into action tonight.

1:08.5

Before we get back to talking about what's going on with the Cubs,

1:14.5

a lot of great football conversation.

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