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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Craig Counsell's handling of Kyle Tucker's slump has Cubs fans upset

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes bring you Chicago sports talk with great opinions, guests and fun. Join Spiegel and Holmes as they discuss the Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, Cubs and White Sox and delve into the biggest sports storylines of the day. Recurring guests include Bears cornerback Jaylon Johnson, former Bears coach Dave Wannstedt, former Bears center Olin Kreutz, Cubs manager Craig Counsell, Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner and MLB Network personality Jon Morosi. Catch the show live Monday through Friday (2 p.m. - 6 p.m. CT) on 670 The Score, the exclusive audio home of the Cubs and the Bulls, or on the Audacy app.

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0:00.0

Spiegel and Holmes afternoons on the score.

0:03.0

You know, I mean, I described the series as we kind of held serve.

0:07.0

We probably needed a little bit more.

0:10.0

But, you know, we win three out of five and, you know, that adds up three wins.

0:17.0

But, you know, today stings a little bit to get in today's game. Obviously, would have been a big one and, you know, today's stings a little bit.

0:25.0

To get in today's game, obviously, would have been a big one, and, you know, they played a better game than us.

0:27.8

Craig Counsel talking about yesterday's loss for the Cubs, the good news is the Cubs won the season

0:34.5

series with Milwaukee.

0:36.5

So, if they end up in a tie, they have the tie breaker.

0:40.7

The bad news is that seven feels worse than five.

0:44.9

And you had the opportunity to get to five.

0:47.3

And Spee's, you were getting ready for the Lynn Braimer tribute.

0:51.0

I was here, and it was a long-ass game yesterday.

0:53.8

Yeah, like a three-hour game that

0:55.2

was four to one. It was ridiculous. That's impressive. Me and Tanya were just looking at each other,

1:00.1

like, when are we going to start this show? And then we found out, like, 455 is when we were

1:05.2

going to start the show. Anywhoozle. Yesterday, there were a lot of angry fans, And I think they are justified in their anger about some lineup choices that happened yesterday.

1:17.9

And it continued saga with one of the Cubs best players.

1:21.7

Yeah, I mean, there's a couple.

1:22.9

Kyle Tucker being back in, and the way that whole thing went down with the announcement of the or the

1:30.1

admission of the injury after the Jesse Rogers report of the injury and then all of a sudden

1:35.6

two days off was deemed plenty as the injury is healed and then Tucker comes out and looks the

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