Cubs' front office doesn't rate well in a new survey (Hour 2)

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In the second hour, Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes reacted to where the Cubs rated in a power rankings of the best MLB front offices, according to peers in a survey conducted by The Athletic. After that, Tribune writer and Take The North podcast host Dan Wiederer joined the show to discuss the Bears' mindset entering the NFL Draft.

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0:00.0	Spiegel and Holmes show Flashback.
0:02.0	Flashback.
0:03.0	Flash, I don't know.
0:05.0	I guess, I mean, it's probably life, right?
0:07.0	I think that when you, when I drive to the lakes, you know,
0:11.0	shared in to head down to work some days, like, do I stop and get jealous and unable to complete my day?
0:17.0	Looking at someone of the houses on the water?
0:18.0	Like, no, I don't.
0:19.0	Like, you gotta do the best you can with what you have and I think that's that's a job right you can't get jealous of
0:25.1	of everyone else you know they have their own challenges and own problems and I think
0:29.9	you know just knowing you know we knew what our payroll was we knew what we had to
0:35.0	do and I think we know we worked hard this off off season to build the best team possible within that.
0:40.3	And I just don't think you can get distracted by what others have.
0:43.3	I don't think you can get distracted by, you know, jealousy as to your word or whatever
0:48.3	or complaining about it.
0:50.3	You just move forward and try to do the best you can.
0:53.3	And I think that there's only handful of those in baseball,
0:57.0	and that's a good thing I think.
0:59.0	We talked with Jed Hoyer about the Dodgers in their front office
1:03.4	at the beginning of the season.
1:06.3	Yeah, they're back tonight, and that's it for the season.
1:10.7	Hopefully you'll see them in the, or maybe hopefully not, you'll see them in the LCS.
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