Cubs front office keeps talking about the future after the trade deadline (Hour 2)

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In the second hour, Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes examined how the Cubs front office continually references the long-term future as the club falls farther behind the NL Central-leading Brewers. Later, they opened up the phone lines to Score callers who shared their frustrations with the Cubs front office.

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0:00.0	And the one-one.
0:03.8	Bouncing ball to second base.
0:05.8	The ball game is over.
0:07.8	Cidese who grabbed the ball, ran over, stepped on second.
0:12.1	And the partners have beaten the Cubs by a score of three to two.
0:18.0	It's four base runners and no walks, nine punchouts.
0:21.6	It's a really good performance.
0:23.6	He just pulled a split a little bit, it looks like, to Pagas.
0:26.6	That cost us two runs, unfortunately.
0:29.6	And a night when you don't score enough, you got to be perfect.
0:34.6	What you heard there was an annoyed Pat Hughes and a sullen Craig Counsel talking about
0:42.8	what's going on with the Cubs is you start your baseball day today.
0:48.3	The Cubs are six games behind the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Central Division.
0:54.3	And that was a frustrating one last night.
0:57.8	The two-run homer from Matt Shaw was a great moment.
1:02.8	But then there were chances that just did not come to fruition,
1:07.5	like right there in the ninth, with two on there at the end, after John
1:12.6	Bertie got caught stealing a base just because his hand was like shoved off of the bag
1:20.7	by a very strong armed tag from the Cardinals infielder Mason win.
1:25.7	The question I was thinking about last night was did the mitten,
1:30.4	like if you don't have the mitten in that moment,
1:33.6	can you actually grab it something and stay on the bag?
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