Jed Hoyer believes the Cubs lineup is set — is he correct?

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes listened and reacted to Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer's comment that the club is primarily focused on adding pitching this offseason.

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0:00.0	Spiegel at Holmes.
0:01.8	Okay, here we go, sports fans.
0:04.2	Afternoons on the score.
0:05.7	Mike Mulligan made a musical comp about Caleb Williams, and I was like,
0:09.8	damn it, why didn't I think of that?
0:11.7	The play call is trying to get the player to buy into his scheme.
0:16.1	Caleb is a player, is almost like this great jazz musician,
0:19.3	and now he's trying to lead the orchestra and those
0:22.3	are contradictory ideas. Caleb is a jazz musician who's being asked to lead the orchestra.
0:29.6	So like now be the conductor. Conductor. Conductor, we have a problem. Conductor, we have a problem.
0:36.0	Conductor, we have a problem. But you just problem conductor we have a problem conductor we have a problem but you just got
0:39.6	to be rock solid they got to trust you and your stability and your leadership and your time you
0:46.0	got to always be on time they look to you to be on time so you can't be a guy who's like
0:50.9	fancy free and playing around you got to be locked and loaded. I think it's a
0:54.4	beautiful musical analogy from Mike Mulligan. If you deliberately sabotage my band, I will
0:59.8	like a pig. Now, are you a rusher or are you a dragger or are you going to be on my
1:06.7	time? I think about the Bugs Bunny skit with the opera singer,
1:12.0	with Ben Johnson being Bugs Bunny and Caleb being the opera singer.
1:16.9	Leopold.
1:19.3	Where Bugs is like, no, no, get up here.
1:21.8	No, get on up here.
1:23.7	Let's see it.
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