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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Nico Hoerner believes the Cubs have enough to make a run

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes were joined by Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner to discuss the club's mediocre performance lately and the NL Central race.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Nico, thanks so much for joining us as per usual.

0:02.6

How are you, sir?

0:04.5

Doing well.

0:05.1

I'm down the right field line here in Toronto.

0:06.9

They've done a lot of renovations to this place,

0:08.8

so it's kind of cool walking around and seeing some new stuff

0:11.5

and a modernized ballpark.

0:14.5

It's really cool.

0:15.3

Yeah, tell us, because six games in your career in Toronto,

0:19.3

looked it up today, four for 25, 280, 788 OPS in the tiny

0:25.1

sample, so not bad at all. But what's different about the spot as you're looking at it?

0:31.9

Well, they've just changed a lot of stuff here. They've added all sorts of bars and things

0:36.6

all over the ballpark.

0:37.8

They changed the Elfield walls a bunch. And then this year is the first year we've seen

0:42.3

the new visitors locker room. So not something that the fans see, but it makes a big

0:46.3

difference for us. So that's a huge update.

0:48.4

Quick question. You heard the seat of his pants from both Jim DeShay's and from Pat Hughes there.

0:56.1

And then we also heard backside in there.

0:58.7

What do you prefer?

0:59.8

Is there a common phrase for your buttocks that you would prefer that a baseball announcer uses in a moment like that, sir?

1:09.8

From his rear, I feel like it's a good reference there.

1:13.0

But it's a great thing.

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