Nico Hoerner talks Cubs, is unhappy about his fly ball percentage (Hour 1)

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes opened their show by discussing White Sox owner-in-waiting Justin Ishbia's presence at the team's game Monday evening. Will it be awkward to have Ishbia around when he won't take control from current chairman Jerry Reinsdorf for years? Later, Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner joined the show to discuss the club winning two of three games against the Cardinals over the weekend and to explain why he's upset about his fly ball percentage.

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0:00.0	Spiegel and Holmes
0:01.8	Okay, here we go, sports fans
0:04.2	Afternoons on the score
0:05.7	The 2005 White Sox
0:07.3	You know how big a deal that was
0:08.8	That was an 88 year drought
0:10.3	Of a team not winning a championship
0:12.8	Yeah, when the Cubs had also
0:15.5	Not 1-1 at that point
0:18.1	Because it's what, 100, minus 21, so...
0:23.5	What's the mathematics?
0:24.2	What the mathematics?
0:25.1	Halo, hallo.
0:25.5	Was it 87 for the Cubs at that point?
0:28.2	I don't have that right.
0:29.3	There's a longer than that.
0:30.6	Do I have that right?
0:32.1	No.
0:32.7	For the Cubs.
0:34.1	It's over.
0:34.4	Because it was 1908.
0:35.8	Yeah.
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