Ivy Nation's sports talk is up and rolling on a Friday, and that can only mean one thing.

It is all rapid fire, along with Jesse Stiers.

I'm Sean Stiers, Oprah.

Have it a great day getting ready for what's hopefully a great weekend.

Did the Cubs already play today?

They did not.

Every MLB game starts at 6 p.m. or later tonight.

Is that marquee matinee matchup 6 p.m. or later.

They did hit three home runs off of Paul Skeens yesterday, though.

Saw that.

Very happy about that.

Yep.

They're playing in Wrigleyfield North this evening.

I think that was basically the worst start of Paul Skeen's career, wasn't it?

He did not do well. That is correct. He only gave up one home run this season so far,

and the Cubs tagged him for three in one inning and got him out of there.

You're wearing all your Cubs gear, so I figured we might as well just make it a third

straight week that we start with some kind of Cubs content at the top of the show

since everybody eats up the Cubs, even though Vince is not here today. Maybe that'll make

for a more focused show today. I don't know. Who needs Vince? Smash the like button,

if you would, as we get started today. We've got a lot to roll into and a lot of

it kind of fell in the old lap here today it was interesting because yesterday salty asked us a

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