The Lovable Reunion - Jake Arrieta & John Lackey on no-hitters, beer fridges & more Cubs World Series tales
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 93 minutes
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On this episode of The Lovable Reunion, David Ross and Anthony Rizzo are joined by former Chicago Cubs pitchers Jake Arrieta and John Lackey. They discuss Arrieta and Lackey’s MLB careers, the evolution of pitchers in baseball, how the 2015 Cubs set the stage for their World Series championship one year later in 2016, the wild Cubs-Pirates 2015 Wild Card game, facing the Dodgers and Giants in the 2016 postseason, coming back from down 3-1 against the Cleveland Indians, and more incredible stories from their time as teammates.
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| 0:00.0 | No gloss, no filter. |
| 0:03.1 | Just stories. |
| 0:04.8 | Spoken without fear. |
| 0:06.5 | Person who is not generous can not be an artist. |
| 0:09.4 | The world will be at peace only when it is ruled by poets and philosophers. |
| 0:14.3 | Listen to my weekly podcast, the Pooja Abhaw on the IHeart Radio app, |
| 0:18.5 | Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:23.2 | Come for the honesty. |
| 0:24.9 | Stay for the fire. |
| 0:28.7 | Anthony Rizzo, David Ross, Jake here at a John Lackey. |
| 0:47.9 | Welcome back to another episode of the Love Will Reunion podcast where we're celebrating our 10-year anniversary of the iconic 2016 World Series Championship. |
| 1:31.1 | We are with two staples of our team, John Lackey and Jake Arenda. Welcome to the program. The horses. Good to be here with you guys. Lack, this is, bro, you're celebrated 10 years. You just celebrated a 20 year a few years ago. Bro, don't make me so old. Yeah. The originator of the ABC collection of rings. I look a lot better in that team deal because I'm the young guy in that team deal. I'm going to be the, you know, the gray hair old guy in the back. But that's what I say about you, y'all. You got the, you started the alphabet of rings, Anaheim, Boston, and Chicago, the ABCs. Like, it's freaking impressive when you look back. We were on the same flight our rookie year. You had won the World Series pitching game seven, and I was coming from |
| 1:28.5 | the daughters who went to a union meeting up in Pebble Beach. Yeah, Peas, yeah. Black was playing with dudes that were born, playing. Before I was born, he was playing with guys in the 80s. That's true. Yeah, we had a couple dudes, yeah. I had some great group of vets, man. It took care of will school. You're young to me. You're forever young for me. Thank you. My guy. That's actually |
| 1:47.5 | something that I... I had some great group of fats, man. Took care of me. It was cool. You're young to me. |
| 1:44.7 | You're forever young for me. |
| 1:45.9 | Thank you. |
| 1:47.1 | My guy. |
| 1:48.1 | That's actually something that I think, like, some of the themes for these things are like |
| 1:50.9 | how people influence you, right? |
| 1:52.4 | And like, you came up in an old school group, you know, first of all, you had all these guys |
| 2:00.1 | in Anaheim, like, what have you taken from your time |
| 2:04.8 | winning three championships and three different real teams as the games evolved? |
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