Coming back here on Sports Talk Chicago, Joey Christopoulos, you can follow me at Joey Sports Guy.

filling in for John Zagl here on Sports Talk, Chicago.

Thank you so much for tuning in.

We're with Larry Hawley right here talking Bears.

And now we're going to talk a little Chicago Cubs.

As of this taping right now on a Tuesday, the Chicago Cubs are 500 baseball right now. Did not play well, even though a great pitching performance from Justin Steele

against the division leading Milwaukee Brewers right now.

I guess I'm going to give you a little bit of a buffet, Larry.

The team defense has not been great this season.

The bullpen has blown over 10 saves.

There's been injury problems.

And the team in clutch situation, specifically

runners in scoring position, has been anemic to say the least.

So which one is the biggest red flag for you right now with the Chicago Cubs team,

54, 55 games into the season?

You know, offense comes and goes and wanes, and I think the Cubs are still trying to

figure that out.

The bullpen is concerning. I think you had hoped that Alzalai was going to be able to keep up

what he did last year and have that great streak. It didn't happen. I mean, he's injured.

You know, we'll see if he's able to come back. I think he was to be evaluated two weeks ago a week ago and see if that hasn't needed a surgery.

So you've relied on Naris to do some closing.

And maybe he ends up being that guy.

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