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Spiegel & Holmes Show

What's the biggest issue surrounding the Cubs amid their 6-game losing streak?

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes bring you Chicago sports talk with great opinions, guests and fun. Join Spiegel and Holmes as they discuss the Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, Cubs and White Sox and delve into the biggest sports storylines of the day. Recurring guests include former Bears coach Dave Wannstedt, former Bears center Olin Kreutz, Cubs manager Craig Counsell, Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner and MLB Network personality Jon Morosi. Catch the show live Monday through Friday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. CT on 104.3 The Score, the exclusive audio home of the Cubs and the Bulls, or on the Audacy app.

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0:00.0

Today feel good Friday, so I'm trying to stick to that, you know?

0:04.2

I like it, I like it.

0:05.5

Afternoons on the score.

0:08.4

Yeah, I mean, he's, you know, it's, it's, you know, Ian goes through phases of hot and cold like every other hitter does.

0:17.1

You know, I think he's just, but his strength is kind of the ball strike recognition

0:23.0

and being able to handle that part of it.

0:26.4

And he's just really caught in between and looks a little bit, looks really caught in between.

0:32.0

You know, the fastball is kind of beating him, the breaking ball he's way off front on him.

0:42.8

And he's, they're throwing a lot of strikes and he's behind him the count, you know, kind of constantly.

0:45.0

So he's up against it 0-2-1-2.

0:48.2

Feels like every at bat.

0:50.2

One of the strikeout leaders in Major League Baseball is Ian Hap.

0:54.4

He is on the struggle bus like a lot of this lineup, which is why I'm so curious on whether we'll see adjustments line-up-wise and moving stuff around from Craig in tomorrow's game.

1:08.4

He did say that that's one of the things that he is looking to do.

1:12.3

It's a Speed going home show.

1:13.3

I'm Lawrence.

1:14.3

Speeg's off.

1:15.3

We're talking about the Cubs for the next 30 minutes here on the score.

1:18.8

Speaking of the Cubs, we are going to continue our additions of Cubs championship summer. As we celebrate the 10-year anniversary.

1:31.0

Don't make that.

1:31.8

You told me to read this, Alex.

1:33.8

You don't get to make that face at me now.

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