What’s Wrong With The Cubs?!
Sports Talk Chicago
Sports Talk Chicago
5.0 • 832 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
On today’s show, host Jon Zaghloul reacts to the Cubs’ latest downturn, and explains what needs to change in order for them to turn it around.
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| 0:00.0 | Breaking news. The Cubs of one of the worst records in the National League. |
| 0:04.2 | Did we see it coming? |
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| 0:17.5 | The Cubs have one of the worst records in the National League, and we don't know things |
| 0:21.9 | are going to get better. Should I say I'm surprised? A little bit. But whose fault is it, and who's |
| 0:28.0 | contributing to these problems in Chicago? You look at their numbers, and there are a lot of guys |
| 0:33.6 | overperforming. A lot of guys playing well. Marcus Stroman has been a revelation this year |
| 0:37.7 | and has actually lived up to his contract. Justin Steele is an NL. Sy Young Award candidate. |
| 0:44.6 | The Cubs top three rotation pieces have done great. Stroman, Steele and Smiley, |
| 0:49.5 | all of the BRAs under 3.5. Christopher Morrell's been called up and has nine homers in 17 games. |
| 0:56.4 | So what's the problem? |
| 0:58.7 | What's going wrong? |
| 1:00.2 | Well, there are a couple of things. |
| 1:03.0 | Some of them you may like to hear. |
| 1:04.8 | Some of them you may not. |
| 1:09.0 | Right now, the Cubs have players who are highly touted, |
| 1:13.7 | rather signed for a lot of money or have been promoted probably too soon, |
| 1:17.3 | who have simply not performed. |
| 1:20.1 | And this is going to be unpopular, but I don't care. |
| 1:23.5 | I was a huge fan of Matt Mervis, and I called for his call up in April, and I said, |
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