you're listening to the Wrigleyville Nation Podcast season TI holders and lifelong fans with neighborhood ties discuss Cubs news and neighborhood happenings here's your hosts Jeremy and [Music] Pat hello and welcome to the Wrigleyville Nation Podcast this is episode 360 of the podast podcast my name is Jeremy deer and I'll be your host I'm joined as always by my co-host he's my cousin and he's high at top Wrigleyville tonight how's it going Pat it's going well Jeremy thanks it is a picture perfect beautiful Labor Day Monday as we record the podcast and the Cubs are back at home starting a home stand uh as we turn the calendar to September and the last four weeks of the season that's right three five weeks of the season no four weeks yeah the four four weeks and then we'll do a wrapup pod so we have five 25 we got 25 games left yes we have five podcast scheduled over the next four weeks and uh we will be uh briefly talking about the week that was we'll look ahead to the week that will be we'll talk Cubs playoff standings all the all the happenings but before we do let's let's recap what was a an incredibly success ful road trip uh they were exceeding even the uh we had tame expectations going in but we wanted to see them do well and beat up on the bad teams at Miami at Pittsburgh at Washington 8-1 has to exceed all expectations uh who knew the Pirates Bullpen was going to be that bad I mean eight- one six and0 on the week uh I saw a stat that the Cub scored 89 runs in those nine games and they are the first team to score at least 14 runs four times in an eight game span since the 1897 Boston uh uh something or other you know I don't know what they were they the Red Sox back then um no it was uh it was a great uh it was a great week and you know when you score that many runs it's funny the pitching just sort of doesn't matter like we've spent so much of this season worried about the bullpen crashing on us or losing close games or you know coming within a run here or feeling like we were going to win a game and then give up a couple runs or just not score enough and um and I think objectively like the rotation the the bullpen in specific um you know has been kind of in tatters here the last couple weeks and it doesn't even matter because when you're scoring as many runs as the Cubs are you know you can give up a couple runs late and in fact in a couple of those games the Cubs didn't quite blow the game but they had a huge lead and they did give up runs late in the game but they still held on and won which was great that Friday Miami game could have been a a real different tone as they gave up a couple runs late still held on to win six to3 but that was scary and then both of those wins in Washington were both nine in like you didn't feel good you didn't feel good going into the ninth inning of those first two Washington games but but when you score you know a minimum of basically seven anywhere between seven and 14 seven and 18 runs a game you know it gives you quite the The Leverage there whereas there were times in May and June April May June when you know they were scoring seven runs in a three- game stretch right in a whole series as opposed to per game um and I think you know when we look at it too the losing that third game the Sunday game at Miami and we podcasted about this it was a real Downer because we were like we really need a sweep they didn't get it then they go to Pittsburgh they win those first two and then on that getaway day I think it was the Wednesday Paul skines was going for the Pirates their Ace rookie pitcher Kyle Hendricks for the Cubs got shelled the Cubs fell way behind and everybody was like here we go again two out of three isn't good enough you know we just you we just can't get over the hump the Cubs are done the Cubs are done and if if you look at people's Twitter feeds uh or or any other commentary from that that afternoon it was pretty much this resignation feeling right the Cs just can't get over the hump and then something weird happened um the Cubs ended up uh going having the first uh seven run deficit turned into a win in major ear League Baseball in seven years like thousands of games were played and and and I think it was like over 1100 times that the team had been down by seven you know in the seventh and had not come back and the Cubs did and it was uh so it was a pretty unexpected Monument kind of uh event and you know instead of uh instead of coming away with two out of three the Cubs swept they were down uh I think it was 10 to three headed into the seventh and they scored two in the seventh three in the eighth and six in the ninth with uh our our friend of the show uh uh uh good friend of the show uh uh bethod court with seven runs bet in Christian Beth cour what a week he had yeah I mean there you can say that about a lot of players but you know there there I think the key moment of that game which could turn out to be the key moment of the entire season frankly if it turn if if this all plays out in the ninth inning of that game I don't know if you remember but I had the pleasure of watching that ninth inning and the Cubs uh started ring back they were within one run uh they' come back to 10 to nine you know so that was in and of itself a big deal they had uh Runners at second and third two outs P Crow Armstrong at the plate he was four for four coming into that and uh uh bednard the pitcher for the I guess closer still maybe still closer for for Pittsburgh the the person who has been their closer for the last couple years for sure and up until that game uh David Bard uh was pitching and he could not throw strikes and uh the Pirates made the decision to intentionally walk PCA uh putting him on first base and and I guess I kind of see the wisdom because Armstrong is so fast and and this really gets in a lot of his value this week was just the chaos on the on the base pads that he caused his other defenses but he's so fast there probably worth he hit a soft grounder they wouldn't be able to throw him out at first base and the go in the tying run would score so they they walked him uh he was also red hot so I I see that although in the back of my mind I'm like you know if it's me and my closer is struggling to throw strikes and is walking people and and is throwing wild pitches and and things like that I don't think I walk peer Armstrong I just pitched to him and watch my pitcher throw balls a foot out of the strike zone and see if he'll swing at it you know I mean pretty much everything we just did that podcast where uh Matt Trueblood was breaking down how much PCA will swing and strike out and so yeah I was uh I had the same thoughts saying uh they obviously were not listening to our podcast when making that decision um so they walk him and then Beth and Court comes through with the big hit and so after after Matt's uh analys of of PCA that week I've been doing some paying attention to this you know he his theory was that um we're going to see a little bit of regression from Amaya and peer Armstrong you know because they were so hot I mean fair enough right uh it wasn't this week though they turned around and they had even better weeks this week so I it will probably come it just didn't come yet and but I did w I was paying close attention to peaker Armstrong's at bats to see how many pitches he was taking not many no even even though he was hot all week and even though hey look I'm I'm not I'm not going to poo poo a 458 batting average in an Ops of a thousand right that's great but uh he was swinging at pitches and and hitting them you know successfully and and safely but he still does not uh take many pitches so it's not some Newfound like uh uh plate discipline it's just he's just red hot right now and uh so it worked out well for the Cubs in that instance and he ended up getting on base all five times that game and and having yet another great week uh in fact the whole team this week was great I I was looking at so other than uh Bush and Bellinger who are a little bit down this week every Cub regular and Beth and Court while you throw them in there so like see eight eight different Cubs but I'm talking Swanson uh Suzuki PCA parus hap Herer Amaya all those guys the lowest Ops the lowest on base plus slugging percentage of that entire group was Amaya he struggled at 9 77 so basically the Cubs had about seven Albert pH holtzes in their lineup seven Mel cabreras in their lineup seven Bobby Barry bond is in their lineup at all times this week and when that happens you set records that were previously set in like 1897 and when that happens you go six and0 and when that happens you have laugher after laugher because that is just an amazing hot streak from Seven nths of your team all at once the Cubs went 18 and8 overall in August so they did take advantage of those bad teams and that soft schedule which they had to do uh they had to Leap Frog a bunch of teams uh they do have to play Pittsburgh again this week we'll preview the week that will be but uh what are the odds that Paul ski says uh I'm I'm taking this nine innings this time uh yeah it'll it'll be interesting to see uh how this you know this is this will be the fourth time the coms the face sches I think the first time uh I think it might have been his first game it was his first game it was his debut yeah and I didn't say they lit him up but they you know he struggled and and the Cubs did well against him although I think the Cubs might have blown the game later on at that point but uh but in his um his second start he shut the Cubs down and um and then this time uh he struggled a little bit I mean he didn't pitch terribly but threw a lot of pitches you know like he had some he did not have a lot of clean Innings and as a result had to lead the game after like six Innings so I think that's the strategy it's the old carry wood strategy right make him throw a lot of pitches and maybe get a couple runs off him early by a couple I mean like two uh but then get him out of the game and let the let that pirates Bullpen cook because uh you know it's like their Bullpen is like a meth lab I mean you that thing is very flammable so you you really need to uh need be careful with them um so yeah that's uh that's that's the strategy yeah it was uh yeah watching I mean how how many times have has that happened to the Cubs this season where they've had a great starting pitching outing and the bullpen uh lost a game for them it was great to see them on the other end of that we had that Infamous Padre's game early in the year where we blew a seven run lead although we blew that lead like in the third or fourth inning as opposed to uh waiting till the seventh inning so uh it it has happened and uh and now it's time for a little payback for the rest of the league so I'm pretty excited about that we also saw this week um the return maybe I would say the departure of Kyle Hendricks but certainly Kyle Hendricks was at his ner uh on Wednesday and then we saw the return this weekend of Jordan Wicks who uh is the first Cub pitcher to ever win games on his birthday in consecutive years yeah it's good to see Jordan Wicks back back uh we were debating whether it was worth bringing him back this season uh or just shutting him down for the rest of the year but uh glad to see him come back uh was kind of now or never right like you weren't gonna wait till the middle of September to do it he gets activated uh as as well as miles Master bony got recalled as well to get him back yeah what happened to this idea that Canario was going to come up or or or Casey or any of these other guys you know uh I guess no huh and you had Jordan Wicks getting his second win with five innings pitched four hits one earned run the interesting stat he was Zero walks but zero strikeouts so uh against a Washington team that is willing to strike out if you're if you'll let him uh he's sort of the anti- DJ Herz I guess is what he is you know uh yeah zero strikeouts and so so if you go back through history you know this doesn't happen very often it doesn't happen at all in the modern times right like this doesn't happen anymore but in Cubs history it has happened a couple times where a Cubs pitcher's gotten a win without giving up without recording a strikeout I think it's happened three other times uh or at least three times in my lifetime um and uh do you want to take a guess at who might have done that I let's see um I believe Kyle Hendricks was one that did that Kyle Hendricks did that that's right early in his in his career one of your favorite CB picturers Lefty also a former pirate 20 game winner uh did it in 2002 he was the Ace of our pitching staff John L John lever right and then one of my favorite pitchers from when I was young who uh had a great rookie year and then got hurt and was never the same Mike hary did it oh sure and if you want to go all the way back Lyn McGloin did it back I think in the late 70s or early 80s but back in those days in the late 70s and early 80s as I've noted from my 1984 uh review you had a lot of games where although zero strikeouts might be rare but but strikeouts could be really low like a pitcher could could get away with striking out three or four batters and pitching eight Innings and five hits and zero walks it was just not a it was much more pitch to contact era than it is now um but that's that's for that's basically now 45 years worth of uh and it's only happened I guess four other times so very rare let's hope he strikes out some more batters when he has to face the Yankees yeah some of that nature right yeah we'll get there in a second as we look at the uh the schedule ahead let's so after the Cubs did what they needed to do they defeated the bad teams they actually swept teams none of those two out of three like we were lamenting coming in into this uh they actually swept both the Pirates and the Nationals they were able to Leap Frog two of the teams ahead of them in the standings they uh with their uh if we look at uh their nine and one week uh their their last 10 games the Cubs went 9- one they passed the Giants who went 3- seven in their last 10 games and the Cardinals who treaded water at 6 and four they were able to pass both those teams Cubs sitting at 7 71 and 66 as of the time of this recording uh that puts them behind now only the New York Mets who are uh who the Cubs are three games behind Atlanta for the final spot and the New York Mets are one game behind Atlanta so still have to Leap Frog two teams technically in in New York and Atlanta but uh started five and five and a half games behind Atlanta and Atlanta had a when he's four and three weeks very cubik actually they they swept the twins on the road a tough twins team right 10 to six 8 to6 5 to1 so they beat him handily and then they lost three out of four at Philadelphia and if if this isn't a Cubs kind of uh record this season I don't know what is they lose to the Phillies five to four they have a lead they blow it late they lose five to four then they win seven to2 by five runs going away then they lose three to nothing and three to2 in Extra Innings like that that's like a week right like very much so for for for most of this year um and as a result they go four and three and the Cubs gain two and a half very uh meaningful games and the Cubs really needed to do it this week right because the Braves played arguably one of the toughest weeks if not the toughest week they're going to play the rest of the year four at Philly three at Minnesota and their schedule starts to soften up a little bit because you know we we talk about the Cubs and the easy second half schedule well yeah let's start we'll start with the Braves yeah let's start and look ahead at the Braves upcoming schedule softening up is a is an understatement yeah they they they come home and they play Colorado for three and Toronto for three they have a makeup game at home against Cincinnati and then they go to Washington for a couple then they play the Dodgers for four at home then they're at Cincinnati for three at Miami for three and then at the end of the year they play uh the the Mets and the Royals that could be tricky we'll see where teams are by then but but their schedule is now getting they're kind of on the downslide of their schedule they've played they've had a couple weeks against tough teams the Cubs you know obviously have a mixed schedule the rest of the way they've got some tough teams coming up but they also have some easy teams so it's but it's not quite as as desperate as the Brave schedule yeah we'll we'll go into a little bit of detail here on the Cubs upcoming schedule but before we do let's talk about the Mets schedule because the Mets are still uh in front of the Cubs the Mets are at home for Boston for three and then Cincinnati for three before they go to Toronto for three and then at Philadelphia then more Washington for three and then Philadelphia for four and the Phillies may be setting their playoff uh rotation at that point we'll see yeah the Mets definitely on paper have the toughest schedule the rest of the way with the seven games against the Phillies three against the Braves three against Milwaukee but as you pointed out that last week of the season it's really hard to know right now like how meaningful those games will be for teams and that takes us to the Cub schedule so let's look ahead to the week that will be and the the month that's going to happen here for the Cubs uh September opens we mentioned with three at home against Pittsburgh another a Pittsburgh team that by the way if they aren't looking for Revenge after last week I don't know I mean then they're dead man walking at that point right like you've got to think that they're a little bit they're embarrassed by what happened last week not that that's going to make a difference necessarily but I would assume they're going to come in with a little bit of a chip on their shoulder well and we have to play their two best pitchers again a week later like that's after just beating after beating them both last week right so yeah so uh it'll be tough to see a sweep there um and then the New York Yankees come to town uh this is Anthony R O's return to Wrigley Field very excited about that he this closes the book on uh everybody's return back to Chicago here took long enough right but yeah finally so looking forward to the Anthony Rizzo video packages uh not a dry eye in the house I assume uh when we see those no especially he of all the players com back our captain he was our he was the team captain yeah so uh three against the Yankees those will be tough and then it continues to remain tough as the Cubs Go Out West to play the Dodgers which is always a hard series even it just going out west is always tough for the Cubs they go they're tough six games right three at home against the Yankees and three on the road against uh LA and then uh three in Colorado which is always weird that team is bad yeah they are but it's always weird in Colorado and then they come home for three against the a and four is that because the a don't have a stadium or they play all their games on the road no but that is a so after that Dodgers serious after the six games against the Yankees and Dodgers if you can even go even three and three in that I mean four- two would be great but even if you go three and three in that you've got nine games against really bad teams you've got you know between Colorado Oakland and Washington 10 games because the Washington's a four game stretch that's 10 more games you could get really healthy in you know so that's let's hope that those games matter at that point yeah and then they close out that last week uh three at Philadelphia we don't know what that would look like and then three against Cincinnati at home those if those are meaningful could be really frustrating uh the way the Cubs play the Reds but yeah it's a uh there's there's not a lot of games left 25 the Mets in in Atlanta will play each other which when they two teams in front of you is frustrating because if they split that nothing happened unless you sweep your games so the uh it so if you lose your Series against the Yankees and Dodgers and win against the A's and Nationals you've also tread water here so it's it's it's really the next week week and a half is going to be really telling about if if those three games are if you can make up those three games or not the current there is no time for bad weeks right you can't go two and four the rest of the way in a week you just there's too much ground to make up the current playoff projection for the Cubs 6.9% for them to oh up from up from 3.7 yes so still only 6.9% chance to for the Cubs to make the playoffs at this point uh and and you can see why when you look at the schedule this is uh it's hard to make up those games because you can't tie you have to pass two teams in three games yep well let's not uh let's not forget though we've got Craig Council who is known for his September Miracles uh as our manager so you there's that we've been on the receiving end of that uh several times very much so so uh do we want to make a prediction for the week three against Pittsburgh three against New York at home the Yankees yeah and the Yankees aren't well they're good but they're not un I mean they lost two out of three to the Nationals they the Cardinals beat them yeah I mean they're not they're not U yeah that's the thing about baseball right nobody's and these guys are not are not it's not like you're playing the Bulls from the 90s or something you know like there are wins to be had here um I mean I think I think the Cubs I could see the Cubs I mean they are going to get car Cole which is unfortunate um I think the Cubs will go three and three I I'd like to go four- two but I'd say three and three I I my fear is this um when the entire team has been so RedHot uh for an extended period of time like basically almost two weeks offensively you got got to think unless this is we are the greatest team in the history of baseball which at the rate we're going you know we might end up being you've got to think there's going to be a little bit of regression there and that means that you know Michael Bush or Bellinger might get hot but but you've got seven guys who are red hot and I hope they don't all go cold at the same time but they are going to face some decent pitching so you know the the the circumstances are such that uh I could see the Cubs having a couple these frustrating two to1 3 to2 losses you know at some point during this week but they're all at home and I feel good about that in general so um I think three and three would be conservative four- two would be ideal I'm G to agree on the three and three week I do think that uh yeah it's tough because it's steel against SK so you don't uh so we have an imaga game in here which is good against Pittsburgh so I I think that's a victory uh but between tyone pitching against Jones and steel against skines I think that you drop one of those games your Bullpen does at least and uh and so I'd say a two in one pirate series and then a one- two Yankees series at home uh for Cubs are coming off a nine a 9 in one stretch here too so you know generally speaking except for on the south side of Chicago the the baseball Gods tend to even things out a little bit with the with the stuff um it's hard to play 900 baseball right I mean that's just hard to keep up um yeah so if if we see the Cubs Go three and three this week and at the same time you see Atlanta go uh you know like like five- two that's gonna that's going to be rough uh against yeah we we let's not see that because that would not U that doesn't work for the for the analysis uh we're going to need now granted they're playing the Rockies but again you know let them you know drop a game to the Rockies and you know Toronto can always beat you so so if we go three and three and they go 3 and three or we both go 4-2 be nice to kind of stay even with them this week somehow um you I guess if we come back next week with 19 games left in the season and the Cubs are four back which really means five back because of the tiebreaker it's still doable because the Cubs do have that super easy stretch but it it's starting to get the math is starting to get is starting to squeeze you again like it felt last we when they're five and a half back right um there isn't a lot of there isn't a lot of room or a lot of time to fall behind at this point you kind of gotta get ahead which I know is very very like insightful but no just it just you know like it 85% of the season is done like we've this is the time to to stand up and and the tough part is you still who's who's taking who's the Cubs closer in the ninth at this point in those close when we have to see we haven't seen a close game in a while so uh when they do have a close game who who is it on your uh when you look at the roster well I mean Porter hodj seems to have uh done pretty well for himself and you know Keegan Thompson came in sort of out of necessity I guess yeah desperation um desperation uh but I I I I think that at least in the short term you'll probably see Council looking at the circumstances you know I mean I don't think want use Tyson Miller necessarily although I I kind of like him but I think Haj has pitched really well and Jorge Lopez seems to be hurt um so that's problematic but uh Keegan Thompson uh you know scares me a little bit he can they look they they've had a lot of injuries to the bullpen so it's not as if they have a lot of great options so they're just going to have to you know mix and match and hope things work out for the best and maybe hodj it'd be a great story if he could come in I mean other teams have had that happen where a young guy comes in and and uh and does really well um I guess Lopez did Pitch against Washington for an inning but he's only pitched once now in the last like nine days so maybe he's just I don't know if he's tired or what's going on with him but um I think we'll just have to see and if if we blow a couple games or even you know if the Cubs blow two saves this week and it cost him two wins it's where that'll be the big topic for next week but if they if they can win the games they win you know by a comfortable enough margin it won't matter all right and uh as we get ready to see Craig council's September magic uh we'll we'll be back next week to uh to break it all down and uh and and we will have a guest uh back for next week uh here keeping it uh keeping it short and light on a holiday Monday here we close the show as we do every single week where we take a trip back to 1984 we visit the on the 40th anniversary of the Chicago Cubs 1984 playoff team we uh parachute in to 1984 and see how those Cubs are doing uh as last time we visited them Pat the Cubs were starting to pull away they were uh and this week was no different I mean they didn't they weren't six and0 like the 2024 Cubs were but they were six- one so they had a great week uh they swept Cincinnati including a double header sweep after a rain out which for I haven't gone back and done the math but the comes out a lot of double header sweeps in 1984 you know that's that is not something that's easy to do typically if you look at the stats historically you know double header sweeps have been rare but the Cubs did it against Cincinnati and then they played and they had Atlanta came to town and the Cubs won three out of four against Atlanta we had another great start from Rick sliff eight Innings five hits seven strikeouts two runs and got another win which he was doing pretty much every week we've talked about now it's almost like he could win an award for this uh and Ryan SRI had a nice game with a home run uh the thing that I wanted to kind of highlight today is the Cubs brought up a guy from the miners who either pinch hit or started in every game this week uh and was sort of a new addition to the team the reason I brought him up is it's kind of the it's sort of like the BET Court situ Beth and Court situation where you know when you have those Seasons where things go well and the Magical Seasons somebody kind of comes out of nowhere and gives you a boost whether it's a Randall Simon or Louis Salazar or you know pick any any of those Cub seasons of of of the past where you're like oh yeah I remember that guy he Jim Edmonds you know that somebody comes in and does really well and so this year I wanted to focus on a guy by the name of Thad Bosley does that name a ring of bell to you sure does yeah so Thad Bosley who I have a picture of from 1984 I don't know if you can see it here but he's in the middle right here I'll hold it up a little higher hold it up a little there you go this this is him at the airport uh when he was with the Iowa Cubs uh traveling with uh with Dan R and Billy Hatcher two future major players but they were all the miners at the time this was the down on the farm Report from from earlier that year and uh and they talk a little bit about him and that he finally makes it up to to the majors and he only has 112 plate appearances but you know it's a sizeable number and the thing about him that I noticed in 1984 is and and I know baseball statisticians and and saber metrics people can debate this back and forth but you know that the concept of being a clutch hitter like if somebody's a clutch hitter versus just not a clutch hitter and and you know that you can go back and look at Stats to see how you do in high leverage situations in medium and low Leverage well that Bosley had a unique uh gift of doing well in high leverage situations so in uh in 1984 uh while he hit 296 and had a 793 Ops which are fantastic as a bench player in their own right in high leverage situations he hit 450 with a 1.25 Ops uh which you say well that's uh you know small sample size but you know lucky for him lucky for them well not really because he had a history and became sort of known for this the next couple years he's a fantastic pinch hitter I think he led the league in pinch hits one year in 1985 The Following Season he had an expanded role he had 202 played appearances so you're like a third of the Season he played uh and he hit 328 with a 902 Ops his his on base percentage on base plus sling percentage in high leverage situations that year was 1.024 also so he was like he was basically like a Baseball Hall of Famer in high leverage situations he'd come in and pinch hit and get hits all the time um so much so that in 202 play appearances he ended up putting up 2.3 War which is pretty fantastic considering a lot of those were just pinch hit appearance it wasn't like he was got to play the field as much right you know you extrapolate that over a whole season that's a war of like over seven or seven and a half which for a Cub position player would be you know virtually unheard of um so Thad Bosley uh who had a great week this week uh was somebody who kind of added that extra spark in in the 84 team uh in a way that I think was notable and deserves some recognition the last thing I'll say about uh the 1984 season is you know Lee Smith was one hell of a Workhorse that guy came in and closed out games all the time the number of innings he pitched back then when you look at when you talk about closers now and who the closer is in one in the five-day stretch for the period that we just discussed Lee Smith had a win in three saves that doesn't happen anymore like people don't do that right and he pitched in the other game too by the way so um you know they just brought him out every every game and and sometimes for more than one inning and uh he came he came through for him that week and the Cubs leave the week up five games over the Mets with only what four weeks left in the season five game leads seemed insurmountable uh back then let's see we'll see what what happens to the 1984 Cubs next week it's it's it's funny to think about uh five games for them as we're talking about the three games for the Cubs to get to the final wild card spot which would be like like I don't I can't even imagine what place that would be in the 1984 season uh yeah no in 1984 uh they were five games ahead of the Mets for the best record in the National League but they had to beat the Mets because only two teams went to the playoffs from the national league back in those days you know so yeah it was a different world always a great time checking in on the 1984 Cubs as we uh get to the end of the season there so uh and sometime before uh probably closer to the end of the season uh for those of you who haven't listened to every episode of this podcast uh we will be doing a Supercut of all of the 1984 Cubs segments we're going to uh I'm going to put them all together in to one special episode podcast that will come out sometime either right after the season or uh uh right before the end of the season there we will uh uh release the 1984 segments say one giant Supercut episode so stay tuned for that make sure you're staying subscribed to the podcast and if you want to see what Pat was showing during that segment make sure you're signed up for the YouTube channel over at youtube.com search for Wrigleyville Nation Podcast give us a subscribe you can get all the video content we have a video version of the podcast there um even if you don't consume your podcast via the video form a subscription there helps us work the algorithm so other Cub fans can find the show so we appreciate your support there as well you can find us on all the social media platforms at Wrigleyville and of course Wrigleyville nation.com has the entire back catalog of this podcast as well as all the links I described and all the ways to to to support the show and nobody supports the 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starting up here next week that uh it'll be great to have something to watch uh both football and baseballwise here in Chicago at the same time I mean this was about as fun a week as I can remember the Cubs having in the last five years right yeah so much fun so uh and and and it'll be it'll be fun this week with uh getting to see the Rizzo stuff as and they're at home this week so it's even more fun when they win at home absolutely oh one last thing uh I did I did venture over to uh regle field on Thursday night for the Pearl Jam concert oh nice Eddie betterer came to uh to wish us well it was great show so um glad we could make use of the stadium you know even when the Cubs are on the road excellent and uh with that we are going to wrap it up and podcast Pat thank you for joining us thank you Jeremy thanks again everyone for listening we'll talk to you again next time [Music]