Breaking Down Cubs vs. Padres Game 2 & Predicting Game 3

One bad night doesn’t decide a series, and this conversation is the reset Chicago needs. We pull apart a 3–0 loss without flinching—Cease’s power, San Diego’s parade of 98+, and where the bats came up short—and then shift into a tight, practical plan for an elimination game at Wrigley. The path is clear: hunt early damage on Yu Darvish, lean into Jamison Taillon’s day-game split and recent form, and treat the Padres’ bullpen like a seven-inning finish line.

We go beyond vibes with real baseball: why Darvish’s deep pitch menu creates mechanical fragility, how a high home-run rate opens a window for ambush swings, and which zones to own in the first four innings. On the home side, we put names to adjustments. PCA’s defense stays on the field, but plate discipline has to show up. Ian Happ needs to sift shape from shape and punish the mistake. Kyle Tucker’s late knock might be the timing cue that flips his series. Then it’s sequencing with purpose: pound Tatis in, bury break to Machado, elevate early to Arraez, and finish lefties with change and depth. Taillon’s first-inning poise is a real edge—stack a zero, stack pressure, and make San Diego play from behind.

This isn’t corporate pep talk; it’s a clean blueprint for winning the only game that matters. Score three in the first four, steal an out on defense, and force their best arms to beat your best swings. If you’re riding with us, bring the energy: share the episode with a friend, drop a quick five-star review on Apple or Spotify, and tell us your Game 3 score prediction. Let’s put good noise in the park—and make the ninth inning ours.

Thanks for tuning in!

- Carl & Mahoney

Chapters

• 0:00 Set The Theme: Stay Positive
• 1:50 Game Two Autopsy: Cease Dominates
• 6:45 Vibes Check: Fans, DMs, Don’t Text Her
• 10:20 Sponsor Interlude: Spicy Soda Bit
• 16:00 Lineup Accountability: PCA, Happ, Tucker
• 22:30 Padres’ Heat: Triple‑Digit Onslaught
• 26:40 Beating Yu: Home‑Run Math And Mechanics
• 33:20 It’s A Seven‑Inning Game

Transcript

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Good morning, good afternoon, and evening Chicago Cubs fans. Welcome back to the Money Morning Cubs Show. Today is Wednesday, October 1st. This is a special edition game two recap, little game three scouting report, kind of refresh level set podcast, special edition. I am your host, Carl. This is a solo show for right now. Mahoney will be back at the conclusion of the series win or lose. It is game three tomorrow. There's a couple things we're gonna talk about here lightly. Just get some stuff off our chest and hopefully decompress and get people in a good headspace so we can get some good rest. You know, we got game three tomorrow. Okay. So, you know, it's not over. And I think that's the opening thing we like to do here. Uh, you know, we gotta set a theme. Theme is stay positive. Please. I'm begging you guys. Twitter, just a little bit. That's a good gauge. The group chat, negative. A lot of guys took the day off work, went down, got on Clark Street, had a couple beers, went to the game. We got blank 3-0. You know, everybody who pitched for the Padres today was throwing 106. Absolute premium Vermont cheddar. And that's gonna happen sometimes. They're gonna stick the ball up your ass. We talked about a little bit earlier today as we posted before the game. Dylan Cease has been red hot down the stretch of the season. His best month was September. Now, you give him a lead early with Kittridge, he takes advantage of it. That puts us in a position, backs up against a wall a little bit, and then you're looking at 97 to 100 from Cease. And then he can really feast, and he did. You know, we can go back and forth on the Kittridge, we will. We'll talk about that. But what's the theme? I mean, can we at least try and stay positive? I think that's the most important thing. We come out of this game, we go, let's just try and be positive. Send your send a text to your Uncle Gary right now. Be positive, Gary. Uncle Gary. Send a text to your dad. Hey dad, call your dad. Hey, call your mom. Hey, mom. I'm feeling really good about game three tomorrow. Get that energy out into the universe because that's how I feel. I mean, you look at the matchup on paper. When I say stay positive, set a theme for the episode here. We're only going to be here 25 minutes. I got hot soup on the stove, not a euphemism. I got hot soup, I got COVID. I'm going to have a hot toddy. That should feel good. It's just something kind of loosen up the mucus a little bit. But I do have COVID. That's officially confirmed. That's a sacrifice made. Um, you know, going to a big event yesterday. Super spreader event, maybe. I don't get out much. I'm not in the public that much. Am I an isolationist? No. I just don't go to 39,000 sporting event person, like 39,000 person sporting events as much as I used to. Is that a super spreader? I feel like I got back traveling through all hair. So why does this matter? Because we're trying to stay positive. We're trying to stay positive going into game three. Game two, tough watch today. Getting blank three-nothing. Yesterday was a tough watch. But for say Suzuki and Carson Kelly back to back and manufacturing an insurance run in the eighth inning. That was a very difficult game to watch. Most of these innings in the playoffs, these aren't easy. But if we're going to look ahead, and I'm going to say be positive, you Darvish is pitching tomorrow for the San Diego Padres. Who, I mean, he throws nine fucking pitches. But he has surrendered multiple earned runs every start out for his last five starts. He has a 5.380 race ERA on the season. So he's given up 14 home runs in 72 innings. Extrapolate that over a full season. That's 42 home runs. That's 42 home runs from you Darvish in a full season. That's a lot of home runs, guys. How many home runs per nine innings is you Darvish giving up? Pop quiz. 1.8. Where would that rank qualified starters? Bottom 10% Major League Baseball. So that's we need to get the long mall. So when I say be positive, we're just in the introduction phase, guys. This is the Monday Morning Cubs show. This is special edition recap game two. I'm going to look ahead at game three, talk a little bit about you, Darvish. Some stuff stood out to me today, the stuff that didn't. Obviously, again, guys, theme here, stay positive, please. For the love of mercy. Don't be walking around brooding. Don't be salty. Don't complain to your ex-girlfriend. Don't have too many drinks and text her. She doesn't want to fucking listen to you. She broke up with you for a reason. The Cubs losing is no absolutely no excuse to get those landlines rolling again. You know. Leave that where it needs to be left. Do not text her. You know. Text people you trust. Talk to people you trust right now. Get the positive energy. I say stay positive. We have a game three, elimination game. Tomorrow. Against the San Diego Padres. You Darvish is pitching. Jameis and Tan is pitching for the Chicago Cubs. We're going to talk some splits on Jameis and Tan. First, though, guys, obviously cannot say enough nice things about Thirsty Vacero, the official beverage sponsor of the Monday Morning Cubs show. Lineup previews, postgames, all bite, no rattle, Mexican style soda. Talked about them before. Gonna do it again. Close friends with these guys, known them 15, 20 years. Some of the sharpest fucking guys I've ever met in my life. Couple ultra marathon runners in the group. You want to talk about guys who just want it, get after it. Won't take no for an answer. Thirsty Vacero is born out of the idea that the market needs a Mexican-style soda with a signature spicy finish. With a little taste, little juice, 10% real natural juice. I say watermelon, I'm talking about 10% real watermelon juice. 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Alright, we have a couple things we need to talk about, game two related. You know, then we're gonna get to game three. I said stay positive. Uh game two, though. I mean, it's hard not to say. PCA looks like PC poo. PCA looks like poop. Ian Hap, no bueno in the three spot. A lot of people bitching. I said earlier, keep your mouth shut. You're gonna look stupid for this later. You know, does that hold true? Tomorrow, I think he's a good matchup for you, Darvich, because he's got a cement mix. When I say cement mix, I mean a kitchen mix. I mean everything. The whole thing, the kitchen sink. He's got the full fucking drawer condiments. You open it up, he's got the relish, he's got the wasabi mayo, he's got the mustard, he's got the stone ground mustard, he's got the Dijon. You Darvish has it all, my friends. Okay? Now the nice thing is Ian Hap has a sophisticated palette, and he can differentiate between the stone ground and the Dijon. He knows the difference between that cutter and that changeup. He can spit on it, he can hit it far, he can do a bunch of shit with you Darvish's stuff because he's an advanced hitter. That's my point I'm trying to make. Okay. I do have a just a little touch of COVID here, if you hear me clear my throat. You know. So these are things we're thinking about going into game two. PCA, PC poop, Ian Hat Brutal. Kyle Tucker got his first hit of the series in the ninth inning, which you may not give a shit about, but like I thought it was a big moment. I thought it was actually a really big moment, to be honest with you, down three-nothing. You know, one out. Here comes Kyle Tucker getting on first base, kind of led to some drama a little bit with say Suzuki getting to a 3-2 count. So we can complain about him. We can if we want. It's convenient. We can also say maybe that got him going, timing foot down. And if you scoff at that, you know, we said that about Say Suzuki foot down, timing, he can get going. He's been very good the last week of the season. That six home runs in six games. I thought he looked pretty good today in the box. You know, I want to give credit again, Padres. We're seeing these guys for the first time in a long time. Dylan C's throws a hundred, Mason Miller, two innings out of the bullpen, he's throwing a hundred. Robert Suarez, he throws a hundred. I mean, you're just looking at how of how many pitches did the Padres throw today, what percentage was at least 98 miles an hour? And I bet it's about as high as anybody can get. I think that's going to be one of the higher, historically speaking, across any era, including steroid era. So that's another big observation for game two. Like we did just see absolute premium for Montchatter. No, is Kyle Tucker back? I don't I hope so. You know, because it makes a world of difference. And he does look like I mean, we could be back. He could be back. He does look like shit, though. I mean, some of those foul balls. But then ultimately, the connectivity in his swing, the ninth inning, getting that ball in the right center, that's all timing stuff with him. And he's early, he's late, he's early, he's late. So if he feels good, if you know, that's it, that's a beneficial situation if his foot is down and he can fucking take that into the into elimination game three. Those are just really the three big things. Because when you talk about this team, you know, realistically, if you're not gonna get shit from me and hap, and you're not gonna get shit from Kyle Tucker, and you're gonna you're not gonna get shit from P. Crow Armstrong, oh, it kind of looks lost. Almost like maybe don't write that player's tribune article about how bad you want it watching 2016 highlights, Peter. Like, leave that to me to be the psychopath watching 2016 highlights. Maybe, generally speaking, you know, the death of this guy is his inability to just shorten up and look to hit a fucking single. The death of this guy is his refusal to hit the ball the other way, which is such a meatball take, and we went back and forth on this. Is this a good thing, bad thing that he's always swinging for the fences because he's such a good athlete? And I think ultimately when you get into these moments, there's ways to challenge this guy where he's never gonna square it up. He just pitched this guy inside. You literally can pitch this guy hard away and then break inside. Something that starts on the inner third, breaks into his back foot, breaks outside the zone, inside. Breaks inside and it's out of the zone. Starts in the zone, breaks out of the zone, inside, breaking down. He will swing over the top of that a thousand times if it's executed properly. Now you could spin one and hang one, and he could hit it to Waveland, or I mean he could hit it to Sheffield, thank you. So, like, that's obviously on the table. That's on the menu. His inability to hit the ball the other way. The pitchers are like, it doesn't, he's gonna swing at this every single time. It's like when your dog is barking, and you know you got the treat, there's a treat that's gonna shut him up. He's gonna be the best boy in the world. All you gonna do is just show him that treat every single time the treat works. There's a treat there for just about every dog like this. There's a moment, there's something like this for every dog. Was a piece of cheese? What is it? Is it Vermont Cheddar? It's something. And your dog will sit there and stare at you and be the best behaved thing of all time. Same thing goes for children. You got a kid, no doubt about it. Every single time they respond positively. If you're good, we'll get ice cream. Worked a good boy. That's a good kid right there.

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Crow Armstrong, every single time will swing over the top of that pitch. Every single time he will try and hit a home run. And it's not even there's no adjustment. Now, bright thing is 23 years old, platinum glove. Unbelievable athlete. But we need to see an evolution of this guy next year and into the future. That's an absolute fucking guarantee from game two, which has nothing to do with game three. But he's, you know, we're writing articles in the players' tribune. You can't fucking hit a single to left field, buddy. You're you lay bunts down, ironically. You know, you've become so uncompetitive from a great stretch early in the season. We're not talking about you were hitting cleanup last year and you've had a start. You were hitting cleanup two months ago. You were our cleanup hitter, and now you're swinging through everything in the seven-hole spot. Well, I mean, fucking this thing can turn around tomorrow because he's such a good athlete. But, you know, we've seen so far, just a quick note from game two. I mean, PCA not even competing, not even competing, which is the meanest thing you can say about a guy like him. Not even competing. I mean, fucking nice. Good, good, nice plays in center. No doubt about it. It's good to have his defense, but uncompetitive offensively. So, you know, we're conversely, I think Suzuki's been extremely competitive. I think Carson Kelly's been competitive, convenient to say when those guys are the two guys who hit the home runs yesterday. Danzby Swanson looks competitive. Matt Shaw looks a little. Matt Shaw looks like he's about to get eliminated, and eliminated comes with a death sentence. And that death sentence applies to you and all close associated family members. Matt Shaw is playing like his brother's gonna get guillotined. Publicly. Where? Where do they kill his brother? I don't know. Publicly. That's how Mad Shaw is playing. Nervous, energy, everywhere, all over the place. That's what I think I look at Matt Shaw right now. Biasteros got to look at Mason Miller earlier today. Just about the most unfair thing you can do to this fucking guy. Keep him down in AAA all year long in a 94 mile an hour poo. Okay, we'll give you a look in October 106. Mason Miller. Have some balls, Jed. Have some balls, Craig. Put Biasteros in a situation where he isn't just completely left out to fucking dry like that against Mason Miller. That's just kind of my general thought process on a pinch hitting Biasteros there. Because it's like, here comes, but here we're gonna pinch hit by Asteros. Hell yeah, pinch hit him for Matt Shaw. What's Biasteros been doing for the last week? Sitting around. Sitting around because he caught on Sunday against the Cardinals. Now, in the same respect, I have touted Biasteros as our best bat off the bench, and you can't just fucking cherry pick situations where you say, well, it's not convenient now. My point is just tough. That's just tough. It's just tough. It's tough. Come off the bench, Mason Miller. Come off the bench, Mason Miller, setting MLB records for fastest pitch thrown in the postseason since they started keeping track of it with advanced data in 2008. 17 years. What is that? This is the 18th postseason. How many pitches are thrown each postseason? Quick guess. I'm gonna guess 16,000 pitches per postseason. What is that? 20 years? Almost 300,000 pitches in the postseason, I would guess. Mason Miller threw his hardest one today at Wrigley Field. Again, what am I I'm not compla it's just tough. Will we see him tomorrow? You know, that would be criminal from Schilt. I think so. If you go Mason Miller, 13, 40 pitches last two days, he'll fucking pitch tomorrow. Elimination game, he'll pitch. He didn't give a shit. Robert Suarez will pitch again, too. That kind of fucking blows. Be honest with you guys. You Darvish going early. We gotta smash his shit around. Let's talk about him for a second. So as we kind of get into game three, trying to stay positive, just want to get some stuff off my chest about game two. Like, what do you want me to just be mad about Craig Council, the lineup? There's nothing really to be mad about. You know, Ian Hapton performed. Dylan Cease is a tough matchup for a lot of guys, but Ian Hapton performed. Danz B. Swanson, you know, a little bit. I don't know why I'm calling him out. Nico Horner, not a great, you know, could have had a better game. Could have had a worse game. Bad luck. Lines that ball off the foot. Could have been two for four. You know, Ian Hap's been brutal. Kyle Tucker's been brutal. So Pico Armstrong, non-existent. PC poo. Alright, game three. Here's how we turn around. You Darvish lays meatballs. You Darvish, hard time spinning the ball. He throws so many pitches. He needs a lot of things to be going well in his mechanics for him to execute. A lot of things. He has a lot of moving parts. Long wind-up. Big torque. You know. Fucking so much arm action. And really, he has a mech this is a deep thing, we'll talk about pitching here for a second. If you can keep with this, great. If you can't, I'm sorry. I'm gonna do the best I can. But in his delivery, let's work backwards from his delivery. He throws eight pitches. Alright, pick a pitch, he throws it. So it's just like, what what eight pitches does he throw? I don't know. Are there even fucking are there eight pitches? Nine. Throws 14, throws every pitch you got. The point is, in your mechanics and your delivery, work backwards from the fact. A lot of guys work backwards from the mechanics it takes to throw a breaking ball. How do you throw a good slider? Because you can throw a fastball as hard as you want. We've talked a lot about this with Palencia in the show. Palencia throws too hard. He tries, he overthrows. His front shoulder opens up, his body leans into first base, his front his back shoulder flies open, his hand gets underneath the ball, and as a result, the ball is flat, it has no vertical drop on it, and the hitter gets an early look at it because his mechanics are compromised and his body dives into the first base dugout historically when he's trying to throw 102, 103. At 99, more on a direct line, he's tougher to hit because he's more deceptive. Now, for you Darbish to throw the bevy of pitches he does, you have to work backwards from what type of delivery does it take to be able to spin a cutter, a curve, a slider, and a sweeper. So working backwards from that, there's a lot of moving parts you have to have in order to be able to throw a curveball and a slider and a sweeper and a cutter and do it from the same arm slot, which is something nobody does except for you Darvish. He's literally the only guy in Major League Baseball that does this, and probably the first guy I would guess since like I think Paul Bird threw like six or seven pitches. Remember that guy? And we're talking about a lot of pitches here. Eight pitches is so many. So for you, Darvish mechanically, there's so much that has to go into this to succeed. It's the same fucking thing with like a Lamborghini or a Jeep or something. I don't know why I lumped those two things in together, but they're fucking high maintenance cars. Where like one thing goes wrong back to the dealer. That's you Darvish. One little thing wrong in this delivery, because it's a delivery that has to be able to throw four different braking balls to his glove side and a sinker and a four seamer and a change and a split. Come on, guys. In order to do that, you have to have a fucking real short, quick arm. You gotta get it up to your ear. You gotta be fucking loaded on your backside. You gotta have quick separation from your hands. You gotta get to your front side while staying back behind the fucking ball. I mean, I can do this. Isn't jargon either. I'm talking about legit mechanical cues that have to go right for you, Darvish. None of this shit was true with like Jake Arrietta as a good example because he was they had Jake on the fucking video board today. That's not necessarily as true as Shoda. You know, those to pitch into the fringe of the strike zone and stuff. You Darvish is challenging everybody to swing and miss. So as far as this matters, it's a good it's a good player to see, it's a good pitcher to see coming out of Nick Pivetta and Dylan Cease, who have filthy four-seen breaking ball combinations. Like you Darvish does not have their power or any of that shit anymore. A couple years ago, yes. Right now, though, you Darvish is closer to Jeff Supon. I mean, he's Jeff Supon, if you don't recall. A 2006 hero for the St. Louis Cardinals. And, you know, like probably a guy who banged a lot of hot chicks, I guess. People love him. You know, he's like one of these, like kind of he's got a goatee, played for Kansas City in the late 90s. He's kind of got he has a little bit of that old Sailor vibe. You know, introduce him to your mother at your own wrist type vibe. That's Jeff Supon. And I think his mix is like, I think you Darvish is closer to soup than it is the old Hugh Darvish that you know. You know, you're talking about a 94 mile an hour fastball. I mean, that's coming out of Dylan Seas, 98, 99. Now, how much will they get out of Hugh Darvish? Probably not a whole lot. I would guess they'll ask him to go through the lineup two times. All the more reason we gotta get three runs in the first four innings. I mean, like, I can't make this any clearer. We gotta get the crooked number early and then we gotta we gotta clinch our butt cheeks. Because you see with their bullpen, it's really a seven-inning game against the Padres. That's the big thing for game three. It's a seven-inning game against the Padres. For the Cubs, it's Jamison Taeon. Who wants some splits on Jamison Tayan? Because this shit's important to me. You know. He hasn't been that good this year. He was much better in August and September. Pitched to about a 1-6 ERA over his last 34 innings of the season. Do you guys care about stuff like that? In August and September, he pitched to a 1-6 ERA. 34 innings. I mean, that's pretty good, right? Six starts. Dylan C's last five starts were really good, that carried over. So. Do you guys care about that stuff? Is a good question. He's very good in the first inning, too. So we like that about Jamison Tan. We do. We like it a lot. Now, what I'd like to find for Jamison Tan are these days, day splits. 2.67 ERA in 10 day starts. 448 in night. 2-6 day starts. That has to mean something to you guys, right? 305 ERA at Wrigley Field. 59 innings pitch. 44 strikeouts, 50, 44 hits, 51 strikeouts. Does that matter to you guys? And he's at his best pitching to Carson Kelly, who will be catching tomorrow. Historically speaking, these splits apply very well to Jameson Tann. He loves pitching at Wrigley. They apply historically. You can look last year since he's become a Chicago Cub. He's been very good at Wrigley field during day starts. And I think that can apply tomorrow. Now we talked a little bit about Machado and Tatis. Those guys are ready to play. They're just fucking awesome. You know, they're going to get us. It's just going to happen. Like you play him three times, they're going to get you. Now, for tomorrow, I would like to see us pitch Tatis inside a little bit. And I would like to see us in a position where we don't really have to pitch to Machado. I think Machado does not want to go home. I think this is where Machado scares the absolute shit out of me. Tatis, I don't give a fuck about. Challenge him inside. You know, Luis Arise, pitch him at the top of the zone and then. I'll go through each player. What do you do to these guys? Tatis, you can pound that motherfucker in. And then you can open him up vertically soft away, he can chase. And if you do get him to chase with one strike, you can get him to look with two. If you get him to look with one strike, you can get him to chase with two. Does that make sense? Whatever that combination is, if I have Tatis one-one and I get him to swing and chase outside the zone to make it one-two, I can jump back into the strike zone and get him to look. Up top or inside. He will be he will take if he looks bad on one pitch, you can challenge him right back the other time. He'll look to make an adjustment. He hates looking bad. That's a legit fucking thing. Write that Scottin report down, send that to the Padres. And that don't matter. That's legit fucking inside baseball. Talk about Tatis' approach. Luisa Rise, pitch him up and in. Pitch him up, pitch him in. Take away the outer half of the plate. Don't even worry about that bullshit. You know. Throw a breaking ball to get a strike ahead early. And then your hard stuff just has to be on the inner third, preferably up. He is a good low ball hitter. Manny Machado, you want the ball down. You want the ball down. You want to throw stuff that starts in the zone, breaks down out of the zone. What vertical break do you have? So Jamison Tan has a decent curveball he can throw to Manny Machado. That's a good out pitch for him. He will take strikes early that are cutters, spinners, etc. What you can't do is leave the ball up and over the plate against Manny Machado. Jackson Merrill will swing over the top of pitches. That's a cleanup hitter for the Padres. Jackson Merrill will swing over the top of pitches, curveballs. He'll also take a strike early. He will fucking get in the box and look at a pitch right down the middle of the plate. So take advantage of that and then show him stuff that is a strike and ends up a ball. Which is a common fucking theme. Xander Bogartz is a guy like to pitch in. I don't think you need to throw breaking stuff over the plate to him. If you are going to do that, just fucking start it on the outer third and make sure it what leaves the zone. Like that's a chase candidate. And if you're not going to chase, just inside. I think there's something, I don't know if it's a fucking physical thing, but he doesn't scare me at all in the least bit. Only if you extend and leave the fucking ball over the middle of the plate where he can extend, like a spinning breaking ball. And then the next three lefties they have in their lineup all kind of sit fit the same mold. That you can get these guys in and throw a change down. Like Jacob Cronenworth will ground out to the second baseman nine out of ten times if you if you execute a decent major league changeup. O'Hearn, I think, is interesting because he's willing to look to left field a little bit more than Gavin Sheets, where Gavin Sheets is just trying to fucking Yankee doodle dandy every single time he gets in the box. He wants to just yank. Um Ryan O'Hearn's a little bit different than that. And I'd say he's probably to me, I think he's a bigger threat than Rise. I think O'Hearn is I think O'Hearn's Jackson Merrill has the pull side, you know, athleticism. O'Hearn will take it the other way. Like late game, I don't want to see O'Hearn, but I do feel like again, this is a guy who is with two strikes gonna look like if you get ahead on this guy, put these guys away inside, down and in. Down and in. Because he's a guy who's gonna look the other way. Gavin Cheats, you could fucking throw that guy anything. He can't spell change up. Gavin Cheats cannot spell change up. And Freddie Furman's a cat. I mean, just don't fucking give up leadoff singles to him. Because he blows. He's not sharp right now. He does not have it. Imagine a good golfer who's just playing like shit lately. I would be stunned if they went out and fucking shot 66. Right? Isn't that how it works? You don't just climb out of that hole tomorrow. You gotta fucking grind. You gotta go to the range, you gotta work, video work, all this shit. And I don't know. If you Darvish will ever get it back. So I'm not saying this to be cocky. I'm just trying to put some good vibes into the atmosphere before game three tomorrow because I have no confidence in Udarvish. Conversely, Jamison Tan has been sensational the last six starts, has stepped up down the stretch, and he wants this opportunity bad. He this is of everyone who's taken the mound in this series, I don't think anybody will want it and be as focused and prepared as Jamison Tan. This is why he signed his free agent deal. He's has not really gotten this opportunity in his career. A career that goes back to 2010, I believe. Second overall pick, Woodlands High School, Texas. Fact check me. 11? When is it? He went second, the Bryce Harper draft. Didn't he? Or was it the Garrett Cold draft? Whenever the fuck he got drafted, he was second overall at the Pirates. He's a testicular cancer. I think he got with the Yankees for a little bit. People liked him, but I mean he was in Bronx tough or however people define that shit. He hasn't had the opportunity. This elimination game at home, perfect setup for Jamison Tan. And he's got all the metal in the world. He didn't give a shit. Cancer Survivor. Do you think he cares about Tatis Jr.? I don't think he's nervous at all. I don't think he's nervous at all. I think the moment is equally matched for him. So do I want to make a prediction for tomorrow's game? I mean, I hope the Cubs win 10-0, but something tells me it's going to be 2-2 in the seventh inning, and there's not enough prilusac OTC on the shelf that'll fucking keep me healthy. You know what I mean? So with that in mind, I'm going to go get myself another Thirsty Vicaro. I'm going to set a personal record. Might have four today. Mango Muerte is the flavor of the week, guys. You can get that stuff on Amazon, Amazon. I want to thank you guys for tuning in to another solo edition of the Monday Morning Cub Show. This is a game two recap into a game three preview. If there's good information here that you enjoy, by all means, share it with a friend. Say, hey, get a taste of Carl's fucking podcast here, because we're getting ready for game three tomorrow. There's some good insights, some good stuff you want to be putting in your head before we play. That's all it's about. That's all this is about, guys. A little community for some people we like to call the maniacs. Alright, series will be over tomorrow. God willing, the Cubs win, and Mahoney and I will have a robust series recap into a quick preview for the Brewers ready for you guys. God willing. But it's going to take a fucking village, and I need you guys on board with me. So stay positive. Share the show if you guys get a chance. Please throw a five-star review on it, Spotify or Apple. It's pretty easy. You just go to the app and you just click on it, and it just boom, five star. So if you're listening to this, you qualify to just drop a five star, just boop. And then that helps. Then I go back to Thirsty Vacero. You know, then maybe one day I get to hire a producer. But I got to keep getting the reviews going. We got to keep building it up. So I appreciate all the help you guys can extend. In the meantime, the most helpful thing would be the Chicago Cubs winning game three. So be positive. Get some good vibes in the air. Ian Hap's going to turn around. Kyle Tucker's got his timing back. PCA is not PC Pooh. He's PC MVP. Right? This is where our heads are at. You Darvish is fucked. Jamison Tan's going to give us a game of his life, and all things will be right in this world once we win the series and we can prepare it to take down the Brewers. But it's going to take a fucking village. Go Cubs.