NLDS Game 3 Preview: The Cubs Should Beat The Brewers

The room feels different when your season hangs on the next pitch. We pull the lens tight on Cubs–Brewers Game Three and explain why Jamison Taillon’s changeup isn’t just a weapon—it’s the exact lever that disrupts Milwaukee’s patient, east–west offense. If the Brewers won’t chase high, we show how Taillon can build the game south first, then reclaim the edges with cutters and four-seamers. It’s not about strikeout totals; it’s about forcing weak contact on your terms and letting Dansby and Nico vacuum everything hit at them.

On the other side, we dig into Quinn Priester’s power sinker, the consistent shape that keeps him out of trouble, and the real opening against lefties when his slider and new cutter lose the zone. That’s the invitation for Michael Busch to set the tone early, with Ian Happ and Seiya Suzuki flattening swings and stacking pressure. The goal is clear: four runs. Not a slugfest—just disciplined traffic, smart swing decisions, and one mistake hammered to the gap.

We talk culture without fluff. Milwaukee’s togetherness shows up in every at-bat; Chicago needs that same pitch-by-pitch urgency and situational clarity. No empty clichés—just actionable edges: zone plans, first-step defense, and a bullpen mapped for 12 quality outs. If you’ve been craving a smart, no-nonsense roadmap to extend the season, this conversation hands you the blueprint. Listen, share it with a Cubs fan who needs a jolt, and if it hits home, subscribe and leave a quick review so more diehards can find it.

Thanks for tuning in!

- Carl & Mahoney

Chapters

• 0:00 Setting the Theme: Game Three Only
• 4:52 Processing Game One and Two Frustrations
• 8:31 Resetting: Why Scoring Is Hard in October
• 12:05 Sponsor Break & Mood Check
• 16:56 What We’ve Learned About the Brewers’ Approach
• 22:03 Do We Pitch to Identity or Opponent?
• 25:24 Why Taillon’s Changeup Fits This Matchup
• 28:42 Cubs Togetherness vs. Brewers Togetherness
• 33:52 Urgency: One Pitch at a Time
• 37:20 Quinn Priester Scouting Report
• 40:55 Cubs Lineup Expectations and Lefty Keys
• 45:05 Adjustments, Leadership, and Clubhouse Tone
• 49:18 Path to a Win: Four Runs and 15+ Outs
• 53:42 Confidence Check and Series Outlook
• 57:15 Closing Rallying Cry

Transcript

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Good morning, good afternoon, and evening, Chicago Cubs fans, and welcome back to the Monday morning Cub Show. Today is Tuesday, October 7th, late. This is our second episode of the day, and this is a preview for game three tomorrow, Cubs vs. Brewer. So just a couple announcements off the top. Again, it's Carl here. Good to see you guys. Want to say thanks to everybody who's shown up, shown support, sent DMs, questions, and have just engaged in the postseason process of just having a good fucking time talking baseball. Now, if you heard me earlier today, we were sad and salty. There was a lot of anger we worked through knowing game three is lurking behind. Or around the corner? Are you behind a corner or around a corner? Off the bat, I'm confused. Either way, this thing's around or behind a corner and it's game three. And today, earlier today was a good exercise to bitch through some of the problems I have. You get outscored 16-4 when you take a one-run lead in game one and a three-run lead in the top of the first of game two. You proceed to get outscored 16-4 by the Milwaukee Brewers. That's obviously going to piss a lot of people off, myself included, just about everybody listening to this. There's a lot of other things that pissed me off. I don't need to repeat them. I will if I have to. Like, I would have liked to see Matt Boyd pitch game two. I'd have liked the Cubs to be honest about where Shota Imanaga was giving up 15 homers in his last 12 starts, knowing that just like maybe two innings against the Brewers would be good if you could use them funky, but like we all know he doesn't have it. And then some people said, well, then what's the alternative? Well, I said all the off days. We're off. We're off like crazy. I can't like Cubs are just off every day now. So I do think personally there was opportunity to use bullpen. I do think early game one we could have gone heavy pen. Now this is a game three preview, and we need to forget about this head trash. But I know there's some people showing up who still have it, so we're just addressing it lightly. Earlier today, I posted a game two recap just about game two NLDS Cubs Risk Brewers, which we lost seven to three, giving up two three run homers. I went through that and talked through some of the paints. Some people disagreed with me. Some people said we don't have another choice, but showed a, you know, when you see Aaron Savali and Colin Raid, did they combine to go six scoreless in Milwaukee with a chip on their shoulder? Because they're both what contract year guys that like have something to show people, like they're really serious guys. So it's not like we're completely devoid of options here. What matters most is the Cubs have to win tomorrow. What matters most at the time of recording this here, guys, just a tick after 8.30 p.m., is that the Cubs win tomorrow, Jamison Tayan versus Quinn Priester. So I'm going to talk about both pitchers. I'm going to talk about what I think is right for us. I'm going to talk about what you can expect from this Quinn guy. We're also going to talk a little bit just about the Cubs offense and the struggles where we're at with the playoffs. I have a couple quotes I pulled from the athletic. You know, just stuff to think about. And then I got some opening comments too, like where we're at in this playoff hunt. You know, wild card into two games DS. Let's level set, make some assumptions, agree on things, build some consensus. You know, we're here to get ready for game three. That's a theme. We do themes at the top every Monday morning cup show. If you're new to this, within the first five minutes, we build the theme. This is the theme, and then we do our best. I mean, we're going to deviate from the theme. You're going to go down a rabbit hole, a tangent, etc. The theme pulls us back to center. The theme is always going to re-center us. So, you know, this should be mostly specific to game three, right? There's going to be some stuff I bitch about relentlessly. Um, you know, we're going to try not to, and that's why I said here's the theme. We're getting ready for game three. So you see me going down a rabbit hole, I'm talking about show to pitch location. Doesn't matter. We're talking about game three. This is all about game three. Anyone who wants to know about game four, you can just visit me in the future. I can't even think game four doesn't even exist to me right now. I don't even know what game four is. Why are you asking me about game four? What I want to know right now is where do the Cubs stand going into game three, and that's kind of where we're at. I do why do I do this? I don't know. I'm going to do it anyways. I'm trying to go 35 minutes on this because we already did 40 on the recap. And and I think it's important. Why am I why would you do two shows and one? I was mad this morning. I was in no state of mind to prepare myself for game three. I was just mad about game two. So we work through that. Then we take the day, right? We take the day, we get just focused. We go through our notes, we do our homework, we watch our video, and now the purpose, we're getting ready for game three. I don't even give a shit about game one or two. I don't even remember what happened. I know that tomorrow we go out, we play baseball. Jamison Taon, 4.08 p.m. against Quinn Priester. A guy who's from Cary Grove, Illinois. You've heard that a thousand times on the Monday Morning Cup show. I've probably talked more about Quinn Priester than any other pitcher this season. It's just a good moment for me. I'll be selfish. We got a preview game. You're telling me Quinn Priester's throwing. I know more about Quinn Priester than his parents. I know more about this guy's identity as a baseball player than his old man. Whatever, whoever the fuck he is, probably a nice guy. Carrie Grove, Illinois, great part of fucking town. Good people up there. The other thing, too, obviously, is this an elephant in the room? Is this a question people are asking me? Where is Mahoney? Mahoney is busy as all. The schedules did not line up tonight for the preview where we wouldn't be able to until tomorrow to do the preview for game three. And with the 408 start time, this is just again another group executive to say we he and I get together. I think I can do 35 minutes earlier and get the information out. Then we kind of go through what we think should be. So it's not Tim's here in spirit. Mahoney is always here in spirit. And it should be pointed out, the guy's running a business, two young, beautiful, gorgeous kids, Arlington Heights, and his wife's a big time, big time job. She's always she's going somewhere, traveling here, more responsibility. And I'm not peeling back the curtain too much, but just like not too long ago, she was given more responsibility. Not too long ago, Patates, Mrs. Mahoney, was put in a position where the company's like, we love you so much, we got more for you to do. And Tim's entrepreneur owns the IT business. I'm not trying to go too fucking deep on the Mahoney family. He's one of my closest friends, and I love the guy to fucking death.

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We've done the show for two years together now. Playoff baseball rolls around. This is just next man up. We got to step up and do the job. So I've talked to Tim. We've gone through an outline together. Some of the stuff that should get worked in here with the pitching probables will have a good Mahoney vibe to it. And I just said, follow him on Twitter at TBidness. This is my guy. Actually, I can tell you we talked. He's like furious he can't do the show. The alternative is, you know, just let your fucking kids run around the backyard while we're not doing that. We're not doing that, guys. So show some support to Mahoney as he's being a great dad, a good businessman, and a wonderful fucking husband, which is probably like the leading reason why I want to partner with this guy. Because he has the values I respect in other men. And I don't need to go down that path much fucking harder right now. But if you know what I'm talking about, like men that you respect, I have a lot of respect for Tim. And unfortunately, he can't be here with us tonight. He wanted me to pass it back to the maniac, said he loves you guys. Lizard King, shout out. Uh, we just have a lot of stuff there. So stay with me, guys. I'm going to give you a good preview for game three because I did my homework. If you know that about me, you know I did my homework. Especially that Mahoney's helping me along the way. We got we have a very good fucking show to talk about tonight, particularly Jamison Taeon versus Quinn Priester. Couple things off the top here. This is just generally before we get to game three. Just pretend you and I were sitting around at a bar. We're on Clark Street. We're getting ready for game three. And you're talking to me a little. We're talking to each other. I talk to you. I say to you, what do you drink at Thirsty Vacaro? You said yes. Now we're just talking about the game, and I'm going, how do you feel about game three? I'll guarantee 99 out of 100 people listening to this right now are going to start bitching about game two. If I said, How do you feel about Jamison Taon versus Quentin Priester? I know I'm going to get an earful from somebody about how I can't believe how bad we got our asses. I can't believe it either. But how do we feel about game three? And I'm using this as an exercise to tell you to shut the fuck up about game one and two. So another thing, do people nowhere in the playoffs? Cubs fans and Cubs players. I thought I saw this. 13 postseason games in a row where the Cubs have only scored three runs or less. Now that's obviously terrible. You know, that's obviously trash. However, I don't know you guys. I watch a playoff game. I'm like, it would be nice to get four runs. It's playoffs. It's impossible to score in the playoffs. Do you know how hard it is to score in the playoffs? You gotta have a pitcher out there who's shit in his fucking pants, who's leaving the ball over the plate. And now, especially in the modern game, managers are so quick to take guys out because they have the analytics on the spin rate. They know if your arm is tight. They don't have to go out to the mound and look at you and be like, shot, is your arm tired? All the data is coming in each pitch so they can be like, Well, we know he's not fresh as we know. Or we know he doesn't have that it's made it so easier for a major league manager to go out to the mound and make a change. Someone go pull up playoff scores. It's it's brutal to score in the playoffs. Every time we play a playoff game, I've been under the assumption since I was a child. Now I'm 38 years old. This is hard for me to explain, but since I was a child, I always thought you'd like lucky to score four in the playoffs. So we got all these people walking around, they're like, the offense didn't show up. Yeah, it's the playoffs. Where the fuck have you been? This is playoff baseball. Like playoff football, how it just comes, it's like, what do you mean they're it's 21, 17? What do you mean the under 49 and a half didn't even come close to hitting? Guys, when it's tight and tense, advantage to the pitcher a hundred out of a hundred times until you find a guy who's shitting his pants and leaving the ball over his plate. And as I'm saying, today's game, those guys have such quick hooks. The other thing, obviously, depth of bullpen stuff. This is something that's changed drastically 10 years. Ten years ago, the last three guys in your bullpen were guys that used to be starters that come out a little bit, Gil fucking mesh, Jeff Soupon, you know, guys that are just there, playing time, service. They just have it. You're not, they're just in bullpens. Now, you know, most bullpen's are just filled with guys with good, good stuff. None of this veteran bullshit pussy status. So you have a higher quality of bullpen, you have more sensitive managers to go to the bullpen, you also have more data to drive these decisions, and then those are all subfactors to the overarching part that we're talking about October baseball, where the legacies are on the line, contracts are being determined, so much is made out of this. This is as nervous as these guys get. And I think that's gonna get into one of the points that I like about Craig Council as we get into the show. But I have to tell you guys, I mean, I know the Cubs aren't scoring runs, but I also know it. This would be like complaining that your your your fucking offense didn't your offense went into went into Pittsburgh in 2006 and only scored 10 points, you know, 13 times in a row. Sure, it sucks, but at the same time, like that's kind of where playoff baseball is. It's a steel curtain defense. Bill Cower era, not even Tomlin. I'm talking Bill Cower era Steelers. So, and is that too meatbally? Am I being too much of a homer? That's okay, too, guys. We're getting ready for game three, and I'm trying to be positive about the fact that I know the bats have been ice cold. I'm I know it. I'm throwing them a bone here. You know, the other thing I'd like people to shut up about. I've talked repeatedly that Matt Boyd should have started game two, and not to get mad or rehash this. This is just a nugget for people that are walking around that still don't understand how dumb it was to start them game one. Because then the counterpoint is then what do you do game one? If you're gonna use Boyd in game two, what are you gonna do game one? You can't use showed up. Well, you could use the entire fucking bullpen. We did, anyways. I'm sorry to get so excited, but I've been making this point that why don't we just do a bullpen game day one? And people are like, well, what kill the bullpen? Uh, you mean the bullpen that threw seven and a third innings? Because Matt Boyd sucked that bullpen? Did we burn our bullpen? And if are you telling me we use Matt Boyd in game two, we would like you're telling me we started Matt Boyd game one so we didn't burn our bullpen and he didn't make it out of the first inning? I'm watching the F words, but there's a very specific person out there making arguments right now, and I mean there's probably a handful of you guys. You shut the fuck up. Jiminy, Christmas. I mean, how insane is it that people are saying, how could you do a bullpen game one and then bring Boyd back game two? Fuckers, we did a bullpen game one. We got smashed 9-3. Then we had a roll out show to game two. A dead body. We literally was like Ted Williams at the 1999 All Star game at Fenloy when they drive his ass out on the golf cart, and every Nomar has to help him out. That was Shota pitching yesterday. They had the Milwaukee Brewer cart driving him out to just somebody with Bernie Brewer helping him out of the cart. No, if I was the Milwaukee Brewers, I would have sent a fucking limousine to Shoda Imanaga's house to make sure he got in that limousine. Whatever the guy likes, smoothies, sushi, sodas. I would have filled the limousine, whatever showed, I would have gone out of my way to make sure Shoda Imanaga showed up on time, relaxed, comfortable, ready to go, because that's how much confidence the Brewers had smashing them. And now this is obviously turning quickly into game two stuff, but we're getting ready for game three, so we're just talking through it, and this is the stuff I'm asking people to shut the fuck up about. That's it. That's the stuff I want to shut up about. Because what's going to hold us back talking about game three is how did we get here? And so now, 15 minutes into the show, I'm gonna ask you guys to lock in and say we just got this is how we got here. Pretend we got screwed, pretend the umps fucked us. We lost both games in 15 innings and just tragic circumstances, and none of it was our fault. Now our backs are up against the wall. Does that make you more comfortable to come out swinging? Think about it. In the meantime, I gotta say again clearly, thank you to Thirsty Vaquero for being the official beverage sponsor of the Monday Morning Cub Show, lineup previews, and postgames. I cannot thank Thirsty Vaquero enough. It is a signature fucking spicy finish. It is a Mexican-style soda. It's available at Yaksis and Sluggers, it's all real fruit juice. It's so delicious. It's a non-alcoholic. If you want to use it as a mixer, go right ahead. I mean, it's like like I would feel the same way someone does about like a Sprite. You're like, yeah, I guess you could throw a little vodka and a Sprite. I like a Sprite on ice. I like a soda on ice. So I'm trying to relate. How does a thirsty vacaro fit in the mix? You want to mix it? You mix it, you mix your socks off, folks. 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It's just what have we learned about the brewers? And then what have we learned about the Cubs? What have we learned about the Brewers that we didn't already know? So the most specific technical thing I can say that we've learned about the Brewers is you better have a change up. You better change speeds because they don't chase up, they don't chase high fastballs, and they are adept at laying off inside fastballs and hitting outside fastballs the other way. So we're just gonna talk directionally here about the Brewers lineup: north, south, east and west. Okay, a lot of pitchers like to work north and south, especially in the modern game, because there's a lot of swing and miss when you work north and south. And when I say north and south, I mean top of the zone, bottom of the zone. Okay. There's so many pitchers that get their straight. Freddie Peralta, he works north and south against lefties, he works east and west against ready's. Look it up. And these different philosophies pitchers can have. Now, obviously, look, you want to be Clayton Kershaw, that guy works northwest, south-southwest. You know, you can get real specific on a compass. You can tell Justin Verlander's another good example. That guy has every direction on the compass. He can take you up and in, down and away, all that stuff. But just generally speaking, when I look at the Brewers lineup and I think about it in the context of how does it pitcher it, packet, I think if you try and go north-south against the Brewers, I think you have trouble, except against Bryce Terrain. And maybe William Contreras, but he's he's he's pretty dialed. There's not a lot of north chase on the Brewers team. And so this matters our pitching staff, obviously, our pitching staffs up for grabs. Our pitching staffs, you know. We can't basically go out and execute how we want to execute without first considering what the Brewers are good at. Now that may seem like an obvious thing, so I'm gonna repeat this because it's kind of like I'm gonna use an analogy here. So let's just say it's an NFL game. Let's say the Bears are playing the Bears are playing the Vikings. Now you would say to the Bears, what's your offensive plan? No, at that point, the Bears are they like looking at what the Vikings do defensively? Or are they say we're gonna run the ball on first and second down, doesn't matter what their personnel is? And I think that general athletic philosophy is do you do what you do, or do you do what you do because the other team does something worse or better? Are you scheming to your strengths or are you assessing what the opposition's doing and then building a strategy for strengths? So even if this is fucking esoteric, hang with me. I used to do a show with a guy named Jake Arietta who won the 2015 Cy Young Award, and he talked ad nauseum about he didn't have a scouting report because he did his shit. I go out and I do my thing. You have to prepare for me. And some pitchers in Major League Baseball are like that. Kevin Gossman's like that, big time. You can prepare for me. I'm gonna look at a scouting report for eight minutes. Good. I want to know who's righty and who's lefty. There's other pitchers who need to prepare at just the highest level to know this guy looks for change when he's ahead and account, this guy's fucking comfortable against a curveball, whatever it is. And as we are talking about the Brewers for game three, and a question I have for the Cubs are we at the point where we are going to approach the Brewers based on what they do well and then try and attack them? Are we going to keep going down this rabbit hole of like, well, this is our identity as a pitching staff? Like Shodi Imanaga pitches north, he pitches to the top of the zone. That's just a brutal matchup for the Brewers because they don't give a fuck if the ball's up. And the reason the ball up matters is if you're a hitter and you want to drive the ball, a ball up is easier to drive out. Does that make sense? A ball that is up will go much further in the air than a ball that is down. Generally speaking, now some guys are low ball hitters, lefties, etc. You could run into a slider, drop a barrel. But the way major league hitters swing, flat swings, flat swings, good swings, swinging down. They like the ball up. So then the modern thing that's really changed the last 10 years, probably last five years really, is how willing a pitcher is to pitch up in the zone. Never, one, never was the thing that 80s. Good luck finding somebody pitch at the top of the zone in the 80s. In the 90s, good look go find Roger Clement throwing elevated fastballs. He might throw three a game, two of which are at your head. Almost every historically, this game has lived down and away. So as it pertains to the Brewers, you know, Jamison Taeon taking them out in game three is not a guy who's gonna try and get chased north. He likes to work south, he likes to be below the strike zone, he likes to be inside on righties, we'll say east, arm side east, and he does work west with a cutter and a slider. The big difference with Jamison Taeon this year, and we're getting a little too far on Jamison Taon, so let me just reel this back to the Brewers quick. The big thing with Jamison Tayon this year is the change-up usage, and that's critical against the Brewers. He's tripled his change-up usage this year against left-handed hitters. Now, why is this why is this such a big deal with what we've learned about the Brewers? Is they don't give their bats away. I'll say it, Petro Armstrong gives ABs away like fucking crazy. He gets in the box, all rattled, swings and miss at one pitch, swing harder the next pitch. Chase a pitch up in the zone once, look for the same pitch twice. It's infuriating. You know, Bush, Nico, obviously those guys are sound. Kyle Tucker's been hurt for a long time. I'm not really sure what Ian Hap is doing. But as I talk about what have I learned about the Brewers, they don't have asshole swings. They work east-west, they don't chase. And if you don't chase up and you don't chase down, and you're not expanding the zone, the counts are 2-1. The counts are 2-0. The counts 1-0. Way more often than if you're an aggressive club, you're in there, you're trying to you're consistently behind in the count. So just one note for the Brewers, what have we learned? It's just as an overall lineup, their ability to say, I don't give a fuck about stuff that's north in the strike zone. Because we're not an identity that's trying to hit home runs and drive extra base hits. We're not we're trying to hit the ball hard. Line drives. So then the way you do that, you have to neutralize timing. If you can't use their own aggressiveness against them, which is a perfectly good starting point in Major League Baseball, can I get another hitter's aggressiveness to work in my favor? You know, fucking Greg Maddox lived his entire career, glad an entire career off of aggressive hitters. You know, if the Brewers collectively are gonna have almost a full nine guys, just like one through nine almost, I think I don't put Tarang into this because I think he's more of an athletic explosive, the only athletic explosive hitter that they have, where most of guys would subvert their athletic and explosiveness, Cheerio 2, yeah. Cheerio two, yeah. But most of them are subverting this I gotta get 30 homers so I can get paid into I owe it to my teammates to give him the best at bat possible. And the best at bat for me is to stay within myself, not chase high, look for something over the plate that I could put in the opposite gap, run a little bit. Is there a runner on second base? Nobody out. I am 100% dedicated, focused on a ground ball to the right side of the field that absolutely guarantees that the runner can advance at third base while also maybe giving myself the opportunity for a base hit if hit hard enough. Oh, good luck finding guys on the Cubs who do that. Are you fucking kidding me? Maybe Nico Horner, but even then, he's always going to prioritize getting the base hit. So, just what have we learned about the Brewers? Just a remarkably talented in its in its totality. In an individual standpoint, we went through and previewed the series. I'll tell you each guy, would you rather have uh Joey Ortiz or Dan's V. Swanson? You'd rather have Danz V. Swanson, Nico Horner or Bryce Durang. Nico Horner's had a better season. You know, Michael Bush or Andrew Vaughn. It's like, is that that's a hard question? It's Michael Bush. Isaac Collins or Ian Hap. Who's a better player? Isaac Collins. Is he? No, Ian Hap is. So, but when you throw all of our guys together in a pot and then you make a recipe with the Brewers, there's something about the way these Brewers hitters come together that there's really no standout assholes in the lineup that we can take advantage of, and each plate appearance is a fucking grind. And that grind is tough to go through. That's what we've learned. And if we're gonna be one of these teams, it's like a show to again, it's a good example as a guy who pitches at the north part of the strike zone who's really trying to get hitters to chase fly ball. The brewers are like fucking throw that shit all you want, buddy. We're looking for it over the plate. And they did get over the plate and they didn't make mistakes against them. So what have we learned about the Brewers? That's what we've learned, and we're gonna combat that. I know Jamison Tan. I've been saying Jamison Tan's the perfect pitcher for the Brewers. I'm not surprised if Jamison Tan goes seven scrollers tomorrow. And I'm not doing this to be optimistic for the sake of being optimistic because it could be our last game of the season. I hope you guys listen to my show and fucking subscribe. I'm literally telling you guys, I've done that, I've been on this block. I've watched this sport, I know it when a guy's got that look in his eyes. Jamison Tan has that has the look. He has the look, he also has the stuff. He has the stuff that matches up well. Now, the crazy thing, we're gonna get to Jameson, but first, what do I want to talk about? The Cubs, what we've learned. What have we learned? Too much partying after wild card. That's a bad take. That's a meatball take, and I'm gonna say it again. Too much partying after wild card. I mean, you f you pussies, make it more clear to guys like me that you're happy to be here, which is the last guy I ever want to hang out with. There's nobody I hate more than a guy who's happy to be somewhere. Fuck off. Add value. I'm just so happy. What a what a fun time. We get to spray champagne each other. This is awesome. This qualified for the NLDS. You're in the middle of the playoffs. This isn't mid-September qualify for NLDS because you have home field advantages because you guys played hard all six months. You guys win game three, 13 hits against the Padres, what, three runs, whatever that was. That's that's fucking crazy. But that big ass party. I mean, it was a big party, you know. Say is jumping up and down in PCA's arms. And like, this is where I sound like a meepball, like, oh, I can't let these guys celebrate it. Can you not celebrate it like 14-year-old girls? Like, is there are there men in the clubhouse that kind of come together? We'll have a couple beers, we'll spray the champagne, maybe go outside, smoke a couple Marlboro Reds. Are there men in the clubhouse that are like, all right, guys, let's just keep in mind, this is just a fucking wild card against the product? Are we those people? Am I a part of this fan base that just love soak it up, PCA? You know, Dan's B. Swanson having a fucking Cabernet. Like, again, meatball take because they don't play well. Meatball take because we're down 2-0. But like, we we went through this when we clinched the wild, clinched the playoffs, and then played like shit for six fucking days because these guys don't get after these guys. Don't it it's June, they're not going out for beers. It's July, nobody's had a fucking drink in months, which is fine. That's their lifestyle. You're a professional athlete. I'm not sitting here saying these guys need to be hard charging. I need Chris Chelios out at Tavern on Rush bringing two chicks at a time. I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying here's a group of guys that literally do not hang out in booze and do any of this shit, and then we like, okay, we beat the Padres, and now we're just back at it. Just back at the party scene. When literally, guy, we have all one day off, we're going up to Milwaukee, Freddie Peralta's pitching. You know, what if instead of celebrating we all sat down and watch some video on Freddie Peralta? That'd be that'd be crazy. Which again, I have to say, this is my worst take I've ever had. This is Meatball City. Population, me. I'm serving up the juiciest. I am Magiano. I did welcome to Little Italy, and I hope you can stomach a big one because I'm serving up meatball, I'll fucking Frazy, you name it. Chicken francase, that's what I'm thinking of. I love that stuff. But you know what? I'm not a huge exposer to Italian food growing up, so it's not like deeply embedded in my life and cold. I just I love a good chicken francase, chasey with the egg whites, the lemon chicken, a little chicken Marcel, they do that, right? What else did we learn? How much togetherness do we play with? And I think this is a good point. I talked about the lineup with the Brewers. They're so together. They're so they if every guy in that lineup agrees, hey, don't chase, look like an asshole, try and hit, you know, be swinging out of your fucking shoes here. Get yourself in a position where you can hit the ball hard up the middle, you know. Get yourself on base, draw a walk. You know, they don't strike out that much. And they've all bought into this collectively that this is how they play the game. Do the Cubs play with togetherness? If Matt Shaw goes down swinging, is there a greater sense from Michael Bush's leadoff guy as he's they're passing each other? Bush is coming off the on-deck circle. Shaw's walking head down, shaking his head. Is there a sense of Bush being like, I got you, and meaning it? I got you. I got us. In meaning it. Not I pick my guy. Swannee loves doing that. Swanson loves it. I got my guys. We pick each other up. We're awesome. We're rolling. I think the Brewers mean it. When I say they play with togetheredness, back-to-back strikeouts, I think the third guy's going up and being like, it's okay you guys strike out twice. I have this shit. I got this. And that's a really small thing in baseball that matters so much. I can't explain. You wouldn't believe I'm sitting here alone trying to explain, talking into the void. There's no doubt about it. And I'm trying to explain to you guys just as small as that shit may sound, that sense of duty, you're my teammate. I got whatever. You fucked up. I got you. I might get that runner in second. I might get the runner in. And really mean, they really mean it. You know, so that was my question. What have we learned from the Cubs in this playoff series? I had I haven't, this is selfish. This is stupid. This is a similar meatball take. But my overwhelming sense from watching the Cubs is like that togetherness in comparison to Milwaukee. Sure, the Cubs are together. I'm sure whatever, I'm sure. Sure. They probably did the best they could to come together this year and play for each other. You compare that team to Milwaukee, and you want to be dead serious. Do you want to look me in the eyes and compare the two levels of togetherness? Get the fuck out of here. Go sit outside. I don't have time for you. No one should have time for you. The togetherness of the Brewers compared to the togetherness of the Cubs are light years away, my friends. Okay? We're talking about Chicago Bears' defense. Right now, Chicago Bears defense under Lovey Smith with Lance Briggs, Brian Erlacher, Peanut Tillman. That's literally the difference we're talking about. That's the scope and scale when I say how together are the Brewers, how together are the Cubs lineup. That difference is no joke. Whatever the fuck Dennis Allen's running out there compared to a Tampa 2 with Erlacher in the middle, incredible coverage skills. So it's just quite, and if you guys disagree with me, if you think you watch the Cubs and you see togetherness, or alternative, if you think this is just some made up baloney bullshit, you know, then why is it a team sport in the first place? Shouldn't baseball just turn into golf and tennis or whatever and just be an individual sport who can hit it the fucking furthest. We'll just go do showcases. This guy ran a 6'160's awesome. It's a team sport. There's team aspects to it. And togetherness is a huge one. We're in this together. Now when I look at this Cubs lineup, who it's tough to source togetherness when you have an incredibly selfish player in center field. He's he's Pete Garmstein's turned into I mean, he's he swings like a guy he just got called up. I don't even remember him having success in the big leagues. Because I don't even know what it looks like. The guy I'm looking at is like, just try harder. He's a Chinese finger trap. It's like playing golf with your buddy who's like obviously sucks, but I'm not saying Pete sucks. You're playing golf with your buddy, he swings like an an and he just it's like, oh, why don't you swing a little harder this time? Why don't you try and swing? That's a good idea. Swing harder, throw harder. You know, we used to say that to pitchers all the time. Throw it fucking harder. What do you do? You throw a ball, so why don't you try throwing that shit harder? That usually works. Obviously, it's sarcastic. Where's the turgap? You just swing like a cunt. You know? Same thing to go with Kyle Tucker. Together, this guy's would anybody listen to this give a shit if we benched him game three tomorrow. Like Kyle Tucker wasn't in the lineup. Would it make it? Does he give a does anybody give a can we go down with guys who want to be there who will cut off their fucking arm to win that game? Because Moises by Asteros is one of those guys. Now, this is crazy. Me saying we shouldn't DH Kyle Tucker over Moises. We shouldn't. But we can talk about it because that's how little Kyle Tucker fucking cares right now. That is a fact. And it all starts at the top with Craig Council and the way he's kind of molded this thing together. So as we get into game three, what does all of this shit matter? Whether the Cubs play together or not? You know, how much how much fun did we have with that wild card? You know, the most important thing tomorrow is that we go out and we score four runs. The most important thing is that we score four or more runs. We need it. Okay, Jamison Taeon has to pitch at least five innings, and then we need a uh just a real professional, savvy body of work from the bullpen. They're probably gonna have to get 12 outs tomorrow, right? They can do that, they can get 12 outs. But Jamison Taon's got to show up, the offense has to show up, and so this gets us into our pitching preview for tomorrow, which I think is a coin flip that favors Taeon. So like 52 to 48. And they're they're way different pitchers. So we've seen Quinn Priester a thousand times. He only throws 93, 94, but he throws a power sinker and he throws it over the plate, and it's really consistent. So if you map out his pitch locations, you can take a sample size of like a hundred pitches that he throws. The movement, location, uh in action and spin rate on his different pitches are all remarkably consistent. Sometimes you run into pitchers where it's like, yeah, they throw a really good cutter, and then sometimes they throw a really shitty cutter, and then they throw a really good cutter. So then when you're preparing for that pitcher, you'll go through the day and you'll be like, hey, there's bad cutters on the table here. So like you can get it, you can get a spinner, you can get a cement mixer. So if you get cheated, swing over the top, foul it off. Don't be discouraged if he throws you the filthiest cutter you've ever seen. Now, data and scouting reports can tell you that shit. So, like, what would it say about Quinn Priest here? It wouldn't say it's extremely dominant. What they would say is there are very few mistakes from this guy. You know, most of the stuff he's throwing is at least major league quality, if not above major league quality. And he throws the shit out of his sinker, you know, which is tough for the Cubs because almost all the runs they've scored this postseason have been by way of home run. He surrenders about one home run per nine innings. He's at 18 home runs this year, uh, I believe in 165 innings. So he's just a really solid pitcher. Um, I believe spent some time with the Red Sox. I believe spent some time with the Pirates, but just like a typical Milwaukee Brewer player has really found himself, you know, a couple years into his professional career in Milwaukee where he can just go out and be himself and thrive. So lineup changes for the Cubs. I would just expect it's the same thing with Bush, Nico, Kyle Tucker, three, say, Suzuki, four, Ian Happ five, Carson Kelly, six, seven, P. Carmstrong, eight, Swannee, nine shaw. And a strength through the entire season has been our six through nine. And then you look at it yesterday, and it's oh for fucking 16 with you know, seven strikeouts or whatever the hell that was. So just kind of a little bit of a bar fest coming out of two and a three. So these are the can we get four runs today from Quinn Priester? Tonight, I should say, tomorrow. Just a tick here after nine o'clock in a game three preview, you know, where I have bitched a lot and I feel bad about how much I bitched because I was in a good mood. I'm thinking, we're fucking, I'm gonna tell everybody they need to know for game three. But then as you talk through it, it's like, well, here's what we need to know for game three. This Brewers team's solid inside and out. And we have to elevate our game tremendously. I wish I'd come in here and say, fuck those umpires, we're gonna get them tomorrow. Umpires. We the umpires could have been colluding in favor of the Chicago Cubs. We got steamrolled, wouldn't have mattered. We could have started Tom Seaver on game one. We got our shit rocked, we weren't ready to play. We were not ready to play. And the tag team with this is that you then you get the Craig Council, take it day by day. There's nothing we can do about it, and then that's what really drives fans nuts is like you can't even see it impact that you can't even see that guy put a sour puss on his face. Like, you we don't even get the benefit of Craig Council being like, I'm mad right now, you know. Here's a quote from me and hap you have to take it one game at a time. You can't look at it as this daunting three games, you have to take it as win tomorrow. That's the only thing that we can do as a group is just win on Wednesday and go on. That's a quote from me and happen from a story from The Athletic. You have to take it one game at a time. And now this shit bothers me. I'm gonna talk about adjustments in baseball for a second. I hate Craig Council, this one game stuff. This is all Craig. Just one day, steady day, no intensity, no intensity. You know, just approach your day as consistent as you can. Don't let today impact tomorrow, don't let yesterday impact today, etc. on and so forth. You just gotta be in this moment and do the best you can. I would like to see some urgency pitch to pitch. You can't look at it as this daunting three games. You have to take it one game at a time, Ian Happ says. So here is here's my counter to this, and it's gonna be you take it one fucking pitch at a time, buddy. It's one pitch. And every pitch matters. Every pitch when you're in the box, it matters. Every pitch when you're in the in the field, it matters. Every pitch anticipating where that first step needs to be defensively, take it one game at a time. Take it one fucking pitch at a time, buddy. And maybe we're not getting outscored in the series 16 to 4 after leading in the first inning. The top of the first. Getting embarrassed by the Milwaukee Brewers. One game at how about pitch to pitch, and we challenge ourselves to be the best players that we can be game three, pitch to pitch. That's just a small little thing. Because then here's another quote from Craig Council. We had we had two at bats with runners in scoring position in game two. We had two at bats with runners in scoring position in game two. That's a pretty good sign that we're not creating enough pressure. That's gonna add up to a lot of zeros. Just brilliant stuff from Craig. I mean, the stat is this. We had two guys in scoring position. That's it. That's the fucking stat. And then the question is, how do we get to this game, this moment? This is it. Uh like a bullpen game against the Brewers? How do we get to a bullpen game against the Brewers and we put two guys in scoring position? I'm gonna go back to Ian Hab's quote. Take it one game at a time. I don't that there's does any have you heard anybody just be remarkably urgent to be like, hey, I've played like here's a realistic quote I'd like to hear from Ian Happ. You know, honestly, I've been playing this game 25, 26 years now, and for almost every single one of those years, you're spent in moments to yourself in your head where you're dreaming of situations like this that I find myself in right now. And maybe I reflect and it's moved too fast or whatever. But right now, as it currently stands, I have to accept this is the most important baseball I've ever played in my life, and this is the exact baseball I dreamed of playing when I was a little kid. I want to get to the big leagues. I didn't dream of playing for a 71 and 91 Cincinnati red team. I dreamt of playing for a massive organization where this shit matters to people, and I can hit in the middle of the lineup like we've hit them in the middle of the fucking lineup for the last couple weeks. And I understand with our backup against the wall, this game is just going to demand so much from each and every single person within this clubhouse if we want to continue playing baseball this year. And it starts with me as the most senior leader in this clubhouse, and I take it upon myself to lead by example and show my teammates that we are a team that belongs in the next round of the playoffs. In order to do that, we have to win every single pitch of this fucking game. That's the mentality. Not this, we'll we gotta do the we'll do the best we can and see what happens because there's there is no tomorrow. You do the absolute best you can in every single pitch you see in game three, and I don't want to hear another fucking word about anything other than that. That's what the Cubs, that's the attitude that we need to have. And I'm just really questioning whether or not Craig Counsel has a capacity to put that in the mindset. Because if we think this casual shit of like, don't let the circumstances get to us, we could take one day, they're talking about while uh Justin Turner's, you know, such an important guy around the young guys as the playoff starts because you know it's a bigger stage and he needs to tell them to calm down. Justin Turner is not our playoff godfather. And to frame him like that is such a reach from a guy who we liked having around in the regular season. Right? A guy we were comfortable being like, well, we got to why is Turner? Turner's in 200. Why is he? Well, he's a good guy. People like him. People like Justin Turner, so we hung on to this shit where we were like, all right, fine, fuck it. Justin Turner's our guy. We like Justin Turner, right? I think that's kind of where we were like, we'll tolerate this guy as the 25th guy in the roster, and he can hit left-handed pitching once a week because they really love him. I mean, he's a funny guy, he's got the fake nut sack, they in the win-all stuff. But now we're getting in the playoffs and and we're gonna do this thing where he's the playoff godfather. No, to be to be fair. To be fair, he's played an insane amount of playoff games. He he has he's playing, you're not even gonna believe if I asked guess how many playoff games Justin Turner's playing, nobody listening to this will get this right. 87 370 career played appearances with an 831 OPS. I mean, it's a good body work, don't get me wrong. Don't get me wrong. This is the first time he's been in the playoffs since 22. And in the playoffs in 22, you know, I don't like to bitch about this stuff, but he was two for 13, which is a 154 average. You know, I don't like I hate to complain about this stuff. But in the 2021 playoffs, Justin Turner was four for 38. It's a 118 average. How about Justin? Going into pre-COVID, so like after co after the Dodgers won the fake World Series, Justin Turner is a robust six for 47. He's hitting 128 in the playoffs post-COVID, since he was whatever, they hit third for the Dodgers when they won the World Series six seasons ago. So this is stuff on my mind going into game three. Why am I complaining about this so much? Why? Why? Why do these quotes matter? You know, Craig Counsel defending Justin Turner like Justin Turner is Bryce Harper. That's an insane thing that Craig's doing. So as we get ready for game three, guys, what I'm looking for is does this clubhouse respond to the circumstance or does it fall in line with the bullshit that Craig Counsel's run out here? Like the same shit, like it's Monday and it's fucking June, and he's okay because there's more baseball tomorrow. And that's really not to shit on the guy's, you know, uh uh income, but like you make eight million bucks a year to sit in the dugout, like they don't pay eight point five if you win. You're not getting you don't get paid seven if you lose. You get paid eight, you get paid eight million. Win or lose, he's getting eight million. And maybe it's just easier for him to deal with the media by coming in and being this flat whatever he is. But as I prepare for game three, I'm telling you, I take it, I'm taking you through the quote. I want it pitch to pitch, I want that intensity. I want guys on the front step of the dugout, locked in. And I don't know why we can't foster that culture at the Chicago Cubs. And if people think I'm blowing smoke or being a bitch or just making stuff up for the sake of making stuff up, I just have to go back to the team that's in the other dugout, how hard they play. Down one nothing in top first, Freddie Peralta, they fucking smashed us next night. Down three-nothing after the top of the first. We off Aaron, you started an opener and the guy got his ass kicked, couldn't look any stupider. We're feeling they smoked us. That game wasn't even close. So what do we do? We win game three. We take Jamison Teon out to the mound, whose changeup is remarkably effective against lefties, so much so, a guy who historically gets rocked by lefties and manages ready's he is shoving the ball up fucking lefties ass this year. And I gotta watch my mouth. I'm sorry for that. But just like, I'm gonna say this to you guys. I don't think you're gonna believe me, but I'm gonna say it anyways. Lefties against Jamison Taeon this year in 23 starts. Lefties are hitting 191 against him with a 249 on base percentage. Okay. Let me repeat that. When Jamison Taon takes the mound for the Chicago Cubs, 23 starts this year, lefties hit him at a rate of 191 with an OBP of 249. The worst on base percentage in baseball this year of all qualified players was Michael Harris at 268. So left-handed hitters against Jamison Teyon are about what is that? 10% worse at getting on base than the absolute worst in Major League Baseball is. So that's a huge advantage for the Cubs. We talk about some of the lefties that are in the Brewers lineup, Christian Yelich, Sal Frelick, Freelick, Bryce Tarang. You know, this is the stuff, what is it, Isaac Collins. This stuff's huge because what Milwaukee loves to do is go righty, lefty, ready, lefty. Well, what if I told you that Jamison Taeon this year? Now, historically, it's not the case. Lefties crush him historically. What's the difference? This year he's throwing his change up three times more than he ever has to lefties. So for tomorrow, Jamison Taon gets out there with the change. If he's throwing that stuff, commanding it south. Because I told you, Brewers won't chase north, they will chase south. They will chase a change up down, they will chase a curveball down. That's much harder to lay off. And if you can introduce the chase south, now you're open east-west. And you can get inside, you can get outside. You've now created three different opportunities to attack, which is what you need to have. You don't need to have the best stuff against the Brewers. You don't need to strike them out 14 times. What you need to do is be able to move it in, move it out, show something down, preferably a changeup. And those guys, based on their approaches of, I'm not trying to hit the ball, the ball, but I'm trying to hit it good hard, that's where you get these guys to make weak contact. That's where you have Dansby Swanson making seven fucking plays in a game. And Nico Horner's running all over the field, you know, catching lollipops and jamming guys. And that's a dead, and if we can get to that point with Jamison Tan, then he's giving the offense a chance. And does the offense have a chance against Quinn Priester? I sure hope so. Because it's like the fifth, sixth, seventh, it's the thousandth time we've seen him this year. Maybe it's a third time or fourth time. But we've seen him a bunch, and there ain't nothing special about a guy who's got a sinker and a slider. Especially only the righty sinker slider, and then the lefties he's sinker cutter. And the only reason he's sinker-cutter to lefties is because he's absolutely no control of the slider to lefties. They don't even give a shit about it. So now he's throwing a cutter. What's the problem with the cutter? He just started throwing it in 2024, has no feel for it. What's the result of that? Lefties have a 335 OBP against Quinn Priester. Because if they say I don't want to swing at that sinker, that's down and away, he really doesn't have much else. He can show you a cutter up and in, but he can't command it. So he's loose and he's real loose with lefties. Righty's much more successful against them. That's because the ball's a bowling ball coming in on your hands. So what we need is a lefty to step up, somebody like Mike Bush, and have an extra base hit early and kind of get these bases and get it going and let the noise, let the stuff get to Quinn Priester if we can, because he's never been in an environment like this before. This will be his first postseason appearance. So there's a huge opportunity here where Jamison Tan's been waiting his entire career as the Chicago Cub to go out and shove this shit. He's wanted this the whole time, baby. This is everything Jamison Tan's ever wanted. At home, Wrigley rocking, elimination game. I cannot tell you how much confidence I have in the Cubs tomorrow that I think we're doing post-game game three recaps. At LDS game three recap. I really think we're there. It's just, can the lineup show up with some urgency? Like we are not shit. Scoring one run the first in off ready peralth. I was like, let's roll, baby. We only need three. This is the type of game you win three, one. And then hit the three-run homer. Yes, sir. I'm like perfect. We just needed to get one of these games. We're gonna get this. We're up three-nothing. We feel good. So now we're down two games. We have to forget about those. And we got to turn over to Jameis and Tam. And the one benefit I would say to this is just put yourself in the situation of us splitting in Milwaukee. And then if we lost game three tragically, you know, blown call, just some bullshit. I would still feel all right, we're 2-1. We're gonna get their ass tomorrow and make a game five out of it. Which is just a small little wrinkle there, but I think it's important. I have tons of confidence. We win game three, we win game four. Like if we win game three, and I said we're not going into game four, but just my mentality for three is so rocked solid. And I think that's the that can spark the momentum. See, we won this and then we got a little momentum. And if we get momentum going into game four, you know, all bets are off for game five. The only thing I ask you guys is don't ask me who's pitching for the Cubs because they got no fucking clue. Start Aaron Savali, start Colin Ray, start anybody who's fresh, start anybody who when they like they do the metrics, like you don't look at showing you're like, ooh, this is what is this? This is bottom 10% for this guy. So we get Jamison tomorrow, then we get Matt Boyd game four, I think. He only threw 30 pitches, even though he got his ass rocked. He's much better at home. So there's a pipe dream. And then we go into game five and we just we just do the absolute best we can. I think that's the best we can do. And this was a real negative game three preview that I'm almost gonna sit down and redo another one where I'm super positive. But the way Mahoney and I had played in the show is he was gonna be super, he was gonna be super positive about everything, and then I was gonna come around and join him on all the positivity. So I didn't we that's just a little wrinkle from behind the scenes of the show. Where's my positivity? You know, it's tough to find it. I'm being more strategic in the weeds here. I think Jamison Tan has a huge advantage against Quinn Priester, but that's my own personal thing. If you ask the computers, they're gonna call it a little bit more of a coin flip towards Jamison Tan, where I'm going. I like this 70-30 to Jamo. I like it for so many fucking reasons. So in five playoff games, the Cubs have 33 hits, which is unacceptable. 13 of those hits came in game three against the Padres. So, I mean, in theory, there are four games where the Chicago Cubs have 20 hits. Um, and alongside all of this, there's 58 strikeouts. So, going back to something we've talked about before is that one to one to one golden pitching ratio, innings pitched, hit surrendered strikeouts. 58 strikeouts is a lot. And if you only got 33 hits against 58 strikeouts, it's almost a two to one. All right. That's like Kenley Jansen in his prime. That's like Eric Gagne in his prime. He would have struck out 50, he wouldn't give up 33 hits. What am I talking about, Gagne? But that's elite reliever stuff when you see we only have 33 hits against 58 strikeouts. 33 hits should be met with 33 strikeouts. One-on-one, baby. So I'm trying to think if there's ways I could I I can't be more disappointed in how the first two games have gone, which is usually a good sign because if I know it, those guys in the clubhouse know it. The question is who gives a fuck? The question is who really cares? Does Kyle Tucker care? I don't think so. I think he wants the season over. I don't think he likes playing in Chicago. I think he's sick of the media. I think he can't wait to get out of here. I think Pete wants to win. I think Matt Shaw wants to win. I think Dansby wants to win. I think Nico and Ian are kind of treading water on the fact that they got their extensions and there isn't this, like they've lived through some great moments. This could they've they've seen, they're like, whatever, this is cool. It's fine. We're happy. I'm getting my 13 here for Nico, I'm getting my 20 here for Ian Happ. You know, and I can't figure out Michael Bush. He could be a cup for 25 years. I wouldn't know one fucking thing about this guy. I don't even know what his voice sounds like. Be honest, I don't mind that. We don't need to be best friends. But for purposes of just identifying how much does it mean to these guys to come out and fight tomorrow and not get swept? You know, they've shown us throughout the year with some resiliency, back up against the wall. But, you know, this just means a little bit more. This is just a little bit different. Am I positive? I am positive that the Chicago Cubs will outplay the Milwaukee Brewers game three, 4.08 p.m., October 8th at home, Jamison Taon versus Gwen Priester. I don't know if we win the way this game's shaping up, but I am extremely confident and positive that the Chicago Cubs play better than the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 3. And if I could wish and will anything into this universe, it's that I'm here for a game three recap with a little bit of a game four preview. If we can get to that, if it's tomorrow night, and I'm sitting here giggling about a little game four preview, mission account. Now we're rolling. Now we are rolling. But we gotta get there first. So I want to thank everybody tuning into the Monday Morning Cub show. Hopefully, you know, I've you picked up on something, one or two things, share it with the buddy, you get into an argument with somebody, you know. Hopefully, some of the information here can arm you and can prepare you. Hopefully, at least maybe somebody enjoys watching the ball game a little bit closer because some of the stuff we talked about here, you know, I can't tell you guys how much I enjoy doing it. How much I love talking about the Cubs, how much I love building a community of people who are just diehards about the Cubs. And as we've really come together this year and just kind of talked through a bunch of stuff and just it's been a wild season for a number of reasons. And I do think this is the beginning of a very bright run for the Cubs. You know, we always talked about dynasties and Windows and Theo and how many championships. You know, I don't know, but I feel pretty confident that you know, early mid-October, for I would hope the next seven years, I'm really dialed in the way I am right now because I enjoy it. I enjoy this process, and it's just been an absolute blessing for me. And so thanks to everybody who listens to the Monday morning cub show. Go follow my buddy Mahoney. Um, you know, he's a good fucking dude. Uh I can't say enough nice things about him. So I like the Cubs in game three, and I like us playing in game four, and that's unfortunately the best I can do for a prediction. One pitch at a time, not this one game at a time. Bullshit. You hear somebody saying one game at a time, look them in the eyes and say it's one pitch, it's the big leagues. All right, buddy. We make our adjustments pitch to pitch, a fucking game to game. And I think that happens tomorrow. All right, I love you guys. Have a good night, and let's go out and let's beat the absolute shit out of the Milwaukee Brewers tomorrow. Go Cubs.