Mully: 'What happened to the Cubs, man?'

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After losing two of three games to the Brewers over the weekend, the Cubs sit at 39-46, which is the third-worst record in the National League.

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00:00And gentlemen take a bow the Cubs did exactly what all three of us predicted and

00:05It was much worse than I thought it would be mr. Day. Marty moly. Yes. Happy Monday first day of July

00:12Cubs are exactly where they were in the last day of June and the first day of June

00:17Headed in the wrong direction and they get home from

00:20Milwaukee today is a much-needed day off

00:24It was it was a series that Friday night was deflating Saturday a little encouraging

00:30And then Sunday more of the same that was not the way things should have ended and it was a very disappointing weekend in Milwaukee

00:38Yeah, it was a hugely disappointing weekend and it was part of it was the way they played right?

00:45I mean part of it were the number of just

00:49Awful plays what happened to the Cubs man? What happened to this team?

00:55They were so mediocre in the outfield and I thought that was supposedly one of their strengths

01:01To open up this season at least so we were told every aspect has been disappointing

01:09Right of the things that you win with on the margins with with Craig counsel

01:14This was the way that the season was supposed to unfold you

01:18Went out and you poached the manager of your rival and you're paying him more than any other and I think that sometimes

01:25That sometimes I mean it creates the expectation that is the Cubs are going to be the way the Brewers were

01:30They're not going to make mistakes on the bases. They're not going to be defensively challenged

01:35They're gonna get the clutch hits and they're gonna do the smart thing and really

01:40halfway through the season

01:42They've not done any of those things consistently

01:44The best thing about the Cubs is they're starting pitching and it let them down on Sunday when they needed

01:49Kyle Hendricks to be the guy he was most of the month had one bad inning, but it was

01:54When your margin for error is that thin one batting will do you in and it did

01:58Yeah, and and the Cubs of the good news if you're looking for good news is that they they weren't

02:05Damned by the runners in scoring position

02:09Statistic because they didn't have any didn't have any they stopped batting after the first inning

02:14They got a leadoff home run. They got a single from Bellinger. They got a walk in that inning. That's all they got

02:21Yeah, I didn't know for the rest of the way

02:24That's they had two runners the rest of the way both walks spread out over the course of the game

02:29It's very frustrating and it came a day after

02:33we thought I

02:35Shouldn't say we it came a day after

02:38There was the suggestion that the Cubs may have turned the corner after Justin Steele

02:43Had a big Z moment. Let loose should have kept going. He stopped. Yeah, he said he had a

02:50Little

02:52He definitely unloaded and the frustration is building and mounting and everyone could relate to that but it didn't mean anything more than

02:59What it happened after that Ian happens a home run they win the game on Saturday and you think okay for 24 hours

03:06Maybe this is the turnaround moment. Maybe this is a pivot point and then you know, the Brewers hit another grand slam. I

03:14Mean, that's a remarkable run. They're on the Brewers. I think have hit five grand slams in their last eight games

03:20Six this season the Cubs have surrendered three in the last eleven. It's bad. That's pretty awful

03:26It is pretty bad and and so Kyle Hendricks was outstanding in the month of June until yesterday

03:31uh-huh, and then you look he gives up seven runs and seven hits and three and two-thirds and now you start to wonder about

03:38you know the

03:39expiration date on his

03:41career

03:42all these things come to mind when you see them kind of collapse the way they did and

03:47They they come home, oh wait the Phillies, oh great. Yeah

03:56Who's out Harper and Schwerber out? Okay, they're both out. That's good. That's good

04:00They're still there's still the Phillies, but you're right. Just saying I think it's good

04:04but I also they're not fully loaded as somebody who I don't want to say this but like I

04:10Was thinking about going to see the Phillies because I like Schwerber and I I think Bryce Harper is one of the most

04:15Exciting players in baseball to watch in person, especially I'd likely go see him. He'd be on my top five listed players

04:22I would we talked last week. Yeah, who would you go see to play?

04:24Yeah, Bryce Harper would be near the top of the list for me

04:28Not playing is good for the Cubs, but I don't know if they're gonna take advantage

04:31I don't know if it's too late to take advantage. I don't know where they are except for

04:35They the cycle of inconsistency continues

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