00:00Understanding that they've had the pitching setbacks that they've had both in their starting rotation and in their bullpen.
00:07The ability to just believe you're going to win, in my mind, carries a lot of weight.
00:11I think if you ask the Cubs themselves, players, and at this point coaching staff,
00:16the belief is doing a fair share of the lifting of, hey, we're down, let's lift ourselves up by the
00:23bootstraps, proverbially speaking.
00:25And they've been able to do that more times than not.
00:27I mean, 17-3 stretch is like you've won 85% of your games for what amounts to an eighth
00:36of the season.
00:37That's it.
00:37I mean, the stretch that they're on, not only do we celebrate it for what it is during the time,
00:45but then you also, it does remind you of going back to other seasons.
00:50I know Grody brought this up last year when we were talking about the Cubs and them getting to the
00:56playoffs.
00:56And there were shades of the 2016 team reminding you, you know, you've had that same feeling or you had
01:02that same confidence.
01:03One of the biggest pieces of the 2016 team to me, and I'm not saying this is the team that
01:08wins the World Series,
01:09but it's the feelings that it invokes.
01:12And how good was the two-out hitting during that time?
01:15You know, up and down the lineup, you saw guys producing, especially 7-8-9.
01:20You know, you saw, like, once again with two outs, they were able to do it.
01:23And then you see last night on Markey Sports Network that the Cubs, over 36 games, are off to their
01:30second best start over that span.
01:33Second to 2016, they were 27-9.
01:36In 2026, they are 24-12.
01:39That ties the 1969 team.
01:41There are all these comparisons.
01:43And then I think there's just another concept of this, which is, dare I say, in the words of we
01:51are good, they know that they are good right now.
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