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The Lovable Reunion

Surviving Cubs dark days + 2016 World Series comeback w/ Travis Wood & Mike Borzello | Ross & Rizzo

6/30/202656 min

This week on The Lovable Reunion, David Ross and Anthony Rizzo are joined by former Chicago Cubs pitcher Travis Wood and coach Mike Borzello. They discuss surviving the dark days with the Cubs, Joe Maddon’s managerial style, being down 3-1 to the Cleveland Indians in the 2016 World Series, the epic Games 6 and 7, the championship parade, and more stories from an unforgettable MLB season.

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Clips

Bullpen Panic Playbook
Win or I'm Hunting
Parade Near-Decapitation
Ross Snubs Strategy Meeting

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Anthony Rizzo· Host0:00

    [upbeat music] All right, welcome back to another episode of The Lovable Reunion Podcast. We have two very special guests today, with Travis Wood and Mike Borzello. They were massive parts of our success in 2016, and cannot wait to get into it with them.

  2. Speaker 20:22

    The reason why this is special is there's certain groups within the team that talk ball. Pitching, uh, Mike was our strategist for game calling, ran the catchers. Very important coach for me, and a lot of, uh, back and forth and conversations. Woody obviously being a pitcher, uh, and a part-time left fielder, and, and, uh, absolutely rakes as, as a pitcher. [laughs] Um, this was kind of our group, and these guys together are probably some of the most entertaining, knowledgeable, and been around the coast for a long time with Riz, um, for some dark days before the light hit. So- Yeah ... let's welcome these two to the, to the podcast.

  3. Travis Wood· Guest1:02

    Yeah. Yeah.

  4. Anthony Rizzo· Host1:03

    Guys, let- Welcome. [laughs] Let's- Thanks for having me. [laughs] [laughs] Let's talk about, 'cause us three are really the only three from that team in '16 that fucking went through the dog days here. We stunk.

  5. Travis Wood· Guest1:17

    Oof.

  6. Anthony Rizzo· Host1:18

    Right?

  7. Travis Wood· Guest1:18

    V- what was- Ugh ... weird about that is- Oof ... every spring we would go through spring and be like, "We're not gonna be as bad as everybody thinks. Like, we actually- Yeah, I- ... got a squad."

  8. Anthony Rizzo· Host1:27

    No, no.

  9. Travis Wood· Guest1:27

    And then it was awful.

  10. Anthony Rizzo· Host1:29

    I remember our,

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