{"podcast":{"title":"Spiegel & Holmes Show","slug":"spiegel-holmes-show-827866","podcast_index_feed_id":827866,"rss_url":"https://rss.amperwave.net/v2/feed/audacy/chicago_wscram_score_afternoons","website_url":"https://www.audacy.com/podcast/all","image_url":"https://images.castfire.com/image/647/0/0/0/0-8362313.jpg","author":"Audacy","episode_count":500,"summary":"Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes bring you Chicago sports talk with great opinions, guests and fun. Join Spiegel and Holmes as they discuss the Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, Cubs and White Sox and delve into the biggest sports storylines of the day. Recurring guests include former Bears coach Dave Wannstedt, former Bears center Olin Kreutz, Cubs manager Craig Counsell, Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner and MLB Network personality Jon Morosi. Catch the show live Monday through Friday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. CT on 104.3 The Score, the exclusive audio home of the Cubs and the Bulls, or on the Audacy app.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T14:19:45.320863+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/spiegel-holmes-show-827866"},"episode":{"title":"Ben Brown deserves a real shot in the Cubs' starting rotation (Hour 4)","slug":"ben-brown-deserves-a-real-shot-in-the-cubs-starting-rotation-hour-4","published_at":"2026-05-08T23:03:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/spiegel-holmes-show-827866/ben-brown-deserves-a-real-shot-in-the-cubs-starting-rotation-hour-4","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/spiegel-holmes-show-827866","url":"https://player.amperwavepodcasting.com?feed-link=https%3A%2F%2Frss.amperwave.net%2Fv2%2Fepisode%2F8370241_2026-05-08-230841","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8370241/8370241_2026-05-08-230841.128.mp3?rssID=3582","summary":"In the final hour, Matt Spiegel and Ryan McGuffey discussed Cubs right-hander Ben Brown getting the starting nod Friday evening with left-hander Matthew Boyd sidelined by injury. Could Brown perform well enough to lock down a starting job in the rotation in the long term? After that, the guys reacted to former Cubs manager David Ross admit to rooting against the 2024 club during an appearance on the Baseball Isn't Boring podcast. Ross was fired after the 2023 season and replaced by current Cubs manager Craig Counsell ahead of the 2024 campaign.","meta_description":"In the final hour, Matt Spiegel and Ryan McGuffey discussed Cubs right-hander Ben Brown getting the starting nod Friday evening with left-hander Matthew B…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2441,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/spiegel-holmes-show-827866/episodes/ben-brown-deserves-a-real-shot-in-the-cubs-starting-rotation-hour-4/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/spiegel-holmes-show-827866/ben-brown-deserves-a-real-shot-in-the-cubs-starting-rotation-hour-4.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}