Monday Morning Cubs Show

A Super Bowl champion running back calls you up, then tells you he just wants to talk Pokemon cards. That is how our week starts, and it somehow fits perfectly with the current Cubs season: electric, improbable, and a little bit unhinged in the best way. Carl breaks down the quick-hit Nashville trip that turned into meeting Leonard Fournette, hearing how deep his Pokemon coll...

The Cubs are doing something that should feel impossible: pairing a top-tier offense with elite defense, then turning around and making every late lead feel like a coin flip. On a Labor Day morning, we sit down as Cubs fans and talk through that emotional whiplash the only way we know how: a little neighborhood banter, a little scoreboard reality, and then a hard look at what...

A series win can still feel like a loss when you know you had your foot on the Brewers’ throat. That’s where our heads are today, and we’re not pretending otherwise. We talk through the Cubs vs Brewers frustration, the blown chances, the late-inning chaos, and why a team that looks like a contender can still leave you steaming before the first sip of coffee.

Then w...

The Cubs are getting worked over by the Reds, the bullpen feels shaky, and the calendar is about to flip to September. That is exactly when we needed to sit down and ask the question nobody wants to answer: is there still a real path to catching the Brewers, or are we just doing math to protect our feelings?

We bring in Mahoney and CB for a roundtable that starts w...

The Cubs don’t need more vibes right now. They need answers in the late innings, because a good lineup and a strong rotation only matter if you can finish games. I’m Carl, and this Friday solo is me getting specific and tactical about the one part of the roster that still feels unsettled: the bullpen.

I walk through the simplest question that keeps coming up when t...