All of the Stuff

Pick an achievement, and Pete Crow-Armstrong probably added it to his resume this year. To name just a couple, he became only the second left-handed Cubs batter in franchise history to hit 40 home runs in a season (joining Billy Williams, who hit 42 in 1970), and he has effectively [...]

Weather issues have complicated the final stretch of the regular season for the Cubs. A three-game set against the Red Sox has been moved up due to a pending storm in Boston. With a doubleheader now on Friday, Chicago will have four games in three days, starting with an afternoon [...]

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It’s going to be a complicated final five days of the Cubs‘ 2026 season. To say nothing for what the playoffs might hold, just finishing the regular 162 games is going to take some machinations. Not that the Cubs aren’t already accustomed to that; navigating the pitching injuries alone has been [...]

Cubs manager Craig Counsell informed reporters, including Vinnie Duber of the Chicago Sun-Times, that third baseman Alex Bregman will not be placed on the injured list. He has multiple facial fractures and lots of swelling but could be back on the field before the regular season ends on Sunday. Bregman was [...]

Cubs third baseman Alex Bregman was hit by a foul ball in the on deck circle yesterday. Today, Jeff Passan of ESPN reports that Bregman suffered multiple facial fractures. He will not undergo surgery and is hoping to return during the postseason. Bregman was in the on deck circle yesterday when [...]

The Cubs’ 9-1 victory over the Reds kept Chicago atop the tight NL wild card race, but with a painful and perhaps long-term cost.  While in the on-deck circle during a Michael Busch plate appearance in the fourth inning, Alex Bregman was hit in the face by a Busch foul [...]

We have to officially bid the division adieu as the Brewers clinched the other night, and for anyone lamenting this, the Cubs should have just won more games. Thanks to some early season success, while the wild card race is tightening up, the Cubs at least hold tiebreakers over Arizona, [...]

The Cubs didn’t complete the sweep, but at least have a tie at the top of the wild card standings with tiebreakers against all the relevant teams for now. It is nice to have the season series against a division foe for once, and if the Cubs can continue to [...]

I wrote a silly thing a while ago as the Cubs were trying to make their way back up the standings, and as we know from the late meltdowns the first two games and the beatdown in progress in the finale, the Cubs simply aren’t equipped to slay the monster [...]

I assume at some point we will pod again and the Cubs’ pitching will stop pissing us off (as much), but the lack of a sweep in Miami, while not totally unexpected (because sweeps are hard no matter the opponent), was still disappointing given that one of the better pitchers [...]

As we power toward the end of the 2026 season and to an offseason that might not happen due to lockout because nobody wants to budge on the CBA goalposts, there has been news within the past week on two franchises, with a third showing progress toward their new ballpark [...]

While the Cubs continue to piss us off after the last pod, it seems that MLB has released another set of proposals. There hasn’t been a lot since MLBPA did their last proposals and we took a look at how the prior MLB proposals were shady at best. In this [...]

The Sunday getaway game was at least enjoyable to listen to at work after staying up way too late for a disappointing extra inning walkoff on Friday and the unexpected blown save on Saturday. It also again made one ponder the MVP candidacy of Pete Crow-Armstrong as well as what [...]

Alas, the Cubs did not sweep the White Sox, but I think the by-laws suggest that by splitting the season series (and winning this one at Wrigley), they do get to keep whatever it is the trophy looks like these days. The first two in the series were of course [...]

Well first thing I will do is share the greatest part of the opening game against the Cardinals at Wrigley: And now that we have been graced by the majesty that is the great Mr. T, we can also be happy that the Cubs did in fact win the game after [...]

We’ve talked about Ian Happ a bunch, as the Gold Glove left fielder plays out the current contract in advance of the CBA negotiations and probable lockout coming up. It is no secret that Happ has sucked at the plate for the better part of a month and then some, [...]

We touched on the subject during the last pod when we were doing the trade deadline postmortem, but now that the sweep is complete and he factored heavily in the success of the Cubs in all three games in some manner, it’s fair to wonder if Pete Crow-Armstrong has done [...]

I honestly should have gone to bed already, but a trade has happened involving the best pitcher on the block: The Dodgers are acquiring two-time AL Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal from the Tigers for three prospects, a source told MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand. Detroit is getting outfielder Zyhir Hope (L.A.’s No. 5 prospect and [...]

This isn’t necessarily new since the last time we saw anything substantial on the CBA front, but we pretty much know how capitalism works at this point, where the people up top want to maximize profits by reducing costs (i.e., pay people less, and pay fewer people) while the workers [...]