May 12, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Remember This Crap
The Cubs went back to the playoffs for a second straight year, and won just as many postseason games as they did the year before. But this was a 97 win team with a Japanese star in right field, a Cardinals retread in center, and a rookie of the year catcher. It was...
May 11, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast
The red-hot Cubs won their second series of the season and fifth game in 20 attempts (yikes). Andy and David talk about Ildemaro Vargas’ wild day in the field, Frank Schwindel’s fortuitous flat tire, and some unfortunate (and a few convenient) injuries....
Apr 21, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast
The season is nearing the tenth pole (that’s not a thing) and so it’s a good time to check in on the Cubs insistence on hitting everything on the ground, what’s going on with the ball, what’s the sticky stuff in the rosin bags these days, why...
Apr 20, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Remember This Crap
The 1981 Cubs season was so bad that fans were relieved when baseball took two months off right in the middle of the season. The Cubs record was so lousy that they ended up with the first pick in the 1982 draft, but they didn’t have the worst record in the...
Apr 13, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Remember This Crap
The 1984 Cubs were mostly still around in 1986 only they were older and mostly injured and pretty bad. The Cubs got off to a hot start, if 2-8 is hot, Lee Smith pitched a lot, like a lot a lot, nobody won 10 games, Jim Frey got fired. The Cubs fielded a dream twosome...
Apr 12, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast
Baseball games have been played, the Cubs are the greatest team in the land, Seiya Suzuki can’t be stopped and MLB is putting games on at weird times on weird channels, and blackouts are dumb. Andy and David take a look at the first week of games. They hand out...
