A groundhog rivalry, a cough, and a countdown to what actually matters. We open with Woodstock pride and Groundhog Day lore, then cut through the annual noise around “pitchers and catchers report” to ask a tougher question: how do the Cubs set ...

The North Side turns 150 with a roster built for a modern pennant race, and we’re fired up to explain why. So much that we're joined by our close friend and very special guest JAKE. We dig into the national buzz that slots the Dodge...

The city woke up with that hollow feeling you only get after an overtime gut punch, but the story doesn’t end at the interception. We unpack the Bears loss with honesty and poise: where aggression helped, where early points were there for the t...

A Chicago sports fever dream turned real: the Bears roared back from a 21–3 hole, and the Cubs landed Alex Bregman on a five-year deal that signals a new era at Clark and Addison. We ride the adrenaline rush, then get surgical about what Bregma...

A true shake-up for the North Side: we dig into why Edward Cabrera’s elite stuff at a bargain price could tilt the Cubs’ rotation from steady to scary. With four years of control and a $3.75M tag this season, Cabrera offers rare surplus value i...

Boring offseasons reveal what a team really stands for—and ours is spelling out a clear identity. We lay out why the Cubs are doubling down on run prevention, stacking veteran relievers with complementary shapes, and trusting elite defense to t...

A big-name signing sounds great until you run the numbers. We put the Bregman scenario on the table and stress test every downstream effect: moving Nico Horner, re-routing Matt Shaw’s development, and accepting a contract full of player-side le...

December in Chicago can hold two truths at once: a city buzzing from a Bears stunner and a fan base staring down a quiet Cubs winter. We lean into both. We start with that late-game chaos at Soldier Field, then shift into the meat of the show: ...

The headlines are quiet, the takes are not. We sift through a sleepy winter meetings and unpack what actually matters for the Cubs in 2026: how bullpen culture gets built on purpose, why Michael Busch facing lefties changes the roster map, and ...

A cold Chicago morning has a way of stripping things down to what matters, and that’s exactly how we tackle the Cubs. We open with the realities shaping the offseason: Wrigley’s wind, a pitching staff that leans contact, and a front office bala...

Hope is not a plan, and payroll isn’t a magic wand. We dig into a clear, realistic path for the Cubs to win the Central: stack a fearless bullpen, trade for a rotation stabilizer, and sharpen platoons that punish left-handed pitching. Instead o...

A 90-win team is good. A 94-win team that breathes in October is built. That’s where we take the Cubs: away from splash-chasing and toward a durable run-prevention machine that travels, plays in the wind, and punishes mistakes. We start with th...

Expect a strange winter on the North Side. We unpack why the Cubs’ path runs through pitching, controlled contracts, and a defense-first identity while the 2027 labor storm gathers on the horizon. With only Dansby Swanson guaranteed through tha...

One voice, one hotel room in London, and a clear-eyed look at what’s really driving the Cubs’ offseason. Carl breaks down why Kyle Tucker won’t be wearing Cubbie blue next year, not because he isn’t a fit, but because ownership’s debt load stil...

A thrilling baseball year ends, and we’re fired up about where Chicago goes next. We kick things off by saluting three Cubs Gold Gloves—Pete Crow-Armstrong, Nico Horner, and Ian Happ—and why these awards actually matter for roster building, con...

A World Series split is the perfect mirror for what the Cubs need next: a rotation that hunts outs, not headlines, and a front office brave enough to buy flexibility instead of false certainty. We dig into the big call around Shota Imanaga’s co...

Welcome back to the MMCS and thank you for tuning in. Rival banter won’t move a single runner. We start by calling out the L flag noise and center the only thing that matters: building a tougher Cubs team with a durable identity. Fr...

The season ended on three runs we should’ve survived—and one we couldn’t score. We walk through the Game 5 knife’s edge: the Brewers’ gutsy plan to start with velocity, the Cubs’ sixth-inning chance that died on a 3–1 heater, and why three allo...

One game can bend a season, and tonight’s Game 5 in Milwaukee carries exactly that weight. We break down why the Cubs own the opening edge, starting with Drew Pomeranz as an opener against a right-left Brewers lineup that doesn’t love to be shu...

A 7–0 statement at Wrigley flipped the narrative and put this series back on a knife’s edge. We unpack how the Cubs pushed from survival to control—Happ’s thunder off Peralta, the sequence of deep drives that stressed Milwaukee’s plan, and the ...

The city is pacing, the coffee’s gone cold, and every breath feels like a countdown. We’re staring down Game 4 at Wrigley, and the path forward is oddly clear: turn gratitude into urgency, and urgency into a plan that squeezes Milwaukee’s choic...

Heart rates spiked, voices cracked, and a season kept breathing. We’re fresh off a 4–3 survival win over Milwaukee—one of those playoff nights where every pitch feels like a verdict—and we’re breaking down what actually swung it: a first-inning...

The room feels different when your season hangs on the next pitch. We pull the lens tight on Cubs–Brewers Game Three and explain why Jamison Taillon’s changeup isn’t just a weapon—it’s the exact lever that disrupts Milwaukee’s patient, east–wes...

A 3-0 lead disappears, tempers flare, and the Brewers look two steps ahead. We don’t sugarcoat it. We name the mistakes, explain why Milwaukee’s opener gambit and bullpen sequencing worked, and why our rotation choices left the lineup stranded....

One announcement turned a routine preview into a chess match: Milwaukee’s going with a lefty opener, Aaron Ashby, and that single move forces us to redraw the Cubs’ lineup from pitch one. We walk through the real implications of a lefty first i...