A bad week at Wrigley can make you want to burn the whole thing down, but we’re not doing a rage podcast today. We’re coming in on a melancholy Monday, paying respect to Stacey King and what he meant to Chicago sports, and admitting something a lot of fans don’t want to say out loud: the emotional weight of following teams is real, and perspective matters when bigger life stuff is on the table.
Then we turn back to the Cubs, because the baseball is still the baseball. The rotation is beat up, the offense keeps failing in the eighth, ninth, and tenth, and the gap between payroll expectations and on-field execution is getting harder to ignore. We dig into the Alex Bregman and Dansby Swanson spotlight, how pressure changes a player’s at-bats, and why “just be patient and take walks” can turn into a rigid approach that collapses with runners in scoring position.
The bright spot is PCA. We talk about the adjustments, the swagger, and why we want Pete Crow-Armstrong locked into the leadoff role as more than a hot-streak reward. The mailbag gets into Craig Counsell blame, trade deadline vibes, Taylor McGregor love, and even a Mark Grace versus Anthony Rizzo debate that ends up circling back to what this lineup is missing most: situational feel.
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- Carl & Mahoney
