Bleacher Bunch Network: A Chicago Cubs Podcast

Cubs lose a game, a starter and a shortstop on a rough Sunday in Wrigley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A man named Báez was hitting homers at Wrigley again...but this time in the wrong uniform. Brought to you by ⁠Penguin Imprints⁠, ⁠⁠Fanarchy⁠⁠ and our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs open the series against the hated Cardinals with a big win. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cade Cavalli shuts down the Cubs, who come home now to face the Cardinals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Crawly joins Danny to answer some male sack questions and some Ranters stop by to spin the B-Clock. Brought to you by ⁠Penguin Imprints⁠, ⁠⁠Fanarchy⁠⁠ and our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ supporters. Join us on 9/19 in Cincinnati! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs hit a bunch of homers. So do Nationals. But Cubs win anyway. Brought to you by ⁠Penguin Imprints⁠, ⁠⁠Fanarchy⁠⁠ and our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs lose Saturday and win Sunday to bring home the meatloaf from KC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cotton goes down the rabbithole on the best first basemen and gets lost in the labyrinth of dWAR because the statholes do not respect First Base Defense. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs stay hot in the Cub debut of newly acquired starter Kevin Gausman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wild Walkoff Win at Wrigley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs sweep the hated Dodgers after a disappointing Yankees series. But the real story is that Twinkle Dee and Dum won the trade deadline and the Cubs are trying to win it all again. Brought to you by ⁠Penguin Imprints⁠, ⁠⁠Fanarchy⁠⁠ and our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Cubs Hold on to a close one as they sweep the Dodgers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs send a message, beating Tarik Skubal and the Dodgers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holy Crap! Sara and Danny actually did a show together! And we're both thrilled with the Cubs moves at the deadline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cool Cubs Crush Dumb Dodgers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs are Shlubs in loss to Yankees. Brought to you by ⁠Penguin Imprints⁠, ⁠⁠Fanarchy⁠⁠ and our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MVPete helps put the Cubs over the top against the Yankees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Despite all the hype, the game was boring. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs win in extras cause the Cardinals are dumb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2014 Cubs ERA leader, catcher, and Mental Skills Coordinator John Baker and his virtuosic trombonist brother Will celebrate "The Night the Backup Catcher Got the Win" with Danny Rockett, Michael Cotton, and Crawly, as we raise money for Trap Door Theatre's 2027 Production of The Game. Brought to you by ⁠Penguin Imprints⁠, ⁠⁠Fanarchy⁠⁠ and our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs waste a gem from Boyd and drop one to the Cardinals in the 10th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sorry! Recorded but forgot to post! Cubs won...but you already knew that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bregman is a three hole hitter, Craig is still afraid of the butt wiping hand, and Liberatore is Italian for short outing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs Pod G105 - 7-27-26 The Cubs...well...Jameson Taillon lost to the Pirates yesterday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs beat Skenes and the Pirates behind good hitting and great pitching from Imanaga and Assad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Cubs squeak one out in Pittsburgh behind a dominant Boyd and an incredible Cubs defense. Brought to you by ⁠Penguin Imprints⁠, ⁠⁠Fanarchy⁠⁠ and our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was a busy week for Cubs fans and the Ranters, as the 2016 crew came back to celebrate the opening of the new Champions gate. Plus Bernie Barron wins Ranter of the Year and a boomer slaps a guy upside the head for sitting during the anthem. Oh...and the Cubs went .500 on the homestand. Brought to you by ⁠Penguin Imprints⁠, ⁠⁠Fanarchy⁠⁠ and our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I have a long one for you, but I am covering two games that explain why the Cubs can be so good and so bad at the same time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs and Tigers fly the T after Conforto, Suzuki, and Bregman flail wildly for no reason in what could have been an easy walk off win. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs spank the Twins 10-1 as Imanaga deals and Hoerner hits again! Brought to you by ⁠Penguin Imprints⁠, ⁠⁠Fanarchy⁠⁠ and our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two years ago I sat down with Ben Lindbergh — co-host of Effectively Wild, co-author of “The MVP Machine” — to talk through the player development revolution remaking baseball. I’m re-airing it with a new intro. The reason: two years later, baseball is still chasing the same answers, and still hasn’t solved the same problems. We get into: • Why pitching always stays a step ahead of hitting • How chasing every edge turned the whole league into the same team • Whether the rule changes were ever going to work • Ben’s fix: cap the pitchers on the roster, make guys pace themselves, and you get back deeper starts, more contact, fewer blown-out arms A few references are frozen in 2023 — Hosmer getting DFA’d, Morel being all the vibes. Enjoy the time capsule. The heart of it plays sharper now than the day we taped it. The thread to hold onto: every adaptation has a price — what it costs a player, and maybe the game itself, to become something different than it used to be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs win a fun one in a very hot day at Wrigley Field Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs look anemic out of the gate, and today, the Cubs will dedicate a new gate as we meet up with the Ranters! Brought to you by ⁠Penguin Imprints⁠, ⁠⁠Fanarchy⁠⁠ and our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Cubs Second Half commences as we B-Clock and Rake Flake, and talk about the Lovable Reunion's Live show and the return of ⁠John Baker Day⁠! Brought to you by ⁠Penguin Imprints⁠, ⁠⁠Fanarchy⁠⁠ and our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs head into the break fresh off a series win over the Reds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs win in Cincinnati on a hot night with no Chili. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs Strike Out a bunch of times...lose sadly to Reds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs pen struggles to throw strikes, offense strands chances to sweep the Orioles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Cubs go .500 this week as they meh into the end of the first half with PCA carrying the team on his back. Billy Devore joins us to talk Reds! Brought to you by ⁠Penguin Imprints⁠, ⁠⁠Fanarchy⁠⁠ and our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs beat down the Orioles in a Home Run Derby at Camden Yards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was a rain delayed workingman's win in Baltimore and the Cubs beat the birds 5-2. Brought to you by ⁠Penguin Imprints⁠, ⁠⁠Fanarchy⁠⁠ and our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is this team? It’s still hard to know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How can a team that is 9 games over .500 be bad? Cotton talks about why the wins and losses are not telling the full story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs drubbed by Cards. Brutal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs absolutely smash the Padres and Walker Buehler to complete the sweep. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brewers fan comedian Eric Wielo bravely takes his lumps after the Cubs ate Bernie the Brewers lunch with a Padre blowout chaser this week. Sara Sanchez joins the regular boys. Even Lyle showed up for once! Brought to you by ⁠Penguin Imprints⁠, ⁠⁠Fanarchy⁠⁠ and our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's hot and balls are flying at Wrigley Field last night! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs Walk it Off, and the kids aren't alright... Brought to you by ⁠Penguin Imprints⁠, ⁠⁠Fanarchy⁠⁠ and our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs stay hot and win a series in Wrigley North against the Devil Magic Brewers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs get some sorely needed lucky bounces and finally beat the Brewers despite overmanaging by Ratface. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices