Bleed Cubbie Blue: for Chicago Cubs fans

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

Every once in a while the algorithm gets it right. For me, that was stumbling onto Brooke Knows Ball — a page that looks like it's all advanced metrics until you realize what's really going on underneath. Brooke Lazinski and Joel LaFlamme are using the language of modern analytics to make a case for the game we used to love: small ball, balls in play, weird batting stances and players who didn't all look the same. I sit down with the partnership behind Brooke Knows Ball for a wide-ranging conversation about what baseball has gained, what it's quietly lost and whether the numbers can help us get some of it back. In this episode: • Why their stats are built to quantify the feel of '80s and '90s baseball • How WAR can shortchange a whole generation — the Kenny Lofton steroid-era problem • Three true outcome baseball, the boom-or-bust Yankees and why it falls apart in October • Where Ian Happ and Nico Hoerner fit into the contact-vs-power debate • Their documentary work in the Dominican Republic — sandlot culture, the buscones, the dark side of the pipeline and a week with Dale Murphy • The Greg Maddux–Andre Dawson story, and the TV series they're building around moments like it Plus: a mic that quit on me, a cameo from some butterflies and a latte well-earned. Find Brooke Knows Ball: @brookeknowsball on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube CubsPS+ is part of the Bleacher Bunch on the Fans First Sports Network. Support the show ad-free at patreon.com/bleacherbunch. Find me @CubsPSPlus on Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, Threads, BlueSky and YouTube. Theme music: “Prospect Park West” by Jerry McHoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Misiorowski makes Cubs fans Mis-erable as the Brewers take Game 1 in Milwaukee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brewers Fan Comedian Eric Wielo joind Danny to Preview the Cubs series with the Brewers. Brought to you by ⁠⁠Penguin Imprints⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Fanarchy⁠⁠⁠ and our ⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠ supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Cubs have reached the midway point in the series and we still don't know who they are….but we do know they're broken. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a beautiful day, let's play two! Dansby Swanson was channeling the ghost of the great Ernie Banks yesterday and went off in New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Britt from Fanarchy and Uncle Mike join Waller and Rockett in the middle of a Double Header day. Brought to you by ⁠Penguin Imprints⁠, ⁠⁠Fanarchy⁠⁠ and our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Cubs win the game 9-6 (nice) and lose Edward Cabrera. (not nice) Brought to you by ⁠Penguin Imprints⁠, ⁠⁠Fanarchy⁠⁠ and our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs bullpen squanders a big lead and wastes a couple big home runs by Matt Shaw and PCA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs blast the BJs with 16 runs on Juneteenth. Brought to you by ⁠Penguin Imprints⁠, ⁠⁠Fanarchy⁠⁠ and our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Schultz from Out Sports joins us to talk Pride, as PCA hits for the reverse cycle and the Cubs win a couple series! Brought to you by ⁠Penguin Imprints⁠, ⁠⁠Fanarchy⁠⁠ and our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cotton loves the Cubs new approach to hitting, but do the Cubs love that approach? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs continue to show that RISP is their kryptonite. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

PCA hits for the cycle as the Cubs barely squeak out the win versus the lowly Rockies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs lose to the Giants because the Giants understand basic fundamentals of hitting that the Cubs do not understand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brown battles, PCA rakes, Ramirez launches and Seiya goes down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs Win in San Francisco and may have the beginnings of a streak. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Arty Bouchez finally sees a W in Colorado on the nicest game of the year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Artie tells us how it all slipped away in the Mile High City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Local Denverian Arty Bouchez has your Cubs pod! Unfortunately....they lost to the worst team in the league. NewEdit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Cubs look mediocre against 2 mediocre teams and now head on a road trip to hopefully look better against 2 mediocre teams. Brought to you by ⁠Penguin Imprints⁠, ⁠⁠Fanarchy⁠⁠ and our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cubs are the bad guys from the movies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices