Cubs 1st Place Momentum Check

About this episode

The episode discusses the Chicago Cubs' recent performance and the challenges they face in the MLB season.

Back to back shutouts can mess with your head, but we’re not letting two quiet nights rewrite what the Chicago Cubs have built so far. We zoom out on a 5-2 week, the end of a brutal stretch without an off day, and what it really means when you run into a fully healthy Jacob deGrom throwing a masterpiece. Baseball does this to everyone, and the point is how you respond, not how you feel in the moment. From there, we get into the stuff that actually holds up across a long MLB season: roster de...

People in this episode

Hosts: Carl, Mahoney

Topics covered

• Cubs performance
• MLB season analysis
• baseball strategy
• team momentum
• pitching matchups

Keywords

• Cubs
• shutouts
• Jacob deGrom
• MLB
• baseball
• team performance
• roster

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Organizations: Chicago Cubs

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