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• New Holy Cow! Podcast: Matt Clapp on Cubs’ High-Powered Lineup
Matt Clapp from Awful Announcing and The Comeback returns to Holy Cow to talk with Sean about a strong start to the season for the Cubs. They cover Kyle Tucker and Pete Crow-Armstrong driving an explosive offense in April; how the pitching staff will handle the loss of Justin Steele; and important contributions from veterans … The post New Holy Cow! Podcast: Matt Clapp on Cubs’ High-Po...2025
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• Bengals Twitter reactions and trade grade for addition of Bears RB Khalil Herbert

Photo by Todd Rosenberg/Getty Images The Bengals made an all-new type of move for them, and it is hopefully a sign of things to come. The Cincinnati Bengals have never in their history made a direct player for pick trade during the season. Until today. With the trade of a seventh-round pick for Khalil Herbert, the Bengals showed that they are serious about competing this season after the v...2024
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• Wrigleyville Nation Podcast: Episode 353 – Matt Clapp, Phillies & Angels Series Recaps, News, 84 Cubs Recap, & More
Matt Clapp joins Jeremy & Pat this week. We recap the Phillies and Angels Series. Cubs win a series for the first time since May. We recap news, injuries, & more. We close the show recounting this week in the 1984 Cubs. Enjoy! Go Cubs! Listen & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or … The post Wrigleyville Nation Podcast: Episode 353 – Matt Clapp, Phillie...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ C no evil, hear no evil

Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. Kyle Hendricks didn’t finish his lecture and Dylan wouldn’t Cease throwing good pitches. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #ML...2024
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• New Holy Cow! Podcast: Cubs 2024 Season Preview with Matt Clapp
Matt Clapp (@TheBlogfines) from Awful Announcing is back on the podcast for a 2024 Cubs preview. Are Seiya Suzuki and Christopher Morel going to have huge seasons? How big of impact will Craig Counsell have at manager? Do the Cubs have enough pitching? He and Sean discuss all that and more as they look ahead. The post New Holy Cow! Podcast: Cubs 2024 Season Preview with Matt Clapp appeared first o...2024
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• ESPN NBA account pauses activity on Twitter/X

The NBA on ESPN account joined several other handles owned by Disney in not posting anything to X (formerly known as Twitter) over the weekend, per Sean Keeley and Matt Clapp of Awful Announcing. NBA on ESPN joined the likes of SportsCenter, ESPN CFB, College GameDay and ESPN’s NFL handle by not posting anything to […] The post ESPN NBA account pauses activity on Twitter/X appeared fir...2023

• Bengals Twitter reactions and trade grade for addition of Bears RB Khalil Herbert
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• Wrigleyville Nation Podcast: Episode 353 – Matt Clapp, Phillies & Angels Series Recaps, News, 84 Cubs Recap, & More
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• Cub Tracks’ C no evil, hear no evil
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• Cubs 4, Giants 0: Kyle Hendricks throws a vintage Professor game, four outs short of a no-hitter
Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports Class was most definitely in session Saturday evening in San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO — Is it too early to say “I told you so”? Maybe, but I’m saying it anyway. I told you Kyle Hendricks would come back and throw like The Professor again. Was Saturday’s brilliant eight-inning, one-hit outing a one-off? Possibly, but I don’t think so. Hendricks was, as the ...2023
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• Cubs 2, Rays 1: Because baseball
Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Cubs got solid pitching, good defense and just enough hitting to win again. This game was supposed to be a mismatch. MLB’s best pitcher so far this year, Shane McClanahan, was facing Kyle Hendricks, who’s still a work in progress after nearly a year rehabbing a shoulder injury. And yet... the Cubs held down the Rays offense with good p...2023
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• Reds 8, Cubs 5: Another bullpen meltdown
Matt Marton-USA TODAY Sports This has, unfortunately, become a theme of the 2023 season. Saturday’s game between the Cubs and Reds was actually going along swimmingly. The Cubs put a three-spot on the board in the second inning with several timely hits and Jameson Taillon was actually pitching reasonably well. Then Taillon ran out of steam in a fifth inning in which he got the first two ou...2023
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• Rockies 3, Cubs 1: Hayden Wesneski shines despite defeat
Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The recently-acquired righthander was outstanding in his first MLB start. I don’t know about you, but I think the Cubs have found a member of their 2023 starting rotation. Just how good Hayden Wesneski will be in his MLB career remains to be seen, of course, but he was dazzling in his first MLB start, throwing seven innings and allowing three hits and a r...2022
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• Cubs 4, Giants 2: Drew Smyly and two-run homers
Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs lefthander had an outstanding outing and the team got just enough power to win. Drew Smyly, who has pitched extremely well since the first of August, might have had his best outing of all on another gorgeous afternoon at Wrigley Field. Smyly threw seven strong innings, allowing just one hit, a second-inning double by David Villar (no relation t...2022
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• After Steelers got home, James Harrison started working out
While you're reading, James Harrison is working out. Unless you’re on the West Coast or a serious night owl (like our own Matt Clapp), you probably went to sleep shortly after the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 18-16 win over the Kansas City Chiefs in the NFL Playoffs’ Divisional Round. Maybe you wound down re-watching the highlights of Sunday’s NFL action on SportsCenter or NFL Network. Perhaps you caught ...2017
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• WATCH: Pernell McPhee gets in Jay Cutler’s face after INT
Jay Cutler did some Jay Cutler things before he left Sunday’s game against the Philadelphia Eagles with a hand injury, and fellow team captain Pernell McPhee did not seem pleased with his quarterback’s performance. McPhee, who began the season on the physically unable to perform list because of a knee injury, was seen shouting in Cutler’s face on the sideline after Cutler threw an interception lat...2016
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"Matt Clapp from Awful Announcing and The Comeback returns to Holy Cow to talk with Sean about a strong start to the season for the Cubs."

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"co/BOE4g2Je0N— Matt Clapp (@DaBearNecess) November 5, 2024 I don’t get why Khalil Herbert fell out of favor with the Bears."

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"— Matt Clapp (@TheBlogfines) June 10, 2023 That’s just crazy."

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"— Matt Clapp (@TheBlogfines) September 22, 2022 Guys like Thompson and Alzolay can absolutely throw 96-97 or even a bit better if they’re limited to relief roles."

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"Unless you’re on the West Coast or a serious night owl (like our own Matt Clapp), you probably went to sleep shortly after the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 18-16 win over the Kansas City Chiefs in the NFL Playoffs’ Divisional Round."

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"com/xJLi9NpZcb — Matt Clapp (@TheBlogfines) May 22, 2016 Well on Tuesday night against the Cincinnati Reds, Puig had another, “Eh, I’m good” moment when it came to baserunning."

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"Video of the monstrous blast (courtesy of our buddy Matt Clapp) is below: Bryant hits one a mile (no hyperbole) https://t."

• Bengals Twitter reactions and trade grade for addition of Bears RB Khalil Herbert
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• Cub Tracks’ C no evil, hear no evil
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• Cub Tracks’ eight isn’t enough
Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Jameson Taillon is back, the Cubs’ bats still have good wood in them, and trade talk. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tea...2023
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• The Marcus Stroman contract extension kerfuffle
David Banks-USA TODAY Sports Is it not going to happen? We literally do not know. And don’t say you do because of one tweet. Over the weekend, news broke about Marcus Stroman because of this tweet reply he sent: My agent and I made multiple attempts to engage them on an extension. Club wasn’t interested in exploring it now. Will see how it plays out! Love everything about the @Cubs organ...2023
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• Rays 4, Cubs 3: Two leads blown. Justin Steele injured. How was your afternoon?
David Banks-USA TODAY Sports This day was not good, not good at all. Let’s get the worst part of the Cubs’ 4-3 loss to the Rays out of the way right at the beginning. Justin Steele was apparently breezing through the Rays lineup. During the top of the third, David Ross and trainer Nick Frangella came out to check on Steele, who wound up finishing the inning. Hayden Wesneski came out to thr...2023
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• Cubs 2, Rays 1: Because baseball
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• Reds 8, Cubs 5: Another bullpen meltdown
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• Mets 10, Cubs 1: Kyle Hendricks is a work in progress
Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The Cubs still meatloafed their series against the Mets. The Cubs lost to the Mets 10-1 Thursday on another chilly evening at Wrigley Field, and I’m sure you’d rather hear less about that and more about how I viewed Kyle Hendricks’ first MLB start in nearly 11 months. Obviously the results weren’t what Kyle, or the Cubs, or you or me, would have wanted. N...2023
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• Cubs 4, Giants 2: Drew Smyly and two-run homers
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• Today in Cubs history: The Cubs break a postseason losing streak

Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images It had been 12 years since the Cubs won a division series game. The Cubs lost three straight division series games to the Diamondbacks in 2007 and three more to the Dodgers in 2008. But in St. Louis, eight years ago today, Saturday, October 10, 2015, a young Cubs club broke that division series losing streak, against the team’s biggest rival. I was at this game...2023
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• Rays 4, Cubs 3: Two leads blown. Justin Steele injured. How was your afternoon?
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• Mets 10, Cubs 1: Kyle Hendricks is a work in progress
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• Cubs 4, Giants 2: Drew Smyly and two-run homers
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• Cardinals beat Reds on missed, unchallenged call, impacting wild-card race
The National League wild-card race took a highly unusual turn Thursday night thanks to an apparent missed call of a ground-rule double in the bottom of the ninth in the Reds-Cardinals game. That gave the Cardinals a win and helped them in their wild-card positioning battle with the Giants and Mets. Here’s a GIF of the play in question, a hit from the Cardinals’ Yadier Molina that scores Matt Holli...2016
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• Cub Tracks’ C no evil, hear no evil
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• Cub Tracks’ eight isn’t enough
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• Cubs 4, Giants 0: Kyle Hendricks throws a vintage Professor game, four outs short of a no-hitter
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• Here are baseball’s most under-covered storylines
Over the first two and a half months of baseball season, we’ve heard about the Cubs’ mysterious struggles. We’ve heard about the Yankees’ revitalization and the Mets’ series of unfortunate (and sometimes hilarious) events. And we’ve heard a whole lot about Aaron Judge.But what haven’t we heard a lot about? We asked our staff that question. These are their answers:What baseball storyline has gone u...2017
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• Yasiel Puig yanked from game for not running out a deep flyball
I happened to have on the Dodgers-Padres game on Sunday, and in the ninth inning of a tied game, Los Angeles’ A.J. Ellis laid down a sacrifice bunt attempt with Yasiel Puig on second base and no outs. Ellis executed the bunt as he was supposed to, forcing San Diego third baseman Yangervis Solarte to make the play… and Puig didn’t move. Yes, bunts are lame, but there’s still no excuse for Puig to ...2016
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• Cubs 4, Giants 0: Kyle Hendricks throws a vintage Professor game, four outs short of a no-hitter
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• The Marcus Stroman contract extension kerfuffle
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• Cubs 4, Marlins 3: The Cubs come from behind, and Keegan Thompson shines
Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs got timely late-inning hitting and great relief work from the just-activated righthander In the great sweep of Cubs history, Wednesday’s 4-3 win over the Marlins means nothing. Even in the smaller sweep of the 2022 season, all this victory did was move the Cubs from 22 games under .500 to 21 games under. Big whoop, right? I’m here to tell you this game...2022
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• Cubs 2, Rays 1: Because baseball
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• Mets 10, Cubs 1: Kyle Hendricks is a work in progress
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• Rockies 3, Cubs 1: Hayden Wesneski shines despite defeat
2022

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• Cubs 4, Giants 2: Drew Smyly and two-run homers
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• Reds 8, Cubs 5: Another bullpen meltdown
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• Cub Tracks’ C no evil, hear no evil
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• Today in Cubs history: The Cubs break a postseason losing streak
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• Wrigleyville Nation Podcast: Episode 323 – Matt Clapp, Cubs Continue to Win, Playoff Hunt, & More
Matt Clapp joins Jeremy & Pat this week. We recap series wins againt the Reds and Braves. The Cubs remain good, are over 500, and are in the playoff hunt! We preview tough games ahead in Toronto. Enjoy….And, Go Cubs! Listen & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere Podcasts are found. … The post Wrigleyville Nation Podcast: Episode 323 – ...2023
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• Cubs 4, Giants 0: Kyle Hendricks throws a vintage Professor game, four outs short of a no-hitter
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• Rays 4, Cubs 3: Two leads blown. Justin Steele injured. How was your afternoon?
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• Reds 8, Cubs 5: Another bullpen meltdown
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• Mets 10, Cubs 1: Kyle Hendricks is a work in progress
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• Wrigleyville Nation Podcast: Episode 302 – Matt Clapp, New MLB Rules, Cubs Spring Training Preview, & More
Writer, Editor, and a guy who is great on Twitter, Matt Clapp, joins Jeremy & Pat this week. We look at the new MLB rules, and how it will impact the Cubs. We also preview Cubs spring training. We close the show with Pat making an announcement. Listen & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, … The post Wrigleyville Nation Podcast: Episode 302 – Matt Clapp, New MLB Rules,...2023
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• Cubs 4, Marlins 3: The Cubs come from behind, and Keegan Thompson shines
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• Rockies 3, Cubs 1: Hayden Wesneski shines despite defeat
2022

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