Bleacher Bunch Network: A Chicago Cubs Podcast

This is the intro to the new season of Baseball Rabbithole in which Cotton tries to figure out how to calculate WAR. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cotton dives into the origins of Spring Training, and finds out about a hidden baseball vacation destination as the Baseball Rabbithole returns for Game 3. This podcast is available without ads and with or without crowdsounds on patreon/bleacherbunch for as little as $1 a month. You will also receive the episode well before the regular feed gives it to you with all of the ads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 2025 MLB Trade Deadline has come and gone — and the Chicago Cubs made some moves… but was it enough? In this live reaction episode of Bricks Behind the Ivy, Jeff (@CandidCubs) breaks down what the Cubs did, what they didn’t do, and whether Jed Hoyer’s strategy puts this team in position to make a serious playoff push. 💬 Did the Cubs do enough at the deadline? Drop your thoughts in the comments! 🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL 📺 / @bleacher_bunch_network ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏟️ BRICKS BEHIND THE IVY – CONNECT WITH US 📸 Instagram → @bricks_behind_the_ivy 🌐 Blue Sky → bbti-pod.bsky.social 👤 Follow CandidCubs → @candidcubs ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏟️ BLEACHER BUNCH – FOLLOW ALONG 🐦 Twitter / X → @Bleacher_Bunch 📸 Instagram → @bleacher_bunch 🌐 Blue Sky → bleacherbunch.bsky.social 💰 Patreon → patreon.com/bleacherbunch (ad-free episodes, early access, and more) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ☕ YAGGY ROAD ROASTING CO. – BBTI PARTNER Started by three Valpo grads, Yaggy Road ethically sources and hand-roasts premium coffee for life’s most meaningful moments. 🛒 Order Now → yaggyroad.com/?ref=BricksBehindTheIvy ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧢 WRIGLEYVILLE SPORTS – OFFICIAL CUBS GEAR PARTNER 🛒 Shop Here → wrigleyvillesports.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Bricks Behind the Ivy, Pat and Jeff reveal their Chicago Cubs Quarter Century Teams — building the ultimate lineup using Cubs players from the past 25 years! Inspired by an article from The Athletic by Patrick Mooney and Sahadev Sharma, the guys come in with their teams already built and reveal them to each other live for authentic reactions, debate, and a bit of nostalgia. They also cover: Nico Hoerner getting ejected Their Hitter and Pitcher of the Week Plenty of strong (and hilarious) takes on Cubs past and present Timestamps: (2:08) Nico Got Tossed? (9:38) Hitter of the Week (11:58) Pitcher of the Week (13:59) Quarter Century Team Kick Off (15:09) 1st Basemen (20:33) 2nd Basemen (25:00) Shortstop (31:48) Third Base (36:00) Left Field (40:28) Center Field (43:34) Right Field (51:21) Starting Pitching (56:02) Impact Reliever 🧢 New episodes weekly — covering the Cubs with analysis, personality, and a healthy dose of fandom. Follow Bricks Behind the Ivy: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bricks_behind_the_ivy Twitter (Jeff / CandidCubs): https://twitter.com/candidcubs BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/bbti-pod.bsky.social Follow the Bleacher Bunch Network: Twitter/X: https://x.com/Bleacher_Bunch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bleacher_bunch/ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/bleacherbunch.bsky.social Join our ad-free Patreon: https://patreon.com/bleacherbunch Sponsor – Yaggy Road Roasting Company: Ethically sourced, small-batch roasted coffee that’s as meaningful as the moments you enjoy it with. Order here: https://www.yaggyroad.com/?ref=BricksBehindTheIvy Cubs Gear Partner – Wrigleyville Sports: Grab your officially licensed Cubs merch here: https://www.wrigleyvillesports.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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