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Welcome to the 399^th episode of The Ivy Envy Podcast. We are just 1 episode from #400!

On this episode, we talk about the Cubs series win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. There’s a lot of positives to discuss…and apparently the Pirates players and fans:

1. Don’t like getting destroyed by the Cubs, who lead the season series 5-1 vs. the Pirates.
2. Don’t think the Cubs are the best team in baseball, even though that 5-1 record (and 18 games over .500 in mid-May) would say otherwise.

So we talk a little about the drama in this series, although most, if not all of it came from the Pirates dugout and fanbase.

Kurt shares a Jon Lester scary stat that is a good example of why you shouldn’t pay attention to pitcher win-loss records.

On this episode, we premiere Katie Day’s new version of her song, “By the Lakeside.” Anyone that purchased this song through the embed below by Tuesday (May 17, 2016) night at midnight Pacific time will have their name entered into a drawing for a free Ivy Envy shirt.

The Cubs lost two games in one day and a lot of Cubs fans lost their minds. On this, the 398^thepisode of The Ivy Envy Podcast, we try to reassure you that the Cubs are just fine. Their 25-8 record should have already done it, but some folks need a little more reassurance. We discuss what we right and what went wrong in this 3 game series with the Padres.

With a shutout in the 2nd game of the doubleheader, a lot of focus is on Soler. Soler went 0-4 with 4 strikeouts in the game. We weigh in on the Soler issue and share what we think might be wrong.

We share some scary stats and Andy spins a wonderful Rube Waddell story.

Welcome to the 397^th episode of The Ivy Envy Podcast. In the last week, the Cubs went 7-0, sweeping two of the top teams in the National League, the Pirates and the Nationals.

On this episode, we focus on the Nationals series. We start things off by talking about where our heads are and trying to wrap our minds around this 2016 Cubs team. Should we shed the “cautious” in “cautiously optimistic”?

We look at some of the individual performances that fueled this Cubs this week and have flown under the radar this season. Although the Cubs are 24-6, we do have some negatives to talk about. Heyward continues his slow start, although there are lots of positives with Heyward in the lineup. We also talk about Travis Wood and his somewhat shaky performances.

We check in on Albert Almora and Willson Contreras, who are both with Iowa and could join the Cubs this season.

We answer some listener questions, share some scary stats and read an internet muscle flex.

The Cubs went into Pittsburgh and didn’t just sweep the Pirates, but outscored them in the series, 20-5. On this episode, we recap the Pirates series and look ahead to this weekend’s series with the Nationals at Wrigley.

We check in on the injured Cubs players, discuss Jorge Soler’s struggles, answer some listener questions, and Andy gives us a Rube Waddell story of the week.

Thanks for downloading the 395^th episode of The Ivy Envy Podcast. Rain and crummy weather has imposed it’s will on baseball games at Wrigley this week. For the 2^nd straight series, the Cubs and opponents were only able to complete two games.

We use a shortened series with the Braves as an opportunity to focus on some of the players that have been performing very well, but we haven’t spent much time on yet this year. We mainly focus on the bullpen and the bench players.

We have several scary stats and internet muscle flexes to share on this episode.

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On this, the 394^th episode of The Ivy Envy Podcast, we have a rain-shortened series with the Brewers to talk about.

Miguel Montero hits the DL and Kris Bryant exits Thursday’s game with an ankle injury. We talk about the impact of both of those injuries.

Andy and Corey watched the South Bend Cubs this week and share a few thoughts. We go through listener questions, share a few INSANE (good) scary stats and Andy shares a Rube Waddell story.

The South Bend Cubs will be visiting our hometown Quad Cities River Bandits this week and we used this as an excuse to take a look at the 2016 South Bend Cubs.

Joining me on this episode is Chris Hagstrom, who works in the front office of the team. Chris talks about the success of the SB Cubs first season in the Cubs organization, the 2016 team and what their ballpark has to offer Cubs fans.

On this, the 392^nd episode of The Ivy Envy Podcast, we talk about the final three games in the Cubs series with the Reds.

The Cubs won the series, 3 games to 1 and the Cubs offense put on quite a show at Great American Ball Park. We spend most of the episode talking about the three games in detail.

We have a few scary stats of the week, a couple of internet muscle flexes, two asshats of the week and we announce the winner of the box of Rizzo’s cereal.

Welcome to the 391st episode of The Ivy Envy Podcast. For the second time since August, we recorded an episode on the night of a Jake Arrieta no-hitter. Jake does it again, this time against the Reds. The Cubs destroyed the Reds in the first game of the series, 16-0.

While we spend a good amount of time swooning over Jake and the offensive explosion, we also look back on the series win and talk about several on-the-field and off-the-field topics.

We have a scary stat of the (mid)week and Andy shares another Rube Waddell story.