Cubs and White Sox Opening Day is HERE!
Dan Bernstein Unfiltered
312 Sports
4.6 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Baseball is back, and we’re kicking things off with a great conversation. This episode features Craig Calcaterra — author of the Cup of Coffee newsletter — joining the show to talk all things MLB as Opening Day arrives.
We dive into the excitement of a new season, what storylines matter most right now, and Craig’s perspective on the state of the game. Plus, we get into his thoughts on the Cubs, the White Sox, and what fans in Chicago should realistically expect this year.
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| 0:00.0 | Dan Bernstein Unfiltered, Unfiltered on 312 Sports. |
| 0:08.3 | It's an opening day, DBU on 312. |
| 0:12.0 | We are brought to you in partnership with MyBooky. |
| 0:15.6 | And also today, by Chicago Window Guys and Giordano's Pizza. |
| 0:20.9 | My guest today is the author of the Cup of Coffee newsletter. |
| 0:26.1 | You may have known Craig Calcutera in his other incarnations as a lawyer, perhaps as NBC's |
| 0:35.9 | hardball talk and some of the baseball expert work you saw him do for years |
| 0:40.5 | there in the heyday of baseball on the internet and is now doing what I believe is some of the |
| 0:48.7 | smartest baseball and non-baseball work every day. |
| 0:53.2 | The cup of coffee newsletter is something that is |
| 0:57.1 | courageous enough to confront the everything every morning in a way that somehow doesn't make |
| 1:04.3 | us miserable. Craig, thanks for doing this today. I really appreciate it. Thank you. That's very, |
| 1:09.3 | very kind of you to say, Dan, all that stuff. |
| 1:11.4 | Well, you know, it's usually I will ask a guest. |
| 1:15.9 | As I did, you know, we had Joe Shee in a couple days ago. |
| 1:18.4 | We had Ray Rado earlier in the week. |
| 1:20.6 | My co-host, Matt of Batacola, is on vacation. |
| 1:23.8 | So it's allowed for some of these longer form interview possibilities. |
| 1:27.2 | And usually I ask and i |
| 1:29.4 | mean it when i say how are you how are you doing and in your in your case i don't have to ask or i don't |
| 1:40.0 | feel i have to ask and i wrote down what I know the answer is based on reading the way you |
| 1:50.7 | feel. When you wake up in the morning, you tell the world how you feel, good, bad, or indifferent. |
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