Sure as God may green-appled someday the Chicago Cubs are going to be in the

world series and maybe sooner than we think. Good morning and welcome to episode

151 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball perspectives.

New York, New York. I am Ben Lindbergh in Long Beach, California. He is similar

and joining us today to talk about the Cubs from Devon Port, Iowa. The town that

is blacked out of every MLB TV game is Colin Wires. Good morning Colin. Good

morning, that'd be on. And our guest or Pete Barrett's guest after Colin's

interview will be Patrick Mooney, the Cubs beatwriter for CSNChicago.com. Wait what's

the story about the blackouts? Iowa has about 16 blackouts for MLB.tv. It's Cubs,

White Socks, Brewers, Twins, Royals, Cardinals if I remember correctly. Wow so basically

I'm going to obviously accept the Cardinals. So if none of those teams are playing

each other then six out of 15 games are blacked out every day. Yep, brutal. It's, it's

yeah. But hey, you know, otherwise I couldn't go back and watch archive footage of every

single ground ball that Bet Lawley fielded in the shift. So you know, you make sacrifices.

I'm sure Iowa has many other advantages. I'll let you know when I find them. Okay, so

it's been now 10 days and counting since the Tony Campana trade. How are you holding

up and where any reason to watch the Cubs a can panelists Cubs this I have to tell you.

I nearly wept tears of joy when I saw that he'd been traded. And that was before I saw

they got actual lie arm pitchers back for him. Two of them young who might actually make

the major Sunday. I it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. How do you explain the

cult of Campana? The Cubs, the Cubs have spent years trying to build this really weird

lawn-based percentage high slugging free agency offense where you get a bunch of old slow

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