Off the Ivy, a Chicago Cubs podcast with Dan Bernstein, Matt Abatacola, and Cody Delmendo on 312 Sports.

You want a Cubs podcast on 312 Sports.

You have one and very excited to be here here proud to be here for the very first

episode of off the ivy a chicago cubs podcast i'm dan bernstein that man is cody del mendo

matt abatacola obviously will be a part of this as well he remains on vacation so we are getting

you started today.

Are you excited? This is going to be fun. This is really exciting. I can't believe Matt decided to

go across the world and miss out on this, honestly.

Hey, man. You know, if your family, if you got a family vacation planned, you take the family

vacation, not judging, judging no worries can't wait

for matt to bring his his experience as a cubs reporter his experience as a lifelong cubs fan

to everything we're doing and really as much as my question was are you excited about doing this pod

are you excited about the fact that the season starts tomorrow and

not just any season because it's been a while. It's it's been and I can't believe it's the 10 year

anniversary of of that parade and and walking around with that trophy or as Rob Manford would call it a piece

of metal. But the just the fact the fact that it's been some time since there has been a consensus that the Cubs are

definitely good and maybe great.

Yeah, this is for me the most expectations or the biggest, highest expectations for this franchise since 2016.

It's, there's plenty of reasons why it shouldn't have been 10 years, but we're here.

And I think Jed Hoyer has done a great job.

If you go all the way back to the trade deadline of 2021,

where he traded Anthony Rizzo, Chris Bryant, Javier Bayez, a bunch of relievers, and just completely stripped it down.

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