Welcome into another edition of the Josh Hendrickson show. I'm Neil McCready, joined as always by Josh Hendrickson, chair of economics at Ole Miss. It's been a minute since we've been together, my schedule, Josh's schedule, stuff happens. People have lives. Most people have lives. Josh has a life. My life actually got busy in April, which I had more of a life than I normally do. So it's been a minute since we've been together. Josh, good to see you. It's good to see you. All right. You're wearing your Cubs hat. We're not going to do this long. People want us to get to stuff and we will as we tape this. Cody Bellinger ran into a wall. Hit a home run last night. It looked good. Everything was going great.

Runs into a wall.

He's a fractured rib.

I think it's going to be a minute before he's back.

Cubs are 14 and 9 in a bad division.

Although Cincinnati's played well, Milwaukee's played well.

Your hope range right now, one being I have no hope, 10 being, hey, I think this might be the year.

Where are you sitting right now?

I'd say yesterday was a seven.

Today is a six.

No, I don't know.

I think they've been surprisingly good for not being that good if you understand what I mean.

Like, so they're getting good results.

They're resilient.

Yeah, even though like they're not always playing well. They're not always pitching well.

They, they, they just win anyway occasionally. And so that's either going to correct at some point in the season where that good luck is going to turn into bad luck or maybe they're actually just a little bit better than I think they are.

Counsel is a hell of a manager.

That's the one thing that I've noticed.

I feel bad because I like David Ross and I thought David Ross did a pretty good job.

But you can tell a difference.

There's a, there's a calm that I don't know that they had a year ago.

It just kind of rides with things, let things happen.

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