Welcome into episode 46 of the Josh Hendrickson show.

I'm Neil McCready, joined as you might expect by Josh Hendrickson, Chair of Economics

at the University of Mississippi, otherwise known as Ole Miss.

It's August the 20th. It's been a minute. It's our first show in August. We've been busy. I've had a little transition with my job. It's kept me a little busy. I had a son starting college. I had to get him moved in. Josh has been traveling at a speaking engagement. Some stuff with that nature. So this is our first chance to kind of catch up. So thanks for being with us. Really appreciate it. Josh, how are you? Doing well. All right, we always start with the Cubs. We'll start with the Cubs. It's August the 20th. Cubs trail the Brewers by seven games as we speak. There's two teams play this evening. In Chicago, it's conceivable.

The Cubs could cut it to five games or trail by as many as nine when the series

ends tomorrow.

It feels like the Brewers are winning the Central.

What are your thoughts on where the Cubs stand right now?

When I look at the brewers

every stat that I see about the brewers

is oh this is the first time in 40 years

that the brewers blah blah blah right oh this is the first time

in you know 55 years that a team has done this or whatever

so babe and the garret babe and So, Babe and the Gabe, Babe,

and the Iron Horse and the 27 Yankees

have nothing on these guys.

They have had unbelievable luck,

like just unbelievable luck.

And it's,

I keep waiting for like the mean reversion here. so I keep waiting for them to come back to Earth

and it doesn't happen I think that they have to come back to Earth at a certain point

maybe that will be in the regular season maybe that will be in the playoffs but they sort of have

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