Welcome into episode 53 of the Josh Hendricksson show.

I'm Neil McCready, joined by Josh Hendrickson, chair of economics at the University of Mississippi, otherwise known as Ole Miss.

Josh, I don't know what in the world we'll talk about.

Not much has happened in the last couple of weeks since we were together.

So you're wearing your Cubs gear.

You're very excited about spring training.

I take it.

And so we'll hopefully break down position by position.

The Cubs going into the 2026 season.

Starting at the catcher spot, Miguel Amaya back, competing for time with Carson Kelly.

Your thoughts?

How are you?

Oh, no, too bad.

Too bad.

All right.

So I'm going to be fully honest here and set you up.

I guess I knew something was up late last week, just sort of following the tea leaves.

But I had the house to myself this weekend.

And I went over to my parents' house on Friday, had dinner with them, came back here.

I watched an NBA game, went to bed, and got up the next morning to let the dogs out,

feed the dogs,

et cetera,

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