Back with a Vengeance
Mar 26, 20262h 13m
This podcast will never die. We return triumphantly, with a long and loving preview of the 2026 Chicago Cubs season. Enjoy!
Hosted by Matt Trueblood · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 81 episodes
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Four long-suffering Cubs fans representing two generations and four cities throughout the Upper Midwest talk about whatever comes up—but what comes up most often is the Cubs.
Matt Trueblood hosts This is Not a Rebuild, a sports show with 81 episodes published.
This podcast will never die. We return triumphantly, with a long and loving preview of the 2026 Chicago Cubs season. Enjoy!
So, the Cubs didn't sign Dylan Cease. And it sure looks like they won't re-sign Kyle Tucker. Still, as the guys reconvene for the first time since the end of September, it's only fair to note: Jed Hoyer actually does som
We still exist! The pod went on a season-long hiatus, but on the eve of the Cubs' first meaningful playoff games since 2017, we're back with a vengeance, baby. Salacious Cade Horton gossip, tons and tons of thoughts on t
The gang discusses the tenuous Chicago Cubs offseason, the hopes and fears that fit within it, and the passing of Mr. Baseball, Bob Uecker. Then things get weird.
Three-legged, the gang does their best to talk Cubs during a lull in the offseason. With the team awash in options for upgrading the pitching staff, we discuss the discomfort of knowing they'll do something fairly big, b
The gang convenes for a pre-holiday podcast to discuss the Cody Bellinger trade, the ways the Cubs might spend the money they saved by sending him to the Yankees, and what this roster still needs most. They also gab abou
The gang convenes for a semi-emergency pod, to talk about the very exciting Kyle Tucker trade; why the partner deal sending out Cody Bellinger is necessary and forthcoming, but why it has not already happened; the next b
The gang convenes to discuss the MLB Winter Meetings, and all the huge doings and comings and goings and movings and shakings and LOL you know the real state of things. Discussed closely herein, though, are the Juan Soto
The gang discusses the arrival of Eli Morgan and Matt Thaiss, the departure of Patrick Wisdom and Trey WIngenter, how the Cubs seem to be setting themselves up for the offseason, whether they would really trade Cody Bell
The guys welcome special World Series correspondent Sorkin Trueblood for a guest appearance to open the podcast, then pivot into a lengthy discussion of the many good options available to the Cubs this winter—and the one
The gang breaks down the relentless inconsistency of the Cubs on the field, and the maddeningly obvious, unsolvable problem they face off the field: an ownership group that refuses to spend the missing $60 million that w
The gang reconvenes after an accidental layoff to concelebrate the Cubs' improbable August resurgence. They discuss the apparent breakouts of both Pete Crow-Armstrong and Miguel Amaya, why the starting rotation is simult
This one is a little more wacky than the title suggests, but we dove deep on the subject of the Cubs' decisions at the trade deadline. -The Morel-Paredes trade with the Rays -Acquiring Nate Pearson for the bullpen (or ma
In a de facto trade deadline preview episode, Matthew Trueblood, DJ Fochs, Todd Trueblood, and Tom Nurse kick around the many options facing the Cubs and the team's seeming lack of a decisive direction. Within: -What we
The Cubs are sellers. The 2024 MLB trade deadline is just four weeks away, so Jed Hoyer had better get crackin'. In the latest TINAR, the gang laments the underachievement that has brought the team to this point, muses a
The gang convenes to discuss the Cubs in crisis--although, perhaps, just as the crisis ends? (Time will tell.) Subjects covered include: the rejuvenation of Kyle Hendricks, the unfathomable badness of the bullpen, whethe
Three-fourths of the gang, one full hour! Not a lot of Cubs sunshine to bask in, but the group does break down: -What Craig Counsell has to do better -Why the conversations about this team's struggles feel so familiar, a
As usual, the guys range far and wide, but their reliable central topic remains the Cubs, and hey, the Cubs remain interesting! Good, even! We talk a lot about Mike Tauchman, PCA, and the relentlessness of the injury iss
Distractions lurk around every corner, but the gang talks about the Cubs surviving a tough early schedule to climb to the top of the NL Central at the end of April. They discuss Christopher Morel, Ian Happ, the injured C
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