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 all really want this team to be, and the painful moves that might be required to get there

-What a multi-step move that takes Justin Steele, Nico Hoerner, Ian Happ and/or Seiya Suzuki away but makes this team better would look like

-Why the team should be very aggressive about moving their newly healthy and productive relievers

-A long discussion of the right way to apply a tag on a bad throw home from an infielder, for some reason

-How to decide whether Jed Hoyer should still be deciding the direction of this team, and how much who's making those calls matters when we don't trust ownership