Obstructed View Podcast

In this episode berselius and Myles (and eventually Sitrick) discuss

Spring training is too damn long.

Spring training roster battles, or relative lack thereof.

An over/under on how many innings Bryant will play CF.

Big Ten basketball woes.

Players feuding with their front offices, including the White Sox clusterfuck.

Brake pumping wrt the bullpen.

Listen and enjoy. Or don't. I can't tell you what to do.

The Obstructed View Podcast has returned! In between multiple connection and technical difficulties, Sitrick, Myles, and Berselius discuss mostly offseasons transactions, including:

Dexter Fowler's return and Chris Coghlan's departure

The Zobrist and Lackey deals, and Starlin's Departure

#donttradebaez

Jason Heyward's insta-fit with the Club

Too Many Long Relievers

Various minor league deals

Matt Murton's arm hair

Enjoy! Or don't. I can't tell you what to do

In this episode:

Berselius manages to forgot to record the first 15 minutes of the conversation and we scramble to re-cover everything.

Arrieta v Lester in game 1.

Watching NLDS games in bars.

Cubs + Mets pitching matchups.

Wishing the Dodgers had beaten the Mets.

A little too much getting ahead of ourselves.

Enjoy. Or Don't. I can't tell you what to do.

Preview part 2 coming later today.

In this episode:

Wild Card lineup discussion.

2008 vs 2009 vs 2015.

Favorite moments of the season.

Unrecommended weight loss plans.

Sitrick can't have nice things happen to him.

Wild Card game predictions

Great gif reminicsences

Enjoy. Or don't. I can't tell you what to do.

The Obstructed View Podcast returns with an all new episode, only 20 weeks or so late. 

Coming to you from the officially official Obstructed View Recording Studio*, Berselius and Sitrick discuss:

Crazy predictions that we made fun of that turned out to be true.

Wide-eyed disbelief at how good this team has been.

Kris Bryant's rookie season vs. other notable debuts.

Career HBP leaders.

What the Cubs might do this offseason with its plethora of young players.

2008 vs 2015.

*i.e. my car, since my telecom is in the process of getting sued over its underdelivery of promised broadband access. Fun times. 

No Myles this week, he was off camping. And probably had better cellular data than me. 

Enjoy! Or don't. I can't tell you what to do.

In this episode

Any reassessments of team expectations, and grumbling that the Kool-Aid is back among some fans.

Quick Cubs bullpen discussion

The Cubs adventures on the basepaths

We take a look at the minor leagues

We play 'where are they now' with some former minor league prospects.

Reader question – who has the most exciting PAs in baseball, both now and in the past

Barry Bonds is probably still good at baseball

Fun with small sample sizes – we try to guess the current top 10 in WAR

Enjoy. Or don't. I can't tell you what to do.

In this episode:

Sitrick rants about Kris Bryant hype

We discuss the Addison Russell callup

Welington Castillo and the bullpen

This team is so much fun

Al Yellon and Paul Blart

Is a chili dog a soup sandwich?

Skyline Chili jokes

All three of us mangling the pronunciation of some word

Awkward edits due to the connection dropping out multiple times while recording.

Enjoy! Or don't. I can't tell you what to do.

You listened to every word.

Due to scheduling conflicts, we recorded this episode earlier than usual, and due to more last minute scheduling conflicts, it's just Berselius and Myles.

In this episode we discuss

This week's Cubs games, and how we actually have hope for comebacks happening

The parade of past their prime former Cubs pitchers from this week

Colorado craft beers

The Neil Ramirez injury and the Kris Bryant callup watch

Starlin Castro, Addison Russell, and trade value

The Kris Bryant callup news breaking as we record

Enjoy. Or don't. I can't tell you what to do.

In this week's podcast (recorded before Sunday's game), we discuss

Mike Olt's wrist injury

Extremely non-prophetic statements about Dexter Fowler and Jorge Soler by Sitrick

The knives are out for Starlin Castro

Andrelton Simmons jokes

Jon Lester narratives

Judd Sirott epiphanies

RISP woes

Someday we will all die alone, so let's go eat Arby's

Here's the kickstarter David mentioned towards the end of the pod.

In this episode:

We answer some reader mail

Discussion of the Baez demotion to AAA

Win predictions for the NL Central

Playoff predictions for the rest of the league

A strikeouts draft

NB: I tried something different to even out our volumes, but messed it up about 15 minutes into the podcast, and it sounds like David and Myles are speaking in a concert hall for the rest of the way. I should have this figured out next time….

You listened to every word.