Cubs 1st Place Momentum Check

Monday Morning Cubs Show · May 11, 2026 · 1h 4m · transcript

Back to back shutouts can mess with your head, but we’re not letting two quiet nights rewrite what the Chicago Cubs have built so far. We zoom out on a 5-2 week, the end of a brutal stretch without an off day, and what it really means when you run into a fully healthy Jacob deGrom throwing a masterpiece. Baseball does this to everyone, and the point is how you respond, not how you feel in the moment.

From there, we get into the stuff that actually holds up across a long MLB season: roster depth, a real “next man up” mentality, and the small leadership moments that show a young core growing up…