CHGO Chicago Cubs Podcast - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Love this podcast. These guys are insightful and true fans. They aren’t over the top or too full of themselves. You can envision joining the conversation and feeling right at home. This is the place for Cubs fans.

These guys are a must listen for Cubs fans. Luke is passionate and wise (old) like me. Cody brings the vibes, Del-metrics and tips back a cold one for all of us. Corey gives A+ recaps and says what we’re all thinking. Brendan has a PhD in baseball physics and should be on Jed’s payroll. Their postgame show is like pulling up a barstool with friends.

Corey & Brendon are the best Cubs podcasters. Extremely informative with a lot of structure to their episodes. They have been one of my favorite parts of baseball season since I started listening to them when they first started the Cubs related podcast.

CHGO and the additional hosts lack any structure to their episodes and spend less time actually analyzing baseball and talk more about things that are baseball adjacent like having beer bats at Wrigley or completely unrelated to baseball like Cody’s shoes and gambling habits. They often take over 20 minutes of the podcast before even getting to baseball.

Even worse is since the takeover of CHGO Corey and Brendan have been reduced to only once a week analysis of the Cubs instead of after every series. They remain the only reason I remain subscribed to this podcast and I have started seeking out other Cubs podcasts to fill the void (have been enjoying “Onto Waveland”). I wish there was a CHGO Cubs Related podcast for just Corey & Brendon to keep doing what they had been doing.

This is like Cubs talk on steroids. Love the new additions, love hearing Corey and Brendan break off for their stuff still, really been enjoying Brendan’s written stuff. It’s just a great team of people providing more Cubs coverage than I’ve ever experienced as a fan. Super happy that CHGO launched!

If you want to stay up to date on the current pulse of the average fan it’s a good podcast. But it’s extremely overreactionary in both directions. It’s like if Stephen A. Smith did a cubs podcast. There’s no big picture and the thought process seems flawed. For example saying this 2023 cubs team lack mental toughness is not really true. It’s just a projected 78-win team performing as such.

This should be a good podcast; Brendan and Corey are awesome. Luke is a good host. Ryan is a nice addition. But my god, Cody is the worst podcast co-host I have ever heard. He just talks in circles saying absolutely nothing. A meatball fan they pulled out of the bleachers just shouting nonsense. I’ll listen to episodes if Cody isn’t on the show but otherwise it’s a hard pass.