Mark Grody

Born in Nashville, breaded in Wrigleyville, he also hosts the Compound Podcast, which is now part of Odyssey Sports.

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Ian Happ coming off of a rare travel schedule.

Is it a partial win when you got the night game on Sunday, but then you have a, you know, it's still in St.

Louis at least, and then you got somewhat of an off day yesterday before home series?

Ian, I think we're having some issues with your connection.

The audio seems to be popping a little bit, so we might try to have you reconnect, and we're going to work on it for a second.

So while we're trying to fix Ian Happ's connection, because it seems to be a little bit off, I've always heard, Marshall, that one of the nice parts about playing in the NL Central, and this was prior to the balanced schedule,

was that out of the travel, it was probably the least in the league as far as travel time, miles in the air, and the time it took to just go from one team to another.

But actually central.

as opposed to, say, a team that's in a central division, but they play in the West, for example.

Or, you know, the NL West, you're still traveling quite a bit just because of the length of the coast.

Geography.

Yeah.

Ian, what do you say?

We actually, I think we worked on your connection.

So we talked about the olden days of the unbalanced schedule and the travel load in the NL Central being the jackpot for players.

And then also you hitting well.