Mike Grella

But, no, I ain't scared of the fucking Minnesota Vikings.

Like you mentioned, he was slumping a bit at the start of the year, but anytime you're hitting for the cycle, and he did it in reverse order, which is pretty sweet.

Hit a homer, then hit a triple, then a double, then a single, then promptly got picked off after a single, but who gives a shit?

A cycle is about as rare as a no-hitter.

So you'd think that, man, this actually probably happens a decent amount of time.

It really doesn't.

It's very hard to to do all of those things.

So, yeah, PCA is heating up at the right time.

It was weird because he wasn't playing very well in the Cubs were one of the hottest teams in the majors.

And then they went on a huge slump.

But they're going to need him if they want to do what they need to do.

And, yeah, PCA, I mean, defensively, he's always been a stud.

But once his bat comes around, like, he is truly one of the most exciting best players in baseball.

And any time, you know, we have a friend of the show who's slumping a little bit, it's nice to see them break out of the slump and doing that with a cycle at home, no less, is incredibly tough to do.

sure same deal healthy so this is the mvp war is the mvp thing not always but yeah usually like last year uh shohei and judge had the two highest wars by a mile and they both won mvp so you can usually kind of like if you have a very high war then yeah you're one of the best players in the league okay i'm happy we learned about this war stack because we definitely knew what that was connor oh yeah no doubt about it i definitely have seen it before today

I mean, it is very telling, but it is a very analytical thing and the type of thing where usually I'll just look at it, and if a guy has a high war, you should be like, oh, yeah, that guy's really good.

But I'm not big on calculating any of that mumbo-jumbo.

All the best players in the league typically have very high wars.

Bingo.

It's much harder to play shortstop than it is first base.