In October 2025, Bari Weiss was hired as the new Editor in Chief at CBS News, bringing her unique talent from the underground independent media space, into CBS News, one of the most prestigious newsrooms in American history.
The TV ratings plummented, a new story about Bari Weiss firing employees for being too woke or wanting to report on actual news.
See, Bari Weiss’s unique talent is convincing wealthy people of influence that they should give her some of that wealth and influence. She is the news editor who believes the news needs 1000% more Bari.
And the 2026 Chicago Cubs couldn’t pitch a Bari Weiss doc to Bari Weiss.
On May 16th, the Chicago Cubs fell off a cliff, losing 10 consecutive games out of nowhere but hit a parachute—softly landing to a 5-5 record since their 10-4 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on May 27th.
They’re currently tied with the Padres for the last NL Wild Card spot. FanGraphs gives Chicago a 47.0% chance of making the postseason.
When asked about the team’s approach to the August 3rd trade deadline, Cubs team president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer told ESPN and, “We’ll be looking at pitching at that point. [But] sitting here talking about the deadline, given how we’ve played, is the wrong thing to talk about.”
On paper, this team is stacked.
And although basically everyone in the batting lineup not named Pete Crow-Armstrong is cold at the moment, including shortstop Dansby Swanson, who was just “temporarily” benched this week by Cubs manager Craig Counsell—it’s Chicago’s starting pitching sinking them to the bottom of the division.
Cubs starters are 2-12 in their last 20 games and have a 7.11 ERA—dead last in the Majors. On the season, their 4.81 ERA is tied with the Astros for second-worst in the Majors, ahead of only the Rockies, the worst organization in sports.
Cubs starters are allowing hard contact 37.0% of the time, which ranks 3rd-worst in MLB. They rank 2nd-worst with 1.65 home runs allowed per nine innings.
They’ve sustained losses.
Matthew Boyd’s 3.4 fWAR in 2025 is gone as he’s missed the last month with a left meniscus injury.
Justin Steele has experienced setbacks in recovering from UCL revision surgery, not expected back until after the All-Star break.
Cade Horton is out until mid-2027 after undergoing Tommy John surgery in April.
Shota Imanaga and Jameson Taillon are healthy as hell, but both have ERAs over 4.50.
Edward Cabrera is striking out a career-low 21.5% of hitters.
3rd year reliever turned starter Ben Brown—shout out to my fellow Long Islander—has a 1.2 fWAR in his first 6 career starts this season. Just objectively, the only good thing coming out the pen every 5th day for Chicago.
Jed Hoyer and the Cubs should be looking for starting pitching at the deadline.
Or today.
Right now.
Get Ben Brown some help.
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