{"id":613082,"date":"2026-02-20T06:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/613082\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T06:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:02:15","slug":"chicago-cubs-dansby-swanson-shows-that-hes-a-college-basketball-sicko-just-like-the-rest-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/613082\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs\u2019 Dansby Swanson shows that he\u2019s a college basketball sicko just like the rest of us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/chicago-cubs\/news\/cubs-dansby-swanson-shows-hes-college-basketball-sicko\/db8ce47a3051482195ab0d59?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Cubs\u2019 Dansby Swanson shows that he\u2019s a college basketball sicko just like the rest of us;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chicago Cubs\u2019 Dansby Swanson shows that he\u2019s a college basketball sicko just like the rest of us<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dansby Swanson found a creative and hilarious way to explain the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/chicago-cubs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Cubs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chicago Cubs<\/a>\u2019 roster-building, putting together comments that show he might be a college basketball sicko.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the roster and offseason additions, the Cubs&#8217; shortstop talked about Duke basketball\u2019s transfer portal to make a point about chemistry over star power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike Duke basketball. People were super underwhelmed about their transfer portal stuff a couple years ago. Maliq Brown, Sion James, Mason Gillis. Jon Scheyer said \u2018this is exactly what we need&#8230;this fits for our group.\u2019 Then they went out and did what they did. It\u2019s not about names but actual fits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swanson\u2019s comparison also shows a belief that roster success isn\u2019t always dictated by massive moves. Instead, it\u2019s about identifying players who fit what a team is trying to do. It can also be a possibility thathe simply knows Jed Hoyer won\u2019t make five big deals and they\u2019ll have to settle with one.<\/p>\n<p>This offseason, Alex Bregman was the one star they brought in.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>But the Duke talk is funny, as it\u2019s a bit surprising to see many MLB players know Sion James, Mason Gillis, and some others. Swanson is clearly taking a look at what the Blue Devils are doing on the court, as they sit at 24-2 overall.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs\u2019 Dansby Swanson shows that he\u2019s a college basketball sicko just like the rest of us originally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[74060,7,440,217,81307,701,18368,50087,231,772,1544,1560,2051],"class_list":{"0":"post-613082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-alex-bregman","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-college-basketball","12":"tag-dansby-swanson","13":"tag-jon-scheyer","14":"tag-maliq-brown","15":"tag-mason-gillis","16":"tag-ncaa","17":"tag-ncaa-basketball","18":"tag-ncaab","19":"tag-sion-james","20":"tag-transfer-portal"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116101443975391446","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}