Pete Alonso has been the driving force of Cubs-related news over the last few days, which is really only a good thing for those of us who operate blogs that get more traffic from rumors than from actual news. It started out with 670 The Score’s Bruce Levine saying the Cubs would do “everything they can” to trade for Alonso this winter, then continued with ESPN’s Jesse Rogers reporting on ESPN 1000 that the slugger “wants to come here.”
While I’m sure the dueling scuttlebutt has absolutely nothing to do with radio ratings — ESPN 1000 trails 670 The Score by a wide margin in the coveted weekday prime slots — it’s impossible to deny the commercial merit of topics like this.