Remember This Crap? 1986 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast

Apr 13, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Remember This Crap

The 1984 Cubs were mostly still around in 1986 only they were older and mostly injured and pretty bad. The Cubs got off to a hot start, if 2-8 is hot, Lee Smith pitched a lot, like a lot a lot, nobody won 10 games, Jim Frey got fired. The Cubs fielded a dream twosome...

Remember This Crap? The 1992 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast

Mar 31, 2021 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast

It’s time once again to spin the big wheel and see what crap we have to remember and this time the wheel commands Andy and Mike D. to remember Jim Lefebvre’s exciting 1992 squad. It was Greg Maddux’s last year in his first stint with the team, Ryne...

It’s a big jump to the playoffs for the Cubs…but they’ve done it before

Feb 6, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

Their odds to win the World Series are down to 12:1, The Sporting News picked them to win the World Series and even Baseball Prospectus’ PECOTA system predicts them to finish within a game of the second wild card spot in the National League. So what do we think...

Not everybody wants to play for your favorite team

Dec 1, 2014 | Cubs

Being a Cubs fan wouldn’t be all that bad if it weren’t for two things: 1) the soul-crushing losing 2) other Cubs fans. For the past three years we’ve had it pretty easy.  The team has been purposely horrible (as opposed to the unintentionally...

Terrible Cubs of Recent Vintage: 1997

Apr 27, 2012 | Cubs, Featured, Oral Histories

The current edition of the Cubs is awful.  They’ve won six of their first 18, which is awful.  But the Cubs know awful better than anybody else. And so, here’s the start of a short series titled: Terrible Cubs of a Recent Vintage, a (fake) oral history of...