Remember This Crap? 1987 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast

Sep 2, 2022 | Cubs, Cubs Live, Featured, Podcast, Remember This Crap

The Cubs had two Hall of Famers on their pitching staff, they literally got to write in any salary they wanted to pay another Hall of Famer to join their outfield, and they won 75 games. The year was 1987, Wrigley Field’s last without lights, Harry Caray had...

Remember This Crap – 1994 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™

Jun 3, 2021 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast

A Cubs season so bad that all of baseball decided to just end the season in August…it’s 1994 and that’s this week’s season to savor on Remember This Crap? Andy and Mike D. look back at Tuffy Rhodes’ three homers on opening day, the Cubs...

MLB Network remembers Harry Caray

Feb 3, 2016 | Featured, Media Hacks

Finally, in their seventh year of existence, MLB Network is regularly producing good documentaries.  A few weeks ago they had an excellent one on the Montreal Expos and last night they premiered one on Harry Caray. Those of us who were Cubs fans in the ’80s and...

Fox baseball booth to get more crowded, more huggy

Feb 28, 2014 | Media Hacks

So, The Big Lead is reporting that Fox Sports will announce this week that they will replace Tim McCarver with not one, but two analysts, to join the Joe Buck smarm-fest in their number one baseball booth starting this season. One choice is fairly inspired.  The...

New shit has come to light

Jan 31, 2014 | Cubs

Granted, I was 11 years old in 1984, but I thought I remembered most of the important stuff that happened that year.  I did not remember this: This video has it all.  It’s got Harry in his prime and he’s caught in mid-sentence bragging about his White...