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...

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...

Look at this gem: Hot Days of August!

Feb 12, 2013 | Cubs

YouTube is the greatest.  Check this out.  Here’s a commercial free version of a late season special produced by WGN-TV in 1984 recapping the rise of the Cubs.  You get Steve Stone in a leisure suit, Harry in a sissy blue sweater, Jim Frey creepily staring...

Soul crushing flashback: Cubs-Padres Game 5, 1984

Feb 11, 2013 | Cubs

All winter long I’ve been tempted to take the time to watch the replay of game five of the 1984 National League Championship Series between the Cubs and Padres.  Why?  I mean, I know how it ends, and it’s ugly and painful.  But I was 11 years old when it...