Trade Deadline Special – “Hipster pitch lab” – Pointless Exercise Podcast

Aug 31, 2020 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast

It’s the MLB trade deadline and people actually got traded, and the Cubs tried to cram human people into human sized holes on their roster. Andy, Sam and Kyle break down the Cubs moves and what the rest of the NL Central did. Whether the player was deeply...

Automatically sending home a runner is dumb

Jun 10, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

I love Len Kasper more than the average man.  I think we’re lucky to have such a good, entertaining, normal, analytical TV play by play guy working Cubs games.  After seven seasons of Chip Caray, I never take Len for granted. But that doesn’t mean I...

Cwis Wusso interviews Wen Kaspuh

Feb 24, 2015 | Featured, Media Hacks

The shoutiest of all MLB Network hosts, Christopher “Maddog” Russo had Cubs TV play-by-play announcer Len Kasper on High Heat yesterday to talk about the upcoming Cubs season. I’ll admit that I generally like Russo, especially when he gets all wound...

Joe called Ricky

Nov 5, 2014 | Cubs

True to his word, new Cubs manager Joe Maddon placed a call to former Cubs manager Rick(y) Renteria not long after the press conference to announce Joe’s hiring. You might think it would be awkward for the old manager to have to talk to the guy who not only...

Now we’re lousy with Cubs ads

Apr 8, 2012 | Cubs, Featured

As opening day got closer we were suddenly inundated with ads featuring the Cubs.  Nothing moves product quite like a team that will be lucky to avoid losing 90+ games again. It started with this ad from MLB The Show 12 featuring what it will look like (assuming we...