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- Great Until It Wasn’t
- Did Sh?ta just fuck over the Cubs?
- Another week, another book?
- Cubs should embrace “all encompassing suck”
- Your new favorite book is on sale now
- Book Excerpt: The Immortals
- Podcast: Are the Brewers more of a rival than the Cardinals?
- Even the good Cubs are getting screwed
- Jed’s plan is clear, and it’s dumb
- Out of options
- The Cubs aren’t close
- RECRAP: Bears win a gut-punch game
- Podcast: Let’s fix the intentional walk
- Podcast: Off seasoning
- Never too late to be too late
Latest Pointless Exercise Podcast Episodes
“What people don’t understand is…” Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
The World Series looms, so David Brown returns for a second straight week to talk about the great ALCS, Shohei doing crazy things in the NLCS and whether or not John Smoltz has always sucked this much. Andy brags about nailing his managerial opening predictions of…
Are any of these teams any good? – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
The playoffs are a week away and David Brown is here to try to help us figure out if any of these teams is any damned good? We also discuss why a team would allow a player to have a day off in the middle of a playoff run to go to…well, you know where he went….
“What people don’t understand is…” Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
The World Series looms, so David Brown returns for a second straight week to talk about the great ALCS, Shohei doing crazy things in the NLCS and whether or not John Smoltz has always sucked this much. Andy brags about nailing his managerial opening predictions of…
Are any of these teams any good? – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
The playoffs are a week away and David Brown is here to try to help us figure out if any of these teams is any damned good? We also discuss why a team would allow a player to have a day off in the middle of a playoff run to go to…well, you know where he went….
Why wait to celebrate? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs magic number is dwindling, and while Marquee and the Score couldn’t figure out how to calculate it properly, our podcast does. It’s the Cubs pod with Oleg and Praz and Mike has done the math. And while the Brewers wait to win the division to…
Who’s in? Who’s Out? – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
The season is in it’s final weeks and it’s time for David Brown to help us decide what races are real and who still has a chance to force their way into the playoffs. They look at the closest races and the remaining schedules to see who might have a chance…
REKRAP – “Perpetual rage!” – Pointless Exercise podcast
Your favorite overreaction podcast is back, it’s the REKRAP, not to be confused with that other one of a similar name. We’ve got big time sponsors, and we’re ready to tell it like it is, even if it makes you terribly uncomfortable! The Bears played…
421. “He’s pretty normal for a football coach.” – Pointless Exercise Podcast with Jon Greenberg
With the Cubs tumbling towards the playoffs and the Bears ready to kick off it’s a perfect time to catch up with The Athletic’s Jon Greenberg. We talk about Boog skipping out on the Yeti Yard, Jed signing old guys to make up for whatever that was at the…
No one is chasing them – Pointless Exercise Podcast
With Praz off the continent it’s up to Andy and Oleg to man the Cubs podcast and they really hit everything you want to know about your favorite team. Topic include: Ozzie Albies Hall of Fame numbers against the Cubs and at Wrigley, Carlos Santana’s role…
Is anybody still pennant racing? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The baseball podcast is back with David Brown and we take a look around the league to see what races have been run and there’s really anything left to decide. Are the Dodgers more or less vulnerable the longer they go through the playoffs? Why are the Brewers…
418. Being too negative will get you tossed from the bleachers – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs Podcast returns with the suddenly red hot Cubs (they’ve won four of five!) taking on those pesky Brewers. Praz fills us in on getting tossed from the bleachers for (get this) being too negative about the team. If that was really a thing, nobody would…
Cubs trying to spunk their way into the playoffs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Things are pretty bad for the Cubs these days. They’ve lost 17 straight games when they have trailed at any point, they have lost seven games to the Brewers in the standings since August 1 and haven’t gained a single game on them on any day since July 30….
Remember This Crap? – Cubs All-Time Second Basemen – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The longest running franchise in the history of crap podcasting returns with Andy and Mike D. breaking down 150 years of great, good, and awful Cubs’ second basemen. Do you know who Ross Barnes is? Of course you don’t, but you are about to. From Ryne…
Mat Purphy’s pantscake – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Jed Hoyer make a few solid moves at the deadline but botched any chance of fixing the Cubs biggest pitching problem, and so his Cubs find themselves staring up at the Brewers and their pocket pancake loving manager Mat Purphy…or Pat Murphy, whatever. Oleg and…
Ryno’s legacy and the risks of trade showcases – Pointless Exercise Podcast
With the trade deadline mere tens of hours away (is that a thing?) David Brown and Andy discuss the risks of showcasing players you are trying to trade in the final games before the deadline, the costs of trading for rental players, trying to win and sell at the same…
Trades and other Cubs nonsense – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs fell out of first place for the first time since April and who was there to catch them? Not us. Oleg and Praz join the podcast to talk about possible Cubs trade targets, why Rich Hill sucks, Andy feeling bad about agreeing with Adam Wainwright, why the DH…
What do the Cubs have to trade? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
We keep talking about who the Cubs should trade for, but what kind of trade currency do they actually have? Plus, how Nico and Happ make an imperfect leadoff platoon. A brief history lesson on the real curse of the Bears, and a few bobblehead stories. Really. All…
All-Star Shenanigans – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Home Run Derby included a homer robbery, a dad hitting his son and measurement controversies, so David Brown is here to break it all down. The guys also discuss Pat McAfee completely botching the pitchers and starters press conference when a reporter dared to ask…
“Well do it live!” – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The podcast finally concedes to the video age and not only can you see Andy, Oleg and Praz, but did you know the open and close have video? Well, now you do. They take a look at how the Cubs rank on offense and get some pretty good clues as to why they’re so…
Cross them off the list, then — Pointless Exercise Podcast
It’s time to take a look around baseball and tell the cold, hard, truth about whose season is already irredeemably in the crapper. David Brown joins the podcast to help decide what teams can be crossed off and can toss their players into the for sale bin. You…