May 15, 2025 | Bears, Cubs, Featured, MLB, NFL, Podcast, Pointless Exercise
It’s the 400th Pointless Exercise Podcast! Either it’s a huge hit, or we can’t take a hint. What should the Cubs do with Cade Horton and Moises Ballesteros when Ian Happ and Sh?ta come back? Why was Pat treating Ron Coomer like a meterologist the...
May 13, 2025 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Pointless Exercise
Oleg and Praz join the podcast to discuss the arrivals of Cade Horton and Moises Ballesteros on the Cubs roster and discuss other great 22s and 25s in Cubs history. They talk about Cade’s impressive debut against the Mets and try to figure out how to keep Moises...
May 6, 2025 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Pointless Exercise
It’s time again to talk baseball with David Brown, and in this scintillating episode we discuss how the D’bags won the Paul Goldschmidt seven years after the fact! (Kind of.) Why math and common sense tells you that if the Cubs don’t call Cade Horton...
May 1, 2025 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Oral Histories, Podcast, Pointless Exercise
An intrepid reader searched for Neifi Perez the other day and was horrified and amused at what they found. They shared the results with Andy and in this podcast you’ll get a dramatic retelling of the events surrounding Neifi and the rosin bag. Plus,...
Apr 29, 2025 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Pointless Exercise
Craig Counsell clearly read the newsletter and listened to the podcast and came to the conclusion that dropping Dansby Swanson in the order was a good idea. Oleg, Praz and Andy discuss reordering things, Sh?ta dodging a major injury (though with the Cubs you never...
Apr 24, 2025 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Pointless Exercise
With the NFL Draft going on, Andy and Dave look back at when the Kansas City Royals just kept drafting Hall of Fame football players. Plus, fun with official scoring, when is a save a win, what happens when you try to send your Rule V “star” to the minors,...
