May 22, 2025 | Bears, Cubs, Featured, MLB, NFL, Podcast, Pointless Exercise
Matt Shaw is back and playing well, Cade Horton is looking good, Petecrow’s on an MVP pace, Kyle Tucker is even better than we thought and Tom Loxas is here to talk about all of it. What could go wrong? Plus more announcer talk (groan, I know), what’s up...
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...
Mar 13, 2025 | Bears, Cubs, Featured, MLB, NFL, Podcast, Pointless Exercise
Sure, the Dodgers might have the best player of his generation and two other Japanese fireballers, but there’s no dispute that the Cubs’ Japanese players returning home to play in next week’s games are more fun. Seiya’s hitting baseballs with a...
Mar 4, 2025 | Bears, Cubs, Featured, MLB, NFL, Podcast, Pointless Exercise
Oleg is back from a whirlwind trip to Cubs spring training, Innings Festival and his first look at Toilet Flapper Field and he has stories to tell. Praz tries to guess who Gary Clark Jr’s favorite Cub is, and Andy is relieved that Petecrow’s leg is in one...
Feb 27, 2025 | Bears, Cubs, Featured, MLB, NFL, Podcast, Pointless Exercise
Spring Training is in full swing and enough of it has passed that Sammy Sosa showed up, so Tom Loxas is here to talk about it. Sammy’s there passing along his wisdom to the young players (“Don’t take $80,000 to a hotel lobby in a towel”) and a...
Feb 6, 2025 | Bears, Bulls, Cubs, Featured, Media Hacks, MLB, NBA, NFL, Podcast, Pointless Exercise
When a 102-year-old matriarch of an NFL team dies you have to do an emergency podcast to help people through their shock. Or maybe you just do a regularly scheduled solo pod to talk about that, the Cubs still kind of pursuing Alex Bregman, their commitment to mediocre...