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- Podcast: Craig has good taste in media
- It's time to have the talk with Dansby
- Jed got one of his rebuild trades very, very right
- Podcast: Even baseball teams draft quarterbacks
- Podcast: Jed's 'aggressively' looking for pitching
- Friday's Cubs win was amazing but incredibly, not unique
- Everyone can stop pretending that Jed and Carter are good at this
- Podcast: Shaw and his leg kick are heading back to Iowa
- The Cubs don't need an ace more now, they needed one all along
- The Cubs offered Petecrow a bag...with three big holes in it
- Podcast: Sports Spectacular
- Podcast: Fun with run differential
- Did Kyle Tucker's price just go up?
- Only the Cubs can stop the Cubs
- Podcast: Hey, these guys are pretty good
Latest Pointless Exercise Podcast Episodes
Craig has good taste in media – Pointless Exercise Podcast
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...
Even baseball teams draft quarterbacks – Pointless Exercise Podcast
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, why was it...
Craig has good taste in media – Pointless Exercise Podcast
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...
Even baseball teams draft quarterbacks – Pointless Exercise Podcast
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, why was it...
Jed’s aggressively looking for pitching, just seven months too late – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs are trying to bolster their bullpen with Drew Pomeranz? Hey, nobody's gotten a hit off of him in four years! Bruce Levine says that Jed's out looking for a starter and a "lock down" reliever and that would be great if this was November of last year when he...
Matt Shaw and his leg kick are heading back to Iowa – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Matt Shaw is taking his leg kick on the road to Iowa, the great Vidal Brujan has returned, the Cubs are going to have to find a way without Justin Steele for a while and half the lineup is struggling. And yet, the Cubs are in first place. Oleg and Praz are on hand to...
Sports Spectacular – Pointless Exercise Podcast
You get teased with a big celebrity guest, but it falls through, so instead you'll have to settle for Andy talking about upcoming books on the 2003 and 2016 Cubs, a pathetic plea for more paid newsletter subscribers and then actual sports talk about Justin Steele's...
Fun with run differential – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
David Brown joins the pod to talk about a really weird early season baseball stat, jump to conclusions based on small sample sizes and run differentials, Vlad Guerrero Jr's big new deal, the Cubs chances of keeping Kyle Tucker, why torpedo bats aren't for everyone and...
Hey, these guys are pretty good – Pointless Exercise Podcast
As the Cubs prepare for opening day 3.0 let's take a look at how things are going through the season's first nine games. The bullpen stinks, Big Jimmy Taillon's no great shakes, but most everything else is pretty good. Kyle Tucker's awesome, the catchers are playing...
Cycling to nowhere – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
Carson Kelly has joined an elite group of Cubs hitters...OK, well, he's certainly joined a group of Cubs hitters...who have hit for a cycle. Oleg and Praz are here to talk about every Cubs cycle in history, why the bullpen still blows, how the Garbage Family That Owns...
Opening Day! — Pointless Exercise Podcast
It's opening day 2.0 and the Cubs still aren't playing when the sun's out. Oh well, everything can't be perfect. Let's take a look at some big keys to the season like Matt Shaw being good, Petecrow taking the next step and Michael Busch hopefully proving he's more...
Don’t use the bathroom on the plane after Mookie – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Opening Day part deux is on the way and David Brown is on hand to discuss all of the important things you need to hear before the season restarts anew. Did the Cubs feel any shame losing two games in Tokyo to a third of the Dodgers' best players? Why did the Dodgers...
2025 Baseball Preview – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Worlds collide as both Pointless Exercise baseball podcasts join forces to preview the 2025 season. David Brown, Oleg, Praz and Andy sit around and yak about who's going to the playoffs, who's going to be MVP, Rookie of the Year, Cy Young and Manager of the Year. No...
Cubs have the fun Japanese players — Pointless Exercise Podcast
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 samurai sword, Sh?ta's...
Hats off to another great spring training – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Baseball's hat designers learned the hard way that there are many, many words for breasts all over the world. David Brown is on hand to talk about that, about his upcoming train ride to spring training, the Cubs departure for Japan, dumb things said on sports radio,...
Remember This Crap – All-Time Cubs Third Basemen – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Remember This Crap tour around the diamond remembering the greatest (and other) Cubs players at each position has reached the hot corner. Andy and Huey are on hand to tell you more than you'd ever like to know about every regular third baseman (and some irregular...
Oleg’s tales from Spring Training – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
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 piece and...
Hope and Sammy spring eternal – Pointless Exercise Podcast
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 guy only slightly...
New tech, new numbers, new third basemen, new beards – Pointless Exercise Baseball podcast
Thankfully ABS stands for Automated Balls and Strikes and not what Andy thought it did. David Brown joins the podcast to talk about the early days of testing the system and if there's a chance it could come to a big league ballpark near you this year. They also...
Can these Cubs keep getting better? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs are banking on some marked improvements from some of their young players (and Michael Busch) but how realistic is that? Justin Turner's contract terms show the Cubs will spare no length to save a buck. A deep dive into the psychology that makes the Garbage...