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- How the Devers trade hurts or helps the Cubs
- Cubs winning despite patchy offense
- Podcast: Do the Cubs have enough?
- How good is Ian Happ these days?
- Podcast: Remember This Crap - Cubs All-Time Shortstops
- Podcast: Calendars can be complicated
- The real Cubs All-Quarter Century Team
- Cubs keep dropping the Reds
- Podcast: Is Seiya a star?
- No need for the Cubs to pace themselves
- McGuire comes up handy, twice
- Cubs are gonna get so rich off this All-Star Game
- Podcast: Hurry up and change
- Welcome back Matt. Nobody did anything while you were gone.
- M-V-P-C-A?
Latest Pointless Exercise Podcast Episodes
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...
Remember This Crap? 1982 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs were "Building A New Tradition" in 1982 with a new general manager in Dallas Green and a new manager in Lee Elia (no, it's not THAT Lee Elia season). If there were Prospect Perverts forty years ago they were excited about a trade that brought some kid named...
Fearless Baseball Preview – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It's time for the 2022 Baseball Preview Podcast and Andy finally gets his co-host's name right. David Brown, National Baseball Writer for Bally Sports is back and after they get done making fun of the Marquee Sports Network Cubs Season Preview, they break down every...
Remember This Crap? – 1995 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It was the dawn of a new era for the Cubs with Andy MacPhail, Ed Lynch and Jim Riggleman wandering into town. They traded for Brian McRae, grabbed Howard Johnson off the scrapheap, and once they found out what a juggernaut they had they traded in-season for Todd...
Cubs open up and Seiya, new rules and more stuff with Dave Brown – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Against his better judgement Bally Sports National MLB writer Dave Brown returns for another week and the guys discuss the Cubs signing Seiya Suzuki, great commercials in Mariners history (it's a thing), the new DH rule and what Joe and Shohei can do with it, will...
Remember This Crap? 1980 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The wheel of crap lands on the earliest possible season and we break down the 1980 Cubs. Preston Gomez. Tim Blackwell. Lenny Randle. Dave Kingman. Dennis Lamp. Two Hall of Fame closers, two Cy Young Award winners in the bullpen, Bill Buckner won the batting title and...
Baseball is back and so is the baseball pod, with Dave Brown! – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The lockout's over, and not only is baseball back, but the award-winning* baseball podcast is back with special guest Dave Brown, National MLB Writer for Bally Sports. The guys discuss where the promised flurry of signings and trades went, how Jed's dinner with...
Lockout ends and Remember This Crap – 2011 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It's time to spin the wheel of Cubs crap again, but this time the pod starts with the guys talking about the end to the MLB lockout. Then the wheel lands on one of the most inauspicious years in Cubs' history the Mike Quade-led disaster that was the 2011 Cubs. The...
Jon Greenberg and Kevin Kaduk – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Not one but two interviews in this podcast, starting with Kevin Kaduk the head of content for the brand new CHGO Sports. Kevin talks about the new venture, how it came about, where it's going, how theirs there's going to be a bar and he pretends to not be bothered by...
Remember This Crap? Reliving Great Job Searches in Bears History – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears have had quite a few job searches since George Halas hired Mike Ditka over pudding and a wet nap in 1982, and the guys look at every candidate from all of them. Some of them you won't believe they bothered to talk to, others you'll be mad that they didn't...
Can the Bears really be next year’s Bengals?
At their introductory press conference on Monday, new Bears GM Ryan Pace Poles and new Bears head coach Matt Nagy Eberflus were asked a lot of questions and at least twice were asked if they could replicate the success of this year's Bengals. Last year the Cincinnati...
Poles and Eberflus Live and Unplugged – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The guys break down the first Ryan Poles-Matt Eberflus press conference by playing it back and making fun of it. They find the whys, they try to follow Matt's weird, overly complicated acronyms for everything, they relive the emotional moment when Ryan first laid eyes...
Kelly Dwyer Returns – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Second Arrangement's Kelly Dwyer returns to the podcast to talk about pertinent, timely things like how the Bulls can fill their power forward void, why it's weird that George McCaskey wears a Bears' letterman jacket, Easy Ed Macauley, Larry Bowa, Bill Russell...
Bill, Ted, George, Tanesha and Soup’s Excellent Coaching Search Adventure – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
George McCaskey drops by to join the guys on the podcast as they discuss the firings of Bears' GM Ryan Pace and head coach Matt Nagy. George explains why hiring an 80 year old consultant who seems to be just trying to sell a book is the key to finally finding a good...
Jim McMahon has had enough of this sh*t – Remember This Crap? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
With the Bears and Vikings playing another meaningless season finale on Sunday, we look back to a more important game, one of the coolest in Bears' history. It's Monday Night Football on Thursday early in the 1985 season and the illustrious crew of Frank Gifford, Joe...
Learning the right lessons – Bears v. Giants – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears dominated a really terrible Giants team and the guys discuss whether or not the McCaskeys learned any of the right lessons from it. They also wonder if the inept play of an opposing QB has ever gotten a general manager fired. (Fingers crossed.) They bask in...
Best of the Giants – Remember This Crap – Pointless Exercise Podcast
If you didn't hear it last year, or you have a less than great memory all of this stuff is new to you. There's a lot of crap to remember about two of the oldest and most similar franchises in NFL history, the New York Giants and our beloved Bears. From Tom Coughlin's...
Why can’t the Bears ever do the obvious thing? – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
It was a Christmas (day after) miracle! Nick Foles led the Bears to a win in snowy Seattke and the guys are here to bask in the glow of a hard fought victory and wonder why the Bears haven't fired head coach Matt Nagy yet. They discuss what the delay might mean, why...
The Bears favorite playoff foes, the Seahawks – Remember This Crap? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears and Seahawks have played more times than you think in the relatively short (compared to the Bears) history of football in Seattke, but there have been some really memorable games. Hey, if it wasn't for them Lovie might not have ever won a playoff game! The...