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- 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?
- Podcast: Keep them kids
- Podcast: How hard could it be?
Latest Pointless Exercise Podcast Episodes
Calendars can be complicated – Pointless Exercise Podcast
After pondering when a new century actually starts, Andy and David Brown discuss the Cubs' All-Quarter Century team, and Andy explains his reasoning for so much Javy. They also wonder if the Corbin Burnes injury will turn the D'bags into sellers and if Zach Gallen is...
Is Seiya a star? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Oleg, Praz and Andy discuss all of the hot topics, like: can you bat Petecrow and Busch back to back, is Seiya a star, does Jed already have a contract extension, why doesn't Tommy Hottovy get more crap, and would you rather have the Dodgers' offense or the Cubs'?...
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...
Justin Time – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
The Cubs have a new right handed hitter and the guys try to not confuse Justin Turner with NFL massage enthusiast Justin Tucker, and they remember the time Justin Turner tried to kill everybody during the Dodgers 2020 World Series celebration. Oleg, Praz and Andy...
All-Time Cubs Rightfielders – Remember This Crap
The longest running half-assed historical podcast on the Cubs (probably) is back, and this time Andy and Huey are taking a look at the long, distinguished history of Cubs' right fielders. And we don't just mean Nate Schierholtz. Who were the best ever? Who were the...
Brother can you spare $40 million? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Alex Bregman took the higher offer and picked the Red Sox over the Cubs. Tom Loxas is on hand to discuss whether that's a blessing in disguise for the Cubs, and the guys try to figure out why Jed was thanking the Omaha Hillbillies for letting him make an offer but...
So many questions as baseball begins again — Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Is Alex Bregman worth signing even in the short term? Would it even make sense if the Cubs signed him and traded Nico Hoerner to save a few bucks? Who was a bigger prick, Jim Edmonds, Curt Schilling or Troy Glaus? The answer of course is Trevor Bauer. Does Shohei...
Shocking death of 102 year old, Cubs new TV dope, Super Bowl Props and more — Pointless Exercise Podcast Audio episode • 01:11:33
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...
So long, Tiny – Pointless Exercise Podcast
There's plenty of Cubs intrigue to talk about with the team apparently involved in trade discussions with the Padres for a top of the rotation starter and/or a closer, so Praz and Oleg are on hand to discuss it all. But it's a podcast done with heavy hearts as the...
Shopping for old friends – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs roster might smell like it's pretty well done (or it might smell like something you have to bag up at the dog park), but they are still being linked to a number of moves, including a trade for a former hot shot prospect of their own and a very old reliever...
David Brown – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Spring is just around the corner so it's time to bring in David Brown to talk about the Cubs and Alex Bregman, owners disingenuity about free agency, going to Japan, fun with the automated ball and strike appeal system, the evil...