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- 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?
- Podcast: Keep them kids
Latest Pointless Exercise Podcast Episodes
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...
Baseball Winter Meetings with David Brown – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Baseball expert and first time Hall of Fame voter David Brown is on the pod to talk about the Winter Meetings, the joys of the Opryland Hotel, guys falling into fountains and whether or not Shohei can hold up the entire the market. They make the case for why Shohei...
You can fire him without telling him – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The guys celebrate another aesthetically satisfying Bears win by wondering how you can get an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for having someone try to rip your face mask off. They congratulate Matt Eberflus on finally winning a division game and wonder if he'd accept...
A lot of fresh Lions jerseys – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The guys recap the Bears stunning yet inevitable (there has to be a German word for that) last second loss to the Lions and blame it all on the shifty Lions' timekeeper. They compare when in the game they realized the Bears were going to lose, they ponder what the...
All Bears all the time – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
With Mike Praznowski on the injured list it was up to Mike Pusateri and Andy to soldier on with a podcast focused intently on the Chicago Bears and their thrilling victory over the Panthers and upcoming tilt in Detroit. And on the actor's strike, and Chicken By...
Bears can’t lose even if they lose – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears take on the Panthers in one of the least anticipated Thursday Night Football games of all time, but it actually is a pretty important game for them. Not only could Justin Fields return, but since they own both their pick and the Panthers first rounder they...
Cubs launch Ross and hire Craig Counsell – with Tom Loxas – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The way the rumor mill churns it's a rare thing to be completely shocked by sports news, but the Cubs pulled it off by stunning us by firing David Ross and replacing him with baseball's best manager, Craig Counsell. Did that really happen? Tom Loxas and Andy went on...
Gonna make you Sweat – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The guys have another riveting Bears loss to discuss, but there's also the trade deadline where the team spent another second round pick on a player at a position of need and dangled another young veteran defender for a possible deal. Why does Montez Sweat make sense...
Remember This Crap? Bears/Chargers – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears and Chargers face off on Sunday night, so it's time to give the LA/SD/LA Chargers the Remember This Crap treatment. Where else are you going to get in-depth conversations about whether John Hadl went to Notre Dame, when was Sid Luckman the Bears' offensive...
They were due – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The guys bask in the glow of the Bears' first home win in nearly 400 days and who better than longtime Bears fans to discuss the play of a backup quarterback. After all, no fanbase knows what bad backup quarterbacking looks like better than the Bears, and Tyson Bagent...
Jon Greenberg on the legacy of the 2003 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Athletic's Jon Greenberg discusses the interviews he did for the 20th anniversary oral history he wrote on the 2003 Cubs. Mark Prior, Kerry Wood, Dusty Baker, E-ramis Ramirez, Jim Hendry, Gabor Bako, Eric Karros, Shawn Estes and more (all the stars) talked about...
Bagent of change – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears just cannot have nice things. After Justin Fields put his best nine quarters of football together, he face planted figuratively in the first half and then literally as his facemask made his thumb bend in the wrong direction. The guys talk about Tyson...
The playoffs are not the regular season – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
David Brown is back to talk about the baseball playoffs and the guys discuss the overwrought narrative around the first round byes, and how it's really OK that the playoffs are unpredictable. They also talk about the Phillies home field advantage and what made that...
Back on track – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The guys have a spirited discussion in this one, which starts with Andy talking about paying to go see somebody else's podcast live, but then turns into a discussion of what happens to Justin Fields if the Bears end up with the number one overall pick, but it's not...
A short week and a short leash – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The guys ponder the future of Bears overmatched head coach Matt Eberflus, and whether or not the mini-bye that comes from playing a Thursday night game is the worst possible timing for him if he's trying to keep his job. Look back and the Bears' historic stubborn...
Cubs postmortem and playoff preview – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Despite the Cubs falling down and crapping on themselves, the baseball playoffs will start on schedule without them. David Brown joins the pod and after Andy gives the most awkward intro ever, the guys start and end the podcast with deep thoughts on the recent past...
Remember This Crap – Bears v. Broncos – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears and Broncos matchups go back more than 50 years and there have been some infamous heroes (Devin Hester, Eddy Piniero, Tim Tebow) and hapless goats (Marion Barber III, Dave Wannstedt, Jim Flanigan). Some Bears greats played for both teams like Jay Cutler,...
Home dogs to a team that just lost by 50 – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
Against their better judgement the guys relive the week that was at Halas Hall and Arrowhead Stadium. At least the Bears made Taylor Swift happy, so that should be worth something, right? They dig into the Peanut Tillman raid, Justin Fields yelling at reporters...
Remember This Crap – All-time Bears’ indignities and Bears-Chiefs history
Remember This Crap is back and it's a two-fer? Who better than these guys to recall the most embarrassing days in Bears history, and to regale you with tales of Bears-Chiefs history? It's the only Bears podcast you'll hear this week with discussions about Jeremiah...