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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
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...
Baseball preview with David Brown – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Baseball season is here and who better to preview it with than David Brown, who has spent his spring galavanting through the Cacti and Grapefruit Leagues. They talk about the Cubs chances in 2023, a fun conversation Dave had with Billy Williams, Nico Hoerner's...
Remember This Crap? 1984 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5_ZwCZsGyw Over the past couple of years we have recounted every Cubs season from 1980 through 2011 on Remember This Crap, and here is the culmination of those efforts. We saved the 1984 season for last. Were our efforts to...
Baseball podcast with guest Tom Loxas – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy completes the home and home with Tom Loxas who had him on his podcast a few weeks ago and Tom stops by to talk about the Cubs, including who is going to fill the big Seiya sized hole in right field to start the season, what are the Cubs going to do with David...
Dog days of spring training with David Brown – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Bally Sports Senior MLB Writer David Brown is on location in Arizona checking out the Cacti League, and provides an up close look at spring training, including an up close look at Shohei Ohtani, the pitch clock and why we don't need to see it on TV, the bigger bases,...
Pointless Exercise Podcast: The Guardian’s Andrew Lawrence on the Bears, Bulls and F1
Andrew Lawrence, columnist at The Guardian, is back on the podcast. He writes about important issues like culture, politics, the NFL, NBA and F1, but he's up for the regular nonsense of the Pointless Exercise Podcast. They discuss how the Bears could botch the number...
Baseball podcast with David Brown – World Baseball Classic, new rules, Super Bowl Props? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The baseball podcast is back with David Brown from Bally Sports and they start by talking Super Bowl prop bets? Well, it makes sense because David's a Kansas City resident. Then the baseball talk starts with a look at the World Baseball Classic rosters and the pools,...
A Marquee new hire, why is Tony Romo so weird, and stuff to watch on TV – Pointless Exercise Podcast
An old favorite Cubs has retired and Marquee Sports Network has snapped him up. No, it's still not Miguel Montero, but Dexter Fowler should be good at this, let's hope they actually use him. The Cubs have signed even more white guys since we last checked in. Spring...
Kelly Dwyer on Chip Caray, ’80s Cubs and Cardinals and the Bulls – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Kelly Dwyer returns to the podcast to discuss just how excited he is or isn't about the Cardinals hiring Chip Caray to be their new TV play by play guy. You can probably guess which way he feels about this. They even wax nostalgic about the guys who filled in for Chip...
Cubs Convention and new Bears Prez thoughts with Jon Greenberg – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs had a convention (you may have heard something about it) and the Bears have a new president and the number one pick and Jon Greenberg of the The Athletic drops by to talk about that and more. They talk about Marquee's coverage of the convention, Ryan...
The Bears tank all the way to the top – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The guys wrap up another fine Bears' season by breaking down the season ending Ryan Poles-Matt Eberflus press conference, arguing over whether Poles would actually draft a quarterback first overall and making fun of Aaron Rodgers weird, awkward, romantic stroll off...
Cubs end of season roster overview – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The calendar year is ending and we're just about six weeks from the start of spring training, so it's time to look at the Cubs' roster and see how it stacks up and...oof. Half the infield is set and the other half is just bad, the outfield is fully stocked with...
End of year roundtable – Pointless Exercise Podcast
For the first time ever, all of your favorite Pointless Exercise Podcast hosts are in one place at the same time as David Brown, Mike Pusateri, Mike Donohue and Andy Dolan sit down to discuss the year in sports and veer off into all kinds of related and unrelated...
The Cubs roster still has lots of holes
Whether the Cubs aimed high enough when signing one of the "big four" shortstops this offseason, (they didn't), the fact remains that they still have a lot of work to do to be remotely decent next year, much less to form the basis of Jed Hoyer's mythical "next great...
Remember This Crap? Bears/Eagles – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears finally have a new opponent, so Remember This Crap returns from hiatus to look back at all of the great games in the history of Bears-Eagles. And, after some digging they actually found a few. They have a storied playoff history and the Bears actually won...
Winter Meetings Recap – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The 2022 Winter Meetings were eventful, so David Brown of Bally Sports helps break things down. Why does it make sense for the Cubs to sign Cody Bellinger? Can Jameson Taillon set the all-time Tommy John Disease record? Why wouldn't the Cubs just pay Carlos Correa...
Bearly watchable – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears have lost eight straight games to the Packers and Sunday's was certainly one of them. The guys return to the podcast studio to discuss whether or not Justin Fields should have played (hint: yes) and whether the Bears limited his rushing attempts to protect...
Patrick Mooney on the Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The winter meetings are coming and who better to talk to about them than somebody who will fly to San Diego to stand in a lobby, The Athletic's Cubs writer Patrick Mooney. Patrick tells all about the Cubs vaunted pitch lab (or at least a sign that points to it),...
The Cubs’ quest for Cody Bellinger feels familiar – Pointless Exercise Podcast
On this episode of the pod we have our favorite guest of all-time. You'll want to check it out as he is less than thrilled by possible Ian Happ contract extension talks, gives you an update on the Cubs quest for a new shortstop, how will they live without the stars...