Remember This Crap? Cubs Center fielders – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs have been a professional baseball for (most of) their 148 years of existence and you’d think that over that time they would have a long history of excellence in center field. You’d be wrong. The guys are back to Remember This Crap about Cubs…
The A’s’ are moving, the Cardinals are sinking and the Cubs need to pick a lane – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
The A’s are off to Vegas and all Andy and David want to know is what does that do to the blackouts. The new stadium is going to be built on the strip, but did MLB get Moe Green’s permission? The Cardinals are bad and getting worse and somebody’s…
The Cubs are really something – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs are oozing back to the bottom, and some people are shocked by this. Let’s look back at how the free agent signings have worked out, what we can expect to get out of Matt Mervis and Christopher Morel, and why having three catchers is a complete waste of…
Jon Greenberg on the Bears, Cubs and Marquee – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Athletic’s Jon Greenberg is back again and there’s plenty to discuss. Did new Bears president Kevin Warren really botch the Big Ten’s TV contracts or is it just impossible to try to work for 14 university presidents at the wrong time? And what…
Baseball teams keep making it weird – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast with David Brown
After all of the weirdness, Willson Contreras’ exile from the squat lasted one week. David Brown is here to talk about that and all kinds of stuff like why baseball team’s can’t figure out how to use the injured list, Shohei’s flirtation with…
Cross them off, then – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
It’s only been a month but Andy and David are ready to start crossing teams off from playoff contention, and it includes an erstwhile rival of the Cubs—though maybe not the one you want it to be. But first, they talk about how two thirds of the San…
Early season surprises with David Brown – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Three weeks into the season is enough time to project playoff series and make all kinds of lasting judgements about teams and players, right? Even if it’s not David Brown joins Andy to help do it. They talk about the team with the biggest run differential in the…
Pointless Exercise – More first impressions
For the next who knows how long, I’ll be posting links and teasers to all Pointless Exercise newsletter posts, free and otherwise on desipio.com so that if Twitter continues their inconsistent fuckery with Substack posts and links you won’t be impacted by it. Now…
Pointless Exercise: First Impressions
For the next who knows how long, I’ll be posting links and teasers to all Pointless Exercise newsletter posts, free and otherwise on desipio.com so that if Twitter continues their inconsistent fuckery with Substack posts and links you won’t be impacted by it. Now…
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
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 remember 32 painful season of Cubs baseball…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…