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- Great Until It Wasn’t
- Did Sh?ta just fuck over the Cubs?
- Another week, another book?
- Cubs should embrace “all encompassing suck”
- Your new favorite book is on sale now
- Book Excerpt: The Immortals
- Podcast: Are the Brewers more of a rival than the Cardinals?
- Even the good Cubs are getting screwed
- Jed’s plan is clear, and it’s dumb
- Out of options
- The Cubs aren’t close
- RECRAP: Bears win a gut-punch game
- Podcast: Let’s fix the intentional walk
- Podcast: Off seasoning
- Never too late to be too late
Latest Pointless Exercise Podcast Episodes
447. RECRAP – Icy weather, icy veins
For more than three quarters the Bears looked incapable of beating a pretty lousy Giants team, but when the Giants eschewed two chances to try to make it a 14 point game Caleb Williams decided he’d seen enough of this shit. It’s the RECRAP brought to you…
446. RECRAP – Bears win a gut punch game
The Bears offense was great, especially in the second half, and the defense was so bad that Chauncey CJ Gardner-Johnson has become a big part of trying to make it work, but in the end of a crazy game that felt like a gut punch loss, the Bears made the last big play…
445. Let’s fix the intentional walk – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Things are getting World Seri-ous (clever), and David Brown is back to talk about it. But we also get into some really important stuff, like how to fix the now passive four finger intentional walk into something fun and exciting! Does anybody need that? Of course not,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…