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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
437. RECRAP LIVE! – Live to fight another day
The Cubs staved off elimination and broke a historic streak of postseason run scoring futility (though they may have immediately started a new one) with a 4-3 win over the Brewers in game three of the 2025 NLDS. Oleg and Praz are on the scene to talk about the game,…
436. RECRAP LIVE! – Barely putting up a fight
The Cubs jumped out to a 3-0 first inning lead on the Brewers and spent the rest of the game in the fetal position waiting for Milwaukee to stop kicking them. Andy and Oleg handle the postgame duties and try to imagine a scenario where the Cubs finally start putting…
435. RECRAP LIVE! – Flush it
Sponsored by Murph’s Union 76 and the Pat Benkowski Sports Spectacular, the RECAP tackles the Cubs wet turd of a performance in Milwaukee to open the NLDS. But, just like you’d do with a real one, you just flush it and move on. Oleg and Praz are here to…
Remember This Crap – 1988 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs had a new manager, a new (very old) closer, a new GM who used to be an old manager, six All-Stars and they could play home games after sunset for once! It’s time to Remember This Crap about the 1988 Cubs. Greg Maddux was great for a half, Mark Grace…
All All-Starred Out – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
All-Star “week” (it’s only three days) was chock-full o’ stuff with the draft, the Home Run Derby and the weird uniforms in the actual game. David Brown is here to talk about all of that, potential trades, another new idea for the Derby which…
Remember This Crap – 1985 – with special guest Kelly Dwyer – Pointless Exercise Podcast
There is no wheel spinning in this edition of Remember This Crap because the guys decide to bring in a guest with a love of ’80s baseball and, inexplicably, the podcast. NBA writer Kelly Dwyer joins the fray as they discuss the 1985 Cubs who were riding high in…
It’s time for a baseball Superdraft! – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast with David Brown
Bally Sports National MLB writer David Brown is back on the show and the guys talk about the Cubs recent resurgence and why Yan Gomes is ever allowed to designated hit. Seiya’s back and Andy has big plans for him but he’s going to need his pal Rob Manfred…
Remember This Crap? – 2010 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It was a season so bad that the manager made up an excuse to go to Florida to take care of his mother to get out of it early. The last vestiges of the 2008 Cubs were either leaving after or during the season. Opening Day was a bad omen for the rest of the season and a…
“We can’t trust the Cubs” – Pointless Exercise Podcast
You asked and we answered. The baseball podcast this week is Cubs intensive, as Andy and Mike Praznowski take this awful team out to the woodshed. You’ll hear scintillating answers to questions like: Why is Jason Heyward still on the team? Do they not realize…
Remember This Crap? 2002 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Sandwiched in between the 88 win near-miss 2001 Cubs and the 88 win heartbreaking 2003 Cubs were the gawdawful 2002 Cubs. They got a manager fired, which got Ron Santo’s number unofficially unretired before it could be retired. Moises Alou showed up and…
Young Frankenstein Movie Deep Dive – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Movie Deep Dive Podcast with actor/comedian Mike Pusateri returns with the long promised, much anticipated Young Frankenstein episode. It’s one of the funniest movies ever made and toes the line between smart and stupid better than almost any other film ever…
Remember This Crap 1983 Cubs – Remember This Crap?
The other 15 percent take center stage as the wheel of crap lands on 1983. Lee Elia stood up for his team said a lot of really profane but accurate things and ended up getting fired a few months later, Leon Durham was the only All-Star on the club, Chuck Rainey almost…
Who’s already out of it? – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Bally Sports’ David Brown is back from field trips to St. Louis and Washington and he has important food-related things to report. The guys talk about a fantasy football league that doesn’t seem like that fun to be in and and they take a look at every…
201. Jon Greenberg returns – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Athletic’s Jon Greenberg swings by to talk about Marquee’s fiasco with The Reporters and the guys talk about all of the other things Marquee needs to do to fix things, including giving Cole Wright hazard pay for doing an hour pre and postgame for all…
Remember This Crap – Which Cubs get the next statue(s)? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs are ready to unveil the Fergie Jenkins statue, and the guys get so distracted by the fact the new “statue row” has two empty podiums that they spend the hour trying to figure out which players the Cubs are going to immortalize next. They’re…
Why don’t teams sell earlier? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The baseball podcast with David Brown is back and this week the guys discuss important baseball topics like why does Rick Sutcliffe think the Cubs are good enough to add players? Should the Cubs trade Willson Contreras? Why is it so much better when the Cubs bring up…
Remember This Crap – 2008 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs went back to the playoffs for a second straight year, and won just as many postseason games as they did the year before. But this was a 97 win team with a Japanese star in right field, a Cardinals retread in center, and a rookie of the year catcher. It was…
Unwritten rules are dumb – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
The red-hot Cubs won their second series of the season and fifth game in 20 attempts (yikes). Andy and David talk about Ildemaro Vargas’ wild day in the field, Frank Schwindel’s fortuitous flat tire, and some unfortunate (and a few convenient) injuries….
Bears Draft and current TV stuff – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears drafted some players and so it’s time for a spring edition of the Bears Podcast with Mike Pusateri. The guys take a look at the Bears picks, their strategy of not doing much to fix the offense, but how they did draft Velvet Jones. They also talk about…
What can 10 percent of the season tell us? – Baseball Pod with David Brown – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The season is nearing the tenth pole (that’s not a thing) and so it’s a good time to check in on the Cubs insistence on hitting everything on the ground, what’s going on with the ball, what’s the sticky stuff in the rosin bags these days, why…
Remember This Crap? – 1981 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The 1981 Cubs season was so bad that fans were relieved when baseball took two months off right in the middle of the season. The Cubs record was so lousy that they ended up with the first pick in the 1982 draft, but they didn’t have the worst record in the…