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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
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…
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…
Drew Lawrence on the Olympics, the Bears, etc. – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Olympics are here whether anybody’s ready or not and Drew Lawrence of The Guardian (and several other publications) stops by to talk about them. Why are they happening? Why are they playing softball on a toxic waste site? The guys try to come up with a…
1999 Cubs – Remember This Crap? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
A year after the Cubs’ inexplicable playoff run and Sammy Sosa 66 homer season, the Cubs were without Kerry Wood (because of Tommy John Disease), but decided the keys to returning to the playoffs were bringing back 40-year old Gary Gaetti and signing Benito…
Oh god, we’re back to having to pick a spoiler to root for
Some of you younger fans might not know that for much of our existence of Cubs’ fandom we’ve had an annual July rite that we gleefully got to eschew from 2015 until this year. The annual picking of the spoiler team we had to root for through the rest of…
Cubs Podcast – So long Joc, and soon many more – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It’s time for a Cubs podcast and Kyle joins Andy with Sam out on assignment, and the guys have breaking news to discuss with Joc Pederson traded to the Barves for an enormous prospect (literally.) They play a fun game of “Is he gonna be traded,” they…
Remember This Crap? – 2007 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Dusty era had ended, Sam Zell was in town screwing up the Tribune and trying to pump up the value of the Cubs so he could sell them to some unsuspecting dopes in Omaha, Alfonso Soriano, Theodore Roosevelt Lilly, Jason Marquis, Mark DeRosa and Cliff Lee were new to…
Bruce Miles – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Former Daily Herald Cubs’ reporter Bruce Miles is back to discuss his new blog at brucemiles.net, his new book, “The Phenom” and to talk a lot about the Cubs current and past. Has the Cubs’ six-game losing streak given the team permission to…
Remember This Crap? – 1998 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
All Cubs seasons are fun to re-live (well, most of them) but some are more fun than others and this time the wheel of crap has gifted us the incredible, ridiculous, insane 1998 Cubs. Sammy Sosa homered every day, Kerry Wood struck out everybody, Terry Mulholland…
Remember This Crap? 2000 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
The season opened in the land of the rising sun and sunk pretty quickly afterwards. Don Baylor was the new Groove in town and he brought back a mediocre former Cubs catcher and an actual lead off man. Kerry Wood didn’t debut until May after surviving his bout…
Fletch – Movie Deep Dive – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
Chevy Chase says it’s his best movie and who are we to argue? We give Fletch the Movie Deep Dive treatment. We discuss the long tortured road it took to the screen in the first place, the differences between the book the movie, the stuff Chevy just made up, and…
Remember This Crap? – 1996 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
It’s time once again to spin the wheel of crap and this time it lands on 1996. Jim Riggleman’s fighting Cubs tanked down the stretch (surprise), Sammy was bad at the start then great and then got hurt, Ryne Sandberg came back, Doug Jones hit the road,…
The Cardinals are plummeting and the Cubs need to avoid breaking their fall
I’m happy that Wrigley Field is back to full capacity starting today, but is it really smart to allow mouth breathing Cardinals fans into a packed stadium? Having Yadi breathing on people on the field is bad enough, but we know the people least likely to be…
Remember This Crap? – 1977 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
When the 2021 Cubs tied the 1977 team for best record in May, it made us wonder what the hell happened to those 1977 Cubs. They had an 8.5 game lead and finished 20 games out of first, somehow. So, Mike D. and I brought in old friend Frank Nova (we needed somebody old…
Remember This Crap – 1994 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
A Cubs season so bad that all of baseball decided to just end the season in August…it’s 1994 and that’s this week’s season to savor on Remember This Crap? Andy and Mike D. look back at Tuffy Rhodes’ three homers on opening day, the Cubs…
“It’s fun to watch them stick it to their owners” – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
Sam joins Andy for the Cubs podcast and they discuss the strange sensation of seeing a team totally turn things around right before your eyes. The Cubs smacked the Padres around pretty good and started what’s supposed to be a make or break June schedule gauntlet…
Remember This Crap? – 1991 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
After some fond remembrances of Andy’s time as an official scorer in the Midwest League, he and Mike D. spin the wheel of crap and it lands on…well, a year they can’t do because of their only rule, so they spin again and get the Don Zimmer/Jim Essian…
Remember This Crap – 2005 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
Neifi saved the season! At least that’s what Dusty Baker insisted. We spin the wheel of crap and it lands on 2005 so we re-live Nomar’s groin injury, Kerry Wood disappearing early and often between innings of starts, Derrek Lee’s should have been MVP…
The Big Lebowski – Movie Deep Dive – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
It’s time for a deep dive into the 1998 Coen Brothers’ classic, “The Big Lebowski”, and at over two hours it’s perfect if you’re not into that whole brevity thing. Andy and Mike P. discuss the seemingly disjointed plot that all…
“We’re doing this again?” Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
Andy, Sam and Kyle have reassembled to discuss the Cubs season to date. Everybody’s hurt, but it’s not serious, you know the same thing that the Cubs training staff has said every time anybody has gotten hurt, ever. They play a fun game of “whose…