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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
434. RECRAP LIVE! – Never win easy
The podcast gets off to the same kind of shaky start that Brad Keller had in the ninth, but both ended strong with the Cubs finally winning an elimination game against the San Diego Padres. Join Andy, Oleg and Praz as they break down the game and series winner, on the…
433. RECRAP Live! – An old familiar feeling
The Cubs became the first time in Wild Card round history to win the first game of a series at home and not sweep by winning the second. Well, at least no team that won the first game has ever lost the series. Yet. Gulp. Oleg and Praz are here to handle a very special…
432. RECRAP LIVE! – NLWC Game One – Open Up and Seiya!
The Cubs did a lot of unique things in game one of their Wild Card series with the Padres. They won for the first time in the postseason in eight years, they scored a run for the first time in 18 postseason innings, and they scored more than one run in an inning for…
Remember This Crap? 1986 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The 1984 Cubs were mostly still around in 1986 only they were older and mostly injured and pretty bad. The Cubs got off to a hot start, if 2-8 is hot, Lee Smith pitched a lot, like a lot a lot, nobody won 10 games, Jim Frey got fired. The Cubs fielded a dream twosome…
What time/channel/network is the game on? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Baseball games have been played, the Cubs are the greatest team in the land, Seiya Suzuki can’t be stopped and MLB is putting games on at weird times on weird channels, and blackouts are dumb. Andy and David take a look at the first week of games. They hand out…
Remember This Crap? 1982 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs were “Building A New Tradition” in 1982 with a new general manager in Dallas Green and a new manager in Lee Elia (no, it’s not THAT Lee Elia season). If there were Prospect Perverts forty years ago they were excited about a trade that…
Fearless Baseball Preview – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It’s time for the 2022 Baseball Preview Podcast and Andy finally gets his co-host’s name right. David Brown, National Baseball Writer for Bally Sports is back and after they get done making fun of the Marquee Sports Network Cubs Season Preview, they break…
Remember This Crap? – 1995 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It was the dawn of a new era for the Cubs with Andy MacPhail, Ed Lynch and Jim Riggleman wandering into town. They traded for Brian McRae, grabbed Howard Johnson off the scrapheap, and once they found out what a juggernaut they had they traded in-season for Todd…
Cubs open up and Seiya, new rules and more stuff with Dave Brown – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Against his better judgement Bally Sports National MLB writer Dave Brown returns for another week and the guys discuss the Cubs signing Seiya Suzuki, great commercials in Mariners history (it’s a thing), the new DH rule and what Joe and Shohei can do with it,…
Remember This Crap? 1980 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The wheel of crap lands on the earliest possible season and we break down the 1980 Cubs. Preston Gomez. Tim Blackwell. Lenny Randle. Dave Kingman. Dennis Lamp. Two Hall of Fame closers, two Cy Young Award winners in the bullpen, Bill Buckner won the batting title and…
Baseball is back and so is the baseball pod, with Dave Brown! – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The lockout’s over, and not only is baseball back, but the award-winning* baseball podcast is back with special guest Dave Brown, National MLB Writer for Bally Sports. The guys discuss where the promised flurry of signings and trades went, how Jed’s dinner…
Lockout ends and Remember This Crap – 2011 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It’s time to spin the wheel of Cubs crap again, but this time the pod starts with the guys talking about the end to the MLB lockout. Then the wheel lands on one of the most inauspicious years in Cubs’ history the Mike Quade-led disaster that was the 2011…
Jon Greenberg and Kevin Kaduk – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Not one but two interviews in this podcast, starting with Kevin Kaduk the head of content for the brand new CHGO Sports. Kevin talks about the new venture, how it came about, where it’s going, how theirs there’s going to be a bar and he pretends to not be…
Remember This Crap? Reliving Great Job Searches in Bears History – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears have had quite a few job searches since George Halas hired Mike Ditka over pudding and a wet nap in 1982, and the guys look at every candidate from all of them. Some of them you won’t believe they bothered to talk to, others you’ll be mad that…
Can the Bears really be next year’s Bengals?
At their introductory press conference on Monday, new Bears GM Ryan Pace Poles and new Bears head coach Matt Nagy Eberflus were asked a lot of questions and at least twice were asked if they could replicate the success of this year’s Bengals. Last year the…
Poles and Eberflus Live and Unplugged – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The guys break down the first Ryan Poles-Matt Eberflus press conference by playing it back and making fun of it. They find the whys, they try to follow Matt’s weird, overly complicated acronyms for everything, they relive the emotional moment when Ryan first…
Kelly Dwyer Returns – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Second Arrangement’s Kelly Dwyer returns to the podcast to talk about pertinent, timely things like how the Bulls can fill their power forward void, why it’s weird that George McCaskey wears a Bears’ letterman jacket, Easy Ed Macauley, Larry…
Bill, Ted, George, Tanesha and Soup’s Excellent Coaching Search Adventure – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
George McCaskey drops by to join the guys on the podcast as they discuss the firings of Bears’ GM Ryan Pace and head coach Matt Nagy. George explains why hiring an 80 year old consultant who seems to be just trying to sell a book is the key to finally finding a…
Jim McMahon has had enough of this sh*t – Remember This Crap? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
With the Bears and Vikings playing another meaningless season finale on Sunday, we look back to a more important game, one of the coolest in Bears’ history. It’s Monday Night Football on Thursday early in the 1985 season and the illustrious crew of Frank…
Learning the right lessons – Bears v. Giants – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears dominated a really terrible Giants team and the guys discuss whether or not the McCaskeys learned any of the right lessons from it. They also wonder if the inept play of an opposing QB has ever gotten a general manager fired. (Fingers crossed.) They bask in…
Best of the Giants – Remember This Crap – Pointless Exercise Podcast
If you didn’t hear it last year, or you have a less than great memory all of this stuff is new to you. There’s a lot of crap to remember about two of the oldest and most similar franchises in NFL history, the New York Giants and our beloved Bears. From Tom…