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…
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…