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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
Sports Spectacular – Pointless Exercise Podcast
You get teased with a big celebrity guest, but it falls through, so instead you’ll have to settle for Andy talking about upcoming books on the 2003 and 2016 Cubs, a pathetic plea for more paid newsletter subscribers and then actual sports talk about Justin…
Fun with run differential – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
David Brown joins the pod to talk about a really weird early season baseball stat, jump to conclusions based on small sample sizes and run differentials, Vlad Guerrero Jr’s big new deal, the Cubs chances of keeping Kyle Tucker, why torpedo bats aren’t for…
Remember This Crap? 1989 Cubs – presented by Manscaped™ – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy and Mike D. spin the wheel of the crap and land on one of the most fun seasons in our lifetimes, the Boys of Zimmer, the 1989 Cubs. They dispel some myths about Mitch Williams’ opening day tightrope walk, revel in a big moment from a backup catcher, the…
Movie Deep Dive – Draft Day with special guest David Kaplan – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It’s a special edition of the Movie Deep Dive Podcast and Andy and Mike Pusateri are joined by a man with an inexplicable love of the 2014 Kevin Costner-Jennifer Garner classic “Draft Day.” It’s ESPN 1000 Chicago and NBC Sports Net…
“Just stay above water” – Cubs Podcast – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy and Kyle are on hand to do the first in-season edition of this year’s Cubs podcast. They take a tour around the roster wondering if Javy is ever going to shorten his swing (he’s not), feigning shock at Joc Pederson’s early season struggles,…
Remember This Crap? – 2009 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy and Mike D. spin the big wheel of crap and it lands on the Lou Piniella’s final full season with the Cubs, 2009. You probably remember it best for Milton Bradley just being a complete psychopath, or for Kevin Gregg kicking his own team in the balls in a…
Movie Deep Dive- Rounders – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It’s time for another Movie Deep Dive Podcast and this time Andy and Mike P. are breaking down the Matt Damon/Ed Norton/John Malkovich/John Turturro classic Rounders. What’s with everybody’s hair? Does the math in the movie make any sense? Why is…
Remember This Crap? The 2001 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Once again, our heroes Andy and Mike D. spin the big wheel of crap to see where it will land what Cubs season they will discuss and this time it lands on a gem. Re-live Sammy Sosa’s greatest season, a fun but bad Cubs team that spent most of the summer…
Remember This Crap? The 1992 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It’s time once again to spin the big wheel and see what crap we have to remember and this time the wheel commands Andy and Mike D. to remember Jim Lefebvre’s exciting 1992 squad. It was Greg Maddux’s last year in his first stint with the team, Ryne…
The Cubs are back, but to what end? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Baseball season is nigh and man are we excited for the Cubs upcoming season! The baseball crew is back together with Andy, Kyle and Sam and they try to gin up some enthusiasm for what sure looks like the final promise of a Cubs run of dominance landing with a big,…
Remember This Crap? – The 1997 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Remember This Crap is back, and if you thought we remembered a bunch of random stuff about the Bears you will be amazed what we can remember about the Cubs. We spin the wheel of death and it lands on…1997. It was a very memorable season for the Cubs, for all the…
The tourney returns just in time for us to throw our money at it
A year ago at this time we stared into the abyss. A frightening pandemic was spreading across the world and sports were shutting down every time we looked at our phones. The NBA suspended their season. Baseball went home. College basketball conference tournaments…
Movie Deep Dive – Major League – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy and Mike P. give the 1989 classic movie Major League the Movie Deep Dive treatment. Relive the best moments of your favorite baseball movie, learn scintillating facts about the cast and the shooting, and wait until you hear about how they used to figure out how…
Moneyball – Movie Deep Dive – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy and Mike Pusateri are back with another deep dive into a great movie. This time it’s Moneyball, with Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and…uh, Royce Clayton? You’ll find out why Art Howe was so happy with the movie (he…
Movie Deep Dive Podcast Announcement
The Movie Deep Dive podcast is back for a long run, and here’s a short podcast to explain what we’re up to and to pick the next movie. If you missed The Right Stuff Deep Dive we did last fall, go check it out. New ones are coming soon. Subscribe to the…
Do the Bears have the right coach, No. 1 receiver, offensive line and defense to lure Deshaun Watson?
Nope.
Early Super Bowl thoughts and the Bears never-ending QB search
The Big Game™3 is more than a week away, but it’s not too early for us to start breaking it down, especially since I can watch it now that the Packers aren’t in it. It’s a very real thing that I refuse to watch Packers games, regular season or…
McMichael stole the ball! McMichael stole the ball! – Remember This Crap
You all remember Cap Boso’s turf face. You might remember Jim Harbaugh throwing the game tying touchdown to Neal Anderson’s feet. But Blair Thomas will never forget Steve McMichael stealing a sure win out of his hands. It’s time to remember a Monday…
“Everything is on the table” except competence – Pointless Exercise Podcast
You thought you were done with the Bears for the season and so did we, but the mind-numbingly tone deaf and just plain bad press conference last week with George, Ted, Ryan, Matt and Ringo deserved a breakdown so Andy and Mike P. are here to do it. They try to figure…
Todd Bell murders Joe Washington in DC — Remember This Crap?
The 1984 Bears playoff upset of the Washington Footballers in DC is remembered for a lot of things: the Bears broke a 21 year playoff win drought, they did it with their fifth quarterback of the season, the old school Washington team had a straight ahead kicker, a…