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- Podcast: Let’s fix the intentional walk
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- Never too late to be too late
Latest Pointless Exercise Podcast Episodes
431. 1984 NLCS – Best of Remember This Crap
The Cubs and Padres have met in the playoffs before, and while Mike and Andy covered it in their epic three hour Remember This Crap on the 1984 Cubs, how about a chance to prep for this year’s matchup by listening to just the portion about the NLCS? And if you…
430. MLB Playoff Preview – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The playoffs start on Tuesday, and Oleg and Praz are here to help preview the whole thing. Including the upcoming day playoff games at Wrigley, which should be really cool. Especially if they end like every day playoff game against the Padres at Wrigley Field have in…
429. RECRAP – Why does it always have to be so hard?
On this episode of your favorite short-form Bears podcast sponsored by a dead auto dealer and Pat Benkowski’s Sports Spectacular, we discuss the Bears incredible (and often frustrating) win over the Las Vegas Raiders. The Bears showed a lot of grit, and an…
Why can’t the Bears ever do the obvious thing? – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
It was a Christmas (day after) miracle! Nick Foles led the Bears to a win in snowy Seattke and the guys are here to bask in the glow of a hard fought victory and wonder why the Bears haven’t fired head coach Matt Nagy yet. They discuss what the delay might mean,…
The Bears favorite playoff foes, the Seahawks – Remember This Crap? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears and Seahawks have played more times than you think in the relatively short (compared to the Bears) history of football in Seattke, but there have been some really memorable games. Hey, if it wasn’t for them Lovie might not have ever won a playoff game!…
We all need to be put out of our misery – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears played a spirited but incompetent game at home against the Vikings and lost. Matt Nagy kept losing his mind–or what’s left of it–on the sidelines. Teven Jenkins decided somebody had to finally stand up for their quarterback. A sixth round…
Walter Payton destroys the Vikings…again – Remember This Crap? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
With the Bears and Vikings ready to see if anybody’s healthy enough to play on Monday, the guys look back at a classic matchup of the two teams from 1979. Seriously. It’s a CBS production with a young Bob Costas teaming with current Bears’ all-time…
More primetime indignity – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears went up to Lambeau Field to humiliate themselves and us and they managed to not do it for an entire half! Heady times. Andy and Mike P. break down the fluky first half and the predictable fiasco that was the second half. They try to figure out what kind of…
This Bears Packers thing used to be the other way around – Remember This Crap? – 1985 Monday Night Football
You might not be old enough to remember that it used to be the Bears who handed out the repeated thumpings in Packers games, but Mike D. and Andy do, and they are taking a look back at one of the most humiliating nights in Packers’ history. It was a Monday night…
The beginning of the end of the beginning of the end? – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears and Cardinals played what technically met the minimum qualifications for an NFL football game on Sunday and Andy and Mike P. are ready to break it all down, tell you what they saw on the all-22 footage and…, well, mostly they’re just going to…
The Bears oldest and most irrelevant rival – Remember This Crap? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears and the Cardinals go back to even before they both played in Chicago, and yet, there aren’t that many memorable games in the 121 year history of the “rivalry.” The guys take a look back at how the rivalry got started, the many moves of the…
Bears ruin another Thanksgiving – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears and Lions put America through an unwatchable slog in the early game on Thanksgiving and Mike P. and Andy are here to talk about it, about the weird week that preceded it (even by Bears’ standards), and about where the Bears go from here. They have…
Thanksgiving Special – Remember This Crap – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Few teams have ruined more Thanksgivings for their fans than our Bears, and Mike D. and I felt it necessary to Remember This Crap about the many times the Bears have caused us indigestion on Turkey Day. They’ve been better on that day than you might think, then…
Nobody drives the narrative like our Bears – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears played a wet turd of a game on Sunday against the Ravens, the only reason to watch them got hurt, Matt Nagy blew all three second half timeouts in spectacular fashion, and on Tuesday morning we thought it all finally got him fired. Until he wasn’t….
Remember This Crap: “Did that guy go to prison?” Bears-Ravens – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears and Ravens don’t have a long, illustrious history but the Bears have gotten the better of Baltimore in the series, even if the Ravens have been a more consistently good team than the Bears during the last quarter century. Andy and Mike D. recall Ravens…
Enough stupid to go around – Bears v. Steelers – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Matt Nagy was back on the sidelines and so was all of the dumb stuff that makes his coaching so special in the Bears 29-27 loss to the Steelers. The good news was that Justin Fields looked great, the bad news was that the Bears and the officials combined for so much…
Remember This Crap – Bears v. Steelers – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears and Steelers square off on Monday Night and since there’s no Manning Brothers Jamboree on ESPN2, you might as well just play this podcast while you watch the game with the sound down. Andy and Mike D. look back at the long history of the Steelers (a…
Occasional bouts of competence – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears played without Matt Nagy on Sunday, something we’d all like to get used to. Justin Fields looked really good, something we’d also like to get used to. And yet, the Bears suffered a pretty dispiriting loss with a terrible defensive effort, and…
Kelly Dwyer Returns – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The biggest stars of Substack join forces as internationally renowned NBA scribe Kelly Dwyer joins Andy to talk about all of the really important stuff you want to hear them discuss. They talk 80s baseball, Andy’s trip to St. Louis as a small boy, Premier League…
Remember This Crap? – Bears – 49ers – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It’s time for some fresh crap so Andy and Mike D. take a tour through the surprisingly long history of Bears-49ers matchups. They spend most of their time in the Super Bowl era and look at three pretty awful playoff games, the demise of “Bear…
What happens now? – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any more surreal for the Bears, the head visor, Matt Nagy has tested positive for COVID-19. Will he miss Sunday’s game against the Niners? Would anybody notice if he did? Andy and Mike P. hold their noses and look…