Remember This Crap Throwback – Eric Dickerson is out of gas – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It’s time to return to the Bears for Remember This Crap, but what to do when they open with a team we did last year? Let’s revisit one of the finest Remember This Craps. A crummy re-run? No, there’s nothing crummy about this one. This featured one of…
It’s not under until it’s over – NFL Props!
Football is almost here and it’s time for us to gird up our loins and look ahead to what we can expect. There is (scientifically speaking) no better way to prepare for a season than by figuring out which team’s win totals are going to go over or under the…
Bears Podcast – The Dalton Era Begins (and hopefully ends) – Pointless Exercise Podcast
A new season means another year of the award-winning Bears Podcast with Andy and Mike P. They look ahead to the Bears 2021 and try to figure out what Matt Nagy and Ryan Pace would have to do to get canned, why Andy Dalton is starting, when Justin Fields will start,…
Remember This Crap? – 2003 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The wheel of crap finally landed on one of the most infamous seasons in Cubs history. It’s time for Andy and Mike D. to remember the 2003 Cubs. It was a season that was incredible until it wasn’t. Hindsight (and an actual World Series title) have made it…
Remember This Crap? – Cubs Hall of Fame – Pointless Exercise
The Cubs unveiled a haphazard afterthought of a Hall of Fame, using mostly work done by other people that nobody even knew had been done, and that seemed right up our alley. So Andy and Mike D. decided to break down the 56 inductees, and surely we put more effort into…
Rizzo Traded to Yankees – Pointless Exercise Podcast
He was the face of the Cubs during the most successful run in more than a century, and even if it makes some business sense to move on from him it doesn’t make it any easier for the fans. Kyle and Andy discuss the Cubs trade of Anthony Rizzo to the Yankees,…
GoodFellas – Movie Deep Dive – Pointless Exercise Podcast
How can you poke holes in one of the greatest movies ever made? Well, you don’t, mostly. Andy and Mike P. revisit the 1990 Martin Scorcese classic, “GoodFellas” and marvel at what a great, well made, incredibly paced movie it is, while taking issue…
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…