Remember This Crap? – 1977 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
When the 2021 Cubs tied the 1977 team for best record in May, it made us wonder what the hell happened to those 1977 Cubs. They had an 8.5 game lead and finished 20 games out of first, somehow. So, Mike D. and I brought in old friend Frank Nova (we needed somebody old…
Remember This Crap – 1994 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
A Cubs season so bad that all of baseball decided to just end the season in August…it’s 1994 and that’s this week’s season to savor on Remember This Crap? Andy and Mike D. look back at Tuffy Rhodes’ three homers on opening day, the Cubs…
“It’s fun to watch them stick it to their owners” – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
Sam joins Andy for the Cubs podcast and they discuss the strange sensation of seeing a team totally turn things around right before your eyes. The Cubs smacked the Padres around pretty good and started what’s supposed to be a make or break June schedule gauntlet…
Remember This Crap? – 1991 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
After some fond remembrances of Andy’s time as an official scorer in the Midwest League, he and Mike D. spin the wheel of crap and it lands on…well, a year they can’t do because of their only rule, so they spin again and get the Don Zimmer/Jim Essian…
Remember This Crap – 2005 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
Neifi saved the season! At least that’s what Dusty Baker insisted. We spin the wheel of crap and it lands on 2005 so we re-live Nomar’s groin injury, Kerry Wood disappearing early and often between innings of starts, Derrek Lee’s should have been MVP…
The Big Lebowski – Movie Deep Dive – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
It’s time for a deep dive into the 1998 Coen Brothers’ classic, “The Big Lebowski”, and at over two hours it’s perfect if you’re not into that whole brevity thing. Andy and Mike P. discuss the seemingly disjointed plot that all…
“We’re doing this again?” Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
Andy, Sam and Kyle have reassembled to discuss the Cubs season to date. Everybody’s hurt, but it’s not serious, you know the same thing that the Cubs training staff has said every time anybody has gotten hurt, ever. They play a fun game of “whose…
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…