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- Podcast: Let’s fix the intentional walk
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Latest Pointless Exercise Podcast Episodes
418. Being too negative will get you tossed from the bleachers – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs Podcast returns with the suddenly red hot Cubs (they’ve won four of five!) taking on those pesky Brewers. Praz fills us in on getting tossed from the bleachers for (get this) being too negative about the team. If that was really a thing, nobody would…
Cubs trying to spunk their way into the playoffs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Things are pretty bad for the Cubs these days. They’ve lost 17 straight games when they have trailed at any point, they have lost seven games to the Brewers in the standings since August 1 and haven’t gained a single game on them on any day since July 30….
Remember This Crap? – Cubs All-Time Second Basemen – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The longest running franchise in the history of crap podcasting returns with Andy and Mike D. breaking down 150 years of great, good, and awful Cubs’ second basemen. Do you know who Ross Barnes is? Of course you don’t, but you are about to. From Ryne…
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…
Bears are cleaning house with a duster instead of a plunger – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Word leaked out after Andy and Mike P. recorded the podcast that Matt Nagy and Ryan Pace are coming back, but it’s not like the guys didn’t expect it. They look back at an uninspiring playoff effort, try to figure out why their Parler passwords don’t…
The playoffs trudge on, even without the Bears
Did you know that the NFL playoffs didn’t end with Mitch Trubisky winning the prestigious NVP Sunday after the Bears triumphant 21-9 loss to the Saints? I know, I’m as shocked as you are? How is anybody supposed to top winning a plastic blimp covered in…
If Mike Tomczak can beat the Saints, why not Mitch? — Remember This Crap
Sunday’s game will be the third time the Bears and Saints have met in the playoffs and the Bears have won the first two. You remember the 2007 NFC Championship game and Andy and Mike D. talk about that, but you probably don’t remember much about the 1991…
SpongeBob DrewPants – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears reward for losing to the Packers again is, inexplicably, a playoff spot. Andy and Mike P. look back at the Bears showing improvement against Green Bay and still losing by nearly three touchdowns, try to figure out what kind of defense that was supposed to…
Meaningful Bears-Packers games aren’t unique…but they also aren’t common – Remember This Crap?
It’s Packers week part deux and Andy and Mike D. are ready to look back at important Bears-Packers games in recent history (there really have been some) they also talk about the Jerry Lewis telethon, Tom Dreesen, Caleb Hanie, Chris Conte, Eddie Jackson returning…
Yu cheap bastards – EMERGENCY Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs traded their best pitcher to the Padres for four bags of teenage beans and whatever the hell Zach Davies is supposed to be and that called for an emergency podcast with Andy and Sam Fels. What the trade says about the Ricketts desire to win is all bad, and…
“Nobody hates a dullard” – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears have inexplicably staggered back into playoff contention and Andy and Mike P. get you ready for Sunday’s sure-to-be-memorable tilt with the hated Packers. They go through all of the scenarios, look back at the Jags rousing halftime speech that…
The Bears have often played like a bunch of Jags – Remember This Crap?
The history of the Bears and Jaguars is neither long nor storied, but we’ll always have Keith Traylor and the crowning moment of Dick Jauron’s 2001 Bears juggernaut. Andy and Mike D. look back on all seven contests between the teams, try to figure out why…
Bears Playoff Fever. Catch it. And die. – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy and Mike P. talk about the Bears win over the Vikings and how everything on Sunday broke against the best interests of the team long-term. Will the Bears still be motivated to change the GM or coach? Will Ted Phillips be given a big Publisher’s…
The peak of the ill-fated Wanny era – Remember This Crap?
It’s Vikings week part deux and Andy and Mike are Remembering This Crap about the Bears and Vikings which includes one of the rarest of all things in Bears history–a road playoff win, by Dave Wannstedt, no less–and tales of famous Vikings like Ted…
Please remind the Bears that Sunday proved nothing – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The guys look back at a the Bears first win in nearly two months and hope that it didn’t save anybody’s job–but it probably did. The talk about Mitch’s big day against a terrible, depleted Texans team, about whether they’d rather have the…
The Bears are still 0-for-Texans – Remember This Crap?
The Bears, a charter franchise of the NFL have played the Texans four times in the 19 year history fo the Texans and dumped them all. The Texans have prevented the Bears from making the playoffs, contributed to Paul Edinger’s only career pass, and ruined a Bears…
Now they HAVE to blow it up, right? Right? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Another week another undignified Bears loss and Andy and Mike P. are begrudgingly ready to talk about it. They break down the epic Bears’ collapse, try to figure out what anybody was thinking and where defense has gone. They talk about Ted Phillips’…
The Lions have a way of making guys want to quit – Remember This Crap?
It’s time to remember even more crap about the Lions as they come to town to take on the Bears Sunday. The Lions had the courtesy to fire their idiot head coach named Matt, unlike the Bears. Andy and Mike D. look back the long, illustrious history of Lions…
They care. They’re just too dumb to know what to do. – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears made fools of themselves, again, on national TV at Lambeau Field on Sunday night and Andy and Mike P. are on hand to wallow in the misery the Bears are shedding as the NFL’s latest superspreader of suck. The guys tell you what the Bears need to do, and…
Mitch? Please. No.
When The Visor benched Mitch Trubisky during the week three game in Atlanta it was a common discussion to have about whether or not Mitch had played his last game as a Bear. Well, since there were 13 games left to play, the likelihood of Nick Foles breaking his career…
Movie Deep Dive – The Right Stuff – Pointless Exercise Podcast
With the Bears off fighting their Week 11 bye to a draw, the Pointless Exercise podcast takes advantage of having an actual professional actor, Mike Pusateri, on it to go into a deep dive into one of Mike and Andy’s favorite movies, Phillip Kaufman’s 1983…