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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
Oleg’s tales from Spring Training – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Oleg is back from a whirlwind trip to Cubs spring training, Innings Festival and his first look at Toilet Flapper Field and he has stories to tell. Praz tries to guess who Gary Clark Jr’s favorite Cub is, and Andy is relieved that Petecrow’s leg is in one…
Hope and Sammy spring eternal – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Spring Training is in full swing and enough of it has passed that Sammy Sosa showed up, so Tom Loxas is here to talk about it. Sammy’s there passing along his wisdom to the young players (“Don’t take $80,000 to a hotel lobby in a towel”) and a…
New name, same crap podcast – Pointless Exercise: A Desipio Podcast
The new year is here and your favorite podcast is back (and so is this one). We’ve got a new name. The Desipio Podcast is now Pointless Exercise, because that just sounds more official. Andy is here for an abbreviate pod to start things off and he talks about…
“Cheers to another season down the tubes” – Desipio Bears Podcast
Grab the Kleenex, it’s the final Desipio Bears Podcast of the season as Andy, Kyle and Mike sift through the wreckage of an incredibly disappointing season. You’ll learn more than you ever wanted to about Jesper Horsted, Jake Kumerow’s family ties,…
“If Lombardi had been the little spoon he’d have lived…” – Desipio Bears Podcast
The Bears have won three in a row and that inspires Mike and Andy to make fun of Iowa, talk about Vince Lombardi’s basement, discuss the real origins of the famous “those aren’t pillows” scene in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, actually talk…
“Mitch is a binary thinker” – Desipio Bears Podcast
The gang’s all here as the guys talk about the red hot Bears, Kyle entertains the idea that Mitch is having a better year than Tom Brady, they discuss what, if anything, Mitch’s relative competence last week means, and whether Mitch is better than David…
Four former Bears on the verge of NFL history
It’s probably fair to say the current campaign isn’t going to go down as one to tell the grandkids about given the lack of consistency that has been on show from the Chicago Bears. Thankfully, rather than harp on about the existing struggles we’ve found something else…
Stream of consciousness – Desipio Podcast
Andy gives everybody else the holiday week off and decides to do a quick solo podcast, and an hour and 15 later, he’s talked about the Bears and Lions, the Harvard-Yale game, Calvin and Hobbes, Law and Order, the Bulls, the stupid NBA mid-season tournament, the…
Monocles are cheaper than glasses – Desipio Bears Podcast
The guys hold their noses and relive the Bears wet turd of a performance in Los Angeles. They try to decide if Mitch Trubisky was really hurt, what exactly Matt Nagy is good at, why anybody thinks Chicago sports fans want to hear what Dave Wannstedt has to say about…
“They’ve already ruined the ancillary benefits of losing, so they might as well just win.” – Desipio Bears Podcast
The Bears won an actual NFL game, even if it was against the LIons it still counts, and the guys look back at that. They pore over the Tribune article this week about the “thought process” that led the Bears to taking the worst quarterback in the 2017…
Won’t somebody help Mitch turn off these TVs? – Desipio Bears Podcast
A sick child has the podcast manned by just Andy and Mike this week, but they are more than up to the task of putting the awfulness of the Eagles’ loss into current and historical context. Hold your nose as you hear how the exploits of the nine yard first half…
“Bite down on this stick and watch the Bears” – Desipio Bears Podcast
The boys are back in their trips podcast formation and after talking Halloween in Iowa and Kansas, they try to make sense of another mind-numbing Bears loss by breaking down the inept red zone play calling, wondering how badly Mitch is flunking Bears Offense 202. Did…
“It’s coaching malpractice” – Desipio Bears Podcast
It’s just Mike and Andy this week as they try to figure out what the hell Matt Nagy is doing, how far in over his head he is, what exactly it is that Mitch does around here, and along the way they talk about Kevin Loughery, Granville Waiters and Dave Corzine….
The Cubs have a manager! – Desipio Cubs Podcast
Andy lights up the Sam Signal™ and they do an emergency podcast to talk about the news that the Cubs have settled on a new manager and, to no one’s surprise it’s David Ross. What did Ross say in his mock Spring Training speech that won the front office…
Who are the Bears? – Desipio Bears Podcast
Andy, Mike and Kyle look back with trepidation at the Bears’ loss to the Raiders, look ahead to the return of Mitch Trubisky, ponder the future of Kyle Long (not for long), tell the Mike Murphy “pro bowler” story, look back at Chicago Sports Webio,…
Kelly Dwyer – Desipio Podcast
Andy is joined by his favorite NBA writer, Kelly Dwyer of The Second Arrangement, and the longtime pals wax nostalgic about their early days at On Hoops, Indiana wildlife preserves, Jim Boylen’s spirit, being able to actually root for Bulls’ wins again, why Zach…
“I’ve traveled to London, it takes a week!” – Desipio Bears Podcast
Andy, Kyle and Mike are back to talk about the Bears win over the Vikings, whether there’s a “quarterback controversy,” what we should know about Roquan’s absence, how Vag McCaskey thinks the team is traveling to London, former Bills’ safety Mark Kelso’s helmet, Rusty…
“If you’re going to hire Joe Girardi, you might as well have kept Joe Maddon” – Desipio Cubs Podcast
Joe Maddon is out, but Andy and Sam are in to talk about it, about Theo Espstein’s annual post mortem press conference, the Cubs most likely to be traded, what to do with the bullpen, rotation and bench. They wonder what Theo thinks is wrong with the offense,…
“What’s a kicker doing in the weight room?” – Desipio Bears Podcast
Andy, Mike and Kyle enjoy an actual Bears’ winning streak and the Bears’ defense doing very mean things to the Redskins. Andy complains (again) about how impossible it is to follow even part of a game if you have to listen to the Bears’ radio call of…
“Joe can go to the Angels and shove his dad’s hat down his pants again” – Desipio Cubs Podcast
Andy and Sam hold a wake for the Cubs’ season, ponder the future of Joe Maddon and the core of the team. Andy digs his tortured roof/payroll analogy again and they wonder just how much money there really is going to be in the offseason. They come up with a…