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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
Mat Purphy’s pantscake – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Jed Hoyer make a few solid moves at the deadline but botched any chance of fixing the Cubs biggest pitching problem, and so his Cubs find themselves staring up at the Brewers and their pocket pancake loving manager Mat Purphy…or Pat Murphy, whatever. Oleg and…
Ryno’s legacy and the risks of trade showcases – Pointless Exercise Podcast
With the trade deadline mere tens of hours away (is that a thing?) David Brown and Andy discuss the risks of showcasing players you are trying to trade in the final games before the deadline, the costs of trading for rental players, trying to win and sell at the same…
Trades and other Cubs nonsense – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs fell out of first place for the first time since April and who was there to catch them? Not us. Oleg and Praz join the podcast to talk about possible Cubs trade targets, why Rich Hill sucks, Andy feeling bad about agreeing with Adam Wainwright, why the DH…
“The Packers were of no consequence” – Remember This Crap?
It’s the one you’ve been waiting for. Mike D. and Andy Remember This Crap about the Bears and Packers. From the glory days when the Bears never lost to the Packers to whatever things are now, the guys remember Packers cheap shots, Chester Marcol’s…
The saddest kind of quarterback controversy – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The pod starts with a new sponsor and ends with extensive talk about Theo Epstein leaving the Cubs, but in between Andy and Mike P. do their contractual duty and talk about another Bears loss. How the offensive coordinator search saved the season, the best thing about…
The roof has fallen on the Vikings more than you know – Remember This Crap?
It’s time to Remember This Crap, and Mike D. and Andy look back on the glorious Bears-Vikings rivalry. It’s mostly marked by Bud Grant pissing and moaning about the early ’80s Bears not respecting the national anthem, field goals from the one yard…
“He is a completely superficial coach.” – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy and Mike P. try to figure out what landscape company Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy can hold their farewell press conference at as they harken back to the last time Nagy’s offense was any damned good (it’s a long trip.) They go all Steve Kornacki over the…
You can’t share a fight song – Remember This Crap?
We avoided all attempts at any Remember The Titans jokes, and instead started with a few minutes of talk about Mike D. nearly needing to crack some heads during his election judge stint on Tuesday. But then it was time to remember the Houston Oilers, a coach with a…
Could Mitch do any worse? Yes, he could! – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy and Mike P. look back at another stunning Bears game. They ponder the magnificence of the long awaited Mitch Package, wonder what good a visorless Matt Nagy is, scoff at the the idiocy of thinking switching back to Trubisky would do any good, marvel at a punt…
91. Did the Bears win the Ricky Williams trade? – Remember This Crap?
It’s Saints week and man do Andy and Mike D. have crap to remember. There’s the 2006 NFC Championship Game, which is easily the greatest moment in Bears history since Super Bowl XX (well, that or the time they ruined the Brett Favre jersey retirement by…
“This play call is so good my visor hurts!” – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
Mike P. and Andy try to process the Bears ill-fated trip to LA. They try to do the kick return math for Cordarrelle Patterson, try to figure out what it is that Ted Ginn Jr. does and what Matt Nagy’s fascination with Demetrius Harris is. How many of Nagy’s…
“The Fearsome Foursome is a bunch of BS” – Remember This Crap?
A famous Eric Dickerson-Mike Singletary collision, a long-lost Bears Danish kicker, two football teams from Cleveland, John Robinson and John Madden sitting in a parked RV in Madden’s driveway drinking Vodka and Ensure and much more highlight this week’s…
“Everybody’s on mute” – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears are 5-1 and Mike P. and Andy try to focus on the positive since that’s a hell of a lot better than we expected at this point. Are they the worst 5-1 team in NFL history? They have stats that prove they aren’t! The guys go over some of Matt…
A playoff game worth getting thrown off an airplane for – Remember This Crap?
The Panthers are next up for the Bears, so Andy and Mike D. kick things off this week with great moments in that rivalry’s history (there aren’t many), but one of the guys got thrown off an airplane during their playoff game. Dom Capers hair, Steve Smith…
Matt Nagy demands occasional precision – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears beat the Bucs (really) and Andy and Mike P. break it down. They prove they can count to three which is at least as many as Tom Brady can. They discuss the kicker clown car, Andy’s terrible movie depth perception, how every team should have a coach…
What do you think of your team’s execution? – Remember This Crap
Mike D. and Andy are back to Remember This Crap, and this week they kick it off with the Bears next opponent, the illustrious Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Andy gets his kickers confused and calls John McKay Jim, and Mike thinks Sean McVay is related to him. But then things…
Many unhappy returns – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears somehow managed to get their ass kicked in every way and only lose by eight points on Sunday. Andy and Mike Pusateri are concerned how the short week before Thursday night’s game with Tampa will affect…the podcast. If you give Matt Nagy an excuse…
You really had to hand it to Ditka in Baltimore – Remember this Crap?
It’s time for Andy and Mike D. to Remember This Crap. With the Colts coming to town Andy harkens back to a charming little story about destroying a lamp as a young lad on the day of the Bears last visit to Baltimore. They guys try to figure out why Walter Payton…
It’s OK to be excited about the playoffs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Baseball’s playoffs are going to be in your face Tuesday and Wednesday, and after wandering through the pandemic wilderness for many fraught months, Sam and Andy are here to let you know it’s OK to be excited about it, and (gasp!) about the Cubs’…
“Sorry Mitch, this bus is for the players.” – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
Another week another ridiculous win by the Bears, and we’ll gladly take it. This time, the Bears broke the glass on the Emergency Quarterback case and out came Nick Foles. Is this the end for Mitch? If the move makes the Bears more competent does it raise their…
Peaking at the right time – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy and Kyle try to make sense of the Cubs disappearing offense, and especially what has to happen for them to lose the division with three games to go. There’s even a rare in-podcast edit/correction from Andy because he completely butchered the tiebreaker…