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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
New tech, new numbers, new third basemen, new beards – Pointless Exercise Baseball podcast
Thankfully ABS stands for Automated Balls and Strikes and not what Andy thought it did. David Brown joins the podcast to talk about the early days of testing the system and if there’s a chance it could come to a big league ballpark near you this year. They also…
Can these Cubs keep getting better? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs are banking on some marked improvements from some of their young players (and Michael Busch) but how realistic is that? Justin Turner’s contract terms show the Cubs will spare no length to save a buck. A deep dive into the psychology that makes the…
“A Rusty Trubisky is gonna cost extra” – Desipio Bears Podcast
Andy, Kyle and Mike revel in the Bears first win of the season and not only wonder if that was the worst quarterbacking performance in team history in a win, they actually look it up! You’ll find out what a “Rusty Trubisky” is, if Eddy Pineiro has…
“Solo: A Podcast Story” – Desipio Cubs Podcast
It’s a podcast “talent” lineup that we’ve never seen before, and in this pod you get a breakdown of the big Cubs-Cardinals four game series coming up at Wrigley, a look at the most and least likely scenarios for how the division and wild cards…
The Double Doink Broke Matt Nagy – Desipio Bears Podcast
A week clear of the Bears sad little offensive showing against the Packers, Andy, Kyle and Mike are back on the case trying to sift through the wreckage. Did Matt Nagy abandon his gameplan or never really have one? Can Mitch read? Did Anthony Miller miss his ride…
“F@#$ it, let’s Cub it up” – Desipio Cubs Podcast
It’s a three-man pod as Andy, Sam and Kyle bask in the glory of Nico Hoerner’s debut, try to figure out if anybody’s going to actually claim the second wild card spot in the National League, try to figure out if this is the real Kyle Schwarber (given…
What if it’s not just the quarterback that’s bad?
You have to hand it to the Bears. Few, if any, teams have ever wadded up the good will and hopes of a fanbase more efficiently than they did on Thursday night. Thirty NFL teams haven’t even played yet and somehow the Bears’ Super Bowl hopes are completely…
“The unrelated podcast” – Desipio Cubs Podcast
In an emotional podcast, Andy and Sam announce that Mike’s been suspended from the pod, Andy tells a story about not saving money on dog food at Costco, and Sam equates the Mariners to a friend of his playing a lot of Football Manager. They wonder if it’s possible to…
The inaugural Desipio Bears Podcast
You asked for it and you got it–ok, maybe YOU didn’t ask for it, but somebody did–it’s the first-ever Desipio Bears Podcast. Join Andy from Desipio.com, Kyle from StartKyleOrton.com and Mike D. for the first of what promises to be an exciting…
“He is the sun around which all the player planets orbit” – Desipio Cubs Podcast
Andy and Sam are on the case to tackle the big issues of the week, like how the Cardinals somehow have a schedule that’s just Pirates and Brewers for three months and was the Cubs’ torturous sweep by the Nats a harbinger of things to come or just baseball?…
Can they play every road game in a crappy class-A park? — Desipio Cubs Podcast
Seventy-five percent of the crew is on hand as Andy, Sam and Kyle rejoice in the Cubs’ current win streak, admire Yu Darvish dunking on the team’s pre-and-post game TV host, bemoan the dreaded three-man bench, speculate on Nicholas Castellanos’…
“Trying to find a level of Zen” – Desipio Cubs Podcast
Recorded during a game in which the Cubs were down 10-0 in the fourth really has our heroes, Sam and Andy in a great mood. They try to make sense of many things like are the Cubs enjoying any of it, why does a new guy have to bring ‘hunger’ with him, will…
On the road again. Do they have to? – Desipio Cubs Podcast
Andy, Sam and Kyle talk about the Cubs 5-1 homestand where everybody got hurt, aren’t worried about Jon Lester, wonder why the new guys don’t wear shirts under their jerseys, talk about Ian Happ’s MVP chances, wonder if Jonathan Lucroy is really any…
Trade Review: Castellanos in the Sky
The trade deadline passed at 3 p.m. and all Cubs fans had for their trouble and Twitter refreshing was tiny little Tony Kemp. But then, word started circulating that the Cubs had actually traded for an adult sized player, and sure enough, a trade for Tigers’…
Trade Review: The Martin Maldonado Era gives way to Tony Kempana
I cannot take credit for what is already one of my favorite Cubs nicknames ever. The Cubs kicked off trade deadline day by trading heavy legged catcher Martin Maldonado to the Astros for a little fast guy who immediately drew comparisons to a scrub Cubs legend of…
“This team confuses me” – Desipio Cubs Podcast
Andy and Sam talk about the Cubs moves at the deadline, including, “What the hell was the purpose of Martin Maldonado?”, Tony Kempana, who gets the hayride to Iowa to make room for Nicholas Castellanos, the return of Zobrist?, and what was the point of the…
Trade review: Cubs add Mr. Phelps to the bullpen
Fittingly, given that the Ricketts family has too much money tied up in productive things like Scott Walker’s campaign to run for dog catcher in Mukwonago, Todd’s ongoing property tax frauds, and Pete trying to figure out how to get some water 2 to the…
Trade review: Cubs sent Giants cash for lesser Dempster
It’s trade deadline week! So when the Cubs make moves, I’m going to break them down for you. On Friday, the Cubs sent the Giants some cash for recently DFA’d lefthander Derek Holland. You probably remember Holland for two things. He was actually…
“There’s just not a lot out there” – Desipio Cubs Podcast
Andy and Sam discuss the weird Addison Russell saga, what to expect from Ian Happ if he comes up, how terrible it would be if the Cubs manage to lose to the Central to just, plain, bad teams like the Brewers or Cardinals, and what trade options are out there. They…
Cubs trade value chart
Today, on the radio, Jesse Rogers said the Cubs will be looking at every avenue to improve the team by trade “the next 10 days.” That’s great. The trade deadline is eight days away, so I’m not sure what Jed and Theo are going to be doing…