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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
What do the Cubs have to trade? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
We keep talking about who the Cubs should trade for, but what kind of trade currency do they actually have? Plus, how Nico and Happ make an imperfect leadoff platoon. A brief history lesson on the real curse of the Bears, and a few bobblehead stories. Really. All…
All-Star Shenanigans – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Home Run Derby included a homer robbery, a dad hitting his son and measurement controversies, so David Brown is here to break it all down. The guys also discuss Pat McAfee completely botching the pitchers and starters press conference when a reporter dared to ask…
“Well do it live!” – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The podcast finally concedes to the video age and not only can you see Andy, Oleg and Praz, but did you know the open and close have video? Well, now you do. They take a look at how the Cubs rank on offense and get some pretty good clues as to why they’re so…
79. Remember This Crap? Falcons Coaching Greats – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It’s time to Remember This Crap. Andy and Mike Donohue go over the long, distinguished history of the Atlanta Falcons, and mercifully do not mention Deion Sanders once. They do go through the strange history of Falcons’ coaches committing career suicide,…
Snap Judgements – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
Andy and Mike Pusateri didn’t even wait for the win over the Giants to fully digest before they jumped in and talked about reverse Mitch, Saquon’s knee, the Ropers, Larry Dallas, Bobby Massie’s new contract demands, new rules suggestions, curious…
An eventful week for the Cubs, in a good way – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy is joined by Sam to talk about a week of walk offs, stunning comebacks and a no-hitter, and for once, all the good stuff was in the Cubs’ favor. We could get used to this. The playoffs are a lock now, and the Cubs will start their Bubble Boy prep next week….
Remember This Crap? – Giants/Bears/Chargers/Favre – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The critically-acclaimed podcast where Andy and Mike Donohue remember some crap is back! Well, some of our friends really like it. The conceit is the same, we start on one topic (we start this on on this week’s Bears opponent, the New York Giants) and we see…
Hey guys, Mitch might not be as improved as we were led to believe
We got our first look at the new and improved Mitch Trubisky and honestly, it looked an awful like the same old…stuff. Thankfully, Mitch’s inexplicable domination of the LIons continued with a whirlwind fourth quarter comeback. Andy and Mike Pusateri break…
Can’t Javy just watch reruns? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Sam and Andy take a look at the Cubs remaining schedule and try to find the few wins they’ll need to nail down a playoff spot. Sam asks if we should just get used to Kris Bryant being injured forever and how that increases or decreases his odds of being a Cub…
The Cubs are going to limp home, aren’t they?
Baseball season just started, but baseball season’s almost over. Thanks to a pandemic and a league office that planned for a 60 games in 66 day season about as successfully as this gender reveal… …we’re limping to the end of a season that saw…
73. – Mike and Andy Reminisce About Some Crap – Pointless Exercise Podcast
In the best idea for a podcast ever, Mike Donohue joins Andy as they follow a simple premise. They talk about some random Bears stuff and see where it goes. Well, the question, “Who is the first Bears’ quarterback you really remember” turns into Andy…
72. – Leon Sandcastles in the Sky – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
It’s a new season and a new lineup for the Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast. Actor/comedian Mike Pusateri joins Andy to talk about being in a Super Bowl commercial with Deion Sanders and preview the Bears 2020 season. With no preseason do we even know…
Trade Deadline Special – “Hipster pitch lab” – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It’s the MLB trade deadline and people actually got traded, and the Cubs tried to cram human people into human sized holes on their roster. Andy, Sam and Kyle break down the Cubs moves and what the rest of the NL Central did. Whether the player was deeply…
Why was Adbert playing grabass on a sandlot in South Bend all this time? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The guys are Kyle-less for this one, but Andy and Sam soldier on and try to make sense of winning three games in three days against the Cardinals and somehow losing two. They discuss if Javy has forgotten right field exists, wonder if the Cubs have installed a sign-up…
Good Sh*t or Bull Sh*t? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy, Sam and Kyle discuss the Cubs’ 10-2 start (while in the background they get smoked by the hapless Royals) and play a fun game that will soon be sweeping the nation titled, “Good Sh*t or Bull Sh*t.” They look at the starts of many of the Cubs…
Any pitching evaluation system can have a bad decade – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy, Sam and Kyle have actual Cubs games to discuss and they dig into the soggy underbelly of the team–it’s bullpen. What’s more amazing, a decade plus and still no arms produced from the farm system, or the ponderous but historic efforts last week…
How we learned to stop worrying and love pandemic baseball – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy, Kyle and Sam are back to talk about the 2020 baseball season, why the playoffs were expanded at the last second, why Dillon Maples is still around, and how hard it will be for the Cubs to miss the playoffs. Andy dispels three annoying myths about baseball roster…
Odds and Ends before the MLB season finally starts
With the start of the MLB season supposedly just eight days away is it time to finally get excited about the return of baseball? With no fans in the stands, a lack of pitchers batting in the National League and a ridiculous extra innings gimmick, things are going to…
Pointless Exercise Podcast – “It’s going to be a weird baseball cup”
Baseball season’s back (sorta) and so are Andy, Sam and Kyle to talk about the re-start, whether it’s a good idea (you can probably guess) what would make this weird, short, season worth watching, how the Cubs should approach it and Andy describes what the…
Will the NFL Week One lines change? You wanna bet?
The NHL and NBA are coming back, and Major League Baseball…well, they can’t get out of their own way, but even they are likely to figure out a way to have some semblance of a season. But the one league so far unaffected by pandemic shut downs is the NFL….
Last Dance Wrap Up with Kelly Dwyer – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Kelly Dwyer joins Andy to put a bow on The Last Dance. Among the topics they flog are why Michael Jordan really hates Scott Burrell, why Reggie Miller is wrong about everything, who the biggest omission from the documentary is, what’s up with Toni’s camera…