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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
Cross them off the list, then — Pointless Exercise Podcast
It’s time to take a look around baseball and tell the cold, hard, truth about whose season is already irredeemably in the crapper. David Brown joins the podcast to help decide what teams can be crossed off and can toss their players into the for sale bin. You…
We’ll just do Jed’s job for him — Pointless Exercise Podcast
The trade deadline is still five weeks away, but Oleg and Praz join the podcast to helpfully give Jed Hoyer a shopping list of players he should trade for. They also wonder just what the hell Nate Pearson’s purpose is, recoil in horror at the stats from Porter…
Insane trade proposals – Pointless Exercise Podcast
With Dave Brown day to day, it’s up to Andy to entertain you, but thankfully Jim Bowden and an insane trade proposal helps pass the time. What does Jimbo think Sandy Alcantara is worth? And how much more would it be if Sandy’s ERA wasn’t nearly a…
Bruce Miles – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Bruce joins Andy to talk about the different return to play scenarios for baseball, the “unintended” consequences of a short season that baseball will inevitably use to change the game permanently (for good and bad), who the biggest redass on the Cubs is…
Pointless Exercise Podcast – Kelly Dwyer
You know you’re watching The Last Dance, and who better to have on to talk about it than Kelly Dwyer? Andy and Kelly get to the really important stuff in this one like what Michael Jordan should have worn for the interviews, why can’t Doug Collins chew gum…
“Did you miss me?” – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy’s back, because let’s face it, you’ve suffered enough. He talks about baseball’s many plans to return, and when they do rules they try out will never go away (basically, get used to the DH), how the Cubs can lure Kris Bryant back for…
Return of the Tweetbag
So, you know what you do when you’re procrastinating about starting a subscription newsletter? You come up with content for the newsletter and then don’t do the newsletter. But the good news for you is that the Tweetbag is back! Did you miss it?…
Dave Brown – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Baseball writer Dave Brown joins Andy to talk about how excited they are to talk to each other, baseball, Mark Grace, the programming on the Marquee Network, the ’98 Cubs, why the Cubs have an off day in Milwaukee on the second day of the season, rules changes,…
Monday Morning Cubbin’ Down
If you didn’t hear the news, my weekly Cubs’ column on The Athletic is no more. But that doesn’t mean the Monday morning fun has to stop. You know, I didn’t get a chance to name my column over there, and now that you’ve seen the name of…
Why I’m leaving The Athletic
So, I’ve got some news. It might be bad news, or it might be good news, depending on if you subscribe to The Athletic and if you actually like(d) my weekly Monday morning Cub o’ Coffee column, which I wrote every week from March 2016 until about a month…
“Just bat your hitters from best to worst” – Pointless Exercise
Andy and Kyle talk about the debut of Marquee (as if anybody could see it) why they’ve picked the wrong Harry Caray game to start their ‘classic games series with’, who forgot to record any Ernie Banks highlights, Kris Bryant actually saying things,…
Marquee is here – Did you miss anything?
At 1 p.m. on Saturday, February 22 as promised–even though nobody asked for it–the Cubs launched their team owned (mostly) and operated TV network. They’ve been supposedly planning for this network for nine years and have been dreaming about it even…
The Cubs have thoughts
One of the reasons, and quite possibly the main reason, that Theo Epstein decided he’d had enough of Joe Maddon’s pop psychology, better known as Zen And The Art of RV Maintenance, is that he wanted a manager to give the team an edge. Rossy7 hasn’t…
“If Kris Bryant sees his shadow Sunday it’s four more months of Cubs baseball” – Pointless Exercise
It’s a full house as Andy, Sam and Kyle are all together to talk about the start of spring training. They mock the Astros press conference, the proposed new MLB playoff format, baseball’s new rules for 2020 and what happens if you break them? They also…
Wanna have a catch?
No Cub o’ Coffee this week. So instead, you get this: This week marks one of my favorite parts of the sports year. On Tuesday, the Cubs’ pitchers and catchers (and Tyler Chatwood) will report to camp at Spare Toilet Repair Parts Park in sunny Mesa, Arizona and…
“You don’t really have to do everything like the Red Sox” – Pointless Exercise
Andy flies solo this week and hits on a whole host of topics from the Ricketts’ obsession with doing everything like the Red Sox to why they might be afraid to hold onto Kris Bryant until the trade deadline, some scary (and amusing) Cubs ZIPS comps, why the…
Super Bowl Preview – Just try to ignore that the Bears should have either of the QBs
If you are 34 years old or younger the only memory you have of the Bears in the Super Bowl is of Rex Grossman’s tiny little hands trying to hold onto a wet football in Miami, the mighty defense being left on the field waaaaay too long and forgetting how to…
Kevin Kaduk – Pointless Exercise
Sportswriter Kevin Kaduk, formerly of the Kansas City Star and Yahoo! Sports joins Andy to talk about the Kris Bryant grievance decision, Nolan Arenado, Super Bowl LIV, Super Bowl prop bets including the Puppy Bowl, the origin of players’ nicknames, Kobe…
Mike Pusateri – Pointless Exercise
A few weeks ago Andy amazed Chicago-born comedian-actor-writer-producer Mike Pusateri by recognizing him on an episode of the ABC show Fresh Off The Boat, and now Mike’s on the podcast to talk about his career, but mostly to talk about the Cubs. They talk about…
“Daddy bought them a baseball team” – Pointless Exercise
Sam and Andy waited for the Cubs to do something this offseason, and they got tired of waiting so they’re back. They talk about how dumb the idea of trading Kris Bryant is, how the financial “issues” the Cubs have are fictitious at best and downright…
Bruce Miles – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Longtime Cubs’ writer Bruce Miles joins Andy to talk about the uneventful offseason, the aftermath of baseball’s twin sign stealing scandals, great moments in Carlos Zambrano history, how the third baseman market is impacting the Cubs’ confusing…