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…
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. Rossy8 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…