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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
Kelly Dwyer on the Bulls, solar salt, Cheers, ’80s hair bands, Nolan Arenado and more – Pointless Exercise Podcast
In a wide-ranging discussion, Kelly Dwyer and I discuss an inexpensive way to get ice off your driveway, why the Bulls aren’t bright enough to have a lottery pick next year, why Arturas doesn’t like to fill out trade paperwork, if Lonzo Ball will get a…
Rubbing elbows and hiring coaches – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs Convention came and went and Praz got to rub elbows with famous Cubs. The guys talk about the weekend, try to make sense of Tom Ricketts financial theories and tell you why you shouldn’t be mad at the Dodgers, especially since the Cubs could do all of…
1,000 Words
Anthony Rizzo and His Immortals. (And Chris Coghlan.)
This is just the greatest damned thing ever
I’ve been accused of beating a joke into the ground (Hank White Fan Club, Luis Valbuena: superstar, Al Yellon is awful) oh, wait, not that last one. But when I predicted and continued to predict1 that Kyle Schwarber’s season wasn’t really over when…
Podcast: World Series (no, really) preview
Since that little event called the World Series starts Tuesday night, if we were going to cram in a podcast we figured we’d better do it quick. Last week when we signed off we knew the only way we’d back this week is if the Cubs won the pennant. Well,…
Call the kids, wake the neighbors, the Cubs are going to the World Series
I have said, out loud, to no one in particular, that I absolutely want to see the Cubs win a World Series (or two, or seven) but that I’d only really be pissed if I died and never saw these fuckers win a pennant. And tonight, we all saw that, and it…
Same place, different time
My wife knows nothing about baseball 4 and so this morning she asked me, “How many more games do they need to win to go to the World Series?” When I told her that they just need to win one more, either Saturday or Sunday she said, “Oh, good. That will be fun.” And I…
Mailbag: Why Eric Cooper is the worst
It’s been a while since I opened the old mailbag, but as promised on Twitter the other night, Intrepid Reader @andyrut sent in his surreal interaction with umpire Eric Cooper. Cooper called balls and strikes in game two and showed off his patented wide, and…
Podcast Live? – NLCS Preview – 9:30 am CST – Saturday, Oct. 15
Thanks to the miracles of modern technology you can watch the dopes from Desipio and Hire Jim Essian record their Cubs NLCS preview podcast live. They’re going to do it at 9:30 Saturday morning. It’s basically “Breakfast at Wimble-dumb.” And…
Once more into the breach
I think it was King Henry V or maybe it was Henry Aaron, but whichever Henry said, “Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more” probably wasn’t thinking about the Cubs returning to the NLCS just 12 months after they made a complete mess of…
Did that really happen?
It was one of those things that happens to other teams. Their fans get to see their favorite team rally from what feels like an impossible situation when it means the most. It doesn’t happen often, in fact, it hardly ever happens, but when it does, you always wonder…
The end starts tonight
Cubs in three. There, I said it. A sweep. Two at Wrigley this weekend, then wrap it up with a beatdown of the humorless, wannabe cowboy, fun police captain on Monday night. Crazy, you say? These the are Giants! They’ve won three of the last five World Series! …
The podcast returns for the playoffs
It’s been about 350 days since their last one but the dopes from Desipio and Hire Jim Essian sat down for 90 minutes of pure podcast goodness. Or ramblings. Or something. If you don’t want to look at them you can subscribe to it on iTunes.
Before the panic, take a moment to savor this season
Soon enough, the panic will set in. We’re Cubs fans, and we have two default settings, anguish and doom. Occasionally we allow ourselves to get really excited about our team, but that doesn’t happen often, and it is always followed by a good, thorough soul…
Embrace the insanity
You are here most likely because you, long ago, for no good reason, made a conscious decision to root for the most inept professional sports franchise in America. I made that same decision, about 35 years ago. I was just a punk kid rooting for his dad’s favorite…
How Baseball Fans Can Make Money Online
Major League Baseball is followed by millions all over the world. Fans of baseball keep track of their favorite teams and players on a daily basis. Some fans however, use their baseball knowledge to earn money here are just a few ways that baseball fans can make money…
Bearly Pondered – Texans curb stomp Bears
Another exciting season of Bears football is underway and…well, OK, another season of Bears football is underway. The long slog towards 7-9 began in Houston, site of this year’s Super Bowl. As members of the NFL Players Association, Bears players can…
2016 Bears Preview
The Bears? I’m going to actually take the time to write about the Bears? Why yes I am. I get my outlet writing about the Cubs every Monday over at The Athletic. You guys know The Athletic, it’s that really good Chicago sports site that only like six of you…
Let it happen
At this point, it would be nice if the Cubs would just stop lying to us. It’s going to happen, we all know it’s going to happen, and it’s going to be awesome. So how about they just stop downplaying the possibility of it, and let us embrace its inevitability? No, I’m…
Hey Cardinals! We didn’t see you back there!
If you’re going to any of the games at Wrigley this weekend you really need to stop as you go into the park and buy a program. I know that you think you don’t need one now that you are actually paying attention to the games again, and because you can just look up both…