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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
Even Google AI thinks Neifi saved the 2005 season – Pointless Exercise Podcast
An intrepid reader searched for Neifi Perez the other day and was horrified and amused at what they found. They shared the results with Andy and in this podcast you’ll get a dramatic retelling of the events surrounding Neifi and the rosin bag. Plus,…
Craig has good taste in media – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Craig Counsell clearly read the newsletter and listened to the podcast and came to the conclusion that dropping Dansby Swanson in the order was a good idea. Oleg, Praz and Andy discuss reordering things, Sh?ta dodging a major injury (though with the Cubs you never…
Even baseball teams draft quarterbacks – Pointless Exercise Podcast
With the NFL Draft going on, Andy and Dave look back at when the Kansas City Royals just kept drafting Hall of Fame football players. Plus, fun with official scoring, when is a save a win, what happens when you try to send your Rule V “star” to the minors,…
Desipio Cubs Podcast – Not .500, but they can see it from here
Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast Show notes – Conan O’Brien’s Joke-Theft Trial: Everything You Need to Know – Vanity Fair A Little Bit Bad. Comedy Writer Alex Kaseberg Looks like Patton Oswalt will get to testify on Conan’s behalf, and…
Desipio Cubs Podcast – What if they’re just bad?
Desipio Cubs Podcast – “Oh no, they suck again!”
This week it’s Andy and Mike without Kyle. Mike tells thrilling tales of his trip to Texas, Andy breaks news about the postgame after the postgame following Cubs games on NBC Sports Chicago, they try to make sense of Carl Edwards Jr’s ill-fated stop…
Desipio Cubs Podcast – 2019 Season Preview
Al got to interview Tom Ricketts again
Our old pal Alvin Yellon got another crack at interviewing Tom Ricketts (remember his previous disaster?), and it seems only fitting to take the time to take it down. So let’s get to it. MESA, Arizona — Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts had a busy Monday. First, he…
Goddamn this
I woke up this morning to a very large number in the red dot on my Twitter icon, and the first one I read said, “Desipio’s going to wake up to some bad news.” My immediate reaction was that Luis Valbuena had signed a contract with the Cardinals. As…
Grading the NFL announcing teams is not enough
Every year the fine people at Awful Announcing do a poll to grade the announcers in the major sports. A couple of days ago they released this year’s grades for all of the NFL announcing crews. But something was missing. It wasn’t the announcing teams,…
Podcast! – 2018 Playoff Preview: Game 163
You waited patiently for a year, and…they’re back! Andy, Mike and Kyle preview game 163 against the Brewers and, if needed, the Wild Card Game. Enjoy the nonsense: You can also subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.
You wanna gets nuts? Let’s get nuts!
Since many of you have decided the Cubs are going to finish the season with five more losses, what would happen if every team in the NL playoff hunt finished 91-71? What would that look like? It would be chaos. Glorious chaos. Because there’s only four…
Cut Mitch a little slack
All offseason the Bears media and Bears fans were aligned in their proclamations to give Mitch Trubisky some time to settle into the quarterback job before they freaked out one way or the other. That was never going to be true, and sure enough panic buttons were…
Same old Dusty
The old Dustbag, Johnnie B. Baker Jr. sat down (presumably without his large adult son Darren sitting on his lap) with The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal to talk about…well, let’s just say Dusty’s nothing if not consistent. Everything is always…
Tweetbag! Who is to blame for the Cubs’ shitty starting pitching?
You’ll be shocked to hear that Twitter doesn’t always foster the most nuanced discussions. Our old friend and sexy librarian Carrie Muskat doesn’t seem to do her mailbag anymore, and god knows when the last time hirejimessian.com did the Muskbox. …
Oral History: Neifi saves the season
The 2016 Cubs created a new generation of Cubs legends with guys you will never forget for all the best reasons. But lost in the glow of a world’s championship are the Cubs who paved the way. The greats who toiled in the obscurity of losing. Those who should…
Spoiler alert: They’re going to do it again
Two years ago the Cubs were indisputably the best team in baseball. They won 103 games and they somehow toted 108 years of baggage all the way to the finish line and, maybe you’ve heard this, won the World Series. They did it with an impossibly young team, and…
2018 MLB Over/Unders
t’s a tradition unlike any other. No, it’s not Jim Nantz creepily giving his tie to a player after the national championship game. It’s time to check out the Bovada over/unders for wins and figure out which side to get on. Arizona D’bags 85.5…
An oral history of the Mitch Trubisky trade
Bears fans booed. Mike Glennon wept. John Fox looked confused. John Lynch’s CTE subsided just long enough for him to act smug and get kudos from the sycophantic NFL media. And that was just when they found out that Chris Berman wasn’t going to host the…
In defense of Joe Maddon
So crazy Joe Maddon wandered into a boutique shop and saw some awful mashup art on the wall and commissioned the “artist” to make four posters showing how to put “the art in baseball?” Coming off last year’s lame “D-Peat”…
Joe’s new motivational idea is a real work of art
So, Joe Maddon has decided to put “the art back in baseball” with some commissioned artwork of dubious quality. The pieces are mash ups of famous works of art with some lame baseball imagery and graffiti on them. I personally prefer the one that…