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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
Cubs convention, Bears and The Beav and the best and worst Chicago media – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs Convention is looming, Kyle Tucker has a new (short) contract, and is Alex Bregman on the way? The Bears are talking in person to Mike “The Beav” McCarthy and is Tom Brady tampering with Ben Johnson? Bob Uecker’s gone. And the Sun-Times has…
The Bears are interviewing everybody – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears have whittled their list of coaching candidates down to a cool 15, and Tom Loxas drops by to give his thoughts on who they should hire. Mike Vrabel has already done his interview and Ben Johnson is up this weekend, what the hell are the other 13 guys there…
The Curious case of Tommy La Stella
When Joe Maddon announced on July 29 that Tommy La Stella hadn’t taken the news that he was being demoted to AAA Iowa very well, I think we all empathized with him. He was being sent to Des Moines only because he still had an option left, and the guy who was going to…
Cubs trade with Yankees: Welcome to the Cubs, Chapman!
The biggest news in Baseball today: The cubs have just acquired the star closer Aroldis Champan. In return the Cubs said goodbye to Gleyber Torres, Adam Warren, Rashad Crawford as well as Billy McKinney, who were exchanged in the trade with the New York Yankees. The…
Tiers of a clown: Cubs trade value rankings
This year the MLB non-waiver trade deadline is August 1. That’s a day later than normal. I’m sure it has something to do with July 31 being on a Sunday and nobody in the MLB Office wanting to work that day, or maybe it’s to give Kyle Schwarber an…
Mets-Cubs? Big whup.
The Cubs start a huge series tonight in New York against the Mets. It has to be huge, right? It’s four games—which is bigger than normal—and it’s against the team that unceremoniously knocked the plucky Cubs out of the playoffs last year, and…you know what? This…
The Cubs ship be sinking
It’s been a rough few days for the Cubs, but especially for those of us who really count, the Cubs fans. You remember us, right? We’re die hard! We preface every comment about our favorite team by telling you just how long we’ve been fans….
Willson!
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that after another game when Miguel Montero proved he really can’t catch right now (or maybe ever), that the Cubs finally fired the Cubs career of the great Tim Federowicz into the sun, and recalled their top prospect, Willson…
Cubs Report: Just 100 more to go
The Cubs have 100 games left in the season, so now seems as good a time as any to tour the roster and take stock of what’s going on. At 43-19, they have nearly as many wins as the Barves have losses. Yeah, that’s how good they’ve been. But don’t tell that to some Cubs…
Coghlan’s back? Ugh.
Things were going so well, weren’t they? The Cubs were cruising along atop the NL Central. Pissburgh keeps following every nice winning streak with a losing streak. The Cardinals are learning the hard way that Yadi’s finished, there’s a reason…
It may not seem like it, but Albert and Javy are right on time
One of the few (as it happily turns out) casualties of the Cubs three-years-wandering-the-desert-rebuild was our patience with some of the higher profile prospects. We were spoiled when Kris Bryant emerged fully formed, ready to sock dingers from the minute he signed…
Mailbag: What is with this Seattke thing?
Another week and another batch of insightful questions from you, the home reader. This week we answer a great mystery of Desipio “in-jokes”, catch up with Chuck McElroy, get an update on Wrigley Field Malt Cups and answer the eternal question Coach Taylor…
Mailbag: What three Cubs didn’t go to the no-hitter pizza party?
So I opened the old Desipio Mailbag again after a long respite and you guys filled it with some pretty interesting questions. Here are your answers. The mailbag will remain open, so anytime you think of something, send it over. Mike: How likely is it that I will be…
Let’s reopen the old Desipio Mailbag
Because clearly I’ll never come up with enough ideas on my own, let’s reopen the old Desipio Mailbag. You have questions (about the Cubs, about that rash on your groin, about why nobody can make a good Superman movie, whatever) and we have answers. Questions that…
That time we got Twitter banned
Twitter is announcing some big changes they’re going to roll out over the next few weeks. Once they are complete you’ll be able to post photos, videos and .gifs without it taking up your character count. You’ll be able to spam the shit out of people…
Power rankings are dumb
Every week MLB.com and ESPN.com and other .com’s push out their big league POWER RANKINGS! WHO HAS THE POWER? WHO HAS MORE OR LESS POWER THAN THEY DID THE LAST TIME WE ARBITRARILY AWARDED THE POWER? It’s pointless. It’s dumb. The only power rankings that matter…
Kyle Schwarber injury update and movie review?
HI GUYS. INTER NET ASKED KYLE TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON THE REHAB WORK I AM DOING ON MY LEG HINGE. JUST PROMISE YOU WON’T PRINT THIS OUT AND TAKE IT TO THE BOYS ROOM WHEN YOU POOP. I KNOW GUYS LIKE TO READ WHEN THEY POOP. I SURE DO LIKE TO. EVERY DAY MEDICINE…
Are we enjoying this enough?
Old Ma Nature decided to give us all a little mental break last night, and she rained out the Cubs regularly scheduled win against the San Diego Padres. I think we all needed it. I was asleep by nine o’clock—on the couch, no less—mostly because our beloved,…
Dusty’s back!
Baseball’s best team returns home tonight after just about as thorough a pants-ing of the next best team in a division that you’re ever going to see. Â After falling behind 1-0 in the first game of the three-game sweep of Pissburgh, the Cubs kicked the…
Wrigley’s never looked better, just in time
With Opening Night (why are the Cubs opening at night…again?) just hours away, we’re getting our first good looks at the renovations to Wrigley Field that were mostly made on the outside this offseason. Quite frankly, the park has never looked better….