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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
Jed’s aggressively looking for pitching, just seven months too late – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs are trying to bolster their bullpen with Drew Pomeranz? Hey, nobody’s gotten a hit off of him in four years! Bruce Levine says that Jed’s out looking for a starter and a “lock down” reliever and that would be great if this was November…
Matt Shaw and his leg kick are heading back to Iowa – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Matt Shaw is taking his leg kick on the road to Iowa, the great Vidal Brujan has returned, the Cubs are going to have to find a way without Justin Steele for a while and half the lineup is struggling. And yet, the Cubs are in first place. Oleg and Praz are on hand to…
Sports Spectacular – Pointless Exercise Podcast
You get teased with a big celebrity guest, but it falls through, so instead you’ll have to settle for Andy talking about upcoming books on the 2003 and 2016 Cubs, a pathetic plea for more paid newsletter subscribers and then actual sports talk about Justin…
An oral history of the Yu Darvish press conference
There’s really no better way to get the inside story on something than to do in-depth interviews with the people involved and let them tell their story in the form of an oral history. A crucial part of that is to let the event breathe, and age, so you can give…
The Brewers insecurity is reaching St. Louisian levels
So, it’s come to this. The Brewers, a franchise that is such an afterthought that they left the American League in 1998 and nobody even noticed, are apparently tired of Cubs fans coming to games and helping them fill up their weird pole barn with the garage…
MLB players v. owners – Whose side we got?
It’s been a while since we’ve been asked to choose a side between millionaire baseball players and billionaire owners. The last time we really had to do it, Don Fehr was freshening up his lipstick and leading the MLB Players’ Association to five…
Cubs finally replace Tony Campana
While we all sit around waiting for Yu Darvish to give the free agent stalemate a good Roto Rootering by finally picking a team, the Cubs have decided to mock us to our faces. On Thursday they announced they had re-signed former Cubs outfielder Damon…
Desipio Mailbag – Twelve million dollar ham sandwiches and Taco Bell orders
You have questions, and I have half-assed answers. The Desipio Mailbag makes a triumphant return and if you have burning questions (likely a result of sitting on Ryan Braun’s toilet seat), you can send them to me at ask@desipio.com. And remember, there are no…
Free ideas for the XFL
So, Vince McMahon is proof of something the Cubs last reminded us of a couple of years ago with Chris Coghlan–a bad idea repeated is still a really bad idea. He’s bringing back the XFL, the league that brought us guys paralyzing themselves chasing after…
Milwaukee’s loading up to host the Wild Card game
Over the span of an hour the Brewers traded a pair of top-100 prospects for Christian Yelich and then signed Lorenzo Cain for $80 million over five years. Those are a couple of bold moves, and just the kind that will energize the only fanbase in the league that would…
Bob Nightengale’s Hall of Fame ballot is the worst
The only reason reasonable people follow USA Today baseball writer Bob Nightengale on Twitter is either because they, like Bob, are founding members of the Dusty Baker Fan Club, or just for the amusement you get from the stupid shit that he writes. The Baseball Hall…
Stop worrying and enjoy the Bulls
Just before opening night I said, out loud, to no one in particular, “I’m not even going to watch a single Bulls game this year.” They were going to be so bad, and all I’d read and heard was that the haul they got for Jimmy Butler was so…
If the White Sox didn’t have a radio deal would you notice?
It’s an odd time for Chicago sports to say the least. The Bears are rebuilding (again) with a quarterback who presumably likes his queso with actual cheese and plans to vaccinate his unborn kids. Oh, and their coach is actually younger than Tom Brady. The…
Moron the Cubs stance on Sammy
Every year at the Cubs Convention somebody asks Tom Ricketts a question about Sammy Sosa and every year (at least since 2010) Tom bungles the answer. It should not be a hard question to field, especially since he knows it’s coming. What he should do is…
Why do I do this to myself?
It’s my own fault, I know that. Nobody forced me to do it, I brought it on myself. For some reason, I keep listening to the Bill Simmons podcasts when he has Mike Francesa on to talk NFL playoffs and make their laughably bad picks. If you haven’t…
The time the Cubs let Crane write the season ticket holder letter
As part of our ongoing (never ending, really) celebration of Desipio’s 20th anniversary, I’m still digging up golden oldies. Given the mild backlash my Monday Cub O’ Coffee column on The Athletic got because I was “mean to Tom Ricketts and…
The time we did an oral history of a Cubs Convention that hadn’t happened
It’s still our 20th anniversary. Today we look back just a couple of years to the time we did an oral history of a Cubs Convention that hadn’t happened yet. Originally posted, January 14, 2016 Nobody does oral histories quite like we do, and that’s…
The Angels secure Ohtani but will he live up to the hype?
In any sport, when the season finishes, fans as well as teams begin to take stock and the same question is usually on everyone’s lips: “Who can we get in to take us to the next level?” No matter if your side had a losing record, if they managed to scrape into…
Can Phil possibly keep up this pace?
Today is November 9 and if you figure that most teams report to Spring Training just after Valentine’s Day, there are about 13 weeks left in the offseason. Gang, I’m worried about Phil Rogers. He’s always been the standard bearer for dumb, but…
Podcast: 2017 NLCS Preview
Watch the Desipio 2017 Cubs NLCS Preview Podcast here:
Sometimes it just takes balls
Sometime just after the four hour and 40 minute marathon panic attack that the Cubs put us through, as the TV showed them in their now iconic pose where they pile up for their playoff round victory photo on the pitcher’s mound, one thought popped into the fog of…