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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
Fun with run differential – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
David Brown joins the pod to talk about a really weird early season baseball stat, jump to conclusions based on small sample sizes and run differentials, Vlad Guerrero Jr’s big new deal, the Cubs chances of keeping Kyle Tucker, why torpedo bats aren’t for…
Hey, these guys are pretty good – Pointless Exercise Podcast
As the Cubs prepare for opening day 3.0 let’s take a look at how things are going through the season’s first nine games. The bullpen stinks, Big Jimmy Taillon’s no great shakes, but most everything else is pretty good. Kyle Tucker’s awesome,…
Cycling to nowhere – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
Carson Kelly has joined an elite group of Cubs hitters…OK, well, he’s certainly joined a group of Cubs hitters…who have hit for a cycle. Oleg and Praz are here to talk about every Cubs cycle in history, why the bullpen still blows, how the Garbage…
Doubt them at your own peril
I get it. I understand why you may be skeptical about the Cubs as they head back to the playoffs for the third straight year. The bullpen was better in the first half than the second. The starting pitching is quality, but in a bit of injury-induced disarray. The…
Podcast: 2017 NLDS Preview
The only negative thing about the Cubs making the playoffs is that when they do, these idiots host a podcast. This time, our heroes were joined by a third host and a very special guest. And, you’ll be shocked who they picked to win.
Baseball heaven will never be the same
Baseball gave the Best Fans in Baseball™ a swift kick in the gnads when they had the Cubs open the defense of their World Series title in Busch Stadium back in April. The Cardinals responded by bringing out the giant horses to crap all over the field, and they rolled…
The time the Cubs swept a doubleheader to win the NL Central
It’s a funny thing about the 2003 season, because it ended so horribly, and was followed up by the even worse experience of 2004 we don’t just not look back fondly on the season, we hardly look back on it at all. But until games five, six and seven of the…
Remember the time the Cubs banned me from Twitter?
Desipio is so old that when it started there wasn’t any social media. It’s not like Twitter made me more of a smartass, it just allowed me to inflict it on more people. Such is the price of fame that it occasionally comes back to bite people. Like when…
The joy of six
This has been a weird Cubs season. Not the least of reasons is that it started with them raising a World Series champions flag and carrying a big gold trophy around the field. But the team that roared through the regular season unchallenged last year couldn’t…
The time we had an oral history on the Cubs hiring Theo
It seems perfectly sensible now that Theo Epstein left the Red Sox to take on the task of rebuilding the Cubs, but at the time it was a complete shock. First, that Theo would want to come, and second, that the Ricketts didn’t screw it all up. Here’s the…
The time Lou Piniella sat in on a GameCast
Remember in 2007 when Lou Pinella lost his shit and kicked dirt all over a third base umpire? He got suspended and the Cubs went on their first decent winning streak of the season. We did a running diary of game two of his suspension on June 4, 2007 against the…
Remember “Who owns the Cubs?”
In our twentieth year (no shit) we’re taking looks back at great moments in Desipio history. In our first installment we relived the Cubs winning the World Series.40 But today we revisit an absolute classic. We’re going back to February 9, 2011 when…
Two decades of morans
And they said it wouldn’t last. Actually, nobody said that because nobody knew it was around. On July 24, 1997 a little website popped up in an obscure corner of a still obscure thing called the Internet. The site wasn’t yet called Desipio, it was still…
Parades over prospects
There are many great traditions that Cubs fans have. Flying the W flag after wins. Throwing opponents’ home runs back onto the field. Checking out each other’s dongs at the troughs.49 And overvaluing prospects they’ve never seen play. Granted, the…
What the hell is wrong with the Cubs?
The Cubs…wait…the World Champion Chicago Cubs…are a whopping 32-33. They have perfected mediocrity a year after posting one of the best seasons in MLB history. They’ve managed to do it without a serious injury. Why it’s happened is a…
Welcome back, Starlin
Every few years baseball’s schedule rolls around and the New York Yankees play the Cubs. It’s a big deal, because, let’s be honest, it’s the Yankees. Twenty-seven World Series championships and a boatload of Hall of Famers in your history…
Let’s go to the video tape
I’ve seen a lot of supercuts of game seven of the World Series. They’re all good, but the one Start Kyle Orton posted on his Facebook feed today is the best I’ve seen. Enjoy. And, the Cubs really stepped it up with this year’s Bryzzo’s…
Cubs Report: World Champs Edition
The defending world champion Chicago Cubs. Is that a real thing? Did I hallucinate all of that stuff in October and November? Even if I did, don’t tell me. So anyway… The defending world champion Chicago Cubs mount their first World Series defense in 108 years on…
Does anybody really miss Sammy?
Sammy Sosa’s back in the news. Have you missed him? Probably not. Former Cubs Manager of Media Relations and the man behind the Cubs half-assed, first-ever attempt at a baseball analytics department, Chuck Wasserstrom has posted an interview with Sammy on his…
The Cardinals punishment is bullshit
For nearly three years a St. Louis Cardinals executive continually hacked into the scouting database of another Major League Baseball team, using their research, stealing their medical reports, and constantly checking and re-checking the notes they were keeping on…
The podcast you never thought would happen
When was the last time your favorite team won the World Series? Ours won it last week! We’re going to re-live the whole thing one more time (who are we kidding, it won’t be the last). Join us live at 10 am Central on Saturday, November 12 as we talk…