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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
Remember This Crap – Worst Cubs Free Agent Signings – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The offseason is a good time to remember when the Cubs used to actually spend money on free agents…and to realize just how bad they’ve been at it. The Remember This Crap gang assembles to wax nostalgic on the worst free agent signings in team history….
The Bears are thinking big and the Cubs are cutting bait – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears fired their overmatched head coach and are already thinking about which dud to hire next, while the Cubs are just hoping somebody will take Cody Bellinger’s cash off their hands. Tom Loxas is here to discuss the coaching change, the candidates for the…
What if this is as fun as it gets?
We are all counting on 2015 being the first of a half-decade or so (or much longer, much longer would be nice) Cubs renaissance. The young players are sure to get better (most of them, anyway), more accomplished veterans should be added, especially to the pitching…
Four days that define a season
In many ways, we–you and me–are the worst possible people to determine just how good the 2015 Chicago Cubs are. We have a long history of loving this franchise and hating this franchise and wanting to hug them and wanting to punch them and everything in…
Chris Coghlan: The Half-Assed Ben Zobrist?
Yesterday, Jed Hoyer, the tiny little guy who Theo Epstein allows to pretend he’s the general manager, said that the Cubs are about to have some “fun” roster problems. Â Jed’s idea of fun needs some work. What he was referring to is the…
It’s time for the Sun-Times to log off
I know times are tough in the newspaper business. Â Circulation is at all-time lows, people don’t want to pay for access to stories on the Internet. Â Advertisers see little value in print ads, and most don’t have a clue how to effectively advertise…
Let’s just put this here—forever
The Cubs had taken things and moved them from the folder that said ‘bad’ to the one that said ‘worse.’ Â After rallying back from a 4-0 deficit to eventually lead 7-4, they not only blew the lead, but trailed the mighty Colorado Rockies 8-7…
Cubs fans remind us all that we’re the dumbest
Dear Cubs fans, Knock it off. Â Just quit it. Â What is wrong with you?5 There’s no right or wrong way to be a fan. Â But you’re doing it wrong. Yes, it sucks that this team hasn’t played well since Jhonny Peralta dumped one in the basket a few weeks…
This would have been too good to be true
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, “There are no second acts in American lives.”  But what did he know?  And besides, if the Cubs had brought E-ramis Ramirez back for a two and a half month swan song, E-ramis is Dominican, so we can ask Colin Cowherd if…
Taylor Teagarden and the Miracle of GAB
There are signs, there are omens, and then…there are things that can only be explained as truly miraculous. The 20,000 or so people who actually stayed through the end of the second game of yesterday’s Cubs-Reds doubleheader at Great American Ballpark…
Starlin is a rough watch
I’m pretty sure that I still like Starlin Castro more than most Cubs fans. Â I’m pretty sure that if you like him “at all” it’s more than most Cubs fans. Â We have history with Starlin. Â He was a 19 year old rookie called up to a bad…
Cubs at the break: By God, they are actually good!
Sports fans are the worst, aren’t we? If, back in spring training, you were assured that the Cubs would go into the All-Star Break seven games over .500, in the lead for the last playoff spot in the National League, and that Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo would…
Coghlan’s a good man, and thorough
Circuitous flyball route taker and world champion strikeout pouter Chris Coghlan’s production should actually continue to go up now that (for a brief moment, at least) Chris Denforia and Jorge Soler are actually healthy at the same time. Â Coghlan and Denorfia…
Goddamnit, they are fun to watch
Someday, you’ll be old like me, and things that you were sure would always be true will change and you won’t believe them. Given that I like drinking beer and eating food that I know is horrible for me, I figure I’m halfway to dead. I’ve…
Ten reasons why David Ross is the Cubs backup catcher
I may have written this for the Ivy Drip, and instead inspired Sam’s cartoon. Â So, if that’s the case, this is recycled content. What are you complaining about? Â Don’t cost nuthin’. When fans aren’t complaining about whatever Starlin…
You don’t get to act like this isn’t a big deal
Dear Best Fans in Baseball, I realize that when you cross into Missouri you set your watches back 40 years, but even by primitive forms of communications you’ve probably heard that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is formally investigating allegations that…
Automatically sending home a runner is dumb
I love Len Kasper more than the average man. Â I think we’re lucky to have such a good, entertaining, normal, analytical TV play by play guy working Cubs games. Â After seven seasons of Chip Caray, I never take Len for granted. But that doesn’t mean I…
Podcast Ep 2 – So, who really sucks?
In In the second episode since their return the guys are up to their typical nonsense. Â Kerm’s not too crazy about the name of the podcast, Andy’s explaining stuff he doesn’t really understand and they get to the bottom of which Cubs really suck….
How do you measure yourself against other teams? By height.
The Cubs are now in the roughest patch of schedule they’ve had yet this season.  They’ve split the first two games at home with the surging Washington Nationals, 16then three with the defending American League champion Royals17.  Then they’ll be…
The podcast is back?
You asked for it 22, and since we are men of the people, we’re bringing back the podcast! It’s live from our brand new podcast studio (though Mike and I refuse to actually broadcast in the same room), and I really dressed up, and managed to sit all hunched…