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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
Oleg’s tales from Spring Training – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Oleg is back from a whirlwind trip to Cubs spring training, Innings Festival and his first look at Toilet Flapper Field and he has stories to tell. Praz tries to guess who Gary Clark Jr’s favorite Cub is, and Andy is relieved that Petecrow’s leg is in one…
Hope and Sammy spring eternal – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Spring Training is in full swing and enough of it has passed that Sammy Sosa showed up, so Tom Loxas is here to talk about it. Sammy’s there passing along his wisdom to the young players (“Don’t take $80,000 to a hotel lobby in a towel”) and a…
New tech, new numbers, new third basemen, new beards – Pointless Exercise Baseball podcast
Thankfully ABS stands for Automated Balls and Strikes and not what Andy thought it did. David Brown joins the podcast to talk about the early days of testing the system and if there’s a chance it could come to a big league ballpark near you this year. They also…
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….
Buy the ticket, take the ride
It was inevitable that whenever the Cubs rebuild showed promise that the world would jump on the bandwagon. When dozens of “experts” pick the Cubs to win the World Series, like they have this year, it’s as much for the story as it is the team. The…
Cubs Preview: Picks you can take to the bank (the blood bank)
It’s funny how having a good team to root for gets you extra fired up for opening day. Â It’s not like opening day of the baseball season isn’t always exciting, but when your team isn’t trotting out Joe Mather, Brian LaHair, Blake Lalli and…
Cubs Preview: The pitching is deeper than Nietzsche
Later today we can get to the predictions that are sure to be terribly wrong, but right now we’ll cover the entire pitching staff.  With these Cubs, that’s no small feat.  For the first time since…ever, the Cubs appear to be well armed not only…
Cubs Preview: Our outfielders are bigger than yours
Part two of our preseason preview extravaganza takes us to the outfield, where the Cubs have decided that if you don’t weigh 220 pounds or more you have no business out there.7 People are worried about the outfield defense, since the current outfield assemblage…
Cubs Preview: The bestest infield of all times
Opening Day is careening around the corner and you know that means. Â It’s time for a half-assed preview of the season. Â Today let’s focus on the infield (and the catchers). Â The one thing you really want to know is: Is this Cubs infield the greatest…
The Cubs hype video can’t be contained to 7 minutes
With just a week to wait before opening day, it seemed like a good time to try to find a 2016 Cubs hype video. There were plenty to choose from, including this one: But while looking around, I found something even better. The best hype videos for these 2016 Cubs…
Cubs Preview – Expectations
With more than a couple of weeks to go before the Cubs open the season in Anaheim, there’s still plenty of time to preview the individual position groups. Â But before we start dissecting the deepest roster in baseball, it’s time to take the necessary…
Jon Lester is going to have to learn to throw to first
One of the things I detest more than just about anything else is the dreaded hot take. Well, hold onto your butts, because I’m about to serve one up and it’s pipin’ hot! Cubs pitcher Jon Lester is going to have to learn to throw the fucking ball to…
Are the Cubs too deep?
Surely, in the past week since the Cubs convinced Dexter Fowler that an extra $20 million is worthless if it means you’ll have to have crabs in Baltimore, some dummy has opined to you that the Cubs are “too deep.” “When is everybody going to…
The Cubs aren’t fucking around
A few short years ago, a self-important, self-appointed spokesman for Cubs fans all over asked, “Theo how long do you expect us to wait?” Theo, as it turns out, didn’t expect us to wait very long at all. Within four years he’d turned a joke of…
What decade is this? The Cubs re-sign Matt Murton
In late July of 2004 the Red Sox still-young General Manager Theodore Epstein traded an iconic Boston superstar to the Chicago Cubs. Â Boston was stunned. Â People wept. Â A pall fell over the city. Oh, in the same trade, Theo also got rid of Nomar Garciaparra. Matt…
MLB Network remembers Harry Caray
Finally, in their seventh year of existence, MLB Network is regularly producing good documentaries. Â A few weeks ago they had an excellent one on the Montreal Expos and last night they premiered one on Harry Caray. Those of us who were Cubs fans in the ’80s and…
The problem with writing to be ‘provocative’
This week a website that purports to write smart, analytical pieces on baseball in general and the Cubs in particular published a steaming pile so foul that it was followed almost immediately with a chaser from the site’s editor that explained that while he…
Let’s hold off on trading Jorge, eh?
Current titleholder of “Worst Twitterer in the Universe” Bruce Levine wrote a surprisingly coherent piece for The Score where he touted the Cubs as the “most likely landing place” for Dexter Fowler. We all liked Dexter. Â He did a nice job,…
Designate this
The baseball owners are going meet this weekend at Del Boca Vista to discuss how filthy rich they all are, and for the Wilpons to screen the new “Madoff” mini-series. Among the other things they’re going to discuss13 is bringing the designated hitter…
An Oral History of the 2016 Cubs Convention
Nobody does oral histories quite like we do, and that’s especially true here. Â We’ve gotten so good at this, that we’re doing an oral history of the 2016 Cubs Convention before it even happens. CRANE KENNEY, President of the Shit That Doesn’t…
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