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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
Can these Cubs keep getting better? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs are banking on some marked improvements from some of their young players (and Michael Busch) but how realistic is that? Justin Turner’s contract terms show the Cubs will spare no length to save a buck. A deep dive into the psychology that makes the…
Justin Time – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
The Cubs have a new right handed hitter and the guys try to not confuse Justin Turner with NFL massage enthusiast Justin Tucker, and they remember the time Justin Turner tried to kill everybody during the Dodgers 2020 World Series celebration. Oleg, Praz and Andy…
All-Time Cubs Rightfielders – Remember This Crap
The longest running half-assed historical podcast on the Cubs (probably) is back, and this time Andy and Huey are taking a look at the long, distinguished history of Cubs’ right fielders. And we don’t just mean Nate Schierholtz. Who were the best ever? Who…
MLB has to throw the book at the Cardinals
Remember back when the news that the Cardinals had been caught hacking into the Astros scouting database first came out and the Cardinals tried to act like some overzealous interns were just goofing around online in a crack house in Jupiter, Florida during spring…
Here’s to 2016 – The year we’ve all been waiting for
If there’s one thing that all these years of being a Cubs fan have taught us, it’s that when you think the team is going to suck you have to convince yourself that somehow they can actually contend, and when you think the team is going to be good, you have…
We’re going to need to think of reasons to like John Lackey
Now somewhat lost amid the hubub over Jason Heyward telling the Cardinals to genuflect and cram “Baseball Heaven” to their nether regions and Ben Zobrist telling the Mets to spend their ill-gotten Ponzi fortune on someone else, the Cubs also signed John…
An oral history of the Luis Valbuena trade
We’re coming up on the anniversary of the worst trade in Cubs history. Â It’s a true testament to how good the 2015 Cubs were that they could win 97 games, and advance two rounds through the playoffs, despite being gutted just a few months before. After…
All your base are belong to us
Someday, long in the future when historians are trying to decipher exactly when the St. Louis Cardinals reign of terror ended, they will have a few milestone moments to choose from. They’ll weigh the importance of moments like Kyle Schwarber parking a ball on…
So long, Starlin
We knew when the season ended with a thud in game four of the NLCS that it was last we’d see of THOSE Cubs. Â The free-wheeling, thrill-a-minute Cubs of 2015 would never be quite the same. We knew that last week when the Cubs signed 2012 Husband of the Year John…
The Cubs postseason survey is upon us
Since the Cubs and I are regular pals now, they sent me a postseason satisfaction survey. Â I know, most of you probably got it, too. Â But in case you didn’t, I’d like for you to help me fill this bad boy out. Â So let’s have at it. Well,…
That was a lot of fun
The 2015 Cubs were incredibly fun…until they weren’t, but a thud of an ending to the season doesn’t erase everything that happened before it. There was nothing tragic about this year’s NLCS. To put it simply, the Cubs finally ran into a team…
You know, that NLDS was pretty fun
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Cubs NLCS Podcast Preview
The best night ever. So far.
In the end, it couldn’t have been more perfect. Our beloved Chicago Cubs ended the St. Louis Cardinals’ season, and they did it for the best possible reason. They’re just, plain, better. Nothing about the three games to one National League Division…
It’s finally on: Cubs-Cardinals matchup
We have waited forever21 for this. Starting tonight, the Cubs and Cardinals are playing a playoff series for the first time ever. The only thing at stake is the veritable soul of baseball. Will the Cardinals and their backass “Cardinal Way” beat back the…
Cubs-Cardinals Podcast Preview
Here come the Cubs
We all acted cool and said things like, “I’m just glad they’re good again,” or “I want them to win, but even if they don’t, it’s been a great season.” We didn’t mean any of it. When Starlin snagged Francisco…
Cubs Playoff Preview Podcast
Wild Card game preview — Cubs at Pissburgh
It’s been a long time since we had playoffs to preview here, so forgive me if I’m a little rusty. Â But here we are. Â At least a year ahead of reason, our Chicago Cubs are back in the postseason. They haven’t exactly slipped in the back door. Â They…
Why does this have to end?
For many years now when Cubs fans got to this point in the season we had long since just wanted it to be over. Enough with the indignity of watching this team crawl aimlessly to the finish line of another lost season. We had long since lost hope and interest. And…
Maybe that didn’t end so badly
For 25 innings this week the Cubs dominated their inbred brethren to the southwest. They out hit them, they out pitched them, they out fielded them, and their fans out-toothed Cardinals fans three to one. The Cubs, who had last visited Bus(c)h Stadium in June,…