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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
Bears rearrange the deck chairs – Guest: Jon Greenberg – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears are changing offensive coordinators again, and The Athletic’s Jon Greenberg is here to talk about it, the future of The Flus, who’s going to be the next head coach (Andy knows), and just how bad things are. They discuss the lunacy of the idea…
Spooky Halloween Edition – Pointless Exercise Podcast
This podcast includes tales of handing out beers on Halloween, the most indelible moments of the World Series including ESPN’s national baseball nitwit helping make celebrities out of the creepy right field Yankees fans. What the Cubs have to trade, why The…
Do people really worry about spring training records?
Yesterday, one of the greatest things in Cubs history happened. Â It’s a sad testament to the history of this “proud” franchise that I’m only slightly exaggerating when I say that. Three players, none of whom have spent more than 90 days in the…
Six questions with an anonymous fan who wants to bring food to the ballgame
Our six-question series has been such a hit that not only does it now have its own category on Desipio, but we’re going to occasionally branch out and do some hard-hitting news with it. Â Today, we talk to a Cubs fan who insists he/she needs to remain anonymous,…
Six questions with Dexter Fowler
The never-ending series of spring training interviews continues today with Six Questions with Dexter Fowler. Â You were thrilled and sickened by similar interviews with Jon Lester, Starlin Castro and Tom Ricketts, now let’s talk with one of the newest Cubs, a…
Six questions with Tom Ricketts
By now, you know the drill, just like I did with Jon Lester and Starlin Castro, I one-up Jesse Rogers’ pathetic five question interview with a much more in-depth six question interview. Â Today’s guest3 is Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts. Nice of you to agree…
Six questions with Starlin Castro
The next installment of our Six Question interview series is with Cubs All-Star Shortstop Starlin Castro4. At some point after the All Star Break, you’re going to get your 1,000th hit. Â You don’t even turn 25 until March 24. Â How many hits do you think…
Six questions with Jon Lester
ESPNChicago.com’s Jesse Rogers has been doing “Five Question” interviews sporadically at Cubs camp this spring. Â So I figured, “I’m better than Jesse. Â I’ll do SIX question interviews.” Today, the series starts with new Cubs…
Cubs trade value rankings – Part II
Yesterday we plowed through the bottom 30 of this completely unscientific ranking of the Cubs current trade assets. Â The idea is simple. Â It’s a ranking of every player on the current 40 man roster, plus 10 other guys who will be on it someday. Â Age, past…
Cubs trade value rankings – Part I
Apparently some other Internet sportswriter does trade value columns every year on NBA players, but since I don’t read hipster, boutique sports sites, I have no idea about that. Â Since we’ve reached the part of the Cubs rebuilding when they are starting…
Oiled up and ready: Darren Rovell chats with Tom Ricketts
ESPN financial wizard and obsequious Twitter blowhard Darren Rovell showed up at Cubs camp last week for a sit down of the only two guys unironically still pasting their hair into place with copious amounts of pomade. Rovell played all the hits in three minutes of…
Baseball players are too dumb to play this slow
David Ortiz calls the pace of play rules that baseball is implementing this year “bullshit.” Â Relief pitchers are worried that they’ll be hurried too much when they come into games because they’ll “only” have two minutes to get…
Cubs 2015 promo schedule
It’s that time of year again, time when baseball teams show you what “free” crap you’ll get when you attend various games. Â Nothing will top the Cubs giving out a bobblehead of a legend of another team like they did last year when they honored…
Cwis Wusso interviews Wen Kaspuh
The shoutiest of all MLB Network hosts, Christopher “Maddog” Russo had Cubs TV play-by-play announcer Len Kasper on High Heat yesterday to talk about the upcoming Cubs season. I’ll admit that I generally like Russo, especially when he gets all wound…
Jeff Samardzija: The Mentalist
There are hazards to reading anything Rick Morrissey writes. Â Mostly, you risk the danger of another one of his ill-thought-out hot takes making you dumber, but occasionally, they can cause hysterical blindness. Â I’m not really sure what his meeting of the…
National League over/unders
A couple of days ago I broke down the Bovada over/unders for the American League. Â If White Sox fans could read, I’m sure they’d be extra angry with me. Â Today, lets check out them out for the National League, and, I’ll throw in extra prop bet for…
American League over/unders
Bovada in Las Vegas has posted its over/unders for every big league team in 2015. Â It’s an inexact science to be sure, and not only can I tell you which way to go, but I’ve got my own over/under for each team. Â Let’s start with the American League….
Why can’t Kris Bryant make the opening day roster?
Because the Cubs are no longer idiots. 45
As if you don’t already like Anthony Rizzo enough
Cubs fans have had basically a decade of great first basemen who also happen to be awesome people.46 Â If you didn’t get a chance to see the MLB Network features on Anthony Rizzo, his battle with cancer, his great story about the first time he met Jon Lester,…
NL Central position power rankings
You know a writer has run out of things to write about when he or she starts doing lists. Â The first official workout of spring training is still days away, so you are damn right I’m out of ideas. How about we rank every starter in the National League Central…