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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
Both Shohei and Judge have been harnessed – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The World Series started off with a bang, but now the Yankees are holding on for dear life. At least they have seen evidence that a team can erase a 3-0 deficit. David Brown is here to talk about the series, the weird apparatus that Shohei is wearing, why some writers…
Nico don’t did a trade, remembering Sweaty Joe and Fernandomania, Bears-Commanders – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Nico Hoerner decided to kill all of his trade rumors by having surgery to make himself untradeable. Tom Loxas joins the pod to talk about that savvy move, the Cubs maybe hiring a bullpen coach, unsourced rumors that Cody Bellinger is opting out, Fernando Valenzuela,…
What to watch for in Cubs spring training
It’s officially less than a week until the start of spring training. Â The Cubs will be christening their newly named, year-old ballpark by giving away game used urinal pucks to the first 14 fans who attend the first workout. If you get one, don’t…
We just found the best feature in the Wrigley rebuild
The Cubs have released a video explaining ‘phase one’ of the Wrigley Field reconstruction. Â It’s got everything you’d expect. Â Some cool aerials shot by an illegal drone, lots of pictures of broken bricks in the snow, some architectural…
What is baseball trying to save itself from?
On Sunday, the world’s greatest Tweeter, Bruce Levine was on the Score talking about all of new MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s ideas about how to make baseball more interesting for “young people.” Â The ideas, hopefully aren’t really…
What if Bleed Cubbie Blue never existed?
I try not to spend that much of my time ripping things to pieces that Al Yellon has written. Frankly, I just don’t have the time. Even the shut-ins who actually frequent his site don’t have that kind of time. But sometimes, he tees one up so perfectly…
It’s a big jump to the playoffs for the Cubs…but they’ve done it before
Their odds to win the World Series are down to 12:1, The Sporting News picked them to win the World Series and even Baseball Prospectus’ PECOTA system predicts them to finish within a game of the second wild card spot in the National League. So what do we think…
Some Cubs fans are really cool
Not only does WGN do an excellent job actually broadcasting Cubs games, but every year at this time they put out a video that gets us all fired up for the season. Â In recent years, we had this sickly feeling that the video was going to be as good as it gets. Â This…
On second thought, let’s just play one
It’s great to see the sentiment, nationwide, after the passing of Cubs legend Ernie Banks. He was a great man, a great athlete and for a product of the Negro Leagues, who came to the Cubs in the 1950’s to spend more than 60 years as the face of the…
107 reasons to look forward to spring training
I have been working on this for a while and I wasn’t sure whether to leave the original #1 reason in or start over. Â Partly, because I’m still upset about the whole thing, but mostly because I’m too lazy to rewrite it, you’ll see what had me…
Cubs trade Valbuena; bail on another season
After letting one of their best players shoot off his mouth about winning the division this season, the Cubs wasted little time in sending an indisputable message of their own to their fans. “We hate you, and we want you to continue to suffer.” As though…
Cubs seeking radio pre and post game host
One of the interesting things about the Cubs leaving WGN radio for WBBM is that apparently WBBM doesn’t have anybody hired yet to do pre and post game shows. Hey, as long as it isn’t George Ofman, I think we’d all be happy. But they’ve…
The Sporting News is full of shit
If you missed it, and because it was in whatever is left of The Sporting News, you probably did, the once esteemed publication picked the Cubs to win the World Series. This season. I know. Fuck them, right? The Cubs have made great strides in the last three years,…
Go to Hell, Theo
The suits at Desipio’s parent company are demanding fresh content, and so they had me pre-write this in the event that the Cubs do the unthinkable and trade Luis Valbuena over the Christmas holiday. I think I handled it very maturely. Of course, it’s…
Theo briefs Jon Lester on Chicago media
Our good friend Bruce Miles confirmed something we were about to leak. Before signing with the Cubs, Jon Lester was briefed on what to expect from the media who cover the team. Theo briefed Lester on Chicago media. He still signed with #Cubs — Bruce Miles…
The rebuilding is over
The hard part, for Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer, ended sometime last season. It was probably about the time Jorge Soler joined Javy Baez on the active roster. For three years, two very competitive guys had to have the discipline to make moves for tomorrow, not today,…
Putting the ‘pale’ in Pale Hose
The White Sox made a couple of late night moves to acquire former Cubs pitcher/wide receiver Jeff Samardzija and former Yankees closer David Robertson. So far, the Sox have been very active this offseason, picking up mostly a cast of mediocrities, so getting two…
Some guys can’t take a hint
Less than six months after trading him away, the Cubs have re-signed pitcher Jason Hammel. This time, Hammel gets a nice raise, a second guaranteed year and a third year option. I’m sure that’ll help console him next July when he’s packing his…
Oh, goody, Ryan Dempster’s back
Just when everything seemed to be going so well. The Cubs offseason had included getting the best manager in the game, bringing back Hank White, adding Dave Martinez to the coaching staff, and making an ambitious run at Jon Lester. Hey, they’d even seen the…
Adventures in Twitter with Bruce Levine
The Score’s baseball insider Bruce Levine gets his fair share of scoops. He’s plugged in with both Chicago baseball teams, the Cubs and the other one, and he has a pipeline straight to Tom Ricketts and his manservant Dennis Culloton. Bruce also is a friend…