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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
So long, Tiny – Pointless Exercise Podcast
There’s plenty of Cubs intrigue to talk about with the team apparently involved in trade discussions with the Padres for a top of the rotation starter and/or a closer, so Praz and Oleg are on hand to discuss it all. But it’s a podcast done with heavy…
Shopping for old friends – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs roster might smell like it’s pretty well done (or it might smell like something you have to bag up at the dog park), but they are still being linked to a number of moves, including a trade for a former hot shot prospect of their own and a very old…
David Brown – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Spring is just around the corner so it’s time to bring in David Brown to talk about the Cubs and Alex Bregman, owners disingenuity about free agency, going to Japan, fun with the automated ball and strike appeal system, the evil Dodgers, Rob Manfred’s…
The podcast is back?
You asked for it 1, 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…
Something out of left field
The 2015 edition of the Chicago Cubs cares not for your timetable. Â This is supposed to be the year they sniff around .500 get us all excited and then next year they contend for a bona fide playoff spot. Â They seem hell bent on pushing things up. Well, parts of the…
@POTUS Twitter account snubs @Cubs
The official Twitter account of President Barack Obama follows every Chicago sports team except the Cubs. Who gives a shit?
The Cardinals don’t matter
Major League Baseball saw fit to pair the Cubs and Cardinals up seven times in the first six weeks of the season, including a rare four-game set at Bus(c)h Stadium this week. Much angst has been had about how the Cubs struggles to hold a lead in the first three games…
Cubs Report – April 2015 – #wearegood?
If the playoffs started today, everyone would be surprised, no one would be ready and the Cubs would be in them. Â In fact, they’d be hosting Pissburgh in the Wild Card Game. The new manager is just as entertaining as we thought he’d be. Not only has Kris…
Looks like Cubs got bait and switched again
Remember a couple of Fridays ago when we were all excited that our big slugging rookie phenom third baseman was coming to the big leagues after a torturous 12 day wait? Oh, he came up alright and went hitless in five at bats and struck out three times. And but for a…
They’re only getting better
Last night, youngest of our beloved Cubs drubbed the Pirates of Pissburgh. Â Rookie Jorge Soler had four hits. Â Rookie Kris Bryant had three hits and drove in three runs. Â Twenty-five year old grizzled veterans Anthony Rizzo and Starlin Castro combined to get on…
Welcome to the rest of our lives, Kris Bryant
Being a Cubs fan means you have to be cool with waiting. We’ve been waiting for more than a century for a world’s championship and 70 years28 for a pennant. So we’re good at waiting. It’s kind of our thing. But that doesn’t mean we…
A vague sense of deja vu
If not for the man on the mound, the Cubs ninth inning comeback yesterday against the Rockies would have simply been fun. Â After going 0-79 last year in games they trailed in the ninth, it only took the Cubs three attempts this year to mount a successful comeback….
Hey Cubs fans, maybe try to enjoy the team you have?
Yesterday’s Cubs game was pretty entertaining. Â Any win over the Cardinals is a good one, but with Jake Arrieta dominating on the mound, the Cubs playing smart and taking advantage of Lance Lynn trying to pick off Anthony Rizzo29, and they got a clutch hit from…
Crane wants to see you in the bathroom
America was stunned to learn that a 100 year old stadium, under reconstruction, didn’t have an optimal number of restrooms to serve a crowd that had been drinking for eight hours before the gates even opened yesterday. By now you’ve heard the horror…
And, it begins again
We are a pretty sorry lot, by pretty much any definition. Â Whether it starts by choice or by birthright, we all end up at some point deciding to stick it out with the most hapless of all professional sports franchises. Â We are just simple farmers. Â People of the…
Six Question Interview — Luis Valbuena
Our six question interview series has really all been leading up to this. Â The man, the myth, the legend, Luis Valbuena. Why did you leave me? I got traded, man. Â It happens. Â I’m a baseball player. Â It’s the second time in my career already that…
Kris Bryant just made Jim Bowden even dumber
The Cubs made three significant moves today. They reassigned Kris Bryant to minor league camp to the surprise of no one and to the chagrin of those who enjoy trying to act morally wronged. Â hey sent Addison Russell to minor league camp despite manager Joe Maddon dry…
Bleacher season ticket holders are the worst
We take a break from our regularly scheduled tedium of arguing over whether Kris Bryant should start the season in Iowa or Chicago, to bring you something even more unctuous. How about Wrigley Bleacher Season Ticket Holders complaining about not only that the…
Six question interview: Scott Boras
We only get the biggest stars for our Six Question Interview series37 and today we get the biggest sports agent there is. No, not Dicky Fox. Scott Boras. Your reputation is that you only represent the very best. Â If that’s true, why don’t you represent…
Cubs’ first division problems
A sign of how far the Cubs have come in such a short period of time is what their “problems” are. Â You’ve heard of ‘white people’ problems and ‘first world’ problems? Well, the Cubs have at least a couple of ‘first…
Six question interview — Clark the Cub
Our never-ending series of Six Question Interviews continues today with Clark the Cub, the Cubs’ now one-year old mascot. Â Best known for being pantless, Clark fills the all-important void of in-game, in-stands irritant that didn’t really ever actually…