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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
The Bears are thinking big and the Cubs are cutting bait – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears fired their overmatched head coach and are already thinking about which dud to hire next, while the Cubs are just hoping somebody will take Cody Bellinger’s cash off their hands. Tom Loxas is here to discuss the coaching change, the candidates for the…
The Bears have finally reached an interregnum – Pointless Exercise Podcast
T/he Bears finally mercy fired The Flus and Kevin Warren wants you all to know that Ryan Poles is totally going to make the decision on the new head coach (sure he is). But first we need to listen to the Jeff Joniak call of the final 38 seconds of Matt Eberflus’…
Maybe Cody shouldn’t get too comfortable – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Could the Cubs trade Cody Ballinger even after he declined his option to become a free agent? Well, sure, they could. The question is what his trade value actually is. Luckily, Tom Loxas is on hand to discuss that, why the Cubs aren’t well positioned for Roki…
Things are about to get interesting
I’ve been around long enough to have seen some shit. As a Cubs fan, it’s mostly all I’ve seen, to be honest. In the last four decades the Cubs have been good approximately eight times. Eight. Oh, how humiliating. For the last three years they…
A referendum on dumbasses
Last night’s trade of Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel to the A’s for Addison Russell, Billy McKinney and Dan Straily is basically functioning as a referendum on which Cubs fans are the dumbest. Â Not surprisingly it’s a several million way tie….
It’s about time Luis got his due
With a 3-4 night in Pissburgh yesterday, our boy Luis Valbuena pushed his season slash line to .288/.394/.456/.850 and his OPS plus to 132. Â He splits his time between second and third base, and oh, by the way, he’s currently the most productive player at…
The Daily Dose: Half-assed Don Zimmer tribute addition
And you thought you’d never see it again! With 1989 manager of the year, and all-around beloved figure Don Zimmer passing last night, how about we turn back the clock and do a Daily Dose just for old time’s sake? Here’s the great Vin Scully on the…
Lunatic advice for world-class dipshit Crane Kenney
Two of our favorite asshats collided this week, when Al Yellon decided to give advice to Crane Kenney now that the world knows of the secret shame the Cubs have been hiding for several months…that they gave Crane a five-year contract extension. It’s…
Tom Ricketts “Moving Forward” video: the original shooting script
The Cubs are serious about this Wrigley Field renovation stuff. Â So serious they had their de facto chairman, Tom Ricketts stare glass eyed into a camera in all sorts of casual Friday apparel to state the case why the Cubs are tired of waiting for the rooftop owners…
Maybe the whole NL Central sucks
Don Zimmer, that baseball sage best known for having a metal plate in his head (and looking like a gerbil) used to say that 40 games into any season you have a pretty good idea of how good teams are. Â Any team that is .500 or better probably has a chance to contend,…
Great moments in unnecessary batflipping
If nothing else, the 2014 Cubs will be remembered for egregious use of bat flips. Â I say “egregious” because I like to use words that look like they’re Latin for Gregory, but in fact I’d argue that these batflips are not unnecessary at all….
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The State Of Being a Red-Assed Cubs Fan
There are dozens…no, probably hundreds of people who take the time to write, at least occasionally, online about the Chicago Cubs. Â Some of them are entertaining, some aren’t, some are pretty good and some are terrible. Â But for some reason, one stands…
Johnny, what do you make of this?
No regular season game gets more overanalyzed than the first one. Â It’s only natural, we have nothing else to compare it to. Â On Wednesday, the Cubs will play again, and we’ll have yesterday’s game to compare it to (spoiler alert: it probably…
Book review: George Will’s A Nice Little Place On The North Side
You might know George Will best from all those Sunday mornings he spent unabashedly flirting with Cokie Roberts back when David Brinkley was hosing the Sunday morning ABC politics show. Or, you may know him for writing a fawning tribute to the genius of The Genius,…
No good reason not to send Javy Baez down
The darker, dumber corners of the Interwebs reacted with much shock at the news that the Cubs sent prized prospect Javier Baez to minor league camp last week. Â To the unwashed and unenlightened this was simply the Cubs sending their best player to the minor leagues…
Cacti League Diary – A Day in the Life
Our next installment in a spring-long first-person account of the Cubs season by the greatest Cub of them all, Luis Valbuena. Â How long into the season this goes…well, only God, Emilio Bonifacio and Rick(y) Renteria know for sure. The worst part of spring…
Fox baseball booth to get more crowded, more huggy
So, The Big Lead is reporting that Fox Sports will announce this week that they will replace Tim McCarver with not one, but two analysts, to join the Joe Buck smarm-fest in their number one baseball booth starting this season. One choice is fairly inspired. Â The…
Cubs release 2014 promotional schedule
So the Cubs are billing this 2014 season the “Party of the Century.” Â Oh, boy. They released the promo schedule today. Â Keep in mind it’s Wrigley’s 100th anniversary, so some of the giveaways are not entirely Cubs focused. Â For…
Cactus League Diary – The Greatest Double Play of All-Time
So sure, we got scooped last week by the dreamy Patrick Mooney, but that doesn’t mean we’re not going forward with it. Â Today starts what is definitely a spring-long first-person account of the Cubs season by the greatest Cub of them all, Luis Valbuena….
Cacti League Preview
While winter up here shows no signs of letting up, the Cubs are in a brand new ballpark, soaking up the sun and getting ready for another awesome season of baseball, down there in Mesa, Arizona. Cactus League games start on Thursday, and Desipio.com is your one stop…