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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 Cubs are still pretending and the Bears are back to their old tricks – Pointless Exercise Podcast
A weird week at Pointless Exercise leads to a guest free podcast that touches on the Cubs pretending to still be playing for something, the team botching a celebration of two of their most beloved players, dissension in the front office but Jed’s coming back and…
Hard Knocks Ep. 5 – Too hot for gumbo – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Bears Hard Knocks is over and it was mostly fun. The finale had it all, guys getting cut (and most of them coming back to the practice squad), gumbo talk, bees, Ian Wheeler’s book club, two very large nerds talking about whose country invented football, a guy…
Exhaustive oral history of the Cubs switch to blue shoes
Over the weekend, Al at bleedcubbieblue.com really stepped up his game and wrote about 10,000 words on the different start times of Cubs games at Wrigley Field over the years. Â Now, everyone knows that Al and I are regular chums and I only pretend to give him a hard…
Farewell to the Albatross
Has it really been seven years? Â We were so young then, weren’t we? Â On that November Sunday when the Cubs threw silly money at the flawed, but best free agent on the market and brought Alfonso Soriano to town. Â The contract seemed way too long. Â Eight years…
Logjammin’ at third base
So the Matt Garza era is over in Chicago. Â The man good enough to be traded for Sam Fuld, has been shipped off to Arlington, Texas where he’ll join a really talented team with a batshit crazy (and likely coked up) manager. Â Garza will fit right in. Â Though at…
Podcast 21 – XBONEd
Virtually unlimited nonsense
This morning I got wind of a new Al Yellon article so poorly thought out, so unreasonably daffy and so incompetent that I cursed the Twitter Gods for suspending my account because I wanted to share some good old Steve Stone motherboy flesh with the world. It was going…
Steve Stone got me suspended by Twitter
If you’re wondering why the visibility of @desipiodotcom on Twitter is so poor right now, all you kids watching from home, it’s Steve Stone’s fault. Sort of. Yesterday Twitter got flooded with more annoying spam tweets than usual. Â And I got one…
Podcast ep 20 – The neverending podcast
We’re back, and longer than ever. Â We podcast during the first round of the MLB Draft and actually pay attention, for a while. Â We talk Cubs, as we are contractually obligated, defend out tweets and I spend a good 10 minutes breaking down the Liberace bio-pic…
2013 MLB Draft Preview
The night the Cubs have been waiting for, since this time last year is here. Â It’s the first day (night, actually) of the 2013 Major League Baseball Rule 4 Draft. Â The Cubs have the second pick in the draft thanks to being the second worst team in baseball…
Maybe Pythagoras is just full of shit
Dale Sveum is not a mathematician. Â In fact, he doesn’t seem to be much of a thinker. Â So it’s unlikely that he understands that his fourth place Cubs really shouldn’t be bad. Â They ought to be mediocre. Woo! Â Cubs fever. Â Catch it. Â And die….
One more Hanguk Safforn for breakfast
Check out this South Korean baseball player who is pretty sure he got ALL OF IT and just ended the game: Looks like he needed one more Hanguk Safforn for breakfast. (Todd Walker feels the bat flip needed much more disgust.)
So, this guy is the dumbest ever
We got the answer to an ages old question this morning. What does the Chicago Tribune do when it needs someone to write a column that is so awful, pointless and just, plain, wrong that even David Haugh won’t write it? Ladies and (oh, who are we kidding…)…
Can’t spell Most Valuable without Valbue(n)a
The Internet long ago identified me as the biggest Luis Valbuena jock sniffer on the planet, and to that, I can only say, “So?” Long, long ago, I founded the Hank White Fan Club and we, to this day, share glorious tales of Henry Blanco’s long (16…
Too quick to apologize
Yesterday was quite a day for the guy at Bleacher Nation, Brett Taylor. Â It started innocently enough: a recap of the exploits of the Cubs minor leaguers–written by a guy named Luke they are infinitely better than the ones at Al Yellon’s House of…
Podcast: Ep 19 – Day poddin’
If you see only 15 minutes of any of our awful podcasts, you must watch the first 15 minutes of this one, when I reveal the greatest shirsey in the history of shirseys! We’re in the missing man formation because we thought Warren was on vacation this week,…
Podcast Episode 16 – Pithy name goes here
Last week we had a very active viewer, he sent us questions, he picked out our “defending your tweet” entries, and so this week…? We put him on the podcast. Our special guest is Wisconsin-based, UW-bound, first base prodigy Kyle Reichert. We…
So are the Cubs broke, or cheap, or both
From today’s Sun Times it’s pretty apparent that Gordon Wittenmyer isn’t going to stop writing about how the Cubs: a) have no money b) have huge, crippling, staggering, suffocating debt c) can’t pay free agents d) refuse to pay free agents e)…
Reminder: David Haugh is the dumbest
So I was enjoying a rare sunny Sunday when I got direct messaged by someone in the Chicago media asking if I had read David Haugh’s column today. Consider Sunday ruined. We long ago established that Haugh is an idiot, and a terrible columnist. Â Days like today…
Podcast: Episode 16 – Where’s Warren?
The podcast is in the missing man formation with Warren off woo-ing his own wife, so it’s left to Moran #1 and Moran #2 to kill 80 minutes, and damnit if they don’t do just that. There’s actual Cubs baseball to talk, plus much discussion of MLB The…