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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…
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…
David Haugh is teh stupids
It’s so easy to ignore David Haugh’s existence that after awhile you forget just how colossally stupid he is. Â Then, occasionally, he goes out of his way to remind us. Â Today was one of those days. Maybe he figured that because he and Dave Kaplan were…
Betting tips on baseball: who will win this year’s MLB?
The Boston Red Sox winning of the 2013 MLB World Series has not been sufficient to make them the hot favourites to do the same again next year – although at 11/1, they are not exactly rank outsiders either. Despite being just behind the LA Dodgers in the bookies…
Cubs Preview: The Rotation
Spring Training starts this week…well, at the least the part where guys play catch and we pretend like winter will be over soon.  So now seems as good a time as any to break down the mighty Chicago Cubs position by position. Monday we checked out the catchers….
Cubs Preview: Bullpen
Spring Training starts this week…well, at the least the part where guys play catch and we pretend like winter will be over soon.  So now seems as good a time as any to break down the mighty Chicago Cubs position by position. Monday we checked out the catchers….
Cubs Preview: Outfielders
Spring Training starts this week…well, at the least the part where guys play catch and we pretend like winter will be over soon.  So now seems as good a time as any to break down the mighty Chicago Cubs position by position. Monday we checked out the catchers….
Cubs Preview: Infielders
Spring Training starts this week…well, at the least the part where guys play catch and we pretend like winter will be over soon.  So now seems as good a time as any to break down the mighty Chicago Cubs position by position. Monday we checked out the catchers….
Cubs Preview: Catchers
Spring Training starts this week…well, at the least the part where guys play catch and we pretend like winter will be over soon. Â So now seems as good a time as any to break down the mighty Chicago Cubs position by position. Today? Â Let’s squat. Catchers…
How to talk to your dogs and cats about the Sochi Olympics
There have been a lot of pixels spilled about what’s going on in Sochi, Russia in the final hours before the Olympics officially start. Most of it is about how jacked up the hotel rooms and toilets are for the journalists who are arriving to cover the games….
Movie Review: 100 Years of Wrigley Field
One of the perks of being a big time journalist like myself is that you get exclusive access to things that mere mortals don’t. Â I’m used to it, so I was unimpressed when the Cubs asked me to be one of the first to review their new movie “100 Years…
New shit has come to light
Granted, I was 11 years old in 1984, but I thought I remembered most of the important stuff that happened that year. Â I did not remember this: This video has it all. Â It’s got Harry in his prime and he’s caught in mid-sentence bragging about his White…
Does anybody like anything the Cubs are doing?
In an effort to needlessly remind us how incompetent they are at pretty much everything, the Cubs, to their own astonishment, unveiled a new mascot yesterday and everybody hated…him? Â It? Â Whatever. Â Clark the Cub is meant to hug the shit out of little Cubs…
Bears fans and media really are the worst
When Jay Cutler left his groin in a pile in DC several weeks ago, we all thought the season was over. Â Once again, an injury to the one competent Bears QB on the roster would fell the entire house of cards and we’d have months of terrible football to slog…
The winning Cubs radio analyst audition tape
Alert the affiliates because the winning WGN Radio Cubs color analyst audition “tape” has been submitted. Â Sure, the Cubs leaked that it was down to the underwhelming duo of Todd Hollandsworth and Ron Coomer for the job, but the fact that they got my…
So where’s my Twitter account?
So, for the last couple of weeks, many of you have wondered just what happened to my tremendously informative and entertaining Twitter account? Â Many of you follow me at twitter.com/desipiodotcom and your days are empty and meaningless without a dozen or so…
Bienvenido, Senor Renteria!
So the Cubs finally have a new manager. Â I for one was getting pretty antsy about the whole thing. Â Mostly because they have a game coming up…in four months. They have hired Rick Renteria. Â Renteria has served the last few years as the Padres bench coach,…
Insanity Workout finally gets the perfect pitchman
There are a lot of fitness video programs out there. Â Some work, some don’t, but the ones that sell, sell because they get results and because they have a great pitchman. Take P90X for instance. Â After taking the summer off to drink beer, I’m back on…
This TNT “Days of future past” promo is really cool
I’ll admit, even a big brain like me took a few seconds to figure out they were showing alternative futures. Â Can’t wait for Derrick to drop 70 on the Knicks and for the Bulls, and Warriors, and Clippers…and Heat to all win the title next year. This…
Toni Kukoc pre-game prep
On NBA TV’s always great Open Court, the guys were talking about their pregame meals. Â Most of them were awful. Â Steve Smith ate a McDonald’s Filet-o-Fish before every game, and Charles Barkley–of course–ate two. Â Kenny Smith said Mark…