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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
Hard Knocks Episode One – The Haircut – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears are finally on Hard Knocks and who better to come help us break it down than two of our Bears guys, including one who is an actual TV star. Praz and Mike Pusateri are here to watch The Flus get a haircut, be charmed by the ladies in his life, adore Rambo…
Do we want Cody to come back? – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
The guys are back and all over the place. They discuss whether the Cubs are playing for anything, how to binge watch TV shows, what’s up with Isaac Paredes, and how Pete Crow-Armstrong fixed his swing by imitating who? They also wonder if the Cubs are playing…
The podcast came back? Why?
You rarely asked for it, and we gave it to you anyway. Â We added a podcast producer, and let him do a lot of the talking, and after just a brief three year hiatus, Kerm and I have brought the Podcast back. Â When the ITunes RSS feed is up we’ll let you know so…
Dodgers tribute to Vin Scullly
As an unabashed Cubs fan, and loather of all…most…things Dodger (especially Ken Landreaux), it may surprise you that I love Vin Scully. Â He’s the best, by such a long way that there is no number two. Â The Dodgers had an awesome bobblehead night for…
This is just the kind of stuff we miss
Now that the 90th greatest Cub of all-time is off to Texas, look at the hilarity we are missing: I love MLB Network, but if someone would invent a Kevin Millar filter that would change the channel whenever he’s about to come on, they’d make a billion…
Dempster’s full-page ad
Predictably, on his way out to Texas (where he proved his value by allowing 8 earned runs in 4 1/3 IP last night), Ryan Dempster took the time to take out a full page ad in one of the local papers. Â Much to the chagrin of Sun-Times hack Gordon Wittenmyer (who gets a…
A Desipio oral history of the Ryan Dempster trade
Ryan Dempster, Cubs pitcher 2004-2012 I said all along that all I wanted to do was help the Cubs, and if I could help them by being traded to a contender for some supergreat prospects, then I was happy to do it. Â Theo [Epstein, Cubs President of Baseball Operations]…
They don’t did a trade
Twitter is a pretty great place, and these are the salad days. In the past three days I’ve gotten into a Twitter argument with my old nemesis @jacquejones11 (here), I predicted to the second when Chip Caray (@kapaya1234 – here) would Twitter ban me, and…
My side of the story — by Ryan Dempster
Hello again, everybody, it’s your old friend Harry Caray here to talk to you about a really important subject…drinking Budweiser! Nah, just kidding, it’s your old pal Demps. Â How’s it going? Â Had you going there didn’t I? Â I…
The reason Dempster refused to sign off on any trades this week
This is the kind of shit that we’re really going to miss when funnyman righthander Ryan Dempster is walking seven guys in three and a third in a playoff game this fall. Dempster’s been a durable pitcher for the Cubs, though several of his seasons have…
LOL Cubs — with special appearance by Jay Cutler
Big Z might be the best reason to watch The Franchise
Showtime starts year two of “The Franchise” tonight and this year the focus is on Ozzie Guillen, Carlos Zambrano and the rest of the shitstorm that is the 2012 Miami Marlins of Florida. Carlos is one of my all-time favorite players, and Showtime was wise…
Let’s break down five minutes of 1991 Cubs highlights!
Check out this video from 1991 from the night Andre Dawson lost his shit at Joe West and threw half the bats in the bat rack onto the field. Â It’s just all kinds of awesomeness, when you consider who is in it: A completely in her prime Alison Payne starts…
2012 MLB All-Star Game GameCast
Kerry Wood brings the funny…well, somebody does
Andre’s “Caught it! Â Whooo!” makes the whole thing.
LOL Cubs
Tom Ricketts knows you’re special (just like Todd)
As it scrapes and fights to remain in business, the Chicago Sun-Times is running celebrity columns. Â Jenny McCarthy has already written a couple, even though her qualifications as a celebrity are now based solely on the fact that she still looks great naked, she has…
Rick Morrissey wants you all to calm down!
Apparently Rick Morrissey is still being paid to write sports columns for a Chicago newspaper–believe me, I’m as surprised as you are–and earlier this week he had a very important message for all of you Cubs fans getting excited about the debut of…
So it’s funny when the American forgets how many outs there are?
Just a couple of weeks ago in San Francisco, Starlin Castro thought there were two outs when there was only one, and he ate the ball and started to trot off the field when he should have tried (though it was unlikely to have worked) to turn a double play. Â A run…
Bill Murray’s Sally League Hall of Fame speech is must see for any Cubs fan
Renowned minor league baseball team owner, Cubs fan and sometime actor/comedian Bill Murray was inducted into the South Atlantic “Sally” League Hall of Fame. His speech was at times poignant, funny and rambling, but mostly it was awesome. And the part…