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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
Movie Deep Dive – Defending Your Life – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The movie deep dives are back and Mike Pusateri joins to the podcast as the guys break down Albert Brooks’ 1991 classic “Defending Your Life.” You’ll hear stories about how Meryl Streep ended up in the movie, the Rip Torn renaissance, the…
Trade Deadline Recap – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
The guys take a look at what the Cubs actually got at the trade deadline. They ponder whether Christopher Morel or Isaac Paredes will have the better career, ponder Nico Hoerner’s future, compare Nate Pearson to Calvin Schiraldi, and laud Jed for his incredible…
Who doesn’t love Phildo’s All-City teams?
Did you know that the Cubs and Sox start a three game series tonight? Â Apparently they do, and with the return of three more mildy interesting games comes a second chance for baseball genius Phil Rogers to pass on doing an All-City team, because nobody gives a shit….
Cubs Report: They’re bad
We’re now two months into the Cubs season, and I know a lot of you are considering just ignoring the rest of the season. Â The Cubs are bad, they are only occasionally actually fun to watch,and it’s summer. Â You know, there are things like the beach,…
Philo’s Power Wankings — Gotta watch that headhunting!
When last we left our beloved national baseball writing dumbass he was trying to figure out why Joe Maddon can’t just pick a lineup and use it, his boner was only partly flaccid over the Conor Gillaspie era in San Francisco (alas, Conor lasted only six days and…
Kerry Wood has had enough of this bullshit
As retirements go, there have been more artfully executed ones. Â Sometime yesterday, Kerry Wood decided he was going to retire…tonight, AFTER the Cubs game with the White Sox. Â But he made the number one mistake you can make. Â He told his wife. Â So now…
Cubs Live? Cubs at Satanic Fowl, 12:45 pm
CHC: Paul Maholm 4-2, 4.05 ERA STL: Kyle Lohse 5-1, 2.08 ERA
Phildo’s Power Wankings: Can’t stop that Braves offense!
Last time on Mild Retardation Theater, Phil waxed poetic about…Curtis Granderson…again (I know, right?), how Kenny Williams assraped Brad Eldred’s budding career four years ago and how Marlon Byrd’s mere presence had righted whatever was…
My new favorite picture, ever
Emasculating haircut? Â Check. Emasculating dog? Â Check. Comfy pants? Check. Orange running shoes that Steve Prefontaine likely tested in 1973? Â Check. Pink bag filled with rolled up dog shit retrieval bags? Â Check. Bemused look? Â Check. Giving the old fuck you to…
Phildo’s Power Wankings: The (not) putting Pujols into context edition
When last we heard from our ranking hero Phil Rogers he was trying to understand the Spinx that is Chad Billingsley, he was rewarding the Mets scrappy start by moving them down the rankings, and he wanted to rank the plucky Indians higher, but the feces throwing…
Terrible Cubs of Recent Vintage: 1997
The current edition of the Cubs is awful. They’ve won six of their first 18, which is awful. But the Cubs know awful better than anybody else. And so, here’s the start of a short series titled: Terrible Cubs of a Recent Vintage, a (fake) oral history of…
Somebody’s red ass is showing
Our good friend Paul Sullivan posted a shot of a horde of seagulls hanging out in the left field bleachers yesterday late in the Cubs-Cardinals game at Wrigley. The photo consisted of several seagulls, two drunk guys in Cubs jerseys and four people huddled up in the…
Phildo’s Power Wankings — Inanity run amok!
When last we left our fearless ranking hero, he was trying to rhyme Lewis and Holland with Spahn and Sain, and he was marveling at how normally docile Atlantonians could be so creatively vile towards Ryan Braun. Phil Rogers’ MLB power rankings Rangers hold…
You do understand what rebuilding means, right?
Cubs fans take a lot of shit, and most of it is undeserved. I said “most” of it is undeserved. Â If the way many Cubs fans (not us, of course…we’re the brightest of a largely dull bunch) are reacting to the realities of watching a rebuilding…
Phildo’s power wankings
Power rankings go back to the days of JG Taylor Spink (not really) and I was being paid to half-ass them 15 years ago (really) for various sites. Â One thing about them has never changed. Â They’re pointless. Â They’re an easy way to churn out a column…
Now we’re lousy with Cubs ads
As opening day got closer we were suddenly inundated with ads featuring the Cubs. Â Nothing moves product quite like a team that will be lucky to avoid losing 90+ games again. It started with this ad from MLB The Show 12 featuring what it will look like (assuming we…
Opening day without the old man
My  nephew, my brother and I were looking for a pin for dad to wear on the lapel of his suit.  There were plenty to pick from, he had Cubs pins and lots of Notre Dame pins.  He had some on his Cubs hat, some on his Notre Dame hat and a bunch more in a drawer that…
WGN America might never come back to DirecTV
Yesterday, on April Fools’ Day, no less, DirecTV subscribers all over the country woke up to a message on their TV that DirecTV and Tribune Company had not come to a new carriage agreement and as a result 23 Tribune owned local affiliates, and WGN America are no…
Meet the Cubs Pitchers!
Yesterday we took a tour of the Cubs position players as we head into the 2012 season. Â It wasn’t a pretty sight. Â It was like coming up on a motorcycle accident and realizing that the driver wasn’t wearing a helmet or pants. Today, we hold our nose and…
The Genius goes to work
Major League Baseball has officially hired recently retired Tony LaRussa as a “special advisor.” Â LaRussa will be paid $2.5 million to handle “special projects” and will not have to hang out in the New York MLB offices. Pretty amazing that the…