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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…
Super Mega Football Preview – Pointless Exercise Football Podcast
It’s all hands on deck for the 2024 Super Mega Football Preview with Andy and all three Mikes, plus Oleg and David Brown. The guys are just full of football hot takery. They’ll give you season over unders to bet or run away from, some bold predictions on…
These Duquettes are pretty awesome
As a frequent listener of MLB Network Radio, I have come to appreciate the level headed analysis of former Mets and Orioles GM Jim Duquette (he’s the cousin of current Orioles GM Dan). Â This summer, Jim was gone for a while, because his ten year old daughter…
Conventional wisdom
In case you didn’t notice (and judging by the attendance, you didn’t), the Cubs Convention was this last weekend. Â Loveable LoserFest had a new home, this time the Sheraton hosted the events, and the first thing Cubs fans did was complain that the…
Rejected by the Muskbox: Big Z, uniforms and gainful employment
A tradition unlike any other. Â Dumb Cubs fans ask Carrie Muskat questions for her Cubs.com column, Hire Jim Essian makes fun of them, and then, Carrie sends me the ones so dumb they didn’t even make it in, in the first place. There’s no time to waste (she…
Podcast: Episode 8 – Hall of Shame
Back from our long holiday hiatus, our heroes are reunited to talk about 40th wedding anniversary Alaskan cruises, Jeff Bagwell’s batting stance, Barry Bonds’ growing cranium, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the meet up for this year’s Cubs…
Valbueno
Move over Call of Duty 7: Global Disembowelment of Friend and Foe, here’s the newest best-selling game of all-time. This means, this game probably drops to the second half of the all-time top 10. Â But Hank’s still playing, so there’s time to get…
My Hall of Fame ballot
I never knew that I got a Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, but after seeing the Chicago Tribune list of guys on their staff who do (Fred Mitchell, Phil Hersh and Teddy Greenstein, for three) I’m pretty sure that I must have one. Â So I went to the Internets and…
About that extension, Lovie
If it’s over (and it sure feels like it’s over), the Lovie Smith era is going to be remembered for a Super Bowl appearance, a strange, turnover generating defense, a strange turnover generating offense, and three paltry playoff wins in nine seasons. Lovie…
Podcast: Episode 8 – High Fidelity
The Podcast is back, and any attempt at structure is just out of the window at this point. Â We are now just recording as soon as all three of us dopes get on the line. Â So in this episode you end up listening to us talk for a good five minutes about how we ought to…
Deal with it ESPN, the Huskies are out to screw up your New Year
ESPN’s demise is now complete. Over the past two decades, the self anointed Worldwide Leader in Sports has turned SportsCenter into an unwatchable mess, dumbed down its Sunday NFL pregame show into must miss TV, surrounded Karl Ravech with a blathering group…
Todd Ricketts would be great at this
In honor of David Letterman’s 2012 Kennedy Center Honor, here’s one of my all-time favorites. (Part Two after the jump)
Rejected by the MuskBox: Youkilis or Soriano at third? Pick one!
A few weeks ago, I tweeted out that Cubs.com’s Carrie Muskat’s latest MuskBox was full of even dumber questions than normal. Â (It really was.) Â She tweeted back to me that if I thought those were bad, I should have seen the ones she didn’t use. Â I…
Podcast: We’ll do it LIVE!
You might very well be surprised to know that we actually give the topics and format of our podcast some forethought. Imagine how shitty it would be if we didn’t. Well, you don’t need to imagine at all. This time, War2D2 started recording from the…
Rejected by the Muskbox
Last week I tweeted that the quality of the questions Carrie Muskat had to answer in her Cubs.com “Inbox” feature were the worst ever. She replied that “you should see the ones that don’t make it.” Â So I told her if she’d send the…
Podcast: Blame it on the rain
So far we’ve actually stuck to our quasi-monthly podcast schedule and we jammed another one into the can (huh?). Â Hurricane Sandy’s aftermath gave us similar bandwidth issues to everybody else in the non flooded part of the United States, and we actually…
Podcast: Gravy on it
The fourth edition of the runaway, Internet smash hit podcast, The Other 15% unearths a doozy of a Dusty Baker e-book, a great oral history of Cheers, and a reminder that Warren and Kerm are terrible at predictions, but I’m awesome. Â The cheap shots at Al and…
Matt Holliday — still dirty
Apparently the Cardinals and Giants played game two of the NLCS last night. Â I wouldn’t know because Cardinals games are not broadcast where I live. Even when I move. But in that alleged game, Matt Holliday allegedly took out Marco Scutaro on a throw at second…
The Reds put their World Series dreams on hold for two more years
It’s so cute how the Cincinnati Reds think they’re close to winning a pennant. Â Sure, they’ve won the NL Central in two of the last three years, and yes, they have a great player at first base in Joey Votto and a couple of really good starting…
Podcast: Playoff preview and Adam Greenbergapalooza
The Podcast is now on its (supposedly) regular schedule of every other week, and so we preview the playoffs, I tell a story about Phil Regan’s ball sack, Kermit details his Twitter Adam Greenberg friend stalker and war2d2 wonders aloud how he ever got mixed up…