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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 Hard Knocks Ep. 4 – Legacy Game – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The gang is back together to take a look back at the surprisingly emotional fourth episode of the Bears Hard Knocks. We learn why Rome Odounze was so far out of bounds against the Bengals, spend a lot of time with running back Ian Wheeler and running backs coaches…
Hard Knocks Episode Three – Playing the hits. – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Week three of Hard Knocks gave us some stuff we had expected all along. Mike Praznowski joins me as we talk about a Flus nickname montage, Kevin Warren finally getting to talk about his beloved ill-fated lakefront stadium and punting! The Flus is coming off pretty…
Waivers, wild cards and all kinds of trades – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Unsure which week it was, whether it was supposed to be the baseball podcast with David Brown or the Cubs podcast with Oleg and Praz the guys just all got together and had a four-way. A four-way podcast. Get your mind out of the gutter. Although they do spend a fair…
Podcast: Episode Two, And They Said It Wouldn’t Last
Just in case you thought it was a one-time thing, we turned it into a two-time thing and so another week, another podcast with @hirejimessian and @war2d2. Â This week we hit all of the really important topics like why can’t the goddamned Tigers keep the White…
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…