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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
No (trade) means no (trade), maybe – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
Andy has some things about the Cubs to get off his chest and so he sprints to the spacious Pointless Exercise podcast studio to discuss the possibility of the Cubs trading Seiya or Happ, why the trade deadline is still really important, why they should bring back an…
Maybe he’s throwing a churro ball? – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
On this edition of the baseball podcast David Brown is on hand to discuss a sticky situation with Edwin Diaz and his interesting offer (not taken up) as to what the umpires should smell. They also talk about the game at Rickwood Field, more interesting Willie Mays…
Relive Theo’s presser
Can’t say I told you so
The Cubs didn’t fire Mike Quade today. Â They actually did it last Friday, and decided to wait until the day after the Jed Hoyer, Jason McLeod bro-hug, press conference to announce it. Â I’d love to tell you I told you so and that I knew Quade was going to…
Theo has a sweet ride
Both the Tribune and the Sun-Times have un-narrated videos of new Cubs President of Everything but Crane, Theo Epstein, walking around the outside of Wrigley Field yesterday. Â This one is fascinating for several reasons. First, Theo often does the fake…
Phildo on Theo, Ryne and Albert
The best thing about the Cubs getting a new general manager is that we can all live through the countless, pointless, “Ryno deserves it!” posts about the Cubs managerial job. Â Granted, there’s somebody in that job, but nobody has ever had any…
Some of you shouldn’t be so excited to see Theo
Now that the deal is official, Cubs fans can get as giddy about their favorite team hiring a real talent to run their baseball operations as they’d like. Make no mistake, that hiring Theo Epstein away from the Red Sox will finally enable the Cubs to start…
Hope Tony gets a ride to the park
Theo talking baseball like a grownup
…and he got to say “Stinky Pinkies” on the air.
Oral history: Cubs hire Theo
After what seemed like an ill-fated two month courtship, the Chicago Cubs have actually hired Theo Epstein away from the Boston Red Sox to become President and General Manager. Â Epstein is one of the highest regarded GMs in the game, which makes his desire to work…
BREAKING: Phil’s still dumb
I spent yesterday actually writing about the Cubs…writing the Cubs season wrap up for our good friend Kevin Kaduk and the Big League Stew Blog at Yahoo! Sports. Â And because of that, I had to halt the urge to rip a particularly awful (and that’s saying…
Create your own Rozner column
Starting today, the Arlington Heights Daily Herald has followed through on their threat and some of their content is now tucked behind a pay wall. Given that everyone had already stopped paying for the actual print version of the paper two years ago, there’s no…
Wait, where’s Carlos?
So, I take a couple of months off and while I’m away, you guys lose Carlos Zambrano? Is this like the time he hid from the MRI machine or the time he had to go to crazy school for a month? Both? Neither? So here’s what I can remember about the night…
Phildo maps out the Cubs “fire sale”
On Tuesday morning, Phil Rogers went through the Cubs roster and mapped out who they could trade and why. It was predictably terrible and demanded mocking. It’s Friday and I’m just now getting around to it. I needed to pace myself. Let’s not…
Ryan Dempster is funny…how?
It was bad enough when they did it the first time. The second was gratuitous, and caused me to ruin a Father’s Day Eve party with a uncontrollable stream of expletives focused at the poor, innocent television. Ryan Dempster’s Harry Caray…
It can’t get worse, right?
By my unofficial count the Cubs currently have just over 1,200 players on the 15-day disabled list. I might be off by a few, but whatever the actual number, it’s a lot. In a previous job, I used to estimate Grant Park victory rally crowds for the Bulls. …
My Grantland audition
I should probably admit that I was a little confused when I was asked to write some stuff for SB Nation Chicago. I erroneously thought I was being asked to contribute to the new Bill Simmons fiasco, Grantland. Hey, I can sell out as quickly as the next guy, so I…
When Carlos says something wrong let me know
After another fun time at the old ballpark gagging away a lead to the Cardinals, Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano decided to do something that apparently you just can’t do. He told the truth. He wasn’t ranting and raving like a lunatic, he was standing in…
David Huh is dumb
You know something must be obvious when both David Huh and Rick Morrissey feel the need to write about it. Today, they both wrote about how the Cubs are bad (gee, thanks for the news flash). Huh’s take was even more laughably dumb than Morrissey’s was,…
Like you didn’t know they’d suck
The most interesting thing about the Cubs season so far is how mad some of the fans are that this team is bad. Didn’t we all expect that? Even if this team were healthy (and it is decidedly unhealthy) it just wasn’t going to be that good. If they…