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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
Cubs can only go up from here — Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
The Cubs are wallowing in last place, but thanks to the woeful National League they’re not that far behind anybody (but the Dodgers and Phillies), so Oleg and Praz join the podcast to talk about what’s wrong with the Cubs and what, if anything, can be done…
Fifty shopping days until the trade deadline – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
The trade deadline is approaching but with everybody (not the White Sox) still in the race, how active will it be? How does the Phillies losing a catcher screw the Cubs? David Brown drops by to show off the Wifi in his car and discuss all of this, plus whether the…
What this James Russell crap says about the Cubs
Thanks to off days the Cubs have been able to put the James Russell Experience on hold. The next time they need their fifth starter it’ll be salad tossing lefty Doug Davis. Thirty-five year old, cancer survivor Doug Davis. Thirty-five year old, cancer and…
Derrick Rose is the balls
Derrick Rose was named the youngest Most Valuable Player in the history of the NBA today. He undeniably had a great year and has become one of the best players in the NBA in only his third season. Some people will argue that he isn’t quite at an MVP level. …
Bulls finally get the anthem right
What if Darwin’s actually good?
As the Cubs long, lumbering, two step progression towards 81 wins (four more than I expected, and just enough to make MLB Betting interesting) continues lots of things are surprising about this team. The starting pitching was supposed to be a strength, but other than…
Cubs Report: Starlin’s pretty awesome
Back before the season started, some sage looked at the Cubs first 12 games (home series with Pissburgh and Arizona, road trips to Milwaukee and Houston) and declared that they’d better go at least 7-5 or else. I’m not sure what I meant by or else, but…
Oh how humiliating
After a promising start to a weekend series up in Wisconsin, the Cubs outdid themselves on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, Matt Garza gave up eight more hits (only 20 allowed in two starts so far–awesome) and the Cubs didn’t bother to score. But then,…
Drunk Cub fan
There really is no more hit or miss assignment in TV or radio than the man on the street, and we have this new classic from WBEZ where a bald guy with a beard (always looks like their head was installed upside down) interviews a drunk Cubs fan. She’s the perfect…
Genius loves to banter
Nobody, it would seem, is better equipped to spar with the media after games than The Genius in St. Louis. Tony LaRussa is a bona fide lawyer. The man studied how to argue. And so, you’d expect that he’d enjoy the give and take that you get in a…
Starlin’s no Corey Patterson
If you didn’t know Chris Deluca still had a job at a Chicago newspaper, you’re not alone. But sure enough, there he was on Sunday twatting away about how the Cubs were going to ruin Starlin Castro just like they ruined Corey Patterson. Apparently, Deluca…
Desipio Live! — Opening Day Pissburgh at Cubs
Winter’s over, though the weather hasn’t figured it out. Â But the Cubs are back, and so are we. Â We didn’t invent the GameCast (actually, maybe we did) but we certainly perfected it. This year you can participate from anywhere. Â You can comment…
103 things
Opening day for the Cubs is April 1 this year, which really seems appropriate. Regardless of when Opening Day is, it always makes you think. How many things does it make you think? Well, that’s a ridiculous question. But just off the top of my head (and…
WGN’s good at promos
WGN gives good promo and they did a nice job this year with some “testimonial” ads. Here’s a preview of them, and one of these guys is going to change his mind before his real promo airs. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg1mKSKgqfs]…
Cubs could use a little trim
Opening day is next Friday (April Fool’s Day, appropriately) and the Cubs are getting to the serious business of figuring out what 25 guys will be on that roster. Granted, the roster that starts the season normally looks nothing like the one that ends it, but…
The most important NCAA pairings
You now have 51 weeks to forget what channel truTV is on your satellite or cable system. If you went to college in 1994-1995 you remember truTV as all OJ Trial, all the time. And in those 16 years since, you hadn’t given it a second thought. Until last…
Lousy teams just wanna have fun?
In the past 12 days I’ve been in eight different states. I finally get home, settle in to see what I’ve been missing and sure enough, I’m greeted by more incomprehensible nonsense from Chicago Tribune national baseball dipshit…I mean expert,…
Leading the league in meetings
After Carlos Silva endeared himself to his teammates by starting a slap fight in the dugout yesterday, the Cubs had a team meeting this morning led by our most beloved cue ball, Mike Quade. Nobody’s quite sure what Quade told the guys, but I’m sure it…
We get it, old people love the Cubs
WGN does a fine job with their season opening promos, and this year’s is…well…it’s not bad, but it doesn’t match teh awesomes of last year. This year’s seems to be a reminder that old people love the Cubs, and even the oldest ones…
Dusty loves him some injured pitchers
It’s been a busy couple of days for Dusty Baker. On Monday he finally decided to tell the epic tale of the day somebody took a dump in the spot where he liked to stand in the home dugout when he managed the Cubs. Who am I to doubt the truthiness of…