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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
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…
Trades can be so confusing – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
The trade deadline is looming and somebody’s going to do something really stupid, so David Brown joined us to try to help make sense of it all. Why are teams so afraid of trading top prospects when the last time a number one overall was dealt it worked out great…
“Like taking a snowmobile to a strip club” – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
The gang is all here to talk about Sh?ta enjoying the All-Star Game, Jed’s first big trade of the season, great catchers on the waiver wire and strip clubs where Praz can the lead the guys to at the bachelor party he’s attending. Like all of our podcasts…
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…
Meet the Cubs!
Cubs functionally illiterate manager Dale Sveum has narrowed his 25 man roster down to 28 or so (nobody’s sure how high Dale can count), and it’s a sight to behold. Â An outfield of four washed up guys and the plodding Joe Mather, an infield that’s…
Geo’s a little sensitive about his weight
The Cubs 30 Clubs in 30 Days is a gift that keeps on giving. Â First we had Ryan Dempster going all assclown and doing his horrendous Harry Caray impersonation, then we got Starlin Castro trying to explain how he’s going to fix his fielding by actually looking…
Breaking: Starlin Castro to host Baseball Bunch
I love the fact that Starlin is doing interviews in English now. Â I can’t imagine trying to do that in a foreign language. Â But this segment with Harold Reynolds, between Starlin’s broken English and the fact that his “before” and…
I hope Ryan Dempster is killed by a meteor
Seriously, what is wrong with this asshole? Won’t anyone tell him that he’s not funny, that his Harry Caray impression isn’t actually of Harry, but Will Ferrell doing Harry…poorly? On the surface, Ryan Dempster should be likable.  He seems…
Bunt outrage AAARRRRGGGHHHH!
There are two things I can’t quite understand about the Cubs bunting tournament. 1) The media’s fascination with tweeting out round by round results. Two years ago, most of these guys (and Carrie) acted like Twitter was way too complicated for them to ever…
So this is what it’s gonna look like?
I know that High Heat and MVP Baseball 2005 get a lot of love as the greatest video baseball games ever, and I loved them both, and RBI Baseball, of course. Â But the gold standard has to be The Show now. I’m a mostly grown man and my wife will occasionally hear…
Soriano’s leading off? Phil loves it, and make-believe!
When Dale Sveum wrote out his intersquad lineup and had Alfonso Soriano listed as his leadoff hitter, I was impressed. Â I had no idea Sveum could spell anything with more than one syllable. Â When he did it again for the Cacti League opener, I was intrigued. Â When I…
What if the Braun conspiracy was for him, not against him?
On Thursday, Brewers right fielder Ryan Braun beat the rap. Â After flunking a drug test during last year’s playoffs and getting caught red faced (especially around his upper lip), he managed to skip out on a mandatory 50 game suspension, because some dumb ass…
Pictures and catchers report
The Cubs have started spring training, so winter is officially over. Â To celebrate, I burned all of my winter coats and threw my shovel onto my neighbor’s roof. Â Those kinds of traditions never get old. When they allow him to use his actual camera, and not…
Not every video montage is inspiring
Friday night I posted a really well-done video tribute to the 1989 Cubs put together by longtime (well, before he died) WGN-TV producer Arne Harris. Â It used the song “Keeping the Dream Alive” by your favorite German pop band Munchener Freiheit and had a…
Keeping the dream alive
The 2012 Cubs are unique, not in that they’re going to be bad, but because they’re actually designed to be that way. Â Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer are trying to turn the whole damned franchise around and it’s going to take some time. Â So this…
Dempster ponders his future
Our good friend at Big League Stew, Kevin Kaduk, thinks it’s funny that I loathe Cubs pitcher Ryan Dempster so much. Â And I can see why. Â Dempster’s been a Cub since 2004 and there have been much bigger louts and disappointments to root against in that…
There are no AAAA players
The Cubs equipment truck is on its way to Mesa, which can mean only one thing…hijack that puppy and get all the clean jock straps you can stuff in your shorts! Â No, wait, it means Spring Training is on the way. Â You know what else says that? Â A fucking…
The greatest 8-bit parody ever
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An open letter that should have stayed shut
Some days it doesn’t pay to be busy. Â I was tied up all day, and so this morning, when I read Al Yellon’s open letter to Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer about re-signing Kerry Wood, I tried the old, “clear my calendar, THIS is all I’m doing…
It was never boring
Despite the hand-wringing of the usual gaggle of dolts who write about the Cubs when Theo Epstein said it would be a “trust but verify” situation that could get Carlos Zambrano back on the mound for the Cubs this season, it was never going to happen….
Al and Tom, a farce in three acts
You remember, because nobody could ever forget, that last year, Al Yellon had a sitdown with Cubs “owner” Tom Ricketts, where he asked Tom 100 questions, and 94 of them were “Who owns the Cubs?” After a thorough grilling like that it’s no…