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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
“A bunch of dull white dudes” – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
The gang is back together to discuss why the Cubs aren’t more fun (though spotting the Sox five run leads turned out to be pretty amusing), the end of our long national nightmare and the return of all-time Cubs great David Bote. They discuss the weird name of…
315. Hard Knocks and no knocks – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs can’t hit and the Bears are finally going to be on Hard Knocks, and Tom Loxas has left his own podcast to become a regular here at Pointless Exercise and so we talk all about it. Do the Cubs need a catcher? I guess if you don’t want every pitch to…
Marking their territory
The monumental Ricketts-Yellon sit down is over. Al ran the third part of his largely uninformative, unintentionally hilarious interview on Friday. If you’re wondering why the Cubs would grant somebody like Yellon this access and not a real writer like…
Cubs want to be exempt from amusement
Yesterday Al Yellon ran part one of his three part epic miniseries of pedantism, his interview with a guy he’s pretty sure isn’t the owner of the Cubs, Tom Ricketts. While part one consisted mostly of Al trying to get himself invited to the next…
Wait, who owns the Cubs?
Wednesday on his award-winning Cubs Web site (three-time winner of the Webby for dullest blog ever) Al Yellon posted the first of what he promises (threatens?) will be a three-part interview with Cubs “owner” Tom Ricketts. When it was first pointed out to…
Franchester needs a new act
Our old pal Franchester Martin Brennaman is at it again. Everybody’s favorite tone deaf hack got paid to give a speech at Marshall University in West Virginia over the weekend and he gave the people what they came to hear. It was basically all of…
Throwing batteries
On Friday, I previewed the Cubs position player spots and ranked each of the projected starters in the NL Central at those positions. I know that it was riveting entertainment. Today, let’s take a look at who is left. That’s basically the starting…
Things are rank in the NL Central
Maybe it’s because we had 20 inches of snow dumped on us Wednesday. Maybe it’s because spring training opens in ten days. Or maybe, it’s just because we’re bored (that’s probably it), but instead of just taking a tour around the Cubs…
What year did Juan Bautista lead the league in homers?
Spring training starts two weeks from today, but our old pal Phil Rogers is already in midseason form. Why, in Sunday’s Tribune he managed to make a case you can’t expect Albert Pujols to be able to live on just $14 million a year, he gave Kyle Lohse a…
Cubs finally get it
I’m not what you would call an optimist by nature. I’m also not what you’d call hygenic, but that’s really neither here nor there. But I have got to tell you, recent moves by the Chicago Cubs have got me thinking that as Ron Santo used to…
Boom. Roasted.
Tuesday night some of Tony LaRussa’s friends got together and roasted him for charity. Now that seems like a good idea. Who better than to take pot shots at than a self-important, overrated douche like Tony LaRussa, right? The problem is that when you…
Does this guy look like a quitter?
Ahh, the meatheads are out in full force. They’re all saying that Jay Cutler quit, that he couldn’t handle being down 14-0 in the NFC Championship game so he just started limping around and then took himself out of a game so that his sterling backups…
Mike Martz breaks down NFC Championship Game
Oooh, hey there. Glad you stopped by. I’m just putting the final touches here on the game plan for Sunday’s big game. I really think we’re going to win this game, don’t you? I was just watching some tape on on our offense against Seattle…
Everything’s coming up Milhouse
Just hours remain until Farmageddon, the seven decade awaited rematch of the 1941 Western Division playoff game between the Acme Packers and the Decatur Staleys is almost upon us. OK, fine, the Packers had dropped the Acme by then and the Bears had been in Chicago for…
Bears-Packers primer
There’s a new site out there on the Interwebs called Youtube and you should check it out. It’s where I found this video which gives you a history of the Bears-Packers rivalry in a neat and tidy five minutes. The best part? They just focus on the…
Most inspirational Make-A-Wish ever
From America’s finest sports source, comes the inspirational story of a girl who just wanted one last chance to see Mets’ third baseman David Wright play. Onion SportsDome
Al Yellon: Reporumnist
I know there are some of you who don’t like it when I waste valuable bandwidth picking the nits of off Al Yellon but the steamer he produced today deserves…no…demands to be ripped into tiny little pieces. So if this isn’t your cup of tea, I…
Why do the media insist we not like Jay or Lovie?
I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but on Sunday the Bears will play the Green Bay Packers for the right to go to the Super Bowl in Dallas in a couple of weeks. I really wish I could enjoy this, because it would seem pretty cool, you know, playing your arch…
See ya, mope
After trading away three prospects, a ten year minor league catcher and Sam Fuld to get Matt Garza, the Cubs restocked their farm system today by trading mopey, turdish, Tom Gorzelanny to the Washington Nationals for three middling prospects. Is it really restocking…
Off his Gord
Friday night we celebrated the first night of the poorest attended Cubs Convention in 20 years with our annual Desipio – Hire Jim Essian drunkfest at Shitty O’Keas at the Hilton and Towers. The usual gang of miscreants showed up and, as in years past, some…