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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
Would you take one in the melon for a house? – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
The All-Star rosters are set and the game is next week, so David Brown joins Andy to discuss why discussions of snubs are pointless, changes to the Home Run Derby again, and a brilliant idea for a fan participation event for pitchers that could be held right before…
Are they more bad or boring? – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
What are the Cubs more of, boring or bad? That’s the big issue that Andy and Praz confront, while Oleg is out running around in his birthday suit. Should the Cubs buy, sell, neither or both? Who would want any of them? Would Jed even trade any of them if he…
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…
Theo and Jed are taking out the trash
Our good friend Dave Kaplan breathlessly tweeted yesterday “Breaking Cubs news: Cubs to completely rebuild.” That was breaking news in the same way that “Breaking Bears news: Caleb Hanie still sucks,” would be breaking news. Â Did I miss…
Bulls get the SG of least resistance
The Bulls have come so far, so fast. How do I know this? Because two offseasons ago, fans were just hoping the team would take another step towards respectability, and now, just months later they can’t believe that a team with the reigning NBA MVP, who was…
Why do players use PEDs?
One of the least surprising things is that baseball players are still using performance enhancing drugs. What is surprising is that they are still getting caught. The latest dummy to get caught is Milwaukee’s Ryan Braun. He doesn’t look like a…
Cardinals fans handle Pujols departure with typical class
The media loves to go on and on about how Cardinals fans are the best in baseball. The media says lots of stupid shit. This week, Cardinals fans had a chance to show just how the best fans in baseball would react to a great player doing the a favor and not clogging…
Cost cutting Cubs dump Colvin on Rockies
Now how could trading a player who makes the league minimum help the Cubs cut costs you ask? Well, when the player is Tyler Colvin, the savings on the team dental plan alone has to be in the tens of millions. And so, the Cubs traded him and his lofty stat line last…
Should the Cubs be willing to trade anybody?
Every time I see outrage on the Interwebs among Cubs fans I reflexively run to the side opposite the outrage. Â The reason? Â Cubs fans are idiots. What caused the idiot horde to take their rage out for a spin yesterday? Â Busty Olney reported the Cubs would listen to…
Happy Thanksgiving, Morans
Has it really been two years since the Ricketts celebrated their first Thanksgiving as Cubs owners? Â Let’s go back to that magical time. And when you’re done reminiscing about that, you can enjoy one of the greatest Thanksgiving episodes of any TV…
Why won’t anyone hire Ryne?
Life is tough these days for Ryne Sandberg. Â Sure, he’s still sitting on a pile of millions of dollars from his playing career, he make can thousands more whenever he wants just by virtue of the fact he gets to sign “HOF” next to his autograph (that…
Ten points for the douche in the backwards hat
The Florida State Department of Transportation is taking a lot of grief for how graphic this video is. But it’s awesome.
What’s Spanish for ‘hitting coach?’
Apparently, it’s “hitting coach.” Those Spanish…they almost have a different word for everything. And…nice mircophone.
Dale Sveum’s greatest day
Ryan Theriot is terrible at baseball
Tip of the hat to Viva El Birdos for this.
Prepare to be underwhelmed
When the Cubs brought in their four managerial candidates it really seemed like they had a three in four chance of getting it right. The first candidate was current Phillies bench coach Pete Mackanin. He did a great job as an interim manager for the Reds in 2006…
Jon Stewart on Jerry Sandusky
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