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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
Angel’s among us – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Angel Hernandez has been put out to pasture, Ben Brown was yanked with a no-hitter going, and the Cubs hitters aren’t really into the whole line-drive thing. David Brown joins Andy to discuss all of this, plus whether or not Andy cursed Ronald Acuna Jr to the…
Let the Hendricks reinvention commence – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
Oleg and Andy call to the bullpen and Mike D. steps over Kyle Hendricks to fill in for the birthday boy, Praz. The guys discuss whether the Cubs have demoted Kyle to the bullpen or is being put out to pasture, and they (or at least Andy) thinks with a little…
Cubs cook up new ticket plans
The Cubs released information today on new ticket options, including a 13-game ticket plan that includes tickets to one home game each against the Yankees, White Sox and Cardinals. Then you pick the next ten out of an assortment that includes less attractive games…
Cubs add to all-nuthouse rotation
Today, the Cubs struck a blow for freedom of the press (or something.)Â It was just three days ago that the pigment challenged beat writer of the Sun Times stuck his little pencil neck out and declared the Cubs the front runner to acquire the talented, but batshit…
Cubs Convention Preview
Next Friday a throng of like minded dipshits will descend up on an overpriced hotel and convention center near downtown Chicago. Despite evidence to the contrary (and lots of it) they will delude themselves into thinking that this year things will be different. …
Cub HOF snubs continue
Even though (SPOILER ALERT) Ron Santo is dead, it doesn’t mean that the day the Hall of Fame votes are counted isn’t still painful for living, great, former Cubs. Today, the baseball writers voted to induct two players into the crummy little snobatorium…
We like Kerry because he gives a shit
There’s really no such thing as a rational fan. By definition you’re a “fanatic” and in practice you have made a conscious decision to devote a wildly disproportionate amount of your own time to become emotionally invested in things other…
As good as it gets
Today was Ron Santo’s funeral, and three men gave eulogies to Ron, and Pat Hughes, his longtime broadcast partner went last, and honestly, they just don’t get any better than this.
Best .196 hitter money can buy
It was made clear to all of us that the Cubs did not have a lot of money to spend this offseason, and that they weren’t going to be trading prospects to get players. So the chance to get any kind of meaningful player to add to the roster was pretty slim. So if…
The Hendry Postulates
The Baseball Winter Meetings start today in Orlando, Florida and rumors will fly, deals will be made, and frantic phone calls will be placed to double check that “pay per view movie titles really don’t appear on the bill, right?” What you might not…
So long, Big Boy
The toughest man ever to play for the Chicago Cubs is gone. After a 50 year fight with diabetes, a Hall of Fame worthy playing career, and an interesting and mostly entertaining two decade stint in the Cubs’ radio booth, Ron Santo is dead at the age of 70. I…
Open letter to Cardinals Nation
Dear mouthbreathing hillbillies of the world, I want to congratulate you on your favorite baseball team’s recent acquisition of Ryan Theriot to play…(pardon me while I try not to laugh and urinate at the same time)…shortstop for you next season….
A musky Winter Meeting Preview
The Baseball Winter Meetings are being held next week in the very place that I got married just four short years ago. No, they’re not being held in the rumpus room at Del Boca Vista, but rather at the Swan and Dolphin Resort at Walt Disney World in Orlando….
It’s easy to pile on LeBron
If LeBron James feels like the world has been picking on him since his ill-fated, ill-advised, decision to sit on a captain’s chair with Jim Gray and profess he was taking his “talents to South Beach” in July, there’s good reason. Because the…
Phil’s putting us on, right?
Some days you know Phil Rogers’ writing sucks because he was careless and used the wrong name for a guy, say for example the name of a dead Colombian drug kingpin instead of a Giants’ third baseman. Sometimes you know it sucks because he’s just not…
Todd says it fits
At a hastily thrown together press conference in the left field women’s bathroom at Wrigley Field that Todd Ricketts has dubbed “The Throne Room” the assembled media horde (me, the StreetWise guy and of course, George Castle), Todd refuted the idea…
Todd 2014
I really thought I had made it. Last night I got an e-mail inviting me to Wrigley Field for a chance to see a presentation given by one of the owners of the Chicago Cubs about the plans for changes and improvements to the old ballpark. I got to Wrigley Field this…
Everything’s for sale
I’m not going to pretend to be angered by the Cubs’ decision to paint the Wrigley Field marquee purple for this weekend’s epic tilt between a couple of middle of the road Big Ten football teams. I will say that it looks dumb, and that Northwestern…
Crane sucks at this
Remember back when the Rickettses took control of the team and we all just couldn’t wait for them to shitcan their Vice President for Douchebaggery and Asshattery, Crane Kenney? Yeah, well they never actually did that. Instead, they put Crane in charge of…
They’re going to suck next year, too
The offseason is a great time to be the fan of a bad baseball team. You can delude yourself into anything. Right now there are Cubs fans who are actually talking themselves into the idea that Tyler Colvin isn’t going to completely blow next year. Offseason…