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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
Let them pitch – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Why are some of the best young pitchers limited to short stints in the minors instead of contributing what they can to the big league team? David Brown and Andy discuss that hot topic, plus can you fix your bullpen in May, why is that Paul Skenes mustache a thing,…
When was the last time Dansby was good? – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
The guys kick around all of the important issues this week like, how long has Dansby Swanson’s offensive slump been going on (a long time), who should be the Cubs fourth outfielder when Seiya Suzuki returns and why should it be Ian Happ, and what to do with…
Should we be worried where Joe will end up?
By now, every baseball fan in the world has heard the news. Joe Morgan will no longer be ruining Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN. They’re going to let Bobby Valentine do that instead. While it is truly great news that ESPN has finally, after 21 inexplicable…
In defense of the Todd
Mostly the Interwebs reaction to the Ricketts family embarrassment that was Todd’s appearance on CBS’ “Undercover Boss” has been the same. What a goddamned buffoon that guy is. On one side you have the people who couldn’t believe that the…
Undercover Douche
CBS was so excited about tonight’s episode of “Undercover Boss” that they rigged the Raiders-Chiefs game to go into overtime to push back the start time, hoping no one would remember it was on. But how could we pass on our chance to watch Todd…
Rose and Noah ride the pine
A lot was made of the end of the Bulls disappointing (and quite frankly, a little embarrassing) loss to the New York Knickerbockers last night. The Bulls, who played much of the game as if they’d a) never seen a pick and roll before and b) as though they assumed…
E-ramis has nowhere else to go
When the Cubs re-signed E-ramis Ramirez in the offseason after the wonderfully enjoyable final Dusty Baker year, it seemed like folly that they would give him a player option after the 2010 season. Surely, E-ramis, one of the best third basemen in the game would at…
Welcome back, Kerry
It’s not official. But we’re Cubs fans and we know how these things work. The New York Yankees had to decide whether or not to exercise an $11 million option on their second best reliever, and they decided not to. Even though he was 2-0 with an 0.69 ERA…
Cubs hire someone to coach the bench
The Cubs know talent when they see it and they waste not time locking it up. After signing super-smooth Mike Quade to a two year contract (with a club option) to manage the club, they had an opening on the staff to fill. Alan Trammell left his post as bench coach to…
Eleven years?
Today is the eleventh anniversary of the death of Walter Payton. That still sucks. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzPvzto8cdU]
DeLuca and Phildo try to out hack each other
In today’s Sun-Times editor/baseball “expert”/nincompoop Chris DeLuca reports that sometime last year the White Sox and Marlins discussed a trade of Marlins’ slugging outfielder Mike Stanton for Sox manager Ozzie Guillen. You read that right. …
Half-assed NBA Preview
Back before I became your favorite Cubs writer dude who infrequently posts, I was an NBA blogger who actually got paid for it. It’s true, I even had to claim that shit on my taxes and stuff. I had mostly quit the NBA writing thing until an ill-fated attempt to…
Phil aches for Ryno
When the Cubs passed over fan favorite Ryne Sandberg to hire Mike Quade as their new manager yesterday, it was sure to do two things. 1. Give the idiot horde reason to yell nonsensical things like, “The Cubs OWE Ryno a chance to manage!” or…
HIRED Mike Quade!
It’s official. The Chicago Cubs have HIRED our man Mike Quade as the manager of the Chicago Cubs. Today was a triumph for the little man. The non-baseball All-Star who worked his way up through the minors, who spent 17 years riding buses and scrubbing Randy…
Fisted Foul Live! NLCS Game Three
Game three of the NLCS is conveniently being played today at 3 pm Central time and many of us are going to be stuck at work without any way of watching it. (Except for on TV, or the Web, or listening to it, or watching a Gamecast or…oh, shut up, you know what…
Rick Morrissey is still a clueless asshat
For those of you who were still wondering, Rick Morrissey is still an idiot. I can’t imagine too many of you were actually wondering, but if you were, I’m happy to provide the confirmation you need. Yesterday, Morrissey continued the demise of the daily…
Hire Mike Quade
The Cubs 8-3 win over Houston on the second to last day of the season gave them their first series win (in six tries) against the hapless Astros. It also pushed the Cubs record under interim manager Mike Quade to an impressive 24-12, and that includes an absurd 17-4…
Are the Cubs better after the fire sale?
At and around the trade deadline the Cubs, wallowing in fifth place, traded away their best starting pitcher, their opening day shortstop, a second baseman, their All-Star first baseman and their manager retired because frankly, going home to a sick mother was a more…
Big Z is kicking ass and confusing the Cubs
For any other team, this development would be manna from Heaven. An overpriced, overemotional pitcher who the team had completely written off has turned himself back into one of the best pitchers in the National League with a stretch run that has taken his trade…
Mike Quade Fan Club gets the good news
Exclusive footage of the reaction of the Official Mike Quade Fan Club hearing the news that he would be named interim manager of the Cubs. The tension builds as Jim Hendry announces the ten candidates for the interim job, and the guy who looks like Geovany Soto gets a…