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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 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…
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…
Dusty loves him some injured pitchers
It’s been a busy couple of days for Dusty Baker. On Monday he finally decided to tell the epic tale of the day somebody took a dump in the spot where he liked to stand in the home dugout when he managed the Cubs. Who am I to doubt the truthiness of…
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…