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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
Jon Greenberg on the Bears’ $4.6 billion farmer’s market with a stadium attached – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Athletic’s Jon Greenberg comes on the pod to talk about the Bears ill-fated stadium press conference, his role in helping the Bears finally put their tortured quarterback history to the side, why Kevin Warren and George McCaskey would end up being the stars…
Nothing sparks a rally like cased meat – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Is the Twins new rally celebration an ecoLOGical diaster just waiting to happen? David Brown weighs on that meaty matter and other hot topics like Mike Trout’s meniscus, revenge games, Jose Abreu’s trip to Del Boca Vista, how are the Cubs surviving…
I hate them now more than ever
So Lou Piniella called it a career yesterday. After 48 years as a player, general manager and manager, he took off his uniform for the last time and headed home to Tampa to take care of his mother. I’m sure a lot of people don’t believe that’s…
At least Derrek won’t have to limp too far
A month after professing his undying love for the Cubs and refusing to forsake them for a team with a chance at the pennant, Derrek Lee agreed to be traded to the Atlanta Braves. Presumably he had to sign the agreement while lying face down on a massage table,…
So long, dummy
Now that Ryan Theriot is mercifully on somebody else’s team, we can take a moment to remember a time when he wasn’t a terrible fielding, addle-brained baserunning, wiffle bat carrying douchebag. We can take a minute to remember when he bailed out the 2007…
Lou’s leaving, and I hope you assholes are happy
The worst kept secret in baseball (I mean other than tHom Brennaman’s toupee) was let out of the bag today when the Cubs announced that Lou Piniella was going to pack it in at the end of this horrendous season. Lou’s agent let the news out today, which…
Thankgiving with the Ricketts(es)
Tomorrow is a favored holiday in much of America. Who can’t get behind the idea of sitting around and eating like a pig, watching football and listening to the women in your family tear through the sale ads in that day’s newspaper like Charlie Weis trying…
Lace up your ‘Roos and let’s run up a hill
There’s a little ritual in the Dolan household just before the start of every Bears season. We sit down and we watch the unbelievably good piece that NFL Films did about the greatest Bear of all time. Pure Payton is a 45 minute Walter Payton Splooge-fest and…
Devin Hester Splooge-o-rama
Because his 2008 returns were lackluster, you almost forget how unbelievable he was in 2006 and 2007. Hey, I said almost. What follows is ten minutes of pure bonertime. Well, except for the Pro Bowl one, I mean, it’s the Pro Bowl. Who cares?…
Cubs Live – White Sox at Cubs, 7 p.m.
Pitching matchup: Sox: John Danks, 4-5, 4.81 ERA Cubs: Carlos Zambrano, 4-2, 3.39 ERA Carlos and Ozzie are doing commercials together. I don’t think this needs any explanation. [Youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vs1BXcR-ww&feature=player_embedded]…
Cubs Live! – Dodgers at Cubs, 7 p.m.
It’s been a while so I thought I’d give you all fair notice that we’re doing a Cubs Live gamecast tonight for the Dodgers-Cubs at 7 p.m.
You’ve been banned
Apparently, people who frequent this site aren’t the only ones who aren’t allowed to post elsewhere. An overseas Cubs fan got some disturbing news. And frankly, he didn’t handle it as well as you might think. And no, he doesn’t actually have a…
Cubs Live — Cubs at Snakes, 8:30pm
Pitching Matchup Cubs – Carlos Zambrano (1-1, 4.85 ERA) Snakes – Smiley Little (0-1, 6.00 ERA)
Cubs Live – Reds at Cubs, 7 pm
Pitching matchup Reds: Micah Owings (0-1, 7.20 ERA) Cubs: Rich Harden (0-1, 5.00 ERA)
Podcast: A triumphant return (with new sponsor!)
The podcast has a new (shorter) name, and it’s back on a new network. The new home is Blog Talk Radio which is a lot easier to use, even if it sounds like Andy’s in a cave and Kermit is using a can and a string. After a long hiatus, the dopes talk about…
Cubs Live? — Rockies at Cubs 1:20 (or whenever)
Opening day in the rain. Estimated start time – 2 p.m. Pitching matchup Rockies: Ubaldo Jiminez (1-0, 0.00 ERA) Cubs: Ted Lilly (1-0, 9.00 ERA) .
Cubs Live – Cubs at Brewers, 3:05 p.m.
Pitching matchup Cubs: Rich Harden (0-0) 0.00 ERA Brewers: Braden Looper (0-0) 0.00 ERA Starting lineups Cubs Alfonse, lf Fukkake, cf 6-4-Lee, 1b Crazy Milton, rf E-ramis, 3b Fontegnome, 2b Dance Fever, ss Chainsaw, c Dick Harden, p Brewers Rickie “E-4”…
Free the Daily Herald two
It’s not exactly news to say that newspapers are in trouble. Within a 10 day span last month, three papers that had each been in business for more than 130 years all went belly up. Papers are trying to cut costs as much as possible. Some are doing it more…
Cubs Live! — Cubs at Astros, 6 p.m., Opening…Dusk?
Pitching matchup Cubs – Carlos Zambrano (0-0, 0.00 ERA) Astros – Roy Oswalt (0-0, 0.00 ERA)
2009 Cubs Preview
Last summer we watched what we figured was the best Cubs team of our lifetimes. They could pitch, they could hit and they could actually field the baseball (well, not Theriot, but…). They won 97 games. They blew away the NL Central (which, everyone says is…