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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
Cubs have a Morel dilemma – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
The gang moves into a fancy new studio and David Brown stops by to talk baseball. How are the Cubs ever going to know if Christopher Morel can get better at third if they keep yanking him out of games late, and when is it going to cost them to lose his bat in the…
MLB season preview roundtable – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
The whole Pointless Exercise team has assembled to do a mega preview of the upcoming baseball season. Join Andy, David Brown, both the Mike P’s (Praz and Pusateri), Remember this Crap’s Mike Donohue and the new guy, Oleg, as they make way too many…
Cubs Live! — Phillies at Cubs, 1:20 pm, 8/29
Pitching matchup: Phillies: Ex-A Joe Blanton Cubs: Ex-A Dick Harden
Cubs Live! – Cubs at Pissburgh, 11:30, 8/27
Pitching matchup Cubs: Not So Grand Marquis 8-7, 4.76 ERA Pissburgh: Zach Duke 4-12, 5.29 ERA Lineups: Cubs The Albatross, lf Dance Fever, ss DP Lee, 1b E-ramis, 3b Vag Face, cf PonDeRosa, rf RonCe, 2b Hank White, c Marquis du Suc, p Pissburgh Nyger Morgan, rf (So…
Cubs Live! — Nationals at Cubs, 1:20 pm, 8/22
Pitching matchup: Nationals: John Lannan 6-12, 3.81 ERA Cubs: Not so Grand Marquis 8-7, 4.67 ERA Lineups Emilio (seriously?) Bonfiacio, 2b Cristian Guzman, ss Ryan Zimmerman, 3b Lastings Milledge, cf Ronnie Belliard, 1b Ryan Langerhans, rf Willie Harris, lf Wil…
Cubs Live! — Reds at Cubs, 1:20, 8/21
Pitching matchup Reds: Josh Fogg 2-5, 7.71 ERA Cubs: Carlos Zambrano 12-5, 3.38 ERA
Podcast: Hey, we got a guest!
On this very special Podcast, Andy and Kerm are tired of talking to each other, so they bring in a guest. Chuck from Ivy Chat (www.chucktochuck.com) stops by to talk about the Cubs’ sale, Alfonso Soriano and all kinds of other nonsense. Listen to it here, or…
Cubs Live! — Cubs at Braves (DH), 8/13
Pitching matchup Game One, 12 p.m. Cubs: Not so Grand Marquis, 7-7, 4.73 ERA Braves: Charlie Morton, 3-5, 5.70 ERA Game Two, 6:15 p.m. Cubs: Rich Harden, 1-1, 2.10 ERA Braves: Jorge Campillo, 7-4, 2.83 ERA
Podcast: Double secret probation
It’s been a month. Who knew? On the fourth installment of the Podcast, Andy and Kerm recap the big Desipio rooftop shenanigans from Sunday night, ponder just how screwed the rest of the National League is with the VORP Donkey in Arizona and 50,000 Joe Beimel…
Cubs Report: Losing is not an option
One hundred and twenty games into the season, the Chicago Cubs are in first place in the National League Central, have a three and a half game lead in that division, would be up seven games in the Wild Card race if they needed that pathetic crutch, and in fact, have…
Cubs Live! – Cardinals at Cubs, 1:20 pm, 8/8
Pitching matchup: Tards: Braden Looper, 10-9, 4.29 ERA Cubs: Theodore Roosevelt Lilly, 11-6, 4.35 ERA Hey, neato site, huh? We’re going retro today! (Mostly because the new site isn’t working right. But roll with it.)
Cubs Live! — Astros at Cubs, 1:20 pm, 8/6
I thought he was dead? Oh, this is a little embarrassing. Better call the florist. Pitching matchup Astros: Brandon Bacne (Get it bacne, like acne only on your back, oh never mind) 6-10, 4.72 ERA Cubs: Marquis du Suc 6-7, 4.68 ERA
Podcast: Guess who got promoted
Three weeks into the Podcast experiment and we haven’t given up. In this week’s exciting episode Andy and Kerm discuss crucial topics like the demise of Scott Eyre, which Cubs would be useful in a fight and a loyal Desipiot got a big promotion at his job,…
Cubs Live! — Astros at Cubs, 1:20 pm, 8/5
Pitching matchup: Astros: Magic Wandy, 6-4, 3.61 ERA Cubs: Rich Harden 1-1, 1.11 ERA Lineups Astros Anal Fissure, 2b Miguel Tejada, hgh…oops, SS Hunter Scoliosis, rf El Gordo Caballo, lf Geff with a G, Blum, 1b Ty Wigginton, 3b Punty Erstad, cf Somebody…
Cubs Live! Pissburgh at Cubs, 1:20 pm, 8/1
Pitching matchup Pissburgh: Jeff Karstens 0-0, 0.00 ERA Cubs: Marquis du Suc 6-6, 4.69 ERA
Cubs Live – Cubs at Brewers, 1 pm, 7/31
Pitching matchup Cubs: Rich Harden 0-1, 1.04 ERA Brewers: Dave Bush 5-8, 4.51 ERA
Podcast: Brewers, horses and assclowns
In the latest Podcast, Andy and Kermit discuss pertinent world issues such as the Dascenzo family’s ire at Jeff Samardzija, going to high school with equestrian chicks, Corey Hart’s midget face and Kermit’s bold prediction about this week’s…
Cubs Live! — Marlins at Cubs, 1:20 pm, 7/25
Pitching matchup: Marlins: Josh Johnson 0-0, 3.86 ERA Cubs: Ryan Dempster 11-3, 3.05 ERA Josh Johnson? You mean the guy who played Pacey on Andre Dawson’s Creek? Oh, wait that was Josh Jackson. Never mind.
Proof that not just anyone should podcast
You didn’t ask for it, but when has that ever stopped us? Last night was our second run at the first ever joint venture Desipio-Hire Jim Essian podcast. We did one on Monday, that shockingly went smoother than the one we re-did last night, except for the…
ESPN The Magazine: More shirtless dudes
Sometimes, you just have to love the way timing works. On Tuesday, I finally got around to writing my e-mail to ESPN about getting them to stop sending me their wretched magazine. In the e-mail, I noted how, among lots of annoyances, one thing that really confused me…