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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
The Cubs playoff path just got harder – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Ready or not, baseball seasons starts in the wee hours of Wednesday morning so David Brown is here to talk about how Blake Snell signing with the Giants makes the wild card path tougher in the NL and what’s up with Jordan Montgomery. They discuss the Dodgers…
Let’s set the Cubs roster and lineup for them – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
Less than two weeks to opening day and it’s time for Andy and Praz to do the hard work for Craiggy and Jed and make the Cubs final cuts for them. Who’s got options, who would get through waivers and who might actually be useful to round out the bench and…
Cubs best of a bad bunch, collusion, misnamed pitchers and more – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast with David Brown
With one move the Cubs went from fourth best to best in the very flawed NL Central and David Brown is back to discuss it and to take a look at the contracts that Scott Boras got for Cody Bellinger and Matt Chapman and what the market might look like next year. Andy…
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…
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)