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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…
An open letter to ESPN The Magazine
This is the actual e-mail that I sent to ESPN The Magazine in regards to my subscription to their publication. Fr: andy@desipio.com To: ms_support@espn.go.com Re: My ESPN The Magazine Subscription Dear ESPN The Magazine Overlord, I am currently a subscriber to your…
Cubs Live! – Giants at Cubs, 1:20pm, 7/11
Pitching matchup Giants: Matt Cain 5-7, 4.30 ERA Cubs: Jason Marquis 6-5, 4.78 ERA
Cubs Live! — Reds at Cubs, 1:20pm, 7/10
Pitching matchup: Reds: Fabio Arroyo 6-7, 5.82 ERA Cubs: Theodore Roosevelt Lilly 9-5, 4.47 ERA
Hope you enjoyed the broadcast, if not the outcome
As I’ve said many times before, nothing says a writer is out of ideas faster than him writing a column that’s just one big list. As promised in yesterday’s sterling Cubs’ Report, today we’re going to take a tour of the big leagues and…
Cubs Live! Cubs at White Sox, 3:05 pm, 6/27
Pitching matchup Cubs: Ryan Dempster 9-2, 2.63 ERA White Sox: Jose Contreras 6-6, 3.96 ERA
Joe Morgan, the gift that keeps on giving
Ever since that brutal two-grand slams in one inning Sunday night humiliation against the Mets–you remember it, stop pretending–I’ve been fascinated by shots of Joe Morgan in the booth during ESPN telecasts. Here’s baseball’s highest paid…
Cubs Live! White Sox at Cubs, 1:20 pm, 6/20
Pitching matchup: White Sox: John Danks 4-4, 2.90 ERA Cubs: The Bull Moose 7-5, 4.76 ERA Lineups White Sox Orlando “What’s the extension for the Official Scorer” Cabrera, ss AJ Eyechart, c Carlos Quentin, lf Jermaine Dye, rf Swishy, 1b Joe Crede, 3b…
Shameless plug
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Cubs Live! — Rockies at Cubs, 1:20 pm, 5/29
Pitching matchup Rockies: Aaron Cook 7-3, 2.82 ERA Cubs: Theodore Roosevelt Lilly 5-4, 5.23 ERA
Cubs Live! — Pissburgh at Cubs, 1:20 pm, 5/16
Pitching matchup Pissburgh Tom Gorzelanny 3-3, 5.97 ERA Cubs Sean Gallagher 0-0, 6.48 ERA What a couple of shmoes.
Cubs Live! – Padres at Cubs, 1:20 pm, 5/15
Pitching matchup Padres: Greggie 3-3, 3.60 ERA Cubs: Ryan Dempster 4-1, 2.76 ERA
Cubs Live? — Snakes at Cubs, 1:20 pm, 5/9
Pitching matchup: Snakes: Dan Haren 4-1, 3.12 ERA Cubs: The Bull Moose 2-4, 5.97 ERA Lineups Hand Lotion Hair, lf JD’s Little Brother, ss Chris Young, cf Conor Jackson, 1b Upton the Younger, rf Mark Reynolds, 3b Chris Snyder, c Corky Thatcher, 2b Dan Haren, p…
Cubs Live! — Cubs at Reds, 11:30 am, 5/7
Pitching matchup: Cubs: Jon Lieber 2-1, 1.86 ERA Reds: Edinson Volquez 4-1, 1.27 ERA Lineups: Vag Face, lf Dance Fever, ss MVLee, 1b E-ramis, 3b Fukkake, rf Geo Soto, c RonCe, 2b Felix Pennsylvania, cf Jonny Liebs, p Reds Korey, cf Jerry the Lesser, ss (shortstop!?!)…
Cubs Live! — Cubs at Rockies, 4/24, 2 pm
Pitching matchup: Cubs: Marquis du Suc, 1-0, 3.86 ERA Rockies: Aaron Cook, 2-1, 3.12 ERA