Podcast: Better put Nico in bubblewrap

Andy and Praz look at what would happen if Nico needed a day off from shortstop and the options are bleak, so he pretty much needs to soldier through until Dansby is back. They also try to figure out what pitchers are really coming back and who gets bounced when…

489. Look out Dodgers – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast

Jed went out and bolstered the Cubs for the playoff race and the Cubs have knocked the Dodgers around in the first two games of their series. Are the Cbus a real World Series contender? Oleg and Praz join the Cubs Podcast to discuss all the moves, why the Cubs traded…

488. RECRAP – Trade Deadline Recap – Pointless Exercise Podcast

The Cubs were very active at the trade deadline, so how about a little instant reaction to all the new Cubs and the ones who got away. We’re only going to miss one of them. Will Clay Holmes and Kevin Gausman lead the way to the World Series? (Heh). And, how one…

Trade Deadline Preview – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast

The guys discuss the players the Cubs should go after and then hold their noses and try to figure out who Jed Hoyer actually will try to acquire. Will Tarik Skubal get better offers than Joe Ryan? Would Robbie Ray be an upgrade for the Cubs? Will Luke Weaver be the…

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 – 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…

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…

An open letter to Tom Ricketts (and family)

Dear Tom Ricketts (and your dad and your sister and whoever else is going to own the Cubs in a month or so), I see from credible reports (wait, Carrie wrote that?  Oops.) that you and the Tribune Company are getting close to completing the first part of the sale of…

The all-steroid podcast

With everything going on in baseball, Andy and Kerm focus on the important things, like who played centerfield for the Astros in the Kerry Wood 20 strikeout game, which 2001 Diamondbacks are still getting paid by the team and how A-Rod was a quitter for stopping…

We celebrate Ronny’s departure with a podcast!

Ding dong, Ronny is gone, now who’s going to be out going from first to second on a walk?  The podcast makes a triumphant return clocking in at a cool 1:27, as we give our thoughts on the Cubs who have left and the new guys who are coming in.  Ugh, the new…

Podcast: Two dopes and a jockey

Andy and Kermit land their biggest guest to date (we said “big” not tall), as Paul Sullivan of the Chicago Tribune answers their questions about the upcoming Winter Meetings. True to form, nothing is easy for our intrepid heroes.  Paul did the interview…

Podcast: Geovany, Jake and a slew of bad free agents

The offseason is really here and the podcast rolls on.  Andy and Kerm fill the void with news of Geovany Soto’s rookie of the yearedness, the Cubs ill-fated attempt to trade for Jake Peavy and, they run down the long, sad list of free agents and try to figure…

Podcast: Somewhere in there is an NBA preview

This week’s edition of the podcast includes special guest, Yahoo! Sports NBA columnist Kelly Dwyer.  Kelly and the guys were supposed to do an NBA season preview.  Instead it’s basically 86 minutes of stories about Stacy King, Herm Winningham, Bob…

Podcast: World Series preview

Another exciting edition of the Podcast is in the books and this time we discuss Jim Hendry’s contract extension, break down the World Series and promote next week’s podcast when we actually have a guest who will talk about something other than baseball….

An open letter to TBS Sports

Dear TBS Sports, Why do you hate sports so much?  What did it ever do to you?  Did the Rafael Ramirez/Bruce Benedict Braves teams of the ’80s sour you so much on sports that you have to try to torture innocent baseball fans all over America? Because, to put it…

Podcast: Reliving the unbearable

As much fun as the podcasts have been this year, this one?  Not so much.  We got to pick through the wreckage that was the Cubs brief and spectacularly incompetent playoff run. So come on, enjoy it with us!  Who wouldn’t want to spend 80 minutes of their…