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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
Bears QBs, the F1 season and MLB jersey fails with Andrew Lawrence – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Looking for a non-meatball take on the Bears’ QB situation we reach out to The Guardian’s Senior Writer Andrew Lawrence and he delivers. Though he lives in Atlanta now, so he wouldn’t mind seeing Justin Fields play there. We talk about…
Cody just got hit by a car in the outfield – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
It’s the 300th Pointless Exercise podcast (and you said it wouldn’t last) and Andy and Mike Praznowski are giddy about the Cubs re-signing Cody Bellinger, but fearful that a sponsorship deal gone awry might have him in traction on opening day. They also…
Remember This Crap? Cubs Left fielders – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs have been playing somebody in left field every game for more than 125 seasons and in a few of those games the left fielder was actually good. The guys take a look back at the good, the bad and the Zuleta of guys who have played left. You will learn how…
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…
Cubs Live! — Cubs at Dodgers, NLDS Game Three, 9 pm, 10/4
Pitching matchup: Cubs: Rich Harden 5-1, 1.77 ERA Dodgers: Hiroki Kuroda  9-10, 3.73 ERA
Cubs Live! — NLDS Game one – Dodgers at Cubs, 5:30 pm
Pitching matchup: Dodgers: Derek Lowe, 14-11, 3.24 ERA Cubs: Ryan Dempster 17-6, 2.96 ERA
Podcast: Playoff preview edition
Andy and Kerm break down all three playoff series as only they can. If you’re looking for quality analysis…well, keep on looking. These two dopes manage to work Cal Ripken Sr’s corpse, Paul Newman and Ruben Quevedo into the analysis. If you want to…
Podcast: Making Lou’s decisions for him
The podcast returns…and gets off to a rough start…but then is as great (lousy?) as ever as our heroes pick the playoff roster for Lou, set up his rotation for him and even figure out which team the Cubs should want to play in the first round. Â (Hint: It…
Cubs Live: Cardinals at Cubs, 1:20 pm, 9/19
Pitching matchup Cardinals: Adam Wainright 9-3, 3.20 ERA Cubs: Carlos Zambrano  14-5, 3.41 ERA
Podcast: A long week, and a long podcast
A lot happened in the week since the last podcast. Â I mean if you consider there was a hurricane that moved a series in Houston to Milwaukee, a no-hitter, a one-hitter, a new Brewers manager, CC Sabathia’s first loss, Ben Sheets’ arm falling off, and the…
Cubs Live — Brewers at Cubs, 1:20 pm, 9/18
Pitching matchup: Brewers: Dave Bush 9-10, 4.24 ERA Cubs: Rich Harden  10-2, 2.04 ERA
Cubs Live! — Cubs v. Astros – in Milwaukee? 1:05 pm, 9/15
Pitching matchup Cubs: Theodore Roosevelt Lilly 14-9, 4.29 ERA Astros: Brian Moehler  11-6, 4.16 ERA