Remember This Crap – Worst Cubs Free Agent Signings – Pointless Exercise Podcast

Dec 11, 2024 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Pointless Exercise, Remember This Crap

The offseason is a good time to remember when the Cubs used to actually spend money on free agents…and to realize just how bad they’ve been at it. The Remember This Crap gang assembles to wax nostalgic on the worst free agent signings in team history....

Remember This Crap? – 2009 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast

Apr 20, 2021 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast

Andy and Mike D. spin the big wheel of crap and it lands on the Lou Piniella’s final full season with the Cubs, 2009. You probably remember it best for Milton Bradley just being a complete psychopath, or for Kevin Gregg kicking his own team in the balls in a...

Yo Milton, what else you got?

Apr 27, 2010 | Andy

The Cubs have played 20 games so far this season, and won 10 and lost 10.  That’s what mediocre teams do.  So take that however you want.  You have to give them credit, though.  They certainly make middling baseball interesting.  If they’re not...

For a guy who doesn’t talk, he never shuts up

Mar 10, 2010 | Andy

As Milton Bradley’s further descent, deeper into paranoid delusion continues unabated, I really wonder just how all of those naive dopes who defended him as recently as a couple of weeks ago feel.  Actually, I don’t wonder.  Because I don’t care,...

A Byrd in the hand is worth…oh, screw it

Dec 31, 2009 | Andy

Last year, I was driving in my car on New Year’s Eve when I heard that the Cubs had signed Aaron Miles to a two-year contract.  This year, I was in the car again, when I heard that the Cubs had signed Marlon Byrd to a three-year contract. Clearly, I need to...