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- Damn the torpedos!
- Upon further review
- Podcast: Opening Day!
- Podcast: Don't use an airplane toilet after Mookie
- Let's take the Cubs fan survey!
- Cubs get just as many wins in Japan as we all expected
- Podcast: 2025 Baseball Preview
- Six is better than four, but just barely
- Podcast: Cubs have the fun Japanese Players
- Podcast: Hats off to another great spring training
- Cubs and Bears making moves
- Bald don't lie
- Watch It! - Unforgotten
- Podcast: Remember This Crap - All-Time Cubs Third Basemen
- Podcast: Oleg's tales from Spring Training
Latest Pointless Exercise Podcast Episodes
Remember This Crap – All-Time Cubs Third Basemen – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Remember This Crap tour around the diamond remembering the greatest (and other) Cubs players at each position has reached the hot corner. Andy and Huey are on hand to tell you more than you'd ever like to know about every regular third baseman (and some irregular...
Oleg’s tales from Spring Training – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Oleg is back from a whirlwind trip to Cubs spring training, Innings Festival and his first look at Toilet Flapper Field and he has stories to tell. Praz tries to guess who Gary Clark Jr's favorite Cub is, and Andy is relieved that Petecrow's leg is in one piece and...
Trades can be so confusing – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
The trade deadline is looming and somebody's going to do something really stupid, so David Brown joined us to try to help make sense of it all. Why are teams so afraid of trading top prospects when the last time a number one overall was dealt it worked out great for...
“Like taking a snowmobile to a strip club” – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
The gang is all here to talk about Sh?ta enjoying the All-Star Game, Jed's first big trade of the season, great catchers on the waiver wire and strip clubs where Praz can the lead the guys to at the bachelor party he's attending. Like all of our podcasts it somehow...
Would you take one in the melon for a house? – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
The All-Star rosters are set and the game is next week, so David Brown joins Andy to discuss why discussions of snubs are pointless, changes to the Home Run Derby again, and a brilliant idea for a fan participation event for pitchers that could be held right before...
Are they more bad or boring? – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
What are the Cubs more of, boring or bad? That's the big issue that Andy and Praz confront, while Oleg is out running around in his birthday suit. Should the Cubs buy, sell, neither or both? Who would want any of them? Would Jed even trade any of them if he could? Why...
No (trade) means no (trade), maybe – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
Andy has some things about the Cubs to get off his chest and so he sprints to the spacious Pointless Exercise podcast studio to discuss the possibility of the Cubs trading Seiya or Happ, why the trade deadline is still really important, why they should bring back an...
Maybe he’s throwing a churro ball? – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
On this edition of the baseball podcast David Brown is on hand to discuss a sticky situation with Edwin Diaz and his interesting offer (not taken up) as to what the umpires should smell. They also talk about the game at Rickwood Field, more interesting Willie Mays...
Cubs can only go up from here — Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
The Cubs are wallowing in last place, but thanks to the woeful National League they're not that far behind anybody (but the Dodgers and Phillies), so Oleg and Praz join the podcast to talk about what's wrong with the Cubs and what, if anything, can be done about it....
Fifty shopping days until the trade deadline – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
The trade deadline is approaching but with everybody (not the White Sox) still in the race, how active will it be? How does the Phillies losing a catcher screw the Cubs? David Brown drops by to show off the Wifi in his car and discuss all of this, plus whether the...
“A bunch of dull white dudes” – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
The gang is back together to discuss why the Cubs aren't more fun (though spotting the Sox five run leads turned out to be pretty amusing), the end of our long national nightmare and the return of all-time Cubs great David Bote. They discuss the weird name of Bote's...
315. Hard Knocks and no knocks – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs can't hit and the Bears are finally going to be on Hard Knocks, and Tom Loxas has left his own podcast to become a regular here at Pointless Exercise and so we talk all about it. Do the Cubs need a catcher? I guess if you don't want every pitch to just roll...
Angel’s among us – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Angel Hernandez has been put out to pasture, Ben Brown was yanked with a no-hitter going, and the Cubs hitters aren't really into the whole line-drive thing. David Brown joins Andy to discuss all of this, plus whether or not Andy cursed Ronald Acuna Jr to the injured...
Let the Hendricks reinvention commence – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
Oleg and Andy call to the bullpen and Mike D. steps over Kyle Hendricks to fill in for the birthday boy, Praz. The guys discuss whether the Cubs have demoted Kyle to the bullpen or is being put out to pasture, and they (or at least Andy) thinks with a little "growth"...
Let them pitch – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Why are some of the best young pitchers limited to short stints in the minors instead of contributing what they can to the big league team? David Brown and Andy discuss that hot topic, plus can you fix your bullpen in May, why is that Paul Skenes mustache a thing,...
When was the last time Dansby was good? – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
The guys kick around all of the important issues this week like, how long has Dansby Swanson's offensive slump been going on (a long time), who should be the Cubs fourth outfielder when Seiya Suzuki returns and why should it be Ian Happ, and what to do with Petecrow...
Jon Greenberg on the Bears’ $4.6 billion farmer’s market with a stadium attached – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Athletic's Jon Greenberg comes on the pod to talk about the Bears ill-fated stadium press conference, his role in helping the Bears finally put their tortured quarterback history to the side, why Kevin Warren and George McCaskey would end up being the stars of...
Nothing sparks a rally like cased meat – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Is the Twins new rally celebration an ecoLOGical diaster just waiting to happen? David Brown weighs on that meaty matter and other hot topics like Mike Trout's meniscus, revenge games, Jose Abreu's trip to Del Boca Vista, how are the Cubs surviving (mostly) their...
“Maybe the problem is, we’re coddling these guys too much” – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Andy, Praz and Oleg discuss all the pertinent issues with the Cubs like the return of Matt Mervis, Nicky Two Strikes, Ian Happ's return to the lineup, Kyle Hendricks' phantom back injury and Boog's fascination with Mike Tauchman. But then they put their big throbbing...
Seiya’s really good – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
While the Cubs bullpen might be awful, Andy, Praz and Oleg decide to talk about what isn't...Seiya Suzuki. They do discuss the state of the Cubs bullpen, what's going on with the vaunted pitching infrastructure these days, how taking Christopher Morel out for defense...