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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 all the time finally bit the Cubs in the ass, and they try to figure out what it is that Nick Madrigal is doing that supposedly helps a team. They bask in the afterglow of another fine Shōta Imanaga start and try to figure out what happened to that 8-0 lead on Monday night. Andy comes up with an inappropriate, but affectionate, nickname for Shōta. All that and more.
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The gang moves into a fancy new studio and David Brown stops by to talk baseball. How are the Cubs ever going to know if Christopher Morel can get better at third if they keep yanking him out of games late, and when is it going to cost them to lose his bat in the process? What's life going to be like for the A's in Sacramento and what's the only way to make that move a positive? Joe Maddon talked about who else to blame in the Shohei mess, which got Andy talking about Shōgun and how everything he ever needed to know about translators he learned by watching that show. They also give some rash overreactions to the first week of the season and you'll get a truly terrible eclipse joke. But as a bonus, there's a great Bill Raftery story. All that, and more.
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The whole Pointless Exercise team has assembled to do a mega preview of the upcoming baseball season. Join Andy, David Brown, both the Mike P's (Praz and Pusateri), Remember this Crap's Mike Donohue and the new guy, Oleg, as they make way too many predictions. They break down each division, use their big baseball brains to tell you who's going to the World Series and winning all the big awards. If you have a gambling problem like Shohei's former pal, Ippei, you're in luck, they also share their favorite prop bets.
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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 just forgetting to find a shortstop and how Mookie Betts solves everything. How many other players would be willing to try switching positions on the fly. They talk about great moments in David Ross losing the DH, and the height of Joe Torre's pants. Were the Spring Breakout games anything but baseball's attempt to charge a full big league gate for a minor league spring game (which are usually free), and why was it impossible for the Cubs and White Sox to play it on a different day. They make fun of Jim Bowden's list of players due to break out, talk about old friend Yu Darvish who is making the opening day start for the Padres and much, much more.
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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 the bullpen. Oh, and then they take a look at how best to order the batters. Talk about being helpful.
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With one move the Cubs went from fourth best to best in the very flawed NL Central and David Brown is back to discuss it and to take a look at the contracts that Scott Boras got for Cody Bellinger and Matt Chapman and what the market might look like next year. Andy calls Blake Snell "Ian" about a dozen times and they talk about what the prospects for Snell and Jordan Montgomery signing before the deadline are. Is JD Davis an actually valuable trade piece for the Giants and would the Cubs be interested? How would that impract Christopher Morel at third? They discuss the Royals bucking the bad uniform trend and Joe Maddon and Terry Francona discussing the greatest game ever played. All that, and more.
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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 Netflix's Drive to Survive, the many interesting things going on with the F1 season upon us, and Drew just wrote a piece about Fanatics and Nike screwing up baseball's uniforms. Plus, he talks about his time at Monday Morning Quarterback with the recently "retired" Peter King.
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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 lament the loss of the great Bailey Horn, or somebody they aren't really sure, are excited that the manager seems to grasp the obvious and they make a compelling case for Matt Shaw to make the opening day roster (even though he won't.) Praz learns more about Bob Horner than he ever wanted to, they talk about what Cubs should be most excited that Cody's back, what Cubs should have pretended to be mad about it, and much, much, more.
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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 Wildfire Schulte got his nickname, who the second best left fielder in franchise history is, why Billy Williams is the coolest, why Dave Kingman isn't, and just how many guys have tried and failed to nail down the job over the last 50 years.
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National baseball writer David Brown joins the podcast to discuss all the hot topics like Nico Hoerner giving the longest "no" in recorded history, why baseball fans habitually side with teams over players and their agents, when will the 'Boras Four' sign, why the Cubs haven't improved their roster more, who would win the NL Central if rosters were frozen right now, did the Corbin Burnes trade signal the Orioles are going to spend, what would happen if the Reds ever spent, why Kap called Andy seconds after a Tweet, the reasons Rob Manfred is retiring with five years notice and what the hell is going on with the A's. All that, and more.
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Tom Loxas joins the podcast to talk about what it would take for the Cubs to resign Cody Bellinger, what happens if they don't, and how Michael Busch and Petecrow Armstrong fit into all of this. They talk about the Cubs PECOTA projections and how close the Cubs are to actually building a good bullpen. Then, they talk about what the Bears are going to do with the number one overall pick, what Justin Fields' trade market looks like and much, much more.
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It's a solo pod and all the hot topics are hit on, when do the Cubs get to hug Carter Hawkins and could the Cubs turn that into a fundraiser? Why haven't they signed Cody Bellinger yet? What do they do if they don't sign Cody? Do they know their current roster is bad? How could they make getting a big payroll a game for Todd? And then why can't Chicago media adequately cover the Bears? And why would anybody try to rank the top 20 Chicago media people? All that, and more.
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The guys discuss the eerie quiet from Halas Hall as everyone awaits announcement on changes big or small or not at all. Andy goes on an unhinged rant about the future of the Bears' quarterback position and the Mikes take a more reasoned approach to what the smartest option would be. They discuss how even if Jim Harbaugh were the right move for the franchise just how much they don't want to have to put with that weirdo, and they discuss just how close the Bears really are after a season of improvement, considering the low bar they had to clear to be better than last year. All that and more.
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All of your favorite Pointless Exercise podcasters have assembled to kiss off 2023 and look ahead to 2024. David Brown, Mike Donohue, Mike Pusateri and Mike Praznowski join Andy as they discuss what shocked them last year in all of Chicago sports and what crazy stuff lies ahead.
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All hands are on deck for this week's Bears podcast and the guys discuss the win over the Falcons, Justin Fields and DJ Moore's perfect half, the Panthers handing them the number one overall pick and how a return to CBS is just the thing the Bears will need to slap around the Packers and knock them out of the playoffs. You'll learn the five things that will determine Justin Fields' Bears future, why it's not so bad, maybe, that The Flus is going to return and what the first sign of their intentions will be when the season ends on Sunday. And, how to scout quarterbacks like a pro using ESPN's Skycam feed of college football playoff games. All that, and more.
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If you haven't noticed, and judging by interest in the team, you haven't, the Bears have won FOUR straight home games. Really. Only one of the Mike P's was available for this week's podcast to revel in the Bears continued home dominance. Andy and Praz look back at a game you probably only saw parts of because it was on in the middle of the afternoon on Christmas Eve, and don't worry, if you missed the second half, you missed nothing. They talk about how the number one pick can be wrapped up this weekend and how that will impact the futures of several prominent Bears. They also wonder why anyone thinks Kevin Warren has any decisions to actually make. All this and more.
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The guys are back to, incredibly, break down a THIRD Bears fourth quarter collapse, and they look ahead to the many different permutations this offseason could take. The Flus gone and Fields back, both gone, both back, what have you. Is Ryan Poles any good at this job? Was The Flus hired to be the Bears' Ricky Renteria? They talk about the Brown games' two Fail Marys, the defense's fourth down struggles, why Cairo wasn't asked to kick those long field goals, and what Darnell Mooney should have been sorry for. All that and more.
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In part one (ep. 288) we brought in a young to help us look back on more recent Cubs collapses, but for this one we needed an old, so Forklift is here to discuss the Durocher, Franks, Frey and Riggleman editions of Cubs choke jobs, and they were plentiful. We ponder why the '69 era Cubs are so beloved considering they not only didn't win anything important they only won 90 games once. We take another look back at 1977 and watch in horror as the '84 Cubs completely fall apart in 1985. And then are collapses you might not even know happened like in 1996 and 1999. (Oh, and Fork's mic struggles for a little bit in the first 15 minutes, but is rectified for the remainder of the podcast.)
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One thing we know for sure is that the Bears are better than the Lions. They kicked the LIons asses for 117 of the 120 minutes the two teams played against each other that year. But as the guys will tell you, that and two bucks will get you a cup of soup. The podcast meanders from the Bears impressive home win over the Lions, the resurgent defense continuing it's fine play, Mitch Trubisky coming up big for the Bears finally (in absentia), the possibility of the Bears having the number one pick two years in a row and not using it either time, Shohei Ohtani's contract (really), the worst passing games in Bears history (as bad as the Bears last visit to Cleveland was--they've been worse) and much, much more.
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David Ross' final season as Cubs manager resulted in one of the biggest end of season collapses in team history, but where does it rank? Remember This Crap becomes Remember This Collapse as the guys are joined by Mike Praznowski for a look at years the Cubs choked away the postseason from 2001 to the present. How does 2023 compare to collapses under the watches of Don Baylor, Dusty Baker, Lou Piniella and Joe Maddon? As always, the guys unearth some unexpected stuff.
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