Pointless Exercise - A Desipio Podcast

Longtime Cubs' writer Bruce Miles joins Andy to talk about the uneventful offseason, the aftermath of baseball's twin sign stealing scandals, great moments in Carlos Zambrano history, how the third baseman market is impacting the Cubs' confusing desire to trade their best player, how the Ricketts managed to blow through their championship goodwill, the tough task ahead of David Ross, the Hall of F...

The new year is here and your favorite podcast is back (and so is this one). We've got a new name. The Desipio Podcast is now Pointless Exercise, because that just sounds more official. Andy is here for an abbreviate pod to start things off and he talks about the plans for a regular Cubs edition of this podcast and more 1-on-1 interview podcasts for you to enjoy. He talks about the Cubs' nonsensic...

Grab the Kleenex, it's the final Desipio Bears Podcast of the season as Andy, Kyle and Mike sift through the wreckage of an incredibly disappointing season. You'll learn more than you ever wanted to about Jesper Horsted, Jake Kumerow's family ties, and just what an overrated bunch of frauds the somehow 11-3 Packers are. The guys run down an impressively unimpressive list that Jameis Winston has al...

The Bears have won three in a row and that inspires Mike and Andy to make fun of Iowa, talk about Vince Lombardi's basement, discuss the real origins of the famous "those aren't pillows" scene in <em>Planes, Trains and Automobiles, </em>actually talk about the Bears win over the Cowboys and look ahead to the Packers, and then Andy tells a story about the time Jim Harbaugh for...

The gang's all here as the guys talk about the red hot Bears, Kyle entertains the idea that Mitch is having a better year than Tom Brady, they discuss what, if anything, Mitch's relative competence last week means, and whether Mitch is better than David Blough. They take a look at a key stat that does not portend greatness for Mitch or Daniel Jones, and it takes them down a wormhole where they sta...

Andy gives everybody else the holiday week off and decides to do a quick solo podcast, and an hour and 15 later, he's talked about the Bears and Lions, the Harvard-Yale game, Calvin and Hobbes, Law and Order, the Bulls, the stupid NBA mid-season tournament, the TD Ameritrade sale, Pat Hughes, Hawk Harrelson, Mike Shannon, Hank White Equivalent Batting Average, who's getting traded, advocates for t...

The guys hold their noses and relive the Bears wet turd of a performance in Los Angeles. They try to decide if Mitch Trubisky was really hurt, what exactly Matt Nagy is good at, why anybody thinks Chicago sports fans want to hear what Dave Wannstedt has to say about anything, who Anthony Miller reminds Kyle of (it's not nice), and why Eddy Pineiro gets to keep doing whatever it is that he's doing....

The Bears won an actual NFL game, even if it was against the LIons it still counts, and the guys look back at that. They pore over the Tribune article this week about the "thought process" that led the Bears to taking the worst quarterback in the 2017 first round. Andy equates Ernie Accorsi to Ned Colletti in multiple ways.  The guys look ahead to the Sunday night game against the Rams. &nbsp...

A sick child has the podcast manned by just Andy and Mike this week, but they are more than up to the task of putting the awfulness of the Eagles' loss into current and historical context.  Hold your nose as you hear how the exploits of the nine yard first half matches up to performances by former Bears' great quarterbacks. Then, they talk about Mike's dad being honored by the Bears, a dubiou...

The boys are back in their trips podcast formation and after talking Halloween in Iowa and Kansas, they try to make sense of another mind-numbing Bears loss by breaking down the inept red zone play calling, wondering how badly Mitch is flunking Bears Offense 202.  Did Nagy actually think Mitch was good or was he just desperate to get head coaching job, will Marcus Mariota be on the roster nex...

It's just Mike and Andy this week as they try to figure out what the hell Matt Nagy is doing, how far in over his head he is, what exactly it is that Mitch does around here, and along the way they talk about Kevin Loughery, Granville Waiters and Dave Corzine.  You know, just like every other football podcast does.  They look ahead to the Chargers this week, where Andy ponders what a team...

Andy lights up the Sam Signal™ and they do an emergency podcast to talk about the news that the Cubs have settled on a new manager and, to no one's surprise it's David Ross.  What did Ross say in his mock Spring Training speech that won the front office over?  Why do we always say "Theo and Jed" when nobody knows what Jed even does? Was the Joe Espada love real or just a way for the Cubs...

Andy, Mike and Kyle look back with trepidation at the Bears' loss to the Raiders, look ahead to the return of Mitch Trubisky, ponder the future of Kyle Long (not for long), tell the Mike Murphy "pro bowler" story, look back at Chicago Sports Webio, try to figure out who the Bears are, try not to think about the last time the Bears played a game after a bye, wonder if Matt Nagy still knows that Dav...

Andy is joined by his favorite NBA writer, Kelly Dwyer of The Second Arrangement, and the longtime pals wax nostalgic about their early days at On Hoops, Indiana wildlife preserves, Jim Boylen’s spirit, being able to actually root for Bulls’ wins again, why Zach LaVine’s defense is oddly impressive, the time Kris Dunn landed on his face, Denzel Valentine’s vertical, Jimmy Butler and the “Wahl meth...

Andy, Kyle and Mike are back to talk about the Bears win over the Vikings, whether there’s a “quarterback controversy,” what we should know about Roquan’s absence, how Vag McCaskey thinks the team is traveling to London, former Bills’ safety Mark Kelso’s helmet, Rusty Lisch, Greg Landry, the Chicago Blitz, how George Allen died, how the Raiders have already won two games, great Oregon quarterbacks...

Joe Maddon is out, but Andy and Sam are in to talk about it, about Theo Espstein's annual post mortem press conference, the Cubs most likely to be traded, what to do with the bullpen, rotation and bench.  They wonder what Theo thinks is wrong with the offense, why David Ross is the presumptive lead candidate for the managerial job and they have the definitive answer for Cardinals fans as to w...

Andy, Mike and Kyle enjoy an actual Bears' winning streak and the Bears' defense doing very mean things to the Redskins. Andy complains (again) about how impossible it is to follow even part of a game if you have to listen to the Bears' radio call of it. They marvel at pretty much everything Khalil Mack does, Danny Trevathan's pass rush deke, and how Ha Ha Clinton-Dix had somehow not scored a touc...

Andy and Sam hold a wake for the Cubs' season, ponder the future of Joe Maddon and the core of the team. Andy digs his tortured roof/payroll analogy again and they wonder just how much money there really is going to be in the offseason.  They come up with a creative way for the Cubs to entice Theo Epstein to stay beyond 2021 (it involves Todd being in jail), solve the Cubs leadoff 'problem' and la...

Andy, Kyle and Mike revel in the Bears first win of the season and not only wonder if that was the worst quarterbacking performance in team history in a win, they actually look it up!  You'll find out what a "Rusty Trubisky" is, if Eddy Pineiro has settled the kicking conundrum for the season, tell you if it really takes three days to acclimate to altitude and why Vic Fangio should have been...

It's a podcast "talent" lineup that we've never seen before, and in this pod you get a breakdown of the big Cubs-Cardinals four game series coming up at Wrigley, a look at the most and least likely scenarios for how the division and wild cards are likely to shake out, a look back at the greatest regular season Cubs-Cardinals' series in history, and a detailed look at the schedules remaining for th...

A week clear of the Bears sad little offensive showing against the Packers, Andy, Kyle and Mike are back on the case trying to sift through the wreckage.  Did Matt Nagy abandon his gameplan or never really have one?  Can Mitch read?  Did Anthony Miller miss his ride to the stadium? The Packers offense was equally throttled by the Bears' defense, except for one brief moment of hurry-...

It's a three-man pod as Andy, Sam and Kyle bask in the glory of Nico Hoerner's debut, try to figure out if anybody's going to actually claim the second wild card spot in the National League, try to figure out if this is the real Kyle Schwarber (given the three guys doing the figuring, you probably know how that ends up), wonder if Theo and Jed will sabotage the roster before they leave after 2021,...

In an emotional Cubs' podcast, Andy and Sam announce that Mike’s been suspended from the pod, Andy tells a story about not saving money on dog food at Costco, and Sam equates the Mariners to a friend of his playing a lot of Football Manager. They wonder if it’s possible to be a poor man’s Ben Gamel, give tips on how to deal with Cubs-induced rage, welcome back Ben Zobrist’s walk-up music, reminisc...

You asked for it and you got it--ok, maybe YOU didn't ask for it, but somebody did--it's the first-ever Desipio Bears Podcast.  Join Andy from Desipio.com, Kyle from StartKyleOrton.com and Mike D. for the first of what promises to be an exciting season's worth of podcasts.  In just this very first one alone you'll learn about how the Bears price preseason tickets, how nobody knows nothin...