The Cardinals

[jersey cubs fan]

Annoying people from Chicago by calling parts of Illinois “basically Chicago” is always good fun, though. Just casually, like telling a story about that time you were in “Chicago, well technically Evanston.”

 

Then work your way out. By the end of the night you refer to Peoria or Springfield as part of Chicagoland and appreciate their eye twitching.

Oh man, the level to which people in Chicago proper get pissed at people who refer to very nearby suburbs as Chicago cracks me up too. Unless you live in the densest parts of downtown, living in the vast majority of Chicago is no different than living in the nearest suburb. It's all spread out houses, car culture galore, it's the same damn thing with no boundary.

 

Oh man, that is dumb. I hear Chelsea is just like White Plains except on the island. Like one of my friends in the neighborhood has a car and no one lives in a house

 

But Chelsea is the densest part of downtown and White Plains is quite a few suburbs separated from the city. If you live in like, Riverdale (Bronx) or Yonkers, it's pretty much the same thing. NY has actual physical boundaries that makes for an actual delineation. Outside the densest part of Chicago, there is no delineation. Manhattan is Manhattan. Take any part of the outer boroughs, sans Staten Island, and they butt up against some suburb that is essentially the same as the borough itself.

[Bull]

I'm willing to concede that I may hold an opinion of it slightly higher than it deserves because my wife has a hangup about "pizza from a gas station", so I don't get it very often.

Too late. You’re dead to me.

[Thed Hoyerstein]

Oh man, the level to which people in Chicago proper get pissed at people who refer to very nearby suburbs as Chicago cracks me up too. Unless you live in the densest parts of downtown, living in the vast majority of Chicago is no different than living in the nearest suburb. It's all spread out houses, car culture galore, it's the same damn thing with no boundary.

 

Oh man, that is dumb. I hear Chelsea is just like White Plains except on the island. Like one of my friends in the neighborhood has a car and no one lives in a house

 

But Chelsea is the densest part of downtown and White Plains is quite a few suburbs separated from the city. If you live in like, Riverdale (Bronx) or Yonkers, it's pretty much the same thing. NY has actual physical boundaries that makes for an actual delineation. Outside the densest part of Chicago, there is no delineation. Manhattan is Manhattan. Take any part of the outer boroughs, sans Staten Island, and they butt up against some suburb that is essentially the same as the borough itself.

 

What vast areas of Chicago proper would you characterize as spread out houses? I'd argue direct north of downtown is hardly like that until you get to Evanston (sans Ravenswood), same largely goes for the west side until Oak Park. The south side certainly would have more spread out houses, think Hyde Park and Brideport, but otherwise I'm having a hard time where you would be thinking....northwest?

[jersey cubs fan]

 

Oh man, that is dumb. I hear Chelsea is just like White Plains except on the island. Like one of my friends in the neighborhood has a car and no one lives in a house

 

But Chelsea is the densest part of downtown and White Plains is quite a few suburbs separated from the city. If you live in like, Riverdale (Bronx) or Yonkers, it's pretty much the same thing. NY has actual physical boundaries that makes for an actual delineation. Outside the densest part of Chicago, there is no delineation. Manhattan is Manhattan. Take any part of the outer boroughs, sans Staten Island, and they butt up against some suburb that is essentially the same as the borough itself.

 

What vast areas of Chicago proper would you characterize as spread out houses? I'd argue direct north of downtown is hardly like that until you get to Evanston (sans Ravenswood), same largely goes for the west side until Oak Park. The south side certainly would have more spread out houses, think Hyde Park and Brideport, but otherwise I'm having a hard time where you would be thinking....northwest?

Generally speaking, stuff like the Irving Park and Bucktown areas.

I only lived in the city for a few summers, and was in an apartment, as were most of my friends that stayed there post-college. But when I go back now and see friends/family, almost all of them actually in Chicago live in individual structure homes, separated from the house next door. On the urban - suburban - rural scale, these places are indistinguishable from many technically suburban places I have been.

 

The suburb I grew up in was very much a suburb and not chicago. I couldn't get away with saying I grew up in Chicago. And on that note, I also no longer say I'm from the Chicago area, as I've officially lived more than half my life in NJ and have succumbed to answering the, "where are you from" question with a simple, "New Jersey".

[SouthSideRyan]

Annoying people from Chicago by calling parts of Illinois “basically Chicago” is always good fun, though. Just casually, like telling a story about that time you were in “Chicago, well technically Evanston.”

 

Then work your way out. By the end of the night you refer to Peoria or Springfield as part of Chicagoland and appreciate their eye twitching.

Oh man, the level to which people in Chicago proper get pissed at people who refer to very nearby suburbs as Chicago cracks me up too. Unless you live in the densest parts of downtown, living in the vast majority of Chicago is no different than living in the nearest suburb. It's all spread out houses, car culture galore, it's the same damn thing with no boundary.

 

I grew up in a suburb from which Chicago was the first city you hit when walking directly North, West, East, it South, and you could not be more correct

[Derwood]

For two years I lived in Oak Park (on Austin Blvd), so I would tell people that I lived across the street from Chicago

[UMFan83]

For two years I lived in Oak Park (on Austin Blvd), so I would tell people that I lived across the street from Chicago

 

You would

[The_Achiever]

For two years I lived in Oak Park (on Austin Blvd), so I would tell people that I lived across the street from Chicago

 

Nice, I love Oak Park. I live in Edison Park, Chi and can walk 2 blocks and be in park ridge. Love the collar communities.

[ConstableRabbit]

 

But Chelsea is the densest part of downtown and White Plains is quite a few suburbs separated from the city. If you live in like, Riverdale (Bronx) or Yonkers, it's pretty much the same thing. NY has actual physical boundaries that makes for an actual delineation. Outside the densest part of Chicago, there is no delineation. Manhattan is Manhattan. Take any part of the outer boroughs, sans Staten Island, and they butt up against some suburb that is essentially the same as the borough itself.

 

What vast areas of Chicago proper would you characterize as spread out houses? I'd argue direct north of downtown is hardly like that until you get to Evanston (sans Ravenswood), same largely goes for the west side until Oak Park. The south side certainly would have more spread out houses, think Hyde Park and Brideport, but otherwise I'm having a hard time where you would be thinking....northwest?

Generally speaking, stuff like the Irving Park and Bucktown areas.

I only lived in the city for a few summers, and was in an apartment, as were most of my friends that stayed there post-college. But when I go back now and see friends/family, almost all of them actually in Chicago live in individual structure homes, separated from the house next door. On the urban - suburban - rural scale, these places are indistinguishable from many technically suburban places I have been.

 

The suburb I grew up in was very much a suburb and not chicago. I couldn't get away with saying I grew up in Chicago. And on that note, I also no longer say I'm from the Chicago area, as I've officially lived more than half my life in NJ and have succumbed to answering the, "where are you from" question with a simple, "New Jersey".

Irving Park and Bucktown are completely different from one another, and Bucktown is not like living in the burbs. Old Irving Park is an example of a neighborhood similar to a border suburb. There’s a lot between the “densist parts of downtown” and Sauganash.

[jersey cubs fan]

Irving Park and Bucktown are completely different from one another, and Bucktown is not like living in the burbs. Old Irving Park is an example of a neighborhood similar to a border suburb. There’s a lot between the “densist parts of downtown” and Sauganash.

you sound like somebody that gets really pissy when chicago is misidentified

[Hairyducked Idiot]

One time I got on the wrong direction freeway trying to get out of Aurora. Chicago traffic was terrifying

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

I haven't been to Chicago very often, but one of the few times I went a guy on a very crowded bus threatened to stab me if I didn't stop standing behind him. I've lived in and been to a lot of shaddy cities, but a stab threat was a first for me. Respect Chicago!

[ConstableRabbit]

Irving Park and Bucktown are completely different from one another, and Bucktown is not like living in the burbs. Old Irving Park is an example of a neighborhood similar to a border suburb. There’s a lot between the “densist parts of downtown” and Sauganash.

you sound like somebody that gets really pissy when chicago is misidentified

Please, tell us more about the homogeneity of Chicago’s non-downtown neighborhoods and border suburban communities, guy who lived here for two summers 15 years ago.

[SouthSideRyan]

I haven't been to Chicago very often, but one of the few times I went a guy on a very crowded bus threatened to stab me if I didn't stop standing behind him. I've lived in and been to a lot of shaddy cities, but a stab threat was a first for me. Respect Chicago!

 

Did you stop?

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

I haven't been to Chicago very often, but one of the few times I went a guy on a very crowded bus threatened to stab me if I didn't stop standing behind him. I've lived in and been to a lot of shaddy cities, but a stab threat was a first for me. Respect Chicago!

 

Did you stop?

I gave him a look like "What do you want me to do?" and took half a step into the other guy standing next to me, and I guess that was enough to satisfy his bloodlust.

[Cubswin11]

Ozuna apparently isn’t even throwing or swinging yet after his offseason arm/shoulder surgery and it sounds like Reyes also is a little behind after his surgery.

[Cubswin11]

Martinez might stay in the bullpen this year according to Maddux. I’d assume that’s an indication of an injury or way to prevent one.

 

Their rotation suddenly seems like it’s on unstable ground between Martinez’s role, Wacha and Reyes back from injury (again for both), Wainwright’s old tomato farming ass, Flaherty as a 23 year old or however young he is and Mikolas repeating the league for the first time in like a decade.*

 

 

*I like Mikolas And Flaherty to be solid, if not elite, this year.

[Cubswin11]

Cardinals beat writer, Rick Hummel, said from what he’s heard don’t be surprised if Ozuna starts the year on the DL. Edited February 19, 2019 by Cubswin11

[Regular Show]

You know I gotta say I'm kinda sad that Matheny is gone, and now we have the idiot manager that says dumb horsefeathers all the time.

 

I didn't think this would happen with Maddon in charge...

 

[Cubswin11]

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Get right out of town!

[Cubswin11]

He sure likes to call his guys out publicly and now this is the second guy (Ozuna too) whom they seem to be fighting with over training and how injuries are treated and rehabbed.

 

 

[Bertz]

He sure likes to call his guys out publicly and now this is the second guy (Ozuna too) whom they seem to be fighting with over training and how injuries are treated and rehabbed.

 

 

 

[CubinNY]

Mark Prior syndrome is my diagnosis. He'll be doing the towel drill by the end of ST.

[NewUserName]

Mark Prior syndrome is my diagnosis. He'll be doing the towel drill by the end of ST.

 

the Cardinals of the last few years remind me some of the 04-07 Cubs