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  1. Sammy Sofa
    The algorithms come for us all eventually. That’s what that one line from Nolan’s The Dark Knight was about probably I have found Olberman to be a smug, arrogant lecturer pretty much the entire time he’s had a public voice. Yeah, he's always been That Guy.
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    Dusting this old thread and old article off because I practically did a spit-take seeing an owner talking like this: https://defector.com/john-middleton-spoke-the-forbidden-words-of-sports-ownership Wow, an owner talking about his team like the thing it actually is instead of it like it's just another business venture. Astonishing.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, I'll definitely be submitting (TO NOBODY).
  4. Sammy Sofa
    BIRD FLU!!!!
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    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112572/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
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    Picture the sheer number of Bears fans who have gone to their graves thinking this over the last 20 years. Hell, a lot of them probably went out with some version of that as their strangled last words.
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    https://defector.com/the-bulls-are-built-for-another-era
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    I meant the sexy story in my head of some guy horsefeathering on a bathtub relaying signs to the dugout. The real story is super boring, and had all the planning and skill of a bunch of kids trying to to steal their friend's action figures. The rest of baseball should be horsefeathering ashamed only in that they were able to pull off something so lame and obvious for so long.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Calling the trash can a "tub" had me doing some frantic Googling for a few seconds. That story was briefly a LOT more wild than I remembered.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah. Let the players and coaches try to figure out signs. I have no problem with that whatsoever. But once people start using specialized equipment (cameras, binoculars, trash cans) and various other employees, it has gone too far. Or, to put it in terms Sofa appreciates, at that point it becomes lame and now THEY'RE the nerds True, though the dorky spy horsefeathers is THIS close to this territory... ...which objectively rules, so I could be persuaded.
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    lol, you think Sofa actually follows baseball. Nah; the nerds have been crying about Yelich for THAT long.
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    There's not been a single sign-stealing "scandal" where it didn't sound cool as hell. More teams should be horsefeathering spying on each other.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    But really, if we have to be subjected to an objectively evil baseball organization, why are they a bunch of weenies and don't go all in with the actual baseball? Steal signs. Cheat like the Astros. Blast the team with every PED known to man, and then when they're done with those, invent some new ones. No, we get the lame cheap evil.
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    Sign stealing is like card counting; only nerds who can't do it gripe about it.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Man, I am so out of the loop I didn't even hear about this. Bet the Ricketts actually gave him a bonus under the table.
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    I've been going only to Active Topics for so long, I couldn't pick out the actual layout of the message board with a gun to my head.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    So I put the whammy on the Ricketts? GOOD.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Look, they couldn't shut the horsefeathers up about how the TV money and the hotel money and the bison sausage money and whatever the horsefeathers money was basically going to make them the Yankees of the Midwest. Let me simmer in my bitterness.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    I'd suggest looking further back than that; the last couple+ seasons have been a mess. Pre-2016 to see how Fred did it, and then 2016-2019 for the gif-fests and weird themes and horsefeathers.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    So a lovely cocktail of hubris and stupidity, at least based on their rhetoric hyping it up in the build up to it finally rolling out. Of course, they've similarly hyped up all over the other business ventures involving and (sometimes literally) around the Cubs and Wrigley, yet payroll is still what it is, and ticket prices keep going up, so I'm leaning more towards it was just lying.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    So did they lie about or completely botch the TV deal, or both?
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