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The Vic Fangio era in Denver is off to a great start

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

so he's going to miss a chunk of change due to suspension and they are giving him bonus opportunities to make all that back?

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".

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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.

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My general observations is that anyone who says they’re “from Chicago” doesn’t live within the city limits. Anyone who actually lives within the city limits will say they from “the (North/South/West) side of...” or actually specifies the neighborhood... Lincoln Park, Edgewater or whatever. There’s a similar dynamic in New York City where the actual city dwellers will specify the borough or neighborhood. The only way that is true is if the question is being asked while being in the city in question. If you're in some random city, nobody from Lincoln Park is saying they are from Lincoln Park and nobody from Hell's Kitchen is saying they live in Hell's Kitchen.

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.

Casey's Pizza is perfect for Iowa, in that it is pizza, and therefore generally a good thing better than many others foods, but completely replacement level and something you only want to utilize when your better pizza is otherwise unavailable for a day or two at a time.

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I’m still super leery of that command comment, not the first time I’ve seen it. I just don’t believe guys with strong fastball command at his ages and levels of comp are giving up HRs like he has or popping off 5+ ERAs in Rk ball. I’d be happy to be wrong, but obviously suspect I'm not. I expect Richard Gallardo to swiftly pass him as the system’s highest regarded/most ballyhooed upside ceiling potential development arm. Speaking of Gallardo, have I mentioned he’s going to be one of the good ones? No Ryan Kellogg! If you want to see an extremely young guy with fastball command...That hard stuff up and soft stuff down approach is going to translate. I think he ends up somewhere around a well engineered 6’3” 220 of power pitcher. what?

Where the hell is Hoopeston Illinois?

hey sorry about not signing any baseball players but here's video about a cartoonist.

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can't argue with math

according to wikipedia this guy grew up in an interesting place

we've known about this for months. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2406

Bowles is indeed going to Tampa.

The only real arguments I can think of against this are: 1) Something changed with how much payroll the Ricketts were willing to give Theo between the time he signed Yu and now 2) Something changed regarding the FO's view of signing Harper (not that I agree just throwing it out there). I blame the democrats sweeping win in november destroying the animal spirits of the ricketts family

He's not there yet

I wouldn't be so sure about that