Outshined_One

As much love as 2016 (deservedly) gets, I feel like 2015 was the most fun Cubs playoff run I've ever seen. I remember entering the 2015 season with hopes that they'd be in contention at least into September, but hot damn did they catch fire. Bryant won ROY, Jake was in God Mode, Kyle Schwarber (seemingly) single-handledly ruined Pittsburgh and St. Louis for the next decade+, and once the Cubs reached the NLCS, it was basically like found money at that point.

Only if you believe the ensuing schadenfreude from the forthcoming humiliation of Harbaugh and the Giants is worth celebrating, yes.

My dad stopped watching baseball shortly after the Cubs won the WS. He texted me a handful of questions about Pete a few weeks back because he'd recently done multiple crosswords where "PCA" came up as a three letter solution.

On the one hand, football is better as a whole with healthy QB1s. It sucks when a talented QB goes down because odds are (1) his replacement will be ass; and (2) his team will be borderline unwatchable while he's out. On the other hand, horsefeathers that guy.

Crapping all over PCA for no discernible reason is certainly a thing to do on an off day.

Welcome!

We still have some stragglers who are convinced the Cubs are going to miss the playoffs despite the fact that we are in "safe to start using magic numbers" territory, so the zeitgeist is otherwise occupied.

Unless Cristian Hernandez has an unexpected breakout in him, it doesn't look like anyone has won that trade.

Before you all say anything, it's been handled.

So Sam Darnold and AJ Brown are already dead. Neat.

Well, I'll be damned.

White knuckle time.

Remember when the Bears could have stayed put and taken Bryce Young? Good times.

Johnson's interview with Laurence Holmes in April 2024 over the proposed lakefront stadium was a complete embarrassment, and yes, he was stanning for KW: He's still beating the lakefront stadium drum, despite the fact that the Lucas Museum lost badly in court and was chased out of Chicago when they attempted to build on the exact same site. I mean, I get that Johnson should advocate for Chicago in all this, but it's just so painfully stupid watching how he's handling it.