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  1. Outshined_One
    Maybe they'll move him up to GM and Pace up to President of Football Operations. I'm only half-kidding.
  2. Outshined_One
    This org is so backwards. The Kusinski logic above is the only reason I'm not pissed about it happening. But even that is such backwards logic. This brings me back to last year when there was a lot of talk about people wanting a full clean sweep from Phillips down. And I made the point then, if that was the goal, the best thing was actually to do President only last year. Then they could evaluate a full offseason and season of Pace and Nagy and then be in a position to be in the building, prepared for a new GM/HC search after that. Here we are with weeks to go until the end of the season and the org still contemplating a major org shift? But unlike last year there's basically no chance they can lame duck the HC/GM situation either. So now I am actually pissed, but for much more nuanced reasons. So they wind up with new leadership but kneecapped because others will have swooped in ahead of them to acquire the best people.
  3. Outshined_One
    It's been almost 20 years since I saw him nearly take hitters' heads off with his out of control curveball in the minors. I would have taken the under on almost any bet involving his major league career length back then.
  4. Outshined_One
    And that's pretty much the rub here, isn't it? The NFL over the last 20ish years learned from Bill Belichick that you can flat-out ignore press conferences or be a complete non-entity at press conferences, and the press will still get down on bended knee lest they lose their precious behind the scenes access. Ryan Pace sure as hell learned it during the John Fox years when Fox got away with not telling the press that one of the Bears' players (can't remember who it was for the life of me and Google brought up zero results) went MIA in Lake Forest and was considered potentially armed and dangerous. It's been beaten to death, but the Bears' FO absolutely sucks when it comes to putting on a public face. If they wanted to put those reports to bed, someone from the FO should have been the first to the podium yesterday to shoot down the rumors and place focus on Thursday's game. That didn't happen and now the fallout from it has become comical.
  5. Outshined_One
    2-1 says he's part of George and/or Michael's country club. Dude's a piece of horsefeathers, but if his sources are valid, we can't discount the story. Also, Patch gobbled up a bunch of suburban publications and writers back in the day, so it's got some weight to it. It's not great, but it's also not Barstool. At this point I don't think any other beat writer or anyome has remotely confirmed, right? There may well be something there, but maybe not exactly as it's reported. There hasn't been any independent confirmation yet, but the Bears' FO hasn't issued any denials yet, either. Something clearly is up and my gut is telling me this story broke before the Bears' FO got to talk to Nagy and inform him of his imminent firing. Weirdly enough, this might result in Nagy being spared until after the season due to the McCaskeys trying to save face.
  6. Outshined_One
    2-1 says he's part of George and/or Michael's country club. Dude's a piece of horsefeathers, but if his sources are valid, we can't discount the story. Also, Patch gobbled up a bunch of suburban publications and writers back in the day, so it's got some weight to it. It's not great, but it's also not Barstool.
  7. Outshined_One
    This is so awkward.
  8. Outshined_One
    He's dodging questions about whether he's coaching through the end of the season, but he's denying that he will be fired after the game. He's toast.
  9. Outshined_One
    Nagy is denying the report. He also sounds like a wreck right now.
  10. Outshined_One
    Matt Nagy presser is a go.
  11. Outshined_One
    Nagy should be fired for that. There was no universe where Santos makes that kick.
  12. Outshined_One
    Too much time left...
  13. Outshined_One
    As a reliever, yes. I could see the Cubs putting him solely in a relief role to build up IP with the intention of stretching him out to starter in 2023/2024 depending on his development is going. As a SP, not so much so for next year. The injury bug bit him this year.
  14. Outshined_One
    Tom Cruise on Oprah?
  15. Outshined_One
    Not to mention the NFL has incredibly stringent rules for unvaccinated players in terms of masking, testing, contact tracing, interacting with the public and the media, etc. Well, stringent for all unvaccinated players except Rodgers, that is.
  16. Outshined_One
    It's also worth remembering that there is a significant amount of legal CYA happening right now with everyone individually named in this report. Coming out and admitting wrongdoing, while the morally right thing to do, is also a guaranteed way to get your rear end sued into oblivion and could also jeopardize any insurance coverage that could be used to offset liability. It sucks, but I get it.
  17. Outshined_One
    I think Stan will be gone You really think so? Someone's head needs to roll, plus it gives the team an excuse to fire Colliton down the road and host a fire sale of anything/anyone not nailed down.
  18. Outshined_One
    If I saw this picture without any context, I'd assume he was just elected U.S. Representative for some backwater district in Texas.
  19. Outshined_One
    I couldn't stand Dusty Baker as Cubs manager for many reasons, but I'll always treasure the moment he got into a screaming match with TLR from dugout to dugout and yelled at TLR, "horsefeathers YOU!" He got to live the dream that day.
  20. Outshined_One
    I'm guessing this means we likely won't be seeing the Cubs meaningfully pursue Baez, Rizzo, or Bryant in the offseason...or any other top of the line free agent, for that matter. Based on the team's current composition and Jed's comments, I do anticipate this team being active in the offseason, but more in the mid-range/bargain bin area. However, I don't see this team being meaningfully competitive next year without at least adding a top of the rotation starter, which means I'm probably not going to be too thrilled with this team come Opening Day 2022.
  21. Outshined_One
    Where does everyone fall in terms of the viability of Alzolay, Steele, and Thompson in next season's rotation? I figure Hendricks and Mills are both locks (for better and worse), but I'm kind of squishy on everyone else, especially since we'll likely see something like a 150 IP limit for Alzolay and 120 IP for Steele and/or Thompson based on their usage and development. I'd love to see the Cubs get at least two starters, preferably one ace and one mid-level guy, in the offseason, but I'm wondering if the front office will be irrationally optimistic about those three guys.
  22. Outshined_One
    The lakefront restrictions are a great thing. I'd be more in favor of those restrictions if they were applied evenly across the Chicagoland area, but it was so dumb to see people throw temper tantrums over the Lucas Museum when north Sheridan road is dotted with some of the ugliest horsefeathering high rise condominiums I've ever seen directly on the lakefront.
  23. Outshined_One
    In a perfect world, I think that'd be great, but we all remember what happened with the Lucas Museum.
  24. Outshined_One
    Mulling things over a bit, does anyone expect the City of Chicago to actually find a replacement tenant for the Bears once they skip town in a few years? The Chicago Fire and concerts are nice, but the stadium is borderline unusable 6 months out of the year for non-football events. Something tells me that maintenance and upkeep fees for the stadium are going to be a serious budgetary issue for the City of Chicago a decade from now. The ridiculous lakefront development restrictions will also be a huge hinderance in getting the property sold if the City went that route, too. I almost feel like the City would be best off in the long run just demolishing the stadium and using the colonnades as part of an event space or museum of some sort, while turning the parking lots and stadium area into parkland.
  25. Outshined_One
    If there's enough space(IIRC there's not a ton but it's been 6 years since I lived in that area), you'd still need to get some more events/tenants to justify that, right? 10 Bears games a year wouldn't sustain those businesses I would think, and Arlington Park was a higher foot traffic baseline than an empty lot. There have been discussions about Cook County reorganizing/modernizing the court system and there's a large and seriously aging facility (District 3, Rolling Meadows) located directly across the street from the racetrack on Euclid. I'm wondering if the carrot to get Cook County funding would involve some sort of an arrangement where the developer would acquire that land and include an arrangement to build a new courthouse and related facilities. Not saying it will or won't happen, but if a stadium project and related developments are going up at Arlington, that will create an utter nightmare for the local court system in terms of access and availability.
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