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I'm not aware of any mechanism the owners could use to stop the Bears. They'd have to vote on them leaving the market, but Hammond isn't them leaving the market. About the only leverage I think is the NFL stadium loan. Would probably be about $300M loan. They could forgo that, but if Bears/Indiana want to make Hammond work I don't think that would be a hindrance (if other owners even cared, which I'm not sure they do). I guess Super Bowl hosting is the only other variable. If they said "fine, but we're never approving a Super Bowl in freaking Hammond". Well that's pressure...

My understanding of his 2027 guarantee is that it already vested. But I don't think I'll be able to go re-verify my source that said that (lost DM history) Edit -nevermind, supposedly 8M of 10M in 2027 is fully guaranteed. Full $10M is injury guaranteed So they can save $2M.

Warren said he hasn't made any mistakes. But learned a lot because it's a complicated process. Also his wife had to tell him to stop putting out deadlines, so he opted to not give a deadline for a decision.

I feel like there was at least some chatter that the patellar injury he had had a bad recovery track record but the combination of his age and advancements in the surgery left some possibility the historical recovery trends maybe weren't as meaningful.

Not actively making the D razor thin would help. But we have an O now. horsefeathers defense.

Lol what

Coincidentally (or not, thanks cookie tracking) this just came accross my feed City of Chicago Department of Planning & Development WWW.FACEBOOK.COM Near South Side public infrastructure took a mega step forward this week with City...

It's a site the city really wants to see developed. They'd probably spend that TIF infrastructure alongside any anchor tenant that would help realize that site. Although MLS isn't much better than NFL in terms of drawing a consistent consumer base. About half the cost is for a publicly owned parking garage podium. Reportedly that's a 4-5M annual revenue driver for city. Which is admittedly a long payoff period, by sounds like it will offer additional public benefit and possibly additional revenue streams (engineered to support additional development on top of garage). If it realizes it's potential, it's a potential big addition to that development and the city.

So can you not foul out in Summer League?

Sooooo D - FENCE

As many threes as he hit all year at UNC.

I think a lot of kids want to do stuff like that still, even though they surely also want screen time and stuff. But kids also lack the freedom to do a lot of that stuff too compare to 30 years ago. Whether right or wrong, kids are a lot more restricted to just go off on their own like that and play ball

Honestly I think that extra hour or two just needs to be pickup ball and stuff on their own and not structured. I'm obviously not talking about developing future premier leaguers, but just healthy age appropriate development. By age 12, I think that conversation changes slowly, but not before then. That time description sounds like what my league is. So hopefully it stays meaningfully fun and competetive. It just doesn't seem realistic to me that 8 or 9 year olds are sorting themselves into primary sports already that require extensive formal development.

I think for up to u-10 you shouldn't even need that great of coaching. I'd have gladly taken a few clinics to gather better skills and be prepared and it would probably fully suitable for what you actually need up to that point. But my local AYSO is constantly desperate for parent volunteers as is where the only real requirement is showing up twice a week and passing a background check. So priveleged area and all, but parents by me will just pay 3k to offload the entirety of that to someone who will also conveniently stroke their egos. I'm pretty interested to see how U8 goes with my son this year, but I'm still absolutely resistant to going travel route. So I've already started to research some nearby towns that aren't as wealthy to see if there's still places doing decent rec leagues just because the parents can't as easily drop the rec league in favor of expensive club teams. But it's been difficult to find much online - probably need to get out and talk to people.

Very good summary. It's absolutely crazy to have tournaments where parents need to travel and pay for overnight lodging at 11 or 12 years old. And the joke is often that you're playing a team from 3 towns over. But parents are also doing it to ourselves. At some point we're all complicit and the reasons we give are admittedly weak. Often times these clubs are incredibly socially driven (even after you get past the competetion layer).