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Package a talented young forward with him.

But who's gonna pitch blowouts now.

Yea. And I'm away camping next week anyways so this is gonna be a year where the Olympics don't really register with me.

People keep saying this, but the Indians were never the Spiders. The Spiders were a short-lived 19th century team So? It was a Cleveland team and most of the logo mockups were sick.

Seems super lame, but at least there is a local factor to it I guess. The Spiders with an awesome C Spider logo would have been dope though.

wish we could shame her like CerseiYikes, no.

I think stadium ownership is less of an issue than creating ancillary revenue streams, which Arlington Park allows. They have a favorable revenue agreement on the actual stadium stuff as is, but not much else. S o if they can create those ancillary revenue streams without dumping hundreds of millions or more into a stadium... Could be worth it. And maybe in 30 years they can figure out how to increase Soldier Fields capacity.

https://urbanize.city/chicago/post/one-central-development-bears-transit-hub So this One Central proposal hasn't gotten a ton of traction, but something similar to a proposal like this could make Soldier Field's location an actual asset. I've read some criticism of the "Transit Hub" part of this, mainly that Amtrack, Metra, and CTA aren't going to be incentivized to build rail (or schedule) away from existing hubs. But if the Bears are pursuing partnerships with One Central, maybe there's a future where Soldier Field is actually relatively pedestrian and transit friendly, by connecting the museum campus more to the south loop. For those unaware, One Central is basically a mixed use development that would create new space above the railways just west of Lake Shore Drive. Then you loop in one other proposal that hasn't gotten much traction, https://www.modernmetraelectric.org/, basically a proposal to operate the Metra Electric at CTA like frequency. That 18th street stop is actually the one convenient train stop for the museum campus, except its service isn't frequent enough. But with the right frequency you could shuttle a lot of public transit riders from Millenium Park, not to mention much better service to huge swaths of the south side. Combine the museum campus circulator idea from One Central as well, but add some connections to say, Roosevelt and Union Station as well, and you'd actually have a cohesive and easy Soldier Field accessibility plan (and the rest of the museum campus obviously for the other 355 days a year). Anyways, I love any future Bears stadium plan that doesn't involve public money. So I'm not too attached to the Arlington Heights possibility for that reason alone, but definitely wouldn't mind seeing Soldier Field a little more pedestrian and transit oriented and then keep the team there. Maybe Arlington can develop the rest of the land and leave 80 acres open for a future NFL expansion team :).

Seems like a fine trade, considering.

Hopefully a rally cap. It always looks like it's on inside out.

Its so you can look at yourself in the mirror and still read the cap.

I just know people who follow closely are excited about him.

Ha, my wife just asked me last week what happened to "that guy from the Javy play" when we were at the Cubs game. Oof.

The US Men don't need 3v3. They lost to the Netherlands and will not qualify. Yikes. Even without NBA players that seems embarrassing. I guess it does sound like a more volatile game since it's shorter. One of the players is Ricky Barry's son who apparently shoots free throws underhand, like his old man.

https://twitter.com/WContreras40/status/1414774032516407298?s=19 *popcorn gif*

Freed cap, a young playable rotation piece, and a pick? That seems like a very good trade. End of an era though.

I brought good vibes to Wrigley tonight. First game since 2018, I think. Your welcome Cobs.

Did someone get paid to come up with this idea and then design it? :?

Everything is relative. And if we're gonna trade Yu for 3 high schoolers, mineaswell® commit and trade Kimbrell for one Brett Bretterson.

The rosters we played with on the video games of the era were unimaginably dull. But this also reminds me of warning people about wanting some billionaire to buy the club. They aren't saviors and when things suck they still suck. Although this year's .519 W% is tied for 14th best with 3 or 4 other seasons in the past 40 years. For some reason, I don't have the visceral dislike for the Tribune people that I have for the Ricketts. Beyond team related reasons I think it's just easier to have a visceral reaction to the Ricketts for non baseball reasons. Is that it?

The only reason to do that is if you have some extreme aversion to cable companies verse streaming services. Cost wise there's no way thats a good deal compared to just going with Xfinity or whoever carries Marquee.

I don't know, feels pretty believable at this point.

I don't really have anything to add other than McDonough seems like exactly the type of executive that would sweep this under the rug. I also don't think Bowman can skate on this. He wasn't some underling with no say in the organization. I also don't really care about the "cloud over the cups" side of the story. Yea, re: Bowman, US Hockey should be letting him go, too.

Yep, I'm just getting around to reading the Athletic article. Went on to assault a High school hockey player, with a positive reference from the Hawks. So it's not even like they sloppily tried to sweep bad stuff under the rug, just flat out ignored it, it sounds like. Awful.

it's CHC the teams have their box score abbreviation down the left side And it didn't work. At least not the Cubs version.