StrangeSox

This is the fourth game Eberflus has blown with a 90%+ win probably in the 4th quarter. He's a great DC but he just doesn't have it as an HC. And Shane Waldron has had a few good series in games, bbut mainly, woof. That last play was a gut punch of a loss at first, but man really what a perfect Bears game. An offense that is just painful to watch, and a defense that drags the other top-end offense down into the mud and makes a national late-game audience get to experience Classic Bears Football. Eberflus absolutely should have been fired in the offseason to give the team a clean slate with the #1 pick. Here's hoping they do the right thing this January.

idk, I married someone from my home town. We moved back when we were planning on having kids but never lived very far away. We live 10 minutes from either set of grandparents and my kids see their grandparents weekly (and even more when they were preschool aged). I've spent the last 20 years traveling all over with my wife. I live next to several hundred acres of restored prairie while being a relatively quick train ride from the best city in the world and two major international airports. Lots of different paths in life can lead to good outcomes.

The Bears are 4-2 and in dead last in the NFC North. They are currently a wild card team, though!

RIP to this absolute dog s%*# team who is setting records for failure while asking for a billion dollars for a stadium

EXCLUSIVE: Inside look at the White Sox coaching philosophy:

The last time I went to a Sox game, I used public transportation. I live right near a Rock Island line Metra station, so it was very easy. Public transportation is good! edit: part of the development of The 78 involves having to reroute the Rock Island metra lines a little bit since they currently encroach on the east side of the site. I don't know if that's being done as part of the DPI project or if it'll be part of some later development.

Yeah bidding was successful earlier this summer and they're starting to prep for this project. I'm assuming the baseball was a publicity gimmick as they're preparing the site for construction laydown/staging areas. https://dpi.uillinois.edu/about/

I will defend the White Sox booking flights on an Airbus given *gestures at everything Boeing recently*

He was on Conan O'Brien's podcast somewhat recently with Dave Grohl and Krist Noveselic talking about engineering Nirvana's In Utero His earlier stuff is also covered pretty heavily in the book/audiobook "Our Band Could Be Your Life" about the rise of the indie rock underground in the 80's that paved the way for the "alt rock" commercial success in the 90's. I think he toned down the Gen X edgelord contrarianism he was known for in his earlier days, but he was always a prickly asshole (in a good way). Very firm stance on the ethics regarding the music industry and royalties. Famously never took any and only charged his hourly rate to record and engineer an album.

I mean, there's accounts of Jordan crying during the Olympics thanks to famous abusive asshole Bobby Knight, and I'm sure we all remember Dennis Rodman's antics while on the Bulls and leading the league in rebounds in addition to his near-suicide attempt in the early 90's. It's purestrain sports radio meatball takes, imo

Not familiar with the new draft rules, why are they capped at 10th overall?

Statistically, the worst. I'm not a huge fan of "advanced" stats in the NFL, but Gill was dead last in them. So bad that his negative value basically wiped out Kmet's positive value.

JB telling both the Bears and Sox to go pound sand:

This draft was talked about for months as being very weak once you got past the 3rd, maybe 4th rounds. The punter was probably the right combo of BPA and a clear position of need for the Bears.

Punter was a bad pick only because they're not going to be putting very much!!!

Williams throwing to Moore, Allen, Odunze, Kmet, and Swift. Got a real chance to break some lofty Bears QB records this year!

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/bears-will-unveil-plan-for-new-stadium-in-chicago

Mac Jones' rookie season would be the second best bears QB season ever

Very simple solution: the state should eminent domain the White Sox and The 78, making them publicly owned assets. Then it makes perfect sense to publicly finance it! More seriously, I thought there were a number of studies done 10-20 years ago that found pretty conclusively that sports stadiums don't really end up generating new growth, tourism, tax revenue, and employment.

FWIW Related Midwest has been looking for a solution for The 78 ever since they lost out to Bally's to build a Chicago casino. That was supposed to be the cornerstone of the development. U of I still has a research center going in there on south end of the development but I think the rest of the site is currently up in the air

Incredible that the Packers hit on yet another QB and are then 4th in draft value. Night and day the way that org has been run compared to the Bears.

How do they make that promise/commitment to any potential incoming OC, though?