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Sodboy13

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  1. I think this is completely unfair to Under Armour, who we all know are fully capable of designing garbage templated football uniforms all on their own, without any outside assistance.
  2. So the XFL teams stay not-good and the USFL teams get uglier.
  3. This whole rollout is almost universally a mess, and giving every team the same template in different colors for the secondary (three teams in different shades of pink, no less) is perhaps an unintentional callback to season one of the NWSL, when everyone got stuck with Nike Teamwear off the rack. Nike Soccer is in The Bad Place right now and something needs to be given a hard reset in that operation.
  4. The Supernovas are now selling sleeveless replica jerseys that, in a move I can't recall seeing anywhere else, come packaged with the official matching team arm sleeves. It's a cool and weird idea, but also feels like the starter pack for an aspiring volleyball Full Kit Wanker.
  5. I can tell you from having read The $1 League and various things about the World Football League through the years that no one knew how to overpromise and outright lie about his ability to get sports owners TV revenue quite like Eddie Einhorn.
  6. Jerry Reinsdorf is using a shell company headed by two guys in the White Sox front office to overpay for empty lots around United Center. The big payouts are going to a family with long connections to the Daleys and a former associate of Tony Rezko, who had to do some solid Chicago Way prison time for his business practices. So yes, Jerry has the money to spare for whatever his grand vision is, and he's still playing things like it's the 1990s. Also, we get treated to an attorney named "Rodney Slutzky." https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2024/02/22/jerry-reinsdorf-united-center-parking-lots-purchasing-white-sox-south-loop-ballpark?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=022324 Morning Edition&utm_content=022324 Morning Edition+CID_13071de3eb983469654777515a3ee070&utm_source=cst_campaign_monitor&utm_term=Why is Jerry Reinsdorf spending millions buying up parking lots around the United Center&tpcc=022324 Morning Edition
  7. And that, dear readers, is why baseball remains America's pastime.
  8. Johnson tepidly expressing support yesterday gives me hope, in that anything he puts his weight behind seems to burst into flames in short order. I know all the local politics geniuses think the CTU has him in their pocket, but I am convinced he'll end up causing a longer teachers' strike than Rahm or Lori did, possibly by accident.
  9. Hasn't even stepped into the batter's box yet and already has two balls.
  10. I think the valid concern is that the only people dumb enough to still bite on this are also the ones with the authority to hand over my money for it.
  11. Jerry Reinsdorf would apparently now like to talk about that, as he sat for an hour with Greg Hinz, who currently has one foot out the door from Crain's Chicago Business. Some of the comedic highlights: * It is much more important for him to build a winning team in Chicago than to make money. * He expects the entire cost of the stadium - $2 billion - to be paid for with the hotel tax, bonds and the TIF district scheme. In other words, not a penny out of his pocket. * If the deal doesn't get approved really soon and he dies, his family will sell Jerry's stake to the other White Sox owners. And while Jerry, dear sweet Jerry, would never move this franchise out of Chicago, well, there no telling what all those other owners would do, but he has an inkling! * What happens to Comiskey, that stadium the state still owes money on 33 years later, when the Sox move? I dunno, rip off the upper deck and make the Fire move there or something. Not his ballpark, not his problem. https://archive.is/20240221225356/https://www.chicagobusiness.com/sports/chicago-white-sox-need-new-stadium-compete-stay-city-jerry-reinsdorf
  12. The author posted a gift link, so hopefully it works. It's not a reactive of-the-moment blurb, either; she did her homework and notes a lot of the changes we've seen and chronicled on this site through the decades. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/mlb-jerseys-nike-fanatics-quality/677512/?gift=mZJJfvLLK2-N-97mYsXvt4twDIXd7nmg5h3ZxsW1ZBI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
  13. NFTs and the Blockchain. I mean, credit to them for admitting upfront that this is all being done with imaginary money, but how is that supposed to convince me to give them my real money?
  14. So much has changed since Jerry's big heist, too, including his paying his own way for half of the United Center. Big Jim's raking it in for one of America's most prestigious and vile law firms, Mike Madigan's on the slow train to prison, Biggest Sox Fan Richie Daley should be on the ride with him but has opted to cede all of his family's power and influence instead of face the slammer, and if you asked Brandon Johnson who his favorite baseball team was, it's entirely possible he'd stare at you mouth agape for three minutes before blurting "PACKERS!" and running out of the room. That, and we've all had enough object lessons in the true economic benefits of publicly financed sports stadiums that when someone starts with the purple prose and magical number, anyone who's been paying attention knows that person is either getting their cut or is an impossibly dense mark.
  15. Like, I think soccer fandom is widespread enough in the US and Canada now that we get the ads are part of the deal when you buy a jersey. We don't have to like it, but there they are, can't really get around them. The idea that you have to pay twenty dollars extra for the privilege of wearing an advertiser's logo on a jersey that's already priced like high-end designer wear... Man, it takes some absolute brass ones to try that move.
  16. *rocks on porch* Oh, been a fair bit since we had a Poster To Watch 'round these parts.
  17. https://capitolfax.com/2024/02/20/reinsdorf-says-i-dont-want-to-talk-about-that-when-asked-why-his-ballclub-needs-another-state-subsidy/ Then what brings you to Springfield on this fine February Tuesday, ya putz?
  18. Yes, yes they are. The Braves and Padres both got forced into this switch, and I am certain there are plenty of other examples. This is the RBK Edge "We can't put straight stripes on jersey sleeves anymore, it's detrimental to performance" lie all over again, except this time every team in the league bit on it.
  19. For an example of Good Brandiose, I point to the Traverse City Pit Spitters, which is a magnificent package with a truly clever secondary logo that also looks fully thought through and professionally finished without reaching to justify itself. It's no Sky Carp or RubberDucks, is what I'm saying.
  20. Funny you should ask: The financing proposals floated by the Bears and White Sox both call for using the same limited pot of hotel tax revenue without any hikes, so the answer is a definitive "no." And watching the Bears and Sox go up against each other in matters of long-term planning will be akin to that fight in the front yard where Homer Simpson's relatives rammed into each other with cooking pots covering their heads.
  21. That hole's been crying "buy me a new park or else" for like seven years now. Tommy Ricketts put in the paper today that he's too poor to make the Cubs really good despite owning Wrigley Field and the entirety of nine square blocks around it. I fail to see how it is my problem if any of these ossified turds are truly incapable of finding the "on" button on the money printing machines they have been handed, and as far as I am concerned, each of them can sit on a zucchini wrapped in 30-grit sandpaper and twirl. I get enough "But I'm the real victim here" from people who have never faced a real obstacle a single day in their lives in my news. I don't need it in the sports section as well.
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