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    Fot fo ya rot to pawwwtay. Congratulations Taylor Swift on your impending engagement to the American Dream Dusty Rhodes.
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    Oh my God, I've never heard Travis Kelce talk before. WHY DOES HE SOUND BLACK?
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    It wasn't any egregious error so much as just a night of never being able to step on their throats.
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    If he proposes to the billionaire horse girl I'm not going to work tomorrow.
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    Ice Spice working on the lyrics for her next hit song, "Plow My Fat Ass From the Back," which will run 1:47 and break the record for Spotify plays in its first day
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    Couldn't even get away with "fillin' cups like double Ds"!
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    The opening notes to "Yeah!" are like a Manchurian Candidate trigger for millennials
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    They're making up for lost time--in the early 2000s, you couldn't even pull Whalers throwbacks in the video games because Connecticut still held the rights. There's always been something contemptuous (and contemptible) about the meme team's use of the Hartford stuff. It's not about honoring that history, because what history? It's a victory lap for them because they're still here and the Whalers will never be. It's their reddit-rot fans getting one over on the people who wish this were still the weird regional league we fell in love with.
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    The old Colisee abutted a modest residential neighborhood. I remember watching some CBC story on the Nordiques where they panned from kids playing street hockey outside some stocky '50s two-flats to the arena itself, which was across the main road at the end of the street. I don't think you get the same effect with the Centre Videotron because it's a little deeper into the parking lot.
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    "5 million fans" is a whopper. The Cubs and Wrigley are world-famous and at their best they draw 3 million. I'm all in on this being the site for a new Bears stadium. It's the only outcome that resembles making sense.
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    Living in proximity to Lambeau, practically in its shadow, must be so weird. It's the sports world's closest thing to a company town. Undesirable.
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    I feel like the OHL more than the WHL elevated major-junior arenas to an unsustainable level. There are lots of mini-palaces in Southern Ontario, none more so than London, but the WHL is a bit more catch-as-catch-can as far as I can tell with NHL arenas on off nights or weird old barns in small towns called Elk Crap. Do they still have the reverse can?
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    Maybe this is me showing that I don't know how trains work, but if you can build a Metra station at the Roosevelt yard the same way there's one at its counterpart Western yard, then that grants access to everyone coming in on the south Union Station lines, which includes the all-important BNSF through southern DuPage, where, as I've said, Bears ticketholders tend to live. Could Amtrak make special stops there on gamedays? I don't want to get ahead of myself. Then you have a short trip on the Green Line for anyone coming to Union Station from the north end or from Ogilvie. Modest walk from Museum Campus for our Electric Line friends. The fact that government seems to be not letting Jerry Reinsdorf do whatever he wants makes me wonder if maybe they know Roosevelt/Clark is more necessary for the Bears than it is for the Sox.
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    I'm sorry. Your commemorative pin's in the mail. I was talking to some people the other day about the surrounding infrastructure just generally not being up to the task and one guy kept coming back to the train station and how that would make it easier "for everyone." It occurred to me that people from the exurbs might actually not understand how trains work. I think they think the rail system is just a separate plane of expressways rather than something with fixed routes and schedules. That is, anywhere you've ever seen a train station, you can just take a left here and a right there and pull up in Rolling Meadows in time for the game. Maybe a Lincoln Yards stadium would have worked after all. I pass through there about once a month and it's still an industrial wasteland.
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    Yeah, little bit, except instead of worshiping the Packers, Arlington Heights just worships itself.
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    down-low brothers I think the Liberty Bell is kinda neat. It's impressive but flawed, just like Philadelphia, just like America.
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    This is the approach to Arlington Park from the east. If you are coming from Evanston, Wilmette,, Winnetka, or thereabouts, where season ticketholders are likely to live because Bears tickets are expensive, this is the road that you would probably take to get there. It's a medium/heavy arterial from the North Shore to here but two lanes most of the way through downtown Arlington Heights to the track and the houses along it are old, big, or old and big, making it impossible to widen without pissing everyone off or destroying homes with historic markers. I'm thinking of framing this picture because it's the first time since the pandemic that I've seen Euclid Avenue not backed up to hell at 4 in the afternoon. "Well, what about when the track was there?" Yeah, it was really chaotic and awful, and that was with crowds of like one-fifth the size.
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    1. Too hard to drive to from the suburbs 2. Too hard to walk to from train stations 3. The Blacks 4. Not enough parking 1 will be a problem anywhere on the map; anything that requires tens of thousands of people to drive in and out of a spot at the same time is going to be a giant pain, especially in an area as sprawling as Chicagoland. 2, not much anyone can do about that one; the rail system has been all but set in stone since the 19th century. 3, it's really more the idea of them than anything given the atomized nature of driving to the game. 4, I dunno, take a shuttle bus and forgo eating potato salad in a parking lot, you rubes. Arlington Heights would solve 3 and 4, but make 1 considerably worse, and 2 is irrelevant to most people, and the whole development appears to be a moot point since the Bears tried to big-dick Cook County and lost badly. Roosevelt/Clark where the Sox want to go (who also don't seem to have the money) would fix 2, but the rest would be about the same. There's just no perfect place to put a stadium here that I can think of, but at least we know the lakefront works well enough.
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    There's so much surface parking around Comiskey that anything could fit there, but the Bears in Bridgeport and the Sox downtown is like some Gift of the Magi deal.
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    Does Carron Phillips have to sit out for a while because of this or are they gonna let him put on his dashiki and complain about Kevin Stefanski?
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    The Panthers moved to an outlet mall off an expressway west of Fort Lauderdale so that they could get away from The Ethnics
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    If Philadelphia were to have a symbol, what do you think it should be?
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    Inside the NBA on HGTV with Chip and Joanna Gaines, the Property Brothers, and also Charles Barkley
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    Hasn't San Francisco become Poop City? No one's saying the Giants should move. Bay Area income inequality is really something else. I'm not really wowed by the Sox stadium. I'm a traditionalist, and the Sox have played on 35th Street for 115 years. I don't really want that to change.
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    https://awfulannouncing.com/online-outlets/chiefs-fan-sues-deadspin-go-media-blackface-racism.html Zombie Deadspin getting sued for doing hotep stuff.
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