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    The NHL was used to get a new arena for the third-best basketball program in Raleigh-Durham, why not volleyball, too.
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    The Bay Area has to have some of the weirdest, clunkiest geography in America. It's probably a big reason why San Francisco became an urban theme park: it had to become an attraction for people reverse-commuting to all the tech campuses 40 miles south. Nothing can make sense when the population horseshoes a giant bay. Do you remember the brief but intriguing noise about the Expos moving to Boston? I think it got the same cursory attention as Norfolk did.
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    If the Nashville Predators fanbase could successfully mount a "don't take our toy away" push and get serious about the team after an existential crisis, so too can the fans of the Oakland A's, one would hope.
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    I'm sure it was an easy mistake for FC Vilnius to make.
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    Manfred is a gentile but every photograph I see of him looks like an antisemitic caricature. Like, I don't like making this observation, but I see this photo and immediately slip into Jerry Lewis voice going "pehaps the Joyants I could interest you in?"
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    "Comrades! We have designed our glorious flag of the revolution! Are you ready to bear this standard?" "lol did somebody say mcdonalds :)"
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    Billy Joel wrote a song about her.
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    Bears lost their property tax appeal. Feel like this one's about over.
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    One Property Brother turns to the other and says "you know we have a lot of fun here but I think it would be irresponsible of us if we didn't talk about race in America" while Charles looks on dumbfoundedly
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    he's invited to the cookout!
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    In fairness, it wasn't as bad as Whitnall grad Tyler Herro going "mah stahl is urrting t'me" in a Bose spot
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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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