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"Comrades! We have designed our glorious flag of the revolution! Are you ready to bear this standard?"
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25 minutes ago, BottomlessPitt said:
Holy $hit!!!, Virginia McCaskey is 101 years old. Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ.
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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On 2/13/2024 at 9:23 AM, MCM0313 said:
Turrible, turrible.
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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14 minutes ago, PittsburghSucks said:
Probably because he grew up in Cleveland Heights, which is a predominantly black suburb?
he's invited to the cookout!
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2 minutes ago, Discrim said:
Anyway, liked the effort on his rendition of Viva Las Vegas, but hopefully he leaves the music to Taylor.
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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Just now, ManillaToad said:
Tbf I didn't notice any egregious blunders from Shanahan this time around
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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4 minutes ago, BBTV said:
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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Just now, MJWalker45 said:
It's also important to remember how neutered they are compared to what the artist would do without the NFL deciding what's allowable.
Couldn't even get away with "fillin' cups like double Ds"!
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14 minutes ago, TrueYankee26 said:
As a fellow millennial I like the HT show
The opening notes to "Yeah!" are like a Manchurian Candidate trigger for millennials
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13 hours ago, VampyrRabbit said:
Is there any other team that throws back to a former identity in a former city as much as the Canes do?
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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On 2/5/2024 at 9:05 AM, zubazpirate said:
It feels like the CHL - the OHL and WHL in particular - has more or less reached its limits in Canada. The cost of entering is so steep, you basically need a 1/3 scale NHL arena at 1/3 the cost of a NHL building, and not many small towns with big dreams can pull that off. You could bake sale your way into the kind of Centennial Arena barns that our grandfathers played in, but you can't build a 6,000 seat palace with luxury amenities that way.
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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9 minutes ago, tBBP said:
Fun fact: I actually took that route through Arlington Heights en route to setting up a mobile scanner at the Northwest Community Healthcare Center.
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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10 hours ago, BBTV said:
Does it need one? How many of cities that normal people know have logos? NYC = statue of liberty (I think), Chicago has the stars from the flag, LA? Houston? New Orleans I guess the fleur de lis, Atlanta?
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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7 hours ago, OnWis97 said:
But the perception among the suburban fanbase would be that it's better. I could see that helping the suburban cause.
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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38 minutes ago, Sykotyk said:
Isn't the big knock against the Soldier Field area the lack of 'mixed-use development' they all love so much now? That and parking is minimal?
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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MLB Stadium Saga: Oakland/Tampa Bay/Southside
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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?"