The_Admiral

This is like the fourth or fifth team to try to make a go of it in Bloomington-Normal and for whatever reason it just never catches on. Among non-Chicago markets, you'd think it would; Blo-No as a college/insurance town being virtually recession-proof versus Rockford being success-proof. How I wish we could get a nice little IHL going with Milwaukee, Rosemont, Quad Cities, Rockford, Peoria, Bloomington, Hoffman Estates, and Grand Rapids all being economically viable together, but I can't see it.

One of the most trusted sources on this message board said the Arizona Cardinals were about to change the game with "colors no one has ever heard of before" only for them to trot out the laziest crap we've ever seen. And I'm supposed to take a mothership commenter at face value? the sewer mutants who will SWAT each other in the comment section of the Winnipeg Jets anniversary logo that looked like a TV station? Okay.

Between Conde Nast turning Pitchfork into an Exciting New Vertical of GQ and private equity killing off SI, just a really bleak week for publishing.

It's not the south side the same way that Bridgeport is, no, but would still be at 1200S (one mile south of the baseline, Madison Street) rather than 3500S (3.5 miles south: the first few miles go 12, 22, 31, 39 blocks for Reasons). "The South Loop" seems to be very elastic, but to the extent that it exists, all the highrises around Roosevelt would have to be considered the South Loop. This could have been a huge game-changer for the Sox pre-pandemic when there were more people working in the Loop. A park at Roosevelt/Clark becomes a very attractive place for business outings and such. I hope it doesn't happen. It's a better fit for the Bears, in my opinion, and Comiskey is practically new anyway.

We love our four viable American media companies, don't we, folks? We love them! We love them so much. We can't get enough of them! People are saying "how big can they get," I think they're going to get a lot bigger, believe me. And I think you're really going to like them even more.

Oh my god you're the kind of person who would heat his home with a Rube Goldbergian treadmill-powered space heater and you won't let me resent trying to read an actual book on my goddamn phone?

Year in Sacramento. Foolproof plan. Oracle Guy, where are you?

I think it's difficult for an entire network to tie itself to one color for its brand--you'll notice that CBS, Fox, and ABC do not (though ABC did flirt with yellow for a while in the late '90s/early 2000s), and NBC uses all six. Fortunately for the CW, they're not an entire network. I thought the eye-catching green suited them well as an unconventional, risk-taking, youth-oriented "network," but I don't think orange by itself is as effective. Dropping the "The" makes sense since it was just a weird vestige of "the WB." Here's to this next chapter of the Columbia-Warner, which is not a The, and which I believe is no longer majority-owned by CBS or by Warner. Incidentally, I'm just starting Season Finale: The Unexpected Rise and Fall of the WB and UPN, albeit in odious e-book form. I'll share my thoughts when I have them.

I think we all had a good chuckle at the Cowboys getting owned, but the 17th game and 7 seed were both net negatives. Dallas should have earned a bye, teams should never play an uneven home/road schedule, I don't need 9 a.m. Titans games in Frankfurt.

Reading about Amon-Ra St. Brown's wacky family is a trip. His dad is a hotep who believed he had to breed an Aryan woman to create a master race of trilingual athletes (and also invented the name "St. Brown" because he thought "Brown" didn't have enough pizzazz). The NFL has a ways to catch up with the NBA, but this is the future of pro sports, just nothing but these cloistered neurotic biracial kids.

Okay. Then maybe everyone doesn't have to rally the culture-war troops at the slightest critique and just, as they say, shake it off.

An offensive mastermind getting outmaneuvered by Area Man Didn't Even Know It Was A Pie-Eating Contest is one of those reminders that there's still a little bit of magic left in sports.

Is the billionaire a victim here? Who has more cultural currency, Taylor Swift or Tony Dungy?

The logo that made a star out of the negative space between hockey sticks was a genuinely inspired design that no one cares about because no one cares about the NHL All-Star Game.

If Aaron Rodgers is so great, why does Jordan Love have a better winning percentage in the playoffs?

I wouldn't know because I don't have Peacock and thus could not watch an NFL playoff game.

Looks like The Libs are on one because outgroup member Tony Dungy said the cameras are on Taylor Swift too much during Chiefs games. Such a weird dynamic where they don't realize they're the ones running up the score.

Oh dear lord.

Why do they look like the same person?

I think there is something to NBC Sports being stretched thin, though. People said a lot of the same things about Bills-Chargers on Christmas, that the whole production felt unpleasant and vaguely off its game. You don't see the long depth charts for regional coverage that you used to see like10 years ago because so many games get farmed out to Dusseldorf and Liverpool and Up My Mom's Ass and those all get sent to the NFL Network, but on the occasions where CBS or Fox had like a #6 noon game, there was a distinct dropoff in coverage quality, which at the time even manifested itself in the outcomes: fewer cameras at the game ---> fewer replay angles ---> missed calls were harder to overturn ---> a team could steal a win in front of a two-media-market audience. So I don't think it's as simple as any network being able to produce any game equally well as long as there's a truck and people in it. The production errors were bad but I think bringing that up is kind of gilding the lily: the real issue here was that streaming platforms, or at least this one, don't have the infrastructure for mass-audience live programming. Even in their second year, Amazon Prime games still had buffering and downsampling, which you never have to deal with if you're just watching your local CBS affiliate through cable the way God intended.

No, because that would require the NHL All-Star Game having a cachet that it does not have.

"Cooking" and the license thereof might be the fastest slang burnout of all time. Jesus Christ.

Conversely, in the most infamous case of 1OA holdouts, everyone holds it against Eric Lindros (except Philly). It's not quite as simple as "power to the players"--I think the franchise has to be an unholy dumpster fire in order to flex that muscle, which the Nordiques were not but the Bears are. You look at this team with guys getting frog-marched out of the building for watching porn at work and then saying "we like our culture," with a team president who can't navigate tax codes but can commission puff pieces about how he takes a long time to get out of bed in the morning, and yeah, they've reached the lows that it takes to justify not accepting the selection.

He does deserve to look at the team that retained Matt Eberflus after an 0-4 start, three late blown leads, and two assistant coaches fired for weird HR stuff and say "no I don't think I'll work there."

Mike McDaniel like ":censored:in' bro this one's totally on me guys I :censored:in' own it dudes I :censored:in' own that it's on me" as Miami predictably loses on the ice planet Hoth