TheOldRoman

Scratch that. Peak absurdity attained. Send in the clowns.

I don't think this was meant for me, and I don't listen to the show. But I know the entirety of Chicago Sports Radio was pissed about the Hawks being relevant. They never had to watch or pretend to know hockey. Suddenly the Hawks are huge and they're expected to talk about them. Thus, leading to media tantrums and Bernstein's "all hockey fans are Aryan Nation fratboys from Naperville" shtick.

Apparently, the accuser's lawyer thinks a good Samaritan delivered them the bag. It was only the bag which originally contained the kit, not the actual kit. He thinks someone did this to show that the kit was tampered with. They showed the actual bag at the press conference, so he does have it. Someone gave it to them, but who knows who, how, why, or if it means the kit was tampered with. This is insane. Also, we've gotten no statements from Kane yet. We don't know if he told the police they had consensual sex or none at all. If he denied having sex with her, I'd say the rape kit being inadmissible would pretty much close this case completely.

I obviously don't know specifics of rape investigations, but what other evidence can there be? Unless there was video or audio, wouldn't everything be in the rape kit? Even she had Kane's DNA under her fingernails as reported and also on her body (showing that he had scratched her), It wouldn't be enough to prove rape. It might prove Kane lied to the police, but that wouldn't matter much here. Even if they had her ripped-up clothes with Kane's DNA showing he ripped them, it wouldn't prove that he raped her. I don't understand what other evidence there could be? Have the DA or police yet commented on the supposed missing rape kit?

That crazy if true, but it makes no sense. A rape kit was made after the incident. So, if the attorney is correct, wouldn't the police be claiming the kit was stolen to cover this up? Would it even change anything? I imagine they have the results of the kit chronicled, leaving the physical kit's "displacement" irrelevant. If the kit went "missing" and the BPD is scratching their heads saying "Gosh, we deleted the darn results!" it'll reach peak absurdity, but I don't think we're there yet.

Nearly ever hipster I've see in Chicago sporting tight jeans shorts, thick framed glasses, a bushy mustache and calf-band tattoo was also wearing a fedora. Or maybe that's gone to mainstream douchebags in the last year and they've moved on to something else. Are they still wearing knit winter caps through the summer?

The Islanders should start tracking attendance for: 1) people; 2) handlebar mustaches; and 3) fedoras. I'm guessing on a sell-out night they'll have at least 4,000 fedoras and 1,500 handlebars.

I didn't hear any of the press conference, but I can't imagine who thought it was a good idea. I mean, if they wanted to bring Kane in, just have everybody say "it's an ongoing legal matter and this organization won't discuss it at this time," then have Kane do his best Marshawn Lynch impression when asked about it.

But we don't! And I'm not on the defense. I think this certainly doesn't look good for Kane, and even if he skates on this (see what I did there?) the Hawks need to think long and hard about their future with him. But to take bits and pieces of media leaks as gospel is silly. And ultimately, it doesn't matter because I'm neither a New York judge or juror. My opinion, which will be formed after we actually know details other than those either party strategically leaked to the press, will be meaningless in this. I don't regularly go to Blackhawks games. I watch them on TV and occasionally buy a t-shirt. Me deciding to stop doing either wouldn't hurt the team one bit. But I don't see how calling off the torch mob until something happens one way or another is a bad thing.

I can think of two other magnificent differences between them. To go along with what you're saying, literally all of the opinions I've gotten on this from women have been against the accuser (without even knowing the details). I haven't taken a stance because we don't actually know any of the details yet, and I think saying "she's just looking for money" is just as bad as saying "I just know he raped this girl because he's a douchebag." Still, the opinions of all the female hockey fans with whom I've discussed it was that Kane was likely innocent. And sure, it's not a big sample size, just some ladies at work. But these are educated professionals, not the toothless trailerfolk our local sports leader likes to pretend makes up the entirety of hockey fandom. In summation, it's more than just bros calling her a gold-digger.

Maybe I have an unpopular opinion because a bunch of people seem to love the Redskins' yellow pants. I have grown really tired of them.They look stale and just completely symbolic of a failed era in Washington. I particularly dislike the home jerseys with them. And it's not just the pants, it's the socks that match nothing, the shrunken sleeve stripes and the toothpick sleeve numbers Nike reduced them to. The whole Redskins uniform just looks awful and cheap now, at least to me. So much better than: (and I realize they dropped the toilet collars on the roads. I couldn't find a better picture).

Maybe, but they'd still be about 80% bad.

Yeah, Hartford's best chance to get the Whalers back was lost once Vince McMahon lost all of his money from the WWE network. Then again, if your ownership group is centered on Vince McMahon I guess you don't really deserve a hockey team I don't think that's the case. There was a panic initially when they didn't reach the 1 million subscriptions, but the Network has surged the last several months and is, I believe, doing better than expected. I'm sure he made back whatever money he was thought to initially have lost.

I was with you until the "otherwise solid" Browns comment.

Not even these two? That first one is my ultimate guilty pleasure. So bad but soooooo good.You know, I kinda agree. If the body was solid navy and they made the hem red, it would look plain. Not in any way "classic," but just plain for a jersey that features silver stripes. Maybe they should have made the bottom portion of the sleeves navy and had red gradient above that? I don't know. It's ugly and disjointed, but that somehow makes it more endearing. EDIT: my browser is only showing the navy and red gradient jersey, but I realize two photos were posted. I was talking about the '00s alternate.

That's not true relating to the White Sox. The current ownership group purchased the team from Bill Veeck in 1981, and they were threatening to move to Tampa before Illinois built them a new park. They never intended on selling. An interesting fact - the city of Seattle sued the American League when it allowed to Pilots to leave after one season. The owner of the White Sox was broke and needed to sell the team in 1975. To settle the suit, the AL was pushing to sell the White Sox to Seattle ownership and let the team move. Denver ownership was among the bidders, I believe, but the only bidder willing to keep the team in Chicago was Bill Veeck, who had previously owned the team and sold is to the then-owners 13 years earlier. Despite most of the AL owners disliking Veeck, they approved the sale to allow the team to stay in Chicago. Seattle got the expansion Mariners two years later. Maybe more interestingly, if the White Sox would have moved to Seattle, Charlie Finley was planning on moving the Athletics into Comiskey Park.

Meh. Chevelle is decent and I rather like Shinedown. I'd take the worst of those bands over Radiohead any day, but YMMV.

I always listened to either WLUP or The Drive. When I was a youngin' it was Wiil Rock out of Waukesha. Mandatory Metallica Mondays was my thing. WIIL Rock is out of Kenosha and sucks. Music for high school weight rooms. So you basically don't like any hard rock.

I have listened to WLUP on and off my whole life. I like a lot of classic rock, but disliked the few times when the Loop went to a classic rock format and stopped playing anything made after the '80s. I mean, the Beatles are great, but I don't want to hear them (or Buffalo Springfield) on the Loop. I really liked Rock 103.5, and the Loop became my default radio station for a while after they changed formats. I dislike a lot of what they played on Q101, at least the softer stuff which they wouldn't have played on 103.5. And plenty of cynical people dislike Van Halen and claim their music is devoid of substance.

It is cool. I don't think it's unpopular to like the navy blue Chargers. The powder blue is really great, but the navy blue is still great, too. It's like Van Halen and Van Hagar. Incredible analogy, though I'm surprised to hear that you like Van Halen. I would have figured you'd consider them too mainstream or pop-ish.

Thread for when Gary Bettman gets a little salty. Other leagues hire public relations agencies to write press releases like these. The NHL just has Gary Bettman write whatever comes to mind immediately after ragequitting expansion. I hope it happens. I really do. Just to see the NHL sheepishly backtrack on the whole "expansion" thing with two seemingly viable applications on the table. It'll really expose the whole "anyone but Quebec" mindset. Even working from a mindset that anything the NHL does is wrong, dropping expansion now would make sense. If three cities applied, it would be good - two expansion teams and a new home for the Coyotes. But everybody knows that the Coyotes are on borrowed time in Glendale, and the NHL needs to keep a market for them (likely Vegas). I don't think they want to expand to 31 teams, so we'll just end up with the coming disaster in Las Vegas and wait for the Panthers to eventually fold up tents and move to QC.

I think it's because, like he said, everyone seems to start with their navy jerseys and go from there, either putting those colors on the current white jerseys or actually color-swapping the navys to white. The navy jerseys suck. They're really, really bad. They shouldn't make the jerseys they wear 95% of the time worse just to match the crappy navy alternates. And the Cowboys shouldn't be in navy to begin with. The Cowboys need to go back to what they wore in the '70s (although they can drop the serifed font if they prefer) - dark royal blue with bluish-silver. They can even keep the black stripe outlines on both jerseys are their little quirk. I'd also like if they changed their helmet to the greenish-silver of the pants, but bluish-silver is preferred. Of course, they helmet needs to match the pants, but that goes without saying.

Right, which is how Bud Selig and assorted dumb:censored:s went about switching the Astros into the AL and having constant interleague play just to placate the freaking Texas Rangers. They forced it upon the new Astros owner as part of the sale. We might see Quebec in the Pacific Division.

I saw Opulent Cash Hole when they opened for Guns N' Roses on the Use Your Illusion tour.

They should do nothing like soccer. Soccer is horrible. Ties are equally horrible. And I'm not a fan of shootouts, but they beat the hell out of watching hockey for two and a half hours and leaving with an outcome as if no game had occurred (to butcher an Admiral line). Sorry. People can call it "stupid American machismo" or whatever the hell, but games need a winner and a loser. I'm fine with 3 points for a regulation win, but they'd then need to go to 2 for an OT win and 1 for OTL.