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Tajin and melon. Tajin and melon. It’s Tajin and melon season.
Hope so. As important as a pass rusher is to the Eberflus defensive scheme, wild that they couldn’t together find a guy to plug in or coach up in the draft of free agency before trading for Sweat.
I don’t think Poles is doing all that great of a job. They’re maybe on a lower trajectory than Ryan Pace’s teams, and I think Pace climbed out of a bigger talent hole than he left behind.
It’s late summer, after Labor Day, the time of year that just makes you think of pumpkin spice lemonade and putting your shoes on the wrong feet.
Blogger, please also tell a big long story about a trip to the grocery store.
Very cool when I find a big long recipe blog that’s like “20 steps to perfect tofu that’s exactly the same as if you just plopped it out of the package and added packet of taco seasoning.”
Both of my sons kicked off their marching band seasons over the weekend, my older son marching his first year in college. Proud of them and all the hard work they put into it.
Jerry is probably always the limiter, but that’s even more of a reason to be skeptical of Getz. He’s Jerry’s yes man. It’s what it is. Maybe they can go from horrible to just bad next year. Appreciate you indulging my complaints, but I’ll stop chewing up your afternoon with them.
Thats fair, upside guys go bust more often. And I think on the field the Sox have been getting more out of guys defensively than they have, so progress there. But in his yearly performance review I think he still has to answer for the lack of progress on developing major leagues from 2017-2023.
Your farm system should produce 2-3 WAR guys so you don’t have to trade star players for them to fill those -WAR sinkholes. Can’t even say it’s early to judge because Getz has been director of player development since 2017. We going to wait 10 years and two rebuilds like with Rick Hahn?
It’s like following a rebuilding sports team. It’s the hope that sustains us on the journey.
Even the Crochet trade, I don’t think there’s much doubt the Red Sox got the best player. The White Sox got volume to paper over their weak system, but they’re going nowhere if they’re constantly trading down talent-wise. A team full of Teels and Meidroths isn’t bad, but not a contender.
If Getz had come in here from another team, I’d maybe give him more slack for having to dig out of a huge hole. But he’s one of the guys who made them so bad!
I guess I’m less impressed. They’ve bounced back from historically bad to just really bad. Getz loses every trade, including ones he doesn’t make. Some fringe free agents worked better than Hahn’s guys, but others have been bad. Plus I have to looks at Mike Clevinger again.
I think everyone needs to be fired now, starting with Mr. We-Hired-Him-Because-He-Can-Turn-It-Around-Fast.
Sure, execute Roger Clemens.
Bo is the most amazing athlete I’ve ever seen, was an incredible comeback story with the White Sox, and that 1993 Sox team from my childhood remains one of my favorites.
Looks like the one my grandparents had. Seeing it makes me want to pop in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Good premise for a horror movie.
Chicago: Buckle up for the invasion. Save this graphic. We’re at your service. 🫡
Also dead. Keep the corpses in rotation
is he dead yet? i know it’s gonna happen soon. i just know it.
Hate massive Medicare fraud? Put Rick Scott in prison.
Hope it goes smoothly if not quickly.
Hope you bounce back quickly.
“We’re all going to die.”
Not my favorite memory, but one that stands out because the game felt so weird: the 95-96 Bulls that won 72 games were unbeaten at home until April when they lost to a .500-ish Hornets team they’d blown out in Charlotte a few days earlier.
For home defense purposes. Intruders will be clubbed.
Glad we got it. That era from the Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere album to Harvest is my favorite Neil era, “Old Man” one of the high points. Wish I had time to go see him in Milwaukee to maybe catch “Cinnamon Girl” since he’s mixing that in, too.
Dance off to determine if the team winning by 10 or losing by 10 has to have their pitcher on stilts.
Great show and played from a lot of his catalog. Could have played two more hours and not gotten every song I’d love to have heard, but after he did “Cowgirl In the Sand” as the second number, I knew I was going to go home very happy.
Neil Young still rocking and bringing the righteous anger.
Feel bad for you if you’re in a car. I’m enjoying real freedom and a train beer.
Pregaming tonight’s Neil Young concert.
Now put Brett Favre in prison.
Lol, they are really 9-30. Part of why they are remarkably 10 games worse than their Pythagorean record.
Whoa, whoa there, they’re not all numbers guys like baseball fans. You say there are three better quarterbacks, but even if someone can count that high, what’s that got to do with roster construction?
Overhyping a lousy backup QB? Another case of AI plagiarism.
Make sure it’s dipped with hot peppers.
When I think Bears fans and local media are dumb, it’s comforting to think about how they are no dumber than fans and media in other markets.
Lmao. Read that in print a few days ago and thought about the guys with the press conference about the Columbus statue. They almost have a dozen!
Independent of my feelings about “Roundball Rock,” I’d like to see John Tesh somewhere so I could scream “Fuck you” in his face. What sports guy do you most want to tell to fuck off face-to-face?
Wow, beetus and a heart condition? Hope he’s gotten a real flu vax recently.
My late Uncle Billy always referred to the GOP as the anti-Irish, anti-Catholic, anti-worker party.
At least having too many catchers is a good problem. Though the recent glut of 1B/DH guys would have been, too, if any of them could hit.
I even have some in my fridge for taco bowls this week. Mine isn’t beautiful like the article, but the box grating method really does give you the flavor and texture of ground chicken. It’s even faster and easier if you have a thawed tofu brick ready.
Buy it, throw it straight in the freezer. When it thaws it’s super easy to squeeze the water out. You don’t have to press it, but that speeds it up. This recipe is good, but you can also season it for tacos, or use BBQ and soy sauce to make sloppy joes (janes?, IDK what people call them w/tofu).
They have too little shame to be embarrassed.
Blue heron on my run today.
Don’t know about where to eat, but there’s the dinosaur park out there. A couple hours probably not enough to check out real fossils at the Black Hills Institute about half an hour away.
Stoked to take this pod on my run today.
Compare web site front pages of the Sun-Times and Trib. What the ever-living fuuuuuuuck, Chicago Tribune??
All of the Darin Morgan episodes are great. His work as story editor in season 3 is probably why that’s the best season of the show.
No. Not too harsh.
Alex Rios had two and a half good seasons in RF. Carlos Quinten had a decent season there, too. Been bad there a long time and it’s embarrassing they didn’t have anyone else before Tauchman now into a second rebuild cycle. But it hasn’t been since Dye.
Serving impossible sausage was the first clue about woke Cracker Barrel.
Thought I’d spotted a monarch butterfly on my run but it was just a viceroy.
Consider a dozen years ago: If the Hawks had signed Brandon Saad to a contract like this out of his ELC, don’t trade him to Columbus for Artem Anisimov, who they immediately extended, how much better could they have been after 2015?
Maybe it’s a gamble that Nazar is going to outperform this contract, but it’s a better gamble than the money the Blackhawks have thrown at scores of other guys.
If Nazar’s position was rightly that he should get more than Tyler Bertitties, the Hawks just paid what they had to pay.
Pandemic broke a lot of already-fragile minds.
Best Tarantino film.
Make mine dipped with hot peppers.
“I’m not high, but my dog is and I am.”
Wonder if it’s a coincidence these two idiots spearheading this are a combined 156-years-old.
Baseball on the north side. Seeing if this guy Andrew Vaughn playing for the Brewers is as good as people say.
Let’s go Bananas.
Need more Bobs in baseball.
Toxic Benzo-mold. Super strain.
Fired because you weren’t woke? No, idiot, you were fired because you weren’t awake.
Talked to a few Chicagoans about bailing on Spotify
I know, I saw in there where you said that, and I think you make a lot of great points.
Nobody is really making a bad point there, but the default format for framing an idea doesn’t have to be “Look at this guy!” Sometimes when I see a screen cap like that, I suspect it’s to keep people from clicking through to get the full context.
Even the NFL doesn’t pretend to be this clueless.
What he’s actually promising is a shittier commute.
I think they’re maybe dunking on Roberts a little out of context. The screen cap in there was just a pithy comment at the end of a thread where he was discussing this article.
“Plays smart with the football…”
Suckin’ on ICE in gods country.
My first thought is that’s a pretty high gravy-to-chickpea ratio, but you know what, I’ll still give it a try.
A Twitter classic.
He still deserves a kick in his non-functioning prosthetic robot dick.
One of the times I burst out laughing during the movie.
He also won’t learn by yo-yo-ing back and forth like they did with Lenyn Sosa every time he slumped. Sosa just now looking like he’s figuring out the bat part. It’s why playing time is a resource, and they should invest some in Elko.
It is. They’re just embarrassed to admit it.
White Sox game last night, collecting seeds for prairie restoration today.
The Sox will have traded Miguel Vargas Jr., for a 23-year-old A-ball infielder and two 26-year-old AA relievers.
Optioned the next day.
I believe 0-for-32 before a pinch hit single. Didn’t get sent down right away, but it wasn’t long.
“Hello, Jacob May? Is that you?”
Texas cops won't even enter a school to stop children from being massacred, but they think they're going to jingle their stirrups into the shadow of Chicago and everybody is just going to step aside.
David Patrick Kelly is great. Awesome in Twin Peaks, also as a bad guy in the Bruce Willis Yojimbo remake Last Man Standing.
“Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?”
It’s the worst shit and a bunch of old grandpas swear by it because it was the first thing they had that wasn’t Budweiser.
🙏🏻 forgive me. I’ll retreat to the solace of a bourbon now.
Especially the draft, though they had a good run of amateur free agents like Magglio and Carlos Lee. After that Himes run of McDowell, Ventura, Thomas, Fernandez, it was hot garbage in the first round until Chris Sale.
Ventura under appreciated by Sox fans even before his disastrous stint at manager, which I don’t blame him for entirely.
I remember after Ventura broke his leg Peter Gammons saying on Baseball Tonight, “Chris Snopek is a Major League baseball player.” Not his finest bit of analysis. I’d wonder what happened after he was ok in 95-96, but the Sox struggled to matriculate prospects in the early-to-mid 90s.
Should have been more. Kelly Gruber did not deserve it in 1990 at the least.
When I was a lowly writer for the Elgin Courier News I wrote before 2007 the Sox should trade Joe Crede. Some guy from West Dundee called up to tell me how dumb I was, Crede was the best 3B he’d seen in nearly 50 years. I asked what about Ventura. He said, “defensively.” Uh, Robin had 6 gold gloves.