Greg Sager

The Voice of the Vikings. North Park University play-by-play broadcaster for ten Vikings sports.

[Greg Sager @GregSager3]

@SOLmateStables @BQuillmanQcast Academic All-American awards, for many years, were very dependent upon SIDs who actively sought them for their schools by doing the nominating paperwork, serving on CoSIDA committees, (surreptitiously) campaigning for them, etc. These days it's less of a matter of go-getter SIDs.

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Sophomore shortstop Taylor Joseph was named
@d3baseball Third Team All-Region 8 earlier this morning
https://t.co/n73Tt5t4lo

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@UWOshkoshTitans @UWOMBB Congrats, @CoachSchweer!

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@JCBDCD @pugsandco America badly needed punk rock in 1981 as an antidote to synthpop and to geriatric arena rock bands ... and Chicago had a fantastic hardcore scene back then. '80s Chicago hardcore is legendary in American punk circles.

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@pugsandco @Mac4145 Meanwhile, if you live in Westmont your entire existence revolves around your car -- and Chicago itself is something that's in your metaphorical rear-view mirror, no matter whether you listen to sports radio or WFMT or Spotify. I don't begrudge or judge -- I'm just saying.

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@pugsandco @Mac4145 Hard disagree. I'll grant you that Lincoln Park is full of imported posers, but if you buy property there you now have roots as well as skin in the game, even if you're born and bred in Kalamazoo, drink IPAs at a trendy bar, and fly an M flag from your graystone's front window.

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@pugsandco @JCBDCD Yes, and it was glorious. Cut class, hop on the el, walk to Waveland and Sheffield, and wait in line to buy a $5 day-of-game ticket to the bleachers with the other students, nightshifters, bums, and the occasional stray Iowan.

The Effigies and Naked Raygun forever!

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@OVJM_The_Branf @pugsandco Great point.

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@pugsandco @JCBDCD I remember when it was a very seedy neighborhood with SRO hotels and lots of vagrants roaming the sidewalks. Then came cable TV, the national reach of WGN bringing Cubs games to America summer afternoons, the salesmanship of Harry Caray, and suddenly property values skyrocketed.

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@SportExpert34 @drtommybaseball @midwestern_ope Minus ten points for using a Gosling gif ... although you avoided the bonus loss by not using a *Barbie* Gosling gif.

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@Phil44Traum @HereStl @midwestern_ope (Um, I meant *Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey*, the funny-but- a-bit-uneven sequel.)

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@Phil44Traum @HereStl @midwestern_ope The Battleship reference got a laugh out of me, same as it did when *Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure* used a game of Battleship against the Grim Reaper to spoof Ingmar Bergman's *The Seventh Seal*.

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@oversonly54 @lacherbauer I only need three words to prove you wrong:

Italian beef sandwich.

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@lacherbauer Four seasons? Sometimes we have two. Sometimes we have six or seven. Spring in particular is always a roll of the dice in Chicago.

I agree that warm weather year-round would be boring. Nevertheless, weather is not a selling point for our city.

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@MTrucksa @midwestern_ope True. But "Chicago" and "Chicagoland" are two very different things. "Chicagoland" is just a folksier and more memorable way of saying "Chicago metropolitan area," which includes Lake County, IN and Kenosha County, WI.

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@Phil44Traum @HereStl @midwestern_ope I'll agree to that. But it's very common to be asked about your identifying neighborhood. I've done that myself, in order to screen out the Chicago-identifying people who are actually from Buffalo Grove or Glen Ellyn rather than Belmont Cragin, Hegewisch, or Rogers Park.

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@HereStl @brianknotts @midwestern_ope

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@Somechick1787 @midwestern_ope Nope. Schaumburg is not Chicago. Downers Grove is not Chicago. Midlothian is not Chicago. And freakin' Highland Park is most certainly not Chicago.

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@SportExpert34 @drtommybaseball @midwestern_ope Stereotype much? You're saying that a few lakefront neighborhoods are representative of the entire North Side. Well, check a map, buddy. The vast majority of North Siders are middle-class or working-class lifers with families, and they don't live adjacent to the lakefront.