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Gen X. Over-educated underachiever. Aspiring to be your favorite burner account’s favorite burner account. I’m just here screaming into the void.

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RFK Jr. on January 20th, ordering all US municipalities to cease fluoridation of public water, in order to protect our precious bodily fluids.

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@ArthurBoreman He probably ordered something that isn’t ordinarily that spicy. Dude has probably never had actual Mexican food before and assumed everything was supposed to be 10/10 hot.

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@Nathanswfc2004 This guy has never heard of the Olympics.

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@paulderdash1 @SoxMach_pnoles This account’s entire project is straw-manning.

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@reesetheone1 The stadium is going to be a couple miles north of the South Shore line though.

One of the advantages of the Arlington site was that the train stops right.

Not sure what they have planned for Hammond, but right now the rail access isn’t ideal.

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@jackgleason @SquareJordan @CuriousMe165823 @ThienemanSZN No need to hurl insults.

The Obama center isn’t a “public library.” It’s mostly a museum. In other words, a tourist attraction.

It helps if you look these things up before you make uninformed comments like this.

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@jamfan40 You’re talking about from the city center. But Hammond is also a two minute walk from Chicago, because unlike Arlington it literally borders Chicago.

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@CuriousMe165823 @SquareJordan @ThienemanSZN You’d be amazed how many people plan travel weekends to Chicago to see big concerts at Soldier Field (Beyoncé doesn’t play Akron or DesMoines). But as I pointed out above, those concerts will still be happening after the Bears leave.

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@SquareJordan @CuriousMe165823 @ThienemanSZN You can’t “forget soldier field for this exercise.” The whole conversation is about marginal benefits. And the marginal benefits of replacing soldier field with a new stadium aren’t necessarily greater than the marginal benefits of an Obama center. Especially relative to cost.

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@SquareJordan @CuriousMe165823 @ThienemanSZN The Obama Center is a tourist attraction 365 days a year. Chicago gets 6 million tourists a year. That’s who’s going to be going to it for the most part. That and maybe school field trips.

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@SquareJordan @CuriousMe165823 @ThienemanSZN Soldier Field isn’t going anywhere. It is going to continue to host concerts and other events. The city is losing 8 Bears games a year.

I don’t want the Bears to leave Chicago, and I’m annoyed that the city/state couldn’t work this out. But facts are facts.

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@ChiSoxFanMike He’s been inconsistent, and an .832 in AAA isn’t that impressive, particularly when the home ballpark is Truist, one of the most notorious launching pads in all of professional baseball. Be patient and give him time to develop.

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@SquareJordan @CuriousMe165823 @ThienemanSZN Eh, the library is open 365. The Bears have eight home games a year.

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@KarliBell33 NFL games are for the wealthy. No one who can’t afford gas and tolls is going to be paying hundreds of dollars per ticket in the first place.

There are a lot of reasons why the Hammond move is bad, but cost of travel isn’t one of them.

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@joeonthebluff @steveowhitesox Box scores have attendance btw, so you can look this stuff up pretty easily.

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@joeonthebluff @steveowhitesox Attendance is up for sure. But the only sellouts are vs the Cubs. Recent weekends have been around 50-75% full, which is nice, but not “packed.” Recent weekdays 35% or so.

Again, this is nice. But they don’t draw like a big market team, and they don’t have the fan base of one.

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@Dtsvr6 @soxmachine_josh This is an AI hallucination. I got the same thing from Gemini, but if you click on the actual articles it’s citing, there’s no mention. I’d wager it’s confusing Cholowsky with another player mentioned somewhere else in those draft profiles.

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@joeonthebluff @steveowhitesox Attendance is up for sure. But the only sellouts are vs the Cubs. Recent weekends have been around 50-75% full, which is nice, but not “packed.” Recent weekdays 35% or so.

Again, this is nice. But they don’t draw like a big market team, and they don’t have the fan base of one.

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@joeonthebluff @steveowhitesox All that’s reasonable. But again, big market teams with big fan bases fill the ballpark no matter what. Like the Cubs. In 2005 they outdrew the WS-winning Sox by nearly a million, despite finishing well out of it .

Also, Sox are 22nd in attendance. That’s not “packed.”

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@Bda_co Montgomery has struggled on the road so far in AAA. Give him time. There’s no need to rush.

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@keepitsimpl9 @SoxMach_pnoles Nah. Not yet. It would be if the sample size were larger, and he hadn’t already shown tremendous ability as a hitter at the lower levels. He had one really bad road trip (2 hits in 6 games). All it means he’s not ready for MLB quite yet.

FWIW he went 2-4 on the road last night.