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Joe Ricketts has said a lot of really terrible s%*# that aligns pretty well with the nonsense Kirk was saying; Muslims don’t belong in America, it’s funny when Mexicans die in fires, etc.

I just watched a video on Youtube where the Governor of Indiana and the Mayor of Hammond talked about the proposed Indiana Bears stadium. The Mayor of Hammond said this should be settled soon if the Bears are going to move to Indiana.

And now the people who were offended by that are celebrating public assassinations.

A Bears playoff victory in a dome in Hammond would be louder.

I wonder how Bregman fares hitting in Wrigley. He has a similar pull heavy profile to Isaac Paredes, who struggled big time in his stint with the Cubs. That left field corner is no joke.

Saw the Yankees checked in on Robert, what would we want in return from them?

They acquired him at the deadline from the Seahawks I believe. He wasn’t around long and was just a spot rusher

This is not a reason to keep it

But its ok to go out before the game a jump on the home teams on field logo, on purpose, twice.

Kinda strange how the guy who promoted peaceful public discourse is considered the extremist by the same people who celebrate his public assassination

I still can't believe this throw.

I've said this before, but the majority of baseball players are certainly CK aligned. The sin of Shaw wasn't his beliefs, but the fact that he wasn't available for a very important game due to the death of someone he met within the year. Unwritten rule in that case being, immediate family and/or best friend is OK.

Like going to a Stones' concert after the long-retired Bill Wyman died to "support" Mick Jagger.

Yeah it was more of a rally than funeral

I mean nobody cares regarding a player taking time off from the team to attend their mother's funeral. Oh, the bolded part. My point was that they showed up to play those games. They didn't take off to go protest or attend a rally.

If he lost a family member, he would not have had to get approval from his employer is the point I was trying to make. There is a very big distinction here. And as someone else has pointed out, this wasn’t a lifelong friend and a normal “funeral”. No matter your political beliefs and whether the situation was fair or not, this was certainly going to be a distraction and risk conflict in the clubhouse. And let me be very clear here. I am supportive of differing political views. What I am intolerant to is hate in any form and Charlie Kirk routinely made dumb, hateful comments that created further division in this country. You seem to be arguing for a greater tolerance for political & religious freedoms, but then are surprised by the baggage that comes with being BFFs with a political pundit who was very black & white with his views. If there was a similar extremist on the left side that someone pulled the same move with I’d feel exactly the same.

Packers fan crash outs (including Lil' Wayne of all people) are getting funnier and funnier. Especially over Ben yelling "f*** the Packers," as if they didn't have Clay Matthews act like a chode on draft night.

The President had a full out meltdown over it, and there was a boycott attempted. It was far from "nobody cares". The same people also called for boycotts over the Redskins name change.

Players take bereavement time regularly. Nobody cares. We even know about this because of the context, not politics. I had to have a little cry over agreeing with Ray Ray, but if person at work finds out that a family member died, everyone starts telling them to go home and be with their family. It's like, "why are you still here?" The fact that he had to ask teammates is telling. He wasn't "mourning". NFL players knelt during the National Anthem of games they showed up to play in. NBA players wore "I Can't Breathe" t-shirts during warm-ups of games they showed up to play in. The media portrayed that as "controversial". It's fun to pretend things that didn't happen. If a baseball player skipped a key game in the homestretch of a pennant run to attend a No Kings or George Floyd rally, I can't say how I'd feel about that. I can't remember anything like that happening, so I'll have to wait until it does.

This seems like an important time to point out the political affiliation of Cubs ownership.

The loudest ever, FOR CHICAGO, not ever overall.

Who cares what he said. It was the loudest ever

Except you don't actually know this and therefore you don't automatically get to decide that it's true.

This is correct.

Hate to bring this back but just got on and feel like I should be able to respond. This can be taken somewhere else if wanted by others Yeah he had to get approval from his employer to miss a day of work just like anyone else in the world would have to do, not sure why that is a big deal. People only think it effects his character because his views don't align with theirs. If someone missed a game (with team approval) to attend a left wing media personality than the people dogging him wouldn't really give a s%*#. What should be asked is if Shaw is openly talking about his political beliefs in the work place and making his teammates and coaches uncomfortable or does he come to work and do his job and is a good teammate? You can disagree politically or religiously but doesn't mean both can't be good people and teammates. We have gotten away from that so much in this country