Stinky Stanky

Boylen's team played defense. But this bunch does have talent that will fetch something in return and I hope that happens sooner than later. This is a team of positionless players that just does not fit together. That is Gar/Pax's legacy. Keep it intact and they win 20. Trade assets for draft picks and they still win 20. Duh.

Just in the interest of a good discussion, Prokofiev fled to the USA, but he eventually went back and subjected himself to the whims of the commissars. And miracle of miracles, wrote some of his best music after they told him to knock off the "bourgeois" atonality and write stuff that was easier to understand. Shostakovich stayed and did battle with the commissars. They both loved Mother Russia more than they hated the commies.

Karl Marx notwithstanding, most art, music, theater and literature is kept alive by the largesse of people and governments who appreciate it and support the organizations and individuals that keep it going. This is as old as civilization itself. So Karl wasn't as smart as he thought he was. Is this a bad thing? Don't ask me, I only work here. ?

Good game until OSU got control of the line of scrimmage. Still, a few if's here and there and we could have had a nice surprise.

Mark Levin? Extremely angry? Hard to believe. He's usually the epitome of calm. ?

He lies.

If you're viewing this as a display of courage by Mitch, think again. If senators did object and it came to a vote in the Senate, the Dems would have the vote of every senator on public record to hang around their necks for any reason or no reason at all. Mitch doesn't want a vote in the Senate, duh.

I think you went too far about Stone, but he does have a way of expressing himself that makes it seem like you said. It might be the overly fancy vocabulary he uses. Walton's brain? I want to see an MRI of that one. Loved him on a basketball court, though. As long as I'm blabbing here, I'm reminded of Jack Brickhouse, who had the same vocabulary problem as Stone. It all made sense when late in his career, he told an interviewer that as a young broadcaster, he would sit in his motel room after games AND READ THE DICTIONARY! The guy never heard of dive bars and loose women?

Side note on pre-season game 2: Jason and Stacey are a nice listen together. The humor is actually funny, unlike Jason with Stone. I'd even go so far as to say that Jason is better at basketball than baseball. I'm just conjecturing. Adam Amin is fine, too. Don't beat me up too badly for saying that. ?

So his record still has only one drunk driving conviction from long ago. That means he got away with it this time. He's one lucky guy. Yes, I'm a member of the fraternity of those who lost a close relative to a drunk driver.

He was just re-elected to a 6 year term and probably won't run again at his age so I wouldn't give him a medal of bravery for standing up to Trump's coup attempt. Still, it's something.

Great tournament, though. A Lim Kim (never heard of her) birdied the last three holes to win by one. I believe that most golf tournaments are lost, but this one was won. She played wearing a N-95 mask!

Speaking of Texas golf, they're finishing the US Women's Open in Houston today at 43 degrees, 37 wind chill, playing in winter coats.

One of them should. Has this thread outlived its usefulness?

Which is to say don't let him throw downfield because he's bad at it. He did have one nice medium length completion. But it all seems different if the O line holds of the rush and somehow it's managing to do it. They wouldn't try to hold on to him, would they? I wouldn't.

Coby's got two PG's on staff to coach him up. If they manage to make him into a PG it would still surprise me. Lauri's got one foot on the flop line. Wendell needs to establish an NBA identity.

A grain or two of truth among the chaff there. But taken as a whole, incoherent.

First pre-season game tells us the Bulls are the same as last year, don't have the three point guns to compete in the modern NBA. Don't defend it very well either. And they're soft in the middle. Wendell needs to find a position. Right now I'm not sure why he's on the court.

The Cubs pitching coach turned that wicked slider of Q's into a strikeout pitch. Credit where credit is due. Velocity be damned.

Purposeful and unnecessary. Unless you don't buy the "Jonesing to do radio at half the money story" and think he was pushed out. Then it makes sense.

I don't mind seeing some Engel. He deserves it. Controlling Adam's urges to be a dick should be easier with no supporting network of other dicks for him to play stupid for. A former HS teacher once told me that he looked around a class on the first day and if he only spotted one jerk kid, he knew things could be kept rolling smoothly. More than one? Problems galore. The money saved on Adam can be used for arm(s). I wanted Mazara back anyway. I think his "strep throat" gave him a one-year Get Out Of Jail ticket. Call me crazy, but I'll be checking back in this fall.

Don't confuse me with facts. ?

Defense lost the game, clear as can be. Mitch was OK and the OL held together, for the most part. Better thinking on a White Sox site than the Bears' FO.

Now it's starting to make sense. And for Chris Meyers, Marquee guy and picture of amiable mediocrity. He had to know that he was out or somehow demoted, IMO. Otherwise this doesn't make sense. Does he have kids in school here? What's his family situation?

Am I the only one wondering what's behind this? Hoping to know more, soon. Some kind of beef between Len and Marquee? Andy's still on-air at WGN, so he has work, that's good. He was about as terse as Farmer doing PBP. That wasn't good. I'm not a big fan of Benetti, either. Too much non-baseball drivel. Stone's voice can be irritating and he talks too much. You're probably thinking that I'm a dark cloud who thinks the last Sox announcer he liked was Joe McConnell. Well, maybe, just maybe you're right. Maybe.