The Beast

I recently moved from Chicago to the suburbs (DuPage County) and sent in my change of address form into the election commission office. I did so in August and when I called last Friday they said they had sent me my voters registration card in the mail in September. I will look for it this week in the mail, but should I be concerned about not being able to vote since I don't have my voters registration card yet and the state's deadline is tomorrow?

QUOTE (farmteam @ Oct 9, 2016 -> 10:22 PM) That was the biggest WTF moment of the night to me. It should get the most discussion of anything said. Apparently he could do that, but it seemed more like a threat than anything else.

QUOTE (RegionSox @ Oct 9, 2016 -> 09:51 PM) All the analysts seem to think Trump won. Not one mention of him threatening to put Hilary in jail. How is that possible? Will him "winning" push people to vote for him?

Is Gimgrich right with what he's saying about Trump? Is he holding his own and did he "win the debate?"

God I hope she "wins" the debate so maybe he can get out of this race. I don't know that I could stand seeing him as president.

Should Clinton have addressed her husband or is that taking the bait? Did Clinton mess up by saying what she did about the republicans are abandoning him or is Trump just crying about her emails like a coach crying about a call in a sporting event?

Is anyone watching the Sunday night football game instead of the debate tonight? The sound bites will be posted tomorrow is my rationale. And it'll be more of the same.

Did you all see the new Rizzo meme that said, "Hey Sox fans! It's ok to root for us. We need all of Chicago behind us. Let's make history together!" Are they making fun of us or is this real?

QUOTE (brett05 @ Oct 5, 2016 -> 02:18 PM) You liberals are so funny. Give me Donald time and time again over a Hillary Clinton. It's not even close. But keep the attacks up. I'm a moderate voting for Clinton and two republicans in Illinois and I'll still keep my attacks up against Biff Tannen every day of the week.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 4, 2016 -> 09:59 PM) My best friend...the man and his father that I named my son after...two very intelligent, rational, reasonable, good people....actually support Trump. It has more to do with the state of our political system than with the candidate they support. At least that's what I keep telling myself. I would go so far to say that I would rather see a Cubs World Series than President Trump. The two party system isn't a good thing and neither is the gridlock in Washington. I am actually voting republican in Illinois so there are people who can stand up to Michael Madigan. I am not big on Hillary but my conscience won't allow me to vote for Trump as well as my head.

Is any other voter terrified of Donald Trump becoming President? It seems more and more possible as each day goes by. It's rather frightening, if you ask me...and I am an independent voting for both sides this election.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 4, 2016 -> 06:17 AM) Lmao called it. So this dude was bluffing the whole time?

Frankly I don't really care. I'm still voting for her instead of Biff Tannen. What could be so damaging to middle of the road voters that would make her be "done?"

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Oct 2, 2016 -> 01:56 PM) Jimmy Johnson putting nails in Cutler's coffin with the Bears sitting at 7 points in the first half. Seems about right. Jimmy Johnson is an old fool. Cutler may be back before the year is over.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 2, 2016 -> 05:07 AM) If you bought into his transition to a moderate Republican and stripped away all of his extreme viewpoints and statements over the years. He seemed more on point regarding economic solutions and uplifting the middle class than most of his fellow Republicans. I've voted on both sides of the aisle and really was looking to vote for someone that could work across party lines to get things done. I can accept that politicians change their minds and some will say what they will to get elected. I just felt like Kasich was the adult in the room during the republican debates and had much more substance to his arguments and policies than the brash GOP nominee did. I'm not really looking forward to having to vote for one party for president and the other party for the state elections, but like the Northsiders winning the World Series, it is what it is.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 2, 2016 -> 01:21 AM) Does Trump actually have any supporters? He's going to lose in a landslide. The sad thing is some Americans think Hillary is just as bad as Trump and I am one of them. She is no better. Our country couldn't come up with better candidates?? There was a better candidate - his name was John Kasich.

QUOTE (flavum @ Oct 1, 2016 -> 07:10 PM) I want to be the first one to say that we're not calling him "Ricky". He can let that stay with the Cubs and their homer reporters. I already corrected a friend of mine who said "I told you they were going to hire Ricky." It's Rick - let's not be homer Cubs reporters.

QUOTE (chisoxt @ Oct 1, 2016 -> 08:22 PM) If true then the dominoes will start to fall into place and a rebuild will commence ....I would not be surprised if Sale was the first to go. I wonder who made the Shields move, was that a KW move or a Hahn move? If it's KW's move, then I wonder if that had any hand in him getting fired (not just that trade alone though). I doubt Sale would be the first to go, but I do think they'd move guys like Quintana, Robertson and Cabrera...not that there's a lot of value for the last two guys.

QUOTE (Baron @ Oct 1, 2016 -> 07:31 PM) Barstool guy if you consider him legit. Sounds a little more to me like reading the tea leaves. That would be the news off the year if it's true.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 1, 2016 -> 07:27 PM) Clearly, every really good manager can mean a difference of 2-3 games per season, and bad ones 2-3 additional losses. Let's just hope we finally see consistent refinement in some of the fundamentals, especially from the non-veteran players like Anderson, Tilson and Saladino (scary to say rebuilding without a young core of position talent beyond that, and hopefully Collins in late 2017). Do we think they'll do a sell off or they'll retool? I hope they trade some pitching to get some young bats.

QUOTE (Baron @ Oct 1, 2016 -> 07:21 PM) I would like a full cleaning of the house...but they arent putting Rick Hahn out there only for him to get fired later...he's staying I would have loved a full cleaning of the house too, including Don Cooper. I don't care what he's done with pitchers, it doesn't hurt to do a full fall cleaning once in awhile. Plus some jackass told me "I didn't know baseball" since I thought it would be a good idea to let everyone go, including Cooper.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Oct 1, 2016 -> 06:38 PM) Well Don Cooper will be staying. I wonder if a new hitting coach will be hired and if there will be staff changes. Well, I guess Renteria is better than Ventura out there and I would hope they'd hire some new coaches. I guess it's fine that Cooper stays. And I guess Sox fans will get what they want.

Hopefully Benetti doesn't leave the organization for another job because it's not full time.

Why do I get a bad feeling about this...

1.) The McCaskeys are part of the problem, is what I thought when I saw Virginia McCaskey in the box. 2.) Football is not an individual sport, so the blame can't be solely on Cutler when the defense isn't stopping anyone on downs that matter. There are so many holes outside of the QB position, it's not even funny. 3.) I don't know why it isn't obvious to Cutler haters that they can just wait this year out, let the guaranteed money get paid and they can draft a young QB in the first four rounds. Then again, they need more defensive help than a QB. 4.) Meatheads will say Hoyer should be the starter the rest of the year and that he is better than Cutler. Or say he doesn't care because he's not passionate on the field. Tools.