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southsider2k5

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  1. He knows he won't be paying these bills anyway, not a bad call. Decent chance he never even sees the first game there.
  2. It won't. It isn't like that ad money is going to disappear when she goes pro.
  3. From late Thursday night to Saturday morning we got 35 inches of snow in 36 hours.
  4. Pretty sure that Jerry doesn't have a lot of owner friends left either. He tried to block this commish and lost big time. He's voted against many of these ownership groups too. There could well be a fair amount of spite votes, and I think it takes 75% yes to move.
  5. It is in the sections where the tallest buildings are. But there are large sections of fill as well.
  6. Apparently quoting your actual words is a ridiculous take, which at this point I will whole heartedly agree with. With post after post like this, I am not sure why you are even here TBH. This schtick contributes nothing, and you obviously aren't getting anything out of it unless you are just trolling us at this point.
  7. If holding you to your words is a "horrible take" that is more of a problem with yourself than anyone else. Or at least that should be how you take it. This is a pattern of you throwing some ridiculous hot take out there, getting called on it, denying it, and then blaming someone else for taking you at your word. Maybe that flies other places, but this isn't reddit or twitter.
  8. The big thing will be keeping the debt load as small as possible for JR. This franchise is one of very few that has almost a zero debt load, which will make it very attractive if it ever does hit the open market.
  9. You the one out here saying it. Stop gaslighting other people for pointing out the holes in your arguments.
  10. So no one has a better one, but he is not the best one? Come on man. You can't be serious with that.
  11. For the record, if the City and Sox come to some sort of a deal on this site, and it means that it will take to 2030 to finish, I am sure they will make Comiskey available to them for another year while it gets done. Why wouldn't they if they have an end game in sight? If they can't come to an agreement, or if the Sox are leaving town? Yeah, then the probably tell them to get lost. But if they need an extra year to get a dream project done there is an essentially zero chance they don't figure it out pretty easily.
  12. https://x.com/BenBadler/status/1748095653614416259?s=20
  13. https://x.com/francysromeroFR/status/1748441191786377547?s=20
  14. I remember this story now that you say it out loud.
  15. A lot of San Fransisco is also built on 1906 earthquake rubble shoved into the bay.
  16. In a weird sort of way I think the size of it is actually the thing working most against it. If it were a smaller area, there wouldn't be the grandioseness of each set of plans that comes up for this site. It's kind of like the old post office. Instead of just coming up with something, everyone is coming up with this insanely big plans, which by their nature are the hardest to get to the finish line. It was the same with Block 37 for decades as well. I think in a lot of ways a ballpark and village might be one of the easiest things to get over the finish line compared to something more complex plans of the last couple of decades. Hell I have walked past this site a million times when i worked in this area and thought how great it would have been as a ballpark vs a casino, or a highrise, or even an empty lot.
  17. The reality is a large portion of what we consider downtown Chicago is built on fill, much of it from the Chicago fire and various destruction of undesirable neighborhoods in the 19th century. It hasn't stopped massive skyscrapers from going up on these places along areas like LSD and Michigan Ave.
  18. I promise you if randos on a sports message board are thinking of this, this has been studied and understood for decades by all of the different people who have tried to revitalize this site since the 1960s. If it was completely unbuildable, or if it was so expensive/difficult that it wasn't economically feasible, no one would be talking about doing something there anymore.
  19. Pretty sure after the changes in the stadium, the current one maxes out around 39k before SRO.
  20. And for WAY bigger projects than a ballpark at different times.
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