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Re: Bears, Cubs, Sox, & Other Sports
By: Phill23 Date: April 8, 2012, 2:02 pm
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Ooh naughty boy!!!! :)
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Re: Bears, Cubs, Sox, & Other Sports
By: Phill23 Date: April 17, 2012, 12:26 pm
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Bears, NFL schedules to be revealed Tuesday
Brad Biggs, Tribune reporter
4:49 p.m. CDT, April 16, 2012
The NFL will unveil the 2012 regular-season schedule for the
Chicago Bears and the rest of the league beginning at 6 p.m.
Tuesday on the NFL Network.
The Bears have opened at Soldier Field in each of the previous
two seasons after starting on the road for five consecutive
years. Home opponents for the 2012 season are Seattle, St.
Louis, Houston, Indianapolis, Carolina, Detroit, Green Bay and
Minnesota. Road opponents are Arizona, San Francisco,
Jacksonville, Tennessee, Dallas, Detroit, Green Bay and
Minnesota.
The Bears potentially could play at Dallas on Thanksgiving Day.
The team last played on Thanksgiving at Dallas in 2004. The
Lions are expected to host an AFC team on Thanksgiving this
year.
The Bears already have announced their preseason opponents. They
host the Denver Broncos between Aug. 9-12 and the Washington
Redskins between Aug. 16-19. They play at the New York Giants on
Aug. 24 and close at the Cleveland Browns Aug. 30. Final dates
for the preseason games will come soon, perhaps Tuesday.
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Re: Bears, Cubs, Sox, & Other Sports
By: Phill23 Date: April 19, 2012, 2:15 am
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NFL exec: Vikes 'out of options'
ESPN.com news services
April 18, 2012, 11:22 PM ET
Two days after a Minnesota House committee voted against the
Vikings' stadium bill, the NFL responded with its own strong
message to state leaders: Get it done or face the consequences.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told Gov. Mark Dayton on
Wednesday there will be "serious consequences" for both the
league and the Vikings if the bill isn't passed, according to a
Pioneer Press report.
And with the state's legislative session likely to wrap up in
the next two weeks, Dayton said Tuesday that resolving the
stadium issue, which has lingered for about a decade, would
probably have to wait until 2013.
But the Vikings, who don't have a stadium lease, said Tuesday
that next year isn't an option and a league executive said
Wednesday the team and its ownership are "out of options" after
Monday night's vote.
"In the 20 years that I've watched teams change hands, a lot of
things get talked about. But until things are really ripe,
nothing happens. This is getting ripe," NFL executive vice
president of business operations Eric Grubman told the
Minneapolis Star Tribune. "You have a very dejected ownership.
They've run out of options. They feel like they've done
everything they've been asked to do and they can't get a vote.
No one will answer the question, 'What is it going to take?' "
"The Vikings have said, 'Give us A, B and C, what would you like
us to do?' They've been told A, B and C, and they've done that.
And they still can't get through. So what makes anyone think
it's going to be any better or different next year or the year
after?"
The Vikings have no option but to play in the Metrodome in the
2012 season, but the team's lease in the 30-year-old facility is
expired and officials have said they don't plan to renew it.
Grubman said Wednesday there's a lot of concern in the league
office after the committee voted 9-6 to reject the $975 million
plan to build a replacement for the Metrodome in downtown
Minneapolis.
"The ownership and league staff have been working with the
Vikings and from the league's standpoint, the Vikings have been
patient, they've negotiated in good faith, they've been
responsive to doing all they can do to get this resolved. It's
reached a point where there may be a stalemate," Grubman told
the Star Tribune. "So I would say it's very serious at this
point. You have to remember this was portrayed as having support
and likely to pass as recently as a couple of weeks ago when we
were at the league meetings. So this will come as quite a blow.
This is quite a blow."
The proposal that fell in the House committee on Monday would
have split the tab three ways for a stadium proposed to be built
at the current Metrodome site: $398 million from the state from
taxes on expanded gambling, $150 million from the city of
Minneapolis from existing sales taxes and $427 million from the
Vikings with assistance likely from the NFL.
According to multiple outlets, Goodell and Dayton will speak
again Thursday with Pittsburgh Steelers owner and chair of the
league's stadium committee Art Rooney II.
Grubman said he did not think Vikings owner Zygi Wilf would be
on the call, insisting the latest stadium failure has forced the
league to assess the team's options.
From our perspective, the Wilfs have done everything they can,"
Grubman told the paper. " ... Now it's sort of time for the
league to assess. I just think it's a case of the commissioner,
the governor and the head of the committee needing to put their
heads together and say, 'OK, this is where it could go.' "
Dayton has made it clear he believes the Vikings will leave
Minnesota if they do not have a plan for a new stadium in place
by next year. Los Angeles, which does not have an NFL team but
is progressing in its plan to build $1.4 billion downtown
stadium, remains a threat if the Wilfs become frustrated and
decide to move or sell the club.
"I think the Wilfs do not want to sell the franchise, but I
think there is a point where they probably would be open-minded
to listening to alternatives. To my knowledge, they have not
been willing to do that at this point," Grubman told the Star
Tribune.
But he continued, "I think they're running out of options and
running out of patience. I doubt the commissioner would put
probabilities or threaten or anything like that. But I would not
be surprised if the commissioner tells the governor, if he asks,
what other cities are interested in the Vikings because we are
aware of that."
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Re: Bears, Cubs, Sox, & Other Sports
By: Phill23 Date: April 22, 2012, 12:18 pm
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Great job Phil Humber for the Sox on pitching a perfect game
yesterday. SIMPLY AWESOME!!!
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Re: Bears, Cubs, Sox, & Other Sports
By: AndyMacFAIL Date: April 29, 2012, 6:51 pm
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Screw the Ricketts family. Those greedy bast@rds want a
kickback of the amusement tax not just until the bonds are
repaid for the renovations of Wrigley Field but in perpetuity.
The amusement tax helps pay for the costs of increased police
presence on game days and clean up to public areas for damage
caused by the drunken fans.
Let them slap an average of a $10 surcharge onto every ticket
sold at all events (games, concerts, etc.) at Wrigley Field for
Wrigley renovations and allow that $10 "Wrigley Field
preservation surcharge" to be exempt from the city/county
amusement tax until the bonds are repaid. Let the sheep who
enter Chewing Gum Field pay for the renovations. Wrigley Field
is not like Soldier Field or The Cell. Wrigley is privately
owned while both Soldier Field and U.S. Cellular Field are
publicly owned. No public funds should be used to renovate
private property.
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Here's the financial deal Cubs want to rebuild Wrigley
by Greg Hinz - Crain's Chicago Business - April 25, 2012
So exactly what deal do the Cubs and their owning Ricketts
family want from Mayor Rahm Emanuel in the recent talks about
how to rebuild Wrigley Field?
Someone who would know has given me the details. Though things
are still moving around, the public is being asked to put in
both less and more than you might suspect.
On the table is a $500 million or so plan — $300 million to
reconstruct the nearly century-old Wrigley and $200 million for
the "Triangle" parking, entertainment and multiuse structure off
the west wall of the ballpark.
The family and/or team would pay for the Triangle building. That
means $300 million is needed for the ballpark proper.
Half would come from the team, presumably in increased revenue
from more signage inside Wrigley and retail and other
entertainment in what amounts to a game-day carnival on Waveland
Avenue on Wrigley's north side and Sheffield Avenue to the east.
And half would come from $150 million or so in bonds to be
retired with increased revenue from the existing city and Cook
County amusement taxes on ticket sales. Specifically, debt
service would get the first 6 percent in growth above a base
level of around $15 million a year now.
But it's a little more complicated than that.
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Re: Bears, Cubs, Sox, & Other Sports
By: Phill23 Date: April 30, 2012, 12:33 pm
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Totally agree buddy. I for one has said for years they should
tear it down and rebuild it.
Constantly pouring millions upon millions to refurbish it while
they could've used that money toward a new stadium makes me
shake my head.
Waste of good money.
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Re: Bears, Cubs, Sox, & Other Sports
By: AndyMacFAIL Date: May 8, 2012, 4:38 pm
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Marlins' g@mble on Big Z is paying off
By Richard Justice | MLB.com Columnist | 05/08/12 12:44 AM ET
HOUSTON -- To the outside world, Miami's Carlos Zambrano is the
combustible star seemingly bent on destroying his own career.
"The outside view of him is nothing like he really is," Marlins
outfielder Giancarlo Stanton said.
How so?
He's quiet," Stanton said. "He's a great guy."
In another part of the visitor's clubhouse at Minute Maid Park,
there's a similar view.
"Since he walked in here, he has been nothing but awesome, [in]
every way you can think of," catcher John Buck said. "He's kind
of a favorite in this clubhouse."
Yes, Zambrano is still a bundle of nerves and energy on the
mound. That's probably never going to change.
"He's a different human being on the field," Stanton said. "He
gets real antsy. He's very emotional and plays the game hard. In
the past it got a little out of hand."
Manager Ozzie Guillen is not afraid of that Zambrano. In fact,
he embraces him.
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Re: Bears, Cubs, Sox, & Other Sports
By: AndyMacFAIL Date: May 15, 2012, 1:07 pm
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The Chicago Cubs were a feared franchise until they moved into
the above pit of disappointment and despair nearly a century
ago. They haven't won a World Series since. It's time for
Wrigley Field to go.
Why Wrigley Field Must Be Destroyed
by Rich Cohen - Wall Street Journal - Updated May 15, 2012, 1:30
p.m. ET
Having not won a World Series since 1908, and having last
appeared on that stage in 1945—a war year in which the
professional leagues were still populated by has-beens and
freaks—the Chicago Cubs must contemplate the only solution that
might restore the team to glory: Tear down Wrigley Field.
Destroy it. Annihilate it. Collapse it with the sort of charges
that put the Sands Hotel out of its misery in Vegas. Implosion
or explosion, get rid of it. That pile of quaintness has to go.
Not merely the structure, but the ground on which it stands.
I'm a Roman, and to me, the expanse between Waveland and Addison
on Chicago's North Side is Carthage. The struts and concessions,
the catwalk where the late broadcaster Harry Caray once greeted
me with all the fluid liquidity of an animatronic Disneyland
pirate—Hello, Cubs fan!—the ramps that ascend like a ziggurat to
heaven—it's a false heaven—the bases, trestles, ivy, wooden
seats and bleachers, the towering center-field scoreboard—all of
it must be ripped out and carried away like the holy artifacts
were carried out of the temple in Jerusalem, heaped in a pile
and burned. Then the ground itself must be salted, made barren,
covered with a housing project, say, a Stalinist monolith, so
never again will a shrine arise on that haunted block. As it was
with Moses, the followers and fans, though they search, shall
never find its bones.
The Cubs moved into Wrigley in 1916, when it was known as
Weegham Park. Before that, it was the home of the Whales of the
Federal League. The Cubs, founded in 1876, had been wanderers,
playing on fields scattered across the breadth of booming
iron-plated Chicago. The grandest was West Side Park, an opera
house for the proletariat, with its velvet curtained boxes, at
the intersection of Taylor and Wood on the West Side.
Most importantly, the Cubs won there. The glory years before
Wrigley are like the age before the flood, when exotic species
thrived on the earth, among them the feared Chicago Cub.
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Re: Bears, Cubs, Sox, & Other Sports
By: Phill23 Date: May 18, 2012, 1:59 am
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That would be nice but we all know that's not going to happen.
I wish they would knock it down and rebuild it to a more 21st
century stadium.
I wish the same for the Bears.
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Re: Bears, Cubs, Sox, & Other Sports
By: AndyMacFAIL Date: May 18, 2012, 5:40 pm
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High School Sports Reporter In Louisiana Wins The Day With This
Excerpt
High School Sports, Oh - Jason Lisk - May 17th. 2012, 5:07pm
A reporter for the Rayne Independent put together a summary of
what appears to be the local girls high school all-star
selections. Apparently, he had trouble tracking down the season
stats for one of the players, so he improvised with the best
update possible. Hailey Habetz’ parents now have a newspaper
clipping they can show to the grandkids someday memorializing
her accomplishments.
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