Yesterday was our last chance. . .

[RecycleMichael]

As a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team and the Green Bay Packers football team, I can say I hate Chicago sports.

The Cubs management refuses to pay the money it takes to get a good team on the field and the Bears are cursed because of an incident during the 1986 Super Bowl.

That Bears team had the greatest running back of all-time, Walter Payton who was at the time, the NFL's all time leading rusher. Walter had played on many a bad Bears team, but continued to play tougher and better than any other running back in league history. That year, he had almost as many yards from scrimmage as the quarterback threw.

This was the only Super Bowl appearance for him and he deserved to get a touchdown. He didn't, because Mike Ditka let the quarterback have two one yard plunges for scores and late in the game, gave the ball to defensive linemen William Perry to score the other one yard touchdown. The Bears won 46 to 10.

They haven't been back to a Super Bowl since. Not giving your best player in team history a chance to score was bad karma.

[rwarn17588]

The Cubs management refuses to pay the money it takes to get a good team on the field

It may have been at one time many years ago, but the Cubs' payroll stands north of $140 million, which is the third-highest in all of baseball.

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/salaries/teams

The Cubs do pay good money. It's just they've paid too much good money to aging players who, predictably, got old.

[SXSW]

Dozens, if not hundreds, of municipalities have long histories of corruption.

Chicago is not new, nor is it unique.

Look no further than Tulsa city government where it's all about 'who you know'...

[Conan71]

Interesting how after two pages of obfuscation and hi-jack that the original intent of the thread has vanished like a fart in the wind.

[nathanm]

Interesting how after two pages of obfuscation and hi-jack that the original intent of the thread has vanished like a fart in the wind.

The original intent of the thread was a fart in the wind. It was mindless scaremongering.

[Gaspar]

The original intent of the thread was a fart in the wind. It was mindless scaremongering.

Oh Nate, like all of the other promises he made, lets just wait and see how well this one pans out. 

This thread will wait.

[we vs us]

Oh Nate, like all of the other promises he made, lets just wait and see how well this one pans out. 

This thread will wait.

So aside from my Chicagomongering, the thread is pretty much nothing but uncited accusatory hogwash.  In the sense that aside from the underlying distrust that Congress will get anything done, the available facts point in the opposite direction of Gassy's original assertion.  ie. a budget will pass and all but the upper tier(s) of the Bush tax cuts will stay in place.

But yes, much of this remains to be seen, so feel free to continue to make unfounded assertions that might yet happen, aside from the actual real-world probability of them actually happening.   

[JeffM]

As a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team and the Green Bay Packers football team, I can say I hate Chicago sports.

The Cubs management refuses to pay the money it takes to get a good team on the field and the Bears are cursed because of an incident during the 1986 Super Bowl.

That Bears team had the greatest running back of all-time, Walter Payton who was at the time, the NFL's all time leading rusher. Walter had played on many a bad Bears team, but continued to play tougher and better than any other running back in league history. That year, he had almost as many yards from scrimmage as the quarterback threw.

This was the only Super Bowl appearance for him and he deserved to get a touchdown. He didn't, because Mike Ditka let the quarterback have two one yard plunges for scores and late in the game, gave the ball to defensive linemen William Perry to score the other one yard touchdown. The Bears won 46 to 10.

They haven't been back to a Super Bowl since. Not giving your best player in team history a chance to score was bad karma.

Here's an oldie but a goodie for ya, RM.......

[we vs us]

It may have been at one time many years ago, but the Cubs' payroll stands north of $140 million, which is the third-highest in all of baseball.

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/salaries/teams

The Cubs do pay good money. It's just they've paid too much good money to aging players who, predictably, got old.

I beg to differ.  The Cubbies have certain, ahem, karmic hurdles to overcome:

[Conan71]

so feel free to continue to make unfounded assertions that might yet happen, aside from the actual real-world probability of them actually happening.   

Don't worry, we will!

[Conan71]

Couldn't resist:

‎"Having seen it," Rudyard Kipling wrote of Chicago, "I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. Its ... air is dirt."

[we vs us]

Couldn't resist:

‎"Having seen it," Rudyard Kipling wrote of Chicago, "I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. Its ... air is dirt."

Mostly because the air was filled with cow-poop dust.

[Gaspar]

In Chicago it is customary to deny any question asked of you.  The rules are as follows:

There are only three rules and a Prime Directive which anybody can understand.  You don't even need an attorney to understand them --and if you need an attorney, well, you know too much...so look out for Rule #3!
 
RULE #1...No matter what you see, hear, or do --you don't know anybody and you don't know nothing! 

RULE #2...If you capture something on tape or camera -- it doesn't reveal nothing! 

RULE #3...If you know what everybody knows in  Chicago  --well, you still don't know nothing.

The PRIME DIRECTIVE in  CHICAGO  ...No matter what the vote, Democrats win the election.

Barack Obama: "I only saw Rod Blagojevich one time ... and that was in the stands and from a distance at a  Chicago  Bears Football Game."

Photographs from that Bears game:

These two? They don't know each other!  They said they didn't.

The guy on the left?  For all you know he's Santa Claus. 


And the guy on the right... well, he's the Easter Bunny!  That's all you need to know.
   
Go to your eye doctor...your eyes are lying to you!  Ca'pish?




Remember Jimmy Hoffa?  He knew too much and now, well, now no one knows where he is. 

Is the big picture clear?  Not these pictures!  Remember, You've already forgot them... 

[we vs us]

Yadda-yadda-yadda

Like I said, cow-poop.

[buckeye]

Point well taken, We vs us - I appreciate your response and that post did seem out of character for you...

You might be reminded however that any number of (i.e. most) left-wing aspersions are anything but less oversimplified and odious.