Dennis taking a jab at Doc's podcast!

Saying if you aren't gonna use this section, then Mac can have it.

SAD!

I make fun of UIUC and needle at that school a lot.

As a UIUC alum, the school needs as much needling as possible right now.

I have an unnatural disdain for the school. And I've enjoyed making fun of it over the years. That disdain originates from the fact that I really wanted to attend Notre Dame, and UIUC was my settle school. Other secondary factors are as follows:

1) The school had a very high level of suburban Chicago kids including maybe thirty kids from my high school class. It didn't have that feel of being away from home.
2) The cities are dumpy. There is very little appeal to the surrounding areas, and the campus itself was largely run down. The quad buildings were extremely dated. I know they were putting money into the engineering and business schools while I was there.
3) The sports were uninspiring. I always had a level of jealousy for say the Madison grads around the office where they have this extreme and deserved loyalty towards the Badgers.
4) The school is not much loved up in Chicagoland. We have more WI and IA memorabilia around the office than UIUC. In fact, I only know of one person that ever displays UIUC stuff in our office. UIUC just doesn't have much cache in its home state.

These are merely my opinions as someone who has lived here his entire life and went to the school.

Haha, yeah. Guilty as charged, I guess. ND folks are as insufferable as Cubs fans. Unfortunately, I was born into both and fit right in.

I'm glad you took it the right way.

Guys like Almora and Baez are so young. Almora has lacked the consistent playing time to show us what he can do.

Interesting info from the Plesac episode:

Cubs could have had Verlander but they would not give up Almora.

There seems to a certain RHP which they're trying to avoid with him, and then they're trying to find AB for Schwarber, Happ, Jay, and Zobrist. Ideally Zobrist will go to the bench next year, Schwarber will be traded to Tampa in an Archer deal, and both Happ and Almora can get more regular playing time with Jay playing across the OF as needed.

Schwarber is fucking everything up..Hes gotta go.

I hear that Miami is a nice place to play baseball!

I can't wait for Mac to break down the NLCS 5 days after it ended.

Smokey and the Bandit episode with Chus and Mrs. Dr. Ken?

Pleasant surprise. I get home and discover it's on now.