Kentucky fans fawning over Calipari: Gooberish
Boers and Bernstein fawning over Thibs: ???

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Intellectual Gooberism.

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This I caught in the car before abandoning the show. I talked to Dan about this last year, pre-Theo but post-Rahm, and he didn't like it. Little has changed since except more is known.

Politically, it isn't just Aldermanic mayoral wannabes that will make hay the this, but the bulk of his spending/expenditure/deficit policies will bear the cost. Too many structural deficits (city/state/CPS) for Rahm to ignore. City & schools alone are $1B. He just unveiled a $7B capital works plan with no specifics except hints of private partnership, and selling/leasing Midway has been resurrected (Tribune) which is an issue I don't have to run for mayor to point out the reckless fiscal deficiencies to sidetrack and Albatross him with.

Bottom line, it's hard to give tax dollars to an entity that changed ownership in a manner that avoided paying taxes. Dress up or paint the turd whatever way you like or believe will make it pretty. But politically, and legally, this one won't fly because everyone in office who campaigned against this Type of boondoggle/entity (Rahm, Quinn, Quigley) are hamstrung. It doesn't help the Trib in any form to champion. And the rest who could make a difference don't care enough because the risk doesn't match the reward.

Yes he was right up there with Murrow.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

You beat me to it. "World class journalist"???

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

you guys are frothing at the mouth, so obviously they're doing something right.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Show rule #26: NBA/CBA coaches are sages. Just have a drink with them, sit back, and it's like that Tree of Life scene where the entire history of the world unfolds, or whatever. Just like the movie, it's too much for most mere minds to process.

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And just as NBA/CBA coaches are fetishized, mediocre professional basketball players are held in higher regard than mediocre athletes from other sports who are largely dismissed as being "bad at (their sport here)". You will only very rarely hear such a thing about a journeyman hoopster. Instead, the bernstein narrative is that these marginal players are "grown ass men who go about their business the right way, playing through pain, and following a professional routine while enjoying the fruits of such work (money, groupies, customized air travel, gaming systems in their lockers, etc.) while they can". Even watching these noble warriors trim a hang nail is enlightening.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

white guy


He'd sing a different tune about Reed Johnson if he could just smell his coffee and mentholated ointment!

I think a lot of this comes back down to the way that basketball so often finds people and not the other way around. When you ride the buses around the South alongside a bunch of stiffs who have been locked into this basketball track all their lives because they won the height lottery and not out of a genuine, as-deep-down-as-it-gets love of the game of basketball, you come to romanticize these guys. Baseball/hockey players who were the best players on their teams their entire lives but top out at reliable utility infielders and fourth-line wingers in the pros have no such tragedy about them, especially if you haven't spent formative years traversing the country with them.

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