How does that mitigate CTE concerns though? I got to think I'll take the risks of torn ACLs, broken ankles, and 90mph projectiles over CTE and paralysis when it comes to sports.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Baseball is a dying sport. I'd extract as much value as possible before it collapses. Purchase depressed White Sox, move to Vegas for sweetheart package, sit for a couple of years and then flip for a profit.

Easy money.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Owning the 20% of CSN is probably more lucrative than the rights fee itself. The Bruins own 20% of NESN and therefore get a nice share of Red Sox money without anything having to do with hockey.

Anyway, you're out to lunch if you're really trying to make an argument for a major-league team, one of our major-league teams, in Las Vegas, and I don't give a fuck how many bachelor parties you get invited to, it's a bad idea.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

It is really amazing at the Sox fan inability to think that someone might buy the team they like and want to move them..

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

I don't think so. Unless you don't have other options I dont see why at least semi informed parents would allow their kids to pursue football, unless they're totally free spirits or something who believe absolutely in personal autonomy at super young ages.

I honestly have no problem with my kid playing football, I believe in a lot of the mandates that have been placed down, as far as the amount of hitting and the concussion protocols put in place.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Well, it's not as if anyone had placed you in the cultural vanguard before this.

The Sox only got the city's support because Daley is a Sox fan.

Rahm follows the Blue Goo (on your chin) Crew, so he would not bat an eye at losing the White Sox.

I never got the impression Emmanuel had real interest in any sport.

Why do you have to be such a ass at times?

He thinks he's your cultur, societal and intellectual better.

I mean he does write some decently clever stuff on the internet, after all.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Don't get pissy with me because I'm not applauding you for letting your kid play a violent sport in spite of evidence that he shouldn't.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

No, not really; we lost them all to Las Vegas because we're a frozen ghetto shithole with usurious hotel taxes and union rules written by Eugene Debs.

But the rest of your point stands. There is no way in hell that baseball lets a team move out with an extant stadium lease. Even the Rays, a dead team walking since day one because of their shitty dome and fair-weather fanbase, have been made to honor their lease. For all the shit Comiskey gets for being Not Wrigley, it's a thoroughly sufficient modern stadium with modern revenue streams, plentiful parking, and transit access in a world-class city. You can't just get up and go from it.


Yeah, this too. Lake Mead's water levels are at record lows and dropping. Did people really think the good times were going to last forever? I wouldn't want anything to do with Phoenix or Las Vegas in the coming years. To call Las Vegas a house of cards makes me feel like a hack, but...

Excuse me, did I somehow pry in making it my business? You made it part of the discussion by volunteering some credulous bullshit about how "concussion mandates" will make it acceptably safe, never mind the fact that anyone at a board centered around WSCR knows the peril of the sport is in sub-concussive trauma, not concussions themselves. I thought this was stupid and you got buttshook over I don't know what, exactly. Other people here have been meaner than I am; I don't think I'm the one guy here you and your friends tried running away from.

Who did I try running away from?

Hank Scorpio/Phil McCracken?

The problem with concussion protocol is the concussions you dont know about. That is the thinking on that side right?

Who did I try running away from?

See, you don't even remember.

[Concussions drop the mic}

I don't listen to WSCR.

As much as Bernstein goes crazy with it, I wasnt referring to him.

Im talking people who wont let their kids play



Question Hawg, if you had another kid, would you let him play? Im just asking if the fact that your kid is older and already playing affected your choice

The problem with concussion protocol is the concussions you dont know about. That is the thinking on that side right?

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.