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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

WHAT IN THE EVER-LOVING HELL??

"The price of oil has dropped largely due to expansion of extraction here in the US, with previously untapped stores trapped in shale now made available through hydraulically pressurized well-stimulation. Vast fields of previously inaccessible crude are now producing enough to influence the globe, causing panic in OPEC nations as freight trains of tankers trundle out away from the Dakotas to waiting refineries.

Those trains are moving south like the fortunes of a promising football team gone all kinds of wrong.

Distill it any way you want, but the Bears are fracking awful."

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I have no idea what the fuck he is getting in the last few grafs.

For those unaware, the further south those trains go is Whiting, IN. Most of it goes to Billings, Rawlins or Cheyenne. Not that any of it makes any sense anyways.

I'm convinced that not only is he writing this way to hasten the end of his writing assignments, he's also writing to match the performance level of the Bears.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

How. Could. Reporters. Waste. Jay. Cutler's. Time?!?

http://deadspin.com/jay-cutler-presser- ... 1671595292

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hey that deadspin article goes on to quote tweets from LOCAL AUTHORITY ADAM HOG to say that the bears didn't say over the PA system that jay cutler was taking questions, so clearly the buck has been passed to the bears for trying to bury the jay cutler presser and get him out of there without taking any heat from the legendarily rough chicago beat reporters.

next presser should be only questions about his conversion van, aka the real story of the season from training camp onwards. alls i know is that after 1yr of learning curve the bears were outright contenders (NFC championship game, 8-3 b4 cutler broke his thumb against SD, 10-6, and 8-8 with a chance to win that last game and get in the playoffs) b4 that conversion van, and now they're having their worst season since either 2007 or 2002-03. i blame the conversion van.

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I know this is what Terry would call "tall timber," but seriously, that oil stuff is some of the worst writing he's ever committed.

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The Bulls haven't done anything wrong, and they're not going to do anything wrong.

What ruins the whole thing before you even get to that Albomian atrocity at the end is that unless you own oil company stock, live in Alberta, or feast on human misery, the drop in gas prices is a good thing.

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Seriously. I mean, this--



--is so tortured, it may as well have had hummus sprayed up its ass.

"Trains carrying an essential commodity at a low price are moving south (i.e., the cardinal direction). This is similar to the Bears, a football team that is moving south (i.e., a metaphor for decline)." Writering!

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The Bulls haven't done anything wrong, and they're not going to do anything wrong.

So this paragraph is really weird. He repeats himself and then I think he should've said clotting. I'm a numbers guy so I could be wrong. Not a writer. I feel clot is a weird word to use there anyways.

No, he has the right tense of "clot," but he also has this weird mixed metaphor where there's blood that's coagulating but it's not killing a broken, suicidal object.

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'Dave In Champaign' is a delightful bastard ...

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Plus . No one can tear apart a Lil Danny screed like Dave

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

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

I know Dan can write really well when he wants to. But he has to turn shit out, and so he, well, turns shit out. You get the feeling that he writes about the agency of clotting hierarchies because he has to make sure people know that he can if he wants to.

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Alright .... in other possible radio-related news .... I'm made to understand that on the Westwood One radio feed for the game last night, a Mark Malone was on the sidelines reporting that any time Kromer wanted to talk to the players last night they would all just walk away apparently putting him on the pay-no-mind list.

I haven't heard this anywhere else, though it's not difficult to believe this being true to some degree ... anyone else hear anything like this? Dan or Terry's guys see this maybe?

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Dan just retweeted the story about how Jackie Robinson West teams is mostly from the suburbs. Will he address this on air today?

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In an email to Little League International obtained by DNAinfo.com Chicago, a neighboring south suburban league called on Little League officials to investigate whether Jackie Robinson West engaged in “manipulating, bending and blatantly breaking the rules for the sole purpose of winning at all costs.”

SHOCKING NEWS!

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

Should make him happy. Sounds like the kids families just moved!!!!!

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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 can be sure that this is going to get blown out of proportion tomorrow and occupy a football news cycle."

Maybe like, I don't know, Deadspin taking the time to write about it and linking the pointless video?

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-- source

“I’ve got nothing to hide. My stuff is legit. My son has got three different homes,” Hondras said. “He goes to James Hart in Homewood. It was in Sports Illustrated.”

Upper class privilege.

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Here is radio news:

Chris Conte just said he would rather die 10-15 years earlier if it meant playing longer in the NFL.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Jimmy are you just trying to piss off Don? We had a thread on that already.

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

no,sorry,didn't see it.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

For the record I'm not quite sure why it would piss me off ... frankly, a CTE-related note seems a reasonable thing to toss in here given the hosts' penchant for bringing up the topic.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I wonder how many years are being subtracted from Jimmy's life for posting here.

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-- source

ALL. THAT. MATTERS. IS. WINNING. CHAMPIONSHIPS.

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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

Dan just unironically used the "hoi polloi."

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The Bulls haven't done anything wrong, and they're not going to do anything wrong.

I get it he's trying to compare the imploding Bears to the free-fall in oil prices, but how are the two related beyond the direction they're going? If you're going to make a comparison, have a point. One is a commodity affected by geopolitical and supply and demand factors, the other - the Bears ownership - is not affected by anything, except maybe now by the empty seats and the expected loss of tv revenues next year from the Bears not being featured Sunday and Monday night.

What Dan should have written about is the need for the McCaskeys to sell the team. That is the only answer and remedy to the organization's woes.