Shut the fuck up. Seriously. You have nothing to say.

Disregard everything this little fuck has to say. He's got the Ogie case of "Everything Illinois is bad." Ogie is actually interesting, though.

No offense.

The area around Churchill sucks .

This was going to die no matter what. The Sox actually stayed weird and goofy a lot longer than anybody did, except the A’s, who are now Officially Dead. This half-hearted attempt to cater to the suburbs is kinda dumb, realistically they are still going right for the core audience with Polish Heritage Night and Union Night (which I swear used to be called Teamsters Night, but maybe I’m misremembering).

But realistically the Sox are keeping the dream alive more than anyone. There’s just only so much you can do these days with ninnies on Xitter and Soxtalk complaining about the perceived injustice of just about anything. I dare anyone to find a franchise still as rooted in its local community as the Sox still are, maybe the Packers but that’s it. It is a fucking miracle they kept Harrelson around as long as they did, he was well into cancellation territory for about a decade but they let him keep trucking on. What can you do when these guys get old and the only people you’ve got replace them are loser nerds like Benetti who they thankfully jettisoned?

It’s not like there’s a big crop of boisterous weird personalities to plug into the broadcast booth. White guys who show an ounce of character are non-starters, the threat of them saying the word burrito or doing a “hero me a sooo chineeezz” accent are just too high. The Sox could put a brother or even a pollock in the booth but Pierzynski doesn’t want it and none of the black former players are interested.

The pay-for cable TV is whatever. The AM radio dial was always free and the games have always been accessible to even the poorest Chicago families. If you want to watch the game “for free” there has been a lot of ways to do it.

They're already building another stadium for the Titans (the current one is falling apart after 25 years) with $1.25 BILLION in public money and the Grizzlies are looking for public money too. The state can't keep funding billionaires' real estate schemes forever, can they? Either the money runs out or enough shitlibs move in to start voting it down. Nothing about this growth seems sustainable. Tennessee is a parasite.

My IQ just dropped 5-7 points.

isn't the area attracting shithead conservative influencers? Shocking their values align with giving away gub'mint money for stadiums. I suppose as long as there's no feminine health care products in those stadiums it's a worthy investment.

I see Ben Shapiro as future "Marlins Man" of the Nashville Sox

Because you are stupid, maybe read some books educate yourself.

We walk, talk, and won't shit our pants

Like most places in formerly low cost areas, Nashville is being colonized by gay libs from California seeking to make the place unlivable/expensive for the natives.

In a decade or two they’ll have successfully recreated the conditions they fled.

not soon enough apparently, all I hear out of Tennessee is the locals addressing the scourge of cross dressing

and Blue Cheese Dressing...

Like most places in formerly low cost areas, Nashville is being colonized by gay libs from California seeking to make the place unlivable/expensive for the natives.

In a decade or two they’ll have successfully recreated the conditions they fled.

isn't the area attracting shithead conservative influencers? Shocking their values align with giving away gub'mint money for stadiums. I suppose as long as there's no feminine health care products in those stadiums it's a worthy investment.

I see Ben Shapiro as future "Marlins Man" of the Nashville Sox

the locals made it unlivable / expensive on their own, converting available housing into AirBnB's, driving up the price of housing overall for everyone in the area.

I don't see cali-libs, gay or straight, fancying living in a state that still arrests you or your son for smoking a j or your gf or daughter for possessing a morning after pill.

a teacher I know moved to Nashville because of some generalized aggravation with CPS. She made it about five years before she realized how good she had it here. Expensive living and low wages with all of the same frustrations of any big city school system.

I feel like Nashville is the type of place that certain people think is paradise because they went there on vacation, like people who dream of retiring to an island

When I was in college at Carbondale we would go down to Memphis all the time. Such a great town back in the 00’s all things considered. Poor, but had a lot of character. Downtown was surprisingly vibrant. Very similar outcome to St. Louis which has since plunged into an inexorable death spiral.

Hating on these places is ignorant. They were great cities once upon a time.

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

It's been a few years since I've been in Nashville, but it was a very regular business trip for me from about 1996-2015. As in well over 400 hotel nights there over those 20 years. It's just a weird place. Segregated in little seemingly inoffensive ways that you don't notice on day 3 but are well aware of on day 300. A strange mix of good old country boys in their 50s and bachelorette parties. The area around Opryland floods at the drop of a hat. The K-12 schools are pretty mediocre. The food is nothing special unless you like their style of hot chicken.

Its main claim is that it is far better than Memphis.

When I was in college at Carbondale we would go down to Memphis all the time. Such a great town back in the 00’s all things considered. Poor, but had a lot of character. Downtown was surprisingly vibrant. Very similar outcome to St. Louis which has since plunged into an inexorable death spiral.

Hating on these places is ignorant. They were great cities once upon a time.

Given the choice I'd take two nights in Memphis over two nights in Nashville every time. I get that Memphis has its issues but the music and food are like no other.

What may have changed since your times there is the number of homeless people. I've had a few business trips there in the past few years. Running in the morning I'd have to literally step over people sleeping on the sidewalk.

I can only take Country and Western (both kinds) in small doses, and much prefer blues. And I can get my fill of bachelorette parties in Vegas. Or downtown Chicago, or Arlington Heights for that matter.

Yes, BBQ, but it is different. Dry rub, with sauce as a garnish. Those looking for copious amounts of SWEET BABY RAYS slathered all over would be sadly disappointed. And Irish Coffees or Bloody Mary's at the Peabody lobby bar while watching the duck promenade is a unique experience.

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

We took a family vacation to Memphis one year because my dad and I wanted to go to the Stax museum, Sun Studio, all that stuff. The museums were all very cool, the food was amazing, but Beale Street had an undeniable Tourist Containment Zone feel and the rest of it looked like a worse Milwaukee.

It’s not his fault what happened here. It really isn’t. This is not a McCaskey situation.

It kind of is. Reinsdorf was the impresario of every labor battle in the '80s and '90s, and then, even after he successfully couped a Commissioner of Baseball, lost the war and watched payroll go way up in concert with all the sabermetric developments. He didn't want to be a part of either and ran a dinosaur of an organization where all that really mattered was being competitive within the division and getting to sit around telling old baseball stories with Ed Farmer. Then he won a championship because Jose Contreras and Jon Garland decided to become unhittable, but that's beside the point. Moping around missing the Brooklyn Dodgers is at the other end of the horseshoe from hiring a search firm to find a general manager.

It's interesting to read everybody's criteria on assessing these places (Louisville, Nashville, Memphis). I'm spoiled by Chicago, but they're all on a lower tier from Chicago and calling them "great cities" is a stretch. They might be good places to spend a long weekend, but that's about their limit.

Don't forget the catfish. Had some phenomenal blackened catfish. But yeah, no, they don't Throw the SUACE at you...in SWEET BABY RAYS BOTTLES.

I thought the museum they made by preserving the motel where King was shot was great.