This would make a fairly interesting premise for a longitudinal study on the effects of watching Passion at a young age.

Shouldn’t be a surprise; this has always been all part of the plan!

Buddy we’re talking about the South Side here, not the whole of Chicago. Cubs fandom dominance essentially squeezes the White Sox into parameters consistent with being “small market.”

God forbid the White Sox (continue) to try to get good.

No one is talking (or thinking in any way) about the Bengals here, pal.

Good read, but I disagree with your assessment on Milwaukee. Planting a team there gives you approx 80% of the state’s media market (call it ~4.5M people once you remove oddball Chicago expats and then the residents in the NW who will always gravitate towards MN teams). From there, all you do is stoke the ‘Scon’s …

Perfect, thanks. I’ll give it a whirl

Well, I’m sold. Well done again, Ben.

Hey Ben, I know nothing about Chess, but have to say these have been great reads. Super descriptive/helpful with the diagrams and very suspenseful, thanks for posting.

I kind of really like this idea. On the one hand, I could watch a rock-paper-scissors knockout tourney, if it was branded well enough, and had compelling teams/personalities etc. (point-in-case: last year’s Olympic Curling).

Absolute trash piece. If the Dems fuck up the midterms in a few weeks, look back at this kind of left-eats-left nonsense.  

Good read. A few items in reply:

Reminds me of one of the greatest Fat Guy plays I’ve ever seen: Keith Traylor’s interception return, pushed 60+ yards (almost to a touchdown) by the magical ‘01 Chicago Bears:

Bingo!

“Shhhhh!! McCarthy is a great coach!! They should give him a huge extension.”

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My God, that’s like a Sigourney Weaver failed-clone version of a uniform. I feel physically ill from looking at it.