College Football is Broken

@OlympicTavern @mikezoller When are you planning to tap them, Zak? I’ll be there for them, and I know plenty of other people that will be there too 😂

@mikezoller We snagged a few. Considering I've never personally had any HF, I'm looking forward to your review (hoping I didn't over spend on some blah kegs).

One of the best breweries in the world will soon be available in Chicago. Full video on their launch tonight.

25-30mph gust blowing out!!! Red Bill giveaway for every Cubs HR? Yup!!!!! Retweet and follow @obvious_shirts to enter. #Cubs

Pete Crow-Armstrong currently leads MLB in: OAA FRV DRS 5-Star catches Jump PCA's lead over 2nd place in OAA, jump, and FRV is huge. He is the best defender in baseball.

Sure is!

I can’t even fathom being this fast. Truly incredible.

Insanity.

Incredible 🤣🤣🤣

Ten years ago, the Kings, Blackhawks, and Penguins were the class of the NHL. At the end of that period, the Kings held on to Doughty/Kopitar, the Pens hung on to Crosby Malkin, and the Hawks let go of Kane and Toews. The Pens and Kings are about to be swept in their final runs of mediocrity, while Chicago is gearing up for a decade of playoffs. Tear down when you tear down. Don’t half ass rebuilds.

This is amazing.

We are being run by the dumbest fucking people.

Amen.

I mostly avoid commenting on what President Trump says from day to day, while pulling no punches in my assessments, whether positive or negative, of his policy. His Iran ultimatums feel different. Making such threats is a policy. If he were to follow through on them, the consequences would be immediate, irreversible, and catastrophic on a world-historical scale. So while some will inevitably insist he should be “taken seriously rather than literally,” or that he is executing a sophisticated “madman” strategy in a complex game of 5-D chess, or that he needs everyone’s steadfast support to maximize his leverage, now rather than later seems the time to say that the actions that he is proposing would be a disaster for our country, both strategically and morally, which makes the remarks themselves a terrible mistake. Simply put, what’s the point of all this? If these are empty threats that we all know he will not carry out, then they are ineffective threats (the Iranians are on X too!), merely making the president and our nation look foolish. If they are not empty threats, then the president is asserting the American position that such actions are acceptable in this situation and ones we are willing to take. We are not living in some quantum thought experiment where he simultaneously is and is not serious. We cannot expect the Iranians, but only the Iranians, will believe him. Whether the threats are empty or not, we should be willing to say: This is wrong. We should not establish a pattern of threatening escalation from a blockaded strait to elimination of a civilization. We should not launch strikes intended to devastate the lives of millions of people and take our nation to total war without indisputable justification, or before the American people have deliberated upon and assented to the path with full understanding of what total war might mean for them. Those principles are vital to our Republic, independent of whether the strategy could “work.” But it’s also worth emphasizing that the strategy is a dead end. This war is actively weakening American power, increasing the danger to American citizens, and frustrating the president’s important efforts at addressing our many domestic challenges. It has closed a strait that was previously open, strengthened the incentive for other nations to pursue nuclear weapons, and in this most recent rhetoric made more plausible their use. Our choices for continuing the war appear to be catastrophic escalation of the air war or extensive deployment of ground troops, neither of which were planned or had support at the outset. Stepping back from these threats and admitting such actions do not offer a path to resolving the conflict may be unpalatable, but it is by far the least unpalatable option available. Let us all hope cooler heads prevail.

Remember when Pizza Hut had the promotion where you got a Final Four basketball with your order? Peak 90s nostalgia.

Less than ideal.

Cubs baseball.

Ian Happ is gonna finish his age-31 season with 5 straight Gold Gloves and inside the top-10 for HRs among Cubs all time and some Cubs fans are still gonna be like “he’s mid.”

Was at Wrigley for this. It was incredible.

The road to another October run starts now. Narrated by Anthony Rizzo.

I am so fucking excited for the Cubs opener. This day, man. It gets me every year, like I'm 8 years old again.