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I don't know if Chicago will bid for the 2020 games at all, but I think if they go ahead and improve some of the infrastructure on their own and get the city budget and crime in order, they would stand a very good chance. Though they likely would be bidding against Madrid and Tokyo again, due to the strength of their bids.

I'm pretty sure I have to play someone this week (I don't know if the week has been advance yet, but it'd be for week 7), I think it may be you jjkoestler, but I could be wrong (sorry I'm at work at the thought popped into my head). Anyways, whoever I'm playing, PM so we can figure out when to play. If I'm off by a week, ignore this, sometimes my brain just completely shuts off...

Watching online, Tokyo's out in second round. I'm watching a feed linked from jsonline.com seems to be feed from chicago tv station

Chicago got the least votes in first round, which surprises me, not that we didn't get games, but that Chicago went out first. I would imagine this guarantees Rio the games.

Chicago will never land the winter games, if by Chicago you mean Denver, then maybe. Chicago is missing something extremely necessary for the Winter games... mountains for skiing. IOC would never fly for having skiing in New York or Colorado, and everything else in Chicago. The distance from Chicago to Denver is approximately the distance from Berlin to Moscow, which is 3 countries away. The Winter Olympics won't be back in the US for quite a while, considering 2002 games were in Salt Lake City and the 2010 games are in Vancouver. 2014 games are in Russia. A South Korean city I can't remember or spell if I could has been bidding for the winter games the last few times and has been getting closer, so they will likely try again and most likely get 2018 games. 2022 games I would guess would go somewhere in Europe. So we're looking at 2026 games at best.

Here is a pdf of the proposed Chicago venues. http://documents.chicago2...icago2016_VenueFacts.pdf Soccer would be using TCF Stadium, Lincoln Financial Field, FedEx Field, Soldier Field, the Meadowlands, and whatever St. Louis' dome is called.

Valpo, you're definitely not the only person who's against the Olympics being in Chicago. Polls in Chicago show about a 50/50 split in support/opposition. From everything I've seen, most of the sites would be downtown and along the lake. McCormick Place would hold a ton of the smaller events, then places like the United Center, Soldier Field, Northwestern and UIC would hold a lot of the other stuff. TCF Bank Stadium would have soccer, rowing and sailing would be on Lake Michigan. Mountain Biking would be near Tyrol Basin, Road Biking time trial would be in Madison and the road race would start in Madison and end at Blue Mound State Park. WSJ Article As far as who I want to get the games, I'd love for them to be in Chicago, but then again, I don't have to worry about cost overruns at all. Being able to watch the worlds best bicyclists in the city I live in or hopping on a train (I'm guessing by then there will be high-speed rail) and catching some other event, these are once in a lifetime opportunities. Honestly all four of these cities deserve the games and the vote is going to be incredibly close. Madrid is going to be hurt by London having the 2012 games. Tokyo is going to be hurt by Beijing. Rio is going to be hurt by the crime (which I'm under the impression is even worse than Chicago), lack of infrastructure and previous international competition experience, and being part of 2014 World Cup. Chicago is both helped and hurt by it's infrastructure, it's in place, but most of it is in need of a serious upgrade. Crime is also an issue. If I had to guess, I would think Chicago will get the games, not because they have the best bid, but because Madrid will be eliminated first, and Tokyo second based on the Beijing/London games, leaving a flawed Chicago bid against an even more flawed Rio bid.

I never really had success running the wr screen prior to this discussion, but I called it a few times over a couple games to get used to where it would work. dabrew141 is absolutely correct, against a zone defense that only had one corner split out against two wrs, I broke one for 67 yards. Against man to man press it's useless. Without the press you may be able to get a few yards. What did surprise me though was against a Cover 2 where the corners cover the flats, you can still get good yardage as long as your 2nd wr gets out and gets a block on the corner. Basically in the end it's not a cheap play, it's actually extremely realistic. The play gets run a ton in college (and works just about all the time) due to the amount of zone coverage and corners playing so far off the line in man, well those and the whole blocking down field rule...

Don't worry man, who knows what would have happened, I could have come out and thrown a pick trying to force a ball in somewhere on the next play. I hold no hard feelings, just frustrations on how badly the second game ended up going.

does anyone know zzzmanwitz in the online franchise? I'm scheduled to play him and figured this would be the easiest way to try to get in touch, sending him a message online would be easier, but I'm not sure how to go about doing that

I'm pretty sure it must have been from the sim, I am Skippyruns btw. I haven't touched my PS3 since last Wednesday, stupid jobs, (but not stupid going to Minnesota and watching the Gophers lose...). The last game I played was the Jaguars game, which had to have been week 2, since the cards just killed them Sunday. If you decided to advance it at a preset schedule (unless everyone was done with their game), I'd find that extremely cool. Something like late Sunday night and Thursday night, or something like that. (This is just my suggestion, feel free to take it with a grain of salt) I don't want to sound like I'm complaining, if it wasn't for the 2nd (night) job, I'd be playing each of these games the night you advance the week. But the getting up at 5:45, leaving for work at 8 and getting home around 11 PM three nights during the week and usually having stuff going on at least one of the other two nights just kills free time. This week won't be as bad, problem was I lost the entire weekend so I couldn't get this past game in. BTW, thanks for putting this together, it's a thankless job, along the lines of fantasy football commish, people don't thank you too often, just complain.

Damn, I was finally going to get to play week 3 tonight... Are you going to go on a set schedule of advancing weeks? I'm going through a crazy busy time right now working two jobs trying to get by, so I don't have a ton of time, but if I know when I have to get my games in by, it might make things easier for me.

I promise I'll get my game in Sunday night, I haven't been able to play since last Monday. I've been busy from 7 AM until 11 PM every day since then...

I'm in in that case, since the Pack are gone, I'll take the Eagles, if they're gone, any of the Saints/Falcons/Chargers/Colts. My screen name online is skippyruns262.

I'd be interested in the PS3 online franchise, but I'm kind of unsure how it works in the sense of how often games would be played. I'm kind of short on free time right now, I was unemployed for a while and I'm now working two jobs to try to pay the bills and save for a wedding. So in the end, I have a night or two during the week and if I'm lucky one of the two weekend days. Would that be enough? Even if that's not often enough, I'm just interested in the details of how everything works.

I ordered through SI last Friday, I was on the fence about getting the game, and haven't got it yet. I'm gonna be really disappointed if the game and DVD take 6-8 weeks to get here like their disclaimers show at some points. I'd be interested to know if anyone who went through them before the game came out have received it though.

Being told the company you desperately want a job with is going with someone else...

Waiting for a call back about a job... I was in last Wednesday (June 24th) to interview at a company that I interviewed at once before (different position, but they ended up not adding any people in that role.) I was told by a friend who works there that they are hiring for this position, and they actually called me about coming in to interview for the position, so I was originally hoping that this was more of a formality. I was the only person in on that day to interview (the previous time I was there, there were about 15 people in interviewing for various positions), so I figure they couldn't have had a ton of people in to interview for the positions. Anyways, I was told I'd hear back within a week, well... it's been over a week. I wouldn't be so upset right now, but they only start people on the first Monday of each month, which now means if I don't hear back from them tomorrow, the I wouldn't be able to start until August. This wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't already been unemployed for 5 months and I wasn't trying to save for a wedding next October. As a side note I was drug around by the same company for almost a month when I interviewed before. So I'm not exactly surprised at what's going on... There's nothing like spending the last three days staring at your phone, trying not to throw up from nerves.

Jozy can control the ball, but I don't think he did much of it during the final, against Spain yes, but he never seemed to find any spots in this match. The subs were up waiting to come in just before Brazil tied it at 2. I full expected the subs to be defensive minded when I saw guys up, but I was hoping there was a way to "cancel" the substitution after the goal. (I won't profess to know the details of the soccer rulebook, but I'm guessing once they're up and at the 4th referee, there coming in no matter what happens on the field) At that point we needed to put someone out there to replace Altidore, but we needed offense not defense. I'm not sure who we would have put out, my gut says Beasley's speed could have been used, but in the last couple qualifiers he looked like a D-III college midfielder... The entire 2nd half the back line looked lost to me. Brazil's first goal was just a great strike, but on the 2nd goal Gooch let his man go and he got the goal, the one that wasn't called a goal I'm pretty sure was lack of communication. The winner came off a set piece where no one picked up the goal scorer, I don't know if it was Dempsey's man, but he was the one who was closest, so I have to blame that on him, though he might not deserve it. Tim Howard deserves a ton of credit, which he got with the Golden Glove award. He played outstandingly behind a back line that played rather poorly for half of the tournament. I don't remember him letting in a soft goal the entire tournament. I really think they can build off these last three games. It may not show in the Gold Cup since almost the entire roster is different, save for Davies, Adu, and Guzan. But I'm hoping that the Gold Cup will give some guys the opportunities to prove they deserve one of the last few spots on the WC roster next year. (Baring qualification-knock on wood). The next WC qualifier is in Mexico City, where the USMNT has never won. So I'm hoping they can take the big game experience down there and roll over el tri.

There are five US cities on that list, I think that's what we call a small sample size. In addition, there's a lot more than just the attractiveness of the female residents of the city that they took into consideration. I'm not saying that Wisconsin has the MOST attractive women on Earth, but we're not stuck in Pittsburgh here... (sorry, I just thought I'd kick Pittsburgh while they were down...)

The greasiness is the reason I don't eat Kopp's burgers anymore. I feel like I'm going to die of a heart attack afterwards... I don't know why I didn't mention Monk's in the Dells earlier, but I was basically raised on those. But you have to go to the one downtown, not the new one out by the interstate... I think all of the years of burgers being cooked have created some sort of secret spice that makes them oh so good...

This just made me laugh. I mean...you know why Ruth didn't bat a whole lot between ages 20 and 22, right?Yes, I realize Babe Ruth started off as a pitcher, I'm not an idiot when it comes to baseball history. It basically shows how incredible his former home run record and batting statistics are. If he hadn't been a pitcher the first few seasons he was in the majors he probably would have had around the number of home runs Aaron had, and history could be completely different. In the end Ruth didn't get into the HOF based on those years of pitching in Boston, he got in with what he did with his bat, which he didn't do a ton of before his age 23 season. So if you want to laugh go ahead, there's no reason to.

Double Cheddar Butter Burger for me if I can include a local place, Dotty's Dumpling Dowry in Madison

Rickey Henderson 21 Cal Ripken Jr. 21 Bruce Sutter 23 Tony Gwynn 23 Wade Boggs 24 Ryne Sandberg 22 Paul Molitor 21 Dennis Eckersley 20 Eddie Muray 21 Gary Carter 21 Ozzie Smith 23 Kirby Puckett 24 Dave Winfield 22 Ken Griffey Jr. 19 Greg Maddux 21 Tom Glavine 22 John Smoltz 22 Craig Biggio 23 I figured I'd expand on fortheloveofweeks's list, going back to recent HOF inductees and a few others that are locks, just to show that there hasn't been a trend to rush or slow players lately. Basically, 21-23 looks like the norm, with a couple in at 19-20, and a couple at 24. On a related, but side note, Babe Ruth started 32 games at age 20, but didn't have more than 150 PA's until 23).

PE = Professional Engineer Basically you either need a Bachelor's, 5 years of experience, and pass an exam, or a Master's, 4 years, and passing the same exam, to get it. With it you are allowed to certify drawings and i suppose open up your own firm if you wanted to. It's basically like having the training wheels taken off... and if you certify something and it goes wrong, you can be sued!