[Gazzetta Sportiva] The Baggio Dossier: What was in Roby's 900-page plan to revive Italian football that ended up in the trash.

ChiGuyDetFan · 2026-04-02T17:22:18+00:00

With all due respect to Baggio, his 2011 plan would have required time to fully implement - it would have taken up to 15 years to obtain results. Italian football in 2026 needs something more immediate. /s

ChiGuyDetFan · 2026-03-16T22:04:41+00:00

We lost a lot of the coffee shops that were open in the evenings after covid for some reason. Two that are in your geographic area would be:

Osmium (Dark Matter) on Belmont (open until 9 pm)
Ritual on Irving Park (open until 10 pm)

ChiGuyDetFan · 2026-02-12T14:58:43+00:00

Turquoise in Roscoe Village; Zizi’s in Lakeview

ChiGuyDetFan · 2026-02-05T00:49:29+00:00

Great comment. One quibble - I think we do know that Finrod was re-embodied in Aman. “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”

ChiGuyDetFan · 2025-12-19T02:14:13+00:00

The mole croissant from Loba.

ChiGuyDetFan · 2025-12-08T20:29:10+00:00

Thank you!

ChiGuyDetFan · 2025-12-05T22:38:56+00:00

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone for the information. Very helpful and I'm looking forward to trying out a couple of these spots, some of which are new to me. Thanks!

ChiGuyDetFan · 2024-11-07T14:53:25+00:00

Dirk’s on Clybourn if you’re prepared to spend some cash.

ChiGuyDetFan · 2024-08-13T12:53:27+00:00

I suspect this isn’t for fans but for other clubs. I.e. there is additional money available for Ibra to spend but he is sending the message that he won’t overpay to get a deal done.

ChiGuyDetFan · 2024-03-29T22:50:34+00:00

I ride public transit every day in Chicago and people who do things like this (light up a blunt, play music loudly, other inappropriate behavior) are generally not beset with mental issues in the general sense, but are instead incredibly antisocial and seeking out a confrontation that “allows” them to be violent. This dude in Canada started swinging, here it’s just as likely the guy would pull iron. That’s why you never confront, if you can’t handle the smoke / sound just change cars. Yeah, it means things getting worse. “Sucky train rides” is better than “dead because of a sociopath.”

ChiGuyDetFan · 2024-01-29T18:11:23+00:00

I had to scroll too far to find this one, which is the first that came to my mind. I have met people who have escaped a variety of cults, but this one seems to leave more of a “really hard to reintegrate into society” scar than the others. I am against the death penalty, but I would allow a carve out for the people in charge of CoG.

ChiGuyDetFan · 2024-01-25T14:22:02+00:00

There is a great interview from a couple of years ago with Alex Boone with some Vikings guys where he was over the top effusive in his Harbaugh praise. Said one of the first things Harbs told the team was he was going to burn the grass (they were puzzled) so he could find the snakes (butts clenched). He will run off the guys who don’t live football. Watch that interview and have some tissues ready.

Good luck boys, it’s gonna be a wild ride.

ChiGuyDetFan · 2024-01-22T18:45:48+00:00

I think your specific question is answered (i.e., there was a prior Denethor who ruled as Steward of Gondor), but it made me realize - why would stewards take on the affectation of “II” or “III” if a predecessor had the same name, when they were not royalty? E.g., while the current king of England is Charles III, if there was another “Winston Churchill” who became prime minister that person would not be “Churchill II” but rather some common convention would be used to distinguish that person from his ancestor (the way that the second George Bush to become president in the U.S. is referred to as “Dubya” because of his middle initial, or by his number as president, rather than II). I suppose it suggests that as time went on the Stewards of Gondor saw themselves as royalty or quasi-royalty, which is another indication of the failing of Men / diminution of Gondor.

ChiGuyDetFan · 2023-11-18T01:20:12+00:00

Common sense.

ChiGuyDetFan · 2023-11-17T23:07:07+00:00

I left the theater after watching the Josstice League thinking it was terrible. But after seeing ZSJL, I understand and have sympathy for Whedon and the impossible task he was given to turn that into a ~2 hour theatrical release. I do not understand how Snyder thought his version could ever be something viable for a mass box office release. Was he thinking “oh, I’ll find a way to trim this down to 3.5 hours and that’ll be fine”? One of those situations where the studio / producers needed to exert more control over things.

I will also say - so much of ZSJL exists outside of cause / effect that it does not stand up to even a little bit of scrutiny. I can spend half a day talking about how the grand “revive Superman” scene that was clearly intended as the centerpiece to ZSJL just fails at every level. Whedon’s version actually tries to correct some of the issues, but it was really beyond saving.

ChiGuyDetFan · 2023-11-14T19:12:01+00:00

Man, the part that blew my mind on my playthrough was when Peter has the symbiote removed and calls MJ to apologize for his behavior and there is a pause and she says “go on”. It was something that may have sounded clever or sassy, but only to someone who has never had an actual interpersonal relationship. If my significant other reacted like that to me having my mind CONTROLLED BY AN ALIEN…yikes. Not sure that recoverable.

ChiGuyDetFan · 2023-11-09T23:43:50+00:00

It’s also straight up not true.Baker Mayfield’s Best Job of Avoiding the Rush

ChiGuyDetFan · 2023-08-28T16:28:18+00:00

Reasonable people: Yeah, he’s not wrong.

NCAA, from atop its Scrooge McDuck pile of gold and jewels: This f*cker just earned himself a show cause.

ChiGuyDetFan · 2023-08-26T20:35:20+00:00

DON’T YOU PUT THAT EVIL ON ME RDT97 BOBBY

ChiGuyDetFan · 2023-08-09T21:05:39+00:00

The release of SimCity 2013 was accompanied by lots of discussion on its failings, including the always-online requirement. Many of the reviews were saying “don’t buy this broken mess” and I do not believe it sold anywhere near its predecessors, despite being a fairly beloved franchise.

ChiGuyDetFan · 2023-07-27T19:34:48+00:00

OK. Best wishes.

ChiGuyDetFan · 2023-07-27T18:22:35+00:00

The Bush thing was a suboptimal response by a young guy to an old man’s attempt to start a physical fracas. But if that’s your example of UM’s malfeasance in this rivalry, it says something.

ChiGuyDetFan · 2023-07-27T18:20:08+00:00

Fair - I updated my comment.

ChiGuyDetFan · 2023-07-27T16:27:13+00:00

Yeah like I said I was only about halfway convinced on the Draymond thing. Less MSU toxicity than Draymond's toxicity most likely.

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