Recent content by wpr

Yep. I am 4 hours away. I won't be jumping in a car on a Tue to go watch the Cardinals implode. Then drive back home another 4 hours. I would watch the game, if it wasn't blacked out. As are the 2 Chicago teams and Milwaukee. Good thing I can watch the Dodgers games. Oh wait, they don't tart...

My son and I were going to the game last night. We were walking to the stadium when other fans told us it had been cancelled. Today's ticketholders get both games. Lucky them. I would have to go to the stadium ticket office and ask for tickets to a future game. (Maybe even today's game.) They...

In the long run, what does it really matter? It always nice when former players stop by for a cup of coffee and to slap the guys on the back and tell a few jokes but it really doesn't mean a whole lot. Working with young catchers in ST is a good thing but once the season begins you don't want...

Dallas did add a few thousand seatings for the SB. I think they also had two or three thousand more outside under a tent with a few jumbo screen tvs. It was cold and people were pretty miserable. I assumed Chicago would have the ability to add them inside the stadium if they hosted. It only...

Agreed. If organizations don't want to spend their own money then they aren't really convinced that it is all that attractive of an option to begin with. I will say if someone is willing to spend $500,000 to build me a house and then hand me the keys PM me. Has anyone seen the projected seating...

Illini are not alone in losing players. (I realize no one has said they are.) From ESPN ' Then again, who cares about Dookie anyway?

Correct. It is difficult to follow the team when it turns over so much. I try not to be the old man yelling at clouds but sometimes you just got to.

My daughter is a Sox fan. Every year I take her to a game. This year I offered to take her to a Sox-Cards game. She declined.

Scoring zero runs IS the formula for success. /s

It doesn't help that they are 29th in HRs (Thanks Chi Sox) and 25th in OBA. Pitiful.

I don't begrudge a player for wanting to better himself. The NIL and portal has certainly changed college basketball. It is extremely difficult for me to get to know the players from year to year. I simply do not have the time to devote a lot of time in the off season. I can only watch a handful...

welcome to the Illini family Kylan.

I grew up in towns nearby. Metamora and Washington. We were in Peoria nearly every day. I loved it. But then that was the 60's and 70's. I still have a lot of family in the area. It's a great place.

That's why I put zero trust/belief in stories. I have to wait until it's really done before I am able to take any interest in players joining the Cardinals or the Illini. I've been disappointed too many times in the past.

I realize it won't work but it would be interesting to see teams like Illinois, Tennessee, NC , Arizona and so on, in the NIT semis trying to redeem their seasons. If bluebloods KY or Kansas or Duke chose to go home and saulk, let them. The biggest problem would be players opting out like they...