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Michael @schmutzie.bsky.social · 3h

You'll see at least 5 Ditkas in the Lambeau stands on Sunday.

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The romanticizing of Mike Ditka is going to be heavy on Sunday. To the vast majority of the country he's mustache, sunglasses, 1985 sweater vest guy. The don't know or care about what became of him after he left coaching.

No question about that but to say he embodied Chicago's worldview is wrong. Mike Ditka was a Bannockburn Republican.

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Inarguably true, if you completely ignore Ditka's politics. "Ditka explained Chicago's view of itself from head to toe, vocal inflections to hand gestures, minor local biases to general worldview." Ditka's worldview was about as un-Chicago as it gets. Ditka was MAGA.

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BREWERS, WHITE SOX KEEP TEMPERS COOL

It made the Washington Post. Sox lost in extra innings, because of course it went to extra innings. Phil Garner. Dick. www.washingtonpost.com/archive/spor...

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We left Burr Ridge around noon. Got there at 1:30 or whatever. Unloading him, and his garment bag took 2 minutes. Letting him in after the game took another minute. That's all the outside time I had. Other than that, I was in the back of that limo chillin'. Unbelievable heat.

Golf - Fred Astaire Dancing and Playing Golf

I had never seen this. Holy shit. I will say that I do know how to pick up a 7 iron like that. youtu.be/34viwApgPyE?...

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Michael @schmutzie.bsky.social · 5h

At 7:05PM!!! That was the summer they were storing corpses in refrigerator trucks outside Cook County Hospital. Brutal friggin summer.

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No, just Frank. And Elise, Sterling, and Sloan. And Frank's sisters and his dad once. And Elise's parents. This was the most memorable trip of them all. Old Milwaukee County Stadium. (Old Milwaukee...heh heh)

Michael @schmutzie.bsky.social · 5h

DBs? Of course you figured out I meant 2Bs.

Michael @schmutzie.bsky.social · 5h

I was Frank Thomas' limo driver for a couple of years in the 90s. Year after the strike he said a- the players screwed up, and b- that Albert Belle hitting 50HRs & 50 DBs in 144 games was the best season of hitting ever and c- that Belle got fucked over by Mo Vaughn getting MVP.

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Michael @schmutzie.bsky.social · 6h

The Ghost of Ditka Past is in my timeline!!

Michael @schmutzie.bsky.social · 7h

Oh man, I can just hear it now. Bears vs Packers at Lambeau on Sunday is going to turn into a Ditkafest.

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Michael @schmutzie.bsky.social · 7h

You're the same guy who wrote about me when I did have the fire, that that was the wrong thing to do....

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Michael @schmutzie.bsky.social · 8h

This is Mitch Rosen telling me to stay gone. I wonder if he even considered Jarrett Payton.

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Michael @schmutzie.bsky.social · 8h

Zach Zaidman is the Andy Dalton of Chicago sports media.

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Michael @schmutzie.bsky.social · 10h

"102 years later, we've decided to move The Palace for The People to a toxic waste dump in Hammond, Indiana. You'll still see the Chicago skyline, but it'll look smaller." - Kevin Warren

Michael @schmutzie.bsky.social · 10h

Happy 102nd Birthday! Saw Pink Floyd doing Animals there in June of 1977 which is way too close to half of its lifetime ago for me to think about this early in the morning.

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Michael @schmutzie.bsky.social · 11h

He'll be shitposting about Navi Pillay within an hour.

Michael @schmutzie.bsky.social · 12h

Trump continues his lifetime streak of pissing away other people's money.

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Michael @schmutzie.bsky.social · 23h

There's only one execution I want to see live streamed.

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Just in time for the holidays, the kind of gift every fake Christian will cherish.

We were already kidnapping and torturing prisoners, we recently blew up a school full of children, and now we're going to live stream a public execution. Somebody explain to me how we aren't the bad guys.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 08/10/2026

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Most people don't realize dumb is spelled with a B

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Watched the whole race, and it was unbelievable. Four months later he was killed in a car wreck in Kenya. 24 years old.

JD Vance, Erika Kirk, Donald Trump Jr, Steve Bannon, Benny Johnson, Jack Posobiec, Matt Gaetz, and Matt Shaw. Yep- I'm glad the Cubs shit the bed in San Diego.

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Dear 2020, Within 6 years the crackpots will be fighting to protect their right to wear masks.

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The thing I like so much about the Huertley House is that it's deceptively huge. It almost looks like a single story. He tricks the eye with the huge cantilevered soffit and the brick wall. The front door is basically invisible under that arch.

Never been to Fallingwater but have read about it and seen docs. Would love to go there.

You can see the usual problem. Over time, Frank's designs just don't do well in the rain. Most lack gutters entirely.

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I don't think there's a trash detail in any of his stuff. But he didn't take the next guy into account when designing them. Working on them is a pain even without the constant onlookers, inspectors, and historical society wonks.

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