I know the light for this fading-out star of a shit-for-brains website extinguished already, but that's no excuse for none of us remaining 15 douchebag "regulars" to have started a 2018 Bears Thread--which, considering how it ended more Cub-like than anything pre-2016 Cub that we lived through--may have been an omen.
Or maybe not--maybe if there had been a thread for the 2018 Bears on this tiny dark corner frequented by a dozen weirdos, even that would have had enough butterfly effect to push the wind at the lakefront on 1/6/18 one-half of one mile-per-hour more to the north, resulting in the oblong ball being pushed JUST ENOUGH back before hitting the crossbar (after hitting the upright, natch) to the correct side of the goalpost, resulting in hilarity shared by all, as well as relief. And life is beautiful and we're already on to Page 11 of the Desipio 2018 Bears thread discussing how fucked the Rams are.
But we'll never know, will we? And I don't want to take a chance of it happening again. And even if this place dwindles further to just Fork, Yeti, Tonker Wheezer, TJ Brown and myself by next September, at least we'll have this repository and so I'm putting it up now, from practically the furthest point from the start of the 2019 season as possible.
As the first order of business, I'd simply like to address the current Frankenstein's Monster that we're trying to corner and kill. Though I typically give 2 flying figs about the Kicker position in football, and while I was, deep down, every bit as mad as a Twittering Yeti in the immediate aftermath of the kick, I've swung all the way back to feeling that the Bears might as well keep Parkey now. He had a shitty year but he was the 9th-most active kicker in the league when the Bears signed him, and his replacement is no guarantee that he'd do any worse than Parkey did in 2018--I wouldn't expect Parkey to be worse. Rationally, neither should anyone. Let him come back and redeem himself here, rather than go to another team and anger us further by having success. Worse--beating the Bears. Worse, still, doing it in a game the Bears need (the schedule will be a LOT tougher in 2019 than 2018). Worse yet, doing it for a team like Green Bay or Minnesota. Fuck that--that'll just make the torture worse than it already is. Bring him back with a clean slate, give him a standing O at the opener, and stop throwing good money after bad at soccer players.
It shouldn't come down to the Kicker next year anyway, because 2019 Bears are SUPER BEAR SUPER BOWE bound, but I needed some topic with which to light this candle. But feel free to discuss the emerging awesomeness of Roquan Smith and Leonard Floyd, and maybe MICHAEL TRUBINSTSKY even, the draft etc. Bear Down.
Or maybe not--maybe if there had been a thread for the 2018 Bears on this tiny dark corner frequented by a dozen weirdos, even that would have had enough butterfly effect to push the wind at the lakefront on 1/6/18 one-half of one mile-per-hour more to the north, resulting in the oblong ball being pushed JUST ENOUGH back before hitting the crossbar (after hitting the upright, natch) to the correct side of the goalpost, resulting in hilarity shared by all, as well as relief. And life is beautiful and we're already on to Page 11 of the Desipio 2018 Bears thread discussing how fucked the Rams are.
But we'll never know, will we? And I don't want to take a chance of it happening again. And even if this place dwindles further to just Fork, Yeti, Tonker Wheezer, TJ Brown and myself by next September, at least we'll have this repository and so I'm putting it up now, from practically the furthest point from the start of the 2019 season as possible.
As the first order of business, I'd simply like to address the current Frankenstein's Monster that we're trying to corner and kill. Though I typically give 2 flying figs about the Kicker position in football, and while I was, deep down, every bit as mad as a Twittering Yeti in the immediate aftermath of the kick, I've swung all the way back to feeling that the Bears might as well keep Parkey now. He had a shitty year but he was the 9th-most active kicker in the league when the Bears signed him, and his replacement is no guarantee that he'd do any worse than Parkey did in 2018--I wouldn't expect Parkey to be worse. Rationally, neither should anyone. Let him come back and redeem himself here, rather than go to another team and anger us further by having success. Worse--beating the Bears. Worse, still, doing it in a game the Bears need (the schedule will be a LOT tougher in 2019 than 2018). Worse yet, doing it for a team like Green Bay or Minnesota. Fuck that--that'll just make the torture worse than it already is. Bring him back with a clean slate, give him a standing O at the opener, and stop throwing good money after bad at soccer players.
It shouldn't come down to the Kicker next year anyway, because 2019 Bears are SUPER BEAR SUPER BOWE bound, but I needed some topic with which to light this candle. But feel free to discuss the emerging awesomeness of Roquan Smith and Leonard Floyd, and maybe MICHAEL TRUBINSTSKY even, the draft etc. Bear Down.