CATCHING UP WITH CHICAGO

 The CHICAGO BEARS put a big smile on my face by drafting quarterback JOSH FIELDS plus mean & nasty offensive tackle TEVEN JENKINS.

For the first time in my life, I correctly predicted the top two draft choices and I'm really excited about both but especially Jenkins, who is a freaking animal and Bears fans will love him because he's NASTY, just like hall of famer JIM COVERT used to be with the 85 Bears and that's a good thing.

And the icing on the cake is with Jenkins on board, the Bears could release CHARLES "FALSE START" LENO and they did just that yesterday. 

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It's not all good news because unfortunately, it's time to tear up my WHITE SOX world series ticket as injuries have decimated this once promising team and relegated them to the status of 'what could have been' in a year when their starting pitching was great and that would have made them monsters in the post-season when you only need three good starters.

ELOY JIMENEZ, ADAM ENGEL and now LUIS ROBERT, the entire starting outfield which includes two gold gloves and three studs on offense, who would have combined for 70 home runs and 170 rbi's. Impossible to replace. c'est la vie

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On the other side of town, congratulations to KRIS BRYANT, who has rebounded from two injury plagued years and is pounding the baseball again in what happens to be his free agent year (ka-ching) which pretty much assures him of being traded by the end of July or he walks away at the end of the season and the cubs get nothing for him. NO WAY he re-signs with the wrigley rats so he's a gone goose. Classy guy who keeps his mouth shut and plays hard. I've said it before but I think he'd look pretty good in Dodger blue.

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Now let's look at the other side of the fence where hot dog #2 JAVY BAEZ, the king of strikeouts, is costing himself millions of dollars by having a crappy free agent year at the plate although he has shown signs of life recently. 

When shortstop FRANCISCO LINDOR signed with the Mets for 35 million, Baez was licking his chops but they don't pay that kind of money for a one dimensional player which is exactly what Baez is, a great defender who can't be counted on when the game is on the line. As my friend Jimmy always says, "no reason to throw him a strike because he goes fishing all the time." 

HOT DOG #1??? c'mon, you know this answer to that one.  Willson Contreras should be covered with mustard AND ketchup. And he wonders why he gets hit all the time by opposing pitchers???

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 Sorry to hear about AARON RODGERS wanting to leave green bay.

I am such a liar. 😁

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Now it's time to balance the scale with the Bears on one side and the BLACKHAWKS on the other. Losers of 5 in a row just when they needed them, the Hawks were eliminated from the post season last night. INCONSISTENT all season long and that has to be corrected in order to move forward. A tough task.

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On the same side of the scale but improving, the BULLS have shown signs of life and new coach BILLY DONOVAN now has had a full season to evaluate the talent and methinks there will be some serious 'weed pulling' in the off season. ZACH LAVINE and NIKOLA VUCEVIC have proven they can play together and now the task for Donovan is to find them some help.

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And the CHICAGO SKY women's basketball team........gotcha again! just kidding because no one cares.

That's it for now. Have a great week!