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Originally Posted by twister244
Johnson has absolutely zero political capital to stand on for funding an NFL stadium. It was already pretty bad before, but with the whole "point of no return" story we just had - Forget it.
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If Johnson was shrewd or actually politically savvy in any way, he’d start talking to the White Sox org to fill the gap at Soldier Field…and not because they need/want to go there (even though it does seem logical if they want to be closer to downtown, like the 78 proposal from last year), but also as a bargaining tool to call any bluff the Bears are making.
If the Bears do legitimately want to leave the lakefront, bye, Felicia…even though it’s such a breathtakingly stupid move. But it’s a big enough space to fill with another team, and wouldn’t cost relatively more to renovate it into a baseball park, compared to building a new stadium from the ground up.
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