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Chicago Bears 2020 NFL Draft: 7th Round quarterback optionson April 14, 2020 at 11:00 am

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As of now, the Chicago Bears have two selections in the seventh round of the 2020 NFL Draft. We look at some quarterback prospects in that area.

This won’t be the most exciting draft for the Chicago Bears, but it’s going to be meaningful. Without a pick in the first, third or fourth rounds, general manager Ryan Pace is going to have to work his magic in those later rounds.

Could he find something he likes at the quarterback position by scooping one up in the seventh round of the 2020 NFL Draft? He has two picks in the seventh, and going with a quarterback might make more sense than drafting one earlier, given how the Bears currently have two quarterbacks on the roster which aren’t going anywhere this season.

A lot of people out there will use an argument based on many of the later round quarterbacks being available as an undrafted free agent. However, to that argument I will ask this: How many recent 7th Round picks are still on the Bears’ roster?

Last year’s picks, Kerrith Whyte and Stephen Denmark didn’t exactly pan out. Whyte was cut during the season and Denmark never even saw the field. In 2018, the Bears found Javon Wims who is still hanging around the roster, but has yet to see meaningful playing time — and I am an advocate for Wims. He was a rare find that late.

The point is, if the Bears see even a little bit of potential in any of the following quarterback prospects, they should absolutely take their shot — barring the team taking one earlier in the draft, of course. Quarterback is the most important position in football, and if you can add value in some way, and in the very last round, you do it.

With that said, let’s look at some of the quarterbacks currently projected to go around the seventh and final round, or even go undrafted.

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Chicago Cubs: Cole Wilcox is risky choice with 16th overall pickon April 14, 2020 at 12:00 pm

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With the 16th overall pick in June’s draft, the Chicago Cubs need to take a college pitcher with a chance to make an immediate impact.

Beyond the 2020 season, the Chicago Cubs have just Kyle Hendricks and Yu Darvish in the rotation. And while Brailyn Marquez looks like the real deal, there is the strong chance that we don’t see him at Wrigley Field until 2022. That said, the Cubs don’t exactly have an overwhelming amount of pitching talent in their farm system.

While a few candidates could be considered future rotation pieces, I don’t see power pitchers that are going to become the ace or number two starter. That said, I think it’s critical for the Cubs’ brass to be top-heavy on pitching in the 2020 MLB Draft. Although the draft presents a unique challenge this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

With College Baseball being canceled for the 2020 season, MLB and the MLBPA have agreed to shorten the draft to at least five rounds. There is the potential for them to expand it to ten or more rounds in the future, but it’s going to impact how player’s approach the draft. For example, high school players on the fringe of being selected just outside the first five rounds are going to play collegiate baseball.

And likewise, upperclassmen with eligibility in the same position are going to return to school for another year. That said, the Cubs can still add tremendous value in the draft, and quite frankly, it’s time to fix the lack of pitching prospects in the farm. Depending on free agents to become assets, whether it be the rotation or the bullpen, has burned the Cubs in more ways than one.

So looking ahead to the 16th overall selection in the MLB Draft, the Cubs should take a long look at Cole Wilcox. At 6-foot-5, 232 pounds, Wilcox already has the prototypical number one starter size. The sophomore at the University of Georgia found something in the Cape Cod League between his first and second years.

Typically in this league, hitters prove to scouts they can translate their skillset to wood-bat leagues, and pitchers work on their mechanics. In 2019, Wilcox posted a 4.07 ERA in 19 appearances – including six starts – while striking out 64 batters in 59.2 innings. He had the propensity to be wild, allowing 38 walks but limited batters to a .216 average.

He cleaned up his mechanics and looked strong before Georgia’s season was shutdown. In four starts, Wilcox posted a 1.57 ERA – along with a 3-0 record – while striking out 32 batters. More importantly, he allowed just two walks in 23.0 innings and a .209 average. I would have liked to see a more proven track record that he’s beyond his mechanical issues, but that’s where we are right now.

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Still, his fastball reportedly touches 100 mph, and scouts rave about both his slider and changeup. He will likely need another pitch for sustained success in the majors, but with the support of the Cubs’ pitching lab, he should be able to develop one. He’d be a risky pick, but also one that could end providing the Cubs with a much-needed “ace” pitching prospect. And another one alongside Marquez doesn’t hurt either.

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Chicago Bears 2020 NFL Draft: 5 players to avoid at pick 43on April 14, 2020 at 1:00 pm

MOBILE, AL – JANUARY 25: Safety Kyle Dugger #23 from Lenoir Rhyne of the South Team runs back a punt return during the 2020 Resse’s Senior Bowl at Ladd-Peebles Stadium on January 25, 2020 in Mobile, Alabama. The Noth Team defeated the South Team 34 to 17. (Photo by Don Juan Moore/Getty Images)

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When the Chicago Bears are on the clock during the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft, who are five players they should be avoiding?

With the 2020 NFL Draft quickly approaching, the Chicago Bears will have two second-round picks at 43rd and 50th overall. However, like any NFL Draft and any draft pick, there are always a handful of players to avoid for multiple reasons.

First, there are some players who may have a high boom-or-bust potential. Considering general manager Ryan Pace has selected a few of these kinds of players over the last few years, if he wants to keep his job with the Bears well beyond 2020, then drafting project players is something he needs to avoid.

Second, there are certain players who are simply overvalued. An example of this is Georgia quarterback Jake Fromm who many think could end up being a second-round player due to the physical characteristics he possesses that would make him an ideal fit in head coach Matt Nagy’s offense.

Over the last few years, in the second round, Pace has had his fair share of hits and misses. While he’s found gems like Eddie Goldman and Cody Whitehair, he’s also had some misses on guys like Adam Shaheen. Then there are players like Anthony Miller and James Daniels, both of whom are still developing into core pieces for the Bears.

Here’s what we know: The Bears could beef up competition on the roster by adding guys to positions such as wide receiver, cornerback, and middle linebacker. However, in what is considered to be a deep draft class, especially inside the top-100, the Bears have a chance to add two impact players. However, there’s also a high chance that they miss on players as well.

Since we’ve already discussed five players that the Bears need to consider at 43rd overall, with the 2020 NFL Draft just over a week away, what are five players that the Chicago Bears should avoid at 43rd overall? Let’s break it all down.

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Chicago Blackhawks: Three trade packages for Dylan Stromeon April 14, 2020 at 2:00 pm

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – FEBRUARY 16: Dylan Strome #17 of the Chicago Blackhawks controls the puck under pressure from Scott Harrington #4 of the Columbus Blue Jackets at the United Center on February 16, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)

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The Chicago Blackhawks might see Dylan Strome as an expendable player so what would it take for another team to get him in a deal?

The Chicago Blackhawks have had Jonathan Toews as their number one center for a long time now. He has been everything they needed and more since being the third overall pick in the 2006 NHL Draft. Well, as he gets older the team will start to look for their future top-line center. It is going to be near impossible for whoever it is to live up to what Toews has done but they just need some good play from whoever assumes that role.

They drafted Kirby Dach with the third overall pick in the 2019 NHL Draft and he might be the answer. It looked like they were going to have Dylan Strome in the mix for a while too. They still might keep Strome in the long term but drafting Dach would make it easier to trade Strome if they can get something for him.

Strome is a good hockey player. He was acquired by the Blackhawks in a trade that sent Nick Schmaltz to the Arizona Coyotes. In his first year with them, he was awesome. He had 17 goals and 34 assists for 51 points in 58 games after the trade. Well, in 2019-20 he wasn’t quite as productive but he was still good. He had 12 goals and 26 assists for 38 points in 58 games. That is decent production but you would like to see him get back to the level he was at before.

So if the Blackhawks were to trade Strome, which team would want him the most? He would be a great second-line center or even third-line center on most NHL teams. The Blackhawks can either sign him to an extension as he is about to be a restricted free agent or they can trade him to a team willing to do it. Here is a look at some trade packages that might get it done:

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Chicago Blackhawks: Patrick Kane’s comments should cause changeon April 14, 2020 at 3:00 pm

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The Chicago Blackhawks management made a great mistake when they let one of their superstars go. It might have cost them more years of success.

Find you someone who looks at you the way Artemi Panarin used to look at Patrick Kane when they were on the ice together for the Chicago Blackhawks. They were the best duo on the best line in the National Hockey League for two seasons. In fact, in their first year together, Artemi Panarin won the Calder Trophy as the league’s top rookie and Patrick Kane won the Hart Trophy as the MVP of the league.

It was a remarkable run for two elite players. There were plenty of people who claimed that “Panarin is only good because of Kane”. That could not have been more wrong. You can argue that he got better once he was taken away from Kane. His numbers certainly got better but that also was likely more due to more development in his game. Trading Artemi Panarin to the Columbus Blue Jackets was one of the biggest mistakes in the history of the franchise.

They got back Brandon Saad in the trade who is a very good player. With that said, he is not even close to Artemi Panarin who is one of the best wingers in the world. He was so good for Columbus that he earned a seven-year contract worth 11.6 million dollars per year with the New York Rangers. For a player to earn that much money, you know that they are the elite of the elite.

Patrick Kane did a little online interview during the quarantine. He was asked a bunch of questions but one fit this particular topic. He was asked which player he would most want to be on a. 2-on-1 with and he answered Artemi Panarin. His exact words following that answer were:

“That was probably the funnest hockey I’ve ever played”

That quote should make Stan Bowman and the rest of the management staff ashamed of themselves. Panarin is an MVP caliber player and they traded him away. You never know if Panarin would have taken a team-friendly discount but they surely would have extended their playoff run a minium two seasons. The fact that a guy like Patrick Kane, who has done it all in his career, claims that the most fun he ever had playing the game was with Panarin speaks volumes.

This was an unforgivable trade made by Chicago and they might never get over it. These comments made by Kane should really spark some change. It isn’t the only horrible move that this management team has made but it is definitely the worst one.

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Chicago Cubs Draft: Cade Cavalli picking up steam as potential aceon April 14, 2020 at 4:00 pm

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Baseball America has pegged Oklahoma’s Cade Cavalli as a future ace, and he’d be a perfect first-round draft selection for the Chicago Cubs

As a firm believer that starting pitching will be addressed within the first couple of rounds, the Chicago Cubs have a number of directions they can go. We recently discussed Georgia’ Cole Wilcox as being a risky pick, but given his upside, he would be worth it. The same case can be made for Oklahoma’s Cade Cavalli.

Originally drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 2017 MLB Draft, Cavalli did not sign and chose to play collegiate baseball. Now he’s looking like a potential first-round pick, and he’s recently been moved up from a late first-round pick to a mid-first-round pick on Baseball America’s draft board.

Cavalli made 62 appearances – including two starts – during his freshman campaign. He posted a 6.75 ERA and struck out 18 batters in 17.1 innings, but he also allowed 13 walks. The following year, he moved into the rotation making 12 starts while striking out 59 batters in 60.1 innings. Still, he allowed 35 free passes.

He played in the Cape Cod League between his freshman and sophomore years, working on his mechanics, but it would seem that yielded little results. In 13.0 innings, Cavalli struck out 15 batters while also allowing 15 walks. So why do I think he has a high upside?

For starters, he already has the ideal size of a future ace. At 6-foot-4, 226 pounds, he has the same measurements as Clayton Kershaw. Cavalli is a big righty with an overwhelming fastball, one that often touches the upper 90s. Scouts love his secondary pitches in his slider, changeup, and curveball but question his ability to hide the ball out of his delivery.

Cavalli dealt with back issues during his senior season in high school and only made 12 starts in 2019 because of a stress reaction in his arm. He would be a precarious pick and could potentially fall to the second round because of his injury concerns. However, he already has four above-average pitches, which is why BA pegs him as a potential ace.

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If he can clean up his command, the upside is tremendous. And before the pandemic shut everything down, Cavalli made four starts this year, posting a 4.18 ERA but struck out 37 batters in 23.2 innings. More importantly, he allowed just five walks. I’d like to see what the Cubs pitching lab could do for him. He’s a very intriguing pick for me but obviously comes with some concerns.

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Lane Moore knows How to Be Aloneon April 14, 2020 at 5:30 pm

I purchased How to Be Alone sometime last year when my partner and I were taking a break. I remember sitting in the bathtub tearing up, sinking in my bubbles, and tweeting to Lane Moore, the author of the book, that she was getting me through a rough time. I’ve never known how to be alone. I still don’t. I’m a serial monogamist, and even now, my partner (we reconciled six months later) is isolated here with me (like, right next to me). Yes, being alone is something I enjoy–on walks, at the grocery store, in the shower, for a few hours while writing–but overall, I’m a shit person without my buds, family, and lips to kiss. Moore’s book helped me gain some confidence in aloneness.

The award-winning comedian, writer, musician, and actor writes in her book, “I am working every day, tirelessly, like you wouldn’t believe, on being fine, fucking finally, can we get this over with, I’m so tired and I just want to travel and eat and smile and move through the world with a semblance of peace.” These words coincide perfectly with our world right now. Right now, if we are alone or together, we are working, working harder than ever before to remain afloat, to try and manage some sort of normalcy in a time when everything is twisted upside down and backward.

I had planned to either meet or phone-chat with Moore (who is based in New York) when she came to Chicago for her Tinder LIVE! tour. During the show, Moore pulls up her Tinder onstage and the crowd decides if she swipes left or right. Her scheduled Chicago dates were in April, but then the pandemic happened. So Moore had to get creative. At first, she was devastated. “So I thought wait, wait, there’s got to be a way to stay connected with my audiences, and be alone together right now, and still do live shows, because artists and audiences need each other,” she says. “Well, I literally wrote the book on how to be alone, and now I make my living doing live comedy and music, so I created this livestream show.”

Moore describes her livestream, How to Be Alone, as a “late-night show” where she talks about how she’s doing, how she’s feeling, and then opens up the chat to viewers. “Then we watch funny videos from the 50s/60s and I make jokes throughout them, like Mystery Science Theater,” she says. “Then we play an ’80s board game I have, Heartthrob, and the audience guesses who I’m gonna pick, which is a lot like Tinder LIVE! in that way. Sometimes I do Tinder LIVE! as well.” Moore ends her shows with a “musical guest,” where she covers songs in a karaoke-style performance of whatever artists she chooses (viewers can offer up suggestions, too). I had the pleasure of hearing Moore cover Fiona Apple’s “On the Bound”–she belted out a perfect pandemic tune that made one of the viewers say that they may consider becoming an Apple fan.

Moore’s band, It Was Romance, is releasing their second album this year so the livestream is a way for Moore to promote it. “And right now every show is donation based, either through Venmo, Paypal, or Patreon, so it’s really supported by the viewers,” she explains. Throughout the stream, the cha-ching noise from her Venmo goes off and Moore gleefully thanks her kind donors via video.

Though during the livestream it seems like Moore is simply chatting with an old friend, she does say some preparation is involved. “I choose the videos for the night, and the songs, and often will prepare to talk about a certain question people had on loneliness/isolation during this time, but the show is totally improvised otherwise, which is really fun.” And you can see the excitement Moore has when watching videos for the first time with her viewers. Improvisation is sort of Moore’s thing, it seems, as she gets a thrill from spontaneity.

What I especially appreciated as a viewer was how I could be invisible if I chose to be or I could enter the chat room (like the good ol’ AIM days) and chat with Moore’s fans if I was craving some Internet connections. Moore agrees. “Dude, the How to Be Alone viewers are so connected it’s magical.” Although she doesn’t get to directly participate in the chat because she’s performing, she thinks it’s exciting and special to watch her fan base grow and get to know one another at the same time.

Future shows for Moore may look different than these beginning stages. She may bring on video gaming, as Twitch is a platform typically used for gamers, and she may start up her idea for a children’s show called Strawberry Milk. But for right now, Moore is just trying to hang on. “Like most of us right now, it’s gonna take me a minute to get used to a completely new world,” she says. “I’m still grieving so much, and trying to help people through it who are grieving too. I’m trying to tell myself to just keep taking it one step at a time, but I’m really excited to see where the How to Be Alone livestreaming show can go.” v

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Jackbox Games is sweeping the nationon April 14, 2020 at 5:55 pm

Quiplash. Zeeple Dome. Trivia Murder Party. What once might have looked like just a nonsense string of words is now recognizable as a list of games being played on Zoom meetings, Google Hangouts, and Twitch streams in isolation thanks to Jackbox Games. The Chicago-based company has seen a record number of downloads of its six different party packs over the last month, providing many at a discounted price and offering tips on how to organize remote games on its blog (they even lay out how the games can be used for homeschooling). And the company has found itself in the spotlight outside of our Instagram stories thanks to initiatives like Broadway Jackbox, a weekly livestream game started by Dear Evan Hansen‘s Andrew Barth Feldman that features Broadway stars and raises money for out-of-work performers across the country through the Actors Fund. I hopped on a Google Hangout with Jackbox Games CEO Mike Bilder to check in with the company, dive into its history, and learn a little more about what goes into creating the games we’re now playing daily.

Brianna Wellen: Based on my personal experience playing so much Jackbox in the past few weeks, I can imagine this is a crazy time for you guys.

Mike Bilder: Yes, it’s been very busy for us. We’re happy about that because it brings some social interaction and some fun and levity to what is a very stressful and anxious time.

Do you have any numbers on how many more games have been downloaded in the past few weeks?

What I can tell you is just about every day as far as traffic is concerned, with games played on our servers and that type of thing, it’s equivalent to Thanksgiving. And the weekends are equivalent to New Year’s Eve. The holidays are typically the biggest time of year for us, when everyone’s back at home and together. Right now, no one is together, but they’re all together playing over video conferencing and finding a way to still socialize.

Many of the people I’ve been playing with didn’t realize Jackbox was based here. How did the company get started here?

It was known as Jellyvision [when the company started in 1995], and it was best known for a successful trivia game called You Don’t Know Jack. There were a number of versions of that on PC CD-ROM played on PCs and Macs at the time. The company ultimately fell on hard times in the early 2000s: there was a rise in home gaming with consoles, and a lot of the CD-ROM market–the bottom fell out of it. I joined in 2008 to restart the company’s gaming initiatives. In 2014 we did our first game where you use your mobile phone as a controller, that was Fibbage. It took some iteration to get to that idea, but the impetus behind it was we recognize that most people have one controller on their console–multiplayer gaming played over a console, you play over the Internet. You have your PlayStation, I have my PlayStation, and we connect and play a game together. We want to make party games, social games that happen in the same room, that make social interaction occur and make laughter and levity occur.

So the games that everyone is playing right now are actually fairly new to the whole company’s history.

Yes, but they’re kind of still built on the DNA of what the original You Don’t Know Jack is about, which is bringing people together. Back then it was three people had to gather around a keyboard and they each had a button to buzz in. There was interaction with the game: it was talking and would talk with you and there were jokes and irreverence and humor, so the same kind of DNA of what that [intellectual property] was is definitely in all the games and the direction for creativity that we put into all our games.

What is the process of coming up with and creating these games?

We’ve got a very, very talented staff. We employ full-time and some contract writers; a lot of them have cut their teeth in the Chicago comedy scene, so Second City, iO–they’re comedy writers at heart. Anyone at the company can pitch games. At this point, we’ve done this kind of annual cycle: we ship the party pack in October and then we immediately start concepting and pitching and prototyping internally to figure out what the games will be in the next year’s pack. It’s a very open process.

We’ll help assign teams or resources to a concept if it gets some traction, so we want to build a digital prototype of it. There’s a lot of paper-and-pencil testing where we can, and then sometimes you have to make a digital prototype based on the function of the game. Then those are evaluated and we have a green-light committee and a process where we go through approving and disapproving games. It’s a very fun process, it happens very quickly, but it’s neat because, like I said, a lot of people have opportunities to pitch, and I think that’s what keeps it fresh. We’ve done 30 games now over the last five years or so, and you can easily fall into a rut of, “Ah, it’s kind of the same game with just a different coat of paint.” We always try to push the envelope where we can.

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Are there any rejected games that you still love or ones that get pitched over and over again until they finally make it through?

There’s both. There are a few internally that I really like that just aren’t quite ready for prime time, and I’m hoping in coming years they’ll get there. We have a few games as well that actually have that path. If you’ve played Fakin’ It, that’s the hidden-identity game where you have to be the faker and try to blend in, then we have another game in a similar tone called Push the Button, which is another hidden-identity game that’s more strategic, a bit more like Werewolf or Secret Hitler, those kind of games. But both of those were very challenging to crack in a digital form. We knew we wanted to make these kinds of games because we love playing games like that, but Fakin’ It was pitched for two years and Push the Button was pitched for almost three years before it was finally green-lit.

It feels like the Chicago gaming community, both people playing the games and people creating them, has really grown in the past ten years. What have you noticed in that time?

It used to be more large established companies. We had Midway Games, they did a lot of coin-op, they did a lot of consoles, we had EA Chicago for a while. Neither of those kinds of big entities exists anymore, but out of the kind of disruption of them going away, a lot of people formed companies or built up teams. So there is still a very vibrant community in Chicago of game development. No one is a hub of big publishers, but there’s a lot of little people. It’s a neat community.

What’s happening now is affecting a lot of businesses very differently and you guys are obviously benefiting from it. How has this affected your staff and how does that change things in the future?

We have brought on a number of temporary workers in the last three weeks just to handle customer service tickets–we’ve had this influx of new customers that just kind of happened overnight–so that has pushed some efforts into other areas for us where we’ve had to staff up. So that’s one good thing that’s come out of this, we’ve been able to hire people. How it changes in the long-term, I really don’t know. Eventually things will settle down when the world gets back to normal. What that means for us moving forward as far as our customer base and our usage, I don’t know, I suspect it will decline as the world goes back to work, but I do think it’s leveled up from where we were before. I think we’re fortunate for that and we’re happy to have new people in our ecosystem wanting to play our games. v

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