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Madopal
@madopal.bsky.social
Chicagoan (Portage Park), bungalow owner, recovering gamedev (Jaleco, Mindscape, Midway), data engineer, bike/transit advocate(ish) (former NW MBAC), aspiring historian/baker/woodworker, White Sox fan (heavy sigh), music nerd, just zis guy, you know? ✶✶✶✶
If I have my date correct, Jorge Orta was playing in the first game of this doubleheader on 5/28/78. Me and (probably my cousin) at Old Comiskey.

(To rejuvenate the baseball spirits with spring training starting soon, quote skeet this with a random baseball player.)
January 23, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Based on the current pricing, doesn't look like demand is too bad, so I'd say "go for it."
January 23, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Especially because when I met him at Chicago Gourmet, I got Takashi to admit that udon > ramen. I *think* the Japanese he wrote to me refers to udon.

Either way, HomerSimpsonHoldingPennantThatSaysUdon.jpg
January 23, 2026 at 4:34 PM
-8.5F in Portage Park so far. Nice temp hill to sled down.
January 23, 2026 at 1:19 PM
January 22, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Aaand here comes the ABC7 copter
January 22, 2026 at 2:58 PM
I think this is the same one, just heard it.
January 22, 2026 at 2:55 PM
January 22, 2026 at 1:32 PM
In case they pull it
January 21, 2026 at 2:48 PM
This is exactly what they should do
January 20, 2026 at 2:05 AM
A throwback in every sense of the word
January 19, 2026 at 2:43 PM
"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace."
January 19, 2026 at 1:30 PM
It is, and always has been (when it was first named that), Soldier.
January 19, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Hey @robertloerzel.bsky.social, gotta light?
January 19, 2026 at 12:54 AM
[Sniff]
January 17, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Love the work the city financial folks did here.
January 17, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Gotta light?
January 16, 2026 at 10:14 PM
I still maintain that cuccidati are Italian Fig Newtons.
January 16, 2026 at 4:36 PM
January 16, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Stop hitting yourself
January 16, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Summarizing this morning's weather
January 14, 2026 at 6:14 PM
This was forecast as of 6am-ish this morning. Even though video below showed the radar at 5:15 with quite a monster line coming through.

Models failed bigly.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dbf...
January 14, 2026 at 2:45 PM
I mean, roads look like hot garbage in #portagepark, and close to 2" in last hour
January 14, 2026 at 2:10 PM
This is one hell of a miss. Radar looks like we've got at least another hour of this, minimum.
January 14, 2026 at 1:48 PM
January 14, 2026 at 1:43 PM