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QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Dec 3, 2015 -> 05:46 PM) That said, I am openly considering a catch-all related to confirmed, non White Sox signings (which have limited to any impact on the Sox) that could be pinned. It would have to be tightly moderated, but it is something I am considering as a happy medium. Would be curious to hear other people's feedback regarding the above. And as I've also said, this is an experiment in and of itself. And again, appreciate the feedback. I think that would be good to have one non-White Sox related and one that was just Cubs related. I may be in the minority here but I hate seeing so many threads when I'm only interested in specific things. I'm not saying this negatively about anyone, but there are some people here that start new topics for pretty mundane things. My participation here has declined over the years due to life but part of it is also that there are now so many individual threads and topics that there is no way I have time to keep up. It's hard enough participating in one thread let alone 5 or 6 that all seem to end up with similar arguments. Like I said, I could be in the minority but I like keeping things separate. Those kind of catch-alls would help IMO.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Dec 3, 2015 -> 12:40 PM) No I will not. Catch all's are not tolerated on this site. They are a detriment to healthy discussion and make it more difficult for people to read the site. Honestly, closing the diamond club forum is a detriment to reading the site. Especially since you refuse catch-alls. I want to come in here and see what's going on with the White Sox. I don't want to come in here and have to sift through tons of posts about the Red Sox signing so and so and someone else is rumored to be in trade talks with another team not involving us or what will almost assuredly be way too many posts on what the Cubs are doing. This is a White Sox board. White Sox talk should be separate from the rest and not cluttered with everything else.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Dec 3, 2015 -> 01:16 AM) Age: 27 (cuban years) Age: 31 (USA years) Not really.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Dec 1, 2015 -> 09:03 AM) University of Chicago, not UIC. My bad. I thought the University of Illinois at Chicago was called UIC.

UIC shut down after suspect threatens to 'avenge' McDonald

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Nov 30, 2015 -> 02:27 PM) When will people stop tripping in TWD? It'll never not annoy me, especially when someone like Carol does it. Have you ever tripped and fell while running in your entire life? Such a lazy and overdone trope at this point. It's not the tripping that bothers me, it's that tripping basically means that they then are required to wait there with horror on their face until someone comes to help them get back to their feet.

Geez. I didn't realize there were so many tie-ins now. I thought there were still some at large selections that the bowls could make.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Nov 29, 2015 -> 10:52 AM) Playoff/bowl projections: Orange: Clemson vs Michigan State Cotton: Alabama vs Oklahoma Rose: Ohio State vs Stanford Sugar: Baylor vs Mississippi Fiesta: Iowa vs Notre Dame Peach: Florida State vs Houston Really hope ND and Houston flip those games. Peach would become one of the more highly rated non-playoff games. Otherwise, the Fiesta will be boring and no one outside of the FSU fan base will watch the Peach.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Nov 29, 2015 -> 04:34 PM) Rex Ryan not challenging that catch in the 4th quarter with 3 minutes left was idiotic. It was. KC also got lucky on that Maclin catch in the first half that Rex didn't challenge. But then after the game Rex complained that the KC video operator purposely wasn't putting close calls on the jumbotron for him to look at. Seriously. That was his excuse.

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Nov 29, 2015 -> 11:42 PM) These refs doing their best effort to hand the W to the Broncos. Not about to feel bad for the Patriots at all, and I was on Denver +3 so it worked out for me, but the referees handed Denver that game with those late calls. NE definitely got jobbed last night

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Nov 24, 2015 -> 11:33 AM) Tottenham is really playing well. Youngest team in the league and unbeaten in their last 11 (6 ties though). Yeah, they're legit. If they can keep this core together (Alli, Kane, Dier, Eriksen, Lloris) for a few years I think they could challenge for the Prem. PSG is already sniffing around Alli though, Man U wants Kane and several Italian clubs are chasing Eriksen so it will be a tall order. They have a few kids coming up too (Onomah, Pritchard, Carter-Vickers) and are moving to a state of the art building that should help with revenue too. Things are looking pretty bright at that club.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Nov 24, 2015 -> 08:10 AM) What, you dont like that inadvertant whistle and the makeup for it? Can you imagine the outcry if that happened against the Bills and benefited NE last night?

QUOTE (Knuckles @ Nov 23, 2015 -> 08:43 PM) Where are you guys looking for cheap airfare? I use Kayak but Sky Scanner is a good place to look too.

So the officialting last night was pretty brutal, even by current "it's often terrible" standards.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Nov 23, 2015 -> 02:10 PM) You better have a stud coach lined up already if you are going to fire Les Miles and pay him $15 mil to go away. QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Nov 23, 2015 -> 02:53 PM) Jimbo Fisher Why do people keep saying this? LSU is at best a lateral move from FSU. Also, I think Jimbo is a really good coach but he's not some elite level guy like a Saban or Meyer.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 23, 2015 -> 10:27 AM) To anyone that wants to travel internationally I really recommend checking flights the next six months. It's $450 r/t to Brazil right now, $700 to China. My friend got very cheap tickets to iceland. We are doing a 2 week trip around Asia in March, starting in Tokyo, then Beijing > Shanghai > Hanoi/Halong Bay > Hong Kong. Very excited and consuming everything possible on it right now. I imagine I'll eat 5 weeks worth of food in those 2 weeks. Interesting. I just looked into London in March with a couple day stopover in Iceland and it's about $700. Not bad at all.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Nov 23, 2015 -> 09:25 AM) Ya we've given games away. It sucks. Andy Reid is stupid. We would've rushed for 250 yards if he would've just ran the ball against Chicago. They're defense just sucks and he refused to exploit it I firmly believe Andy Reid and the play calling is directly responsible for 2 losses this year. I'm really torn on him. His game management, play calling, clock management etc has been pretty terrible for two years now, yet every single player claims to love playing for him. And unlike past regimes, I've rarely seen teams quit under him. The defense has really stepped up though. I don't think anyone would want to play them in the playoffs if they could get there

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Nov 23, 2015 -> 12:31 AM) My Chiefs are finally hitting their stride. It is infuriating to me that they lost the Denver, Chicago and Minnesota games. At the very minimum they should be 7-3 and competing for the division and first round bye. Now, they are in a dogfight for the 6th seed.

QUOTE (Dubzinski rules @ Nov 19, 2015 -> 03:19 PM) My choices for next year's minor league starters are: AAA: Fulmer, Montas, Beck, Marin, Jaye. AA: Danish, Guerrero, Barnette, Brennan, R. Leyer A: Clark, Erwin, Almonte, Adams, Lowry Low A: Wheeler, Quintero, Quijada, Solórzano, Comito Left out or moved on from: Heidenreich, Cose, Valerio, Banks, Einhardt. Still have hope for: Peralta, Thompson, De La Cruz, Martinez, Easterling. The Winston Salem rotation looks stacked. Why are we moving on from Heidenreich? Didn't he have a pretty good year last year?

If we're trading Quintana to the Cubs, Schwarber plus a prospect better be coming back. And not that the Cubs would do it, but if they did call on Quintana my first reaction would be to ask for Bryant.

UCONN is going to finish the year in the top 10. They are very underrated right now.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Nov 17, 2015 -> 03:44 PM) If that had been me, I wouldn't be wasting my time asking the university to do something, I'd be filing a civil rights lawsuit. Those people committed Federal hate crimes. Sorry, but as a white Christian male you're not allowed to be offended or feel persecuted by anything.

Trailer for a new show called Outsiders looks pretty interesting http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/videopl...m?colid=1176560

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Nov 17, 2015 -> 08:40 PM) Nice to get a point, but that was tough to watch I'll take the point as I fully expected them to lose last night. Yeah, that was a brutal game though. Gotta think Dempsey would have buried those golden opportunities Zardes blew. I was impressed with some of Jozy's passes and moves on the ball, but he didn't seem to assert himself enough. Bradley looked lackadaisical and his first touch often was poor. Jones was actually quite good. Yedlin isn't ready to play MF yet. Fabian Johnson is our best player at the moment and Darlington Nagbe looks like he could potentially be #2 once he gets settled into a role. I'd be shocked if he's not in the starting XI next spring.

So a lot of these protesters have now taken to social media basically complaining that the Paris attacks have diverted attention away from them. Classy.