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Critics seem to love the fact that they did the unexpected... Made the focus be firmly placed on all those individual characters, and the ultimate sacrifice the previous episode tipping the political tug of war to Toranaga's site with almost no blood being shed (the very opposite of the samurai/warlord mentality about honor coming from the battlefield). The cinematography alone was amazing. And leaving lots of little clues about our main character without even telling you whether he eventually ended up in England or stayed in Japan for the remainder of his life, very faithful to the spirit of the Clavel novel if not the actual execution.

Getting to be a massive mental block at this point. Just always seems to get off to such slow offensive starts and can never recover and bring up his numbers to decent levels.

How many years (from now) will it take for there to be a "hype" video like that for the White Sox? Seems like ages since Courtney Hawkins' first round flip (or flop?)

It's going to come down to his defensive skills and stolen base/PR ability...very rare are the guys like Zobrist or Chone Figgins that can legitimately play every position on the field and also hit/run pretty well. Jose Oquendo is more the traditional archetype.

But Leury Legend is still the all-time Sox utility guy, along with guys like Grebeck, Yolmer Sanchez and Pablo Ozuna.

Like Marcus Semien?

He can perform both jobs simultaneously and save money for JR by taking just ONE salary. Obviously Bears' salary quite a bit higher, we don't even need to ask. There's the reverse precedent of Paul DePodesta/Jonah Hill of Moneyball to the Cleveland Browns, too.

Yeah...especially at his relatively advanced age as well as injury history. Maybe they feel he can hold up on turf somehow.

Spencer Rattler at #83 the next QB on the board. Michael Pratt Tulane at #160 trails him. Talk about a massive drop off.

Nix feels like even more of a reach than Penix. He somehow disappeared in most of their big games at Auburn as well as Oregon. Bowers=Todd Christensen

Wilson was never going to be dominant or the Padres would NEVER have included him after losing Hader. They blew a 9-4 lead today in the eighth inning.

Unique playoff rules at that time...without the Yankees, they would have a completely different vibe historically.

Those were the three likeliest...just a few years from now they will speculate about who they could have picked, right?

As expected by nearly everyone. Start the unending off season of Bears' hype on sports talk radio.

Turner Odunze Bowers