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I expect some absolute PISS MISSILES from Kelenic.

lol…it certainly was fascinating. Downtown Brown was making the weird Jeep comments for months, but I don’t think anyone here really understood the point of them until the other dude came in and tried to out (or pretend out) Harold in a very direct manner. The fact we may have had one former Sox employee engaging in cyber warfare on Soxtalk against a current Sox employee is incredible.

Its easy enough to hold a grudge against JR. He deserves it ,but to pretend he's some kind of fool when it comes to there being advantages to signing a Japanese superstar is ludicrous. He graduated Northwestern Law School. Worked for the IRS and then went into private practice. He became known as an expert in real estate partnership tax shelters. Then he formed Balcor, a company that raised significant capital for real estate investments. After around 10 years doing that he bought the Sox in 1981 and in 1982 sold his stake in Balcor to Shearson Lehman Brothers (American Express's investment arm). He bought the Bulls in 1985. He was also the architect of giving the Ishbia's a clear path to go from a Sox minority owner to primary owner rather than them owning the Minnesota Twins. Everything JR has ever done he viewed as an investment opportunity, including the Sox which never aligned with building winning teams. He never was the kind of guy who spends money to make money. He was mostly a facilitator to get others to invest in his projects because of his vast knowledge creating real estate tax shelters. He's extremely shrewd and used tax laws to his and his investors advantage. Fans spending would usually equate to JR spending, never the other way around. That was the main problem. Sox fans were more blue collar than white collars investors. Fans and JR wanted the other one to spend 1st. It's always been a stalemate and without investing in player development they never could maintain the level of success that might have provided a strong return on investment for the fans or JR's satisfaction.

PFF is good for grading positions that you basically don't notice during the game. And I like to use it to get a basic understanding of some players I've never watched or heard of before, but if you dig into their QB grades, it all feels extremely subjective and sometimes the criterias make no sense. Caleb has had 2 games graded in the mid 40s this year. The Steelers and Commanders games. He threw 4 touchdowns in those 2 games and no picks. He got those grades because I think he had like 5 turnover worthy plays in those games. Did he get lucky not throwing picks on some of those throws? Probably. But this guy leads the league in INT% and has like 10 career interceptions in 2 seasons. At some point it's not luck. On the opposite end of the spectrum, he had 4 big time throws against the Niners and 0 turnover worthy plays. He played great on Sunday night. Everyone saw it. Surely that means he got an elite grade right? Nope, 75 passing grade. They somehow graded the miss to Loveland that Collinsworth kept complaining about a -2. That's the same grade as a bad turnover, which makes no sense. It almost felt like they had to make a big deal of it because the boss (Collinsworth) complained so much about it on the broadcast. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea behind PFF. Football needs more advanced analytics. But I can't help but feel that PFF sometimes does their grades a certain way to be contrarian to get people to talk about them or to please the guy who is their majority share holder.

I’m still in the middle of “Chicago Geography: You don’t even live here! 101”

I’m doing something!

He also ran a Jeep Tour company in that show prior to getting obsessed with Tecca. It's like Tim Robinson himself was harassing Harold.

Exactly. Insert Jeeps in place of Tecca Chairs. 🤣

We'll see when they actually break ground on the facility, which is supposed to be this coming spring.

This sounds like something from a Tim Robinson show.

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Wish there was a game tonight. A few years ago when NYE fell on a Sunday, it was great to watch games all day with everyone over.

moo-nay vowels in Japanese always have just one pronunciation A=ah E=eh I=Eee O=Oh U=ooh

Yep. Not only does he stink on the field, he's a crap team mate. Nobody in Seattle liked him, they just tolerated him for a while. When he had the cooler incident nobody stood up for him and everybody just said it was a moronic stupid selfish thing.

Well yeah. I’m just saying it’s not like they don’t have guys that can play CF in house already.

RF platoon with Pereira? 🤘🏻

Garfein asked that question on his podcast and apparently it's "Moonay".

Agreed. I think Pereira would also play some RF until Montgomery is ready.

Peters has options and Hill is a Robert insurance policy IMO, so not too worried if we lose him when we option him to Charlotte. There is certainly room for one more OF, especially if Benintendi is going to be used in the DH spot a lot.

You nailed it. The poster(s) that potentially outed him were “Downtown Brown” and “ChicagoSoxMan”. He accused Harold of being Garrett Guest, the Sox current Assistant Director of Amateur Scouting and owner of South Oak Jeep Dodge Ram Chrysler. Both accounts are gone now but were likely the same person as you said. Dude absolutely loved his Jeeps. I assume that’s why he was always trolling Harold about owning and driving Jeeps, but maybe he figured out Harold’s identity because he bought one from him? 🤣

Yeah, there does seem to be a lot building up. Granted, maybe some of the MiLB signings can become free agents after camp.

Yeah, in all seriousness, this screams a team that WANTS to trade Luis Robert, because they are absolutely hoarding 4A OFs.

If they move Robert now, I would think Baldwin is the starter, Hill continues to be the backup, and Pereira is option number 3.